Sections
22 entriesSection 3040Prohibits practicing optometry, advertising as an optometrist, or holding oneself out as an optometrist without a valid, unrevoked California optometrist license. In…Section 3041Defines optometry to include eye/vision examination, lenses, certified drug treatment and testing, and listed procedures excluded from surgery restrictions unless explicitly indicated.…Section 3041.1Requires an optometrist diagnosing or treating eye disease to meet the same standard of care applied to physicians and surgeons and osteopathic…Section 3041.2Requires the California State Board of Optometry to establish, by regulation, educational and examination requirements designed to ensure competence to practice under…Section 3041.3Requires therapeutic-pharmaceutical-agent certification by graduation date and location. Pre-January 1, 1996 California graduates need a 65-hour preceptorship over two months to one…Section 3041.5Requires an immunization-certificate applicant to hold current California optometrist and therapeutic pharmaceutical agent licenses, complete approved training, maintain basic life support certification,…Section 3042Exempts specified acts by licensed physicians, optometrists, qualified prescription fillers, and supervised assistants from chapter restrictions, including eye treatment, filling prescriptions, lens…Section 3042.5Exempts optometry students actually enrolled in accredited schools from the chapter only for practice confined to the school’s clinical department and undertaken…Section 3043Allows sale of goggles, sunglasses, colored glasses, and occupational eye-protection devices without violating the chapter when they have no refractive value. It…Section 3044Allows a person over 18 years old who wants to practice optometry in the state to file both an examination application and…Section 3045Requires applications to be verified by the applicant’s oath and to contain information and evidence satisfactory to the board showing eligibility. An…Section 3046Requires an applicant for a California optometry license to be a natural person, graduate from an accredited optometry school, pass required licensing…Section 3046.1Requires a temporary optometry license for an eligible applicant unable to take Part III due to the emergency, never state-licensed, school-approved, and…Section 3047Requires the board to create a National Practitioner Data Bank interface for inquiries on license applicants, renewal applicants, and current licensees, limited…Section 3051Requires optometrist-license examination applicants subject to the specified educational and examination requirements to provide satisfactory evidence of education in detecting child abuse,…Section 3053Requires optometrist licensure examinations to be practical, conducted in English, and designed to determine applicants’ fitness to practice optometry. The board may…Section 3054Sets passing grades for the licensure examination using psychometrically sound principles establishing minimum qualifications and competency levels. An applicant who fails any…Section 3055Requires the board to issue a license to an applicant who satisfies the chapter, pays the prescribed licensure, certification, or renewal fee,…Section 3056Allows the board to license an optometrist with an accredited degree and another-state license after at least five continuous years as full-time…Section 3057Allows the board to license an out-of-state optometrist meeting education, examination, good-standing, continuing-education, therapeutic-agent, jurisprudence, disclosure, application, and fee requirements. The prior…Section 3059Requires optometry licensees to show satisfactory continuing education as a condition of renewal, with proof submitted annually or biennially as the board…Section 3060Requires the board periodically to develop and distribute to every licensed optometrist information and educational materials on detecting child abuse and neglect…