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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3017
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3017
The board shall hold regular meetings every calendar quarter. Special meetings shall be held upon request of a majority of the members of the board or upon the call of the president.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3018
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3018
The board shall keep an accurate record of all of its licensees, proceedings, and meetings.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3019
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3019
The board shall keep a record of all prosecutions for violations of this chapter and of all applications for licensure and examination.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 302
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 302
As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Department” means the Department of Consumer Affairs. (b) “Director” means the Director of the Department of Consumer Affairs. (c) “Consumer” means any individual who seeks or acquires, by purchase or
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3020
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3020
(a) There shall be established under the California State Board of Optometry a dispensing optician committee to advise and make recommendations to the board regarding the regulation of dispensing opticians, spectacle lens dispensers, and contact lens dispensers, registered pursua
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3021
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3021
The board shall have rulemaking authority with respect to Chapter 5.5 (commencing with Section 2550) in accordance with Section 3025. Regulations adopted pursuant to Chapter 5.5 (commencing with Section 2550) by the Medical Board of California prior to the effective date of this
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3023
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3023
For the purposes of this chapter, the board shall accredit schools, colleges, and universities in or out of this state providing optometric education, that it finds giving a sufficient program of study for the preparation of optometrists.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3023.1
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3023.1
(a) The nonresident contact lens seller program established under Chapter 5.45 (commencing with Section 2546) and the registered dispensing optician, spectacle lens dispensing, and contact lens dispensing programs established under Chapter 5.5 (commencing with Section 2550) are h
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3024
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3024
The board may grant or refuse to grant an optometrist license as provided in this chapter and may revoke or suspend the license of any optometrist for any of the causes specified in this chapter. It shall have the power to administer oaths and to take testimony in the exercise of
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3024.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3024.5
(a) Information sent from an email account of the board to a valid email address provided by an applicant, registrant, or licensee is presumed to have been delivered to the provided email address. (b) In the interest of protecting the privacy of applicants, registrants, and licen
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3025
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3025
The board may make and promulgate rules and regulations governing procedure of the board, the admission of applicants for examination for a license as an optometrist, and the practice of optometry. All of those rules and regulations shall be in accordance with and not inconsisten
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3025.1
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3025.1
The board may adopt rules and regulations that are, in its judgment, reasonable and necessary to ensure that optometrists have the knowledge to adequately protect the public health and safety by establishing educational requirements for admission to the examinations for licensure
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3025.2
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3025.2
The board may adopt rules and regulations that are, in its judgment, reasonable and necessary to ensure that optometrists have the knowledge to adequately protect the public health and safety by governing its accreditation of schools, colleges, and universities that provide optom
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3025.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3025.5
The board may adopt regulations prescribing minimum standards governing the optometric services offered or performed, the equipment, or the sanitary conditions, in all offices for the practice of optometry, which are necessary to protect the health and safety of persons availing
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3025.6
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3025.6
The board may adopt regulations clarifying the level of training and the level of supervision of assistants.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3025.7
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3025.7
Except as provided in Sections 3102 and 3103, nothing contained in Section 651.3 shall be construed as authorizing the board to adopt, amend, or repeal rules and regulations relating to price fixing or advertising of commodities.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3026
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3026
The board may adopt and use a common seal and establish a permanent office or offices.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3027
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3027
The board shall employ an executive officer and other necessary assistance in the carrying out of the provisions of this chapter. The executive officer shall perform the duties delegated by the board and shall be responsible to it for the accomplishment of those duties. The execu
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3028
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3028
The Attorney General shall act as the legal counsel for the board and his or her services shall be a charge against it.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3030
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3030
(a) The board, or its designated agent, may at any time inspect either of the following: (1) Any premise in which optometric services, as defined in Section 3041, are provided or reasonably suspected of being provided. (2) Any premise in which the services of dispensing, adjustin
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3040
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3040
(a) It is unlawful for a person to engage in the practice of optometry or to advertise or hold himself or herself out as an optometrist without a valid, unrevoked California optometrist license. The practice of optometry includes the performing or controlling of any acts set fort
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3041
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3041
(a) The practice of optometry includes the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and management of disorders and dysfunctions of the visual system, as authorized by this chapter, as well as the provision of habilitative or rehabilitative optometric services, and is the doing of any o
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3041.1
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3041.1
An optometrist diagnosing or treating eye disease shall be held to the same standard of care to which physicians and surgeons and osteopathic physicians and surgeons are held. An optometrist shall consult with and, if necessary, refer to a physician and surgeon or other appropria
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3041.2
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3041.2
The California State Board of Optometry shall, by regulation, establish educational and examination requirements for licensure to ensure the competence of optometrists to practice pursuant to this chapter. Satisfactory completion of the educational and examination requirements sh
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3041.3
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3041.3
(a) In order to be certified to use therapeutic pharmaceutical agents and authorized to diagnose and treat the conditions listed in subdivisions (b) and (d) of Section 3041, an optometrist shall apply for a certificate from the board and meet all requirements imposed by the board