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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
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3041.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3041.5
(a) A person requesting to be certified to administer immunizations pursuant to Section 3041 shall apply for a certificate from the board pursuant to an application that shall be in substantially the following form: “Application for Optometrists to Administer Immunizations Per Ca
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3042
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3042
The provisions of this chapter do not prevent a licensed physician and surgeon from treating or fitting glasses to the human eye, or from doing any act within the practice of optometry, or a licensed physician and surgeon or optometrist from filling prescriptions or orders, nor d
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3042.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3042.5
(a) The practice of persons actually enrolled as undergraduate or graduate students of optometry in the clinical departments of schools or colleges of optometry accredited by the board shall be exempt from the provisions of this chapter; provided, however, that such practice shal
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3043
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3043
The provisions of this chapter do not prohibit the sale of goggles, sun glasses, colored glasses or occupational eye-protective devices if they do not have refractive values nor do the provisions of this chapter prohibit the sale of complete ready to wear eyeglasses as merchandis
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3044
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3044
A person over the age of 18 years desiring to engage in the practice of optometry in this state may file an application for examination and an application for licensure. The application shall be accompanied by the fee required by this chapter.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3045
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3045
Applications shall be verified by the oath of the applicant and shall contain information and evidence satisfactory to the board showing the eligibility of the applicant.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3046
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3046
In order to obtain a license to practice optometry in California, an applicant shall be a natural person, have graduated from an accredited school of optometry, have passed the required examinations for licensure, not have met any of the grounds for denial established in Section
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3046.1
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3046.1
(a) The board shall issue a temporary license to practice optometry to a person who applies for and is eligible for licensure pursuant to Section 3046, but who is unable to immediately take the Part III - Patient Encounters and Performance Skills Examination developed by the Nati
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3047
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3047
(a) The board shall develop an interface with the National Practitioner Data Bank for the purpose of conducting inquiries on applicants for licensure, applicants for renewal of licensure, and current licensees. (b) The board shall limit its inquiries to both of the following: (1)
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 305
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 305
The director shall administer and enforce the provisions of this chapter. Every power granted or duty imposed upon the director under this chapter may be exercised or performed in the name of the director by a deputy or assistant director or the chief of the department’s Division
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3051
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3051
All applicants for examination for an optometrist license in accordance with the educational and examination requirements adopted pursuant to Section 3023.1 shall show the board by satisfactory evidence that he or she has received education in child abuse detection and the detect
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3053
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3053
All examinations shall be practical in character, designed to ascertain applicants’ fitness to practice the profession of optometry and conducted in the English language. The board may by rule or regulation accept the examination given by other agencies or organizations which it
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3054
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3054
The passing grades for the licensure examination shall be based on psychometrically sound principles of establishing minimum qualifications and levels of competency. If an applicant fails to pass any section of the examination, he or she may be examined in any succeeding examinat
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3055
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3055
The board shall issue a license to an applicant who meets the requirements of this chapter, including the payment of the prescribed licensure, certification, or renewal fee, and who meets any other requirement in accordance with state law. A license or certificate issued under th