California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 3 - Admission to Practice

• Section 3040.
  It is unlawful for a person to engage in the practice of optometry or to display a sign or in any other way to advertise...
• Section 3041.
  (a) The practice of optometry includes the prevention and diagnosis of disorders and dysfunctions of the visual system, and the treatment and management of certain disorders...
• Section 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...
• Section 3041.2.
  The State Board of Optometry shall, by regulation, establish educational and examination requirements for licensure to ensure the competence of optometrists to practice pursuant to...
• Section 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 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 3046.
  In order to obtain a license to practice optometry in California, an applicant shall have graduated from an accredited school of optometry, passed the required...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 3056.
  (a) The board may issue a license to practice optometry to a person who meets all of the following qualifications:(1) Has a degree as a doctor of...
• Section 3057.
  (a) The board may issue a license to practice optometry to a person who meets all of the following requirements:(1) Has a degree as a doctor of...
• Section 3059.
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the public health and safety would be served by requiring all holders of licenses to practice optometry...
• Section 3060.
  The board shall periodically develop and disseminate to all persons licensed to practice optometry information and educational material regarding all of the following:(a) The detection of...

Last modified: October 22, 2018