California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 5 - Revocation and Suspension

  • Section 3090.
    Except as otherwise provided by law, the board may take action against all persons guilty of violating this chapter or any of the regulations adopted...
  • Section 3090.5.
    The board may revoke a license issued to a licensee upon a decision, made in a proceeding as provided in Section 3092, that contains a...
  • Section 3091.
    (a) The board may deny an optometrist license to any applicant guilty of unprofessional conduct or of any cause that would subject a licensee to revocation...
  • Section 3092.
    All proceedings against a licensee for any violation of this chapter or any of the regulations adopted by the board, or against an applicant for...
  • Section 3093.
    Before setting aside the revocation or suspension of any optometrist license, the board may require the applicant to pass the regular examination given for applicants...
  • Section 3094.
    In addition to other proceedings provided for in this chapter, whenever any person has engaged, or is about to engage, in any acts or practices...
  • Section 3095.
    In accordance with Section 125.9, the board may establish a system for the issuance of citations, and the assessment of administrative fines, as deemed appropriate...
  • Section 3096.
    (a) A licensee may be ordered to undergo a professional competency examination if, after investigation and review by the Board of Optometry, there is reasonable cause...
  • Section 3097.
    The sending of a solicitor from house to house or the soliciting from house to house by the holder of an optometrist license constitutes a...
  • Section 3098.
    When the holder uses the title of “Doctor” or “Dr.” as a prefix to his or her name, without using the word “optometrist” as a...
  • Section 3099.
    No optometrist shall advertise or otherwise hold himself or herself out to be a specialist in eye disease and the treatment thereof.(Added by renumbering Section...
  • Section 3100.
    The holding out as having a special knowledge of optometry, as defined in this chapter, by the holder of a license, constitutes a cause to...
  • Section 3101.
    It is unlawful to advertise by displaying a sign or otherwise or hold himself or herself out to be an optometrist without having at the...
  • Section 3102.
    It is unlawful to advertise as being free or without cost the furnishing of optometric services where these services are contingent upon payment or other...
  • Section 3103.
    It is unlawful to include in any advertisement relating to the sale or disposition of goggles, sunglasses, colored glasses, or occupational eye-protective devices, any words...
  • Section 3104.
    The employing of what are known as “cappers” or “steerers” to obtain business constitutes unprofessional conduct.(Added by renumbering Section 3100 by Stats. 2005, Ch. 393,...
  • Section 3105.
    Altering or modifying the medical record of any person, with fraudulent intent, or creating any false medical record, with fraudulent intent, constitutes unprofessional conduct. In...
  • Section 3106.
    Knowingly making or signing any license, certificate, or other document directly or indirectly related to the practice of optometry that falsely represents the existence or...
  • Section 3107.
    It is unlawful to use or attempt to use any license or certificate issued by the board that has been purchased, fraudulently issued, counterfeited, or...
  • Section 3108.
    When the holder is suffering from a contagious or infectious disease, it constitutes a cause to suspend his or her license during the period of...
  • Section 3109.
    Directly or indirectly accepting employment to practice optometry from any person not having a valid, unrevoked license as an optometrist or from any company or...
  • Section 3110.
    The board may take action against any licensee who is charged with unprofessional conduct, and may deny an application for a license if the applicant...
  • Section 3111.
    It is unprofessional conduct and a violation of this chapter for a person licensed under this chapter to violate, attempt to violate, assist in the...

Last modified: October 22, 2018