Code of Virginia - Title 54.1 Professions And Occupations - Chapter 32 Optometry

54.1-3200 Definitions
As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning: "Board" means the Board of Optometry. "Optometrist" means any person practicing the profession ...

54.1-3201 What constitutes practice of optometry
Any person who in any way advertises himself as an optometrist or uses the title of doctor of optometry (O.D.) or any other letters or ...

54.1-3202 Exemptions
This chapter shall not apply to: 1. Physicians licensed to practice medicine by the Board of Medicine or to prohibit the sale of nonprescription eyeglasses ...

54.1-3203 License to be displayed
Every person practicing optometry shall display his license in a conspicuous place in the principal office in which he practices. (Code 1950, § 54-386; 1988, ...

54.1-3204 Prohibited acts
It shall be unlawful for any person: 1. To practice optometry in this Commonwealth without holding a license issued by the Board. Practicing or offering ...

54.1-3205 Practicing in a commercial or mercantile establishment
A. It shall be unlawful for any optometrist to practice his profession as a lessee of or in a commercial or mercantile establishment, or to ...

54.1-3205.1 Supervision by unlicensed persons prohibited
No optometrist shall be directly or indirectly supervised within the scope of the practice of optometry by any officer, employee, or agent of a commercial ...

54.1-3206 Report of conviction or injunction to Board; revocation or suspension of license
It shall be the duty of the clerk of every circuit court in which any person is convicted of any violation of this chapter or ...

54.1-3207 Board of Optometry
The Board of Optometry shall be composed of six members as follows: five licensed optometrists and one citizen member. The terms of office of the ...

54.1-3208 Nominations
Nominations may be made for each professional vacancy from a list of at least three names submitted to the Governor by the Virginia Optometric Association, ...

54.1-3209 Oaths and testimony
Any member of the Board may, upon being designated by a majority of the Board, administer oaths or take testimony concerning any matter within the ...

54.1-3210 Seal; executive director
The Board shall adopt a seal of which the executive director shall have the custody. The executive director shall keep a record of all proceedings ...

54.1-3211 Examination
The Board shall set the necessary standards to be attained in the examinations to entitle the candidate to receive a license to practice optometry. The ...

54.1-3212 Qualifications of applicants
An application for a license to practice optometry shall be made in writing and shall be accompanied by satisfactory proof that the applicant has been ...

54.1-3213 Issuance of license; fee; renewal
Every candidate successfully passing the examination shall be licensed by the Board as possessing the qualifications required by law to practice optometry. The fee for ...

54.1-3214 When license issued without examination
Any person who has successfully passed an examination in optometry in any state of the United States and is the holder of a license to ...

54.1-3215 Reprimand, revocation and suspension
The Board may revoke or suspend a license or reprimand the licensee for any of the following causes: 1. Fraud or deceit in his practice; ...

54.1-3216 Description unavailable
Repealed by Acts 2004, c. 64. ...

54.1-3217 Description unavailable
Repealed by Acts 1997, c. 556. ...

54.1-3218 Description unavailable
Repealed by Acts 2003, cc. 753 and 762. ...

54.1-3219 Continuing education
As a prerequisite to renewal of a license or reinstatement of a license, each optometrist shall be required to take annual courses relating to optometry ...

54.1-3220 Certification for administration of diagnostic pharmaceutical agents
In order to become certified to administer diagnostic pharmaceutical agents for the purpose of examining and determining abnormal or diseased conditions of the human eye ...

54.1-3221 "Diagnostic pharmaceutical agents" defined; utilization; acquisition
A. Certified optometrists may administer diagnostic pharmaceutical agents only by topical application to the human eye. "Diagnostic pharmaceutical agents" shall be defined as Schedule VI ...

54.1-3222 TPA certification; certification for treatment of diseases or abnormal conditions with therapeutic ...
A. The Board shall certify an optometrist to prescribe for and treat diseases or abnormal conditions of the human eye and its adnexa with therapeutic ...

54.1-3223 Regulations relating to instruction and training, examination, and therapeutic pharmaceutical agent...
A. The Board shall promulgate such regulations governing the treatment of diseases and abnormal conditions of the human eye and its adnexa with therapeutic pharmaceutical ...

54.1-3224 Denial, etc., of TPA certification; disciplinary actions; summary suspension under certain circumst...
A. The Board of Optometry may deny, refuse to renew, revoke, or suspend any TPA-certificate issued to a TPA-certified optometrist, or applied for by a ...