Any person who practices optometry or who offers or pretends to practice or holds himself or herself out as eligible to practice optometry and who is not legally registered and licensed shall be guilty of a felony.
(Ga. L. 1916, p. 83, § 8; Ga. L. 1933, p. 202, § 4; Code 1933, § 84-9917; Ga. L. 2003, p. 315, § 1.)
Cross references.- False or fraudulent advertising, § 10-1-420 et seq.
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Cited in Georgia State Bd. of Exmrs. in Optometry v. Friedmans' Jewelers, Inc., 183 Ga. 669, 189 S.E. 238 (1936); Wall v. American Optometric Ass'n, 379 F. Supp. 175 (N.D. Ga. 1974).
RESEARCH REFERENCES
ALR.
- What constitutes practice of "optometry,", 88 A.L.R.2d 1290; 82 A.L.R.4th 816.
Practicing medicine, surgery, dentistry, optometry, podiatry, or other healing arts without license as a separate or continuing offense, 99 A.L.R.2d 654.
Fitting of contact lenses as practice of optometry, 77 A.L.R.3d 817.