37-10-302. Qualifications -- application. (1) The board shall adopt rules relative to and governing the qualifications of applicants for licensure as optometrists.
(2) A person is not eligible to receive a license unless that person is of good moral character.
(3) A person is not eligible to receive a license unless that person has graduated from an accredited school of optometry in which the practice and science of optometry is taught in a course of study that is accredited by the association of regulatory boards of optometry.
(4) An applicant for a license shall file a completed application on a form provided by the department and pay a fee prescribed by the board.
History: En. Ch. 138, L. 1907; Sec. 1611, Rev. C. 1907; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 128, L. 1917; re-en. Sec. 3159, R.C.M. 1921; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 171, L. 1925; re-en. Sec. 3159, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 130, L. 1939; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 252, L. 1959; amd. Sec. 24, Ch. 94, L. 1973; amd. Sec. 133, Ch. 350, L. 1974; R.C.M. 1947, 66-1305(1) thru (5); amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 241, L. 1981; amd. Sec. 23, Ch. 345, L. 1981; amd. Sec. 6, Ch. 121, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 32, Ch. 126, L. 2005; amd. Sec. 47, Ch. 467, L. 2005; amd. Sec. 15, Ch. 502, L. 2007; amd. Sec. 28, Ch. 109, L. 2009.