36-7-15.2. Educational and examination requirements for certificate to administer topical agents--Fee.
Only those optometrists who have satisfactorily completed a curriculum in general and ocular pharmacology at an institution accredited by a regional or professional accreditation organization which is recognized or approved by the council on postsecondary accreditation of the United States Office of Education within the Department of Health and Human Services and approved by the State Board of Examiners in Optometry are eligible to apply for the certificate issued pursuant to §36-7-15.1. Those practitioners who have established their eligibility pursuant to this section shall also pass an examination approved by the board before they may be certified to administer the topical pharmaceutical agents described by §36-7-1.
Source: SL 1979, ch 253, §§3, 5; SL 1985, ch 299, §2; SL 1994, ch 296, §5; SL 2008, ch 191, §16; SL 2013, ch 173, §1.