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17-90-301. Examinations — Fees.
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17-90-301. Examinations — Fees.
(a) No person except those already licensed by the State Board of Optometry shall practice optometry until he or she has:
(1) Successfully passed all examinations as the board may require in the rules of the board, to include, but not be limited to, clinical examinations if required; and
(2) Registered and received a certificate of registration which shall have conspicuously printed on its face the definition of optometry set forth in § 17-90-101.
(b) Every applicant for examination shall present satisfactory evidence that he or she is:
(1) At least twenty-one (21) years of age;
(2) A successful candidate having passed all parts of the National Board of Examiners in Optometry examination since January 1, 1997; and
(3) A graduate of a college of optometry that has been accredited by the Accreditation Council on Optometric Education of the American Optometric Association.
(c) All persons making application for examination and for registration shall be required to pay to the Secretary-treasurer of the State Board of Optometry a fee in a reasonable amount to be fixed by the board.
(d)(1) Beginning July 1, 2003, the board will issue licenses only for optometric physicians to persons who meet:
(A) The requirements of this section;
(B) The requirements of § 17-90-401; and
(C) The requirements of rules of the board.
(2) A person who was licensed as an optometrist before July 1, 2003, and who does not meet the standard for licensure as an optometric physician may continue to renew the license as an optometrist but may only practice in the manner prescribed by the rules of the board.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 17-90-301
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17-90-301. Examinations — Fees.
(a) No person except those already licensed by the State Board of Optometry shall practice optometry until he or she has:
(1) Successfully passed all examinations as the board may require in the rules of the board, to include, but not be limited to, clinical examinations if required; and
(2) Registered and received a certificate of registration which shall have conspicuously printed on its face the definition of optometry set forth in § 17-90-101.
(b) Every applicant for examination shall present satisfactory evidence that he or she is:
(1) At least twenty-one (21) years of age;
(2) A successful candidate having passed all parts of the National Board of Examiners in Optometry examination since January 1, 1997; and
(3) A graduate of a college of optometry that has been accredited by the Accreditation Council on Optometric Education of the American Optometric Association.
(c) All persons making application for examination and for registration shall be required to pay to the Secretary-treasurer of the State Board of Optometry a fee in a reasonable amount to be fixed by the board.
(d)(1) Beginning July 1, 2003, the board will issue licenses only for optometric physicians to persons who meet:
(A) The requirements of this section;
(B) The requirements of § 17-90-401; and
(C) The requirements of rules of the board.
(2) A person who was licensed as an optometrist before July 1, 2003, and who does not meet the standard for licensure as an optometric physician may continue to renew the license as an optometrist but may only practice in the manner prescribed by the rules of the board.
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17-90-101. Definition — Applicability.
(a)(1) The “practice of optometry” means the examination, diagnosis, treatment, and management of conditions of the human eye, lid, adnexa, and visual system, including the removal of foreign bodies from the cornea, conjunctiva, lid, or adnexa but shall exclude other surgery of the lid, adnexa, or visual system which requires anything other than a topical anesthetic.
(2) “Optometry” shall include utilizing any method or means which the licensed optometrist is educationally qualified to provide, as established and determined by the State Board of Optometry. In administering this chapter, the board shall by rule prescribe those acts, services, procedures, and practices which constitute both primary optometric eye care and the practice of optometry.
(3)(A) The “practice of optometry” shall include, but not be limited to, the prescribing and sale of eyeglasses and contact lenses, the prescribing and administering of all oral and topical drugs for the diagnosis or treatment only of conditions of the eye, lids, and adnexa, and the prescribing and administering of epinephrine, benadryl, or other comparable medication for the emergency treatment of anaphylaxis or anaphylactic reactions.
(B) All licensed optometrists are prohibited from using ophthalmic lasers for surgical procedures except as permitted in subdivision (a)(3)(D) of this section, performing cataract surgery, performing radial keratotomy surgery, and selling prescription drugs.
(C)(i) Optometrists are excluded from possessing, administering, or prescribing those pharmaceutical agents listed in Schedules I and II of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act, § 5-64-101 et seq., except hydrocodone combination drugs, regardless of their schedule, in combination with oral an
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 17-90-101
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
17-90-401. State Board of Optometry — Powers and duties.
The State Board of Optometry shall have the following rights and responsibilities:
(1) To enforce, amend, or repeal the rules promulgated by the board;
(2)(A) To approve those optometrists who shall be authorized to possess, administer, and prescribe those drugs approved by this subchapter.
(B)(i) No optometrist shall be so approved until he or she has:
(a) Exhibited his or her qualifications by passing an examination prepared or approved by the board; and
(b) Served an internship program established by the board, supervised and certified by a board-certified ophthalmologist, which internship includes at least one hundred (100) hours of supervised clinical training in the examination, diagnosis, and treatment of conditions of the human eye and adnexa.
(ii)(a) The examination shall include, but not be limited to, written questions designed to test knowledge of the proper use and characteristics of the drugs approved by the board.
(b) The examination shall be offered not less often than annually;
(3) To promulgate educational standards, which shall be used as prerequisites to authorization to use those drugs approved in this subchapter. Educational standards shall cover only the area of the proper use and characteristics of the drugs approved by the board and emergency first aid techniques;
(4) To approve, consistent with the rules promulgated by the board, those acts, services, procedures, and practices which may be performed by a licensed optometrist and, before authorization, by appropriate examination, establish the competence of every optometrist to perform the approved acts, services, procedures, and practices;
(5)(A) To prohibit any optometrist who is a graduate of a school or college of
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 17-90-401
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 17-90-401. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.