2014 Idaho Statutes
Title 54 - PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS, AND BUSINESSES
Chapter 15 - OPTOMETRISTS
Section 54-1510 - REVOCATION OF LICENSES -- GROUNDS.
(1) Fraud or deception in procuring license.
(2) Practicing optometry under a false or assumed name or as a representative or agent of any person, firm or corporation other than another licensed optometrist, a physician licensed to practice medicine and surgery under chapter 18, title 54, Idaho Code, or a professional service corporation, which has been incorporated under the authority of chapter 13, title 30, Idaho Code, by persons licensed to practice optometry under chapter 15, title 54, Idaho Code, or licensed to practice medicine and surgery under chapter 18, title 54, Idaho Code.
(3) Having been convicted or having received a withheld judgment or suspended sentence in this or any other state of a felony, a crime involving moral turpitude, or any act related to the qualifications, functions or duties of an optometrist.
(4) Gross incompetency.
(5) Inability to practice optometry with reasonable skill and safety by reason of:
(6) Failure to pay to the board or the bureau of occupational licenses the annual fee and to secure a renewal license, whereupon after twenty (20) days' notice by registered mail the license of such delinquent may be revoked; but the payment of such fee at or before the time of hearing, with such additional sum, not exceeding twenty-five dollars ($25.00) as may be fixed by the board of optometry, shall excuse the default.
(7) Any practice or behavior of a character likely to deceive or defraud the public.
(8) Obtaining of any fee or compensation by fraud, deceit or misrepresentation.
(9) Employing, either directly or indirectly, any suspended or unlicensed optometrist to do optometric work.
(10) Advertising the practice of optometry in a false, misleading or deceptive manner.
(11) Employment or use of what are known as "cappers" or "steerers."
(12) Consistently accepting referrals that violate the laws of the state of Idaho.
(13) For willfully permitting or allowing or causing a person who is not a licensed optometrist or a licensed physician or surgeon to use the optometrist's prescription or optometric finding to fit contact lenses upon a person or member of the public.
(14) For violation of any of the provisions of this chapter or the rules or code of ethics made and promulgated by the state board of optometry, as authorized in section 54-1509, Idaho Code.
(15) For willfully attempting to violate, directly or indirectly, conspiring to violate, or assisting or participating in or abetting the violation of any of the provisions of this chapter or the rules or code of ethics made, prescribed or promulgated by the state board of optometry pursuant to the authority granted in this chapter.
(16) Having engaged in any conduct which constitutes an abuse or exploitation of a patient arising out of the trust and confidence placed in the licensee by the patient.
(17) Having committed any act which constitutes a felony or has committed any act which constitutes a crime involving moral turpitude.
History:
[54-1510, added 1972, ch. 91, sec. 2, p. 179; am. 1973, ch. 286, sec. 1, p. 609; am. 1974, ch. 13, sec. 127, p. 138; am. 1989, ch. 33, sec. 2. p. 40; am. 1993, ch. 216, sec. 64, p. 647; am. 2009, ch. 118, sec. 7, p. 380.]
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