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2016 California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 2 - HEALING ARTS
CHAPTER 7 - Optometry
ARTICLE 5 - Revocation and Suspension
Section 3098.

CA Bus & Prof Code § 3098 (2016) What's This?

3098. When the holder uses the title of Doctor or Dr. as a prefix to his or her name, without using the word optometrist as a suffix to his or her name or in connection with it, or, without holding a diploma from an accredited school of optometry, the letters Opt. D. or O.D. as a suffix to his or her name, it constitutes a cause to revoke or suspend his or her optometrist license.

(Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 473, Sec. 12. Effective January 1, 2014.)

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