2020 Georgia Code
Title 43 - Professions and Businesses
Chapter 30 - Optometrists
- § 43-30-1. Definitions
- § 43-30-2. Creation of Board; Composition; Qualifications of Members
- § 43-30-3. Terms of Office for Board Members; Vacancies
- § 43-30-4. Election of Board Officers; Rules, Regulations, and Bylaws as to Board's Proceedings; Meetings
- § 43-30-5. Adoption of Rules and Regulations by Board Generally; Restrictions on Practice Locations for Doctors of Optometry
- § 43-30-5.1. Advertising Requirements
- § 43-30-6. Certificate of Registration Required
- § 43-30-6.1. Display of License or Certificate of Registration
- § 43-30-7. Certification and Registration Requirement; Comity; Qualifications Examination
- § 43-30-8. Biennial Registration; Educational Programs for Optometrists; Forfeiture of Certificate Upon Failure to Comply; Reinstatement of Certificate
- § 43-30-9. Refusal or Revocation of Certificates; Appeals
- § 43-30-10. Appeal From Board Decisions
- § 43-30-11. Agency Representative to Determine Contested Cases; Judicial Review
- § 43-30-12. Unlicensed Practice as Constituting a Nuisance; Injunction
- § 43-30-13. Construction of Chapter
- § 43-30-14. Practicing Optometry Without a License
- § 43-30-15. Termination
- Professional corporations generally, T. 14, C. 7.
Patient access to eye care, T. 31, C. 1, A. 2.
Discrimination against licensed optometrists by state agencies or public officials in suggestions or recommendations for visual care, § 45-11-9.
Administrative Rules and Regulations.- Organization, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Georgia State Board of Examiners in Optometry, Chapter 430-1.
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Cited in Mabry v. State Bd. of Exmrs. in Optometry, 190 Ga. 751, 10 S.E.2d 740 (1940).
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERALBoard may not require licensed optometrist to join State Association of Optometrists. 1945-47 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 508.
Board may not prescribe equipment nor personnel to be employed by practicing optometrists. 1945-47 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 502.
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 2 Am. Jur. 2d, Administrative Law, § 21 et seq. 15A Am. Jur. 2d, Commerce, §§ 1 et seq., 90 et seq. 16A Am. Jur. 2d, Constitutional Law, §§ 266, 284 et seq., 332, 339 et seq. 51 Am. Jur. 2d, Licenses and Permits, § 1 et seq. 58 Am. Jur. 2d, Occupations, Trades and Professions, § 1 et seq. 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Officers and Employees, § 14 et seq. 72 Am. Jur. 2d, States, Territories and Dependencies, §§ 42, 64 et seq. 73 Am. Jur. 2d, Statutes, §§ 17 et seq., 58 et seq.
Laser Eye Surgery Litigation, 88 Am. Jur. Trials 265.
C.J.S.- 15 C.J.S., Commerce, §§ 9 et seq., 83 et seq., 111 et seq. 16 C.J.S., Constitutional Law, § 280 et seq. 16A C.J.S., Constitutional Law, § 580 et seq. 16B C.J.S., Constitutional Law, §§ 1055-1058, 1444-1448. 16D C.J.S., Constitutional Law, §§ 2085, 2086. 53 C.J.S., Licenses, § 6 et seq. 67 C.J.S., Officers and Public Employees, § 12 et seq. 73 C.J.S., Public Administrative Law and Procedure, § 50 et seq. 73 C.J.S., Public Administrative Law and Procedure, § 146 et seq. 81A C.J.S., States, § 120 et seq. 82 C.J.S., Statutes, §§ 203, 281.
ALR.
- Failure to procure occupational or business license or permit as affecting validity or enforceability of contract, 30 A.L.R. 834, 42 A.L.R. 1226, 118 A.L.R. 646.
Constitutionality of statutes and validity of regulations relating to optometry, 98 A.L.R. 905; 22 A.L.R.2d 939.
Right of corporation, or individual not himself licensed, to practice optometry through licensed employee, 102 A.L.R. 343; 128 A.L.R. 585.
What constitutes practice of "optometry", 88 A.L.R.2d 1290; 77 A.L.R.3d 817.
Liability of optometrist or optician for malpractice, 51 A.L.R.3d 1273.
Medical malpractice: when limitations period begins to run on claim for optometrist's malpractice, 70 A.L.R.4th 600.
What constitutes practice of "optometry", 82 A.L.R.4th 816.
