2020 Georgia Code
Title 43 - Professions and Businesses
Chapter 30 - Optometrists
§ 43-30-12. Unlicensed Practice as Constituting a Nuisance; Injunction
The practice of optometry by any unregistered or unlicensed optometrist is declared to be a menace and a nuisance and dangerous to the public health and safety; and the board shall promptly abate such practice by filing an action for an injunction in the county in which such practice is conducted. The practice shall be enjoined unless it shall be made to appear that such practitioner is licensed and registered. The board is authorized to file and prosecute such action, and it shall be its duty to do so.
(Ga. L. 1933, p. 202, § 3; Code 1933, § 84-1111.)
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Scope of board's authority over practitioners.
- Former Code 1933, §§ 84-1110 and 84-1111 (see now O.C.G.A. §§ 43-30-9 and43-30-12) enumerate fully the authority vested in the board which may be exercised by that body over any or all regularly licensed practicing optometrists or nonlicensed practicing optometrists; after admission to practice, there is no authority over licensed practicing optometrists given to the board outside of these sections. 1945-47 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 503.
