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320.250 Eligibility for license -- Examinations -- Applications for license.
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Licenses to engage in the practice of optometry shall be issued only to those
who qualify under the provisions of KRS 320.260 or 320.270, or who
successfully pass examinations conducted or approved by the board at a time
and place fixed by the board. Each applicant shall comply with the provisions of
KRS 214.615(1). Each license certificate shall be signed by the president and
secretary-treasurer and authenticated by the seal of the board.
The examinations may consist of written, clinical, or practical examinations and
shall relate to the skills needed for the practice of optometry in this
Commonwealth at the time of the examination and shall seek to determine the
applicant's preparedness to exercise these skills. The examining board may:
(a) Prepare, administer, and grade the examination;
(b) Accept the scores of the applicant from an examination prepared,
administered, and graded by the National Board of Examiners in
Optometry or any other organization approved by the board as qualified to
administer the examination; and
(c) Require passage of an examination on Kentucky optometric law.
Any person seeking a license to practice optometry under the provisions of this
section shall submit an application to the board on forms furnished by the
board. The applicant shall show proof of the following:
(a) The applicant is not less than eighteen (18) years of age and is of good
moral character;
(b) The applicant is a graduate of a school or college of optometry that is
accredited by a regional or professional accreditation organization that is
recognized or approved by the council on postsecondary accreditation, or
by the United States Department of Education, and is in good standing,
as approved by the board. All applicants shall have transcript credit of at
least six (6) semester hours in a course or courses from a school or
college as described in this subsection in general and ocular
pharmacology with particular emphasis on diagnostic pharmaceutical
agents applied topically to the eye and six (6) semester hours in ocular
pathology and therapy with emphasis on utilization of therapeutic
pharmaceutical agents. All hours shall be from a school or college as
described in this subsection;
(c) All other information requested by the board as is set out on the
application.
The nonrefundable fee for each license application shall not exceed six
hundred dollars ($600).
No application shall be considered by the board after one (1) year from the
date in which the board received the application has lapsed. After the lapse of
the one (1) year period, an applicant shall submit a new application and
another nonrefundable fee for further consideration by the board.
Effective:July 14, 2000
History: Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 361, sec. 5, effective July 14, 2000. -Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 256, sec. 9, effective July 13, 1990; and ch. 443,
sec. 24, effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 337, sec. 1,
effective July 15, 1982. -- Amended 1970 Ky. Acts ch. 120, sec. 12. -- Created
1954 Ky. Acts ch. 183, sec. 6.
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