O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 43-30-12 (2019)

Unlicensed practice as constituting a nuisance; injunction

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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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.

History

Ga. L. 1933, p. 202, § 3; Code 1933, § 84-1111.

Annotations

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 and 43-30-12) enumerate fully the authority vested in the board which may be exercised by that body over any or all regularly licensed practicing optom-

etrists 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 Ga. Op. Att’y Gen. 503.