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

O.C.G.A. § 43-30-14 (2019)

Practicing optometry without a license

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Any person who practices optometry or who offers or pretends to practice or holds himself or herself out as eligible to practice optometry and who is not legally registered and licensed shall be guilty of a felony.

History

Ga. L. 1916, p. 83, § 8; Ga. L. 1933, p. 202, § 4; Code 1933, § 84-9917; Ga. L. 2003, p. 315, § 1.

Annotations

Cross references. False or fraudulent advertising, § 10-1420 et seq.

RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. What constitutes practice of “optometry,” 88 A.L.R.2d 1290; 82 A.L.R.4th 816. Practicing medicine, surgery, dentistry, optometry, podiatry, or other healing arts

without license as a separate or continuing offense, 99 A.L.R.2d 654. Fitting of contact lenses as practice of optometry, 77 A.L.R.3d 817.