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     Idaho Statutes

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TITLE 54
PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS, AND BUSINESSES
CHAPTER 15
OPTOMETRISTS
54-1520.  license — Qualifications of applicants — issuance. (1) Every applicant for a license to practice optometry shall:
(a)  Not have been convicted, found guilty, or received a withheld judgment or suspended sentence in this state or in any other state of a crime that is deemed relevant in accordance with section 67-9411(1), Idaho Code;
(b)  Be more than twenty-one (21) years of age;
(c)  Present certified evidence of graduation from an accredited college or university of optometry that meets the requirements in rules of the board;
(d)  Pass an examination as provided in rules of the board; and
(e)  Be certified to use therapeutic pharmaceutical agents as provided in section 54-1501(3), Idaho Code, and in rules of the board.
(2)  An applicant meeting the qualifications required in this chapter shall be issued a license to practice optometry in this state.

History:
[54-1520, added 1972, ch. 91, sec. 2, p. 179; am. 2017, ch. 230, sec. 1, p. 557; am. 2022, ch. 246, sec. 13, p. 797.]


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