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.]