Optometry Law

Alaska · Business and Professions · §§ 08.72.010 to 08.72.310 · 40 sections

Overview

This act governs the practice of optometry, establishing a board of optometry and setting out its membership, qualifications, and authority to adopt regulations. It makes optometry a licensed profession, prescribing qualifications for licensure, examination and credentialing routes, renewal and retired status, and the fees that fund the system, and it defines the permitted scope of practice, including the use of pharmaceutical agents, removal of foreign bodies, limits on prescribing, and the sale of lenses and frames. Enforcement rests on stated grounds for disciplinary sanctions, license revocation, prohibited acts, and criminal penalties, with definitions and exemptions marking the outer bounds of what the act reaches.

Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.

Sections covered

AS 08.72.010Creation and purpose of board
AS 08.72.020Membership of board
AS 08.72.025Removal of board members. [Repealed, § 49 ch 94 SLA 1987. For current law, see AS 08.01.020.]
AS 08.72.030Vacancies. [Repealed, § 49 ch 94 SLA 1987. For current law, see AS 08.01.035.]
AS 08.72.040Qualifications
AS 08.72.050Regulations
AS 08.72.060Miscellaneous powers and duties of board
AS 08.72.070Applicability of Administrative Procedure Act. [Repealed, § 23 ch 75 SLA 1980.]
AS 08.72.080Compensation of board and secretary. [Repealed, § 3 ch 59 SLA 1966.]
AS 08.72.090Record of proceedings. [Repealed, § 23 ch 75 SLA 1980.]
AS 08.72.100Bond of secretary. [Repealed, § 3 ch 59 SLA 1966.]
AS 08.72.110License required
AS 08.72.115Malpractice insurance. [Repealed, § 40 ch 117 SLA 1978.]
AS 08.72.120Registration. [Repealed § 9 ch 50 SLA 1988.]
AS 08.72.125Licensing of branch offices. [Repealed, § 3 ch 94 SLA 1996.]
AS 08.72.130Optometry register. [Repealed, § 13 ch 37 SLA 1986.]
AS 08.72.140Qualifications for licensure
AS 08.72.150Application for examination and issuance of license
AS 08.72.160Examination
AS 08.72.170Licensure by credentials
AS 08.72.175License endorsement. [Repealed, § 7 ch 27 SLA 2010.]
AS 08.72.180Annual renewal of license. [Repealed, § 7 ch 94 SLA 1968.]
AS 08.72.181Renewal of license
AS 08.72.185Retired license status
AS 08.72.190Fee for license by reciprocity. [Repealed, § 10 ch 76 SLA 1969.]
AS 08.72.191Fees
AS 08.72.230Fees and disbursements
AS 08.72.240Grounds for imposition of disciplinary sanctions
AS 08.72.260Revocation of license by court
AS 08.72.270Practice not at place of business
AS 08.72.272Pharmaceutical agents
AS 08.72.273Removal of foreign bodies
AS 08.72.274Exemption
AS 08.72.275Lenses and frames for eyeglasses and sunglasses
AS 08.72.276Maximum dosage for opioid prescriptions
AS 08.72.278Limitation on practice
AS 08.72.280Prohibited acts
AS 08.72.290Criminal penalty
AS 08.72.300Definitions
AS 08.72.310Short title

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