Optometry Act
New Mexico · Professional and Occupational Licenses · §§ 61-2-1 to 61-2-9.1 · 25 sections
Overview
This act regulates the practice of optometry, creating a state optometry board as the licensing and oversight authority and defining who falls within the chapter's reach and who is exempt. It sets out the board's composition, member eligibility and terms, officers, conflict-of-interest and removal rules, staffing, and meeting and training requirements, and grants it authority to adopt rules, set and apply fees, issue licenses, and address matters such as optometrists' use of pharmaceutical agents and limits on restrictions of advertising or competitive bidding. On the enforcement side it establishes complaint handling, inspection of premises and review of records, legal representation and alternative dispute resolution procedures, along with recordkeeping, public-interest information duties, and a sunset provision governing the agency's continuation.
Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.
In the courts
Sections of this act have been cited in 1 court decision.
Most-cited authority: 587 F.2d 1065 - Crane and Rigging Inc v. Beker Resources Corporation
Sections covered
- § 61-2-1 NMSA 1978Short title
- § 61-2-10 NMSA 1978Repealed
- § 61-2-10.1 NMSA 1978Repealed
- § 61-2-10.2 NMSA 1978Designation of pharmaceutical agents; certification for use of certain agents
- § 61-2-10.3 NMSA 1978Prescription for pharmaceutical agent or ophthalmic lenses; required elements; authority of a person who sells and dispenses eyeglasses
- § 61-2-10.4 NMSA 1978Contact lens prescription; required elements; restrictions
- § 61-2-10.5 NMSA 1978Replacement contact lens prescriptions
- § 61-2-11 NMSA 1978License fees; licensure under prior law
- § 61-2-12 NMSA 1978License; display; renewal; retirement; resumption of practice
- § 61-2-13 NMSA 1978Refusal, suspension or revocation of license1 cite
- § 61-2-14 NMSA 1978Offenses
- § 61-2-14.1 NMSA 1978Contact lenses; spectacles; limitations on prescriptions; criminal penalty; civil remedy; exceptions
- § 61-2-15 NMSA 1978Exemptions
- § 61-2-16 NMSA 1978Freedom of choice
- § 61-2-17 NMSA 1978Power to enjoin violations
- § 61-2-18 NMSA 1978Repealed
- § 61-2-2 NMSA 1978Definitions
- § 61-2-3 NMSA 1978Criminal offender's character evaluation
- § 61-2-4 NMSA 1978License required
- § 61-2-5 NMSA 1978Board created; terms; appointment; continuance; removal
- § 61-2-6 NMSA 1978Optometry board organization; meetings; compensation; powers and duties
- § 61-2-7 NMSA 1978Disposition of funds; optometry fund created; method of payments; bonds
- § 61-2-8 NMSA 1978Qualifications for licensure as an optometrist
- § 61-2-9 NMSA 1978Licensure by examination; expedited licensure by endorsement
- § 61-2-9.1 NMSA 1978License issued
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