Oklahoma § 59-584 - Qualifications of applicants - Examination - Registration

§ 59-584. Qualifications of applicants - Examination - Registration

- Certificates to practice to persons from other states – National

criminal history record check.

A. Every person desiring to commence the practice of optometry

except as hereinafter provided, upon presentation of satisfactory

evidence, verified by oath, that he is more than twenty-one (21)

years of age and has met the undergraduate requirements and is a

graduate of an accredited school of optometry, conferring the degree

of Doctor of Optometry or its equivalent, shall, upon application,

be examined by the Board of Examiners to determine his or her

qualifications, and such examination shall be based upon the

subjects taught in the standard schools and colleges of optometry,

such as general and ocular pharmacology, anatomy of the eyes, use of

the ophthalmoscope, retinoscope and the use of trial lenses, general

anatomy, physiology, physics, chemistry, biology, bacteriology,

ocular pathology, ocular neurology, ocular myology, psychology,

physiological optics, optometrical mechanics, clinical optometry,

visual field charting and orthoptics, the general laws of optics and

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 59. Professions and Occupations

refraction, as is essential to the practice of optometry. Every

candidate successfully passing such examination shall be registered

by the Board as possessing the qualifications as required by Section

581 et seq. of this title and shall receive from the Board a

certificate thereof. Every optometrist desiring to use dangerous

drugs and controlled dangerous substances as specified in Section

581 of this title shall have satisfactorily completed courses in

general and ocular pharmacology at an institution accredited by the

Council on Post-Secondary Accreditation or the United States

Department of Education. The Board of Examiners in Optometry shall

approve such courses and shall certify those qualified by such

training to use dangerous drugs and controlled dangerous substances

as specified in Section 581 of this title. The use of any such

pharmaceuticals by an optometrist or the obtaining of same by an

optometrist shall be unlawful unless said optometrist is in

possession of a current certificate as provided in this section.

Such optometrist shall furnish evidence to any pharmacist or other

supplier from whom such pharmaceuticals are sought as to his holding

a current certificate. The Board may, in its discretion, issue said

certificates to practice, to persons otherwise qualified under this

act, who have established by legal proof their knowledge of

optometry, as shown by previous examination in any state of the

Union; provided, the examination in said state was, at the time

taken, of an equal standard with that of this state; provided,

further, that citizens of this state are by the statutes of said

state, admitted to practice on like conditions.

B. Every person desiring to commence the practice of optometry

shall be required to submit to a national criminal history record

check, as defined in Section 150.9 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma

Statutes. The costs associated with the national criminal history

record check shall be paid by such person.

Added by Laws 1927, c. 80, p. 119, § 4, emerg. eff. March 22, 1927.

Amended by Laws 1937, p. 95, § 2, emerg. eff. April 2, 1937; Laws

1981, c. 10, § 2, eff. Oct. 1, 1981; Laws 1994, c. 52, § 2; Laws

2018, c. 81, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2018; Laws 2019, c. 363, § 29, eff.

Nov. 1, 2019.