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PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS : Chapter 12

• 1 : Practice of optometry defined.
• 2 : New Jersey state board of optometrists; membership; appointments; terms of office
• 3 : Oath of office; officers; secretary-treasurer's compensation and bond; appointment and powers of agent
• 4 : Rules and regulations; seal; records; semiannual examinations
• 5 : Applications for certificate of registrations; qualifications of applicants; examination; issuance of certificate
• 6 : Fees; numbering and recording of certificates; filing of photograph of registrant
• 7 : Issuance of license to licensees of other states; fee
• 8 : Certificate displayed in office; practitioners' names displayed outside; practice outside office; change of location
• 9 : Registration; certificates; fees; branch offices; revocation
• 9.1 : Public policy
• 9.11 : Prescription restrictions.
• 9.12 : Practice at retail or commercial locations
• 9.13 : Credentialing requirements for optometrist to use, prescribe pharmaceutical agents.
• 9.2 : Requirement of continuing education; exemption; approval of programs by board; fees.
• 9.3 : Credits necessary
• 9.4 : Reactivation of license; credits necessary
• 9.5 : Waiver of requirements
• 9.6 : Acceptance of federal funds
• 9.7 : Inapplicability of act to practice of medicine and surgery
• 9.8 : Credentialing, certification process; rules, regulations.
• 9.9 : Credentialing requirements.
• 10 : Certification of records of boards as to issuance of licenses; fees; certificate as evidence
• 15 : Issuance of new certificate after revocation
• 16 : Optometrists convicted of crime reported to state board
• 17 : Expenses of board and its members
• 17.1 : Allowance to members of Board; reimbursement for expenses
• 18 : Account and report of receipts and expenditures
• 18.1 : Record of examination of patient considered exclusive property of optometrist
• 18.2 : Partial invalidity
• 19 : Illegal practices; peddling eyeglasses, contact lenses; attending confined person.
• 19.1 : Practicing under another's name; employment by others
• 19.2 : Cards offering special rates or discounts
• 19.3 : Effective date
• 26 : Titles not authorized
• 27 : Testimony and reports of licensed optometrist; receipt as qualified evidence; right to free choice of ocular practitioner

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