Statute 65-1509a: Continuing education
requirements.
In addition to the payment of the license renewal fee, each licensee,
other than one who has graduated from an optometry school within 12 months
of the date of the application for renewal,
applying for license renewal shall furnish to the secretary of the board
satisfactory evidence of successfully completing a minimum of
24 hours of
continuing education programs, five hours of which shall relate to ocular
pharmacology, therapeutics or related topics of study, approved by the
board in the year just
preceding such application for the renewal of the license. The board, in
its discretion, may increase the required hours of continuing education by
rules
and regulations adopted by the board. On or before April 1 of each
year, the secretary of the board shall send
a written notice of continuing education requirements to this effect to
every person holding a valid license to practice optometry within the state.
Such
notice shall be directed to
the last known address of such licensee.
History: L. 1939, ch. 240, § 7; L. 1975, ch. 318, § 7;
L. 1987, ch.
235, § 4;
L. 1990, ch. 223, § 6;
L. 1999, ch. 23, § 5; Apr. 1.