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title: Title 43, Chapter 30. Optometrists
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heading: OPTOMETRISTS
title_heading: PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES
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# Title 43, Chapter 30. Optometrists

Title 43. Professions and Businesses

17 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-30.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue).

- 43-30-1, Definitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-30-1.md
- 43-30-2, State Board of Optometry; composition; qualifications of members, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-30-2.md
- 43-30-3, Terms of office for board members; vacancies, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-30-3.md
- 43-30-4, Election of board officers; rules, regulations, and bylaws as to board’s proceedings; meetings, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-30-4.md
- 43-30-5, Adoption of rules and regulations by board generally; restrictions on practice locations for doctors of optometry, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-30-5.md
- 43-30-5.1, Advertising requirements, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-30-5.1.md
- 43-30-6, Certificate of registration required, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-30-6.md
- 43-30-6.1, Display of license or certificate of registration, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-30-6.1.md
- 43-30-7, Certification and registration requirement; comity; qualifications examination, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-30-7.md
- 43-30-8, Biennial registration; educational programs for optometrists; forfeiture of certificate upon failure to comply; reinstatement of certificate, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-30-8.md
- 43-30-9, Refusal or revocation of certificates; appeals, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-30-9.md
- 43-30-10, Appeal from board decisions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-30-10.md
- 43-30-11, Agency representative to determine contested cases; judicial review, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-30-11.md
- 43-30-12, Unlicensed practice as constituting a nuisance; injunction, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-30-12.md
- 43-30-13, Construction of chapter, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-30-13.md
- 43-30-14, Practicing optometry without a license, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-30-14.md
- 43-30-15, Termination, repealed (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-30-15.md