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34-22-1
Section 34-22-1 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have
the respective meanings ascribed by this section: (1) BOARD. The Alabama Board of Optometry.
(2) HUMAN EYE AND ITS ADJACENT STRUCTURES. The eye and all structures situated within the
orbit, including the conjunctiva, lids, lashes, and lachrymal system. (3) PHARMACEUTICAL AGENTS.
Any diagnostic and therapeutic drug or combination of drugs that has the property of assisting
in the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, or mitigation of abnormal conditions or symptoms
of the human eye and its adjacent structures. (4) PRACTICE OF OPTOMETRY. The practice of optometry
is a learned profession involving the examination, measurement by objective and subjective
means, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of any departure from the normal of the human
eyes, their adjacent structures, and visual system. The practice of optometry includes but
is not limited to: The adapting and fitting of all types of lenses or...
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34-22-20
Section 34-22-20 Qualifications of applicants; examination; issuance and execution of licenses;
use of pharmaceutical agents. (a) Every person desiring to practice optometry in this state
shall be 19 years of age, or over, a citizen of the United States or, if not a citizen of
the United States, a person who is legally present in the United States with appropriate documentation
from the federal government, and of good moral character. The person shall have a minimum
of three years of preoptometry, or the equivalent, at an accredited college or university,
have completed a course of study in an accredited school or college of optometry which is
approved by the board and that requires at least four years of professional study, and have
passed all examinations prescribed by the board, which may include the standard examination
after completion of the educational requirements. The board may accept a passing grade on
a recognized national examination or a passing grade on a board...
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34-22-22
Section 34-22-22 Continuing education requirements; suspension and reinstatement; renewal;
registration certificate; waiver of registration and fees. (a) All registered optometrists
licensed in the State of Alabama are required to take annual courses of study in subjects
relating to the practice of optometry. The length of study shall be prescribed by the board
but shall not exceed 25 clock hours in any calendar year. Licensees approved by the board
to use pharmaceutical agents shall be required to take not less than 20 nor more than 25 hours
of continuing education, half of which shall be in subjects relating to the diagnosis, treatment,
and management of disease of the human eye and its adjacent structures. Attendance shall be
at a course or courses approved by the board. (b) Continuing education requirements shall
be completed between October 1 and September 30 of each fiscal year prior to the time for
license renewal for the next fiscal year. Upon the failure of any licensee to...
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34-22-42
Section 34-22-42 Powers and duties generally. The board shall exercise and perform, subject
to this chapter, each of the following powers and duties: (1) Conduct examinations at least
once each year to ascertain the qualifications and fitness of applicants for licenses to practice
optometry. (2) Prescribe rules and regulations for conducting and administering an examination
of applicants for licensing as optometrists and to effectuate this chapter. (3) Institute,
upon a complaint or petition, hearings of charges against licensed optometrists or other persons
as provided in this chapter. (4) Institute legal proceedings for violations of this chapter.
(5) Grant and deny licenses in conformity with this chapter, including applications for approval
to use pharmaceutical agents. (6) Formulate rules and regulations by which the board shall
determine which optometry schools and colleges in or out of the State of Alabama have been
duly accredited by a recognized and properly authorized...
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34-22-21
Section 34-22-21 Reciprocity; pharmaceutical agents. Any person who has successfully passed
a standard examination in optometry in any state of the United States or all parts of the
examination given by the National Board of Examiners in Optometry and is the holder of a certificate
to that effect, issued by the board of that state, or by the national board, and who has a
current license to practice optometry in any state in the United States, and has conducted
an ethical professional practice of optometry for at least one year, may, at the discretion
of the board, and upon the payment of the amount of the regular examination fee, take the
standard examination, and upon passing the examination be registered as qualified to practice
optometry in this state. Optometrists licensed under this chapter may apply to the board for
approval to use pharmaceutical agents for the treatment of disease of the human eye and its
adjacent structures. The board shall prescribe rules and regulations...
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34-22-6
Section 34-22-6 Violations; penalties; assistance in prosecutions; costs and attorney fees;
venue. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to perform any of the following: (1) Practice
optometry in this state without having a valid, unrevoked, and unexpired license certificate
and annual renewal registration certificate as an optometrist. (2) Use or attempt to use as
his or her own a diploma of an optometric school or college or a license of another person,
or a forged diploma or license, or any forged or false identification. (3) Sell or offer to
sell a diploma conferring an optometric degree or a license granted pursuant to this chapter
or prior optometric practice laws, or to procure each diploma or license with intent that
it shall be used as evidence of the right to practice optometry by a person other than the
one upon whom it was conferred or to whom the license was granted, or with fraudulent intent
to alter the diploma or license or to use or attempt to use it when it is so...
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34-13-1
Section 34-13-1 Definitions. (a) For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have
the following meanings: (1) ACCREDITED SCHOOL or COLLEGE OF MORTUARY SCIENCE. A school or
college approved by the Alabama Board of Funeral Service and which maintains a course of instruction
of not less than 48 calendar weeks or four academic quarters or college terms and which gives
a course of instruction in the fundamental subjects including, but not limited to, the following:
a. Mortuary management and administration. b. Legal medicine and toxicology as it pertains
to funeral directing. c. Public health, hygiene, and sanitary science. d. Mortuary science,
to include embalming technique, in all its aspects; chemistry of embalming, color harmony;
discoloration, its causes, effects, and treatment; treatment of special cases; restorative
art; funeral management; and professional ethics. e. Anatomy and physiology. f. Chemistry,
organic and inorganic. g. Pathology. h. Bacteriology. i. Sanitation...
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22-19-161
Section 22-19-161 Definitions. In this article: (1) "Adult" means an individual who
is at least 18 years of age. (2) "Agent" means an individual: (A) authorized to
make health care decisions on the principal's behalf by a power of attorney for health care;
or (B) expressly authorized to make an anatomical gift on the principal's behalf by any other
record signed by the principal. (3) "Anatomical gift" means a donation of all or
part of a human body to take effect after the donor's death for the purpose of transplantation,
therapy, research, or education. (4) "Coroner" means an elected or appointed official
who determines, with the assistance of other forensic scientists and investigators, the cause,
manner, and circumstances surrounding death. (5) "Decedent" means a deceased individual
whose body or part is or may be the source of an anatomical gift. The term includes a stillborn
infant and, subject to restrictions imposed by law other than this article, a fetus. (6) "Disinterested...
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22-30D-3
Section 22-30D-3 Definitions. Unless otherwise defined in this chapter, the definitions of
terms included in Section 22-30-3 shall be applicable to this chapter. For the purposes of
this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) ABANDONED DRYCLEANING FACILITY.
Any real property premises or individual leasehold space located in this state owned by any
person in which a drycleaning facility or wholesale distribution facility formerly operated;
provided, however, that any owner or operator or wholesale distributor who shall have elected
not to be covered by the provisions of this chapter shall not be considered a person owning
or leasing such a facility for the purposes of this chapter. (2) ADJACENT LAND OWNER. Any
owner, lessor, or mortgagee of any real property onto which contamination from a drycleaning
facility, abandoned drycleaning facility, or wholesale distribution facility of any owner
or operator or wholesale distributor who shall have elected to be covered...
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34-9-6
Section 34-9-6 What constitutes practice of dentistry. Any person shall be deemed to be practicing
dentistry who does any of the following: (1) Performs, or attempts or professes to perform,
any dental operation or dental service of any kind, gratuitously or for a salary, fee, money,
or other remuneration paid, or to be paid, directly or indirectly, to himself or herself,
or to any person in his or her behalf, or to any agency which is a proprietor of a place where
dental operations or dental services are performed. (2) Directly or indirectly, by any means
or method, makes impression of the human tooth, teeth, jaws, or adjacent tissue, or performs
any phase of any operation incident to the replacement of a tooth or any part thereof. (3)
Supplies artificial substitutes for the natural teeth, and who furnishes, supplies, constructs,
reproduces, or repairs any prosthesis (fixed or removable), appliance, or any other structure
to be worn in the human mouth. (4) Places such appliance or...
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