California Business and Professions Code

§ 3040

BPC § 3040 Effective Jan 1, 2019Div. 2 · Ch. 7 · Art. 3

Statute text

(a)It is unlawful for a person to engage in the practice of optometry or to advertise or hold himself or herself out as an optometrist without a valid, unrevoked California optometrist license. The practice of optometry includes the performing or controlling of any acts set forth in Section 3041.

(b)In any prosecution for a violation of this section, the use of test cards, test lenses, or of trial frames is prima facie evidence of the practice of optometry.

Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2018, Ch. 703, Sec. 24. (SB 1491) Effective January 1, 2019.