NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1092

SENATE BILL 1404

 

 

AN ACT RELATING TO THE FEES OF THE BOARD OF EXAMINERS IN OPTOMETRY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 90-118.10, as the same appears in the 1973 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 2C of the General Statutes, is amended in the second line of the fourth paragraph thereof by striking the word and number "April 1", and substituting in the place thereof, the word and number "January 31".

Sec. 2.  G.S. 90-123, as the same appears in the 1973 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 2C of the General Statutes, is hereby rewritten as follows:

"§ 90-123.  Fees. — In order to provide the means of carrying out and enforcing the provisions of this Article and the duties devolving upon the North Carolina State Board of Examiners in Optometry, said Board is hereby authorized to charge and collect fees established by its rules and regulations not exceeding the following:

(1)        Each application for general optometry examination                               $75.00

(2)        Each general optometry license renewal, which fee

shall be annually fixed by the Board and not later

than December 15 of each year it shall give written

notice of the amount of the renewal fee to each

optometrist licensed to practice in this State by

mailing such notice to the last address of record

with the Board of each such optometrist                                                $75.00

(3)        Each provisional license                                                                        $50.00

(4)        Each intern permit or renewal thereof                                                    $50.00

(5)        Each certificate of license to a resident optometrist

desiring to change to another state or territory                                        $15.00

(6)        Each license issued to a practitioner of another

state or territory to practice in this State                                                 $75.00

(7)        Each license to resume the practice issued to an

optometrist who has retired from the practice of

optometry or who has removed from and returned

to this State                                                                                          $75.00"

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of April, 1974.