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Statutes› Title 26› Chapter 030› § 1707

Title 26 : Professions and Occupations

Chapter 030 : Optometry

Subchapter 002 : State Board of Optometry

(Cite as: 26 V.S.A. § 1707)

  • § 1707. Qualifications; term of office; removal

    (a) The State Board of Optometry is created.

    [Subsection (b) effective until July 1, 2028; see also subsection (b) effective July 1, 2028, set out below.]

    (b) The Board shall consist of five members, three of whom shall be residents of the State who have had at least five years’ experience in the practice of optometry in the State and are in the active practice of optometry at the time of their appointment; and two members who shall be representatives of the public, who shall be residents of the State for five years, and who shall have no financial interest in the profession other than as a consumer or potential consumer of its services.

    [Subsection (b) effective July 1, 2028; see also subsection (b) effective until July 1, 2028, set out above.]

    (b)(1) The Board shall consist of seven members, four of whom shall be residents of the State who have had at least five years’ experience in the practice of optometry in the State and are in the active practice of optometry at the time of their appointment; one member who shall be a resident of the State who has at least five years’ experience in the practice of ophthalmology and is in the active practice of ophthalmology at the time of appointment; and two members who shall be representatives of the public, who shall be residents of the State for five years, and who shall have no financial interest in the profession other than as a consumer or potential consumer of its services.

    (2) Beginning on January 1, 2031, at least one of the optometrist members of the Board shall hold an advanced therapeutic procedures specialty issued pursuant to subchapter 5 of this chapter.

    (c) Board members shall be appointed by the Governor pursuant to 3 V.S.A. §§ 129b and 2004.

    (d) [Repealed.] (Added 1979, No. 158 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 2005, No. 27, § 46; 2019, No. 30, § 12; 2025, No. 171 (Adj. Sess.), § 1a, eff. July 1, 2028.)