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(d) Each member of the board shall keep a written record and rating for each candidate whom he examines. The rating shall be "satisfactory" or "not satisfactory but subject to reconsideration" or "unsatisfactory."

(e) When all of the candidates shall have been examined, the board shall meet and consider the ratings that each candidate has been given. Any candidate who has been given a rating of "not satisfactory but subject to reconsideration" in either subject may be recalled at once for reexamination in that subject in case the board deems such action advisable. A majority vote of the board will then determine the candidate's final rating in that subject. No candidate shall be thus reexamined in a subject in which he has been given an "unsatisfactory" rating. When all such reexaminations have been concluded the board shall determine the final rating for each candidate.

(f) When the ratings are complete, the secretary of the board shall sign and transmit to the Department, as the official report of the practical examination, the record and ratings for each candidate.

(g) No candidate shall be considered as having passed the practical examination unless and until he receives a rating of "satisfactory" on each subject of the practical examination. A candidate who receives an "unsatisfactory" rating on either subject of the practical examination shall be reexamined only on the subject in which the "unsatisfactory" rating has been received.

(h) A candidate who has passed the practical examination and who has failed to pass the written examination shall not be required to repeat the practical examination.

(1) Any candidate in the practical examination who gives or attempts to give assistance to any other candidate, who receives or attempts to receive assistance from any other candidate or who attempts to obtain a satisfactory rating in any other fraudulent manner, shall be immediately dismissed from the examination, his practical examination record shall be cancelled and he shall be subject to such other discipline in regard to the entire licensing examination, both written and practical, as the Commissioner shall determine.

BIENNIAL REGISTRATION

The law requires every practicing optometrist in this State to register biennially with the State Education Department. Applications for such registration are mailed by the Department before the first day of April to every registered optometrist in the State. The application must then be filled out and returned to the Department with the registration fee of $6. Certificates of registration bear the date of July 1 of the year of issue and expire on the 30th day of June in the second year following. While the Department endeavors to reach every registered optometrist with an application card, these cards sometimes go astray. optometrist must keep the registration date in mind and communicate with the Department in case his application card fails to reach him. The Education Law (section 7106) provides for payment of additional fees for delay in registering or omission to register. Failure to receive an application card is not an excuse for delay or default in registration.

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INDIANA STATUTES
ON OPTOMETRY

Reprinted from

BURNS' INDIANA STATUTES
Volume 11, Part 2

Copyright 1962

by

THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY, INC.

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63-1001 [13810]. State board of optometry-Members-Organization-Powers and duties.-There is hereby created a board which shall be known as the Indiana state board of registration and examination in optometry, whose duty it shall be to carry out the provisions of this act. Said board shall consist of five [5] members, all of whom shall have been resident optometrists, licensed under this act [§§ 63-100163-1021], engaged in the actual practice of optometry in the state of Indiana for a period of five [5] years prior to their appointment, and not more than three [3] of whom shall belong to the same political party. Of those hereafter appointed two [2] shall serve for one [1] year, one [1] for two [2] years, and the other two [2] for three [3] years. The successors of all shall serve for a term of three [3] years each, and each shall hold his office until his successor be appointed. Appointment to fill vacancies from any cause shall be made by the governor for the residue of such term. The members of the board, before entering on their duties, shall each take and subscribe to the oath required to be taken by other state officers, which shall be administered by the secretary of state and filed in his office; and said board shall have a common seal: Provided, That the members of such board heretofore appointed by the governor shall serve out the terms for which they were respectively appointed, the same as if this amendment had not been made, but the tenure of office of the members of such board shall at all times be subject to the provisions of an act of the general assembly for the year 1933, entitled "An act concerning the executive including the administrative department of the government of the state of Indiana; repealing all acts and laws in conflict therewith; and declaring an emergency," approved February 3, 1933. Said board shall have authority and it shall be its duty as far as the provisions of this act permit:

(a) Witnesses-Subpoenas-Procedure. To administer such oaths and take such affidavits as are required by the provisions of this act, certifying thereto under their hand and the seal of the board, and to require the attendance of witnesses, the production of books, records and papers pertinent to any matters coming before the board, and for that purpose the secretary of the board shall have the power to issue a subpoena for any witness or a subpoena duces tecum to compel the production of any books, records, papers or documents, directed to the sheriff of the county where such witness resides or is to be found, which shall be served and returned in the same manner as subpoenas in civil actions in the circuit court are served and returned.

(b) Rules and Regulations. To make and promulgate rules and regulations, and to do any and all things not inconsistent with this act,

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