PURPOSE: This rule describes the board’s operation and the methods and procedures where the public may obtain information or make submissions or requests.

1. (1) Whenever used in 20 CSR 2210, the word board means the State Board of Optometry.
2. (2) The State Board of Optometry is a unit of the Division of Professional Registration in the Department of Commerce and Insurance.
3. (3) The board was created by an Act of the 51st General Assembly in 1921.
4. (4) The board consists of five (5) licensed doctors of optometry and one (1) public member. The governor appoints the members of the board, with the advice and consent of the senate, from nominees submitted by the director of the Division of Professional Registration. The terms of the licensed doctors are five (5) years and the term of the public member is four (4) years.
5. (5) The board is authorized by section 336.160, RSMo to adopt rules for the application and enforcement of Chapter 336, RSMo.

6. (6) The board has superintending control over the practice of optometry within this state. The board’s primary duties consist of—

   1. (A) Examining and licensing of applicants;
   2. (B) Approving colleges of optometry;
   3. (C) Accrediting continuing education programs for license renewal; and
   4. (D) Censuring, suspending, probating, or revoking licenses of any doctor found guilty of violating the prohibitions of Chapter 336, RSMo.
7. (7) Unless otherwise provided by statute or regulation, regular and special meetings of the board are guided by Robert’s Rules of Order.
8. (8) The public may obtain information from the board or make submissions or requests to the board by writing the State Board of Optometry.

AUTHORITY: sections 336.130.4, 336.140, and 536.023.3, RSMo 2016, and section 20 CSR 2210-1 336.160, RSMo Supp. 2018.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 210-1.010. Original rule filed Dec. 19, 1975, effective Dec. 29, 1975. Rescinded and readopted: Filed Oct. 14, 1981, effective Jan. 14, 1982. Amended: Filed Sept. 13, 1995, effective March 30, 1996. Moved to 20 CSR 2210-1.010, effective Aug. 28, 2006. Amended: Filed Nov. 29, 2006, effective May 30, 2007. Amended: Filed Dec. 5, 2007, effective June 30, 2008. Amended: Filed Aug. 23, 2018, effective Feb. 28, 2019. Non-substantive change filed July 30, 2019, published Sept. 30, 2019. *Original authority: 336.130.4, RSMo 1939, amended 1949, 1981, 1999; 336.140, RSMo 1939, amended 1949, 1963, 1980, 1981, 1985, 2007, 2008; 336.160, RSMo 1939, amended 1947, 1963, 1981, 2007, 2008, 2018; and 536.023.3, RSMo 1975, amended 1976, 1997, 2004.