1. 1. Upon payment of a fee equivalent to the examination and certificate fees, an applicant who is an optometrist, registered or licensed under the laws of another state or territory of the United States, or of a foreign country or province shall, without examination, be granted a certificate of registration as a registered optometrist by the state board of optometry upon the following conditions:

   1. (1) That the applicant is at least twenty-one years of age, of good moral character; and
   2. (2) That the requirements for the registration or licensing of optometrists in the particular state, territory, country or province, were, at the date of the license, substantially equal to the requirements then in force in this state.
2. 2. The board may by rule and regulation require applicants under this section to satisfactorily complete any practical examination or any examination on Missouri laws required pursuant to section 336.050.

(RSMo 1939 § 10122, A.L. 1943 p. 973, A.L. 1981 S.B. 16)

Prior revision: 1929 § 13510