GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION
CHAPTER 321
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 90-115.1(3) reads as rewritten:
"(3) The practice of
optometry by students enrolled in optometry schools or colleges in
this State approved by the North Carolina State Board of Examiners in
Optometry by students enrolled in such schools or colleges when such
practice is performed as a part of their the student's course of instruction
and instruction, is under the direct supervision of an
optometrist who is either duly licensed in North Carolina or qualified under
subdivision (2) above as a teacher. teacher, and is conducted in
accordance with such rules as may be established for such practice by the North
Carolina State Board of Examiners in Optometry. Additionally, the
practice of optometry by such students at any location upon patients or inmates
of institutions wholly owned or operated by the State of North Carolina or any
political subdivision or subdivisions thereof when, in the opinion of the dean
of such optometry school or college or his designee, the student's optometric
education and experience is adequate therefor, subject to review and approval
by the said Board of Examiners in Optometry, and such practice is a part of the
course of instruction of such students, is performed under the supervision of a
duly licensed optometrist acting as a teacher or instructor and is without
remuneration except for expenses and subsistence as defined and permitted by
the rules and regulations of said Board of Examiners in Optometry."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 14th day of June, 1989.