90-117.4. Judicial powers; additional data for records.
The president of the North Carolina State Board of Examiners in Optometry, and/or the secretary-treasurer of said Board, shall have the power to administer oaths, issue subpoenas requiring the attendance of persons and the production of papers and records before said Board in any hearing, investigation or proceeding conducted by it. The sheriff or other proper official of any county of the State shall serve the process issued by said president or secretary-treasurer of said Board pursuant to its requirements and in the same manner as process issued by any court of record. The said Board shall pay for the service of all process, such fees as are provided by law for the service of like process in other cases.
Any person who shall neglect or refuse to obey any subpoena requiring him to attend and testify before said Board or to produce books, records or documents shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
The Board shall have the power, upon the production of any papers, records or data, to authorize certified copies thereof to be substituted in the permanent record of the matter in which such books, records or data shall have been introduced in evidence. (1973, c. 800, s. 5; 1993, c. 539, s. 627; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 90 - Medicine and Allied Occupations
§ 90-115 - Practice without registration unlawful.
§ 90-115.1 - Acts not constituting the unlawful practice of optometry.
§ 90-116 - Board of Examiners in Optometry.
§ 90-117 - Officers; common seal.
§ 90-117.1 - Quorum; adjourned meetings.
§ 90-117.2 - Records and transcripts.
§ 90-117.3 - Annual and special meetings.
§ 90-117.4 - Judicial powers; additional data for records.
§ 90-117.5 - Bylaws and regulations.
§ 90-118.1 - Contents of original license.
§ 90-118.2 - Displaying license and current certificate of renewal.
§ 90-118.3 - Refusal to grant renewal of license.
§ 90-118.4 - Duplicate licenses.
§ 90-118.5 - Licensing practitioners of other states.
§ 90-118.6 - Certificate issued to optometrist moving out of State.
§ 90-118.7 - Licensing former optometrists who have moved back into State or resumed practice.
§ 90-118.10 - Annual renewal of licenses.
§ 90-118.11 - Unauthorized practice; penalty for violation of Article.
§ 90-119 - Persons in practice before passage of statute.
§ 90-121.1 - Board may enjoin illegal practices.
§ 90-121.2 - Rules and regulations; discipline, suspension, revocation and regrant of certificate.
§ 90-121.4 - Restoration of revoked license.
§ 90-121.6 - Reporting and publication of judgments, awards, payments, and settlements.
§ 90-122 - Compensation and expenses of Board.
§ 90-123.1 - Continuing education courses required.
§ 90-124 - Rules of Board; certain information to be made available.
§ 90-125 - Practicing under other than own name or as a salaried or commissioned employee.
§ 90-127 - Application of Article.
§ 90-127.1 - Free choice by patient guaranteed.