90-125. Practicing under other than own name or as a salaried or commissioned employee.
Except as provided for in Chapter 55B of the General Statutes of North Carolina, it shall be unlawful for any person licensed to practice optometry under the provisions of this Article to advertise, practice, or attempt to practice under a name other than his own, except as an associate of or assistant to an optometrist licensed under the laws of the State of North Carolina; and it shall be likewise unlawful for any corporation, lay body, organization, group, or lay individuals to engage, or undertake to engage, in the practice of optometry through means of engaging the services, upon a salary or commission basis, of one licensed to practice optometry or medicine in any of its branches in this State. Likewise, it shall be unlawful for any optometrist licensed under the provisions of this Article to undertake to engage in the practice of optometry as a salaried or commissioned employee of any corporation, lay body, organization, group, or lay individual. (1935, c. 63; 1937, c. 362, s. 2; 1969, c. 718, s. 16.)
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.