South Dakota § 36-7-17 Practice as individual or partner required--Exception for authorized corporate practice--Violation--Optometrist not precluded from serving as officer or director of health maintenance organization.

South Dakota Statutes

§ 36-7-17 — Practice as individual or partner required--Exception for authorized corporate practice--Violation--Optometrist not precluded from serving as officer or director of health maintenance organization.

South Dakota § 36-7-17

Title 36PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS

Ch. 36-6OPTOMETRISTS

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Bluebook

S.D. Codified Laws § 36-7-17 (2026).

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Every optometrist in this state shall furnish the board satisfactory evidence that the licensee practices optometry as a profession, in an individual personal capacity under the optometrist's own name or as a partner of another licensed optometrist and not as a corporation, limited liability company or agent, employee, officer, member, or partner of a corporation or limited liability company, except where a practice as an officer, employee, member, or agent of a corporation is established under the terms of chapter 47-11B . A violation of this section is a Class 2 misdemeanor. Nothing in this section precludes a licensed optometrist from serving as a shareholder, officer, or director of a corporation established under the terms of chapter 58-41 as a health maintenance organization, a prefe

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Every optometrist in this state shall furnish the board satisfactory evidence that the licensee practices optometry as a profession, in an individual personal capacity under the optometrist's own name or as a partner of another licensed optometrist and not as a corporation, limited liability company or agent, employee, officer, member, or partner of a corporation or limited liability company, except where a practice as an officer, employee, member, or agent of a corporation is established under the terms of chapter 47-11B . A violation of this section is a Class 2 misdemeanor. Nothing in this section precludes a licensed optometrist from serving as a shareholder, officer, or director of a corporation established under the terms of chapter 58-41 as a health maintenance organization, a preferred provider organization, individual practices association, or other form of entity whatever established for group health care purposes.

Legislative History

SDC 1939, § 27.0704 (7); SL 1941, ch 125, § 2; SL 1972, ch. 249, § 24; SL 1987, ch 269, § 1; SL 1992, ch 158, § 77; SL 1993, ch 344, § 39J; SL 2022, ch 147, § 9.