§ 33-23-110 — Refusal, suspension or revocation of license

Wyoming § 33-23-110

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 33: Professions and Occupations
• Ch. 23: OPTOMETRISTS

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(a) The board may suspend, revoke or refuse to issue a
license to any person who has been guilty of unprofessional and
dishonest conduct, unethical conduct, conduct likely to deceive
the public or failure to timely submit a renewal application.
(b) "Unprofessional and dishonest conduct" as used in this
act means:
(i) The loaning of his license by any licensed
optometrist to any person; the employment of "cappers" or
"steerers" to obtain business, "splitting" or dividing a fee
with any person or persons, the advertising by any means
whatsoever of optometric practice or treatment or advice in
which untruthful, improbable, misleading or impossible
statements are made;
(ii) Repealed by Laws 1995, ch. 42, § 2.
(iii) Being guilty of offenses that relate to the
practice of optometry or to the ability to practice optometry or
involving habitual intemperance, or being habitually addicted to
the use of morphine, opium, cocaine, or other drugs having a
similar effect;
(iv) The obtaining of any fee by intentional fraud or
intentional misrepresentation or false pretenses;
(v) The use of any other term by a person licensed
under this act except the term "optometrist" or "doctor of
optometry" to designate his profession;
(vi) Employing either directly or indirectly any
suspended or unlicensed optometrist to perform any work covered
by the practice of optometry;
(vii) Incompetence, malpractice or unethical conduct;
(viii) Knowingly making any false statement of any
material fact in any application or other instrument required by
law to be filed with the board;
(ix) The board may clarify definitions stated in this
subsection by properly promulgated rules and regulations.
(c) Board disciplinary proceedings will be conducted in
accordance with the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act and the
rules and regulations of the board.
(d) Repealed by Laws 2005, ch. 59, § 2.
(e) Repealed By Laws 2005, ch. 59, § 2.
(f) Upon receipt from the department of family services of
a certified copy of an order from a court to withhold, suspend
or otherwise restrict a license issued by the board, the board
shall notify the party named in the court order of the
withholding, suspension or restriction of the license in
accordance with the terms of the court order. No appeal under
the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act shall be allowed for a
license withheld, suspended or restricted under this subsection.