Chapter 4726-9 Licensing

4726-9-01 Licensure requirements.

(A) Any person seeking licensure from the state optical dispensers board after having successfully passed the board’s qualifying examination, shall make application on forms provided by the board for such licensure within one year of the date of the exam that was taken and passed.

(B) The appropriate certificate of licensure shall be issued by the board no later than sixty days after approval by the board.

Effective: 09/01/2008

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 05/19/2008 and 12/31/2010

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 4725.44

Rule Amplifies: 4725.501

Prior Effective Dates: 11/29/79, 8/4/94 (Emer.), 11/10/94

4726-9-02 Renewal of licenses.

(A) Each person who receives a license from the state optical dispensers board shall renew that license prior to the first day of January following the date of issuance, and shall renew the license prior to the first day of each January thereafter.

(B) On or before the thirtieth day prior to the expiration date, the board shall mail each licensee an application for renewal of the licensee’s license.

Effective: 09/01/2008

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 05/19/2008 and 12/31/2010

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 4725.44

Rule Amplifies: 4725.501

Prior Effective Dates: 11/29/79, 8/4/94 (Emer.), 11/29/94

4726-9-03 Criminal records check.

(A) In addition to the requirements established in rule 4726-5-01 of the Administrative Code, all applicants for initial licensure as a licensed spectacle dispensing optician, licensed contact lens dispensing optician, licensed spectacle-contact lens dispensing optician, or as an ocularist shall submit to criminal records check completed by the bureau of criminal identification and investigation in accordance with section 4725.501 of the Revised Code. The results of the criminal records check shall be received by the board prior to the issuance of a license to practice as a licensed spectacle dispensing optician, a licensed contact lens dispensing optician, a licensed spectacle-contact lens dispensing optician, or as an ocularist.

(B) An applicant requesting a criminal records check shall provide the bureau of criminal identification and investigation with the applicant’s name and address and with the name and address for the Ohio optical dispensers board.

(C) In the request, the applicant shall ask the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation to obtain from the federal bureau of investigation any information it has pertaining to the applicant.

(D) The Ohio optical dispensers board will only accept the results of a criminal records check that is submitted to the board directly by the bureau of criminal identification and investigation.

Effective: 09/01/2008

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 12/31/2010

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 4726.44

Rule Amplifies: 4726.501