Chap. 8.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1636 of the Code of Virginia,
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Approved February 4, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by thé general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion sixteen hundred and thirty-six of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

sec. 1636. Prohibited acts——No person not a holder of a certi-
hcate duly issued to him and filed as provided shall practice optometry
in this State. No person shall falsely personate a registered optome-
trist of a like or different name, nor buy, or sell, or fraudulently
obtain a certificate issued to another.

Practicing or offering to practice optometry, or the public repre-
sentation of being qualified to practice’ the same by any person not
authorized to practice optometry, shall be sufficient evidence of a
violation of law; but employers of practitioners of optometry in
connection with their optical business, may, in case of a vacancy in
such position, fill the same by the employment of some person deemed
competent, and the said person shall at once announce to the board
his readiness for examination, and may continue in his work until
examined by the board, and his fitness so determined.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.