Chap. 128.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1630 of the Code of Vir-
ginia relating to the practice of optometry, as amended and re-enacted by
an act approved February 18, 1924. (S B 28]

Approved March 9, 1926.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion sixteen hundred and thirty of the Code of Virginia, as amended
and re-enacted by an act approved February eighteenth, nineteen
hundred and twenty-four, relating to the practice of optometry, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1630. The fee for examination and certificate shall be
twenty-five dollars, to be paid to the secretary of the board by the
applicant upon filing his application. If the applicant fails in only
one subject, he may have one more examination at the next meeting
of the board without any additional fee. Any person who has suc-
cessfully passed a standard examination in optometry in any State
of the United States and is the holder of a certificate to that effect,
issued by the board of such State, and has conducted an ethical pro-
fessional practice of optometry for at least one year next prior, may,
upon application to the Virginia State board of examiners in optom-
etry, upon the payment of the amount of the regular examination fee,
be issued a certificate without examination, and be registered as quali-
fied to practice optometry in this State; provided the standard of
qualifications and examination under which he secured such certifi-
cate to practice was at least as high as that prevailing in Virginia,
at the time of his making application to be so registered. And pro-
vided further, that such applicant has not failed in an examination
in optometry before the Virginia State board of examiners in optom-
etry and that the State from which such applicant comes grants like
privileges to persons who have passed the examination of the Virginia
State board of examiners in optometry.