Chap. 24.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1636 of the Code of Virginia
as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 4, 1920. [S B 63

Approved February 13, 1924.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
sixteen hundred and thirty-six of the Code of Virginia, as amended and
re-enacted by an act approved February fourth, nineteen hundred and
twenty, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1636. No person not a holder of either a certificate duly
issued to him and filed as provided, or temporary permit, shall practice
optometry in this State. No person shall falsely personate a registered
optometrist 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 viola-
tion of the law; but employers of practitioners of optometry in con-
nection with their optical business, may, in case of a vacancy in such
position, fill the same by the employment of some person deemed
competent, who has neither failed in the examination in optometry
before this board, nor made application for examination and been re-
jected, and the said person shall at once file with the secretary of the
board a complete application for examination. The board may upon
approving the application, issue to the applicant a temporary permit to
practice optometry until examined by the board and his fitness so
determined.

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