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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>65954</law_id><section_number>54.1-3212</section_number><catch_line>Qualifications of applicants</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="54.1">Professions and Occupations</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Professions and Occupations Regulated by Boards Within the Department of Health Professions</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="32">Optometry</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="3">Licensure of Optometrists</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>An application for a license to practice optometry shall be made in writing and shall be accompanied by satisfactory proof that the applicant has been graduated and received a doctor of optometry degree from a school of optometry approved by the <span class="dictionary">Board</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 54-382; 1972, c. 824; 1973, c. 90; 1988, c. 765.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
