HEALTH 1901

An. Code, 1924, sec. 315. 1912, sec. 256. 1914, ch. 652, sec. 5.

357. The practice of Optometry is hereby defined to be the employment
of any means, except the use of drugs, medicine or surgery, known to the
science of Optics for the purpose of determining, correcting and prescrib-
ing by means of lenses for any optical condition existing in the human
eye, and also the employment of any means, except the use of drugs, medi-
cine or surgery, for the purpose of detecting diseased conditions.

Nothing in this section or sub-title makes it unlawful for a person or corporation
to employ and sell the services of an optometrist or for an optometrist to contract
with another to serve such patrons as may be sent to him by or on behalf of the
other. Dvorine v. Castelberg Corp., 170 Md. 661; Barrenburg v. Greene (Judge Smith,
Circuit Court of Baltimore City), Daily Record, Nov. 22, 1939.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 316. 1912, sec. 257. 1914, ch. 652, sec. 6. 1922, ch. 231, sec. 257.

358. No person shall hereafter practice Optometry, or use the title
optometrist in the State of Maryland unless he shall first have obtained a
certificate of registration or one of examination, and filed the same for
record or a certified copy thereof with the clerk of the county or city of his
residence, as herein provided in Section 364. It shall be construed as prac-
ticing Optometry for any person to prescribe, give directions or advise as to
the fitness or adaption of a pair of spectacles, eyeglasses or lenses for
another person to wear for the correction or relief of any condition for
which a pair of spectacles, eyeglasses or lenses are used, or to use or permit
or allow the use of instruments, test cards, test types, test lenses, spectacles
or eyeglasses or anything containing lenses, or any device for the purpose of
aiding any person to select any spectacles, eyeglasses or lenses to be used or
worn by such last mentioned person or by any other person.

Cited in Dvorine v. Castelberg Corp., 170 Md. 672.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 317. 1912, sec. 258. 1914, ch. 652, sec. 7.

359. Every person who is actually engaged in the practice of Optometry
in the State of Maryland on April 13, 1914, shall within six months there-
after file an affidavit in proof thereof with the Examining Board in Op-
tometry, who shall make and keep a record of such person, and shall for
the consideration of the sum of five dollars issue to him a certificate of
registration. Recipients of said certificate shall within three months present
the same for record in the City or County in which they reside, as provided
for in this sub-title, and shall pay a fee of fifty cents to the clerk for record-
ing the same, and failure to present said certificate within three months
after issuance thereof shall cause forfeiture of same.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 318. 1912, sec. 259. 1914, ch. 652, sec. 8. 1920, ch. 132.
1922, ch. 231, sec. 259.

360. Every person, not exempt by Section 359, desiring to begin the
practice of Optometry in this State shall pass an examination before said
Board of Examiners, in such subjects and under such rules and regulations
as shall from time to time be adopted by said board. Such examination may
in the discretion of said board, embrace all subjects relative to optics and
Optometry contained in text-books or that are now or may hereafter be
taught in high-grade educational institutions teaching optics and Optometry
and kindred subjects, and shall include the anatomy, physiology and pathol-
ogy of the eye, the use of all instruments used in making examination
of the eye, and such other subjects as said board may deem advisable. Any