Chapter 112

Section 60B. Any person who is at least twenty-one years of age and of good moral character may apply to the board for registration. Every applicant for registration as an architect shall pay to the board, upon filing his original application or an additional application, a fee t…

Section 60C. Every person applying to the board for registration shall submit with his application to the board evidence of graduation from a recognized high school or its equivalent. The applicant shall also submit satisfactory evidence of graduation from an accredited school of…

Section 60D. On or about May first of each year, the board shall mail to every architect or architect emeritus registered in the commonwealth a blank application for renewal of certificate of registration. Such blanks properly filled out shall be returned to the board on or befor…

Section 60E. Every holder of a certificate of registration shall display it in a conspicuous place in his principal office, or place of business or employment within the commonwealth. A new certificate of registration, to replace such certificate lost, destroyed or mutilated, sha…

Section 60F. Every registered architect shall have a seal of a design authorized by the board. All plans and specifications and reports prepared by a registered architect, or under his supervision shall be stamped with the impression of such seal. A registered architect shall imp…

Section 60G. The board may revoke, suspend or annul the certificate of registration, or reprimand, censure or otherwise discipline a registrant, upon proof satisfactory to the board: (a) that the holder of such certificate of registration is practicing in the commonwealth in viol…

Section 60H. Charges against an architect involving any matter coming within the jurisdiction of the board shall be in writing and shall be filed with the board. Such charges, at the discretion of the board, shall be heard within thirty days after being so filed. The accused arch…

Section 60I. Every certificate of registration issued and remaining in force, under any provision of sections sixty A to sixty J, inclusive, shall be prima facie evidence in all courts of the commonwealth that the person named therein is legally registered as an architect for the…

Section 60J. A roster, showing the names and last known places of business of all registered architects, shall be prepared by the board during the month of January of each year. Such roster shall be posted on a publicly available website.

Section 60K. No person shall, directly or indirectly, engage in the practice of architecture in this commonwealth, except as hereinafter set forth in section sixty L, or use the title ''architect'', ''registered architect'', ''architectural designer'', or display or use any words…

Section 60L. Nothing in sections sixty A to sixty M, inclusive, shall be construed to prevent 1. The preparation of plans and specifications for and the supervision of the construction, enlargement or alteration of (a) Any building containing less than thirty-five thousand cubic …

Section 60M. The determination of any person, or of any officer, board or commission of the commonwealth or of any political subdivision thereof, who makes a contract to have services performed for him or it, that the principal services to be performed thereunder involve the prac…

Section 60N. (a) Upon receipt of a written application, the board may grant a certificate of registration as an architect emeritus to an architect who has retired from the active practice of architecture in the commonwealth. To be eligible for a certificate of registration as an …

Section 60O. The board shall be charged with the enforcement of sections 60A to 60N, inclusive. If any person refuses to obey any decision of the board, the attorney general shall, upon request of the board, file a petition for the enforcement of such decision in equity in the su…

Section 60P. Whoever violates sections 60A to 60N, inclusive, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $500 or by imprisonment in a jail or house of correction for not more than 3 months, or both.

Section 60Q. (a) As used in this section, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— ''Architect'', a person duly licensed under section 60A, as an architect including any firm, partnership, corporation, association or …

Section 61. Except as otherwise provided by law the board of registration in medicine each board of registration or examination in the department of public health in the executive office of health and human services and, each board of registration or examination in the division o…

Section 61A. (a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise:- ''Health care institution'', (i)an individual, partnership, association, corporation or trust or a person or group of persons who provid…

Section 62. Any person against whom charges are filed shall be notified of the hearing thereof, and may appear with witnesses and be heard by counsel. If such person has left the commonwealth, or cannot be found by reasonable search, notice may be dispensed with. Said boards shal…

Section 63. Said boards shall not defer action upon any charge before them until the conviction of the person accused, nor shall the pendency of any charge before any of said boards act as a continuance or ground for delay in a criminal action.

Section 64. The supreme judicial court, upon petition of a person whose certificate, registration, license or authority has been suspended, revoked or cancelled, may enter a decree revising or reversing the decision of the board, in accordance with the standards for review provid…

Section 65. (a) Whoever continues to practice a trade or profession after his certificate, registration, license or authority to do so has been suspended, revoked or cancelled under section 61, and while such disability continues, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $2,5…

Section 65A. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, each board of registration under the supervision of the division of occupational licensure and each board of registration under the supervision of the department of public health may, after a consent agreeme…

Section 65B. A board of registration under the supervision of the division of occupational licensure having jurisdiction over a licensee whose continued practice poses an immediate and serious threat to the public health, safety or welfare may suspend or refuse to renew the holde…

Section 65C. Meetings of the boards held for the purpose of conducting investigative conferences prior to the issuance of an order to show cause or for purposes of discussing the terms of a negotiated settlement of a complaint against a licensee shall not be considered open meeti…

Section 65D. Twenty per cent of all civil administrative penalties assessed by boards under the supervision of the division of occupational licensure pursuant to sections 61 and 65 to 65D, inclusive, shall be deposited in the Division of Occupational Licensure Trust Fund establis…

Section 65E. Each board of registration under the supervision of the division of occupational licensure and each board of registration under the supervision of the department of public health which takes any action against an individual who practices a trade or profession at a ti…

Section 65F. Notwithstanding any general law or special law to the contrary, the fee for reinstating a lapsed or expired license issued by a board of registration under the supervision of the division of occupational licensure shall be not more than the cost of the current renewa…

Section 65G. (a) As used in this section, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:- ''Applicant'', a licensed health care professional who believes a mental health or substance use condition may impede or has affected …

Section 66. As used in this chapter, ''practice of optometry'' shall mean the diagnosis, prevention, correction, management or treatment of optical deficiencies, optical deformities, visual anomalies, muscular anomalies, ocular diseases and ocular abnormalities of the human eye a…

Section 66A. Any registered optometrist, qualified by examination for practice under the provisions of section sixty-eight subsequent to January first, nineteen hundred and eighty-four or duly certified in accordance with the provisions of section sixty-eight A may for the purpos…

Section 66B. Any registered optometrist, qualified by examination for practice under the provisions of section 68 subsequent to January 1, 1994, duly certified in accordance with the provisions of section 68B and duly registered to issue written prescriptions in accordance with t…

Section 66C. (a) A registered optometrist who is qualified by an examination for practice under section 68, certified under section 68C and registered to issue written prescriptions pursuant to subsection (h) of section 7 of chapter 94C may: (i) use and prescribe topical and oral…

Section 67. The board of registration in optometry, herein and in sections sixty-eight to seventy-three, inclusive, called the board, shall keep a record of the names of all persons examined and registered by it and of all moneys received and disbursed by it, and a duplicate ther…

Section 68. No person, except as otherwise provided in this section, shall practice optometry until he shall have passed an examination conducted by the board in theoretic, practical and physiological optics, in theoretic and practical optometry and in the anatomy and physiology …

Section 68A. The board of registration in optometry shall annually administer an examination designed to measure the qualifications necessary in order to safely utilize the optical application of the diagnostic pharmaceutical agents provided for in section sixty-six A. Said exami…

Section 68B. The board of registration in optometry shall administer an examination designed to measure the qualifications necessary to safely utilize the ophthalmic application of therapeutic pharmaceutical agents in section 66B. Such examination shall be held in conjunction wit…

Section 68C. (a) The board of registration in optometry shall administer an examination to permit the use and prescription of therapeutic pharmaceutical agents as authorized in section 66C. The examination shall: (i) be held in conjunction with examinations provided for in sectio…

Section 69. Every registered optometrist shall, annually, before February first, pay to the board a license fee to be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven, in default of which the board may revoke his ce…

Section 7. Sections two to six, inclusive, and section eight shall not be held to discriminate against any particular school or system of medicine, to prohibit medical or surgical service in a case of emergency, or to prohibit the domestic administration of family remedies. They …

Section 70. Every person to whom a certificate of registration has been granted shall cause the same to be recorded in the office of the clerk of the city or town where he principally carries on the practice of optometry; and if he removes his principal office from one city or to…

Section 71. The board may refuse to grant a certificate of registration to any applicant found guilty of fraud in making application or taking an examination for registration. The board may revoke or suspend any certificate of registration for unprofessional conduct, for fraud, d…

Section 72. Optometrists may practice and advertise under a trade or service name; provided however, that the names of the optometrist or optometrists are prominently displayed at all locations of their practice, in all print advertisements that identify the location or locations…

Section 72A. Whoever, not being lawfully authorized to practice optometry, practices optometry, or holds himself out as a practitioner of, or as being able to practice, optometry, or whoever personates another practitioner, or violates any other provision of sections sixty-six to…

Section 73. Sections sixty-six to seventy-two A, inclusive, shall not apply to physicians and surgeons lawfully entitled to practice medicine in the commonwealth, or to persons who neither practice nor profess to practice optometry, but who sell spectacles, eyeglasses or lenses, …

Section 73A. Persons may advertise the sale price of eyeglasses, contact lenses or eyeglass frames provided they shall not include in any newspaper, radio, display sign or other advertisements any statement of a character tending to deceive or mislead the public, or, any statemen…

Section 73B. No person shall practice optometry on premises not separate from premises whereon eyeglasses, lenses or eyeglass frames are sold by any other person; nor shall any person practice optometry under any lease, contract or other arrangement whereby any person, not duly a…

Section 73C. A dispensing optician as referred to in sections seventy-three D to seventy-three L, inclusive, is a person who prepares and dispenses lenses, spectacles, eyeglasses and appliances thereto to the intended wearer thereof on written prescriptions from a duly registered…

Section 73D. No person or corporation shall directly or indirectly engage in practice as a dispensing optician, unless he or the person employed by such corporation has been granted a license by the board of registration of dispensing opticians referred to in sections seventy-thr…

Section 73E. Application for registration as a dispensing optician may be made by any citizen who pays a fee to be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven and furnishes the board with proof that he has rece…