3070.  Before engaging in the practice of optometry, each registered
optometrist shall notify the board in writing of the address or
addresses where he is to engage, or intends to engage, in the
practice of optometry and, also, of any changes in his place of
practice.  The practice of optometry is the performing or the
controlling of any of the acts set forth in Section 3041.  Any notice
required to be given by the board to any registered optometrist may
be given by United States mail to this address, postage thereon
prepaid.


3075.  (a) Each holder of a certificate of registration or a
certification of issuance of his certificate of registration shall
keep it conspicuously posted in his office or place of practice at
all times.
   (b) The board may, by rule or regulation, provide that, when the
holder of a certificate of registration has more than one office or
place of practice or is employed to practice optometry in more than
one office or place of practice and it is infeasible to have his
certificate of registration or a certification of issuance of his
certificate of registration posted in more than one of such offices
or places of practice, he shall have such other evidence as may be
prescribed by the board that he is licensed to practice optometry in
California conspicuously posted in each of such additional offices or
places of practice which he has or where he is employed to practice
optometry.  When the board is requested by a holder of a certificate
of registration or certification of issuance of his certificate of
registration to issue such other evidence that he is licensed to
practice optometry, the board may charge a fee not to exceed
twenty-five dollars ($25) for each issuance of such other evidence.




3076.  Any registered optometrist, who temporarily practices
optometry outside or away from his regular registered place of
practice, shall deliver to each patient there fitted or supplied with
glasses a receipt which shall contain his signature and show:
   (a) His permanent registered place of practice.
   (b) The number of his certificate.
   (c) A specification of the lenses furnished.
   (d) The amount charged for them.



3077.  As used in this section "office" means any office or other
place for the practice of optometry.
   (a) No person, singly or in combination with others, may have an
office unless he or she is registered to practice optometry under
this chapter.
   (b) An optometrist, or two or more optometrists jointly, may have
one office without obtaining a further license from the board.
   (c) On and after October 1, 1959, no optometrist, and no two or
more optometrists jointly, may have more than one office unless he,
or she, or they comply with the provisions of this chapter as to an
additional office.  Such additional office, for the purposes of this
chapter, constitutes a branch office.
   (d) Any optometrist who has, or any two or more optometrists,
jointly, who have, a branch office prior to January 1, 1957, and who
desire to continue such branch office on or after that date shall
notify the board in writing of such desire in a manner prescribed by
the board.
   (e) On and after January 1, 1957, any optometrist, or any two or
more optometrists, jointly, who desire to open a branch office shall
notify the board in writing in a manner prescribed by the board.
   (f) On and after January 1, 1957, no branch office may be opened
or operated without a branch office license.  Branch office licenses
shall be valid for the calendar year in or for which they are issued
and shall be renewable on January 1st of each year thereafter.
Branch office licenses shall be issued or renewed only upon the
payment of the fee therefor prescribed by this chapter.
   On or after October 1, 1959, no more than one branch office
license shall be issued to any optometrist or to any two or more
optometrists, jointly.
   (g) Any failure to comply with the provisions of this chapter
relating to branch offices or branch office licenses as to any branch
office shall work the suspension of the certificate of registration
of each optometrist who, individually or with others, has such branch
office.  A certificate of registration so suspended shall not be
restored except upon compliance with such provisions and the payment
of the fee prescribed by this chapter for restoration of a
certificate of registration after suspension for failure to comply
with the provisions of this chapter relating to branch offices.
   (h) The holder or holders of a branch office license shall pay the
annual renewal fee therefor in the amount required by this chapter
between the first day of January and the first day of February of
each year.  The failure to pay such fee in advance on or before
February 1st of each year during the time it is in force shall ipso
facto work the suspension of such branch office license.  Such
license shall not be restored except upon written application and the
payment of the penalty prescribed by this chapter, and, in addition,
all delinquent branch office fees.
   (i) Nothing in this chapter shall limit or authorize the board to
limit the number of branch offices which are in operation on October
1, 1959 and which conform to this chapter, nor prevent an optometrist
from acquiring any branch office or offices of his or her parent.
The sale after October 1, 1959 of any branch office shall terminate
the privilege of operating such branch office and no new branch
office license shall be issued in place of the license issued for
such branch office, unless the branch office is the only one operated
by the optometrist or two or more optometrists jointly.
   Nothing in this chapter shall prevent an optometrist from owning,
maintaining or operating more than one branch office if he or she is
in personal attendance at each of his offices fifty percent (50%) of
the time during which such office is open for the practice of
optometry.
   (j) The board shall have the power to adopt, amend, and repeal
rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this section.
   (k) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, neither
an optometrist nor an individual practice association shall be deemed
to have an additional office solely by reason of the optometrist's
participation in an individual practice association or the individual
practice association's creation or operation.  As used in this
subdivision, the term "individual practice association" means an
entity that meets all of the following requirements:
   (1) Is registered with the State Board of Optometry as an
optometric corporation in accordance with Section 3160.
   (2) Operates primarily for the purpose of securing contracts with
health care service plans or other third-party payers that make
available eye/vision services to enrollees or subscribers through a
panel of optometrists.
   (3) Contracts with optometrists to serve on the panel of
optometrists, but does not obtain an ownership interest in, or
otherwise exercise control over, the respective optometric practices
of those optometrists on the panel.
   Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed to exempt an
optometrist who is a member of an individual practice association and
who practices optometry in more than one physical location, from the
requirement of obtaining a branch office license for each of those
locations, as required by this section.  However, an optometrist
shall not be required to obtain a branch office license solely as a
result of his or her participation in an individual practice
association in which the members of the individual practice
association practice optometry in a number of different locations,
and each optometrist is listed as a member of that individual
practice association.