Current through Acts effective through 6/7/2024 of the 2024 Legislative Session
Section 12-275-123 - Use or sale of forged or invalid certificate, degree, or license(1) It is unlawful for any person to use or attempt to use as the person's own a diploma of an optometry school or college, or a license of another person, or a forged diploma or license, or any forged or false identification.(2) It is unlawful: (a) To sell or offer to sell a diploma conferring an optometry degree or a license granted pursuant to this article 275 or prior optometry practice laws;(b) To procure a diploma or license with intent that it be used as evidence of the right to practice optometry by a person other than the one upon whom it was conferred or to whom the license was granted;(c) With fraudulent intent to alter the diploma or license or to use or attempt to use it when it is so altered.Added by 2019 Ch. 136,§ 1, eff. 10/1/2019.Subsection (1) is similar to former § 12-40-120; and subsection (2) is similar to former § 12-40-121(1), as those sections existed prior to 2019.