California Code of Regulations
Title 16 - Professional and Vocational Regulations
Division 15 - State Board of Optometry
Article 2 - Location of Practice
Section 1507 - Extended Optometric Clinical Facilities

(a) As used in this regulation "extended optometric clinical facility" means and includes any clinical facility employed by an approved optometry school for instruction in optometry which exists outside or beyond the walls, boundaries, or precincts of the primary campus of the approved optometry school, and in which optometric services are rendered.

(b) It is the intent of this section to provide a procedure whereby an extended optometric clinical facility may be identified, qualified and approved by the Board as an adjunct to, and an extension of, the clinical department of an approved optometry school.

(c) Optometric services provided by optometry students at undergraduate and graduate levels in an extended optometric clinical facility shall constitute a part of the optometric education program.

(d) Approved optometry schools shall register extended optometric clinical facilities with the Board. Such registration shall be accompanied with information supplied by the optometry school pertaining to faculty supervision, scope of practice to be rendered, name and location of the facility, date operation will commence, discipline of which such instruction is a part, and a brief description of the equipment and facilities available. The foregoing information shall be supplemented with a copy of the agreement between the approved optometry school or parent university and the affiliated institution establishing the relationship. Any change in the information initially provided to the Board shall be communicated to the Board.

(e) Mobile optometric facilities may only function as a part of a school teaching program as approved by the Board.

(f) The itinerary of the mobile optometric unit must be submitted to the Board with 30 days prior notice.