Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-19
STATE HOUSE,
Board Of Registration and
Examination in Optonetfy
May Be Named in the July
List Of Nominations.
State Will Support Sheriffs in the
Coming Liquor Cases.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting Of Governor and Council
Friday, July 9, at 10 A. M.

NEXT meeting OF Governor and Council
Friday, July 9, at 10 A. M.
among the other appointments
which will be announced by Governor
Fernald prior to the July meeting of
the Executive Council will probably be
that of a Maine State Board of Regis
tratlon and Examination in Optometry.
in accordance with the provisions of
Chapter 105 of the Public Laws of 1909.
which is entitled IAN Act to define and
regulate the practice of optometry,"
and which with the other laws passed
by the last Legislature, goes into effect
the first of the coming month. The
law requires that the Governor shall
appoint the board within 30 days after
the law goes into effect, but it is
thought that the appointments will be
forthcoming with the July list. Sec
ton l of the law, relative to the APP
polntrnents and the membership of the
board. reads as follows:
Section l. There shall be and is
hereby created board which shall be
known as the Maine State Board of
Registration and Examination in OPP
tometry, whose duty it shall be to car
ry out the provisions of this act. Said
board shall consist of five members,
three Of whom shall have been resi-
dent opticians, engaged in the actual
practice of optometry in the State of
Maine for a period of five years prior
to their appointment; one an oculist
who in like manner has been engaged
IN the practice of his profession for five
years prior to his appointments; and
one a physician in actual practice not
more than three of whom shall belong
to the same political party. The ap-
pontments to this board shall be made
by the governor within thirty days af-
ter this law goes into effect. OF those
so appointed two shall serve for one
wear, one for two years and the other
two for three years. The successors of
all shall be appointed by the governor
and shall serve for a term Of three
fee until his successor is appointed.
Appointments to fill vacancies from
any cause shall be made by the COVER
nor for the residue of such term. The
members of the board, before entering
on their duties, shall each take and
subscribe to the oath required to be
taken by other state officers, which
shall be administered by the secretary
of the state and filed in his office;
and said board shall have common
seal ANY mcmper of said board may
be removed by the governor for cause"
The officers of the board will be Il
president, secretary and treasurer, and
the law requires that the board shall
meet at least once each year in Au-
gusta, and in addition thereto when
ever and wherever the president and
secretary shall call a meeting.
Section of the law requires that ev-
cry person beginning the practice of
optometry in Maine after 80 days from
the day on which the act takes effect
shall pass an examination before the
State board of examiners, such eXami-
nation being confined to such knoWl-
edge as is essential to the practice of
oTtometry.
Under Section the practice of OPP
tometry is to be defined as follows:
Section f. That the practice of OPP
tometry be defined as follows: The en-
Payment of mechanical means for
testing and measuring the retroactive
and accommodates conditions of the
eye, without the employment of drugs
or medicine. and the measuring and
grinding of lenses, the fitting. bending
and adjusting of spectacles and eye
glasses with lenses for the betterment
of vision: Provided, that the fitting or
peddling of SpectacleS and eyeglasses
by itinerant opticians prior to this act
shall not be construed to mean the
practice of optometry within the mean
ing of this act"
Concerning the practice of optometry
the law requires that 80 days from the
day on which the act takes effect any
person to engage in practice must first
obtain certificate of registration from
the secretary of the board and file the
same with the clerk of the SUI
preme judicial court of the coun-
try in which he proposes to prac-
tice. Any person who has been in
continuous practice for three years i'm
mediate!y prior to the date on which
the act takes effect, shall within 80
DAYS file satisfactory affidavit with
the board. and shall upon the payment
of a fee of S., be granted a certificate
of registration. The penalty of en-
gaging in the practice of optometry
without first having secured certifi-
cate of registration is fine of not less
than $50 or more than 5000.
Announcement was made Friday at
the Office of the Board of Railroad Com
missioners that decision had been
rendered. by the board in the petition
of the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad
Co. asking the approval of branch
track from the village of Fort Kent to
the village of ST. Francis, distance OF
about II miles. A hearing on the petit
ton was held at the Bangor House IN
Bangor June II, and it was the deci-
c;or IF the commissioners that the
prayer Of the petitioners be granted.
The committee of the Executive
Council. consisting Of Hon. Leroy r.
Pike of Cornish. Hon. Fred g. NJ
man of Augusta and Hon. Fred W.