Misdemeandor

Question 1

Failure to report as a mandated reporter in an incident of known or reasonably suspected child abuse or neglect

Answer 1

Misdemeanor

6 months in confinement

$1,000 fine

Question 2

Failure to report as a mandated reporter in elderly abandonment, abduction, isolation, financial abuse or neglect

Answer 2

Misdemeanor

6 months in county jail

$1,000

Question 3

Failure to report as a mandated reporter of an elder that lead to death or great bodily injury

Answer 3

Misdemeanor

1 year in county jail

$5,000

Question 4

Display a cancelled, revoked, suspended or fraudulently altered license

Answer 4

Misdemeanor

Question 5

Display fictitious license or any document simulating a license or purporting (claim) to be or have issued as a license

Answer 5

Misdemeanor

Question 6

Lends his/her license to any other person or knowingly permits the use thereof (of that) by another

Person A let Person B use Person A’s license

Answer 6

Misdemeanor

Question 7

Display any license not issued to him or her as being his or her license

Person A displays Person B’s license as their own

Answer 7

Misdemeanor

Question 8

Fails or refuse to surrender to the issuing authority upon its lawful written demand any license, registration, permit or certificate which has been suspended, revoked, or canceled

Answer 8

Misdemeanor

Question 9

Knowingly permits any unlawful use of a license issued to him/her

Answer 9

Misdemeanor

Question 10

Reproduces any license or copies that could be mistaken for a valid license unless authorized

Answer 10

Misdemeanor

Question 11

Buys or receives or fraudulent, forged, or counterfeited license knowing that it is fraudulent, forged or counterfeited

Answer 11

Misdemeanor

Question 12

Allows his or her license to be used by another; acts as his or her agent or partner

Answer 12

Misdemeanor

Question 13

Violates the security of the examination materials by removing, unauthorized reproduction, paying or using professional or paid examination takers for purpose to reconstructing the exam, obtaining exam questions, selling, distributing, buying, receiving, or having unauthorized possession of any exams

Answer 13

Misdemeanor; $10,000

Question 14

Communicating with another examinee during the exam, copying answers from another, permitting one’s answer to be copied, having possession during the exam or impersonating any examinee

Answer 14

Misdemeanor; $10,000

Question 15

Any person engages in repeated acts or clearly excessive prescribing or administering of drugs or treatment

Answer 15

Misdemeanor

60 ~ 180 days in jail

$100 to $600

Question 16

Violates Chapter 7: Optometry (BPC 3000 to BPC 3120)

Answer 16

Misdemeanor

10 days to 1 year in jail

$100 to $1,500

Question 17

Spreading of any form of public communication containing false, fraudulent, misleading or deceptive statement, claim or image for the purpose of or likely to induce, directly or indirectly, the making of professional services or furnishing of products in connection with the professional practice or business for which his or her is licensed

Answer 17

Misdemeanor

Question 18

Violates advertising practices

Answer 18

Misdemeanor

Question 19

False advertising in general

Answer 19

Misdemeanor

6 months in county jail

$2,500

Question 20

Offer, deliver, receipt, or acceptance by any person licensed of any rebate, refund, commission, preference, patronage dividend, discount or other consideration, whether in the form of money or otherwise, as compensation or inducement for referring patients, clients, or customers to any person, regardless of any membership, proprietary interest or co-ownership

Answer 20

Misdemeanor

6 months in county jail

$2,500

Question 21

Licensee to refer a person for laboratory, diagnostic nuclear medicine, radiation oncology, physical therapy, physical rehabilitation, psychometric testing, home infusion therapy, or diagnostic imaging goods or services if the licensee or his or her immediate family has a financial interest with the person or in the entity that receives the referral

Answer 21

Misdemeanor

$5,000

Question 22

A person to operate a group advertising and referral services for dentists without providing its name and address to the Dental Board of California

Answer 22

Misdemeanor

Question 23

Optometrist having any membership, proprietary interest, co-ownership, or any profit sharing arrangement, either by stock ownership, interlocking directors, trusteeship, mortgage, or trust deed, with any registered dispensing optician or any optical company

Answer 23

Misdemeanor

Question 24

Registered dispensing optician or an optical company operate, own or have ownership interest in a health plan directly employ optometrist to provide optometric services directly to enrollees of the health plan, directly or indirectly provide products and services to the health plan or its contracted providers or enrollees or to other optometrists

Answer 24

Misdemeanor

Question 25

Optometrist serving as a clinical director employ optometrist to provide health care services to entrollee of health plan

Answer 25

Misdemeanor

Question 26

Registered dispensing optician or optical company interfere with the professional judgment of the optometrist

Answer 26

Misdemeanor

Question 27

Violation of

The practice shall be owned by the optometrist and with exclusive control including selection and supervision of optometric staff, scheduling of patients, amount of time the optometrist spends with patients, fees charged for optometric products and services, the examination procedure and treatment provided to patients and the optometrist’s contracting with managed care organizations

Answer 27

Misdemeanor

Question 28

Violation of

Optometrist’s records shall be sole property of the optometrist

Answer 28

Misdemeanor

Question 29

Violation of

Optometrist’s leased space shall be definite and distinct from space occupied by other occupants of the premises with a designated sign. Also the space has to be accessible to the optometrist after hours or in case of emergency

Answer 29

Misdemeanor

Question 30

Violation of displaying a sign on the premises or in any advertisement indicating the optometrist is employed or controlled by the registered dispensing optician, health plan or optical company

Answer 30

Misdemeanor

Question 31

Registered dispensing optician or optical company link its advertising with the optometrist’s name, practice or fees

Answer 31

Misdemeanor

Question 32

A health plan advertise the optometrist’s fees for products and services that are not included in the health plan’s contract with the optometrist

Answer 32

Misdemeanor

Question 33

Distributors, dispensers, manufacturers, laboratories, optometrists, or ophthalmologists selling, dispensing, or furnishing any prescription ophthalmic device that does not meet the minimum standards set by the State Department of Public Health, the State Board of Optometry, or the Medical Board of California

Answer 33

Misdemeanor; disciplinary action