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To qualify for a license as an optometrist, an applicant shall fulfill the following requirements:\n(1) Application: file an application with the department;\n(2) Education: have received an education, including a degree of doctor of optometry or equivalent degree, in accordance with the commissioner's regulations;\n(3) Experience: have experience satisfactory to the board and in accordance with the commissioner's regulations;\n(4) Examination: pass an examination satisfactory to the board and in accordance with the commissioner's regulations;\n(5) Age: be at least twenty-one years of age;\n(6) Citizenship: meet no requirement as to United States citizenship;\n(7) Character: be of good moral character as determined by the department; and\n(8) Fees: pay a fee of two hundred twenty dollars to the department for admission to a department conducted examination and for an initial license, a fee of one hundred fifteen dollars for each reexamination, a fee of one hundred thirty-five dollars for an initial license for persons not requiring admission to a department conducted examination, a fee of two hundred ten dollars for each triennial

ination, a fee of one hundred thirty-five dollars for an initial license for persons not requiring admission to a department conducted examination, a fee of two hundred ten dollars for each triennial registration period, for additional authorization for the purpose of utilizing diagnostic pharmaceutical agents, a fee of sixty dollars, and for certification to use or prescribe oral therapeutic pharmaceutical agents, a fee of two hundred fifty dollars.