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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="11-307.1" title_number="11" title_name="Optometrists" subtitle_number="3">
  <level label="a">
    <text>An applicant for a limited license shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Submit to the Board:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>An application on the form the Board requires; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A written confirmation of participation from the institution in which the applicant intends to participate in a postgraduate teaching, research, or training program; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Submit to a criminal history records check in accordance with § 11–302.1 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Board may waive the examination requirements of this subtitle and issue a limited license to practice optometry to an individual who:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Is qualified for a postgraduate teaching, research, or training position;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Is applying to participate in a postgraduate teaching, research, or training program approved by the Board under this subsection;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Is eligible to sit for the Maryland licensure examination;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Is licensed, at the time of application, to practice optometry in another state; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Pays the fee set by the Board.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A limited license authorizes the licensee for 1 year to practice optometry only:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>At the institution that has been approved by the Board and is designated on the individual’s license;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>At other institutions that are affiliated with the designated institution; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>On the patients of the designated institution or its affiliates.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Board may renew a limited license once for an additional 1–year term if the holder:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Otherwise meets the requirements of this section;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Submits a renewal application to the Board on the form that the Board requires;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Pays to the Board the limited license renewal fee set by the Board; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Submits to the Board satisfactory evidence of having completed a criminal history records check in accordance with § 11–302.1 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
