A. When the board denies, suspends or revokes a license, it shall send notice of its action by registered mail to the applicant or licensee concerned, setting forth the reasons for the action taken.

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Terms Used In Arizona Laws 32-1694

  • Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Board: means the state board of dispensing opticians. See Arizona Laws 32-1671
  • Dispensing optician: means any person, except as provided in section 32-1691, who dispenses lenses, contact lenses, frames, artificial eyes, optical devices, appurtenances thereto or parts thereof to the intended wearer on written prescription from a duly licensed physician or optometrist, and in accordance with such prescription interprets, measures, adapts, fits or adjusts the same for the aid or correction of visual or ocular anomalies of the human eye or who duplicates, replaces, reproduces or repeats the same without prescription when there is no change in refractive value, provided that contact lenses shall never be dispensed without a written contact lense prescription being on file in any optical establishment, office of an optometrist or office of a physician or verbal confirmation of that written prescription. See Arizona Laws 32-1671
  • Registered mail: includes certified mail. See Arizona Laws 1-215

B. Within thirty days after the date of the notice, the applicant or licensee may request a hearing before the board pursuant to Title 41, Chapter 6, Article 10.

C. No applicant for original license may practice as a dispensing optician during the pendency of an appeal from a decision of the board. No licensee whose license is revoked or suspended or whose renewal application is refused by the board shall be denied the right to practice during the pendency of any appeal from a decision of the board.