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Licensure - Optometry | Ohio Vision Professionals Board

77 S High St., 16th Fl., Columbus, OH 43215

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Hours
M-F: 7:30am-4:30pm.
Fees
Fixed fee for licensure and annual renewal. Law seminar is free. Fees for continuing education courses depend on organization offering the instruction.
Service area
United States
Grants licenses to optometrists, handles renewals, and enforces continuing education. Provides a seminar on the Ohio laws and rules of optometry, a requirement for licensure. Optometrists need to complete 25 hours of continuing education yearly to renew license; preferably October through September of each year.
Last assured
05/01/2025
Providing organization
Ohio Vision Professionals Board
Regulates the practice of optometry by overseeing the examinations and licensure of optometrists, enforcing continuing education, monitoring the quality of continuing education, and investigating complaints and violations of optometric laws, thereby protecting Ohio consumers.