Coffman v. State Board of Examiners in Optometry

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• explaining that an administrative agency cannot “enlarge its authority or exceed the powers given to it by the statute, the source of its power”
• “Administrative boards, commissions, and officers have no common-law powers. Their powers are limited by the statutes creating them to those conferred expressly or by necessary or fair implication.”

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