Colorado § 12-275-114 - Prescriptions - requirement to advise patients.
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§ 12-275-114. Prescriptions - requirement to advise patients.
(1) An optometrist licensed under this article 275 may advise the optometrist's patients of their option to have the symptom or purpose for which a prescription is being issued included on the prescription order.
(2) An optometrist's failure to advise a patient under subsection (1) of this section shall not be grounds for any disciplinary action against the optometrist's professional license issued under this article 275.
Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1419, § 1, effective October 1.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 12-40-109.7 as it existed prior to 2019.
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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