Illinois § 3

§ 3.

It shall be unlawful for an optometrist, optician, manufacturer of ophthalmic lenses, frames, eyeglasses, spectacles, contact lenses, or any other optical devices or materials, or parts thereof or any other person to publish or display or cause or permit to be published or displayed, in any newspaper or by radio, television, window display, poster, sign or any other means or media, any statements or advertisements of or reference to the price or prices of any ophthalmic lenses, frames, eyeglasses, spectacles, contact lenses or any other optical devices or materials, or parts thereof, unless such be consistent with the following standards deemed to protect the consumer interest: (A) Any statements advertising the price of ophthalmic lenses, eyeglasses, spectacles or contact lenses shall, to the extent applicable, be accompanied by a further readily legible statement identifying the lens as single vision, bifocal or trifocal, occupational or aphakic. (B) Any statement advertising the price of contact lenses must specify the type as hard or soft. (C) Any statement advertising a price for eyeglasses must state whether the price includes both frames and lenses. (D) Any advertisements by an unlicensed person or institution which quotes a price or prices shall contain a readily legible statement that the quoted price or prices "does not include professional services of an examining optometrist or physician". Any advertisements by a licensed optometrist or institution which quotes a price or prices shall contain a readily legible statement "this price does include professional services" or "this price does not include professional services". (E) Any statements advertising the price of ophthalmic lenses, eyeglasses, spectacles or contact lenses shall, to the extent applicable, be accompanied by a further readily legible statement that the advertised price does or does not include any dispensing fees. (F) All disclosure items must be in no smaller than 10 point type, or in type of equal prominence and size as the advertised item, when the type size of the advertised item is smaller than ten (10) point type. (Source: P.A. 81-1065.)