Oklahoma § 56-199 - Visual or optometric services - Free choice of

§ 56-199. Visual or optometric services - Free choice of

practitioner and profession.

Whenever visual or optometric services within the lawful scope

of practice of a duly licensed optometrist are included in any

program financed with public funds or administered by any public

agency, for aid to the indigent, the aged, the legally blind, or any

other group or class, the recipient of such aid or his parent or

guardian shall be entitled to choose whether such services are to be

performed by a duly licensed optometrist or by a duly licensed

physician who shall be equally compensated. Visual or optometric

services as used herein shall include eye and/or visual examination

or a correction of any vision or muscular anomaly and the supplying

of ophthalmic materials, including contact lenses and subnormal

vision aids. And in the expenditure of public funds for any purpose

involving the care of human vision, or in the administration of any

public program, the public agency and its employees including school

districts and other state, county and municipal agencies or any

subdivision of the State of Oklahoma and its employees and agents

responsible for such expenditures or services shall not, under any

circumstances, in informing a person requiring vision care, or for a

correction of any vision or muscular anomaly, either directly or

indirectly refer such person to any particular health discipline,

but shall merely advise such person the need exists for professional

services.

Added by Laws 1967, c. 17, § 2, emerg. eff. Feb. 21, 1967.

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 56. Poor Persons