Oklahoma § 59-942 - Acts by unlicensed persons prohibited - Permissible acts

§ 59-942. Acts by unlicensed persons prohibited - Permissible acts

on prescription - Repairs.

A. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation,

company, or partnership not licensed pursuant to the provisions of

Chapter 11, Chapter 13 or Chapter 14 of this title, to:

1. Fit, adjust, adapt, or to in any manner apply lenses,

frames, prisms, or any other optical appliances to the face of a

person;

2. Duplicate or attempt to duplicate, or to place or replace

into the frames, any lenses or other optical appliances which have

been prescribed, fitted, or adjusted for visual correction, or which

are intended to aid human vision;

3. Give any treatment or training designed to aid human vision;

or

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 59. Professions and Occupations

4. Represent or hold oneself out to the public as being

qualified to do any of the acts listed in this section.

B. 1. Persons licensed pursuant to the provisions of Chapters

11, 13 or 14 of this title may in a written prescription, or its

duplicate, authorize any optical supplier to interpret the

prescription. The optical supplier:

a.

may, in accordance with a written prescription or its

duplicate, measure, adapt, fit, prepare, dispense, or

adjust such lenses, spectacles, eyeglasses, prisms,

tinted lenses, frames or appurtenances thereto, to the

human face for the aid or correction of visual or

ocular anomalies of the human eye, and

b.

may continue to do such acts upon a written

prescription, or its duplicate.

2. The physician or optometrist writing such prescription shall

remain responsible for the full effect of the appliances so

furnished by the other person.

C. 1. It is hereby prohibited and declared contrary to the

public health and public policy of this state to dispense, supply,

fit, adjust, adapt, or in any manner apply contact lenses to the

eyes of a person whether or not those contact lenses are designed to

aid or correct human vision or are plano or cosmetic contact lenses,

without a prescription issued by a person licensed pursuant to

Chapter 11, Chapter 13 or Chapter 14 of this title.

2. The Board of Examiners in Optometry may secure an

injunction, without bond, in the district courts to prevent the

dispensing, supplying, fitting, adjusting, or adapting of any

contact lens without a prescription.

3. As used in this section, “plano” means a contact lens with

no prescription power.

D. The provisions of this section shall not prevent a qualified

person from making repairs to eyeglasses.

Added by Laws 1953, p. 271, § 2. Amended by Laws 2003, c. 47, § 1,

emerg. eff. April 7, 2003.