South Carolina § 40-37-300 - Establishing pharmacy or selling pharmaceutical agents; dispensing contact lenses.
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§ 40-37-300. Establishing pharmacy or selling pharmaceutical agents; dispensing contact lenses.
(A) An optometrist may not establish a pharmacy in an optometry office or sell pharmaceutical agents prescribed in treatment unless there is a licensed pharmacist on staff and present when these prescriptions are filled. However, nothing in this section or in any other provision of law prohibits a licensed optometrist from administering or supplying pharmaceutical agents to a patient, without charge for the pharmaceutical agents, to initiate appropriate treatment.
(B) Notwithstanding subsection (A) or any other provision of law, an optometrist may purchase, possess, administer, sell, prescribe, or dispense contact lenses, contact lens solutions, and topically applied dyes.
(C) For purposes of this chapter "supply" is limited to pharmaceutical agents given to a patient by an optometrist for the purpose of initiating treatment until the patient's prescription can be filled by a registered pharmacist.
HISTORY: 2005 Act No. 135, SECTION 1.
Editor's Note
Prior Laws:1993 Act No. 65, SECTION 2; 1976 Code SECTION 40-37-106.
Source: official South Carolina text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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