Current with legislation from 2024 Fiscal and Special Sessions.
Section 17-90-102 - ExemptionsThis chapter does not:
(1) Apply to physicians and surgeons nor to persons who sell eyeglasses, spectacles, lenses, contact lenses, frames, mountings, or prisms at wholesale on individual prescriptions to optometrists, physicians, and surgeons;(2) Prohibit the sale of ready-made eyeglasses and spectacles when sold as merchandise at any established place of business where no attempt is made to practice optometry; or(3) Apply to the practice of optometry through a program in partnership with federal Innovative Readiness Training if the optometrist has obtained a license to practice from another state, commonwealth, territory, or the District of Columbia.Amended by Act 2017, No. 205,§ 5, eff. 8/1/2017.Acts 1941, No. 94, § 16; 1957, No. 102, § 7; A.S.A. 1947, § 72-819.