P.R. Laws tit. 20, § 546
For the purposes of this chapter, the terms herein below shall have the following meanings:
(a) Association. — The Opticians Association of Puerto Rico created by means of this chapter.
(b) Optician. — Person dedicated to the preparation of ophthalmic lenses with or without focus, spectacles, and accessories thereof by means of written prescriptions issued by ophthalmologists and optometrists duly authorized to practice their profession, and according to such written prescriptions, measures the facial contours of the patient or client bearing the prescription of the ophthalmologist or optometrist to shape, polish, cut and mount ophthalmic lenses to determine the size and shape of the frames and lenses that better suit the physical needs of such patient or client. The optician also makes duplicates and does repairs and repetitions of lenses without requiring a new prescription.
(c) Optics practice. — It shall be understood that any natural person engaged in the practice of optics is that who announces the practice of the preparation of ophthalmic lenses with or without focus, spectacles, eyeglasses or duplicates of lenses or eyeglasses, measures the facial contours of the patient or client bearing the prescription of the ophthalmologist or optometrist to determine the size and shape of the frames and lenses that better suit the physical needs of such patient or client, and shapes, polishes, cuts and mounts ophthalmic lenses, and who opens or maintains an optics establishment, office or production shop for said purposes; Provided, however, That all establishments, offices or shops that comply with the dispositions and regulations herein may announce and sell to the public ophthalmic lenses and/or eyeglasses, with or without focus.
(d) Board of Directors. — Board of Directors of the Opticians Association of Puerto Rico which is hereby created by means of this chapter.
(e) Board of Examiners. — The Board of Examiners of Opticians.
(f) Regulation. — The regulations, norms and statutes of the Opticians Association of Puerto Rico, adopted pursuant to this chapter.
History —Sept. 3, 2003, No. 245, § 2.