2014 Idaho Statutes
Title 54 - PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS, AND BUSINESSES
Chapter 15 - OPTOMETRISTS
Section 54-1501 - PRACTICE OF OPTOMETRY DEFINED.
(1) To engage in the profession of examining, testing, measuring, treating, correcting, developing or improving the human visual apparatus;
(2) To display any sign, circular, advertisement or device offering to examine eyes, test eyes, fit glasses, adjust frames or prescribe lenses, or by any means or method set oneself forth as an optometrist, doctor of optometry, optometric physician, optical doctor, doctor of optical science, O.D., Opt. D., optician, optical specialist, eye specialist, or refractionist, or any other designation of like import;
(3) To employ in the examination, diagnosis or treatment of another, any means, including the use of diagnostic pharmaceutical agents and pharmaceutical agents for therapeutic use, for the measurement, improvement or development of any or all functions of human vision or the assistance of the powers of range of human vision or the determination of the accommodative or refractive status of human vision or the scope of its functions in general. The state board of optometry may, pursuant to rules adopted by it, issue a certificate to optometrists licensed in this state authorizing the optometrist to prescribe, administer and dispense such therapeutic pharmaceutical agents for the treatment of conditions of the eye and/or eyelid, as approved by the board of optometry and as identified in rules adopted by the board of optometry. Such certificate shall only be issued to an optometrist who:
(4) To remove superficial foreign bodies and to diagnose and treat superficial conditions of the eye and eyelid. The practice of optometry shall not include the use of therapeutic lasers;
(5) To sell or offer for sale, otherwise than on prescription, any lens with spherical, prismatic or cylindrical power, including plano or cosmetic contact lenses;
(6) To prescribe or adapt lenses, including contact lenses, exercises, orthoptics, vision therapy or other physical means to correct defects or adjust human vision to the conditions of a special occupation; or
(7) To do or offer to do any of the foregoing with intent of receiving therefor, either directly or indirectly, any fee, gift, remuneration or compensation whatsoever.
History:
[54-1501, added 1972, ch. 91, sec. 2, p. 179; am. 1981, ch. 73, sec. 1, p. 105; am. 1987, ch. 210, sec. 1, p. 443; am. 1989, ch. 33, sec. 1, p. 38; am. 1990, ch. 299, sec. 1, p. 826; am. 1993, ch. 110, sec. 1, p. 280; am. 1997, ch. 300, sec. 1, p. 891; am. 2009, ch. 118, sec. 1, p. 376.]
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