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326.010 Definitions for chapter -- When prescriptions required.
As used in this chapter:
(1) "Board" means the "Kentucky Board of Ophthalmic Dispensers";
(2) "Ophthalmic dispensing" means that a person prepares and dispenses lenses,
spectacles, eyeglasses, or appurtenances thereto to the intended wearers on written
prescriptions from licensed physicians, osteopaths, or optometrists, and in
accordance with these prescriptions, interprets, measures, adapts, fits, and adjusts
the lenses, spectacles, eyeglasses, or appurtenances thereto to the human face for the
aid or correction of visual or ocular anomalies of the human eyes. The services and
appliances relating to ophthalmic dispensing shall be dispensed, furnished, or
supplied to the intended wearer or user only upon a written prescription issued by a
physician, osteopath, or optometrist. Duplications, replacements, reproductions, or
repetitions may be provided without prescriptions, but shall be construed to be
ophthalmic dispensing the same as if performed on the basis of an original written
prescription; and
(3) "Optical establishment" means any establishment where ophthalmic dispensing
services for the general public are offered, advertised, or performed. "Optical
establishment" shall not include any establishment that comes under the practice of
medicine by a duly licensed physician, the practice of osteopathy by a duly licensed
osteopath, or the practice of optometry by a duly licensed optometrist.
Effective: June 26, 2007
History: Amended 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 105, sec. 1, effective June 26, 2007. -- Created
1954 Ky. Acts ch. 27, sec. 1, effective June 17, 1954.
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