2006 Nebraska Revised Statutes - § 71-1,133 — Practice of optometry, defined.

Section 71-1,133
Practice of optometry, defined.

For purposes of the Uniform Licensing Law, the practice of optometry means one or a combination of the following, without the use of surgery:

(1) The examination of the human eye to diagnose, treat, or refer for consultation or treatment any abnormal condition of the human eye, ocular adnexa, or visual system;

(2) The employment of instruments, devices, pharmaceutical agents, other than oral therapeutic agents used in the treatment of glaucoma, and procedures intended for the purpose of investigating, examining, diagnosing, treating, managing, or correcting visual defects or abnormal conditions of the human eye, ocular adnexa, or visual system or for the removal of superficial eyelid, conjunctival, and corneal foreign bodies and the ordering of procedures and laboratory tests rational to the diagnosis of conditions or diseases of the human eye, ocular adnexa, or visual system; or

(3) The prescribing and application of lenses, devices containing lenses, prisms, contact lenses, ophthalmic devices excluding laser surgery, orthoptics, vision training, pharmaceutical agents, and prosthetic devices to correct, relieve, or treat defects or abnormal conditions of the human eye, ocular adnexa, or visual system.

The practice of optometry does not include the treatment of infantile/congenital glaucoma which means the condition is present at birth.

Source:

Laws 1927, c. 167, § 111, p. 487

C.S.1929, § 71-1601

R.S.1943, § 71-1,133

Laws 1979, LB 9, § 1

Laws 1986, LB 131, § 1

Laws 1987, LB 116, § 1

Laws 1993, LB 429, § 2

Laws 1998, LB 369, § 1

~Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska