2013 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification, Title Protection and Registration. Examining Boards
Chapter 381 - Opticians
Section 20-153a - Lens and frame requirements.

(a) No person shall sell, distribute or deliver any eyeglasses or sunglasses unless they are fitted with impact resistant lenses that fully meet the definitions, specifications, test procedures and tolerances for impact resistance and any exceptions provided for in the statement of policy of the federal Food and Drug Administration and whichever of the following standards may be applicable: (1) American National Standards Institute Z.80.1, as amended, “requirements for first quality prescription ophthalmic lenses”, or such other standard as may be established in regulations adopted pursuant to section 20-141, which standard shall apply to first-quality prescription ophthalmic lenses in edged or assembled form, white, colorless or tinted, single-vision or multifocal, plastic, laminated, impact-resistance-treated or untreated glass lenses, or (2) American National Standards Institute Z.87.1, as amended, “practice for occupational and educational eye and face protection”, or such other standard as may be established in regulations adopted pursuant to section 20-141, which standard shall apply to all occupational and educational operations and processes, excluding those relating to x-rays, gamma rays, high-energy particulate radiations, lasers, or masers; except in those cases where in his professional judgment the physician or optometrist finds that such lenses will not fulfill the visual requirements of the particular patient and directs in writing the use of other lenses.

(b) No person shall fabricate, sell, offer to sell or have in his possession with intent to sell or offer to sell eyeglasses or sunglasses having frames manufactured from cellulose nitrate or materials having flammable characteristics approximately those of cellulose nitrate as found and established in the American National Standards Institute standards, as amended, or such other standard as may be established in regulations adopted pursuant to section 20-141.

(c) Any person who violates this section shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars.

(1969, P.A. 361, S. 1; 1971, P.A. 361; 457, S. 1; P.A. 73-612, S. 2; P.A. 86-43, S. 4.)

History: 1971 acts added Subsec. (d) re remounting lenses or reusing frames owned prior to January 1, 1971, and rephrased Subsec. (a) to replace requirement for plastic, laminated or tempered or case-hardened glass lenses with requirement for impact resistant lenses as specified; P.A. 73-612 required that lenses meet specified standards of American National Standards Institute; P.A. 86-43 changed the standards and deleted Subsec. (d) which pertained to frames owned prior to January 1, 1971.