2021 Georgia Code
Title 43 - Professions and Businesses
Chapter 29 - Dispensing Opticians
§ 43-29-2. Definitions
As used in this chapter, the term:
- "Board" means the State Board of Dispensing Opticians.
- "Dispensing optician" means, subject to Code Section 43-29-18, an individual who is duly licensed to prepare and dispense lenses, spectacles, eyeglasses, contact lenses, and optical devices to the intended user thereof as specifically directed or authorized on the written prescription of a physician skilled in diseases of the eye or an optometrist duly licensed to practice his profession.
(Ga. L. 1956, p. 148, § 2; Ga. L. 1981, p. 1378, § 1.)
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Restrictions on eye care and treatment performed by physicians, optometrists, and opticians.
- Physician licensed in this state is unrestricted in the eye care and treatment afforded the physician's patients, including the fabrication and use of contact lenses, medicine, drugs, and surgery. An optometrist may employ any means, except drugs, medicine, or surgery, in the treatment of the human eye, including contact lenses. A dispensing optician may prepare and dispense optical devices upon the prescription of a physician or optometrist, or may duplicate lenses without a prescription. 1980 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 80-19.
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 61 Am. Jur. 2d, Physicians, Surgeons, and Other Healers, § 8.
C.J.S.- 70 C.J.S., Physicians, Surgeons, and Other Health-Care Providers, § 9.
