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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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