2015 Nebraska Revised Statutes
Chapter 38 - HEALTH OCCUPATIONS AND PROFESSIONS
38-2607 Practice of optometry; activities not included.
38-2607. Practice of optometry; activities not included.
The practice of optometry shall not be construed to:
(1) Include merchants or dealers who sell glasses as merchandise in an established place of business or who sell contact lenses from a prescription for contact lenses written by an optometrist or a person licensed to practice medicine and surgery and who do not profess to be optometrists or practice optometry;
(2) Restrict, expand, or otherwise alter the scope of practice governed by other statutes; or
(3) Include the performance by an optometric assistant, under the supervision of a licensed optometrist, of duties prescribed in accordance with rules and regulations adopted and promulgated by the department, with the recommendation of the board.
Source
- Laws 1927, c. 167, § 112, p. 487;
- C.S.1929, § 71-1602;
- R.S.1943, § 71-1,134;
- Laws 1979, LB 9, § 2;
- Laws 1998, LB 369, § 2;
- Laws 2002, LB 1062, § 30;
- R.S.1943, (2003), § 71-1,134;
- Laws 2007, LB236, § 21;
- Laws 2007, LB463, § 879.
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