Sections 941 to 942
Section 941. Public Policy
It is the public policy of the State of Oklahoma that the citizens of Oklahoma shall receive the best possible visual care, through the efforts of well trained and qualified physicians licensed under Chapter 11, Title 59, Oklahoma Statutes and optometrists licensed under Chapter 13, of Title 59, Oklahoma Statutes and that no unqualified person shall be permitted to visually correct for compensation the eyes of another.
Section 942. Fitting, Adjusting or Applying Lenses or Other Optical Appliances, Duplicating orReplacing Lenses, Etc. Without License Unlawful
- A. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, company, or partnership not licensed pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 11, Chapter 13 or Chapter 14 of this title, to:
- Fit, adjust, adapt, or to in any manner apply lenses, frames, prisms, or any other optical appliances to the face of a person;
- Duplicate or attempt to duplicate, or to place or replace into the frames, any lenses or other optical appliances which have been prescribed, fitted, or adjusted for visual correction, or which are intended to aid human vision;
- Give any treatment or training designed to aid human vision; or
- Represent or hold oneself out to the public as being qualified to do any of the acts listed in this section.
- B.
- Persons licensed pursuant to the provisions of Chapters 11, 13 or 14 of this title may in a written prescription, or its duplicate, authorize any optical supplier to interpret the prescription. The optical supplier:
- a. may, in accordance with a written prescription or its duplicate, measure, adapt, fit, prepare, dispense, or adjust such lenses, spectacles, eyeglasses, prisms, tinted lenses, frames or appurtenances thereto, to the human face for the aid or correction of visual or ocular anomalies of the human eye, and
- b. may continue to do such acts upon a written prescription, or its duplicate.
- The physician or optometrist writing such prescription shall remain responsible for the full effect of the appliances so furnished by the other person.
- Persons licensed pursuant to the provisions of Chapters 11, 13 or 14 of this title may in a written prescription, or its duplicate, authorize any optical supplier to interpret the prescription. The optical supplier:
- C.
- It is hereby prohibited and declared contrary to the public health and public policy of this state to dispense, supply, fit, adjust, adapt, or in any manner apply contact lenses to the eyes of a person whether or not those contact lenses are designed to aid or correct human vision or are plano or cosmetic contact lenses, without a prescription issued by a person licensed pursuant to Chapter 11, Chapter 13 or Chapter 14 of this title.
- The Board of Examiners in Optometry may secure an injunction, without bond, in the district courts to prevent the dispensing, supplying, fitting, adjusting, or adapting of any contact lens without a prescription.
- As used in this section, “plano” means a contact lens with no prescription power.
- D. The provisions of this section shall not prevent a qualified person from making repairs to eyeglasses.
Last Modified on
Jan 29, 2025