54.1-1705 - Optical prescriptions, ocular refraction, etc.

§ 54.1-1705. Optical prescriptions, ocular refraction, etc.

Nothing in this chapter shall authorize an optician, or anyone else nototherwise authorized by law, to make, issue, or alter optical prescriptions,or to practice ocular refraction, orthoptics, or visual training, or to fitcontact lenses except on the prescription of an ophthalmologist oroptometrist and under his direction, or to advertise or offer to do so in anymanner.

(1954, c. 237, § 54-398.27; 1964, c. 101; 1988, c. 765.)