2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Chapter 683 - Optometrists; Opticians
Section 683.180 - Prohibited acts and practices.


(1) Sell or barter, or offer to sell or barter, any license issued by the Oregon Board of Optometry.
(2) Purchase or procure by barter any such license with intent to use it as evidence of the holder’s qualification to practice optometry.
(3) Alter the license with fraudulent intent in any material regard.
(4) Use or attempt to use any such license which has been purchased, fraudulently issued, counterfeited or materially altered as a valid license.
(5) Practice optometry under a false or assumed name.
(6) Willfully make any false statement in a material regard in an application for an examination before the board or for a license.
(7) Practice optometry in this state without having at the time of so doing a valid unrevoked license as an optometrist.
(8) Advertise or represent, by displaying a sign or otherwise, to be an optometrist without having at the time of so doing a valid unrevoked license from the board.
(9) Dispense or sell an ophthalmic contact lens without having obtained a valid, unexpired prescription from the person to whom the contact lens is dispensed or sold. As used in this subsection, "ophthalmic contact lens" means a contact lens with or without refractive power, including a plano lens or a cosmetic lens. [Amended by 1965 c.537 §1; 1971 c.102 §8; 1979 c.142 §4; 1987 c.443 §8; 2007 c.13 §1; 2019 c.234 §4]

Structure 2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

Volume : 17 - Occupations

Chapter 683 - Optometrists; Opticians

Section 683.010 - Definitions for ORS 683.010 to 683.310.

Section 683.030 - Persons and practices not affected.

Section 683.040 - Qualifications of applicants.

Section 683.060 - Examination of applicants; fee.

Section 683.100 - Notice to board of place of practice; responsibility for advertisements; notice given by board.

Section 683.120 - License renewal; fee; effect of failure to renew license.

Section 683.140 - Grounds for and nature of discipline; civil penalties.

Section 683.155 - Hearing.

Section 683.165 - Confidential information; liability of person providing information.

Section 683.180 - Prohibited acts and practices.

Section 683.190 - Acceptance of lens for duplication by unlicensed person prohibited; exception.

Section 683.200 - Standards of liability; removal of foreign bodies from eye; treatment with antiglaucoma medication.

Section 683.210 - Continuing education requirement; fee; rules.

Section 683.220 - Licensing of applicant holding license in another state.

Section 683.230 - Practice of telemedicine; requirements; rules.

Section 683.240 - Council on Optometric Nontopical Formulary; membership; duties; formulary and protocols.

Section 683.250 - Oregon Board of Optometry; qualification and terms of members; quorum.

Section 683.260 - Persons ineligible for membership on board.

Section 683.270 - Powers and duties of board; rules.

Section 683.278 - Continuing authority of board upon lapse, suspension, revocation or voluntary surrender of license.

Section 683.290 - Disposition of receipts.

Section 683.325 - Investigation of complaints and alleged violations; subpoenas.

Section 683.335 - Report of suspected violation; confidentiality of complaints; liability of complainant.