No optometrist shall be directly or indirectly supervised within the scope of the practice of optometry by any officer, employee, or agent of a commercial or mercantile establishment, as defined in subsection C of § 54.1-3205, who is not a Virginia-licensed optometrist or physician. No officer, employee, or agent of a commercial or mercantile establishment, who is not a Virginia-licensed optometrist or physician, shall directly or indirectly control, dictate, or influence the professional judgment, including but not limited to the level or type of care or services rendered, of the practice of optometry by a licensed optometrist.
1990, c. 307.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 54.1 - Professions and Occupations
§ 54.1-3201. What constitutes practice of optometry
§ 54.1-3203. License to be displayed
§ 54.1-3205. Practicing in a commercial or mercantile establishment
§ 54.1-3205.1. Supervision by unlicensed persons prohibited
§ 54.1-3206. Report of conviction or injunction to Board; revocation or suspension of license
§ 54.1-3207. Board of Optometry
§ 54.1-3209. Oaths and testimony
§ 54.1-3210. Seal; executive director
§ 54.1-3212. Qualifications of applicants
§ 54.1-3213. Issuance of license; fee; renewal
§ 54.1-3215. Reprimand, revocation and suspension
§ 54.1-3219. Continuing education
§ 54.1-3220. Certification for administration of diagnostic pharmaceutical agents
§ 54.1-3221. "Diagnostic pharmaceutical agents" defined; utilization; acquisition