54-1515. LIMITATIONS ON APPLICATION OF CHAPTER. A license to practice optometry, as provided in this chapter, is not required for the following practices:
1. Practice by persons authorized under the laws of this state to practice medicine and surgery.
2. The sale of eyeglasses or spectacles in or from a store, shop, or other permanently established place of business on prescription from persons authorized under the laws of this state to practice either optometry or medicine and surgery, by persons, firms and corporations who neither practice nor attempt to practice optometry.
3. The sale of ready-to-wear glasses equipped with convex spherical lenses, or sunglasses equipped with plano lenses, or industrial glasses or goggles with plano lenses used for industrial or agricultural eye protection, when the same are sold as merchandise and where the selection of the glasses is at the discretion of the purchaser, by persons, firms and corporations who neither practice nor attempt to practice optometry nor use in the testing of the eye therefor lenses other than the lenses actually sold, and who neither give nor offer spectacles or eyeglasses as premiums.
History:
[54-1515, added 1972, ch. 91, sec. 2, p. 179.]
Structure Idaho Code
Title 54 - PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS, AND BUSINESSES
Section 54-1501 - PRACTICE OF OPTOMETRY DEFINED.
Section 54-1502 - LICENSE A PREREQUISITE TO PRACTICE.
Section 54-1502A - NONLICENSED PERSONS — PENALTIES AND REMEDIES.
Section 54-1503 - STATE BOARD OF OPTOMETRY ESTABLISHED — QUALIFICATIONS.
Section 54-1506 - LICENSE FEES.
Section 54-1508 - STATE BOARD OF OPTOMETRY — ORGANIZATION — MEETINGS — EXPENSES.
Section 54-1509 - STATE BOARD OF OPTOMETRY — POWERS AND DUTIES.
Section 54-1510 - REVOCATION OF LICENSES — GROUNDS.
Section 54-1512 - PENALTIES AND REINSTATEMENT.
Section 54-1513 - DUTY OF PROSECUTING ATTORNEY — DUTY OF ATTORNEY GENERAL.
Section 54-1514 - PUBLICATION OF DIRECTORY AND LAW.
Section 54-1515 - LIMITATIONS ON APPLICATION OF CHAPTER.
Section 54-1516 - LIMITATION ON APPLICATION OF CHAPTER — NURSES, SCHOOL TEACHERS OR WELFARE WORKERS.
Section 54-1518 - DIVISION OF OCCUPATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSES — POWERS AND DUTIES.
Section 54-1519 - EXAMINATIONS — APPLICATIONS.
Section 54-1520 - LICENSE — QUALIFICATIONS OF APPLICANTS — ISSUANCE.
Section 54-1521 - CONDUCT OF EXAMINATIONS — SUBJECT INCLUDED.
Section 54-1522 - LICENSE — RENEWAL AND REINSTATEMENT — CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENT.