New Mexico Statutes
Article 2 - Optometry
Section 61-2-4 - License required. (Repealed effective July 1, 2024.)

Unless licensed pursuant to the Optometry Act, or specifically exempted or excluded from the application of all or part of that act, a person shall not:
A. practice optometry;
B. represent himself or offer his services as being able to practice optometry; or
C. duplicate or replace an ophthalmic lens.
History: 1953 Comp., § 67-1-3, enacted by Laws 1973, ch. 353, § 3; 2003, ch. 274, § 2.
Delayed repeals. — For delayed repeal of this section, see 61-2-18 NMSA 1978.
Cross references. — For incorporation of optometrists under Professional Corporation Act, see 53-6-1 NMSA 1978 et seq.
The 2003 amendment, effective June 20, 2003, rewrote the introductory paragraph; deleted former Subsection C which read: "prescribe eyeglasses or give a prescription to a patient; or"; redesignated former Subsection D as present Subsection C; and deleted "not including contact lenses without a current prescription or without a written authorization from the patient if the prescription is not available" at the end of present Subsection C.
Retail ophthalmic dispenser may not legally fit contact or corneal lenses either independently or under the supervision of a New Mexico licensed practitioner of optometry or medicine. 1958 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 58-176.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 61 Am. Jur. 2d Physicians, Surgeons and Other Healers §§ 26, 37, 38, 132.
Constitutionality of statutes and validity of regulations relating to optometry, 98 A.L.R. 905, 22 A.L.R.2d 939.
Right of corporation or individual, not himself licensed, to practice optometry through licensed employee, 102 A.L.R. 343, 128 A.L.R. 585.
Validity of governmental regulation of optometry, 22 A.L.R.2d 939.
What constitutes practice of "optometry", 82 A.L.R.4th 816.
70 C.J.S. Physicians, Surgeons, and Other Health-Care Providers §§ 12, 14, 17, 26, 27.

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