California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions

• Section 2550.
  Individuals, corporations, and firms engaged in the business of filling prescriptions of physicians and surgeons licensed by the Medical Board of California or optometrists licensed...
• Section 2550.1.
  All references in this chapter to the board shall mean the State Board of Optometry.(Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 489, Sec. 14. (SB 1478) Effective...
• Section 2551.
  Individuals, corporations, and firms shall make application for registration and shall not engage in that business prior to being issued a certificate of registration. Application...
• Section 2552.
  Each application shall be verified under oath by the person required to sign the application and shall designate the name, address, and business telephone number...
• Section 2553.
  If the board, after investigation, approves the application, it shall register the applicant and issue to the applicant a certificate of dispensing optician. A separate...
• Section 2553.1.
  (a) If a registered dispensing optician sells or transfers ownership of his or her place of business, both of the following requirements shall be satisfied:(1) The registered...
• Section 2553.5.
  (a) A registered dispensing optician may fit and adjust spectacle lenses and frames or take facial measurements in any of the following locations:(1) A health facility as...
• Section 2553.6.
  The board shall deny any application for registration under this chapter if any person licensed under Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 2000), for whom the...
• Section 2553.7.
  Registrations of dispensing opticians, spectacle lens dispensers, and contact lens dispensers shall expire at midnight on the last day of the month in which the...
• Section 2554.
  Each registrant shall conspicuously and prominently display at each registered location the following consumer information:“Eye doctors are required to provide patients with a copy of...
• Section 2555.
  Certificates issued hereunder may in the discretion of the board be suspended or revoked or subjected to terms and conditions of probation for violating or...
• Section 2555.1.
  In the discretion of the board, a certificate issued hereunder may be suspended or revoked if an individual certificate holder or persons having any proprietary...
• Section 2556.
  (a) Except as authorized by Section 655, it is unlawful for a registered dispensing optician to do any of the following: to advertise the furnishing of,...
• Section 2556.1.
  All licensed optometrists and registered dispensing opticians who are in a colocated setting shall report the business relationship to the State Board of Optometry, as...
• Section 2556.2.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, subsequent to the effective date of this section and until January 1, 2019, any individual, corporation, or firm operating as a...
• Section 2556.5.
  Any person who holds himself out as a “dispensing optician” or “registered dispensing optician” or who uses any other term or letters indicating or implying...
• Section 2557.
  This chapter shall not affect any person licensed as an optometrist under Chapter 7 of Division II of this code, or any physician and surgeon...
• Section 2558.
  Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment...
• Section 2559.
  Whenever any person has engaged, or is about to engage, in any acts or practices which constitute, or will constitute, a violation of any provision...

Last modified: October 22, 2018