California Business and Professions Code CHAPTER 5.4 - Prescription Lenses

• Section 2540.
  No person other than a physician and surgeon or optometrist may measure the powers or range of human vision or determine the accommodative and refractive...
• Section 2541.
  A prescription ophthalmic device includes each of the following:(a) Any spectacle or contact lens ordered by a physician and surgeon or optometrist, that alters or changes...
• Section 2541.1.
  (a) A spectacle lens prescription shall include all of the following:(1) The dioptric power of the lens. When the prescription needed by the patient has not changed...
• Section 2541.2.
  (a) (1) The expiration date of a contact lens prescription shall not be less than one to two years from the date of issuance, unless the patient’s...
• Section 2541.3.
  (a) The State Department of Public Health, the State Board of Optometry, and the Medical Board of California shall prepare and adopt quality standards and adopt...
• Section 2541.6.
  No prescription ophthalmic device that does not meet the standards adopted by the State Department of Public Health, the State Board of Optometry, or the...
• Section 2542.
  A registered dispensing optician shall fit, adjust, or dispense contact lenses, including plano contact lenses, only on the valid prescription of a physician and surgeon...
• Section 2543.
  (a) Except as provided in the Nonresident Contact Lens Seller Registration Act (Chapter 5.45 (commencing with Section 2546), the right to dispense, sell or furnish prescription...
• Section 2544.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an assistant in any setting where optometry or ophthalmology is practiced who is acting under the direct responsibility and...
• Section 2545.
  (a) Whenever any person has engaged, or is about to engage, in any acts or practices which constitute, or will constitute, an offense against this chapter,...

Last modified: October 22, 2018