Ohio Revised Code Chapter 4725 - Optometrists; Dispensing Opticians

• Section 4725.01 - Optometry Definitions.
  As used in this chapter: (A) (1) The "practice of optometry" means the application of optical principles, through technical methods and devices, in the...
• Section 4725.011 - Vision-correcting Device Delivering Drugs.
  In prescribing and dispensing vision correction devices under a therapeutic pharmaceutical agents certificate, a licensed optometrist may prescribe and dispense any device that has...
• Section 4725.02 - License Required.
  (A) Except as provided in section 4725.26 of the Revised Code, no person shall engage in the practice of optometry, including the determination of...
• Section 4725.03 - State Board Of Optometry.
  The governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint a state board of optometry consisting of six nonmedical residents of this...
• Section 4725.04 - Organization Of Board.
  The state board of optometry shall organize by the election of a president and a secretary from its members, who shall hold their respective...
• Section 4725.05 - Executive Director - Employees.
  The state board of optometry shall employ an executive director. Before entering upon the discharge of official duties of office, the executive director shall...
• Section 4725.06 - Compensation And Expenses Of Board.
  Each member of the state board of optometry shall receive an amount fixed pursuant to division (J) of section 124.15 of the Revised Code...
• Section 4725.07 - Records - Seal.
  The state board of optometry shall adopt a seal and certificate of suitable design and shall keep a record of its proceedings, a register...
• Section 4725.08 - State Board Of Optometry - Immunity.
  In the absence of fraud or bad faith, the state board of optometry, a current or former board member, an agent of the board,...
• Section 4725.09 - Administrative Rules.
  (A) The state board of optometry shall adopt rules as it considers necessary to govern the practice of optometry and to administer and enforce...
• Section 4725.091 - Rules Governing Practice Under Therapeutic Pharmaceutical Agents Certificates.
  (A) The state board of optometry shall adopt rules governing the authority of licensed optometrists practicing under therapeutic pharmaceutical agents certificates to employ, apply,...
• Section 4725.092 - Adoption Of Rules Regarding Information On Drug Database.
  (A) As used in this section, "drug database" means the database established and maintained by the state board of pharmacy pursuant to section 4729.75...
• Section 4725.10 - Approving Schools Of Optometry.
  (A) The state board of optometry shall evaluate schools of optometry and grant its approval to schools that adequately prepare their graduates for the...
• Section 4725.11 - Examination.
  (A) The state board of optometry shall accept as the examination that must be passed to receive a license to practice optometry in this...
• Section 4725.111 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 4725.21.
  Effective Date: 03-09-1999
• Section 4725.112 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 4725.31.
  Effective Date: 03-09-1999
• Section 4725.113 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 4725.22.
  Effective Date: 03-09-1999
• Section 4725.114 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 4725.33.
  Effective Date: 03-09-1999
• Section 4725.12 - Written Application For Certificate Of Licensure And Therapeutic Pharmaceutical Agents Certificate.
  (A) Each person who desires to commence the practice of optometry in the state shall file with the executive director of the state board...
• Section 4725.121 - License Applicant To Comply With Rc Chapter 4776.
  (A) As used in this section, "license" and "applicant for an initial license" have the same meanings as in section 4776.01 of the Revised...
• Section 4725.13 - Issuing And Display Of Certificate.
  (A) The state board of optometry, by an affirmative vote of a majority of its members, shall issue certificates under its seal as follows:...
• Section 4725.14 - Therapeutic Pharmaceutical Agents Certificate Qualifications.
  (A) The following apply to an optometrist licensed on or before May 19, 1992, who is seeking a therapeutic pharmaceutical agents certificate under division...
• Section 4725.15 - Failing Examination Or Part Four Times.
  If the state board of optometry receives notice under division (D) of section 4725.11 of the Revised Code that an applicant has failed four...
• Section 4725.16 - Expiration Of Certificate - Renewal.
  (A) (1) Each certificate of licensure, topical ocular pharmaceutical agents certificate, and therapeutic pharmaceutical agents certificate issued by the state board of optometry shall...
• Section 4725.17 - Applying For Inactive Status.
  (A) An optometrist who intends not to continue practicing optometry in this state due to retirement or a decision to practice in another state...
• Section 4725.171 - Reinstatement Application.
  (A) An optometrist who discontinued practicing optometry in this state due to retirement or a decision to practice in another state or country before...
• Section 4725.18 - Endorsement.
  (A) The state board of optometry may issue a certificate of licensure and therapeutic pharmaceutical agents certificate by endorsement to an individual licensed as...
• Section 4725.19 - Disciplinary Actions.
  (A) In accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code and by an affirmative vote of a majority of its members, the state board...
• Section 4725.20 - Effect Of Child Support Default On License Or Certificate.
  On receipt of a notice pursuant to section 3123.43 of the Revised Code, the state board of optometry shall comply with sections 3123.41 to...
• Section 4725.21 - Duty To Report Unprofessional Conduct Or Addiction - Complaints.
  (A) If an optometrist licensed by the state board of optometry has reason to believe that another optometrist licensed currently or previously by the...
• Section 4725.22 - Professional Liability Insurer To Report Final Disposition Of Claim For Damages.
  (A) Each insurer providing professional liability insurance to an optometrist licensed under this chapter, or any other entity that seeks to indemnify the professional...
• Section 4725.23 - Investigations - Confidentiality Of Information.
  (A) The state board of optometry shall investigate evidence that appears to show that a person has violated any provision of sections 4725.01 to...
• Section 4725.24 - Suspension Without Prior Hearing.
  If the secretary of the state board of optometry and the board's supervising member of investigations determine that there is clear and convincing evidence...
• Section 4725.25 - Unauthorized Practice.
  Sections 4725.01 to 4725.34 of the Revised Code do not confer on an optometrist the title of medical doctor, physician, surgeon, oculist, ophthalmologist, or...
• Section 4725.26 - Exceptions.
  Division (A) of section 4725.02 of the Revised Code does not apply to the following: (A) Physicians authorized to practice medicine and surgery or...
• Section 4725.27 - Evidence - Interference With Choice Of Service.
  The testimony and reports of an optometrist licensed by the state board of optometry under this chapter shall be received by any state, county,...
• Section 4725.28 - Copy Of Prescription To Be Given To Patient.
  (A) As used in this section, "supplier" means any person who prepares or sells optical accessories or other vision correcting items, devices, or procedures....
• Section 4725.29 - Advertising.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Regional advertisement" means an advertisement published in more than one metropolitan statistical area in this state or...
• Section 4725.30 - Ocular Abnormalities.
  If while examining a person an optometrist detects evidence of an ocular abnormality requiring further diagnosis or possible treatment that is not included in...
• Section 4725.31 - Clinically Significant Drug-induced Side Effects.
  An optometrist licensed by the state board of optometry shall promptly report to the board any instance of a clinically significant drug-induced side effect...
• Section 4725.32 - Requiring Impact-resistant Lenses.
  No person shall distribute, sell, or deliver any eyeglasses or sunglasses manufactured after July 31, 1972, nor shall any person distribute, sell, or deliver...
• Section 4725.33 - Offering Services Through Authorized Business Entity.
  (A) An individual whom the state board of optometry licenses to engage in the practice of optometry may render the professional services of an...
• Section 4725.34 - Fees.
  (A) The state board of optometry shall charge the following nonrefundable fees: (1) One hundred thirty dollars for application for a certificate of licensure;...
• Section 4725.40 - Dispensing Optician, Ocularist Definitions.
  As used in sections 4725.40 to 4725.59 of the Revised Code: (A) "Optical aid" means both of the following: (1) Spectacles or other instruments...
• Section 4725.41 - License Required.
  Beginning one year after March 22, 1979, no person shall engage in optical dispensing or hold himself out as being engaged in optical dispensing,...
• Section 4725.411 - Dispensing Prepackaged Soft Contact Lenses.
  (A) Each licensed spectacle dispensing optician shall complete two hours of study in prepackaged soft contact lens dispensing approved by the Ohio optical dispensers...
• Section 4725.42 - Ohio Optical Dispensers Board.
  (A) There is hereby created the Ohio optical dispensers board, consisting of nine members: (1) Five dispensing opticians, at least one of whom shall...
• Section 4725.43 - Election And Term Of Officers - Meetings.
  The Ohio optical dispensers board shall elect a president and such other officers from its members, as may be prescribed by rule. The officers...
• Section 4725.44 - Powers And Duties Of Board.
  (A) The Ohio optical dispensers board shall be responsible for the administration of sections 4725.40 to 4725.59 of the Revised Code and, in particular,...
• Section 4725.45 - Executive Secretary-treasurer Duties.
  (A) The Ohio optical dispensers board shall employ an executive secretary-treasurer, who shall serve at the pleasure of the board. Before entering upon the...
• Section 4725.46 - Compensation And Expenses Of Board.
  (A) Each member of the Ohio optical dispensers board shall receive compensation pursuant to division (J) of section 124.15 of the Revised Code, but...
• Section 4725.47 - Grandfather Provision For Licensing.
  (A) Within one year from the effective date of this section, any person who has or is engaged in optical dispensing and who desires...
• Section 4725.48 - Application And Qualifications.
  (A) Any person who desires to engage in optical dispensing, except as provided in section 4725.47 of the Revised Code, shall file a properly...
• Section 4725.49 - Examinations.
  (A) The Ohio optical dispensers board may provide for the examination of applicants by designing, preparing, and administering the qualifying examinations or by contracting...
• Section 4725.50 - Issuance And Display Of Certificate.
  (A) Except for a person who qualifies for licensure as an ocularist, each person who qualifies for licensure under sections 4725.40 to 4725.59 of...
• Section 4725.501 - License Applicant To Comply With Rc Chapter 4776.
  (A) As used in this section, "license" and "applicant for an initial license" have the same meanings as in section 4776.01 of the Revised...
• Section 4725.51 - Renewal - Continuing Education.
  (A) (1) Each license issued under sections 4725.40 to 4725.59 of the Revised Code shall expire on the first day of January in the...
• Section 4725.52 - Apprentices.
  Any licensed dispensing optician may supervise a maximum of three apprentices who shall be permitted to engage in optical dispensing only under the supervision...
• Section 4725.53 - Disciplinary Actions.
  (A) The Ohio optical dispensers board, by a majority vote of its members, may refuse to grant a license and, in accordance with Chapter...
• Section 4725.531 - Effect Of Child Support Default On License.
  On receipt of a notice pursuant to section 3123.43 of the Revised Code, the Ohio optical dispensers board shall comply with sections 3123.41 to...
• Section 4725.54 - Discplinary Actions.
  (A) Any person having knowledge of a violation of sections 4725.40 to 4725.59 of the Revised Code by a licensed dispensing optician or an...
• Section 4725.55 - Licenses And Applications - Prohibited Acts.
  No person shall do any of the following: (A) Sell or barter, or offer to sell or barter, a certificate of licensure as a...
• Section 4725.56 - Prohibiting Payment For Referrals.
  No licensed dispensing optician, or employee or agent of a licensed dispensing optician shall pay or offer to pay a rebate or commission of...
• Section 4725.57 - Reciprocity.
  An applicant for licensure as a licensed dispensing optician who is licensed or registered in another state shall be accorded the full privileges of...
• Section 4725.58 - Final Evaluation Of Contact Lenses.
  After each licensed contact lens dispensing optician has dispensed contact lenses pursuant to the written prescription of a licensed physician or a licensed optometrist,...
• Section 4725.59 - Exemptions.
  (A) Sections 4725.40 to 4725.59 of the Revised Code do not apply to: (1) A physician authorized under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code...
• Section 4725.60 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 4725.20.
  Effective Date: 03-09-1999
• Section 4725.61 - Compliance With Law Regarding Sanctions For Human Trafficking.
  The state board of optometry and the Ohio optical dispensers board shall comply with section 4776.20 of the Revised Code. Added by 129th General...
• Section 4725.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates section 4725.02 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars for a first offense; for each...

Last modified: October 10, 2016