Oregon Statutes - Chapter 683 - Optometrists; Opticians

683.010 Definitions for ORS 683.010 to 683.310.
As used in ORS 683.010 to 683.310, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) �Board� means the Oregon Board of Optometry. (2) �Optometric nontopical formulary� means...
683.020 License required to practice optometry.
No person shall engage in the practice of optometry or purport in any way to be an optometrist or an expert in the field of...
683.030 Persons and practices not affected.
ORS 683.010 to 683.335 shall not be construed: (1) To prevent any person duly licensed to practice medicine and surgery from treating or fitting glasses...
683.035 Discrimination against optometrists prohibited.
No official, board, commission or other agency of the state or of any of its political subdivisions or municipalities shall discriminate between duly licensed optometrists...
683.040 Qualifications of applicants.
(1) Every person desiring to commence the practice of optometry in this state must show satisfactory evidence of graduation from a school of optometry that...
683.050 [Repealed by 1977 c.842 §39 and 1983 c.241 §1]
683.060 Examination of applicants; fee.
(1) Any person who has signified to the Oregon Board of Optometry a desire to be examined by it and who has filed proof that...
683.070 Issuance of certificates of licensure; fee.
Each applicant, without discrimination, who meets the requirements for examination and licensure and who pays the fee shall be issued a certificate of licensure. The...
683.080 Validity of certificates issued under former law.
Any person holding an unrevoked certificate issued under chapter 139, Oregon Laws 1905, as amended, shall be entitled to continue the practice of optometry as...
683.090 [Repealed by 1971 c.102 §11]
683.100 Notice to board of place of practice; responsibility for advertisements; notice given by board.
(1) Before engaging in the practice of optometry each optometrist shall notify the Oregon Board of Optometry in writing of the address of the place...
683.110 Optometrist to give receipt when practicing away from regular place of business.
Any optometrist who temporarily practices optometry outside or away from the regular registered place of business shall deliver to each customer or person there fitted...
683.120 License renewal; fee; effect of failure to renew license.
(1) Each optometrist who practices in this state shall on the date established by the Oregon Board of Optometry pay a license fee, as determined...
683.130 Clinics and instructors connected with educational institutions.
Any university or college of optometry in Oregon, which is recognized and approved by the Oregon Board of Optometry, may operate a clinic in conjunction...
683.140 Grounds for and nature of discipline; civil penalties.
(1) The Oregon Board of Optometry may discipline as provided in this section any optometrist or person, where appropriate, for the following causes: (a) Conviction...
683.150 [Repealed by 1971 c.734 §21]
683.155 Hearing.
(1) Where the Oregon Board of Optometry proposes to refuse to issue a license, or proposes, where written charges have been filed with the board...
683.160 [Repealed by 1971 c.734 §21]
683.165 Confidential information; liability of person providing information.
(1) Any information that the Oregon Board of Optometry obtains under ORS 683.140 is confidential as provided under ORS 676.175. (2) Any person who in...
683.170 Sanction may be set aside by board.
Any disciplinary sanction, other than civil penalty, imposed for any of the causes listed in ORS 683.140, except those specified in ORS 683.140 (1)(a) and...
683.180 Prohibited acts and practices.
A person may not: (1) Sell or barter, or offer to sell or barter, any license issued by the board. (2) Purchase or procure by...
683.190 Acceptance of lens for duplication by unlicensed person prohibited; exception.
(1) No person other than a licensed optometrist shall accept or offer to accept for purposes of duplication any ophthalmic lens ordinarily used before the...
683.200 Standards of liability; removal of foreign bodies from eye; treatment with antiglaucoma medication.
(1) Optometrists utilizing pharmaceutical agents shall be held to the same standards of liability as persons licensed as physicians to practice medicine and surgery by...
683.210 Continuing education requirement; fee; rules.
(1) All optometrists licensed in the State of Oregon are and shall be required to satisfactorily complete courses of study and satisfactorily continue their education...
683.220 Licensing of applicant holding license in another state.
The Oregon Board of Optometry may grant to an applicant a license by endorsement for the practice of optometry in the State of Oregon if...
683.240 Council on Optometric Nontopical Formulary; membership; duties; formulary and protocols.
(1)(a) The Council on Optometric Nontopical Formulary is established and shall consist of seven members appointed as follows: (A) One member of the Oregon Board...
683.250 Oregon Board of Optometry; qualification and terms of members; quorum.
The Oregon Board of Optometry shall operate as a semi-independent state agency subject to ORS 182.456 to 182.472, for the purpose of carrying out this...
683.260 Persons ineligible for membership on board.
(1) No person is eligible to membership on the Oregon Board of Optometry who is a stockholder in, or owner of, or a member of...
683.270 Powers and duties of board; rules.
The powers and duties of the Oregon Board of Optometry are as follows: (1) To organize and elect from its membership a president and vice...
683.275 [1967 c.22 §4; 1969 c.314 §84; 1985 c.103 §10; repealed by 1997 c.643 §34]
683.278 Continuing authority of board upon lapse, suspension, revocation or voluntary surrender of license.
The lapse, suspension or revocation of a license by operation of law, by order of the Oregon Board of Optometry or by decision of a...
683.280 [Amended by 1973 c.829 §66; 1985 c.103 §11; repealed by 1997 c.643 §34]
683.290 Disposition of receipts.
(1) All moneys received by the Oregon Board of Optometry under ORS 683.010 to 683.335 shall be deposited into an account established by the board...
683.300 [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
683.310 Professional corporation regulation not required.
ORS 58.345 does not apply to professional corporations engaged in the practice of optometry. [1985 c.103 §16] (Enforcement)
683.325 Investigation of complaints and alleged violations; subpoenas.
(1) Upon the complaint of any citizen of this state, or upon its own motion, the Oregon Board of Optometry may investigate any alleged violation...
683.330 Injunction for violation.
The Attorney General, the prosecuting attorney of any county or the Oregon Board of Optometry, in its own name, may maintain an action for an...
683.335 Report of suspected violation; confidentiality of complaints; liability of complainant.
(1) Any health care facility required to be licensed under ORS 441.015 and any licensed optometrist shall and any other person may report suspected violations...
683.510 Definitions for ORS 683.520 to 683.530.
As used in ORS 683.520 to 683.530, �dispensing optician� means a person who prepares and dispenses lenses, eyeglasses and appurtenances thereto to the intended wearers...
683.520 Scope of practice of optician.
Any dispensing optician may fabricate any ophthalmic lens in conformity with the signed prescription, or oral instruction followed by a written prescription, of any optometrist...
683.525 Acceptance of lens for duplication.
Notwithstanding ORS 683.190, a dispensing optician may accept or offer to accept for purposes of duplication any ophthalmic lens, excluding any contact lens, when the...
683.530 Discrimination against opticians prohibited.
No official, board, commission or other agency of this state or any political subdivision or municipality in the state shall discriminate between dispensing opticians and...
683.990 Penalties.
Violation of any of the provisions of ORS 683.010 to 683.335 is a Class A misdemeanor. [Amended by 1971 c.743 §408; 2005 c.379 §5] _______________

Last modified: August 7, 2008