1. Association. An optometrist may practice only in an individual capacity under the optometrist's own name or in association with a licensed practitioner of optometry or with a physician. [PL 2023, c. 580, §8 (NEW).] 2. Prohibited mercantile employment. A licensee may not practice optometry as a full or part- time employee of a mercantile establishment or directly or indirectly encourage one's optometric services to be promoted as part of a mercantile or commercial establishment. This prohibition includes the practice of optometry as a lessee of a commercial or mercantile establishment involved in the selling of spectacles, frames, mounting, lenses or other optical devices. [PL 2023, c. 580, §8 (NEW).]
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