on prescription - Repairs. A. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, company, or partnership not licensed pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 11, Chapter 13 or Chapter 14 of this title, to: 1. Fit, adjust, adapt, or to in any manner apply lenses, frames, prisms, or any other optical appliances to the face of a person; 2. Duplicate or attempt to duplicate, or to place or replace into the frames, any lenses or other optical appliances which have been prescribed, fitted, or adjusted for visual correction, or which are intended to aid human vision; 3. Give any treatment or training designed to aid human vision; or 4. Represent or hold oneself out to the public as being qualified to do any of the acts listed in this section. B. 1. Persons licensed pursuant to the provisions of Chapters 11, 13 or 14 of this title may in a written prescription, or its duplicate, authorize any optical supplier to interpret the prescription. The optical supplier: a. may, in accordance with a written prescription or its duplicate, measure, adapt, fit, prepare, dispense, or adjust such lenses, spectacles, eyeglasses, prisms, tinted lenses, frames or appurtenances thereto, to the human face for the aid or correction of visual or ocular anomalies of the human eye, and b. may continue to do such acts upon a written prescription, or its duplicate. 2. The physician or optometrist writing such prescription shall remain responsible for the full effect of the appliances so furnished by the other person. C. 1. It is hereby prohibited and declared contrary to the public health and public policy of this state to dispense, supply, fit, adjust, adapt, or in any manner apply contact lenses to the eyes of a person whether or not those contact lenses are designed to aid or correct human vision or are plano or cosmetic contact lenses, without a prescription issued by a person licensed pursuant to Chapter 11, Chapter 13 or Chapter 14 of this title. 2. The Board of Examiners in Optometry may secure an injunction, without bond, in the district courts to prevent the dispensing, supplying, fitting, adjusting, or adapting of any contact lens without a prescription. 3. As used in this section, “plano” means a contact lens with no prescription power. D. The provisions of this section shall not prevent a qualified person from making repairs to eyeglasses.
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