§ 17-89-104 — Practice of optometry or medicine prohibited

(a) With the exception of those acts listed in § 17-89-102(4) , it shall be unlawful for any person except a licensed optometrist or licensed physician skilled in disease of the eye to engage in the practice of optometry or to do any act or part thereof defined in this or any other state law as the practice of optometry. (b) It is likewise unlawful for any person except a licensed physician to engage in the practice of medicine or to do any act or part thereof defined in this or any other state law as the practice of medicine. (c) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to authorize or permit any licensed or registered dispensing optician or any other person except a licensed optometrist or licensed physician skilled in disease of the eye to undertake or hold himself or herself out as being able: (1) To examine eyes by any objective or subjective method or exercise eyes; (2) To undertake by any method or means the measurement of the cornea of the human eye; or (3) To examine, prescribe, diagnose, treat, or correct for visual deficiency. (d) The prescribing, adapting, fitting, duplicating, dispensing, modifying, selling, or supplying of contact lenses for or to the human eye is specifically prohibited except when done by a licensed optometrist or licensed physician skilled in disease of the eye.

Legislative History

Acts 1981, No. 589, §§ 3, 12; A.S.A. 1947, §§ 72-2103, 72-2112.