§ 637.200 — Unlawful acts

Nevada § 637.200

• Jurisdiction: Nevada
• Title 54: PROFESSIONS, OCCUPATIONS AND BUSINESSES
• Ch. 637: Dispensing

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The following acts constitute misdemeanors, unless a greater penalty is provided pursuant to NRS 200.830 or 200.840:
1. The insertion of a false or misleading statement in any advertising in connection with the business of ophthalmic dispensing.
2. Making use of any advertising statement of a character tending to indicate to the public the superiority of a particular system or type of eyesight examination or treatment.
3. Furnishing or advertising the furnishing of the services of a refractionist, optometrist, physician or surgeon.
4. Changing the prescription of a lens without an order from a person licensed to issue such a prescription.
5. Filling a prescription in violation of the expiration date or, for a prescription for a contact lens, in violation of the number of refills specified by the prescription. A prescription shall be deemed to have an expiration date of 2 years after the date on which the prescription was issued, unless the practitioner who wrote the prescription includes on the prescription a different period.
6. Holding oneself out to the public, either verbally or in writing, to be an optician, a dispensing optician or an apprentice dispensing optician without holding a valid and active license issued pursuant to this chapter.
7. Failing to comply with a citation or order issued pursuant to this chapter after the citation or order is final.
8. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 637.026 , violating any provision of this chapter.

Legislative History

[12:216:1951]—(NRS A 1967, 642 ; 1979, 1200 ; 1997, 1258 ; 2013, 1000 ; 2023, 1399 , 2591 )