As used in ORS 683.010 to 683.310, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Licensed optometrist” means an optometrist licensed under ORS 683.010 to 683.340. (2) “Optometric nontopical formulary” means the list of nontopical pharmaceutical agents for the treatment of diseases of the human eye and the protocols for their usage adopted by the Council on […]
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 optometry without having first obtained a license from the Oregon Board of Optometry as provided for in ORS 683.010 to 683.340. In any prosecution for the violation of this section, […]
ORS 683.010 to 683.340 may not be construed: (1) To prevent any person duly licensed to practice medicine and surgery from treating or fitting glasses to the human eye; (2) To prohibit the sale of complete ready-to-wear eye glasses as merchandise from a permanent place of business in good faith and not in evasion of […]
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 and any other person authorized by law to render professional services which a duly licensed optometrist may render, when such services are required. Such services shall be paid for in […]
(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 is approved by the Oregon Board of Optometry and that maintains a standard of four school years of at least nine months each. (2) Every person desiring to commence the […]
(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 the person is qualified under ORS 683.010 to 683.340 and the rules of the board to take the examination shall pay a fee to be determined by the board. The […]
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 certificate of licensure shall continue in force for the period established by the Oregon Board of Optometry. [Amended by 1955 c.120 §2; 1971 c.102 §5; 1973 c.827 §71; 1985 c.103 […]
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 though it were issued under ORS 683.010 to 683.340 and such certificate shall be subject to renewal, revocation and suspension the same as though it has been issued under ORS […]
(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 or places where the optometrist is to engage or intends to engage in the practice of optometry and the optometrist also shall notify the board of any change in place […]
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 or supplied with glasses a receipt which shall contain the signature and show the permanent registered place of business and the number of the license of the optometrist, together with […]
(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 by the board, for a renewal of the license of the optometrist and shall have such license conspicuously posted in the office of the optometrist or place of business at […]
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 therewith. Any optometrist licensed in another state, while a professor or instructor in such a college, may sign optometric prescriptions on behalf of the clinic, but not otherwise. Any optometrist […]
(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 of a felony or misdemeanor where such an offense bears a demonstrable relationship to the duties of an optometrist. The record of conviction, or a certified copy thereof certified by […]
(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 which the board considers sufficient to warrant a hearing, to impose any disciplinary sanction or civil penalty under ORS 683.140, opportunity for hearing shall be accorded as provided in ORS […]
(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 good faith provides information to the board shall not be subject to an action for civil damages as a result thereof. [1989 c.438 §4; 1997 c.791 §34]
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 (b), may be set aside upon application of the affected person at any time within six months from the date of such sanction upon proof being made to the satisfaction […]
A person may not: (1) Sell or barter, or offer to sell or barter, any license issued by the Oregon Board of Optometry. (2) Purchase or procure by barter any such license with intent to use it as evidence of the holder’s qualification to practice optometry. (3) Alter the license with fraudulent intent in any […]
(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 human eye for corrective purposes or for assisting vision. (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, any manufacturing, surfacing or dispensing optician may grind any such lens in conformity with […]
(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 the Oregon Medical Board under ORS chapter 677. (2) Notwithstanding ORS 683.010 (3), an optometrist may remove superficial foreign bodies from the eye and its appendages. (3)(a) An optometrist treating […]
(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 by other means as determined by the Oregon Board of Optometry in subjects relating to the practice of the profession of optometry. The study and continued education shall be for […]
