Effective: January 21, 2018 Latest Legislation: House Bill 49 – 132nd General Assembly As used in this chapter: (A)(1) The “practice of optometry” means the application of optical principles, through technical methods and devices, in the examination of human eyes for the purpose of ascertaining departures from the normal, measuring their functional powers, adapting optical […]
Effective: March 24, 2008 Latest Legislation: House Bill 149 – 127th General Assembly In prescribing and dispensing vision correction devices under a therapeutic pharmaceutical agents certificate, a licensed optometrist may prescribe and dispense any device that has vision correction as its primary purpose but also combines with that purpose the delivery of a drug or […]
Effective: January 21, 2018 Latest Legislation: House Bill 49 – 132nd General Assembly (A) Except as provided in section 4725.26 of the Revised Code, no person shall engage in the practice of optometry, including the determination of the kind of procedure, treatment, or optical accessories needed by a person or the examination of the eyes […]
Effective: September 29, 2017 Latest Legislation: House Bill 49 – 132nd General Assembly (A) There is hereby created the state vision professionals board consisting of the following members, appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate: (1) Four individuals licensed as optometrists under this chapter; (2) Two individuals licensed as licensed […]
Effective: September 29, 2017 Latest Legislation: House Bill 49 – 132nd General Assembly Whenever the term “state board of optometry” or “Ohio optical dispensers board” is used in any statute, rule, contract, or other document, the use shall be construed to mean the “state vision professionals board.” Whenever “executive director of the state board of […]
Effective: September 29, 2017 Latest Legislation: House Bill 49 – 132nd General Assembly The state vision professionals board shall organize by the election of a president and a secretary from its members, who shall hold their respective offices for one year. The board shall hold meetings to perform its regular duties at least four times […]
Effective: September 29, 2017 Latest Legislation: House Bill 49 – 132nd General Assembly The state vision professionals board shall hire an executive director. Before entering upon the discharge of official duties of office, the executive director shall give a bond, to be approved by the board, in the sum of two thousand dollars conditioned for […]
Effective: September 29, 2017 Latest Legislation: House Bill 49 – 132nd General Assembly Each member of the state vision professionals board shall receive an amount fixed pursuant to division (J) of section 124.15 of the Revised Code for each day the member is performing the member’s official duties and be reimbursed for the actual and […]
Effective: September 29, 2017 Latest Legislation: House Bill 49 – 132nd General Assembly The state vision professionals board shall adopt a seal and certificate of suitable design and shall keep a record of its proceedings, a register of every individual holding a certificate, license, registration, or endorsement issued under this chapter, and a register of […]
Effective: September 29, 2017 Latest Legislation: House Bill 49 – 132nd General Assembly In the absence of fraud or bad faith, the state vision professionals board, a current or former board member, an agent of the board, a person formally requested by the board to be the board’s representative, or an employee of the board […]
Effective: January 21, 2018 Latest Legislation: House Bill 49 – 132nd General Assembly (A) The state vision professionals board shall adopt rules as it considers necessary to govern the practice of optometry and to administer and enforce sections 4725.01 to 4725.34 of the Revised Code. All rules adopted under those sections shall be adopted in […]
Effective: January 21, 2018 Latest Legislation: House Bill 49 – 132nd General Assembly (A) The state vision professionals board shall adopt rules governing the authority of licensed optometrists practicing under therapeutic pharmaceutical agents certificates to employ, apply, administer, and prescribe analgesic controlled substances. The rules shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the […]
Effective: January 21, 2018 Latest Legislation: House Bill 49 – 132nd General Assembly (A) As used in this section, “drug database” means the database established and maintained by the state board of pharmacy pursuant to section 4729.75 of the Revised Code. (B) The state vision professionals board shall adopt rules that establish standards and procedures […]
Effective: January 21, 2018 Latest Legislation: House Bill 49 – 132nd General Assembly (A) The state vision professionals board shall evaluate schools of optometry and grant its approval to schools that adequately prepare their graduates for the practice of optometry in this state. Approval shall be granted only by an affirmative vote of a majority […]
Effective: January 21, 2018 Latest Legislation: House Bill 49 – 132nd General Assembly (A) The state vision professionals board shall accept as the examination that must be passed to receive a license to practice optometry in this state the examination prepared, administered, and graded by the national board of examiners in optometry or an examination […]
Effective: October 9, 2021 Latest Legislation: House Bill 263 – 133rd General Assembly (A) Each person who desires to commence the practice of optometry in the state shall file with the executive director of the state vision professionals board an application for a certificate of licensure and a therapeutic pharmaceutical agents certificate. The application shall […]
Effective: October 9, 2021 Latest Legislation: House Bill 263 – 133rd General Assembly (A) As used in this section, “license” and “applicant for an initial license” have the same meanings as in section 4776.01 of the Revised Code, except that “license” as used in both of those terms refers to the types of authorizations otherwise […]
Effective: January 21, 2018 Latest Legislation: House Bill 49 – 132nd General Assembly (A) The state vision professionals board, by an affirmative vote of a majority of its members, shall issue certificates under its seal as follows: (1) Every applicant who, prior to May 19, 1992, passed the licensing examination then in effect, and who […]
Effective: March 9, 1999 Latest Legislation: House Bill 553 – 122nd General Assembly (A) The following apply to an optometrist licensed on or before May 19, 1992, who is seeking a therapeutic pharmaceutical agents certificate under division (A)(3) of section 4725.13 of the Revised Code: (1) If the optometrist does not hold a valid topical […]
Effective: January 21, 2018 Latest Legislation: House Bill 49 – 132nd General Assembly If the state vision professionals board receives notice under division (D) of section 4725.11 of the Revised Code that an applicant has failed four times the licensing examination or part of the examination that must be passed pursuant to section 4725.12 or […]
