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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 237 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1954 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 3 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1964, chapter 101; in 1988, chapter 765; in 2012, chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?121+ful+CHAP0803\">803<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?121+ful+CHAP0835\">835<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":239723,"object_type":"law","relational_id":62158,"identifier":"54.1-1508","token":"54.1\/II\/15\/3\/54.1-1508","url":"\/54.1-1508\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/54.1-1508\/","token":"54.1\/II\/15\/3\/54.1-1508","dublin_core":{"Title":"Optical prescriptions, ocular refraction, etc","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 54.1-1508","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>Nothing in this chapter shall authorize an <span class=\"dictionary\">optician<\/span>, or anyone else not otherwise authorized by <span class=\"dictionary\">law<\/span>, to make, <span class=\"dictionary\">issue<\/span>, or alter optical prescriptions, or to practice ocular refraction, orthoptics, or visual training, or to fit contact lenses except on the prescription of an ophthalmologist or optometrist and under his direction, or to advertise or offer to do so in any manner.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nOPTICAL PRESCRIPTIONS, OCULAR REFRACTION, ETC (\u00a7 54.1-1508)\n\nNothing in this chapter shall authorize an optician, or anyone else not\notherwise authorized by law, to make, issue, or alter optical prescriptions, or\nto practice ocular refraction, orthoptics, or visual training, or to fit contact\nlenses except on the prescription of an ophthalmologist or optometrist and under\nhis direction, or to advertise or offer to do so in any manner.\n\nHISTORY: 1954, c. 237, \u00a7 54-398.27; 1964, c. 101; 1988, c. 765, \u00a7 54.1-1705;\n2012, cc. 803, 835.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}