                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

EXEMPTIONS (§ 54.1-1506)

The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to:

1. Any licensed physician or licensed optometrist;

2. Any individual, partnership, or corporation engaged in supplying ophthalmic
prescriptions and supplies exclusively to licensed physicians, licensed
optometrists, licensed opticians, or optical scientists;

3. Any person who does not hold himself out to the public as an
&#8220;optician,&#8221; and who works exclusively under the direct supervision
and control of a licensed physician or licensed optometrist or licensed
optician, and in the same location;

4. The sale of spectacles, eyeglasses, magnifying glasses, goggles, sunglasses,
telescopes, or binoculars that are completely preassembled and sold as
merchandise; or

5. Any optician who (i) does not regularly practice in Virginia; (ii) holds a
current valid license or certificate to practice as an optician in another
state, territory, district, or possession of the United States; (iii) volunteers
to provide free health care to an underserved area of the Commonwealth under the
auspices of a publicly supported all volunteer, nonprofit organization with no
paid employees that sponsors the provision of health care to populations of
underserved people throughout the world; (iv) files a copy of the license or
certificate issued in such other jurisdiction with the Board; (v) notifies the
Board, within 15 days prior to the voluntary provision of services of the dates
and location of such services; and (vi) acknowledges, in writing, that such
licensure exemption shall only be valid, in compliance with the Board&#8217;s
regulations, during the limited period that such free health care is made
available through the volunteer, nonprofit organization on the dates and at the
location filed with the Board.

HISTORY: 1954, c. 237, §§ 54-398.1, 54-398.3; 1974, c. 534; 1988, c. 765, §
54.1-1701; 2002, c. 740; 2012, cc. 803, 835.