                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

OPTICAL PRESCRIPTIONS, OCULAR REFRACTION, ETC (§ 54.1-1508)

Nothing in this chapter shall authorize an optician, or anyone else not
otherwise authorized by law, to make, issue, 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.

HISTORY: 1954, c. 237, § 54-398.27; 1964, c. 101; 1988, c. 765, § 54.1-1705;
2012, cc. 803, 835.