                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

SUPERVISION BY UNLICENSED PERSONS PROHIBITED (§ 54.1-3205.1)

No optometrist shall be directly or indirectly supervised within the scope of
the practice of optometry by any officer, employee, or agent of a commercial or
mercantile establishment, as defined in subsection C of § 54.1-3205, who is not
a Virginia-licensed optometrist or physician. No officer, employee, or agent of
a commercial or mercantile establishment, who is not a Virginia-licensed
optometrist or physician, shall directly or indirectly control, dictate, or
influence the professional judgment, including but not limited to the level or
type of care or services rendered, of the practice of optometry by a licensed
optometrist.

HISTORY: 1990, c. 307.