A. The board shall adopt rules to administer and enforce this chapter. Rules adopted pursuant to this section shall include rules to specify the lawful scope of the practice of dispensing opticians and necessary evidence that may support a charge of substandard care rendered by a dispensing optician or an optical establishment.

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 32-1673

  • Board: means the state board of dispensing opticians. See Arizona Laws 32-1671
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Dispensing optician: means any person, except as provided in section 32-1691, who dispenses lenses, contact lenses, frames, artificial eyes, optical devices, appurtenances thereto or parts thereof to the intended wearer on written prescription from a duly licensed physician or optometrist, and in accordance with such prescription interprets, measures, adapts, fits or adjusts the same for the aid or correction of visual or ocular anomalies of the human eye or who duplicates, replaces, reproduces or repeats the same without prescription when there is no change in refractive value, provided that contact lenses shall never be dispensed without a written contact lense prescription being on file in any optical establishment, office of an optometrist or office of a physician or verbal confirmation of that written prescription. See Arizona Laws 32-1671
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Optical establishment: means a physical location in which lenses, contact lenses, frames, artificial eyes, optical devices, appurtenances thereto or parts thereof are dispensed to the intended wearer on written prescription from a physician licensed pursuant to chapter 13 or 17 of this title or an optometrist licensed pursuant to chapter 16 of this title. See Arizona Laws 32-1671

B. The board may:

1. Hire investigators subject to Title 41, Chapter 4, Article 4 or contract with investigators to assist in the investigation of violations of this chapter.

2. Hire employees subject to Title 41, Chapter 4, Article 4 and contract with other state agencies as necessary to carry out this chapter.

3. In connection with board hearings and investigations, issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, records, documents and other necessary evidence.