A. No person working in any program supported by state funds nor any state agency or agency of any political subdivision thereof, or any employee thereof, shall hinder or prohibit any person who is entitled to eye care which may be rendered by either an optometrist or a physician and surgeon skilled in diseases of the eye, to select a member of either such profession to render the service within the scope of his license.

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 46-303

  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Person aggrieved: means any person who has not been permitted freedom of choice of a practitioner in eye care services when he is entitled to receive such eye care services, or the holder of a license or a certificate to practice in this state in the field of eye care who has been discriminated against in violation of the provisions of this article. See Arizona Laws 46-301

B. Whenever any person has engaged in any act or practice which constitutes a violation of this section, the superior court in and for the county wherein the act or practice took place, may issue an injunction, or other appropriate order, restraining such conduct on application of the attorney general, the county attorney or any person aggrieved.