§ 2540 No person other than a physician and surgeon or optometrist may …
§ 2541 A prescription ophthalmic device includes each of the …
§ 2541.1 (a) A spectacle lens prescription shall include all of the …
§ 2541.2 (a) (1) The expiration date of a contact lens prescription …
§ 2541.3 (a) The State Department of Public Health, the California State …
§ 2541.6 No prescription ophthalmic device that does not meet the standards …
§ 2542 A registered dispensing optician shall dispense contact lenses, …
§ 2543 (a) Except as provided in the Nonresident Ophthalmic Lens …
§ 2544 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an assistant in …
§ 2545 (a) Whenever a person or corporation has engaged, or is about to …

Terms Used In California Codes > Business and Professions Code > Division 2 > Chapter 5.4 - Prescription Lenses and Ophthalmic and Optometric Assistants

  • Associate: as used in this chapter , means an unlicensed person who has earned a master's or doctoral degree qualifying the person for licensure and is registered with the board as an associate. See California Business and Professions Code 4980.03
  • Board: as used in this chapter , means the Board of Behavioral Sciences. See California Business and Professions Code 4980.03
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • governing boards: means the local boards of trustees and the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, the Trustees of the California State University, and the Regents of the University of California. See California Education Code 66011
  • Licensing board: means any board, as defined in Section 22, the State Bar of California, and the Department of Real Estate. See California Business and Professions Code 30
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • related services: means transportation, and such developmental, corrective, and other supportive services (including speech-language pathology and audiology services, interpreting services, psychological services, physical and occupational therapy, recreation, including therapeutic recreation, social work services, school nurse services designed to enable an individual with exceptional needs to receive a free appropriate public education as described in the individualized education program of the child, counseling services, including rehabilitation counseling, orientation, and mobility services, and medical services, except that such medical services shall be for diagnostic and evaluation purposes only) as may be required to assist an individual with exceptional needs to benefit from special education, and includes the early identification and assessment of disabling conditions in children. See California Education Code 56363
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.