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...(A) The state vision professionals board, by an affirmative vote of a majority of its members, shall issue a certificate of licensure authorizing the holder to engage in the practice of optometry under its seal to every applicant who passes all parts of the licensing examination accepted by the board under section 4725.11 of the Revised Code and otherwise complies with the requirements of sections 4725.01 to 4725.34 ...

...(A) An individual who, before the effective date of this section, holds a valid certificate of licensure or topical ocular pharmaceutical agents certificate issued by the state vision professionals board may continue to engage in the practice of optometry as defined in former division (A)(1) or (2) of section 4725.01 of the Revised Code, if the individual continues to comply with this chapter. (B) An individual des...

...If the state vision professionals board receives notice under division (D) of section 4725.11 of the Revised Code that an applicant has failed four times the licensing examination or part of the examination that must be passed pursuant to section 4725.12 of the Revised Code, the board shall not give further consideration to the application until the applicant completes thirty hours of remedial training approved by th...

...(A)(1) Each certificate of licensure for the practice of optometry issued by the state vision professionals board shall expire on the last day of December of each even-numbered year, and may be renewed in accordance with this section and the standard renewal procedure established under Chapter 4745. of the Revised Code. (2) An optometrist seeking to continue to practice optometry shall file with the board an applic...

...(A) The state vision professionals board may issue a certificate of licensure by endorsement to an individual licensed as an optometrist by a Canadian province if the board determines that the province has standards for the practice of optometry that are at least as stringent as the standards established under sections 4725.01 to 4725.34 of the Revised Code and the individual meets the conditions specified in divisio...

...(A) In accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code and by an affirmative vote of a majority of its members, the state vision professionals board, for any of the reasons specified in division (B) of this section, shall refuse to grant a certificate of licensure to practice optometry to an applicant and may, with respect to a licensed optometrist, do one or more of the following: (1) Suspend the operation of any...

...On receipt of a notice pursuant to section 3123.43 of the Revised Code, the state vision professionals board shall comply with sections 3123.41 to 3123.50 of the Revised Code and any applicable rules adopted under section 3123.63 of the Revised Code with respect to a certificate of licensure issued by the board under this chapter.

...(A) If an optometrist licensed by the state vision professionals board has reason to believe that another optometrist licensed currently or previously by the board has engaged in any course of treatment or other services to a patient that constitutes unprofessional conduct under section 4725.19 of the Revised Code, or has an addiction subject to board action under section 4725.19 of the Revised Code, the optometrist ...

...(A) Each insurer providing professional liability insurance to an optometrist licensed under this chapter, or any other entity that seeks to indemnify the professional liability of an optometrist licensed under this chapter, shall notify the state vision professionals board within thirty days after the final disposition of a claim for damages. The notice shall contain the following information: (1) The name and addr...

...(A) The state vision professionals board shall investigate evidence that appears to show that a person has violated any provision of sections 4725.01 to 4725.34 of the Revised Code or any rule adopted under those sections. Investigations of alleged violations shall be supervised by the member of the board appointed by the board to act as the supervising member of investigations. The supervising member shall not parti...

...The state vision professionals board may issue a cease-and-desist order against any person engaging in the practice of optometry without having received a license under sections 4725.01 to 4725.34 of the Revised Code that the board reasonably suspects has violated, is currently violating, or is about to violate this chapter. The board's authority to issue a cease-and-desist order under this section is in addition to ...

...If the secretary of the state vision professionals board and the board's supervising member of investigations determine that there is clear and convincing evidence that an optometrist has violated division (B) of section 4725.19 of the Revised Code and that the optometrist's continued practice presents a danger of immediate and serious harm to the public, they may recommend that the board suspend without a prior hear...

...Sections 4725.01 to 4725.34 of the Revised Code do not confer on an optometrist the title of medical doctor, physician, surgeon, oculist, ophthalmologist, or any other word or abbreviation indicating that the optometrist is engaged in the practice of medicine.

...Division (A) of section 4725.02 of the Revised Code does not apply to the following: (A) Physicians authorized to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code; (B) Persons who sell optical accessories but do not assume to adapt them to the eye, and neither practice nor profess to practice optometry; (C) A nonresident instructor in a school of optometr...

...The testimony and reports of an optometrist licensed by the state vision professionals board under this chapter shall be received by any state, county, municipal, school district, or other public board, body, agency, institution, or official and by any private educational or other institution receiving public funds as competent evidence with respect to any matter within the scope of the practice of optometry. No such...

...(A) As used in this section, "supplier" means any person who prepares or sells optical accessories or other vision correcting items, devices, or procedures. (B) A licensed optometrist, on completion of a vision examination and diagnosis, shall give each patient for whom the optometrist prescribes any vision correcting item, device, or procedure, one copy of the prescription, without additional charge to the patient....

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Regional advertisement" means an advertisement published in more than one metropolitan statistical area in this state or broadcast by radio or television stations in more than one metropolitan statistical area in this state. (2) "National advertisement" means an advertisement published in one or more periodicals or broadcast by one or more radio or television stations in this state...

...If while examining a person an optometrist detects evidence of an ocular abnormality requiring further diagnosis or possible treatment that is not included in the optometrist's practice of optometry, the optometrist shall advise the patient to see a physician authorized to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery. The optometrist shall include in the patient's records an entry specifying that...

...An optometrist licensed by the state vision professionals board shall promptly report to the board any instance of a clinically significant drug-induced side effect in a patient due to the optometrist's administering, employing, applying, or prescribing a topical ocular or therapeutic pharmaceutical agent to or for the patient. The board, by rule adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall esta...

...No person shall distribute, sell, or deliver any eyeglasses or sunglasses manufactured after July 31, 1972, nor shall any person distribute, sell, or deliver eyeglasses after December 31, 1972, or sunglasses after December 31, 1973, which are not fitted with impact-resistant lenses, except in those cases where a physician or optometrist prescribing eyeglasses or sunglasses finds that impact-resistant lenses could not...

...(A) An individual whom the state vision professionals board licenses to engage in the practice of optometry may render the professional services of an optometrist within this state through a corporation formed under division (B) of section 1701.03 of the Revised Code, a limited liability company formed under former Chapter 1705. of the Revised Code as that chapter existed prior to February 11, 2022, or Chapter 1706. ...

...(A) The state vision professionals board shall charge the following nonrefundable fees: (1) Three hundred fifty dollars for application for a certificate of licensure to practice optometry; (2) Three hundred fifty dollars for renewal of a certificate of licensure to practice optometry; (3) One hundred twenty-five dollars for late completion or submission, or both, of continuing optometric education; (4) One h...

...An optometrist licensed under this chapter may provide telehealth services in accordance with section 4743.09 of the Revised Code.

...As used in sections 4725.40 to 4725.59 of the Revised Code: (A) "Optical aid" means both of the following: (1) Spectacles or other instruments or devices that are not contact lenses, if the spectacles or other instruments or devices may aid or correct human vision and have been prescribed by a physician or optometrist licensed by any state; (2) Contact lenses, regardless of whether they address visual function,...

...No person shall engage in optical dispensing or hold self out as being engaged in optical dispensing unless the person has fulfilled the requirements of sections 4725.48 to 4725.51 of the Revised Code and has been certified as a licensed dispensing optician by the state vision professionals board.