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...ode with respect to a certificate of licensure issued by the board under this chapter.

...to 4725.34 of the Revised Code or the rules adopted under those sections. (C) Each complaint or allegation of a violation received by the board shall be assigned a case number and shall be recorded by the board. (D) In the absence of fraud or bad faith, no person who reports to the board under this section or testifies in any adjudication conducted under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code shall be liable to any perso...

...e of final disposition; (5) If applicable, the identity of the court in which the final disposition of the claim took place. (B) Each optometrist licensed under this chapter shall notify the board within thirty days of receipt of the final disposition of a claim for damages or any action involving malpractice. The optometrist shall notify the board by registered mail and shall provide all reports and other informat...

...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 participate in the final vote that occurs in an adjudication of the case. (B) In investigating a possible violation, the board may administer oaths, order the taking...

...metry 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 any action the board may take under section 4725.23 of the Revised Code.

...urt during pendency of any appeal filed under section 119.12 of the Revised Code. If the individual subject to the summary suspension requests an adjudicatory hearing by the board, the date set for the hearing shall be within fifteen days, but not earlier than seven days, after the individual requests the hearing, unless otherwise agreed to by both the board and the individual. Any summary suspension imposed under...

...tion indicating that the optometrist is engaged in the practice of medicine.

...try to the instruction of students enrolled in the school. The state vision professionals board shall not require a nonresident instructor who holds a license in another state to obtain a license in accordance with Chapter 4796. of the Revised Code to practice optometry in the manner described under this division. (D) A student enrolled in a school of optometry, located in this or another state and approved by the ...

...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 board, body, agency, official, or institution shall ...

...division (D) of this section. (F) Any municipal corporation code, ordinance, or regulation or any township resolution that conflicts with a supplier's right to advertise as permitted by division (D) of this section is superseded by division (D) of this section and is invalid. A municipal corporation code, ordinance, or regulation or a township resolution conflicts with division (D) of this section if it restricts a ...

...n 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 and also published in one or more periodicals or broadcast by one or more radio or television stations in another state. (B) The state vis...

...ing 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 the notice req...

... to or for the patient. The board, by rule adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall establish reporting procedures and specify the types of side effects to be reported. The information provided to the board shall not include the name of or any identifying information about the patient.

...h 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 fulfill the visual requirements of a particular patient and directs in writing the use of other lenses, and gives written notification thereof to the patient. All impact-resistant lenses shall be capable of withstanding an impact test ...

...other chapter of the Revised Code, or rules of the state vision professionals board adopted pursuant to this chapter. (B) A corporation, limited liability company, partnership, or professional association described in division (A) of this section may be formed for the purpose of providing a combination of the professional services of the following individuals who are licensed, certificated, or otherwise legally au...

... deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the occupational licensing and regulatory fund created in section 4743.05 of the Revised Code.

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

...ardless of whether they address visual function, if they are designed to fit over the cornea of the eye or are otherwise designed for use in or on the eye or orbit. All contact lenses shall be dispensed only in accordance with a valid written prescription designated for contact lenses, including the following: (a) Zero-powered plano contact lenses; (b) Cosmetic contact lenses; (c) Performance-enhancing contac...

...s 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.

...by the state vision professionals board under section 4725.51 of the Revised Code. The two hours of study shall be completed as follows: (1) Each licensed spectacle dispensing optician who holds the license on September 29, 2015, shall complete the two hours of study not later than December 31, 2015. (2) Each licensed spectacle dispensing optician who receives the license after September 29, 2015, shall complete th...

...ing criminal records check requirements under section 4776.03 of the Revised Code and rules establishing disqualifying offenses for licensure as a dispensing optician or certification as an apprentice dispensing optician pursuant to sections 9.79, 4725.48, 4725.52, 4725.53, and 4776.10 of the Revised Code. (C) The board shall have no authority to adopt rules governing the employment of dispensing opticians, the loc...

... of this section, is a graduate of an accredited high school of any state, or has received an equivalent education and has successfully completed one of the following: (1) For a spectacle dispensing optician license, one thousand hours of supervised experience under a licensed dispensing optician, optometrist, or physician engaged in the practice of ophthalmology; (2) For a spectacle-contact lens dispensing opt...

...ant, prior to retaking the examination, undergo additional study in the areas of the examination in which the applicant experienced difficulty.

...person to practice as a licensed spectacle dispensing optician or a licensed spectacle-contact lens dispensing optician. The appropriate certificate of licensure shall be issued by the board no later than sixty days after it has notified the applicant of the applicant's approval for licensure. (B) Each licensed dispensing optician shall display the licensed dispensing optician's certificate of licensure in a conspi...

...o an applicant for an initial license unless the applicant complies with sections 4776.01 to 4776.04 of the Revised Code.