74th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2007 Regular Session
 
NOTE:  Matter within  { +  braces and plus signs + } in an
amended section is new. Matter within  { -  braces and minus
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LC 556
 
                         Senate Bill 82
 
Printed pursuant to Senate Interim Rule 213.28 by order of the
  President of the Senate in conformance with presession filing
  rules, indicating neither advocacy nor opposition on the part
  of the President (at the request of Governor Theodore R.
  Kulongoski for Oregon Board of Optometry)
 
 
                             SUMMARY
 
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.
 
  Prohibits dispensing or selling ophthalmic contact lens without
valid prescription.
 
                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to ophthalmic contact lenses; amending ORS 683.180.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1. ORS 683.180 is amended to read:
  683.180.   { - No person shall - }  { +  A person may not + }:
  (1) Sell or barter, or offer to sell or barter, any license
issued by the board.
  (2) Purchase or procure by barter any such license with intent
to use it as evidence of the holder's qualification to practice
optometry.
  (3) Alter the license with fraudulent intent in any material
regard.
  (4) Use or attempt to use any such license which has been
purchased, fraudulently issued, counterfeited or materially
altered as a valid license.
  (5) Practice optometry under a false or assumed name.
  (6) Willfully make any false statement in a material regard in
an application for an examination before the board or for a
license.
  (7) Practice optometry in this state without having at the time
of so doing a valid unrevoked license as an optometrist.
  (8) Advertise or represent, by displaying a sign or otherwise,
to be an optometrist without having at the time of so doing a
valid unrevoked license from the board.
   { +  (9) Dispense or sell an ophthalmic contact lens without
having obtained a valid, unexpired prescription from the person
to whom the contact lens is dispensed or sold. As used in this
subsection, 'ophthalmic contact lens' means a contact lens with
or without refractive power, including a plano lens or a cosmetic
lens. + }
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