Florida Statute 484.006 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXXII
REGULATION OF PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS

Chapter 484
DISPENSING OF OPTICAL DEVICES AND HEARING AIDS

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F.S. 484.006

484.006 Certain rules prohibited.—

(1) No rule or policy of the board shall prohibit any optician from offering a discount in any form or manner in conjunction with the practice of opticianry or from advertising, either directly or indirectly by any means whatsoever, any definite or indefinite price or credit terms on prescriptive or corrective lenses, frames, complete prescriptive or corrective glasses, or other opticianry service.

(2) No rule or policy of the board shall prohibit any optician from practicing jointly with optometrists or allopathic or osteopathic physicians licensed in this state.

(3) No rule or policy of the board shall prohibit the sale of spectacles for reading purposes; toy glasses; goggles or sunglasses consisting of plano white, plano colored, or plano tinted glasses; or readymade nonprescription glasses; nor shall anything in this part be construed to affect in any way the manufacturing and sale of plastic or glass artificial eyes or any person engaged in the manufacturing or sale of plastic or glass artificial eyes.

(4) No rule or policy of the board shall prohibit any optician licensed under this part from engaging in the practice of opticianry with, or in the employ of, any partnership, corporation, lay body, organization, group, or individual.

(5) No rule or policy of the board shall prohibit the location of offices or branch offices by an optician.

(6) No rule or policy of the board shall prohibit the practice of opticianry under a trade name or service mark.

History.—ss. 1, 5, ch. 79-275; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; ss. 11, 12, ch. 86-254; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 118, ch. 2001-277.

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Cole Vision v. Dept. of Bus. and Prof.

688 So. 2d 404, 1997 WL 60865

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Feb 14, 1997 | Docket: 1786958

Cited 7 times | Published

location at which an optometrist can practice. Section 484.006(2), Florida Statutes (1993), provides: "No

US Shoe Corp. v. DEPT. OF PRO. REG.

578 So. 2d 376

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Apr 11, 1991 | Docket: 440971

Cited 1 times | Published

contained in the proposed rule. On the other hand, Section 484.006 makes it clear that the rulemaking power granted

Frieder v. Prince

308 So. 2d 132

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Feb 18, 1975 | Docket: 1251350

Cited 1 times | Published

opticians that he was in violation of Fla. Stat. § 484.06, F.S.A. (entitled "Optical Dispensing; unlawful

United States Shoe Corp. v. Department of Professional Regulation, Board of Opticianry

578 So. 2d 376, 1991 Fla. App. LEXIS 3801, 1991 WL 54138

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Apr 11, 1991 | Docket: 64658245

Published

contained in the proposed rule. On the other hand, Section 484.006 makes it clear that the rulemaking power granted