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Fla. Stat. § 484.006 (2025)
Certain rules prohibited.
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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.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 1991–1997 · leading case: Cole Vision v. Dept. of Bus. & Prof., 688 So. 2d 404 (Fla. 1st DCA 1997).
Cole Vision v. Dept. of Bus. & Prof., 688 So. 2d 404 (Fla. 1st DCA 1997). “Section 484.006(2), Florida Statutes (1993), provides: "No rule or policy of the board shall prohibit any optician from practicing jointly with optometrists or medical doctors licensed in this state.”
United States Shoe Corp. v. Dep't of Prof'l Reg., Bd. of Opticianry, 578 So. 2d 376 (Fla. 1st DCA 1991). “On the other hand, Section 484.006 makes it clear that the rulemaking power granted in Section 484.”
Us Shoe Corp. v. Dept. of Pro. Reg., 578 So. 2d 376 (Fla. 1st DCA 1991). “On the other hand, Section 484.006 makes it clear that the rulemaking power granted in Section 484.”
— 484.006(2) — 1 case
Cole Vision v. Dept. of Bus. & Prof., 688 So. 2d 404 (Fla. 1st DCA 1997). “Section 484.006(2), Florida Statutes (1993), provides: "No rule or policy of the board shall prohibit any optician from practicing jointly with optometrists or medical doctors licensed in this state.”
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