Revised Code of Washington
Wash. Rev. Code § 18.34.060 (2026)
Dispensing optician
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A dispensing optician is a person who prepares duplications of, or prepares and dispenses lenses, spectacles, eyeglasses and/or appurtenances thereto to the intended wearers thereof on written prescriptions from physicians or optometrists, and in accordance with such prescriptions, measures, adapts, adjusts and fabricates such lenses, spectacles, eyeglasses and/or appurtenances thereto to the human face for the aid or correction of visual or ocular anomalies of the human eye: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That contact lenses may be fitted only upon a written prescription of a physician or optometrist.
[ 1957 c 43 s 6.]
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1981–1998 · leading case: Somer v. Woodhouse, 623 P.2d 1164 (Wash. Ct. App. 1981).
Somer v. Woodhouse, 623 P.2d 1164 (Wash. Ct. App. 1981). “See RCW 18.34.060. A licensed dispensing optician may employ up to two apprentices at one time, but only if the licensee provides the apprentices with "training and direct supervision.”
McKenna v. Harrison Mem'l Hosp., 960 P.2d 486 (Wash. Ct. App. 1998). “035 (definition of practice of podiatric medicine and surgery); RCW 18.”
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