No dispensing optician, optometrist, or physician and surgeon shall dispense, prescribe, or sell any eyeglasses for use of a person whose sight is limited to one eye, a person who is a member of the California Highway Patrol or of a county sheriff’s office, a city police officer, a person who is a firefighter employed by the fire department of a city, county, city and county, or fire protection district and who normally wears such glasses for on-duty employment, or a person who is under 18 years of age, unless such eyeglasses are made with case-hardened lenses, with lenses made of laminated glass, with lenses made of resin material, or with lenses made of any other material resistant to shattering and which shall not be
installed in frames manufactured of flammable material.
General ProvisionsEyeglasses
Section § 525
This law states that eyeglasses with regular lenses cannot be given, prescribed, or sold to certain people unless the lenses are specially made to resist breaking. This includes people who are blind in one eye, certain law enforcement officers, firefighters, and anyone under 18 years old. The glasses must have safe lenses like case-hardened, laminated, resin, or any other material that doesn't shatter easily, and they cannot have frames made from flammable materials.
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Section § 526
This law states that an optician, optometrist, or doctor won’t face disciplinary action for providing eyeglasses under certain conditions unless they know or are told that the glasses are for specific individuals, like minors, people with vision in just one eye, or certain public safety personnel such as police and firefighters. They don't have to independently check the person's job or whether they can see from only one eye.
A dispensing optician, optometrist, or physician and surgeon shall not be subject to disciplinary action under this article unless they are informed by the person obtaining the eyeglasses or they have personal knowledge that the eyeglasses are for a person whose sight is limited to one eye, a person who is a member of the California Highway Patrol or of a county sheriff’s office, a city police officer, or a firefighter employed by the fire department of a city, county, city and county, or fire protection district, or a person who is under 18 years of age.
A dispensing optician, optometrist, or physician and surgeon is not required under this article to make any independent investigation
of the occupation of the person for whom eyeglasses are intended or as to whether or not the sight of such person is limited to one eye.
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Section § 527
If a dispensing optician, optometrist, or doctor breaks the rules in this article, the board that gave them their license or certificate can take disciplinary action against them.
Any dispensing optician, optometrist, or physician and surgeon who violates this article is subject to disciplinary action by the board that issues their license, registration, or certificate to engage in practice.
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