Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia
Department 420 - GEORGIA STATE BOARD OF DISPENSING OPTICIANS
Chapter 420-6 - DEFINITIONS
Rule 420-6-.01 - Dispensing Opticians
Current through Rules and Regulations filed through March 20, 2024
(1) A "dispensing optician" is anyone who prepares, fits and dispenses prescription lenses, spectacles, eyeglasses, contact lenses, or any other type of vision-correcting optical device to the intended user.
(2) A person will be considered as within this definition who does any one or a combination of the following practices:
(3) Although the Act does not require licensing of those lab opticians or persons who perform merely mechanical work upon inert materials in an optical office or laboratory, it does anticipate that dispensing opticians will, in addition to the above skills, have a basic knowledge of these laboratory techniques. The responsibility to the public for correct grinding and lens preparation, etc., is placed in the hands of the dispensing optician or fitter, and this is the person the Act seeks to control by requiring that he be qualified and licensed.
Ga. L. 1956, pp. 148, 149; Ga. L. 1968, p. 1360.