Washington Administrative Code
Title 246 - Health, Department of
PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS AND LICENSING
Chapter 246-851 - Optometrists
FACILITIES AND PRACTICE MANAGEMENT STANDARDS
Section 246-851-320 - Doctor of optometry presumed responsible for advertisements
Every licensed doctor of optometry whose name or office address or place of practice appears or is mentioned in any advertisement of any kind or character shall be presumed to have caused, allowed, permitted, approved, and sanctioned such advertising and shall be presumed to be personally responsible for the content and character thereof. Once sufficient evidence of the advertisement's existence has been introduced at any administrative hearing before the board of optometry, the burden of proof to rebut this presumption by a preponderance of the evidence shall be upon the doctor of optometry.
Statutory Authority: RCW 18.54.070. 91-06-025 (Order 119B), recodified as § 246-851-320, filed 2/26/91, effective 3/29/91; Order PL-271, § 308-53-240, filed 7/25/77.