The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XXXII
REGULATION OF PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS

Chapter 484
DISPENSING OF OPTICAL DEVICES AND HEARING AIDS

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F.S. 484.006

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.

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Amendments to 484.006

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 484.006

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 484.006.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

COLE VISION CORPORATION v. DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION, BOARD OF OPTOMETRY,, 688 So. 2d 404 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1997)

. . . Section 484.006(2), Florida Statutes (1993), provides: “No rule or policy of the board shall prohibit . . . Section 484.006(2) does not conflict with sections 463.014(l)(a) and (b) because chapter 484 concerns . . . Sections 463.014(l)(a) and (b) and section 484.006(2), when read together, mean that, while optometrists . . . The appellants’ reliance on section 484.006(2) as authorizing retail optical establishments to practice . . . “jointly” with an optometrist is misplaced because section 484.006(2) concerns opticians, not optical . . .

UNITED STATES SHOE CORPORATION, PRECISIONS LENSCRAFTERS DIVISION v. DEPARTMENT OF PROFESSIONAL REGULATION, BOARD OPTICIANRY,, 578 So. 2d 376 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1991)

. . . On the other hand, Section 484.006 makes it clear that the rulemaking power granted in Section 484.005 . . .