(a) Except as expressly provided otherwise in this chapter, nothing in this chapter shall apply to persons who sell glasses, spectacles, lenses, frames, mountings, or prisms at wholesale on individual prescriptions to licensed optometrists, physicians, or dispensing opticians, nor shall it prohibit the sale of ready-made eyeglasses and spectacles when sold as merchandise at any established place of business where no attempt is made to practice optometry or opticianry.(b) Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit an employee of an Arkansas-licensed optometrist or an Arkansas-licensed physician skilled in disease of the eye from performing any of the acts described in § 17-89-102(4) when the acts are performed in the office of an Arkansas-licensed optometrist or an Arkansas-licensed physician skilled in disease of the eye. The employees are not required to be registered or licensed under the provisions of this chapter.(c) The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to licensed optometrists or physicians skilled in disease of the eye, except as stated in this chapter. It is the specific intent of the General Assembly that this subsection supplement, not repeal, existing acts of metrists or physicians skilled in disease of the eye, except as stated in this chapter. It is the specific intent of the General Assembly that this subsection supplement, not repeal, existing acts of Arkansas.Acts 1981, No. 589, §§ 17, 21, 23; A.S.A. 1947, §§ 72-2117, 72-2121, 72-2123.
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