326.010 Definitions for chapter -- When prescriptions required

326.010 Definitions for chapter -- When prescriptions required.

As used in this chapter:

(1) "Board" means the "Kentucky Board of Ophthalmic Dispensers";

(2) "Ophthalmic dispensing" means that a person prepares and dispenses lenses,

spectacles, eyeglasses, or appurtenances thereto to the intended wearers on written

prescriptions from licensed physicians, osteopaths, or optometrists, and in

accordance with these prescriptions, interprets, measures, adapts, fits, and adjusts

the lenses, spectacles, eyeglasses, or appurtenances thereto to the human face for the

aid or correction of visual or ocular anomalies of the human eyes. The services and

appliances relating to ophthalmic dispensing shall be dispensed, furnished, or

supplied to the intended wearer or user only upon a written prescription issued by a

physician, osteopath, or optometrist. Duplications, replacements, reproductions, or

repetitions may be provided without prescriptions, but shall be construed to be

ophthalmic dispensing the same as if performed on the basis of an original written

prescription; and

(3) "Optical establishment" means any establishment where ophthalmic dispensing

services for the general public are offered, advertised, or performed. "Optical

establishment" shall not include any establishment that comes under the practice of

medicine by a duly licensed physician, the practice of osteopathy by a duly licensed

osteopath, or the practice of optometry by a duly licensed optometrist.