A dispensing optician is a person who prepares duplications of, or prepares and dispenses lenses, spectacles, eyeglasses and/or appurtenances thereto to the intended wearers thereof on written prescriptions from physicians or optometrists, and in accordance with such prescriptions, measures, adapts, adjusts and fabricates such lenses, spectacles, eyeglasses and/or appurtenances thereto to the human face for the aid or correction of visual or ocular anomalies of the human eye: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That contact lenses may be fitted only upon a written prescription of a physician or optometrist.
RCW 18.34.060
Dispensing optician.
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case 28 Wash. App. 262 - Somer v. Woodhouse (1981)
Most recently applied in 92 Wash. App. 119 - McKenna v. Harrison Memorial Hospital (August 1998)
1957 c 43 s 6.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.