Optometry Law
Tennessee · Professions Of The Healing Arts · §§ 63-8-101 to 63-8-129 · 29 sections
Overview
This act governs the practice of optometry, establishing a board of optometry and setting out its membership, qualifications, and authority to adopt regulations. It makes optometry a licensed profession, prescribing qualifications for licensure, examination and credentialing routes, renewal and retired status, and the fees that fund the system, and it defines the permitted scope of practice, including the use of pharmaceutical agents, removal of foreign bodies, limits on prescribing, and the sale of lenses and frames. Enforcement rests on stated grounds for disciplinary sanctions, license revocation, prohibited acts, and criminal penalties, with definitions and exemptions marking the outer bounds of what the act reaches.
Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.
In the courts
Sections of this act have been cited in 6 court decisions.
Most-cited authority: 403 F.3d 798 - Lenscrafters, Inc. v. Robinson
Sections covered
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 63-8-101Short title1 cite
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 63-8-102Chapter definitions1 cite
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 63-8-103Board of optometry — Created — Members — Terms
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 63-8-104Oath of board members
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 63-8-105Appointments to the board
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 63-8-106Removal of members of board
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 63-8-107Officers of board — Meetings — Examinations
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 63-8-108Quorum — Records of board
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 63-8-109Reports of board
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 63-8-110Compensation of board members
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 63-8-111Administrative support
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 63-8-112Powers of board — Examinations
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 63-8-113Unlawful practices — Advertising4 cites
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 63-8-114Exemptions
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 63-8-115Qualifications of applicants
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 63-8-116Display of certificate
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 63-8-117[Repealed.]
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 63-8-118Discrimination between ocular practitioners prohibited
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 63-8-119Annual registration — Continuing education
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 63-8-120Discipline of certificate holders
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 63-8-121Administrative procedures
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 63-8-122Penalties
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 63-8-123Regulation of laboratory practices of optometrists
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 63-8-124Public policy
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 63-8-125Lease between an optometrist and manufacturer, wholesaler or retailer of ophthalmic materials — Control of professional judgment or practice by lessor prohibited
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 63-8-126Drug prescriptions
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 63-8-127Prohibition against requirement of minimum purchase of ophthalmic materials as a condition of participation in vision or health care plan
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 63-8-128Inactive licenses to perform pro bono services
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 63-8-129[Repealed.]
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