Responsibility to Client, Prescription Files and Transfer  

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    DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

    Board of Opticianry

    RULE NOS.: RULE TITLES:

    64B12-10.003 Responsibility to Client

    64B12-10.006 Prescription Files and Transfer

    NOTICE OF CHANGE

    Notice is hereby given that the following additional changes have been made to the proposed rules in accordance with subparagraph 120.54(3)(d)1., F.S., published in Vol. 31, No. 27, of the July 8, 2005, issue of the Florida Administrative Weekly.

    The changes are in response to written comments submitted by the staff of the Joint Administrative Procedures Committee (JAPC). The Board, at its meeting on November 11, 2005, voted to change the rules to address the comments submitted by JAPC. The changes are as follows:

    1. The first sentence of Rule 64B12-10.003, F.A.C., shall be reworded to read as follows: An optician shall give due notice to the client when going out of business so that the client may make other arrangements for replacement services.

    2. The first sentence of Rule 64B12-10.006, F.A.C., shall be reworded to read as follows: Prescription files which are 2 years old or less when the optician dies, terminates the practice, or relocates and is no longer available to the patients, shall be transferred to a location where they may be obtained by clients.”

    THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE IS: Sue Foster, Executive Director, Board of Opticianry, 4052 Bald Cypress Way, Bin #C08, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-3258