Anthony D. Record, a Florida licensed optician, filed on February 3, 2009.; Specifically: (1) Under this section, can an optician tell a customer to pick out any frame and the optician would make a pair of +2.50s?; (2) At the patient’s request, ...

 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Board of Opticianry

The Board of Opticianry hereby gives notice that it has received a petition for Declaratory Statement, filed on February 3, 2009, by Anthony D. Record, a Florida licensed optician. The Petitioner seeks the Board’s guidance regarding several issues relating to Section 484.006(3), Florida Statutes. Specifically: (1) Under this section, can an optician tell a customer to pick out any frame and the optician would make a pair of +2.50s?; (2) At the patient’s request, could the optician make a pair of +2.50s, customizing them with the patient’s PD?; and (3) At the patient’s request, can an optician make and sell reading glasses to a potential customer who wants +2.00 for the right eye and +2.75 for the left eye?

The Board will address this Petition at its next meeting.

Comments on this petition should be filed with: Board of Opticianry, 4052 Bald Cypress Way, Bin #C08, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-3258, within 14 days of publication of this notice.

For a copy of the petition, contact: Sue Foster, Executive Director, at the above address or telephone [phone].