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being employed by the University of Florida Shands Hospital’s Department of Ophtalmology to work at its sister hospital, the non-for-profit Shands Rehabilitation in Gainesville, Florida. The petition includes a request that the Board issue a Declaratory Statement providing guidance as to whether in relation to the Petitioner being able to sell low vision devices to patients such employment mentioned above would be consistent with the provisions of Chapter 463, F.S., and Section 463.014, F.S., or in the alternative, if Petitioner decided to work instead as an independent contractor corporation renting space from the facilities mentioned above, whether there would be a conflict of interest if the patients would see both the Petitioner and the OT employed by the Shands Rehabilitation Hospital mentioned above.