GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1985 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 748

SENATE BILL 594

 

AN ACT TO AMEND THE REQUIREMENTS FOR FILLING CONTACT LENS PRESCRIPTIONS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 90-236.1 is amended by adding a new paragraph at the end to read:

"Any person, firm or corporation dispensing, furnishing or supplying contact lenses in interstate commerce or at retail to recipients in this State, other than a practitioner licensed under Article 1 or Article 6 of this Chapter, is deemed a 'dispensing optician' under G.S. 90-235 and is subject to the provisions of this Article."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 15th day of July, 1985.