Prescriptions - requirement to advise patients.

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(1) An optometrist licensed under this article 275 may advise the optometrist's patients of their option to have the symptom or purpose for which a prescription is being issued included on the prescription order.

(2) An optometrist's failure to advise a patient under subsection (1) of this section shall not be grounds for any disciplinary action against the optometrist's professional license issued under this article 275.

Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1419, § 1, effective October 1.

Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 12-40-109.7 as it existed prior to 2019.


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