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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2538.54
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2538.54
Except as otherwise provided in this article, an expired license may be renewed at any time within three years after its expiration on filing of an application for renewal on a form prescribed by the board, and payment of all accrued and unpaid renewal fees. If the license is ren
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2538.55
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2538.55
A license which has been suspended is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article but such renewal does not entitle the holder of the license, while it remains suspended and until it is reinstated, to engage in the fitting or selling of hearing aids, or
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2538.56
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2538.56
A license that is not renewed within three years after its expiration may not be renewed, restored, reissued, or reinstated thereafter, but the holder of the expired license may apply for and obtain a new license if all of the following apply: (a) They have not committed acts or
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2538.57
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2538.57
The amount of fees and penalties prescribed by this article shall be those set forth in this section unless a lower fee is fixed by the board: (a) The fee for applicants applying for the first time for a license is seventy-five dollars ($75), which shall not be refunded, except t
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2538.7
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2538.7
(a) No person who is not registered as a speech-language pathology assistant shall utilize the title speech-language pathology assistant or a similar title that includes the words speech or language when combined with the term assistant. (b) No person who is not registered as a s
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2539.1
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2539.1
(a) (1) On and after January 1, 2010, in addition to satisfying the licensure and examination requirements described in Sections 2532, 2532.2, and 2532.25, no licensed audiologist shall sell hearing aids unless they complete an application for a dispensing audiology license, pay
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2539.10
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2539.10
A licensed dispensing audiologist shall, upon the consummation of a sale of a hearing aid, keep and maintain records in the licensed dispensing audiologist’s office or place of business at all times and each such record shall be kept and maintained for a seven-year period. These
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2539.12
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2539.12
A licensed audiologist who is the owner, manager, or franchisee at a location where hearing aids are fit or sold, shall be responsible for the adequacy of the fitting or selling of any hearing aid fit and sold by any licensee or licensees at that location.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2539.14
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2539.14
The provisions of subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 2538.11 and the provisions of Section 2538.12 do not apply to a licensed audiologist who satisfies the requirements of Section 2539.1.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2539.2
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2539.2
(a) Hearing aids may be sold by catalog or direct mail provided that: (1) The seller is licensed as an audiologist in this state and is authorized to sell hearing aids pursuant to Section 2539.1. (2) There is no fitting, selection, or adaptation of the instrument and no advice is
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2539.4
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2539.4
(a) To the extent not inconsistent with federal law, a licensed dispensing audiologist shall, before the consummation of a sale of a hearing aid that uses proprietary programming software or locked, nonproprietary programming software, provide the purchaser with a written notice
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2539.6
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2539.6
(a) Whenever any of the following conditions are found to exist either from observations by the licensed audiologist or on the basis of information furnished by the prospective hearing aid user, a licensed audiologist shall, prior to fitting or selling a hearing aid to any indivi
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2539.8
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2539.8
No hearing aid shall be sold by an individual licensed as an audiologist under this chapter to a person 16 years of age or younger, unless within the preceding six months a recommendation for a hearing aid has been made by both a board-certified, or a board-eligible physician spe
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2540
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2540
No person other than a physician and surgeon or optometrist may measure the powers or range of human vision or determine the accommodative and refractive status of the human eye or the scope of its functions in general or prescribe ophthalmic devices.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2541
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2541
A prescription ophthalmic device includes each of the following: (a) Any spectacle or contact lens ordered by a physician and surgeon or optometrist, that alters or changes the visual powers of the human eye. (b) Any contact lens described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (n) of S
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2541.1
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2541.1
(a) A spectacle lens prescription shall include all of the following: (1) The dioptric power of the lens. When the prescription needed by the patient has not changed since the previous examination, the prescriber may write on the prescription form “copy lenses currently worn” ins
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2541.2
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2541.2
(a) (1) The expiration date of a contact lens prescription shall not be less than one year and shall not exceed two years from the date of issuance, unless the patient’s history or current circumstances establish a reasonable probability of changes in the patient’s vision of suff
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2541.3
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2541.3
(a) The State Department of Public Health, the California State Board of Optometry, and the Medical Board of California shall prepare and adopt quality standards and adopt regulations relating to prescription ophthalmic devices, including, but not limited to, lenses, frames, and
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2541.6
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2541.6
No prescription ophthalmic device that does not meet the standards adopted by the State Department of Public Health, the California State Board of Optometry, the Medical Board of California, or the Osteopathic Medical Board of California under Section 2541.3 shall be purchased wi
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2542
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2542
A registered dispensing optician shall dispense contact lenses, including plano contact lenses, only on the valid prescription of a physician and surgeon or optometrist, and acting on the advice, direction, and responsibility of the physician and surgeon or optometrist. The regis
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2543
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2543
(a) Except as provided in the Nonresident Ophthalmic Lens Dispenser Registration Act (Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 2564.70)), the right to dispense, sell, or furnish prescription ophthalmic devices at retail or to the person named in a prescription is limited exclusively
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2544
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2544
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an assistant in any setting where optometry or ophthalmology is practiced who is acting under the direct responsibility and supervision of an optometrist or a physician and surgeon may fit prescription lenses. Under the direct respo
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2545
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2545
(a) Whenever a person or corporation has engaged, or is about to engage, in any acts or practices which constitute, or will constitute, an offense against this chapter, the superior court in and for the county wherein the acts or practices take place, or are about to take place,
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2550
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2550
For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (a) “Adjust” and “adjusting” includes the following acts, either singly or in combination with others: adapting or manipulation of the ophthalmic device to fit the face of the consumer, pursuant and incidental t
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2550.1
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2550.1
The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to an individual who is acting under the direct responsibility and supervision of a physician and surgeon or optometrist, pursuant to Section 2544, in any setting where optometry or ophthalmology is practiced.