22 Tex. Admin. Code § 279.12 - Relationship with Dispensing Optician - Separation of Offices
(a) The Texas Optometry Act,
§351.364(a), requires that the space occupied by the optometrist or
therapeutic optometrist shall be separated from the space occupied by the
dispensing optician by solid partitions or walls from floor to ceiling. The
intent of the Texas Legislature in passing §351.364 is specifically
spelled out in §351.364(d) and is to insure that the practices of
optometry and therapeutic optometry shall be carried out in such a manner that
they are completely and totally separated from the business of any dispensing
optician.
(b) In light of the
overriding legislative intent in passing §351.364 that the practices of
optometry and therapeutic optometry be completely and totally separate from the
business of any dispensing optician, it is the interpretation of the Board that
§351.364(a), set forth in subsection (a) of this section, prohibits the
space occupied by an optometrist or therapeutic optometrist and space occupied
by a dispensing optician from being joined by a wall in which there is a door,
either locked or unlocked.
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