As Amended
SEC. 73-19-1. Practice of optometry defined.
The practice of optometry is defined to be the application of optical principles, through technical methods and devices in the examination of human eyes for the purpose of ascertaining departures from the normal, measuring their functional powers and adapting optical accessories for the aid thereof. The practice of optometry shall include the prescribing and use of therapeutic pharmaceutical agents by optometrists certified under Sections 73-19-153 through 73-19-165. The practice of optometry shall not include the performing of any invasive surgery including laser surgery, but shall not preclude the removal of superficial foreign bodies from the eye or other noninvasive procedures. Nothing in this section or any other provision of law shall be construed to prohibit optometrists who have been certified under Sections 73-19-153 through 73-19-165 from providing postophthalmic surgical or clinical care and management with the advice and consultation of the operating or treating physician.
SOURCES: Codes, Hemingway's 1921 Supp. Sec. 6124a; 1930, Sec. 5652; 1942, Sec. 8832; Laws, 1920, ch. 217; reenacted, 1983, ch. 438, Sec. 1; reenacted, 1991, ch. 303, Sec. 1; 1994, ch. 573, Sec. 10, eff from and after July 1, 1994