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10 entriesSection 2540Prohibits anyone other than a physician and surgeon or optometrist from measuring the powers or range of human vision, determining the accommodative…Section 2541Defines a prescription ophthalmic device to include physician- or optometrist-ordered spectacles or contact lenses that change the eye’s visual powers, federally described…Section 2541.1Requires spectacle prescriptions to identify lens power or permitted current-lens notation, issue and expiration dates, prescriber, and patient. Sets expiration at two…Section 2541.2Requires contact-lens prescriptions to last one to two years, except clinical circumstances may require earlier reexamination and never shorter than the recommended…Section 2541.3Requires public-health and licensing authorities to adopt prescription-ophthalmic-device quality standards using current American National Standards Institute standards, while allowing equivalent or stricter…Section 2541.6Prohibits use of state funds to purchase any prescription ophthalmic device that fails to meet standards adopted under the referenced provision by…Section 2542Requires a registered dispensing optician to dispense contact lenses, including plano lenses, only under a valid physician or optometrist prescription and that…Section 2543Limits retail dispensing, selling, or furnishing prescription ophthalmic devices to licensed physicians, optometrists, and registered dispensing opticians, except under the Nonresident Ophthalmic…Section 2544Allows supervised optometry or ophthalmology assistants to fit prescription lenses and perform listed testing, imaging, measurements, and medication administration. Preliminary subjective refraction…Section 2545Allows the California State Board of Optometry, Medical Board of California, Osteopathic Medical Board of California, Attorney General, or district attorney to…