Connecticut · statute · Conn. Gen. Stat. ch. 381 · 29 active provisions
The provisions of this chapter are enacted in the exercise of the police powers of the state, and the purposes thereof generally are to protect public health, welfare and safety. It is declared that regulation is required of all optical appliances, eyeglasses, lenses, optical instruments intended to be used for the hum…
(a) There shall be within the Department of Public Health a Connecticut Board of Examiners for Opticians. Said board shall consist of three members appointed by the Governor, subject to the provisions of section 4-9a, as follows: Two practicing licensed opticians in good professional standing who reside in this state a…
Section 20-140 is repealed.
All moneys received by the Department of Public Health under the provisions of this chapter shall be paid into the State Treasury to the credit of the General Fund.
(a) The Commissioner of Public Health, with advice and assistance from the Board of Examiners for Opticians, shall make regulations not inconsistent with law, and in conformity with the declared policy of this chapter, as may be necessary to govern the conduct of the business of dispensing or grinding optical glasses a…
Section 20-142 is repealed.
The Commissioner of Public Health may, from time to time, employ an inspector or inspectors, who shall inspect during usual business hours, licensees or optical permittees and places in which eyeglasses are sold or dispensed or ground in accordance with a given formula. Such inspectors shall report to said commissioner…
Section 20-144 is repealed.
A licensed optician, for the purposes of this chapter, shall be defined as follows: One having a knowledge of optics and skilled in the technique of producing and reproducing ophthalmic lenses and kindred products and mounting the same to supporting materials and the fitting of the same to the eyes.
(a) Except as provided in section 20-146a, no person shall produce or reproduce ophthalmic lenses and similar products or mount the same to supporting materials or fit the same by mechanical manipulation, molding techniques or other related functions, unless such person is licensed by the Department of Public Health. S…
Any inmate employed in an optical shop established and maintained by the Commissioner of Correction, as provided in section 18-88, shall be entitled to register as an apprentice with the Department of Public Health and shall receive credit for such period of employment towards fulfillment of the requirements for licens…
The department may, in its discretion, suspend any of the provisions of the statutes governing qualifications for examinations for opticians as to veterans of the Second World War and of the Korean hostilities, as defined by section 27-103, if said department deems such provisions to be unjust to such veterans, provide…
Notwithstanding any provisions of this chapter to the contrary, any student enrolled in an educational program in opticianry in a regionally accredited institution of higher education may (1) perform such work as is incidental to his course of study at such institution and (2) participate in the operation of any course…
Section 20-148 is repealed.
A license under the provisions of this chapter shall be given under the hand of the Commissioner of Public Health or the commissioner's designee. A fee shall be paid to the department, at the date of application for a license, as follows: For licensed optician, granting full responsibility, two hundred dollars. Such li…
(a) No optical glasses or kindred products or other instruments to aid vision that are produced or reproduced to personalized given formulas, or plano cosmetic contact lenses shall be sold at retail except under the direct supervision of a licensed optician and in a registered optical establishment, office or store. An…
(a) Any licensed optician and any optical department in any establishment, office or store may apply to the Department of Public Health for a registration certificate to sell at retail optical glasses and instruments from given formulas and to make and dispense reproductions of the same, in a shop, store, optical estab…
Section 20-152 is repealed.
The department may grant annually, upon the filing of an application as required by it, an optical permit to any optical establishment, office, department or store conducted under the personal and direct supervision of a licensed optician, for permission to sell, dispense or supply to the ultimate wearer optical aids t…
(a) No person shall sell, distribute or deliver any eyeglasses or sunglasses unless they are fitted with impact resistant lenses that fully meet the definitions, specifications, test procedures and tolerances for impact resistance and any exceptions provided for in the statement of policy of the federal Food and Drug A…
The Commissioner of Public Health, with advice and assistance from said board, may make regulations concerning the licensing of any optician, the granting of any permit to any optical department or the certification of any licensed optician, and the suspension or revocation of any such license or permit, or with refere…
Section 20-155 is repealed.
Any licensee or permittee aggrieved by a final decision of the board under section 19a-17 may appeal therefrom as provided in section 4-183, except such appeal shall be made returnable to the judicial district of New Britain.
Each person practicing as a licensed optician and each holder of an optical permit shall, at all times, conspicuously display his license or permit in the place in which he practices under such license or permit.
Each licensee or permittee licensed under the provisions of this chapter who rents, loans or allows the use of his permit or license to an unlicensed person for unlawful use shall be fined one hundred dollars and shall forfeit his license as such licensee or permittee.