N.C. Gen. Stat. § 8-53.9
Optometrist/patient privilege
North Carolina · North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 8 — Chapter 8. · Status: effective
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- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 8-53.9, Optometrist/patient privilege, North Carolina, version 1 as recorded 2026-08-18, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/1306642
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Optometrist/patient privilege. No person licensed pursuant to Article 6 of Chapter 90 of the General Statutes shall be required to disclose any information that may have been acquired in rendering professional optometric services and which information was necessary to enable that person to render professional optometric services, except that the presiding judge of a superior or district court may compel this disclosure, if, in the court's opinion, disclosure is necessary to a proper administration of justice and disclosure is not prohibited by other statute or rule. (1997-75, s. 4; 1997-304, 3.)