525-527
BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE
SECTION 525-527
525. No dispensing optician, optometrist, or physician and surgeon shall dispense, prescribe, or sell any eyeglasses for use of a person whose sight is limited to one eye, a person who is a member of the California Highway Patrol or of a county sheriff's office, a city policeman, a person who is a fireman employed by the fire department of a city, county, or fire protection district and who normally wears such glasses for on-duty employment, or a person who is under 18 years of age, unless such eyeglasses are made with case-hardened lenses, with lenses made of laminated glass, with lenses made of resin material, or with lenses made of any other material resistant to shattering and which shall not be installed in frames manufactured of flammable material. 526. A dispensing optician, optometrist, or physician and surgeon shall not be subject to disciplinary action under this article unless he is informed by the person obtaining the eyeglasses, or of his own personal knowledge knows, that the eyeglasses are for a person whose sight is limited to one eye, a person who is a member of the California Highway Patrol or of a county sheriff's office, a city policeman, or a fireman employed by the fire department of a city, county, or fire protection district, or a person who is under 18 years of age. A dispensing optician, optometrist or physician and surgeon is not required under this article to make any independent investigation of the occupation of the person for whom eyeglasses are intended or as to whether or not the sight of such person is limited to one eye. 527. Any dispensing optician, optometrist, or physician and surgeon who violates this article is subject to disciplinary action by the board which issues his certificate to engage in practice.