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# O.C.G.A. § 43-29-2. Definitions.

As used in this chapter, the term:

(1) “Board” means the State Board of Dispensing Opticians.

(2) “Dispensing optician” means, subject to Code Section 43-29-18, an individual who is duly licensed to prepare and dispense lenses, spectacles, eyeglasses, contact lenses, and optical devices to the intended user thereof as specifically directed or authorized on the written prescription of a physician skilled in diseases of the eye or an optometrist duly licensed to practice his profession.

## History

Ga. L. 1956, p. 148, § 2; Ga. L. 1981, p. 1378, § 1.