Title 20, Title 20: Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification, Title Protection and Registration. Examining Boards

Sec. 20-141. Powers and duties of board and commissioner. (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 …

Sec. 20-142. Meetings of commission. Section 20-142 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 4519; P.A. 80-484, S. 175, 176.)

Sec. 20-143. Commissioner may employ inspectors. Duties of inspectors. 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 so…

Sec. 20-144. Compensation and expenses of commission. Executive secretary. Section 20-144 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 4521; 1959, P.A. 616, S. 50.)

Sec. 20-145. Definition of licensed optician. 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 sam…

Sec. 20-146. Licensed opticians; examinations, continuing education requirements. Licensure without examination. (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…

Sec. 20-146a. Registration of inmates as apprentices. Credit toward licensure. 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 …

Sec. 20-147. Waiver of requirements in case of veterans. 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 b…

Sec. 20-147a. Students enrolled in opticianry programs. 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 incident…

Sec. 20-148. Qualifications of assistant licensed opticians and assistant mechanical opticians. Section 20-148 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 4510; P.A. 77-614, S. 419, 610; P.A. 80-484, S. 175, 176.)

Sec. 20-149. License fees. Renewal. 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 l…

Sec. 20-150. Where optical goods may be sold. Exception. Unfair trade practice. (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 e…

Sec. 20-151. Optical selling permits. (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 t…

Sec. 20-152. Optical retail vendor permit. Section 20-152 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 4506; 1959, P.A. 616, S. 51; June, 1971, P.A. 8, S. 59; 1972, P.A. 223, S. 6; P.A. 77-614, S. 422, 610; P.A. 80-484, S. 175, 176.)

Sec. 20-153. Optical permit. Product; standards of quality. 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…

Sec. 20-153a. Lens and frame requirements. (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 an…

Sec. 20-154. Regulations concerning licenses and permits. Disciplinary action; grounds. 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 departme…

Sec. 20-155. Complaints concerning license or permit holders. Section 20-155 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 4513; P.A. 77-614, S. 425, 610; P.A. 80-484, S. 64, 176; P.A. 81-471, S. 70, 71.)

Sec. 20-156. Appeal. 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. (1949 Rev., S. 4514; 1971, P.A. 1…

Sec. 20-157. License and permit to be conspicuously displayed. 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. (194…

Sec. 20-158. Restricted use of 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…

Sec. 20-159. Apprentices to register; certification by employer. Each person entering into employment in an optical office, store or establishment for the purpose of obtaining practical experience and skill required under the provisions of this chapter shall register as an appren…

Sec. 20-160. Deceptive ownership or management of optical establishments. Misuse of designations. Any person, firm or corporation, owning, managing or conducting any store, shop or place of business, not holding an optical permit or an optician's license, or not having in his or …

Sec. 20-161. Penalty. Any person who violates any provision of this chapter, for the violation of which no other penalty has been provided, shall be guilty of a class D felony. For the purposes of this section, each instance of patient contact or consultation which is in violatio…

Sec. 20-162. Exceptions for certified optometrists and physicians and surgeons. The provisions of this chapter shall not be construed to apply to certified optometrists licensed to practice under the provisions of chapter 380 nor to deny to physicians or surgeons particularly tra…