| (a) Texas Optometry Act, §351.364, relating to
relationships with dispensing opticians, states: The purpose of this
section is to insure that the practice of optometry or therapeutic
optometry shall be carried out in such a manner that it is completely
and totally separated from the business of any dispensing optician,
with no control of one by the other and no solicitation for one by
the other.
(b) It is therefore the interpretation of this Board
that an optometrist or therapeutic optometrist practicing under his
own name and dispensing, repairing, or duplicating lenses and/or frames
in his own office as part of his optometric practice would not be
required to keep separate records or books by virtue of the fact that
it is all part of his practice of optometry and not a separate dispensing
business.
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