TITLE 5
Businesses and Professions
CHAPTER 5-35.2
Opticians
SECTION 5-35.2-11
§ 5-35.2-11 Construction of glass lenses
violations penalty.
(a) No person shall distribute, sell, or delivery any eyeglasses or sunglasses
unless those eyeglasses or sunglasses are fitted with heat-treated glass
lenses, plastic lenses, laminated lenses, or lenses made impact resistant by
other methods. The provisions of this subsection do not apply if a physician or
optometrist, having found that those lenses will not fulfill the visual
requirements of a particular patient, directs, in writing, the use of other
lenses and gives written notification to the patient. Before they are mounted
in frames, all impact-resistant eyeglasses and sunglass lenses, except plastic
lenses, laminated lenses, and raised ledge multifocal lenses must withstand an
impact test of a steel ball five-eighths (5/8) of an inch in diameter weighing
approximately fifty-six hundredths of an ounce (0.56 oz) dropped from a height
of fifty inches (50"). Raised ledge multifocal lenses are capable of
withstanding the impact test but do not need to be tested beyond initial design
testing. To demonstrate that all plastic lenses and laminated lenses are
capable of withstanding the impact test, the manufacturer of the lenses shall
subject to the impact test a statistically significant sampling of lenses from
each production batch, and the tested lenses are representative of the finished
forms as worn by the wearer. Plastic prescription and plastic non-prescription
lenses, tested on the basis of statistical significance, may be tested in uncut
finished or semi-finished form at the point of original manufacture.
(b) Any person convicted of violating the provisions of this
section shall be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars
($500) for each violation.
History of Section.
(P.L. 2008, ch. 305, § 3; P.L. 2008, ch. 433, § 3.)
