Tex. Occ. Code § 351.401 · Subchapter I. PROHIBITED PRACTICES IN GENERAL
PROHIBITED OFFER, REPRESENTATION, OR DESIGNATION.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
Unless a person is licensed to practice under this chapter, the person may not:
(1) offer to practice optometry or therapeutic optometry;
(2) represent to others that the person is authorized to practice optometry or therapeutic optometry; or
(3) use in connection with the person's name a designation implying that the person practices optometry or therapeutic optometry.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.351.htm
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- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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