Tex. Occ. Code § 351.455 · Subchapter J. PROHIBITED PRACTICES BY LICENSE HOLDER
PRACTICE PROHIBITED FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person may not practice optometry or therapeutic optometry from house to house or on the streets or highways, notwithstanding any laws for the licensing of peddlers.
(b) Subsection (a) does not prohibit an optometrist, therapeutic optometrist, or licensed physician from attending, prescribing for, or providing eyeglasses or ophthalmic lenses to a person:
(1) who, because of illness or physical or mental infirmity, is confined to the place the person resides; or
(2) in response to an unsolicited request or call for those services.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Source of truth
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- 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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