Tex. Occ. Code § 353.201 · Subchapter E. LIABILITY AND ENFORCEMENT
LIABILITY FOR USE OF PRESCRIPTION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A physician, optometrist, or therapeutic optometrist is not liable for a patient's subsequent use of a contact lens prescription if:
(1) the physician, optometrist, or therapeutic optometrist does not reexamine the patient; and
(2) the patient's condition, age, general health, and susceptibility to an adverse reaction caused by or related to the use of contact lenses or other factors result in the patient no longer being a proper candidate for the contact lens prescribed.
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.353.htm
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