SECTION 505:10-5-1. Minimum standard of sanitation, hygiene and professional surroundings

  In order to establish a minimum standard of sanitation, hygiene and professional surroundings of and for optometric offices in this State, the Board of Optometry of Oklahoma, acting under authority of Subdivision "E", Section 3, House Bill No. 307 of the Sixteenth Legislature of Oklahoma, does hereby prescribe the following rules and regulations, to-wit:

(1)   All optometric offices, including instruments and equipment, contained therein, in this State, must at all times be kept clean and free from any condition or surroundings that will make or tend to make same unsanitary or unhygienic.

(2)   The Patient 's entrance to each optometric office in this state shall open on a public street, hall, lobby or corridor.

(3)   Every optometrist practicing his profession in this state must have available in his office for examination of the human eye the following minimum equipment, to-wit: an Ophthalmoscope, a Retinoscope, a Keratometer, a Refractor, or their equivalent and an instrument for recording visual fields. Every such examination must be made in an optometric office, such as is referred to in (1) and (2) of this Section, and in a room of such office used exclusively for the practice of optometry. Provided, that if a person desiring optometric services informed an Optometrist that by reason of sickness, or other cause, he or she is confined to his or her place of abode, said optometrist may make an examination at the place of abode of said person. Provided, further, that said optometrist must have available at said place of abode for said examination, the following minimum equipment, to-wit: an Opthalmoscope, a Retinoscope, or their equivalent, a reliable astigmatic test and a reliable trial frame suitable for muscular test.

(4)   No Optometrist shall practice Optometry in a room or part of a room occupied in whole or in part by a wholesale or retail mercantile establishment, or maintain an optometric office therein, or in connection therewith.

[Source: Amended at 11 Ok Reg 4167, eff 6-29-94 (emergency); Amended at 12 Ok Reg 1803, eff 6-12-95; Amended at 19 Ok Reg 2978, eff 9-13-02; Amended at 34 Ok Reg 1876, eff 9-11-17]