NAC637.144. Requirements for managing ophthalmic dispensing.

     1. A person who manages a business engaged in ophthalmic dispensing:

     (a) Must be a dispensing optician or a dispensing optician with a limited license;

     (b) Is responsible for supervising the ophthalmic dispensing and the consulting on optical fashions conducted at the business engaged in ophthalmic dispensing; and

     (c) Must, within 10 days after becoming the ophthalmic manager of the business, notify the Board, in writing, that he or she is the ophthalmic manager.

     2. Each ophthalmic dispensing area of a business engaged in ophthalmic dispensing must have an ophthalmic manager as described in subsection 1 who makes decisions that concern ophthalmic dispensing and a business manager who makes decisions that do not concern ophthalmic dispensing, except that the ophthalmic manager and the business manager may be the same person. The ophthalmic manager must have ultimate authority with respect to any matter relating to ophthalmic dispensing governed by the provisions of this chapter or chapter 637 of NRS, and the decision of the ophthalmic manager with respect to any such matter may not be superseded by the business manager.

     3. An apprentice dispensing optician shall not:

     (a) Act as a person who manages a business engaged in ophthalmic dispensing; or

     (b) Under any circumstances act in such a manner as to supersede the authority or any decision of a dispensing optician or a dispensing optician with a limited license.

     4. As used in this section, “person who manages a business engaged in ophthalmic dispensing” means the person who is in charge of the ophthalmic dispensing area of such a business. The term does not include the general manager of a retail establishment who is not in charge of ophthalmic dispensing.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Dispensing Opt. by R108-04, eff. 12-1-2004; A by R113-06, 6-28-2006; R201-07, 4-17-2008; R043-10, 6-30-2010)