SUMMARY--Authorizes registered pharmacist to sell or furnish prepackaged contact lenses under certain circumstances. (BDR 54-1665)
FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.
Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: No.
EXPLANATION - Matter in italics is new; matter in brackets [ ] is material to be omitted.
AN ACT relating to pharmacists; authorizing a registered pharmacist to sell or furnish a prepackaged contact lens under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1 NRS 639.2825 is hereby amended to read as follows:
639.2825 [It]
1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, it is unlawful for the holder of a certificate of registration [or] as a pharmacist, a certificate as an intern pharmacist, a license or a permit granted [under the provisions of] pursuant to this chapter to [dispense,] sell, furnish or fit [any cosmetic or therapeutic] a contact lens . [or any contact lens which is used to correct visual acuity.]
2. A registered pharmacist may, pursuant to a prescription, sell or furnish a prepackaged contact lens that does not require any adjustment, modification or fitting, if:
(a) The prescription includes an expiration date and sets forth the number of refills that the person for whom the contact lens is prescribed may receive; and
(b) The contact lens is not sold or furnished with the intent that the initial use of the contact lens will occur after the expiration date of the prescription.
3. As used in this section, "contact lens" includes, without limitation, any cosmetic or therapeutic contact lens or any contact lens that is used to improve visual acuity.
Sec. 2 This act becomes effective upon passage and approval.