NRS 637.200 Unlawful acts.

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NRS 637.200 Unlawful acts. The following acts constitute misdemeanors, unless a greater penalty is provided pursuant to NRS 200.830 or 200.840 :

1. The insertion of a false or misleading statement in any advertising in connection with the business of ophthalmic dispensing.

2. Making use of any advertising statement of a character tending to indicate to the public the superiority of a particular system or type of eyesight examination or treatment.

3. Furnishing or advertising the furnishing of the services of a refractionist, optometrist, physician or surgeon.

4. Changing the prescription of a lens without an order from a person licensed to issue such a prescription.

5. Filling a prescription in violation of the expiration date or, for a prescription for a contact lens, in violation of the number of refills specified by the prescription. A prescription shall be deemed to have an expiration date of 2 years after the date on which the prescription was issued, unless the practitioner who wrote the prescription includes on the prescription a different period.

6. Holding oneself out to the public, either verbally or in writing, to be an optician, a dispensing optician or an apprentice dispensing optician without holding a valid and active license issued pursuant to this chapter.

7. Failing to comply with a citation or order issued pursuant to this chapter after the citation or order is final.

8. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 637.026 , violating any provision of this chapter.