449.18 Removals from eyes; use of therapeutic pharmaceuticals.
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449.18 Removals from eyes; use of therapeutic pharmaceuticals.
(1)Applicability. No optometrist may use therapeutic pharmaceutical agents or remove foreign bodies from an eye or from an appendage to the eye unless one of the following applies:
(a)The examining board initially issues a license to practice optometry to the optometrist on or after August 1, 2006.
(b)The department issued a certificate to the optometrist under s. 449.18 , 2003 stats.
(c)The examining board issues a certificate under sub.
(2)to an optometrist issued a license to practice optometry before August 1, 2006.
(2)Licenses issued before august 1, 2006.
(a)The examining board shall certify an optometrist to use therapeutic pharmaceutical agents and remove foreign bodies from an eye or from an appendage to the eye if the optometrist was issued a license to practice optometry before August 1, 2006, and the optometrist satisfies all of the following:
1. The optometrist is certified under s. 449.17 , 2003 stats., or s. 449.17
(a)to use topical ocular diagnostic pharmaceutical agents.