Alaska Stat. § 08.72.110
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(a) Except for the practice of routine services of optometry delegated under AS 08.72.050 (7), a person may not practice, attempt to practice, or offer to practice optometry without first obtaining a license from the board.
(b) Except for the practice of routine services of optometry delegated under AS 08.72.050 (7), a person not licensed as an optometrist may not fit, sell, or dispose of or take, receive, or solicit an order for fitting, sale, or disposition of spectacles, eyeglasses, or lenses for the correction or relief of an optical or visual defect of the human eye or sell spectacles, eyeglasses, or lenses from house to house, or in the streets or highways. This chapter does not apply to the sale of toy glasses, goggles consisting of plano-white or plano-colored lenses or ordinary colored glasses, or complete ready-made spectacles and eyeglasses sold only as merchandise, or the sale or repair of eyeglass frames, or repair or replacement of lenses without pretense of adapting them to the eyes.
(b) Except for the practice of routine services of optometry delegated under AS 08.72.050 (7), a person not licensed as an optometrist may not fit, sell, or dispose of or take, receive, or solicit an order for fitting, sale, or disposition of spectacles, eyeglasses, or lenses for the correction or relief of an optical or visual defect of the human eye or sell spectacles, eyeglasses, or lenses from house to house, or in the streets or highways. This chapter does not apply to the sale of toy glasses, goggles consisting of plano-white or plano-colored lenses or ordinary colored glasses, or complete ready-made spectacles and eyeglasses sold only as merchandise, or the sale or repair of eyeglass frames, or repair or replacement of lenses without pretense of adapting them to the eyes.
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