Okla. Stat. tit. 56, § 56-199
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Whenever visual or optometric services within the lawful scope
of practice of a duly licensed optometrist are included in any
program financed with public funds or administered by any public
agency, for aid to the indigent, the aged, the legally blind, or any
other group or class, the recipient of such aid or his parent or
guardian shall be entitled to choose whether such services are to be
performed by a duly licensed optometrist or by a duly licensed
physician who shall be equally compensated. Visual or optometric
services as used herein shall include eye and/or visual examination
or a correction of any vision or muscular anomaly and the supplying
of ophthalmic materials, including contact lenses and subnormal
vision aids. And in the expenditure of public funds for any purpose
involving the care of human vision, or in the administration of any
public program, the public agency and its employees including school
districts and other state, county and municipal agencies or any
subdivision of the State of Oklahoma and its employees and agents
responsible for such expenditures or services shall not, under any
circumstances, in informing a person requiring vision care, or for a
correction of any vision or muscular anomaly, either directly or
indirectly refer such person to any particular health discipline,
but shall merely advise such person the need exists for professional
services.
Whenever visual or optometric services within the lawful scope
of practice of a duly licensed optometrist are included in any
program financed with public funds or administered by any public
agency, for aid to the indigent, the aged, the legally blind, or any
other group or class, the recipient of such aid or his parent or
guardian shall be entitled to choose whether such services are to be
performed by a duly licensed optometrist or by a duly licensed
physician who shall be equally compensated. Visual or optometric
services as used herein shall include eye and/or visual examination
or a correction of any vision or muscular anomaly and the supplying
of ophthalmic materials, including contact lenses and subnormal
vision aids. And in the expenditure of public funds for any purpose
involving the care of human vision, or in the administration of any
public program, the public agency and its employees including school
districts and other state, county and municipal agencies or any
subdivision of the State of Oklahoma and its employees and agents
responsible for such expenditures or services shall not, under any
circumstances, in informing a person requiring vision care, or for a
correction of any vision or muscular anomaly, either directly or
indirectly refer such person to any particular health discipline,
but shall merely advise such person the need exists for professional
services.
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