Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1068 – Criminal penalties
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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1068
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Optometry: means that practice in which a person employs primary eye care procedures including ophthalmic surgery such as YAG laser capsulotomy, laser peripheral iridotomy, and laser trabeculoplasty, except for those surgery procedures specifically excluded in Subsection D of this Section; measures the powers and range of vision of the human eye using subjective or objective means, including the use of lenses and prisms before the eye and autorefractors or other automated testing devices to determine its accommodative and refractive state and general scope of function; and the adaptation, sale, and dispensing of frames and lenses in all their forms, including plano or zero power contact lenses, to overcome errors of refraction and restore as near as possible, normal human vision, or for orthotic, prosthetic, therapeutic, or cosmetic purposes with respect to contact lenses. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1041
Whoever violates any provision of this Chapter shall be enjoined from the practice of optometry and may:
(1) On first conviction, be fined not less than three hundred dollars nor more than two thousand dollars, and shall be imprisoned for not less than thirty days nor more than one hundred fifty days.
(2) On a second or subsequent conviction, regardless of whether the first offense occurred before or after the first conviction, be fined not less than six hundred dollars nor more than five thousand dollars, and shall be imprisoned for not less than ninety days nor more than one hundred fifty days.
Added by Acts 1982, No. 677, §1; Acts 2006, No. 596, §1.