Section 5. Definitions  


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  • The following words and terms when used in this chapter shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

    "Board" means the Virginia Board of Optometry.

    "NBEO" means the National Board of Examiners in Optometry.

    "TPA" means therapeutic pharmaceutical agents.

    "TPA certification" means authorization by the Virginia Board of Optometry for an optometrist to treat diseases and abnormal conditions of the human eye and its adnexa and to prescribe and administer certain therapeutic pharmaceutical agents.

Historical Notes

Derived from Volume 22, Issue 04, eff. November 30, 2005; amended, Virginia Register Volume 22, Issue 20, eff. July 12, 2006.

Statutory Authority

§§ 54.1-2400 and 54.1-3223 of the Code of Virginia.