Virginia Administrative Code (Last Updated: January 10, 2017) |
Title 18. Professional and Occupational Licensing |
Agency 105. Board of Optometry |
Chapter 20. Regulations Governing the Practice of Optometry |
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.