Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 102 — Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers
§ 7606. Prohibition of certain waivers
Statutory text
A prescriber may not place on the prescription, or require the patient to sign, or deliver to the patient a form or notice waiving or disclaiming the liability or responsibility of the prescriber for the accuracy of the eye examination. The preceding sentence does not impose liability on a prescriber for the ophthalmic goods and services dispensed by another seller pursuant to the prescriber’s correctly verified prescription.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act
Pub. L. 108–164 § 7 · 117 Stat. 2025
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 7606
(Pub. L. 108–164, § 7, Dec. 6, 2003, 117 Stat. 2026.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 108–164, § 7, Dec. 6, 2003, 117 Stat. 2026.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 7. PROHIBITION OF CERTAIN WAIVERS. A prescriber may not place on the prescription, or require the patient to sign, or deliver to the patient a form or notice waiving or disclaiming the liability or responsibility of the prescriber for the accuracy of the eye examination. The preceding sentence does not impose liability on a prescriber for the ophthalmic goods and services dispensed by another seller pursuant to the prescriber’s correctly verified prescription.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective 60 days after , see section 12 of Pub. L. 108–164, set out as a note under section 7601 of this title.