Section 852IAC1-15-2. Notification to board of practice location

   (a) A practitioner has a duty and responsibility to notify the board within thirty (30) days of the establishment or discontinuation of an office for the practice of optometry. An office will be considered any location where the practitioner regularly provides optometric services or any location where his name is presented to the public as practicing optometry.

  (b) A practitioner may practice optometry in a hospital, health maintenance organization, licensed health care facility, public health clinic, clinic affiliated with a school of optometry or as a consultant to industry or educational facilities without the display of a professional sign, provided the practitioner has notified the board within thirty (30) days of initiating such services.

  (c) A practitioner may provide optometric services outside his office or other location reported to the board whenever the best interests of the patient require services which cannot be delivered at a previously designated location. When services are regularly delivered at the same location, it must be reported to the board as a practice location. (Indiana Optometry Board; 852 IAC 1-15-2; filed May 11, 1987, 9:00 am: 10 IR 1880; readopted filed Jul 10, 2001, 3:00 p.m.: 24 IR 4238; readopted filed Jul 19, 2007, 12:56 p.m.: 20070808-IR-852070059RFA; readopted filed Nov 25, 2013, 9:21 a.m.: 20131225-IR-852130281RFA)