Contact lens sellers: prohibited practices: fines.

The Nonresident Contact Lens Seller Registration Act prohibits a person located outside California from shipping, mailing, or delivering, in any manner, contact lenses at retail to a patient at a California address unless registered with the Division of Licensing of the Medical Board of California. A violation of the act results in a fine of not less than $1,000 or more than $2,500 for each violation. Under existing law only licensed physicians and surgeons, licensed optometrists, and registered dispensing opticians have the right to dispense, sell, or furnish prescription ophthalmic devices at retail or to the person named in a prescription, except as provided in the act.