License required to provide ophthalmic product directly to public; exception; authorized scope of practice of laboratory personnel.

1. Except as otherwise provided by specific statute, a person who does not hold a license as a dispensing optician, a limited license as a dispensing optician or a license as an apprentice dispensing optician shall not provide any ophthalmic product directly to the public. 2. Laboratory personnel, including, without limitation, laboratory technicians, may, without obtaining a license issued pursuant to this chapter or chapter 637 of NRS, perform any act to the fullest extent for which a license is not required, including, without limitation, grinding lenses or fabricating eyewear, provided that such personnel provide ophthalmic products only and directly to licensed dispensing opticians, licensed ophthalmologists and licensed optometrists.