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Virginia Administrative Code
Title 18. Professional And Occupational Licensing
Agency 80. Board For Hearing Aid Specialists And Opticians
Chapter 30. Opticians Regulations
2/4/2026

18VAC80-30-130. Contact lens standards.

To fit contact lenses, the following must be done:

1. The prescription (RX) must show evidence that contact lenses may be worn by the patient before the prescription can be filled by the contact lens endorsed optician. Verbal approval from the optometrist or ophthalmologist or agents or employees of the optometrist or ophthalmologist is acceptable. The contact lens endorsed optician must make a notation in the patient's record of the name of the authorizing optometrist or ophthalmologist and the date of the authorization.

2. The optician must use all the following to fit contact lenses:

a. Slit Lamp;

b. Keratometer and topographer; and

c. Standardized Snellen type acuity chart.

Statutory Authority

§ 54.1-201 of the Code of Virginia.

Historical Notes

Former 18VAC100-20-87 derived from Virginia Register Volume 17, Issue 9, eff. March 1, 2001; amended and renumbered as 18VAC80-30-130, Virginia Register Volume 28, Issue 23, eff. August 15, 2012; amended, Virginia Register Volume 42, Issue 8, eff. January 1, 2026.

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