{"data":{"id":"us-vt/26-v.s.a.-2653","jurisdiction":"us-vt","citation":"26 V.S.A. § 2653","heading":"Exemptions","body":"Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit:\n(1) persons, firms, corporations, or others from supplying ophthalmic materials and supplies directly to licensed physicians, licensed optometrists, or opticians;\n(2) the sales of magnifying glasses, goggles, nonprescription spectacles, sunglasses, telescopes, binoculars, or similar articles, when sold as merchandise at a regular established place of business;\n(3) any person, firm, or corporation from employing or otherwise engaging the services of one or more opticians;\n(4) any optician from practicing his or her occupation when the person, firm or corporation conducts his or her or its business in a permanently established place and in a manner which is in keeping with the limitations imposed upon individual opticians under this chapter;\n(5) the employment of a person who only performs mechanical work upon inert matter in an optical office, laboratory, or shop.","path":["Title 26: Professions and Occupations","Chapter 047: Opticians","Subchapter 001: GENERAL PROVISIONS"],"source_url":"https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/26/047/02653","current_through":"2025 session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T17:17:08Z","sha256":"e8b47b2c1ba6e17febc34630a6d8c145c3ff03f9fabf685c1954d7264f08a11d","source_id":"us-vt","stale":false,"prev":"us-vt/26-v.s.a.-2652","next":"us-vt/26-v.s.a.-2654"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}