No person shall fabricate, distribute, sell, exchange or deliver, or have in the person's possession with the intent to distribute, sell, exchange or deliver, any eyeglasses or sunglasses unless they are fitted with plastic lenses or laminated lenses or heat-treated glass lenses, or glass lenses made impact resistant by other methods except in those cases where a duly-licensed physician or optometrist, having found that such lenses will not fulfill the visual requirements of a particular patient, directs in writing the use of other lenses, and gives written notification thereof to the patient. Before they are mounted in frames, all plastic and heat-treated glass lenses shall be capable of withstanding an impact test of a five-eighths inch steel ball dropped fifty inches. This test to be conducted at room temperature, with the lens supported by a plastic tube one inch inside diameter, one and one-fourth inch outside diameter, with a one-eighth inch by one-eighth inch neoprene gasket on top edge.
The department shall adopt standards and rules which specify impact resistance for lenses and which provide the method of testing lenses to determine if the lenses comply with such standards and rules.
No person shall fabricate, distribute, sell, exchange or deliver, or have in the person's possession with intent to distribute, sell, exchange or deliver any eyeglass frame or sunglass frame containing any form of cellulose nitrate or other highly flammable materials.
Any person violating either provision of this law shall upon conviction be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars for each violation.
[C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 135.30]
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