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Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 123b - Administration and Use of Anesthesia and Conscious Sedation in Dentistry › Section 20-123b-7 - Failure to successfully complete the site evaluation

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) A practitioner who, in the opinion of the
			 on-site evaluation team, fails to satisfactorily complete the requirement of
			 subsection (a) of Section
			 20-123b-6 of the
			 Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies shall be denied a permit and may
			 reapply to be re-evaluated only after documenting the completion of a
			 Continuing Education Course in ambulatory general anesthesia or parenteral
			 conscious sedation (as appropriate) approved by the Commissioner in
			 consultation with the on-site evaluation team.
(b) A practitioner who, in the opinion of the
			 on-site evaluation team, fails to satisfactorily complete the requirements of
			 subsection (b) of Section
			 20-123b-6 of the
			 Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies shall be denied a permit and may
			 reapply to be re-evaluated only after documenting the completion of a
			 Continuing Education Course in the management of medical emergencies in the
			 dental office approved by the Commissioner in consultation with the on-site
			 evaluation team.
(c) A practitioner
			 who, in the opinion of the on-site evaluation team, fails to satisfactorily
			 complete the requirements of subsection (c) of Section
			 20-123b-6 of the
			 Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies shall be denied a permit and may
			 reapply to be re-evaluated.
(d) If
			 any member of the on-site evaluation team has reason to believe that the
			 practitioner being evaluated is unfit or incompetent or has been guilty of
			 cruelty, incompetence, negligence or indecent conduct towards a patient, such
			 member shall file a petition with the Department of Public Health pursuant to
			 Section
			 19a-14
			 of the Connecticut General Statutes.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 123b - Administration and Use of Anesthesia and Conscious Sedation in Dentistry › Section 20-123b-8 - Frequency of inspection

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Following
			 initial issuance of the permit, the on-site evaluation specified in Section
			 20-123b-6 of the
			 Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies shall be completed for each
			 practitioner issued a permit pursuant to Sections
			 20-123b-1
			 through
			 20-123b-9
			 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies in accordance with the
			 following schedule:
(1) For each practitioner
			 first issued a permit on or before December 31, 1989, the on-site evaluation
			 shall be completed not later than December 31, 1995. Thereafter, the on-site
			 evaluation shall be completed for each such practitioner not later than five
			 years from the last day of the calendar quarter in which last
			 evaluated.
(2) For each
			 practitioner first issued a permit on or after January 1, 1990, the on-site
			 evaluation shall be completed not later than five years from the last day of
			 the calendar quarter in which last evaluated.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 123b - Administration and Use of Anesthesia and Conscious Sedation in Dentistry › Section 20-123b-9 - Office equipment, emergency drugs, and anesthesia records

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Except as specifically noted, all
			 practitioners who are being evaluated pursuant to Sections
			 20-123b-1
			 through 20-123b-9, inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies,
			 or who have been issued a permit pursuant to Section
			 20-123b
			 of the Connecticut General Statutes, shall demonstrate and maintain the
			 following office equipment in any and all offices where they administer general
			 anesthesia or conscious sedation:
(1) Portable
			 gas delivery system capable of positive pressure ventilation;
(2) Equipment capable of administering 100%
			 oxygen in all rooms (operatory, recovery, examination, and
			 reception);
(3) Portable bag-mask
			 ventilator (ambu-bag);
(4) Full
			 face mask:
(A) adult; and
(B) pediatric;
(5) Nasal hood or cannula;
(6) Oral airways (oropharyngeal airways):
(A) adult; and
(B) pediatric;
(7) Nasopharyngeal airways:
(A) adult; and
(B) pediatric;
(8) Endotracheal tubes with appropriate
			 connectors and syringe for inflation, as follows: (not required for conscious
			 sedation permit)
(A) adult endotracheal
			 tubes;
(B) child endotracheal
			 tubes;
(C) connectors;
(D) syringe; and
(E) stylet (pediatric and adult);
(9) Laryngoscope (straight or
			 curved blade), as follows: (not required for conscious sedation permit)
(A) adult blade;
(B) pediatric blade;
(C) extra batteries; and
(D) extra bulb (or blade if fiberoptic
			 blade);
(10) Combi tube
			 (not required for general anesthesia permit);
(11) Portable suctioning equipment capable of
			 use during electrical power failure;
(12) Equipment capable of suctioning the
			 throat in all rooms;
(13)
			 Nasopharyngeal suction catheter, for pulmonary lavage via endotracheal tube
			 (not required for conscious sedation permit);
(14) Yankauer or similar suction;
(15) McGill forceps;
(16) Tongue grasping forceps;
(17) Equipment for emergency crico-thyrotomy
			 or tracheotomy and the appropriate connectors for administering 100%
			 oxygen;
(18) Blood pressure cuffs:
(A) adult; and
(B) pediatric;
(19) ECG;
(20) Defibrillator;
(21) Board or rigid surface for
			 cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR);
(22) Light source capable of use during
			 electrical power failure;
(23)
			 Intravenous solutions and equipment for administration:
(A) 250 cc bags & 1000 cc bags of sterile
			 saline; and
(B) Sterile water for
			 mixing or dilution of drugs; and
(24) Appropriate intravenous needles, tubing
			 and drips.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 128 - State Board of Examiners in Optometry › Section 20-128-6 - Patient records

Current through July 10, 2024
In the practice of his profession each licensed optometrist
				shall keep an adequate chart or record on file for each patient examined by
				him. He shall make a complete minimum examination and shall keep a record from
				actual tests made on each patient, which record shall show the following
				minimum conditions:
(1) Complete
			 history and symptoms;
(2) habitual
			 visual acuities;
(3) external
			 examination, including motility tests;
(4) ophthalmoscopic examination recording
			 description of all media and grounds, nervehead and vascular tree;
(5) phoria tests vertical and horizontal for
			 near and far;
(6) tests for fusion
			 near and far;
(7) keratometer
			 (ophthalmometer) readings;
(8)
			 refraction obtained retinoscopically;
(9) refraction obtained subjectively
			 including tests for astigmatism and axis;
(10) amplitudes of accommodation, convergence
			 and divergence;
(11) disposition of
			 case and prescription with corrected visual acuities right eye, left eye, both
			 eyes, including facial measurements.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 128 - State Board of Examiners in Optometry › Section 20-128-8 - Continuing education requirements for annual license renewal (Repealed)

Current through July 10, 2024
For 2014 repeal, see
				  Sec.
				  54 of
				  Public
				  Act 14-187. (June 11,
				  2014)
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 141 - Commission of Opticians › Section 20-141-1 - Experience in the producing and mounting of ophthalmic lenses

Current through July 10, 2024
Experience in producing and mounting ophthalmic glasses is a
				combination of education and skill in both mechanical functions and technical
				knowledge. Thus, such experience refers to theoretical knowledge, education and
				practical training, skill and proficiency in all functions related to the
				required mechanical and technical knowledge pertaining to the producing and
				reproducing of ophthalmic lenses and kindred products to given formulas. The
				producing and mounting of ophthalmic glasses is defined as the operations of
				grinding, fining, polishing, truing, molding, casting or other surfacing
				processes, as well as the operations of edging, cutting, forming, shaping,
				positioning, fastening and molding or other mounting
				processes.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 141 - Commission of Opticians › Section 20-141-2 - Experience in the fitting of ophthalmic lenses to the eyes by mechanical manipulation

Current through July 10, 2024
Experience in the fitting of ophthalmic lenses by mechanical
				manipulation, molding technique or other related functions is a combination of
				education and skill in both the mechanical functions and technical knowledge.
				Thus, such experience refers to theoretical knowledge, education and practical
				training, skill and proficiency in all functions related to the required
				mechanical and technical knowledge pertaining to the theory and practice of
				fitting, adapting and designing of optical glasses from given formulas or
				kindred products directly to the ultimate wearer by mechanical manipulation,
				molding techniques or other related functions. The fitting, adapting and
				designing or ophthalmic glasses is defined as comprising the techniques and art
				of forming, shaping, bending, adjusting and molding or other fitting processes
				as they may be required and the scientific and technical interpretation of
				ophthalmic prescriptions into a correctly constructed therapeutic device as an
				optician's personal function of dispensing optical glasses directly to the
				person of the ultimate wearer; as well as the measuring, fitting and adapting
				of prostheses and the molding, casting or fitting of contact
				lenses.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 141 - Commission of Opticians › Section 20-141-4 - Equipment for opticians

Current through July 10, 2024
In order to protect the public health and safety, each
				applicant being issued an optical license shall have in his place of business
				and at his disposal the following equipment in order to complete the
				requirements for such license:
(1) A
			 complete set of neutralizing lenses or mechanical instrument for the
			 measurement of focus power, in which case such instrument should bear a maximum
			 tolerance of accuracy of .06;
(2)
			 lens-centering device;
(3) lens
			 measure;
(4) thickness caliper;
(5) equipment for accurately
			 measuring pupillary distance.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 141 - Commission of Opticians › Section 20-141-6 - Defining optical glasses and eyeglasses

Current through July 10, 2024
Optical glasses to aid vision are the means for correcting
				eyesight defects when own as complete glasses, or when adapted to the ultimate
				wearer or consumer, of which the component parts, i.e. lenses and supporting
				materials, are produced or reproduced to individual specific formulas; and
				which given formulas include the Rx for foci, lens power, the specifications or
				mold for the form, size, shape and structure of the lens and/or of the
				supporting material and indications for the proper placement for fitting to the
				eyes and for their fitted application, such as the centers, the plane and the
				angle. Such optical glasses are referred to as optical glasses from given
				formulas, ophthalmic glasses or instruments from given formulas and eye
				glasses.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 141 - Commission of Opticians › Section 20-141-7 - Defining kindred products and optical merchandise

Current through July 10, 2024
Kindred products of optical glasses generally are complete
				eyeglasses principally worn as an aid to vision and sold as optical
				stock-in-trade articles of merchandise, i.e., plano safety glasses, plano
				welding goggles and similar optical goods which are largely produced by
				grinding optical glass or substitutes therefor for the optical control of light
				or protection without causing light deviation and in so doing conform only to
				general formulas instead of given formulas and which may be utilized by any
				rather than specific individuals.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 141 - Commission of Opticians › Section 20-141-8 - Defining optical instruments to aid vision

Current through July 10, 2024
"Other instruments to aid vision" are optical glasses and
				ophthalmic instruments as aids to vision, which are lenses, therapeutic devices
				or other appliances from given formulas intended to be used for the aid and
				correction of visual or ocular anomalies of the eye; and include optical
				systems of lenses or combination of lenses assembled into a supporting
				structure which, when viewed through, are aids to vision, and which are sold as
				optical stock-in-trade articles of merchandise, i.e., magnifiers, readers,
				microscopes, field glasses, binoculars, telescopes, transits or articles of
				similar type which are largely produced by optically grinding glass to form
				ulas based upon the laws of optics.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 141 - Commission of Opticians › Section 20-141-10 - Contact lenses-definition

Current through July 10, 2024
The sale of contact lenses in the state of Connecticut is an
				inclusion under the provision that optical glasses, instruments and kindred
				products to aid vision may be sold only by licensed opticians in licensed
				optical establish ments. Contact lenses are tiny, thin oval shaped lenses about
				the size of a five-cent piece, made of glass or smooth nonirritating plastic.
				They may be ground to any power to correct any eye defect and are worn under
				the eyelids.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 141 - Commission of Opticians › Section 20-141-10a - Contact lenses-sale and fitting

Current through July 10, 2024
The sale of contact lenses in the state of Connecticut is
				included under the provision that optical glasses, instruments and kindred
				products to aid vision may be sold by licensed opticians in licensed optical
				establishments.
Contact lenses may be fitted by licensed opticians in licensed
				optical establishments upon prescriptions for contact lenses prescribed by
				licensed physicians or surgeons or licensed optometrists or in any other
				location under the direction of a licensed physician or surgeon. This
				regulation does not apply to physicians or surgeons or certified optometrists
				exempt under section
				20-162
				of the general statutes.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 141 - Commission of Opticians › Section 20-141-11 - Optical license permits

Current through July 10, 2024
Any establishment under the personal and direct supervision of
				a licensed optician may be granted permission to sell at retail, dispense or
				supply to the ultimate wearer prescription glasses and optical instruments from
				given formulas which are optical aids to vision, instruments, eyeglasses,
				spectacles, other kindred products and reproduction of the same; to fit, adapt,
				adjust or bend frames by mechanical manipulations, molding techniques or other
				related functions, either with or without lenses, to the individual wearer
				whether the glasses are from prescription or under repair; to use the term
				"optician" or any synonym; to sell at retail optical goods as merchandise. Any
				establishment whose optical shop, laboratory, department or processing
				operations are under the personal and direct supervision of a licensed optician
				may be granted permission to make, process, produce and reproduce optical
				prescription glasses and optical instruments from given formulas which are
				optical aids to vision, instruments, appliances, eyeglasses, spectacles and
				other kindred products, to mount the same to supporting materials and to
				perform other related processes of compounding, fabricating or
				molding.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 141 - Commission of Opticians › Section 20-141-12 - Optical license selling permit

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Any licensed
			 optician or any optical department in any optical establishment, office,
			 department or store conducted under the personal and direct supervision of a
			 licensed optician shall file an application of facts to qualify for an optical
			 license selling permit when requesting permission to sell, dispense or supply
			 to the ultimate wearer optical aids to vision, instruments, eyeglasses,
			 spectacles and other kindred products. Application shall be made annually on
			 forms issued by the commission and shall be sworn to before a proper person
			 authorized to take oaths. All information given the commission of opticians by
			 the applicant shall be considered representative of fact. Such application
			 shall be forwarded to the commission of opticians, together with the required
			 fee.
(b) Any applicant qualifying
			 for the optical license selling permit shall be issued an annual certificate
			 which shall be valid at the one and only address named therein and shall expire
			 on the first day of September of each year. Such permit shall record specified
			 optical goods and enumeratee names of all employed licensed opticians,
			 assistant licensed opticians, mechanical opticians, assistant mechanical
			 opticians and apprentices.
(c) The
			 optical license selling permit shall be prominently displayed in the
			 establishment and at the department where ophthalmic glasses and optical goods
			 are sold, dispensed or supplied or distributed to the public. Each optical
			 establishment, office, store or department, as defined in section
			 20-141-11,
			 shall require a separate optical license selling permit at each location at
			 which ophthalmic glasses are sold, dispensed, supplied or distributed to the
			 public.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 141 - Commission of Opticians › Section 20-141-17 - Dispensing, supplying and distributing to the public

Current through July 10, 2024
To "dispense or supply" is to prepare, make or furnish as well
				as to distribute to the public optical glasses or ophthalmic instruments as
				aids to vision to the ultimate wearer of consumer, or any kindred products of
				optical glasses, whether or not the act of such dispensing or supplying or
				distribution is construed as technically involving a sale.
(See G.S. §
								20-153.)
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 141 - Commission of Opticians › Section 20-141-18 - Disassociation of licensed optician from establishment

Current through July 10, 2024
Immediately upon disassociation or severance of the recorded
				licensed optician in charge from any establishment for which an optical license
				permit has been granted, the optical license permit is terminated. A new
				optical license permit shall be applied for.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 141 - Commission of Opticians › Section 20-141-19 - Establishment, office, department, store, shop or laboratory

Current through July 10, 2024
Each individual retail or service unit located at a recorded
				address is a separate establishment requiring a separate permit; and this is
				true although such a store or unit is part of an interstate or intrastate
				chain.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 141 - Commission of Opticians › Section 20-141-20 - Licensed optician responsible for all establishments for which he is granted an optical license permit

Current through July 10, 2024
Every licensed optician is required to have an optical license
				permit for the declared establishment, location or premises where he proposes
				to act as such licensed optician. A licensed optician is responsible for any
				optical department, firm or establishment of which he is in charge, being
				deemed to be in charge of the same only when he is the owner or manager or
				equal in authority with another similarly licensed optician, and from which he
				receives his complete or major means of livelihood and to which he gives the
				major part of his time. Such an optical license permit shall be issued for more
				than one such optical establishment or location if such licensed optician
				assumes supervision of other locations or establishments; but in all instances
				such permits shall include the name of the responsible licensed optician in
				charge and under whose supervision such establishment or location is being
				operated, and shall be subject to the provision that such licensed optician
				transfer such individual license to the location or establishment at which he
				is functioning and that he is personally responsible for all acts or omissions
				(by himself or by others under such location) pertaining to the opticians' law
				and its regulations, under which such establishment or location holds itself
				open as an optical establishment or department. Both the license of the
				licensed optician and the optical license permit shall at all times be
				conspicuously displayed in the place in which such licensed optician practices
				as an optician.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 141 - Commission of Opticians › Section 20-141-21 - Standards applying to sun glasses, etc

Current through July 10, 2024
(1) Sun glasses,
			 goggles, plano safety glasses and plano welding goggles are optical lenses;
			 spectacles, eyeglasses, optical appliances or other kindred products are
			 optical glasses to aid vision and
(2) in the interest of public health and
			 safety such optical products shall be in accordance with standards for quality,
			 the specifications for which shall govern the glass or other material used for
			 glasses in order that they shall not produce distortion in excess of the
			 allowable tolerances, the required degree of tranparency for the transmission
			 of light and the certification that such standard has been complied
			 with.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 141 - Commission of Opticians › Section 20-141-22 - Standard of quality for sun glasses and goggles sold at retail

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) All sun glasses and goggles sold at
			 retail in the state of Connecticut shall meet the following standard and shall
			 bear certification by the manufacturer, wholesaler or distributor. The sun
			 glasses and goggles regulated by this standard are optical glasses or kindred
			 products or other instruments to aid vision by the control of light other than
			 prescription lenses, visors and eye shades. These specifications for the
			 Connecticut sun glass standard apply to any material, whether ground and
			 polished, blown, drawn or dropped, or whether curved or flat, and do not
			 restrict the price of the merchandise sold nor its make or type of
			 manufacture.
(b)
(1) The lenses shall be of a quality suitable
			 for optical products, i.e., free from striae, bubbles, seeds or other defects
			 visible to the unaided eye. Both optical surfaces of the lenses shall be well
			 polished and free from visible surface defects, such as scratches, waves and
			 grayness.
(2) Surfaces of lenses
			 shall be essentially parallel or of compensated curvatures; prismatic effect
			 shall not exceed one-eighth prism diopter.
(3) Lenses shall be essentially without focal
			 power; there shall not be more than one-sixteenth diopter of power in any
			 meridian. The difference in power between any two meridians shall not exceed
			 one-sixteenth diopter.
(4) Lenses
			 shall be substantially matched in color and density.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 141 - Commission of Opticians › Section 20-141-25 - Periods of apprenticeship

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) The computation
			 of any period of apprenticeship as an optical apprentice shall commence at the
			 date of registration, provided such apprentice is employed in the state of
			 Connecticut and in an establishment which has a licensed optical department
			 which is capable of giving, and where the opportunity is available for such
			 apprentice to obtain, practical experience, skill and optical knowledge as
			 required and, further, is under the supervision of a licensed optician or a
			 mechanical optician.
(b) Any person
			 who registers with the commission as is required by law for the purpose of
			 producing or reproducing ophthalmic lenses and similar products or mounting the
			 same to supporting materials or fitting the same by mechanical manipulations,
			 molding techniques or other related functions and is employed in an
			 establisment which does not comply with the conditions set forth in subsection
			 (a) shall be recorded but shall not have such period accredited as time spent
			 to qualify for examination except after satisfactory proof has been furnished
			 the commission that such service is satisfactory, in which circumstances
			 partial credit may commence at the date of registration as hereinafter set
			 forth.
(c) Any person, upon
			 application, may be registered by the commission as an optical apprentice even
			 though the place of employment has only a partial opportunity available for an
			 apprentice to obtain practical experience, skill and optical knowledge required
			 in order to qualify for examination. Under this condition a limited
			 apprenticeship will result and such registered apprentice may obtain a part of
			 the credit required by acquiring experience, skill and optical knowledge in
			 surfacing, edging, benchwork or fitting and adjusting, either separately or in
			 combinations, which, however, will not be all of the functions of producing and
			 reproducing optical prescription glasses, mounting the same to supporting
			 materials and fitting and adjusting the same to the ultimate wearer. Such a
			 limited apprenticeship would require a subsequent application in order to
			 register for such further opportunity as was not previously available in order
			 to complete the required credit to qualify for examination.
(See G.S. §
									20-159.)
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 141 - Commission of Opticians › Section 20-141-31 - Exemption of certified optometrists

Current through July 10, 2024
The exemption for optometrists is personal only to such
				certified optometrists as individuals, and such exemption does not extend to
				any other person, firm, corporation or any other kind of an establishment with
				which such certified optometrists may be associated.
(Last sentence deleted by House Joint Resolution No. 179,
				adopted by House of Representatives June 4, 1963, and by Senate June 5,
				1963.)
(See G.S. §§
								20-137,
				20-162.)
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 146(c) - Continuing Education for Opticians › Section 20-146(c)-1 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
For the purposes of sections 20-146(c)-1 to
				20-146(c)-7,
				inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies:
(1) "Department" means the Department of
			 Public Health.
(2) "Licensee" means
			 an optician licensed pursuant to Section
			 20-146
			 of the Connecticut General Statutes.
(3) "License renewal due date" means the last
			 day of the month of the licensee's date of birth.
(4) "Registration period" means the one-year
			 period during which a license has been renewed in accordance with Section
			 19a-88
			 of the Connecticut General Statutes and is current and valid.
(5) "Provider" means the individual educator
			 or sponsor conducting a continuing education activity.
(6) "Participant" means a licensee who
			 successfully completes a continuing education activity.
(7) "Contact hour" means a minimum of fifty
			 minutes of continuing education activity.
(8) "Certificate of completion" means a
			 document issued to a participant by a provider which certifies that the
			 participant has successfully completed a continuing education
			 activity.
(9) "Active Practice"
			 means the treatment in Connecticut of one or more patients by a licensee during
			 any given registration period.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 146(c) - Continuing Education for Opticians › Section 20-146(c)-2 - Number of credits required

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Each licensee
			 applying for license renewal shall have completed a minimum of seven contact
			 hours of qualifying continuing education for opticians during the preceding
			 registration period.
(b) Continuing
			 education contact hours completed in one registration period shall not carry
			 over to a subsequent registration period.
(c) Successful completion of an entire
			 continuing education activity shall be required for award of any continuing
			 education contact hours.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 146(c) - Continuing Education for Opticians › Section 20-146(c)-3 - Basic requirements for qualifying continuing education activities

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Continuing education activities shall
			 meet the following requirements:
(1) Providers
			 are approved by the American Board of Opticianry, the National Contact Lens
			 Examiners or other nationally recognized organization approved by the
			 department after consultation with the Connecticut Board of Examiners for
			 Opticians.
(2) the activity
			 involves face-to-face didactic instruction.
(3) the provider implements a mechanism to
			 monitor and document physical attendance at such instruction.
(4) the provider retains written records for
			 a period of three years from the participant's actual successful completion of
			 the activity, including but not limited to: content description; instructor;
			 date of activity; location of activity; list of participants; participant's
			 evaluation of instruction presented; and number of contact hours.
(5) the provider issues a certificate of
			 completion after the participant's successful completion of the activity. Such
			 certificate shall include the participant's name, provider's name, title or
			 subject area of the activity, date and location of attendance, and number of
			 contact hours completed.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 146(c) - Continuing Education for Opticians › Section 20-146(c)-4 - Content areas for qualifying continuing education activities

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Subject matter for qualifying continued
			 education activities shall reflect the scope of practice authorized under
			 Chapter 381 of the Connecticut General Statutes. Only those continued education
			 activities which provide significant theoretical or practical content directly
			 related to the clinical practice of opticianry shall qualify to meet the
			 requirements of sections
			 20-146(c)-2
			 to 20-146(c)-4, inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State
			 Agencies.
(b) Continued education
			 activity that provides content related to organization and design of optical
			 stores, practice development, business management or marketing, investments or
			 financial management, personnel management, personal health or development, and
			 similar topics of professional concern, shall be limited to not more than one
			 contact hour in contact lens nor one contact hour in eyewear in any one
			 registration period.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 146(c) - Continuing Education for Opticians › Section 20-146(c)-5 - Record retention by licensees

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Each licensee
			 shall obtain a certificate of completion from the provider of continuing
			 education activities successfully completed. Each licensee shall maintain, for
			 continuing education activities specified in subsection 20-146(c)-4(a) of these
			 regulations, written documentation of completion. Certificates of completion
			 shall be retained by the licensee for a minimum of three years following the
			 license renewal due date for which the activity satisfies license renewal
			 requirements.
(b) The department
			 may inspect such licensee records as it deems necessary. Certificates of
			 completion shall be submitted by the licensee to the department only upon the
			 department's request. Such records shall be submitted to the department by the
			 licensee within 45 days of the department's request.
(c) A licensee who fails to comply with the
			 continuing education requirements of these regulations may be subject to
			 disciplinary action, pursuant to section
			 20-154
			 of the Connecticut General Statutes.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 146(c) - Continuing Education for Opticians › Section 20-146(c)-6 - Exemptions from and waiver of the continuing education requirements

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) A licensee applying for license renewal
			 for the first time in Connecticut shall be exempt from continuing education
			 requirements.
(b) A licensee who is
			 not engaged in active practice during a given continuing education registration
			 period shall be exempt from continuing education requirements on submission,
			 prior to the expiration of the continuing education registration period, of a
			 notarized application on a form provided by the department. The application
			 shall contain the statement that the licensee shall not engage in active
			 practice until the licensee has shown proof of completion of requirements
			 specified in sections
			 20-146(c)-2
			 to
			 20-146(c)-4,
			 inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 146(c) - Continuing Education for Opticians › Section 20-146(c)-7 - Requirements for return to active practice following exemption from continuing education requirements

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) A licensee who
			 has been exempt, pursuant to subsection (b) of section
			 20-146(c)-6
			 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, shall submit to the
			 department evidence of successful completion of seven contact hours of
			 continuing education within six months after returning to active
			 practice.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 162o - Application Fees for Respiratory Care Practitioners › Section 20-162o-1 - Respiratory care practitioner application fee (Repealed)

Current through July 10, 2024
For 2014 repeal, see
				  Sec.
				  54 of
				  Public
				  Act 14-187. (June 11,
				  2014)
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 188 - Psychology Licensing Requirements › Section 20-188-1 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) "Accreditation by the American
			 Psychological Association" shall mean that:
(1) the program held provisional
			 accreditation status or full accreditation status throughout the period of the
			 applicant's enrollment, provided said provisional status subsequently
			 progressed without interruption to full accreditation; or
(2) the program held probationary
			 accreditation status during the applicant's enrollment and, upon termination of
			 said probationary status, subsequently achieved full accreditation.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 188 - Psychology Licensing Requirements › Section 20-188-3 - Work experience standards for Connecticut psychology licensure

Current through July 10, 2024
Work experience initiated on or after April 1, 1988, shall be
				satisfactory for Connecticut Psychology Licensure, pursuant to Connecticut
				General Statutes, Section
				20-188,
				when all of the criteria specified below are satisfied.
(a) The work experience shall consist of at
			 least one year at the pre-doctoral or post-doctoral level and does not include
			 an internship completed as part of the requirements of completing a doctoral
			 degree.
(1) The work experience shall consist
			 of either:
(A) no less than thirty-five hours
			 per week for no less than forty-six weeks within twelve consecutive months,
			 or
(B) no less than 1800 hours
			 within twenty-four consecutive months. No more than forty hours per week shall
			 be credited toward the required experience.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 195a - Marital and Family Therapists › Section 20-195a-1 - Definitions. As used in sections 20-195a-1 to 20-195a-3, inclusive

Current through July 10, 2024
(1) "Department" means the Department of
			 Public Health.
(2) "Regionally
			 accredited college or university" means one of the following regional
			 accrediting bodies:
(a) New England
			 Association of Schools and Colleges;
(b) Middle States Association of Colleges and
			 Schools;
(c) North Central
			 Association of Colleges and Schools;
(d) Northwest Association of Schools and
			 Colleges;
(e) Southern Association
			 of Colleges and Schools; and
(f)
			 Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 195a - Marital and Family Therapists › Section 20-195a-3 - Post graduate experience and supervised casework

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) The supervisor of the postgraduate
			 casework shall be licensed in the state where the experience is being
			 completed.
(b) Of the 100 hours of
			 postgraduate supervised casework required, 50 hours shall be individual
			 supervision consisting of one supervisor sitting face to face with either one
			 or two supervisees. The remaining 50 hours may be individual supervison or
			 group supervision consisting of no more than six supervisees meeting face to
			 face with one supervisor.
(c) In
			 cases where the supervisor of the postgraduate casework is being compensated,
			 such compensation shall be provided by the employing agency or by the institute
			 which has contracted with the candidate to provide the supervision or any other
			 relationship in which the supervisee does not gain financial control over his
			 supervisor.
(d) Any attempts on the
			 part of the applicants to influence his supervision through compensation shall
			 be grounds for denial of licensure
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 195c - Continuing Education for Marital and Family Therapists › Section 20-195c-1 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
For the purposes of sections 20-195c-1 to
				20-195c-7,
				inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies:
(1) "Active practice" means the treatment in
			 Connecticut of one or more patients by a licensee during any given registration
			 period;
(2) "Certificate of
			 completion" means a document issued to a participant by a provider which
			 certifies that the participant has successfully completed a continuing
			 education activity;
(3) "Contact
			 hour" means a minimum of fifty minutes of continuing education
			 activity;
(4) "Department" means
			 the Department of Public Health;
(5) "Face-to-face instruction" means
			 in-person, live instruction which a participant physically attends, either
			 individually or as a part of a group of participants;
(6) "Home study program" means continuing
			 education activities clearly related to maintaining skills necessary for the
			 safe and competent practice of marital and family therapy that include a
			 proficiency examination and are sponsored, endorsed or approved by a regionally
			 accredited academic institution, or the American Association for Marriage and
			 Family Therapy or its affiliates;
(7) "Licensee" means a marital and family
			 therapist licensed pursuant to section
			 20-195c
			 of the Connecticut General Statutes;
(8) "License renewal due date" means the last
			 day of the month of the licensee's date of birth;
(9) "Participant" means a licensee who
			 successfully completes a continuing education activity;
(10) "Provider" means the individual educator
			 or sponsoring organization conducting a continuing education activity;
			 and
(11) "Registration period"
			 means the one-year period for which a license has been renewed in accordance
			 with section
			 19a-88
			 of the Connecticut General Statutes and is current and valid.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 195c - Continuing Education for Marital and Family Therapists › Section 20-195c-2 - Number of contact hours required

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Each licensee
			 applying for license renewal shall have completed a minimum of fifteen contact
			 hours of qualifying continuing education during each registration
			 period.
(b) Continuing education
			 contact hours completed in one registration period shall not carry over to a
			 subsequent registration period.
(c)
			 Each licensee applying for license renewal shall sign a statement attesting
			 that the licensee satisfies the continuing education requirements specified in
			 sections
			 20-195c-1
			 to
			 20-195c-7,
			 inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 195c - Continuing Education for Marital and Family Therapists › Section 20-195c-3 - Basic requirements for qualifying continuing education activities

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Qualifying continuing education
			 activities are the following:
(1) courses
			 offered or approved by the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
			 or its affiliates;
(2) courses
			 accredited, approved or offered by the Commission on Accreditation for Marital
			 and Family Therapist Education, National Board of Certified Counselors, the
			 American Counseling Association, the National Association of Social Workers,
			 the American Association of Social Workers, the American Psychological
			 Association, or their affiliates, provided the coursework is clearly related to
			 maintaining skills necessary for the safe and competent practice of marital and
			 family therapy;
(3) courses offered
			 or approved by institutions accredited by the commission on accreditation for
			 marital and family therapist education;
(4) graduate coursework in or related to the
			 discipline of marital and family therapy field offered by a regionally
			 accredited academic institution, either audited or by credit; or
(5) programs in or related to the discipline
			 of marital and family therapy sponsored or approved by a regionally accredited
			 academic institution, provided the coursework is clearly related to maintaining
			 skills necessary for the safe and competent practice of marital and family
			 therapy.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 195c - Continuing Education for Marital and Family Therapists › Section 20-195c-4 - Award of contact hours

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Continuing
			 education contact hours shall be awarded as follows:
(1) Courses, institutes, seminars, programs,
			 clinics, conferences and teleconferences: one contact hour for each hour of
			 attendance;
(2) first presentation
			 by licensee of an original paper, essay or formal lecture or workshop in
			 marriage and family therapy to a recognized group of colleagues at a
			 professional meeting: five contact hours; and
(3) original paper published by licensee in a
			 professional journal that accepts papers or an invited chapter or book only on
			 the basis of independent review by experts: six contact hours for the first
			 publication only of the material.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 195c - Continuing Education for Marital and Family Therapists › Section 20-195c-5 - Record retention by licensees

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Each licensee
			 shall obtain a certificate of completion from the provider of continuing
			 education activities successfully completed. Each licensee shall maintain, for
			 continuing education activities specified in subsection (a) of section
			 20-195c-3
			 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, written documentation of
			 completion. Certificates of completion shall be retained by the licensee for a
			 minimum of three years following the license renewal due date for which the
			 activity satisfies license renewal requirements.
(b) The department may inspect such licensee
			 records as it deems necessary. Certificates of completion shall be submitted by
			 the licensee to the department only upon the department's request. Such records
			 shall be submitted to the department by the licensee within 45 days of the
			 department's request.
(c) A
			 licensee who fails to comply with the continuing education requirements of
			 sections
			 20-195c-1
			 to
			 20-195c-7,
			 inclusive, of the regulations of Connecticut State Agencies may be subject to
			 disciplinary action, pursuant to section
			 20-195d
			 of the Connecticut General Statutes.