that entails a treatment or procedure that is diagnostic,
palliative, therapeutic, rehabilitative, cosmetic or refractive
for conditions or disease processes involving the eye or ocular
adnexa, or both, that utilizes lasers, cautery, ionizing or
nonionizing radiation, scalpels, probes, needles or other
instruments and in which the human eye or ocular adnexa, or
both, is cut, drained, penetrated, thermally altered, vaporized,
frozen, burned, sutured, probed, manipulated, injected or
otherwise altered by a mechanical, thermal, light-based,
electromagnetic, radiofrequency, ultrasonic, chemical or
pharmacologic means. The term does not include hot or cold
compresses.
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Section 2. Section 49(a)(3) of the act is amended to read:
Section 49. Applicability of act.
(a) General rule.--The provisions of this act shall not
apply either directly or indirectly, by intent or purpose, to
affect the practice of:
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(3) Optometry, as authorized by the act of June 6, 1980
(P.L.197, No.57), known as the Optometric Practice and
Licensure Act, except that the practice of optometry does not
include ophthalmic surgery.
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Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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