The Policy Statements issued by the North Carolina State Board of Examiners in Optometry are interpretive statements that explain or define the Board's position in regards to the reading of the laws and the Board's rules and regulations governing the practice of optometry in North Carolina.

In its Policy Statements, the Board attempts to articulate some of the standards it believes applicable to the practice of optometry in the State of North Carolina. They are not intended to be comprehensive or to set out exhaustively every standard that might apply in every circumstance. Therefore, the absence of a Policy Statement or a Policy Statement's silence on certain matters should not be construed as the lack of an enforceable standard.