New York Laws
Article 37-A - Registration of Hearing Aid Dispensers
791 - Hearing Aid Dispensing Advisory Board.

(a) the rights of consumers of hearing aids including but not limited
to (i) procedures whereby a consumer may file a complaint against those
in violation of this article; and (ii) requirements for hearing aid
dispensers to provide consumers with printed educational information on
the general use of hearing aids and assistive listening devices and on
the advantages and disadvantages of binaural hearing aid use and (iii)
the training of individuals in the use and maintenance of such
instruments;
(b) continuing education including but not limited to (i) the content
of such course of study, (ii) the procedures for approval of such course
of study and (iii) those individuals and organizations who may
permissibly offer such continuing education course or courses provided
for in section seven hundred ninety-four of this article;
(c) the content, delivery and evaluation of any examination required
as a condition of registration;
(d) the standards for advertisements, including but not limited to,
proscriptions against misleading advertising relating to the scope of
hearing aid dispensing practices, credentials of individual hearing aid
dispensers, and the function, use and reliability of a particular
hearing instrument;
(e) requirements for the secretary to regularly examine compliance
with this article;
(f) requirements pertaining to the non-diagnostic testing of hearing
and sale of hearing aids at office, residential and other out of office
settings and the development of environmental standards for testing at
office, residential and other out of office settings; requirements
pertaining to telemarketing; and
(g) procedures that the secretary could use to increase public
awareness of how to properly purchase, fit, adjust and use a hearing
aid, as well as the rights of hearing aid purchasers under state law. In
addition to such duties and other duties which may be assigned by the
secretary, the board shall consult with the secretary, the commissioner
of education and such other persons as may be appropriate to determine
the proper level and degree of education for a hearing aid dispenser,
the type of degree and the proper educational institution to offer such
education and all other related issues.
3. Meetings of the board shall be set at such times as determined by
the secretary but in no event fewer than four times annually.
4. The members of the board shall serve without compensation, however,
they shall receive reimbursement for their actual and necessary expenses
incurred in the performance of their duties.
5. The secretary shall keep a record of all proceedings of the board
and such record shall be open to public examination.