§ 5-49-2. License required to sell or fit hearing aids.
(a) No person shall engage in the dispensing, selling, fitting of hearing aids, or display a sign, or in any other way advertise or represent himself or herself as a person who practices the fitting and sale of hearing aids after August 1, 1973, unless he or she holds an unsuspended, unrevoked license issued by the department as provided in this chapter.
(b) The license shall be conspicuously posted in his or her office or place of business. Duplicate licenses shall be issued by the department to valid license holders operating more than one office without additional payment.
(c) A license under this chapter shall confer upon the holder the right to select, fit, and sell hearing aids.
(d) Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit a corporation, partnership, trust, association, or other organization maintaining an established business address, from selling or offering for sale hearing aids at retail without a license; provided, that it employs only properly licensed natural persons in the direct sale and fitting of those products.
(e) Those corporations, partnerships, trusts, associations, or other organizations shall file annually with the board a list of all licensed hearing aid dealers and fitters directly or indirectly employed by it.
(f) Those organizations shall also file with the board a statement, on a form approved by the board, that they submit themselves to the rules and regulations of the department and the provisions of this chapter which the department deems applicable to them.
History of Section.P.L. 1973, ch. 243, § 1.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Title 5 - Businesses and Professions
Chapter 5-49 - Hearing Aid Dealers and Fitters
Section 5-49-1. - Definitions.
Section 5-49-2. - License required to sell or fit hearing aids.
Section 5-49-2.1. - Certificates of need.
Section 5-49-2.2. - Records of transactions.
Section 5-49-2.3. - Penalty for violations of §§ 5-49-2.1 and 5-49-2.2.
Section 5-49-3. - Receipt required to be furnished to a person supplied with hearing aid.
Section 5-49-4. - Persons and practices exempted.
Section 5-49-6. - Issuance of licenses and certificates of endorsement.
Section 5-49-7. - License by examination.
Section 5-49-8. - Temporary permits.
Section 5-49-9. - Scope of examination.
Section 5-49-10. - Notice to department of place of business — Notice to holders of license.
Section 5-49-11. - Duration of license — Renewal of license — Fees — Effect of failure to renew.
Section 5-49-12. - Complaints — Grounds and proceedings for revocation or suspension of licenses.
Section 5-49-13. - Prohibited acts and practices.
Section 5-49-14. - Powers and duties of department.
Section 5-49-15. - Board — Creation — Composition — Appointment and terms.
Section 5-49-16. - Board — Duties.
Section 5-49-17. - Board — Meetings.
Section 5-49-18. - Disposition of receipts — Hearing aid revenues.
Section 5-49-19. - Penalty for violations.
Section 5-49-20. - Severability.
Section 5-49-21. - Rules and regulations.