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NC Gen Stat § 93D-8 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 93D - North Carolina State Hearing Aid Dealers and Fitters Board|§ 93D-8 - Examination of applicants; issue of license certificate.

 93D-8. Examination of applicants; issue of license certificate.(a) Every applicant for a license who is notified by the Board that he has fulfilled the requirements of G.S. 93D-5, except those making application pursuant to G.S. 93D-6, shall appear at a time, place and before such persons as the Board may designate, to be examined by written and practical tests in order to demonstrate that the applicant is qualified to engage in the activities within the scope of a hearing aid specialist. The Board shall give one examination of the type prescribed herein each year at a duly prescribed time and place, which shall be publicized for at least 90 days in advance. Additional examinations may be given at the discretion of the Board. The examination provided in this section shall not include questions requiring a medical or surgical education but shall consist of:(1) Tests of knowledge in the following areas as they pertain to the fitting of hearing aids:a. The basic physics of sound,b. The human hearing mechanism, including the science of hearing and the cause and rehabilitation of abnormal hearing and hearing disorders, andc. The structure and function of hearing aids.(2) Tests of proficiency in the following techniques as they pertain to the fitting of hearing aids:a. Pure tone audiometry, including air conduction testing and bone conduction testing,b. Live voice and recorded voice speech audiometry, including speech reception threshold testing and speech discrimination testing,c. Effective masking,d. Recording and evaluation of audiograms and speech audiometry to determine hearing aid candidacy,e. Selection and adaption of hearing aids and testing of hearing aids,f. Taking earmold impressions, andg. Such other skills as may be required for the fitting of hearing aids in the opinion of the Board.(b) Upon payment of a fee set by the Board, not to exceed twenty-five dollars ($25.00), the Board shall issue a license certificate to each applicant who successfully passes the examination.  (1969, c. 999; 1981, c. 601, s. 9; 1991, c. 592, s. 4; 2011-311, s. 7; 2013-410, s. 32.5(g).)
NC Gen Stat § 93D-9 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 93D - North Carolina State Hearing Aid Dealers and Fitters Board|§ 93D-9 - Registration of apprentices.

 93D-9. Registration of apprentices.(a) Any person age 17 or older may apply to the Board for registration as an apprentice. Each applicant must be sponsored by a Registered Sponsor.(b) Upon receiving an application accompanied by a fee in an amount set by the Board, not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00), the Board may register the applicant as an apprentice, which shall entitle the applicant to fit and sell hearing aids under the supervision of Registered Sponsor.(c) No applicant shall be registered as an apprentice by the Board under this section unless the applicant shows to the satisfaction of the Board that the applicant is or will be supervised and trained by a Registered Sponsor.(d) If a person 18 years of age or older who is registered as an apprentice under this section does not take the next succeeding examination given after a minimum of one full year of apprenticeship, the person's apprentice registration shall not be renewed, except for good cause shown to the satisfaction of the Board.(e) If a person who is registered as an apprentice takes and fails to pass the next succeeding examination given after one full year of apprenticeship, the Board may renew the apprenticeship license for a period of time to end 30 days after the results of the examination given next after the date of renewal of said registration. The fee for renewal of apprenticeship registration shall be set by the Board at an amount not to exceed one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00).(f) The Board shall adopt rules implementing initial and renewal registration of apprentices.(g) The Board shall adopt rules implementing initial and renewal registration of Registered Sponsors.  (1969, c. 999; 1973, c. 1345, s. 4; 1981, c. 601, ss. 10-15; c. 990, s. 3; 1991, c. 592, s. 5; 2011-311, s. 8.)
NC Gen Stat § 93D-10 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 93D - North Carolina State Hearing Aid Dealers and Fitters Board|§ 93D-10 - Registration and notice.

 93D-10. Registration and notice.The Board shall register each apprentice, Registered Sponsor, and each person to whom it grants a license. The secretary-treasurer of the Board shall keep a record of the place of business of all licensees, Registered Sponsors, and apprentices. Any notice required to be given by the Board to a person holding a license or registration may be given by mailing to him at the last address received by the Board from him.  (1969, c. 999; 1981, c. 601, s. 16; 2011-311, s. 9.)
NC Gen Stat § 93D-11 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 93D - North Carolina State Hearing Aid Dealers and Fitters Board|§ 93D-11 - Annual fees; failure to pay; expiration of license; occupational instruction courses.

 93D-11. Annual fees; failure to pay; expiration of license; occupational instruction courses.Every person licensed as a hearing aid specialist shall pay to the Board an annual license renewal fee in an amount set by the Board, not to exceed two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00). The payment shall be made prior to the first day of April in each year. In case of default in payment the license shall expire 30 days after notice by the secretary-treasurer to the last known address of the licensee by registered mail, certified mail, or in a manner provided by G.S. 1A-1, Rule 4(j)(1)d. The Board may reinstate an expired license upon the showing of good cause for late payment of fees, upon payment of said fees within 60 days after expiration of the license, and upon the further payment of a late penalty of twenty-five dollars ($25.00). After 60 days after the expiration date, the Board may reinstate the license for good cause shown upon application for reinstatement and payment of a late penalty of fifty dollars ($50.00) and the renewal fee. The Board may require all licensees to successfully attend and complete a course or courses of occupational instruction funded, conducted or approved or sponsored by the Board on an annual basis as a condition to any license renewal and evidence of satisfactory attendance and completion of any such course or courses shall be provided the Board by the licensee.  (1969, c. 999; 1975, c. 550, s. 3; 1979, c. 848; 1981, c. 601, s. 17; c. 990, s. 4; 1991, c. 592, s. 6; 2007-406, s. 4; 2013-410, s. 32.5(h).)
NC Gen Stat § 93D-12 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 93D - North Carolina State Hearing Aid Dealers and Fitters Board|§ 93D-12 - License to be displayed at office.

 93D-12. License to be displayed at office.Every person to whom a license, apprenticeship certificate, or sponsor registration is granted shall display the same in a conspicuous part of his office where the person conducts business as a hearing aid specialist or shall have a copy of such license certificate, or registration on his person and exhibit the same upon request when fitting or selling hearing aids outside of his office.  (1969, c. 999; 1981, c. 601, s. 18; 2011-311, s. 10; 2013-410, s. 32.5(i).)
NC Gen Stat § 93D-14 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 93D - North Carolina State Hearing Aid Dealers and Fitters Board|§ 93D-14 - Persons not affected.

 93D-14. Persons not affected.(a) Nothing in this Chapter shall apply to a physician licensed to practice medicine or surgery in the State of North Carolina.(b) Any person who meets the requirements of having both a doctoral degree in Audiology and holding a valid permanent license as an audiologist under Article 22 of Chapter 90 of the General Statutes of North Carolina is exempt from licensure under this Chapter. A person who does not meet both requirements of having a doctoral degree in Audiology and holding a valid permanent license as an audiologist under Article 22 of Chapter 90 of the General Statutes of North Carolina must become a registered apprentice or be licensed by the Board before fitting or selling hearing aids in the State of North Carolina.(c) Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to exempt an audiology assistant or certified technician, working under the supervision of a licensee or a person exempt from licensure under this Chapter, from being subject to the provisions of this Chapter. Such a person, before engaging in fitting or selling hearing aids, as defined in this Chapter, must be registered as an apprentice under a Registered Sponsor or be licensed by the Board.(d) The provisions of this Chapter shall not apply to the activities and services of an audiology student pursuing a course of study in an accredited college or university, if these activities and services constitute a part of such person's course of study.  (1969, c. 999; 2011-311, s. 12.)
NC Gen Stat § 93D-15 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 93D - North Carolina State Hearing Aid Dealers and Fitters Board|§ 93D-15 - Violation of Chapter.

 93D-15. Violation of Chapter.Any person who violates any of the provisions of this Chapter and any person who holds himself out to the public as a hearing aid specialist without having first obtained a license or apprenticeship registration as provided for herein is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.  (1969, c. 999; 1981, c. 601, s. 20; 1993, c. 539, s. 660; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c); 2013-410, s. 32.5(j); 2014-115, s. 42.3(c).)
NC Gen Stat § 93D-16 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 93D - North Carolina State Hearing Aid Dealers and Fitters Board|§ 93D-16 - Severability.

 93D-16. Severability.If any provision of the Chapter shall be declared unconstitutional or invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or the application of the Chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provisions. To this end, the provisions of this Chapter are declared to be severable. (1969, c. 999.)
NC Gen Stat § 98-1 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 98 - Burnt and Lost Records|§ 98-1 - Copy of destroyed record as evidence; may be recorded.

 98-1. Copy of destroyed record as evidence; may be recorded.When the office of any registry is destroyed by fire or other accident, and the records and other papers thereof are burnt or destroyed, the copies of all such proceedings, instruments and papers as are of record or registry, certified by the proper officer, though without the seal of office, shall be received in evidence whenever the original or duly certified exemplifications would be. Such copies, when the court is satisfied of their genuineness, may be ordered to be recorded or registered. (1865-6, c. 41, ss. 1, 2; Code, s. 55; Rev., s. 327; C.S., s. 365.)
NC Gen Stat § 98-2 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 98 - Burnt and Lost Records|§ 98-2 - Originals may be again recorded.

 98-2. Originals may be again recorded.All original papers, once admitted to record or registry, whereof the record or registry is destroyed, may, on motion, be again recorded or registered, on such proof as the court shall require. (1865-6, c. 41, s. 3; Code, s. 56; Rev., s. 328; C.S., s. 366.)
NC Gen Stat § 98-3 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 98 - Burnt and Lost Records|§ 98-3 - Establishing boundaries and interest, where conveyance and copy lost.

 98-3. Establishing boundaries and interest, where conveyance and copy lost.When any conveyance of real estate, or of any right or interest therein, is lost, the registry thereof being also destroyed, any person claiming under the same may cause the boundaries thereof to be established in the manner provided in the Chapter entitled Boundaries, or he may proceed in the following manner to establish both the boundaries and the nature of his estate:He shall file his petition before the clerk of the superior court, setting forth the whole substance of the conveyance as truly and specifically as he can, the location and boundaries of his land, whose land it adjoins, the estate claimed therein, and a prayer to have his own boundaries established and the nature of his estate declared.All persons claiming any estate in the premises, and those whose lands adjoin, shall be notified of the proceedings. Unless they or some of them, by answer on oath, deny the truth of all or some of the matters alleged, the clerk shall order a surveyor to run and designate the boundaries of the petitioner's land, and return his survey, with a plot thereof, to the court. This, when confirmed, shall, with the declaration of the court as to the nature of the estate of the petitioner, be registered and have, as to the persons notified, the effect of a deed for the same, executed by the person possessed of the same next before the petitioner. But in all cases, however, wherein the process of surveying is disputed, and the surveyor is forbidden to proceed by any person interested, the same proceedings shall be had as under the Chapter entitled Boundaries.If any of the persons notified deny by answer the truth of the conveyance, the clerk shall transfer the issues of fact to the superior court, to be tried as other issues of fact are required by law to be tried; and on the verdict and the pleadings the judge shall adjudge the rights of the parties, and declare the contents of the deed, if any deed is found by the jury, and allow the registration of such judgment and declaration, which shall have the force and effect of a deed. (1865-6, c. 41, s. 3; Code, s. 56; Rev., s. 328; C.S., s. 367; 1973, c. 108, s. 44.)
NC Gen Stat § 98-4 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 98 - Burnt and Lost Records|§ 98-4 - Copy of lost will may be probated.

 98-4. Copy of lost will may be probated.In counties where the original wills on file in the office of the clerk of superior court, and will books containing copies, are lost or destroyed, if the executor or any other person has preserved a copy of a will (the original being so lost or destroyed) with a certificate appended, signed by a clerk of the court in whose office the will was, or is required to be filed, stating that said copy is a correct one, this copy may be admitted to probate, under the same rules and in the same manner as now prescribed by law for proving wills. The proceedings in such cases shall be the same as though such copy was the original offered for the first time for probate, except that the clerk who signed such certificate shall, on oath, acknowledge his signature, or in case it appears that he has died or left the State, then his signature shall be proved by a competent witness; and the witness or witnesses to the original, who may be examined, shall be required to swear that he or they signed in the presence of the testator and by his direction a paper-writing purporting to be his last will and testament. (1868-69, c. 160, s. 1; Code, s. 57; Rev., s. 329; C.S., s. 368.)
NC Gen Stat § 98-5 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 98 - Burnt and Lost Records|§ 98-5 - Copy of lost will as evidence; letters to issue.

 98-5. Copy of lost will as evidence; letters to issue.In any action or proceeding at law, where it becomes necessary to introduce such will to establish title, or for any other purpose, a copy of the will and of the record of the probate, with a certificate signed by the clerk of the superior court for the county where the will may be recorded, stating that said record and copy are full and correct, shall be admitted as competent evidence; and when a copy of a will is admitted to probate, the clerk shall thereupon issue letters testamentary. (1868-69, c. 160, s. 2; Code, s. 58; Rev., s. 330; C.S., s. 369.)
NC Gen Stat § 98-6 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 98 - Burnt and Lost Records|§ 98-6 - Establishing contents of will, where original and copy destroyed.

 98-6. Establishing contents of will, where original and copy destroyed.Any person desirous of establishing the contents of a will destroyed as aforesaid, there being no copy thereof, may file a petition in the office of the clerk of the superior court, setting forth the entire contents thereof, according to the best of the person's knowledge, information and belief. All persons having an interest under the same shall be made parties, and if the truth of such petition is denied, the issues of fact shall be transferred to the superior court for trial by a jury, whether the will was recorded, and if so recorded, the contents thereof, and the declarations of the judge shall be recorded as the will of the testator. Any devisee is a competent witness as to the contents of every part of said will, except such as may concern his own interest in the same.  (1865-6, c. 41, s. 4; Code, s. 59; Rev., s. 331; C.S., s. 370; 1973, c. 108, s. 45; 2011-284, s. 68.)
NC Gen Stat § 98-7 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 98 - Burnt and Lost Records|§ 98-7 - Perpetuating destroyed judgments and proceedings.

 98-7. Perpetuating destroyed judgments and proceedings.Every person desirous of perpetuating the contents of destroyed judgments, orders or proceedings of court, or any paper admitted to record or registration, or directed to be filed for safekeeping, other than wills or conveyances of real estate, or some right or interest therein, or any deed or other instrument of writing, required to be recorded or registered, but not having been recorded or registered, it being competent to register or record said deed or other instrument at the time of its loss or destruction, may file his petition in the court having jurisdiction of like matters with the original proceeding, setting forth the substance of the whole record, deed, proceeding, or paper, which he desires to perpetuate. If, on the hearing, the court shall declare the existence of such record, deed, or proceeding, or paper at the time of the burning of the office wherein the same was lodged or kept, or other destruction thereof, and that the same was there destroyed, and shall declare the contents thereof, such declaration shall be recorded or registered, or filed, according to the nature of the paper destroyed. (1865-6, c. 41, s. 5; Code, s. 60; Rev., s. 332; C.S., s. 371.)
NC Gen Stat § 98-8 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 98 - Burnt and Lost Records|§ 98-8 - Color of title under destroyed instrument.

 98-8. Color of title under destroyed instrument.Every person who has been in the continual, peaceable and quiet possession of land, tenements, or hereditaments, situated in the county, claiming, using and occupying them as his own, for the space of seven years, under known boundaries, the title thereto being out of the State, is deemed to have been lawfully possessed, under color of title, of such estate therein as has been claimed by him during his possession, although he may exhibit no conveyance therefor: Provided, that such possession commenced before the destruction of the registry office, or other destruction as aforesaid, and also that any such person, or any person claiming by, through or under him, makes affidavit and produces such proof as is satisfactory to the court that the possession was rightfully taken; and if taken under a written conveyance, that the registry thereof was destroyed by fire or other means, or was destroyed before registry as aforesaid, and that neither the original nor any copy thereof is in existence: Provided further, that such presumption shall not arise against infants, persons of nonsane memory, and persons residing out of the State, who were such at the time of possession taken, and were not therefore barred, nor were so barred at the time of the burning of the office or other destruction. (1865-6, c. 41, s. 6; Code, s. 61; Rev., s. 333; C.S., s. 372.)
NC Gen Stat § 98-9 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 98 - Burnt and Lost Records|§ 98-9 - Action on destroyed bond.

 98-9. Action on destroyed bond.Actions on official or other bonds lodged in any office which are destroyed with the registry thereof may be prosecuted by petition against the principal and sureties thereto, and the proceedings shall be as in the former courts of equity. (1865-6, c. 41, s. 7; Code, s. 62; Rev., s. 334; C.S., s. 373.)
NC Gen Stat § 98-10 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 98 - Burnt and Lost Records|§ 98-10 - Destroyed witness tickets; duplicates may be filed.

 98-10. Destroyed witness tickets; duplicates may be filed.The court having jurisdiction of the action may allow other witness tickets to be filed in place of such as may be destroyed, upon the oath of the witness or other satisfactory proof. (1865-6, c. 41, s. 8; Code, s. 63; Rev., s. 335; C.S., s. 374.)
NC Gen Stat § 98-11 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 98 - Burnt and Lost Records|§ 98-11 - Replacing lost official conveyances.

 98-11. Replacing lost official conveyances.Where any conveyance executed by any person, sheriff, clerk and master, or commissioner of court has been lost, and registry thereof destroyed as aforesaid, and there is no copy thereof, such persons, whether in or out of office, may execute another of like tenor and date, reciting therein that the same is a duplicate, and such deed shall be evidence of the facts therein recited, in all cases wherein the parties thereto are dead, or are incompetent witnesses to prove the same, to the extent as if it was the original conveyance. (1865-6, c. 41, s. 9; Code, s. 64; Rev., s. 336; C.S., s. 375.)
NC Gen Stat § 98-12 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 98 - Burnt and Lost Records|§ 98-12 - Court records as proof of destroyed instruments set out therein.

 98-12. Court records as proof of destroyed instruments set out therein.The records of any court in or out of the State, and all transcripts of such records, and the exhibits filed therewith in any case, are admissible to prove the existence and contents of all deeds, wills, conveyances, depositions and other papers, copies whereof are therein set forth or exhibited, in all cases where the records and registry of such as were or ought to have been recorded and registered, or the originals of such as were not proper to be recorded or registered, have been destroyed as aforesaid, although such transcripts or exhibits have been informally certified; and when offered in evidence have the like effect as though the transcript or record was the record of the court whose records are destroyed, and the deeds, wills and conveyances, depositions and other papers therein copied or therewith exhibited were original. (1865-6, c. 41, s. 10; Code, s. 65; Rev., s. 337; C.S., s. 376.)
NC Gen Stat § 98-13 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 98 - Burnt and Lost Records|§ 98-13 - Copies contained in court records may be recorded.

 98-13. Copies contained in court records may be recorded.The copies aforesaid of all such deeds, wills, conveyances and other instruments proper to be recorded or registered, as are mentioned in G.S. 98-12, may be recorded or registered on application to the clerk of the superior court and due proof that the original thereof was genuine. (1865-6, c. 41, s. 11; Code, s. 66; Rev., s. 338; C.S., s. 377.)