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WY Stat § 33-31-101 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 33 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 31 - Warehousemen, Bonded|Section 33-31-101 - Operation Authorized; Filing and Execution of Bond; Action Upon Bond; Additional Bond.

33-31-101. Operation authorized; filing and execution of bond; action upon bond; additional bond.| Any warehouseman as provided by W.S. 34-17-101 through 34-17-106 may operate his business under said chapter as a bonded warehouseman upon filing a bond as herein provided in the office of the county clerk in the county wherein may be situated his principal warehouse, tanks, or other place of storage. Such bond shall run to the state of Wyoming and be in a principal sum of not less than two thousand dollars ($2,000.00), and conditioned that said warehouseman shall conduct his business in compliance with the provisions of W.S. 34-17-101 through 34-17-106, and shall be good for a stated term of not less than one (1) year from the date thereof. Said bond shall be executed by such warehouseman as principal and by a corporate surety company authorized to transact business under the laws of the state of Wyoming as surety, or by two (2) sureties, residents of this state, who shall be severally and jointly liable on said bond and who shall each justify before said county clerk as provided in W.S. 1-1-105. Anyone injured by reason of a violation of the conditions of said bond may bring suit thereon and recover the amount of damages sustained not in excess of the principal sum of said bond; and if said bond shall become impaired by reason of recovery of damages or for other reason during its term such warehouseman shall file an additional bond sufficient to make good such impairments.
WY Stat § 33-31-102 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 33 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 31 - Warehousemen, Bonded|Section 33-31-102 - Business Permitted After Approval and Filing; Renewal of Bonds or New Bonds.

33-31-102. Business permitted after approval and filing; renewal of bonds or new bonds.| Upon the approval and filing of said bond by the county clerk and during the term thereof while the principal sum therein is not impaired such warehouseman may conduct his business under W.S. 34-17-101 through 34-17-106 as a bonded warehouseman, and he may thereafter so continue as a bonded warehouseman by filing renewals of said bond or new bonds for stated terms of not less than one (1) year.
WY Stat § 33-32-101 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 33 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 32 - Eye Care Practitioners|Section 33-32-101 - Interference With Selection of Eye Care Practitioners Prohibited.

33-32-101. Interference with selection of eye care practitioners prohibited.| No person, department, commission, board, official, employee, or agency of the state of Wyoming or any county, municipality, school district or other subdivision of the state of Wyoming, or any other state or county agency or any other governmental unit of any kind or character shall interfere with any patient's exercise of freedom of choice in the selection of practitioners licensed to perform examinations for refractions and visual training and visual corrections within the specific area for which their state licenses entitle them to practice.
WY Stat § 33-34-101 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 33 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 34 - Licensing of Clinical Laboratories and Blood Banks|Section 33-34-101 - Definitions.

33-34-101. Definitions.| (a) As used in this act:  (i) "Blood bank" means a facility for the collection, processing or storage of human blood or blood derivatives, but shall not include such a facility located in a memorial, district or private hospital;  (ii) "Clinical laboratory" means any facility for the microbiological, serological, chemical, hematological, biophysical, cytological or pathological examination of materials derived from the human body for the purpose of obtaining information for the diagnosis, prevention or treatment of disease or the assessment of medical condition;  (iii) "Laboratory director" means the person who is responsible for administration of the technical and scientific operation of a clinical laboratory or blood bank, including supervision of procedures and reporting of findings of tests;  (iv) "Laboratory reference system" means a system of periodic testing of methods, procedures and materials of clinical laboratories and blood banks, including without limitation the distribution of manuals of approved methods, inspection of facilities, cooperative research and periodic submission of test specimens for examination;  (v) "State agency" means the Wyoming department of health;  (vi) "This act" means W.S. 33-34-101 and 33-34-107.
WY Stat § 33-34-107 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 33 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 34 - Licensing of Clinical Laboratories and Blood Banks|Section 33-34-107 - Acceptance, Collection, Identification and Examination of Specimens.

33-34-107. Acceptance, collection, identification and examination of specimens.| (a) A clinical laboratory may examine human specimens at the request of a licensed physician, dentist or other person authorized by law to use the findings of laboratory examinations. A clinical laboratory may examine human specimens at the request of any person for the purpose of testing and analysis and a licensed physician or other authorized person shall not be required to collect the specimens as provided under subsection (d) of this section.  (b) The results of a test shall only be reported to or as directed by the person who requested it. The reports shall include the name of the laboratory director and the name and address of the clinical laboratory in which the test was actually performed.  (c) All specimens accepted by a clinical laboratory shall be tested on the premises unless forwarded to another properly licensed clinical laboratory. Any tests made outside Wyoming must be made by a laboratory having a valid federal interstate license.  (d) Only a licensed physician or an authorized person may collect specimens.  (e) Subsection (d) of this section shall not apply to a direct to consumer test. For the purpose of this subsection and as further defined by the department of health, a "direct to consumer test" means a diagnostic device that is marketed directly to consumers, where the consumer initiates the testing process and collects their own human specimen for the purpose of testing and analysis by a clinical laboratory.
WY Stat § 33-35-101 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 33 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 35 - Hearing Aid Specialist Licensure|Section 33-35-101 - Short Title.

33-35-101. Short title.| This act shall be known as the "Hearing Aid Specialist Licensure Act".
WY Stat § 33-35-102 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 33 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 35 - Hearing Aid Specialist Licensure|Section 33-35-102 - Definitions.

33-35-102. Definitions.| (a) As used in this act:  (i) "Board" means the board of hearing aid specialists;  (ii) "Hearing aid" means any instrument or device designed to be worn on the person for the purpose of aiding or compensating for impaired human hearing and any parts, attachments or accessories, including an earmold, but excluding batteries and cords;  (iii) "Hearing aid specialist" or "hearing aid dealer" means a person who specializes in either the fitting, dealing or dispensing of hearing aids; the hearing aid dealer is synonymous to a hearing aid specialist;  (iv) "Permittee" means a person who is in training or awaiting examination to become a licensed hearing aid specialist;  (v) "Practice of either dispensing or fitting hearing aids" means the commercial or noncommercial selection, adaptation and sale of hearing aids, and includes the testing of hearing for these purposes. The testing of hearing shall include the test whether or not a hearing aid shall be recommended as needed. The practice also includes the making of impressions for earmolds and counseling and instruction pertaining to the selection, fitting, adaptation or sale of hearing aids;  (vi) "Sell" or "sale" means any transfer of title or of the right to use by lease, bailment or any other means, excluding wholesale transactions with distributors or dealers;  (vii) "Temporary permit" means a permit issued while the applicant is in training or awaiting examination to become a licensed hearing aid specialist;  (viii) "This act" means W.S. 33-35-101 through 33-35-121.
WY Stat § 33-35-103 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 33 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 35 - Hearing Aid Specialist Licensure|Section 33-35-103 - License Required to Sell, Dispense or Fit Hearing Aids.

33-35-103. License required to sell, dispense or fit hearing aids.| (a) After July 1, 1977 anyone involved in either the direct or indirect sale or distribution of hearing aids shall be licensed under this act. The license shall be conspicuously posted in the licensee's office or place of business. Duplicate licenses shall be issued by the board to valid license holders operating more than one (1) office, without additional payment. A license under this act confers upon the holder the right to select, fit or sell hearing aids.  (b) Nothing in this act prohibits a corporation, partnership, trust, association or like organization maintaining an established business address from engaging in the business of fitting, dispensing, selling or offering for sale hearing aids at retail without a license, if it employs only properly licensed persons in the direct sale or fitting of such products. Such corporations, partnerships, trusts, associations or like organizations shall file annually with the board a list of all licensed hearing aid specialists directly or indirectly employed by it.
WY Stat § 33-35-104 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 33 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 35 - Hearing Aid Specialist Licensure|Section 33-35-104 - Receipt Required to Be Furnished to Person Supplied With Hearing Aid.

33-35-104. Receipt required to be furnished to person supplied with hearing aid.| (a) Any person who fits, dispenses or sells hearing aids shall deliver to each person supplied with a hearing aid a receipt containing the licensee's signature, his business address and the number of his certificate, together with specifications as to the make, model and serial number of the hearing aid furnished and full terms of sale clearly stated. If a hearing aid which is not new is sold, the receipt and the container shall be clearly marked "used" or "reconditioned", whichever is applicable, and the receipt shall state any terms of guarantee.  (b) This receipt shall bear in no smaller type than the largest used in the body copy portion the following: "The purchaser has been advised that any examination or representations made by a licensed hearing aid specialist in connection with either the fitting or selling of this hearing aid is not an examination, diagnosis or prescription by a person licensed to practice medicine in this state and shall not be regarded as medical opinion."
WY Stat § 33-35-105 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 33 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 35 - Hearing Aid Specialist Licensure|Section 33-35-105 - Criteria for Medical Referral.

33-35-105. Criteria for medical referral.| (a) Wherever any of the following conditions are found to exist either from observations by the licensee or permittee [or] on the basis of information furnished by the prospective hearing aid user, a licensee or permittee shall, prior to either fitting, dispensing or selling a hearing aid, recommend in writing that the prospective user's best interest would be served if he would consult a licensed physician specializing in diseases of the ear or, if no such specialist is available in the community, any licensed physician:  (i) Visible congenital or traumatic deformity of the ear;  (ii) History of or active drainage from the ear within the previous ninety (90) days;  (iii) History of sudden or rapidly progressive hearing loss within the previous ninety (90) days;  (iv) Acute or chronic dizziness;  (v) Unilateral hearing loss of sudden or recent onset within the previous ninety (90) days;  (vi) Significant air-bone gap when generally acceptable standards have been established;  (vii) Visible evidence of cerumen accumulation or a foreign body in the ear canal.  (b) A person receiving the written recommendation who elects to purchase a hearing aid without the recommended consultation shall sign a written acknowledgment of the recommendation which shall be kept by the licensee for at least seven (7) years. Nothing in this section required to be performed by a licensee shall be construed to mean that the licensee is engaged in the diagnosis of illness or the practice of medicine.  (c) Any person engaging in the fitting, dispensing or sale of hearing aids shall, when dealing with a child sixteen (16) years of age or under, ascertain whether the child has been examined by an otolaryngologist or licensed clinical audiologist within three (3) months prior to the fitting. If such is not the case it shall be unlawful to sell a hearing aid to a child.  (d) The provisions of subsection (c) of this section shall not be applicable for any child whose parent or guardian submits written objection to such procedure.
WY Stat § 33-35-106 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 33 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 35 - Hearing Aid Specialist Licensure|Section 33-35-106 - Persons and Practices Not Affected.

33-35-106. Persons and practices not affected.| (a) This act does not apply to a person who is a physician or a clinical audiologist licensed to practice in Wyoming as long as he is not involved in the direct or indirect sale or distribution of hearing aids.  (b) This act is not intended to prevent any person from engaging in the practice of measuring human hearing and the selection of hearing aids if the person or the organization employing this person does not either dispense or sell hearing aids or accessories thereto, except in the case of earmolds.
WY Stat § 33-35-107 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 33 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 35 - Hearing Aid Specialist Licensure|Section 33-35-107 - License by Experience.

33-35-107. License by experience.| For a period of six (6) months following the effective date of this act, applicants for license shall be issued a license provided that applicant is an adult as defined in W.S. 14-1-101 and has been principally engaged in distributing or fitting hearing aids in Wyoming for at least two (2) years within the three (3) years immediately prior to the effective date of this act.
WY Stat § 33-35-108 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 33 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 35 - Hearing Aid Specialist Licensure|Section 33-35-108 - Issuance of License and Certificate of Endorsement.

33-35-108. Issuance of license and certificate of endorsement.| (a) The board shall issue a license, signed by the board, to each applicant without discrimination who satisfactorily passes the experience requirements provided in W.S. 33-35-107 or passes an examination as provided in W.S. 33-35-109 and upon receipt of payment for the license. The license is effective until January 30 of the year following the year in which issued.  (b) The board may issue certificates of endorsement to applicants who hold current, valid certificates or licenses to fit, dispense or sell hearing aids issued by another state whenever the board determines that the other state has requirements and programs for determining whether applicants are qualified to dispense or fit hearing aids that are equivalent or more stringent than those in effect in Wyoming. No applicant for a certificate of endorsement shall be required to undergo a qualifying examination pursuant to W.S. 33-35-108 and 33-35-113. The holder of a certificate of endorsement shall be registered in the same manner as licensees. The fee for an initial certificate of endorsement shall be the same as the fee for an initial license. Fees, grounds for renewal and procedures for the suspension and revocation of certificates of endorsement shall be the same as for renewal, suspension and revocation of a license.
WY Stat § 33-35-109 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 33 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 35 - Hearing Aid Specialist Licensure|Section 33-35-109 - License by Examination.

33-35-109. License by examination.| (a) Applicants who do not meet the experience qualification on the effective date of this act may obtain a license by successfully passing a qualifying examination, provided the applicant:  (i) Is an adult as defined in W.S. 14-1-101;  (ii) Has an education equivalent to a four (4) year course in an accredited high school.  (b) Applicants for license by examination shall appear at a time, place and before persons that the board designates, to be examined by written and practical tests in order to demonstrate their qualification to practice the dispensing, fitting or sale of hearing aids. The examination shall not require college training, and nothing in the examination shall imply that the applicant possesses the degree of medical competence normally expected of physicians.  (c) Examinations shall be offered by the board at least twice a year.
WY Stat § 33-35-110 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 33 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 35 - Hearing Aid Specialist Licensure|Section 33-35-110 - Temporary Permit.

33-35-110. Temporary permit.| (a) An applicant who fulfills the requirements set forth in W.S. 33-35-109(a), may obtain a temporary permit upon application to the board. Previous experience or a waiting period is not required to obtain a temporary permit.  (b) Upon receiving an application accompanied by a fee set by the board pursuant to W.S. 33-1-201, the board shall issue a temporary permit entitling the applicant to engage in either the fitting, dispensing or sale of hearing aids for a period of one (1) year. A person holding a valid hearing aid specialist license is responsible for the supervision and training of an applicant operating under a temporary permit.  (c) The board shall issue a temporary permit for use without supervision by a licensee, to an applicant entering into a hearing aid dealership as sole owner, principal of a firm or as an employee-manager of a corporation if he fulfills the requirements of W.S. 33-35-109(a), and has been principally engaged in the practice of fitting, dispensing or dealing in hearing aids for at least two (2) years within the three (3) years immediately prior to the application.  (d) If a person who holds a temporary permit under subsection (b) of this section has not successfully passed the licensing examination within one (1) year from the date of issuance, the temporary permit may be renewed once upon payment of a fee as set by the board pursuant to W.S. 33-1-201. This renewal shall not be granted to holders of temporary permits under subsection (c) of this section.
WY Stat § 33-35-111 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 33 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 35 - Hearing Aid Specialist Licensure|Section 33-35-111 - Scope of Examination.

33-35-111. Scope of examination.| (a) The qualifying examination provided in W.S. 33-35-108 shall be designed to demonstrate the applicant's technical qualifications by:  (i) Tests of knowledge in the following areas as they pertain to the fitting and sale of hearing aids:  (A) Basic physics of sound;  (B) The anatomy and physiology of the ear;  (C) The function of hearing aids;  (D) Knowledge and understanding of the grounds for revocation, suspension or probation of a license;  (E) Knowledge and understanding of criminal offenses associated with violations of this act.  (ii) Practical tests of proficiency in the following techniques as they pertain to the fitting of hearing aids:  (A) The procedures and use of equipment designed for the fitting of hearing aids;  (B) Taking earmold impressions;  (C) Measurement of hearing as it pertains to the fitting of hearing aids;  (D) Recording and evaluation of audiograms and speech audiometry to determine proper selection and adaptation of a hearing aid.  (iii) Evidence of knowledge regarding the medical and rehabilitation facilities for individuals with impaired hearing that are available in the area served.
WY Stat § 33-35-112 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 33 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 35 - Hearing Aid Specialist Licensure|Section 33-35-112 - Notice of Place of Business; Service of Notice.

33-35-112. Notice of place of business; service of notice.| (a) Every licensee shall notify the board in writing of his principal place of business in which he intends to engage in the fitting, dispensing or selling of hearing aids.  (b) The board shall keep a record of the place of business of licensees.  (c) Any notice required to be given by the board to a person who holds a license shall be mailed to him by certified mail at the address of the last known place of business.
WY Stat § 33-35-113 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 33 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 35 - Hearing Aid Specialist Licensure|Section 33-35-113 - Annual Renewal of License; Fees; Effect of Failure to Renew.

33-35-113. Annual renewal of license; fees; effect of failure to renew.| Each person who engages in the fitting, dispensing or sale of hearing aids shall annually, on or before January 30, pay to the board a fee as set by the board pursuant to W.S. 33-1-201 for renewal of his license and shall keep the certificate conspicuously posted in his office or place of business at all times. Where more than one (1) office is operated by the licensee, duplicate certificates shall be issued by the board for posting in each location. A thirty (30) day grace period shall be allowed after January 30, during which time licenses may be renewed on payment of an additional fee as set by the board pursuant to W.S. 33-1-201. After expiration of the grace period, the board may renew a certificate upon payment of an additional fee as set by the board pursuant to W.S. 33-1-201. No person who applies for renewal, whose license has expired, shall be required to submit to any examination as a condition to renewal, if the renewal application is made within two (2) years from the date of expiration. Receipt of a certificate of calibration of audiometer must accompany renewal of license.
WY Stat § 33-35-114 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 33 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 35 - Hearing Aid Specialist Licensure|Section 33-35-114 - Continuing Education.

33-35-114. Continuing education.| (a) On and after January 1, 1978, each hearing aid specialist applying for a renewal of his license shall furnish to the board evidence that during the preceding year he has completed one (1) of the following continuing education programs:  (i) Educational programs conducted by the board;  (ii) Board approved training schools conducted by hearing aid manufacturers for their representatives;  (iii) Board approved training sessions conducted by the National Hearing Aid Society; or  (iv) Other educational means approved by the board.  (b) The amount of continued education shall be determined by the rules and regulations of the board. The board shall send a written notice to this effect to every person holding a valid license at least thirty (30) days prior to the license renewal date each year, directed to the last known address of the licensee.  (c) In the event that any licensee shall fail to meet the annual educational requirement, his license shall not be renewed by the board, but the board may renew the license upon the presentation of satisfactory evidence of educational study of a standard approved by the board and upon the payment of all fees due.