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Ohio Rev Code § 4747.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 47 | Occupations-Professions|Chapter 4747 | Hearing Aid Dealers|Section 4747.06 | License Renewal - Continuing Education.

Effective: April 5, 2019|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 420 - 132nd General Assembly|(A) (1) Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section and section 4747.12 of the Revised Code, a hearing aid dealer's or fitter's license issued or renewed by the state speech and hearing professionals board under this chapter shall be renewed biennially not later than the thirty-first day of December in each even-numbered year and in accordance with the standard renewal procedure specified in Chapter 4745. of the Revised Code. The board shall issue to each applicant, on receipt of a renewal application, proof of completion of the continuing education required by division (B) of this section, payment of a renewal fee, and, if applicable, a late fee established by the board in rules adopted under section 4747.04 of the Revised Code, a renewed hearing aid dealer's or fitter's license. No person who applies for renewal of a hearing aid dealer's or fitter's license that has expired shall be required to take any examination as a condition of renewal provided application for renewal is made within two years of the date such license expired.  (2) A person issued a license described in division (C)(2) of section 4747.05 of the Revised Code shall renew that license in accordance with the standard renewal procedure before it expires as described in that division. After the first renewal, the license shall be renewed in accordance with division (A)(1) of this section. (B) Each person engaged in the practice of dealing in or fitting of hearing aids who holds a valid hearing aid dealer's or fitter's license shall complete not less than twenty hours of continuing professional education approved by the board during each two-year period. On a form provided by the board, the person shall certify to the board, at the time of license renewal pursuant to division (A) of this section, that the person has completed continuing education in compliance with this division and shall submit any additional information required by rule of the board regarding the continuing education. The board shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing the standards continuing education programs must meet to obtain board approval and continuing education reporting requirements.  Continuing education may be applied to meet the requirement of this division if it is provided or certified by any of the following:  (1) The international hearing society; (2) The American speech-language hearing association;(3) The American academy of audiology.The board may excuse persons licensed under this chapter, as a group or as individuals, from all or any part of the requirements of this division because of an unusual circumstance, emergency, or special hardship.
Ohio Rev Code § 4747.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 47 | Occupations-Professions|Chapter 4747 | Hearing Aid Dealers|Section 4747.07 | Display of License - Duplicate Copies of License.

Effective: April 5, 2019|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 420 - 132nd General Assembly|Each person who holds a hearing aid dealer's or fitter's license and engages in the practice of dealing in and fitting of hearing aids shall display such license in a conspicuous place in the person's office or place of business at all times. Each person who maintains more than one office or place of business shall post a duplicate copy of the license at each location. The state speech and hearing professionals board shall issue duplicate copies of a license upon request by the license holder and receipt of any fee established by the board in rules adopted under section 4747.04 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 4747.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 47 | Occupations-Professions|Chapter 4747 | Hearing Aid Dealers|Section 4747.08 | Qualifying Examination.

Effective: April 5, 2019|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 420 - 132nd General Assembly|No person shall be issued a hearing aid dealer's or fitter's license unless such person has successfully taken and passed a qualifying examination. The qualifying examination shall be a thorough testing of knowledge required for the proper selecting, fitting, and sale of hearing aids, but shall not be such that a medical or surgical education is required for successful completion. It shall consist of written and practical portions which shall include, but not be limited to, the following areas: (A) Basic physics of sound;(B) The anatomy and physiology of the human ear;(C) The function and purpose of hearing aids;(D) Pure tone audiometry, including air conduction and bone conduction testing;(E) Live voice or recorded voice speech audiometry, including speech reception threshold testing and speech discrimination testing;(F) Masking techniques;(G) Recording and evaluation of audiograms and speech audiometry to determine proper selection and adaption of hearing aids;(H) Earmold impression techniques. The state speech and hearing professionals board shall establish the nature and scope of qualifying examinations that the board determines necessary under this chapter. It shall administer qualifying examinations and shall designate the time, place, and date the examinations are held. The board shall also furnish all materials and equipment necessary for the conducting of qualifying examinations.  Test materials, examinations, answer keys, or evaluation tools used in a qualifying examination under this chapter, whether administered by the board or by a private or government entity pursuant to a contract, are not public records under section 149.43 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 4747.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 47 | Occupations-Professions|Chapter 4747 | Hearing Aid Dealers|Section 4747.09 | Hearing Aid Receipt; Recommendation for Examination of Persons Under Sixteen.

Effective: April 5, 2019|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 420 - 132nd General Assembly|(A) Each licensed hearing aid dealer or fitter shall furnish each person supplied with a hearing aid a receipt that complies with rules adopted by the state speech and hearing professionals board under section 4747.04 of the Revised Code.(B) Each licensed hearing aid dealer or fitter shall, when dealing with a child sixteen years of age or less, ascertain whether such child has been examined by an otolaryngologist prior to being fitted for a hearing aid. If the licensee determines that such examination has not taken place, the licensee shall recommend to the person legally responsible for the custody of such child that such examination take place and shall so state on a waiver to be specified by the board.
Ohio Rev Code § 4747.10 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 47 | Occupations-Professions|Chapter 4747 | Hearing Aid Dealers|Section 4747.10 | Permit Qualifications.

Effective: October 9, 2021|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 263 - 133rd General Assembly|Each person currently engaged in training to become a licensed hearing aid dealer or fitter shall apply to the state speech and hearing professionals board for a hearing aid dealer's and fitter's trainee permit. The board shall issue to each applicant within thirty days of receipt of a properly completed application and payment of an application fee set by the board in rules adopted under section 4747.04 of the Revised Code, a trainee permit if such applicant meets all of the following criteria: (A) Is at least eighteen years of age; (B) Is the holder of a diploma from an accredited high school or a certificate of high school equivalence issued by the department of education; (C) Is free of contagious or infectious disease. The board shall not deny a trainee permit issued under this section to any individual based on the individual's past criminal history unless the denial is in accordance with section 9.79 of the Revised Code.  In considering a renewal of an individual's trainee permit, the board shall not consider any conviction or plea of guilty prior to the issuance of the initial trainee permit. However, the board may consider a conviction or plea of guilty if it occurred after the individual was initially granted the trainee permit, or after the most recent trainee permit renewal. The board shall comply with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code when denying an individual for a trainee permit or renewal. Additionally, the board may grant an individual a conditional trainee permit that lasts for one year. After the one-year period has expired, the permit is no longer considered conditional, and the individual shall be considered to be granted a full trainee permit.  Each trainee permit issued by the board expires one year from the date it was first issued, and may be renewed once if the trainee has not successfully completed the qualifying requirements for licensing as a hearing aid dealer or fitter before the expiration date of such permit. The board shall issue a renewed permit to each applicant upon receipt of a properly completed application and payment of a renewal fee set by the board in rules adopted under section 4747.04 of the Revised Code. No person holding a trainee permit shall engage in the practice of dealing in or fitting of hearing aids except while under supervision by a licensed hearing aid dealer or fitter. Last updated October 9, 2021 at 5:44 AM
Ohio Rev Code § 4747.11 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 47 | Occupations-Professions|Chapter 4747 | Hearing Aid Dealers|Section 4747.11 | Notice of Change of Address.

Effective: April 5, 2019|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 420 - 132nd General Assembly|Each person who holds a hearing aid dealer's or fitter's license or trainee permit shall notify the state speech and hearing professionals board in writing of the place or places where the person engages or intends to engage in the practice of dealing in and fitting of hearing aids, and shall notify the board in writing of any change in such address or addresses in accordance with rules the board adopts under section 4747.04 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 4747.13 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 47 | Occupations-Professions|Chapter 4747 | Hearing Aid Dealers|Section 4747.13 | Complaints.

Effective: April 5, 2019|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 420 - 132nd General Assembly|(A) Any person who wishes to make a complaint against any person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation licensed pursuant to this chapter shall submit such complaint in writing to the state speech and hearing professionals board within one year from the date of the action or event upon which the complaint is based. The board shall determine whether the charges in the complaint warrant disciplinary action. If the board determines that disciplinary action is warranted, then it shall proceed in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.(B) The board shall investigate any alleged irregularities in the sale or practice of dealing in or fitting hearing aids by persons licensed or permitted under this chapter and any violations of this chapter or rules adopted by the board. The board shall not investigate any person exempted from licensure by section 4747.15 of the Revised Code, provided the person is acting within the scope of the person's license. In conducting investigations under this division, the board may administer oaths, order the taking of depositions, issue subpoenas, and compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, accounts, papers, records, documents, and testimony. In any case of disobedience or neglect of any subpoena served on any person or the refusal of any witness to testify to any matter regarding which the witness may lawfully be interrogated, the court of common pleas of any county where that disobedience, neglect, or refusal occurs or any judge thereof, on application by the board, shall compel obedience by attachment proceedings for contempt, as in the case of disobedience of the requirements of a subpoena issued from the court, or a refusal to testify therein.(C) The board shall petition the court of common pleas of the county in which a person, firm, partnership, or corporation engages in the sale, practice of dealing in or fitting of hearing aids, advertises or assumes such practice, or engages in training to become a licensed hearing aid dealer or fitter without first being licensed, for an order enjoining any such acts or practices. The court may grant such injunctive relief upon a showing that the respondent named in the petition is engaging in such acts or practices without being licensed under this chapter.
Ohio Rev Code § 4747.14 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 47 | Occupations-Professions|Chapter 4747 | Hearing Aid Dealers|Section 4747.14 | Prohibited Acts.

Effective: January 21, 2018|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly|No person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation shall:(A) Sell or barter or offer to sell or barter a hearing aid dealers or fitters license or trainee permit issued by the state speech and hearing professionals board pursuant to sections 4747.05, 4747.06, and 4747.10 of the Revised Code;(B) Purchase or procure or attempt to purchase or procure a hearing aid dealers or fitters license or trainee permit with intent to use such license or permit as evidence of the holder's qualification to engage in the practice of dealing in or fitting of hearing aids;(C) Use or attempt to use as a valid license or permit a license or permit which has been purchased, fraudulently obtained, counterfeited, materially altered, or suspended or revoked;(D) Alter a license or permit in any way, shape, or form, except as may be specified by the board;(E) Willfully and knowingly make a false statement in an application for issuance or renewal of a license or permit.
Ohio Rev Code § 4747.15 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 47 | Occupations-Professions|Chapter 4747 | Hearing Aid Dealers|Section 4747.15 | Exemptions.

Effective: November 5, 1992|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 179 - 119th General Assembly|The licensing provisions of this chapter do not apply to:(A) Any person engaged in the practice of measuring human hearing for the purpose of selection of hearing aids provided that such selection does not result in an actual sale of a hearing aid by such person;(B) Any practicing physician who is licensed by the Ohio state medical board;(C) Any audiologist who is licensed pursuant to Chapter 4753. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 4747.16 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 47 | Occupations-Professions|Chapter 4747 | Hearing Aid Dealers|Section 4747.16 | Effect of Child Support Default on License.

Effective: January 21, 2018|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly|On receipt of a notice pursuant to section 3123.43 of the Revised Code, the state speech and hearing professionals board shall comply with sections 3123.41 to 3123.50 of the Revised Code and any applicable rules adopted under section 3123.63 of the Revised Code with respect to a license issued pursuant to this chapter.
Ohio Rev Code § 4747.17 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 47 | Occupations-Professions|Chapter 4747 | Hearing Aid Dealers|Section 4747.17 | Compliance With Law Regarding Sanctions for Human Trafficking.

Effective: January 21, 2018|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly|The state speech and hearing professionals board shall comply with section 4776.20 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 4747.99 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 47 | Occupations-Professions|Chapter 4747 | Hearing Aid Dealers|Section 4747.99 | Penalty.

Effective: November 25, 1969|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 61 - 108th General Assembly|Whoever violates section 4747.02 or 4747.14 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not less than ten nor more than ninety days, or both.
Ohio Rev Code § 4749.02 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 47 | Occupations-Professions|Chapter 4749 | Private Investigators; Security Services|Section 4749.02 | Administrative Rules - Personnel.

Effective: June 29, 2005|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 68 - 126th General Assembly|The director of public safety shall administer this chapter, and for that purpose, may appoint employees and adopt rules that the director considers necessary.The director shall implement electronic licensing and registration procedures under this chapter not later than December 31, 2006. The application procedures in effect on the effective date of this amendment shall continue until such time as electronic licensing and registration procedures are implemented.
Ohio Rev Code § 4749.031 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 47 | Occupations-Professions|Chapter 4749 | Private Investigators; Security Services|Section 4749.031 | Participation in Retained Applicant Fingerprint Database and Continuous Record Monitoring Service; Initial or Annual Fees.

Effective: September 29, 2017|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly|(A) The department of public safety shall be a participating public office for purposes of the retained applicant fingerprint database established under section 109.5721 of the Revised Code. The department shall elect to participate in the continuous record monitoring service for all persons licensed or registered under this chapter. When the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation, under section 109.57 of the Revised Code, indicates that an individual in the retained applicant fingerprint database has been arrested for, convicted of, or pleaded guilty to any offense, the superintendent promptly shall notify the department either electronically or by mail that additional arrest or conviction information is available.(B) In addition to any other fees charged by the department under this chapter, an applicant for a license under section 4749.03 of the Revised Code, at the time of making an initial or renewal application, shall pay any initial or annual fee charged by the superintendent pursuant to rules adopted under division (H) of section 109.5721 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 4749.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 47 | Occupations-Professions|Chapter 4749 | Private Investigators; Security Services|Section 4749.04 | Disciplinary Actions.

Effective: September 28, 2012|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 337 - 129th General Assembly|(A) The director of public safety may revoke, suspend, or refuse to renew, when a renewal form has been submitted, the license of any private investigator or security guard provider, or the registration of any employee of a private investigator or security guard provider, for any of the following: (1) Violation of any of the provisions of division (B) or (C) of section 4749.13 of the Revised Code;(2) Conviction of a disqualifying offense as defined in section 4776.10 of the Revised Code if the offense occurred within the last three years;(3) Conviction of a crime involving moral turpitude as defined in section 4776.10 of the Revised Code;(4) Conviction of an offense that occurred after the individual was initially licensed, or after the most recent renewal.(5) Violation of any rule of the director governing private investigators, the business of private investigation, security guard providers, or the business of security services;(6) Testifying falsely under oath, or suborning perjury, in any judicial proceeding;(7) Failure to satisfy the requirements specified in division (D) of section 4749.03 of the Revised Code.Any person whose license or registration is revoked, suspended, or not renewed when a renewal form is submitted may appeal in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.(B) In lieu of suspending, revoking, or refusing to renew the class A, B, or C license, or of suspending, revoking, or refusing to renew the registration of an employee of a class A, B, or C licensee, the director may impose a civil penalty of not more than one hundred dollars for each calendar day of a violation of any of the provisions of this section or of division (B) or (C) of section 4749.13 of the Revised Code or of a violation of any rule of the director governing private investigators, the business of private investigation, security guard providers, or the business of security services.
Ohio Rev Code § 4749.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 47 | Occupations-Professions|Chapter 4749 | Private Investigators; Security Services|Section 4749.05 | Notice of Change of Address - Report of Presence to Local Law Enforcement.

Effective: July 1, 2004|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 230 - 125th General Assembly|(A) Each class A, B, or C licensee shall report the location of branch offices to the department of public safety, and to the sheriff of the county and the police chief of any municipal corporation in which the office is located, and shall post a branch office license conspicuously in that office. Application for a branch office license shall be made on a form prescribed by the director of public safety, and a license shall be issued upon receipt of the form and payment of a fee fixed by the director, not exceeding one hundred dollars. If a licensee moves an office, the licensee shall notify, in writing, the department of public safety and any affected sheriff and chief of police within forty-eight hours of the change.This division does not apply to a licensed private investigator who is engaging in the business of private investigation as a registered employee of a licensed private investigator.(B) Pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the director of public safety shall adopt rules regarding when a class A, B, or C licensee, or any of such a licensee's employees, is required to report the licensee's or employee's presence and length of stay to the sheriff and police chief of any county or municipal corporation in which the licensee or employee operates. The rules shall include reporting requirements for licenses or employees conducting fraud investigations or physical surveillance.
Ohio Rev Code § 4749.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 47 | Occupations-Professions|Chapter 4749 | Private Investigators; Security Services|Section 4749.07 | Private Investigator and Security Guard Provider Fund.

Effective: July 1, 2015|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 53 - 131st General Assembly|(A) After refund of any license fees as required by section 4749.03 of the Revised Code, the department of public safety shall pay all fees and penalties received pursuant to this chapter to the treasurer of state, to be credited to the private investigator and security guard provider fund, which is hereby created.(B) Moneys received in payment of fines levied pursuant to section 4749.99 of the Revised Code shall be distributed as follows:(1) One-third to the general fund of the municipal corporation or township in which the prosecution occurs;(2) One-third to the general fund of the county in which the prosecution occurs;(3) One-third to the private investigator and security guard provider fund.
Ohio Rev Code § 4749.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 47 | Occupations-Professions|Chapter 4749 | Private Investigators; Security Services|Section 4749.08 | Distinguished From Law Enforcement Officer.

Effective: July 1, 2004|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 230 - 125th General Assembly|(A) No class A, B, or C licensee, or registered employee of a class A, B, or C licensee shall be considered, because of licensure or registration under this chapter, a law enforcement officer for any purpose. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as granting the right to carry a concealed weapon.(B) The rules of the department of public safety adopted for the administration of this chapter shall include provisions to assure that any uniform or identification card shall be so designed as to avoid confusion of a private investigator, security guard provider, or registered employee with any law enforcement officer in this state.