Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 406 - Hearing Aid Dealers › Section 20-406-13 - Temporary permit

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) A temporary
			 permittee may engage in activities authorized by Chapter 398 of the Connecticut
			 General Statutes, as amended, only under the supervision of a
			 Connecticut-licensed hearing aid dealer. Supervision requires the supervisor to
			 review and approve all work, and sign and date all records, except that, while
			 a temporary permittee engaged in a course of study or a period of training is
			 completing the initial eight weeks of activity under a temporary permit, he may
			 engage in activities authorized by Chapter 398 of the Connecticut General
			 Statutes, as amended, only in the presence of a licensed hearing aid dealer.
			 The supervisor is responsible for all activities of the temporary permittee, in
			 so far as these activities are regulated by Chapter 398 of the Connecticut
			 General Statutes. Any violation by a temporary permittee of any state or
			 federal statute or regulation pertaining to hearing aid devices or the fitting
			 or dispensing of hearing aid devices shall be deemed a violation by the
			 supervising hearing aid dealer as well as the temporary permittee. A temporary
			 permittee shall apply for and take the licensure examination prescribed
			 pursuant to subsection (a) of section
			 20-398
			 no later than 12 months following issuance of the temporary permit, and, if
			 unsuccessful on such examination, shall take each subsequent licensure
			 examination scheduled during the effective period of his temporary permit. A
			 temporary permittee who fails to take an examinon required by this subsection
			 or who fails an examination shall, for a period of four weeks from the date of
			 receipt of failing examination results by the temporary permittee or from the
			 date of an examination not taken, engage in activities authorized by Chapter
			 398 of the Connecticut General Statutes, as amended, only in the presence and
			 under the training of a licensed hearing aid dealer.
(b) The department shall issue a temporary
			 permit to a qualified applicant only upon receipt of certification from a
			 Connecticut-licensed hearing aid dealer that supervision shall be provided by
			 the licensee. The temporary permit shall be valid for a one year period,
			 limited to employment under the supervision of the specified licensed hearing
			 aid dealer. In the event that a temporary permittee discontinues employment
			 with the supervising hearing aid dealer, the temporary permit shall become
			 void. The department shall re-issue the temporary permit without a fee, for any
			 unused portion of the one year period, upon receipt of certification of a
			 Connecticut-licensed hearing aid dealer that supervision shall be provided by
			 the licensee. When engaging in the fitting or selling of hearing aids, a
			 temporary permittee shall represent himself at all times as a person holding a
			 temporary permit pursuant to Chapter 398 of the Connecticut General
			 Statutes.
(c) A temporary permittee
			 shall not independently own or operate a hearing aid establishment or branch
			 office nor in any other way shall he independently provide services in the
			 fitting or selling of hearing aids.
(d) No more than four permittees may be under
			 the supervision of a single licensed hearing aid dealer at any time.
(e) The supervising licensee shall
			 immediately notify the department in writing if the supervisory relationship
			 specified in Section
			 20-400(a)
			 of the Connecticut General Statutes is terminated.
(f) The supervising licensee is responsible
			 for ensuring that an unlicensed individual employed under his training and
			 supervision holds a current, valid temporary permit at all times that such
			 individual engages in any commercial activity in hearing aid fitting and
			 dispensing.