Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 15 - Mississippi Department of Health › Part 19 - Bureau of Professional Licensure › Subpart 60 - Professional Licensure › Chapter 6 - REGULATIONS GOVERNING LICENSURE OF HEARING AID SPECIALISTS › Subchapter 1 - General › Rule 15-19-60-6.1.3 - Definitions

Current through June 25, 2024
The following definitions apply as used in this chapter,
						unless the context otherwise requires:
1. Board means the Mississippi State Board of
						Health.
2. License includes a temporary or regular
						license.
3. Hearing aid shall mean any wearable instrument or
						device designed for or offered for the purpose of aiding or compensating for
						impaired human hearing and any parts, attachments or accessories, including ear
						molds, but excluding such things as telephone devices, batteries and
						cords.
4. Hearing aid specialist means an individual licensed by
						the board to engage in the practice of dispensing and fitting hearing
						aids.
5. Practice of dispensing and fitting hearing aids means
						the evaluation or measurement of powers or range of human hearing by means of
						an audiometer and the consequent selection or adaptation or sale of hearing
						aids intended to compensate for hearing loss, including the making of an
						impression of the ear.
6. Sell or sale means any transfer of title or of the
						right to use by lease, bailment or any other contract, excluding wholesale
						transactions with distributors or dealers.
7. Unethical conduct means:
a. The obtaining of any fee or the making of any sale by
						fraud or misrepresentation.
b. Knowingly employing directly or indirectly any
						suspended or unlicensed person to perform any work covered by this
						chapter.
c. Representing that the professional services or advice
						of a physician or audiologist will be used or made available in the selling,
						fitting, adjustment, maintenance or repair of hearing aids when that is not
						true, or using the words "doctor," "clinic," "clinical," and/or "research
						audiologist," "audiologic," or any other like words, abbreviations or symbols
						which tend to connote audiological or professional services, when such use is
						not accurate.
d. Permitting another to use his license.
e. Quoting prices of competitive hearing aids or devices
						without disclosing that they are not the present current prices, or showing,
						demonstrating or representing competitive models as being current models when
						such is not the fact.
f. Imitating or simulating the trademarks, trade names,
						brands or labels of competitors with the capacity and tendency or effect of
						misleading or deceiving purchasers or prospective purchasers.
g. Defaming competitors by falsely imputing to them
						dishonorable conduct, inability to perform contracts, questionable credit
						standing, or by other false representations, or falsely disparaging the
						products of competitors in any respect, or their business methods, selling
						prices, values, credit terms, policies or services.
h. Stating or implying that the use of any hearing aid
						will restore or preserve hearing, prevent or retard progression of a hearing
						impairment.
i. Dispensing and selling a hearing aid to a child under
						the age of eighteen (18) years who has not been examined and cleared for
						hearing aid use by a licensed physician within a six-month period immediately
						prior to dispensing and selling the hearing aid.
j. Representing himself as being an audiologist as
						defined in § 73-83-3 of the Mississippi Code of 1972, annotated.
k. Not meeting the minimum requirements of test
						procedures and test equipment to be used in the fitting of hearing aids, as
						established by the Department, and not retaining all records of fittings, for a
						period of three years.
8. Council means the Advisory Council.
9. Act means the Mississippi Hearing Aid Specialist
						Licensure law.
10. Department shall mean the Mississippi State
						Department of Health.
Miss. Code Ann.
						§
												73-14-1