Connecticut · statute · Conn. Gen. Stat. ch. 398 · 13 active provisions
As used in this chapter, except as the context may require otherwise: (1) “Department” means the Department of Public Health; (2) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Public Health; (3) “Hearing aid” means any wearable instrument or device designed for or offered for the purpose of aiding or compensating for impair…
Section 20-397 is repealed.
(a) No person may engage in the practice of fitting or selling hearing aids, or display a sign or in any other way advertise or claim to be a person who sells or engages in the practice of fitting or selling hearing aids unless such person has obtained a license under this chapter or as an audiologist under sections 20…
Whenever the department determines that another state or jurisdiction has requirements equivalent to or higher than those established pursuant to this chapter and that such state or jurisdiction has a program equivalent to or stricter than the program for determining whether applicants pursuant to this chapter are qual…
(a) A temporary permit may be issued to a person who has submitted proof satisfactory to the department that the applicant has completed a four-year course at an approved high school or has an equivalent education as determined by the department, upon application on forms prescribed and furnished by the department, acc…
(a) A person who holds a license under this chapter or as an audiologist under sections 20-395a to 20-395g, inclusive, shall notify the department in writing of the regular address of the place or places where such person engages or intends to engage in the fitting or sale of hearing aids and shall notify the departmen…
(a) Licenses issued under this chapter shall be renewed once every two years, in accordance with the provisions of section 19a-88, on payment of the renewal fee of two hundred dollars to the department and on production of evidence of satisfactory completion of continuing education requirements established by the Commi…
(a) No hearing aid shall be sold to any purchaser unless accompanied in writing by a thirty-day trial period providing that if such purchaser returns the hearing aid in the same condition as when purchased, ordinary wear and tear excepted, within thirty days of the date of receipt of such hearing aid by such purchaser,…
Anyone who has a history of: (1) Visible congenital or traumatic deformity of the ear; (2) active drainage from the ear within the previous ninety days; (3) sudden, or rapidly progressive, hearing loss within the previous ninety days; (4) acute or chronic dizziness; (5) unilateral hearing loss of sudden or recent onset…
(a) The department may suspend or revoke the license of a hearing instrument specialist, after notice and hearing as provided in the regulations adopted by the commissioner, or may reprimand or take any of the actions set forth in section 19a-17, for any of the following causes: (1) The conviction of a crime in the cou…
Section 20-405 is repealed.
The Commissioner of Public Health shall adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, for the administration of this chapter and for the conduct of the practice of fitting or selling hearing aids.
Any person who violates any provision of this chapter shall for each offense be guilty of a class C misdemeanor.