2006 Kansas Code - 74-5816

      74-5816.   Renewal of certificate of registration or endorsement; fees; audiometric equipment test documentation; grace period. A person who practices the fitting and dispensing of hearing aids shall annually pay to the board the certificate of registration or endorsement renewal fee provided for in K.S.A. 74-5810a and amendments thereto for renewal of such person's license or certificate of endorsement and shall submit documentation that the calibration of the person's audiometric testing equipment has been tested and verified as accurate within the preceding two-year period. A thirty-day grace period shall be allowed after the expiration of a license or certificate of endorsement during which the same may be renewed on payment to the board of the certificate of registration or endorsement late renewal fee provided for in K.S.A. 74-5810a and amendments thereto and submission of the documentation of testing and verification of calibration. The board may suspend the license or certificate of any person who fails to have such person's license or certificate renewed by the expiration of the thirty-day grace period. After the expiration of the grace period, the board may renew a license or certificate upon payment to the board of the certificate of registration or endorsement extended late renewal fee provided for in K.S.A. 74-5810a and amendments thereto and submission of the documentation of testing and verification of calibration. No person who applies for renewal and whose license or certificate was suspended for the sole reason of failure to renew shall be required to submit to any examination as a condition of renewal if such person applies for renewal within three years from the date of suspension of the license or certificate.

      History:   L. 1968, ch. 164, § 16; L. 1980, ch. 243, § 5; L. 1984, ch. 292, § 3; Jan. 1, 1985.