2015 Nebraska Revised Statutes
Chapter 38 - HEALTH OCCUPATIONS AND PROFESSIONS
38-1509 Sale or fitting of hearing instruments; license required.

38-1509. Sale or fitting of hearing instruments; license required.

(1) No person shall engage in the sale of or practice of fitting hearing instruments or display a sign or in any other way advertise or represent himself or herself as a person who practices the fitting and sale or dispensing of hearing instruments unless he or she holds an unsuspended, unrevoked hearing instrument specialist license issued by the department as provided in the Hearing Instrument Specialists Practice Act. A hearing instrument specialist license shall confer upon the holder the right to select, fit, and sell hearing instruments. A person holding a license issued under the act prior to August 30, 2009, may continue to practice under such license until it expires under the terms of the license.

(2) A licensed audiologist who maintains a practice pursuant to licensure as an audiologist in which hearing instruments are regularly dispensed or who intends to maintain such a practice shall also be licensed as a hearing instrument specialist pursuant to subsection (4) of section 38-1512.

(3) Nothing in the act shall prohibit a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, trust, association, or other like organization maintaining an established business address from engaging in the business of selling or offering for sale hearing instruments at retail without a license if it employs only properly licensed natural persons in the direct sale and fitting of such products.

(4) Nothing in the act shall prohibit the holder of a hearing instrument specialist license from the fitting and sale of wearable instruments or devices designed for or offered for the purpose of conservation or protection of hearing.

Source

• Laws 1969, c. 767, § 2, p. 2904;
• Laws 1986, LB 701, § 2;
• Laws 1988, LB 1100, § 149;
• Laws 1992, LB 1019, § 79;
• Laws 1993, LB 121, § 438;
• R.S.1943, (2003), § 71-4702;
• Laws 2007, LB247, § 52;
• Laws 2007, LB247, § 70;
• Laws 2007, LB463, § 573;
• Laws 2009, LB195, § 27.