Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2661

  • Board: means the Louisiana Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2651
  • Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, or other legal entity, except that only an individual shall be eligible for license or be issued a license under this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2651
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.

A.  The board shall charge and collect a licensing fee not to exceed one hundred fifty dollars, an annual renewal fee not to exceed one hundred dollars, and other reasonable administrative fees, the amounts of which shall be fixed by the board.  The board shall fix the amount of the fee so that the total fees collected will be sufficient to meet the expenses of administering this Chapter.

B.  The fees fixed by the board shall be exclusive, and no parish or municipality shall have the right to require any person licensed under the provisions of this Chapter to furnish any bond, pass any examination, or pay any license fee or occupational tax as a condition precedent to engaging in the practice of speech pathology and audiology.

C, D.  Repealed by Acts 1995, No. 892, §3.

Added by Acts 1972, No. 260, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1973.  Amended by Acts 1978, No. 384, §1, eff. July 1, 1979; Acts 1995, No. 892, §§2, 3.