(a) No person shall engage in the sale of or practice of dispensing and fitting hearing instruments or display a sign or in any other way advertise or hold out to be a hearing instrument specialist unless direct hands-on testing and follow-up services are provided to persons to whom the hearing instrument specialist has dispensed and/or sold a hearing instrument, and such person holds a current, unsuspended, unrevoked license issued by the council as provided in this part.

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 63-17-205

  • Council: means the council for licensing hearing instrument specialists. See Tennessee Code 63-17-201
  • Hearing instrument: means any instrument or device designed for or represented as aiding, improving or correcting defective human hearing and any parts, attachments or accessories of such an instrument or device. See Tennessee Code 63-17-201
  • Person: means any individual, organization or corporate body except that only individuals can be licensed under this chapter. See Tennessee Code 63-17-103
  • Practice of dispensing and fitting hearing instruments: includes :
    (A) The evaluation or measurement of the powers or range of human hearing by means of an audiometer for the consequent selection or adaptation for sale of hearing instruments intended to compensate for hearing loss, and the appropriate instructions, consultations, suggestions, recommendations, or opinions related to this practice. See Tennessee Code 63-17-201
  • sale: includes any transfer of title or of the right to use by lease, bailment or any other contract, either oral or written, except wholesale sales to distributors or dispensers. See Tennessee Code 63-17-201
(b) The license required by this section shall be kept conspicuously posted in the specialist’s principal office or place of business at all times.
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