Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 74-5819

  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Hearing instrument: means any instrument, aid or device designed for or represented as aiding or improving impaired human hearing and any parts of such an instrument, aid or device. See Kansas Statutes 74-5807
  • License: means an authorization to practice the fitting and dispensing of hearing instruments pursuant to this act and includes a temporary license and any certificate of endorsement issued prior to July 1, 2005. See Kansas Statutes 74-5807

No person may:

(a) Sell, barter or offer to sell or barter a license.

(b) Purchase or procure by barter a license with intent to use it as evidence of the holder’s qualification to practice the fitting and dispensing of hearing aids.

(c) Alter materially a license.

(d) Use or attempt to use as a valid license a license which has been purchased, fraudulently obtained, counterfeited or materially altered.

(e) Willfully make a false, material statement in an application for a Kansas license or for renewal or reinstatement of a Kansas license.

(f) Sell through the mail, courier or delivery service, internet, telephonically or electronically hearing instruments without prior fitting and testing by a licensee except for a replacement of a hearing instrument that was previously fitted and tested by a licensee.