Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 58 > Chapter 46a - Hearing Instrument Specialist Licensing Act

• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Dead body: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-8-101. See Utah Code 26B-8-201
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Direct supervision: means that the supervising hearing instrument specialist is present in the same facility as is the person being supervised and is available for immediate in person consultation. See Utah Code 58-46a-102
• 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 aid: means any device designed or offered to be worn on or by an individual to enhance human hearing, including the device's specialized parts, attachments, or accessories. See Utah Code 58-46a-102
• Hearing instrument intern: means a person licensed under this chapter who is obtaining education and experience in the practice of a hearing instrument specialist under the supervision of a supervising hearing instrument specialist. See Utah Code 58-46a-102
• Indirect supervision: means that the supervising hearing instrument specialist is not required to be present in the same facility as is the person being supervised, but is available for voice to voice contact by telephone, radio, or other means at the initiation of the person being supervised. See Utah Code 58-46a-102
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Medical examiner: means the state medical examiner appointed pursuant to Section 26B-8-202 or a deputy appointed by the medical examiner. See Utah Code 26B-8-201
• Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Practice of a hearing instrument specialist: means :

  (a)	establishing a place of business to practice as a hearing instrument specialist;

  (b)

  testing the hearing of a human patient over the age of 17 for the sole purpose of determining whether a hearing loss will be sufficiently improved by the use of a hearing instrument to justify prescribing and selling the hearing instrument and whether that hearing instrument will be in the best interest of the patient;

  (c)	providing the patient a written statement of prognosis regarding the need for or usefulness of a hearing instrument for the patient's condition;

  (d)	prescribing an appropriate hearing instrument;

  (e)	making impressions or earmolds for the fitting of a hearing instrument;

  (f)	sale and professional placement of the hearing instrument on a patient;

  (g)	evaluating the hearing loss overcome by the installation of the hearing instrument and evaluating the hearing recovery against the representations made to the patient by the hearing instrument specialist;

  (h)	necessary intervention to produce satisfactory hearing recovery results from a hearing instrument; or

  (i)

  instructing the patient on the use and care of the hearing instrument. See Utah Code 58-46a-102 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. Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed. State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Suicide: means death caused by an intentional and voluntary act of an individual who understands the physical nature of the act and intends by such act to accomplish self-destruction. See Utah Code 26B-8-201 Supervising hearing instrument specialist: means a hearing instrument specialist who: (a)  is licensed by and in good standing with the division; (b)  has practiced full-time as a hearing instrument specialist for not less than two years; and (c)  is approved as a supervisor by the division. See Utah Code 58-46a-102 Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence. Unavailable for postmortem investigation: means that a dead body is: (i)  transported out of state; (ii)  buried at sea; (iii)  cremated; (iv)  processed by alkaline hydrolysis; or (v)  otherwise made unavailable to the medical examiner for postmortem investigation or autopsy. See Utah Code 26B-8-201 United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Writing: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5