Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS
Chapter 83 - HEARING AID DEALERS AND FITTERS
Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 16-83-2 - Definitions
As used in this chapter:
"Branch office" means any office, facility, or space from which the business of providing hearing aid services is conducted regularly and on a continuing basis away from the principal place of business.
"Direct supervision" means a licensed hearing aid dealer and fitter being physically present to oversee and be responsible for all work performed within the office, facility, or space from which the business of providing hearing aid services is conducted.
"Hearing aid dealer" means a person engaged in the sale, lease, or rental of hearing aids to any member of the consuming public, or an employee, agent, salesperson, or representative of the person, or both.
"Hearing aid fitter" means any person engaged in the testing for the proper selection of a hearing aid for an individual user, the fitting of a hearing aid to the individual, and the sale of the hearing aid.
"Person" means individuals, partnerships, corporations, associations, or public or private organizations of any character other than government agencies.
"Practice of dealing and fitting of hearing aids" means the measurement of human hearing by an audiometer solely for the purpose of making selections, adaptations, or sales of hearing aids or the manufacture of impressions for earmolds, and, at the request of a physician or a member of a profession related to the practice of medicine and surgery, the administrations of audiograms for use in consultations with the hard-of-hearing.
"Principal place of business" means any office, facility, or space from which the business of providing hearing aid services is conducted. No person, other than a licensee, shall own, maintain, operate, manage or conduct as manager, a place where hearing aid services are performed, except as provided in section 451A-18, HRS.
"Record" means medical authorization, waiver, and audiogram.
"Sale" means the sale, lease, rent, or transfer of title, interest, or possession of any hearing aid, except transactions with distributors or dealers.
