Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 18, September 16, 2024
PURPOSE: This amendment clarifies the license renewal
requirements and procedures.
(1) Every licensed hearing instrument
specialist must notify the Board of Examiners for Hearing Instrument
Specialists of every change in their office address(es) within fifteen (15)
working days.
(2) Every licensed
hearing instrument specialist shall display his/her current license in a
conspicuous place in his/her office. A hearing instrument specialist working
outside of the office shall have available for review his/her current official
wallet license at all times.
(3)
Each person who engages in the fitting and selling of hearing instruments
shall, on or before the renewal date, pay the required fees, present annual
receipts of calibration of all audiometers and obtain satisfactory evidence
that continuing education requirements have been completed pursuant to
20 CSR
2165-2.050.
(4) When an organization owns or leases all or a
portion of the audiometers utilized by the hearing instrument specialist
employed, the organization must submit annual receipt of calibration pursuant
to 20 CSR 2165-2.060(3). A hearing instrument specialist employed with such an
organization who utilizes only this equipment may reference this annual receipt
as evidence of compliance with his/her annual calibration
requirements.
(5) Reactivation of
Non-Current License.
(A) Any hearing
instrument specialist license that is not renewed prior to the expiration date
of the license shall become non-current. Persons with non-current licenses
shall not engage in the fitting of hearing instruments.
(B) In order to reactivate a non-current
license the hearing instrument specialist must submit the following:
1. Renewal application;
2. Renewal fee;
3. Reactivation fee;
4. Annual calibration receipt;
5. Proof of the required continuing
education hours pursuant to
20 CSR
2165-2.050. These hours must have been obtained during
the preceding twenty-four (24) months from the date of application for
reactivation.
(C)
Hearing instrument specialists may reactivate a non-current license within two
(2) years of its expiration date without submitting to an examination. Any
hearing instrument specialist license not reactivated within two (2) years of
the expiration date must complete a new application for licensure, submit all
required documentation, and pay all applicable fees.
(6) Inactive License.
(A) A hearing instrument specialist may
choose to place his/her license on an inactive status by signing an affidavit
stating that s/he will not engage in the practice of fitting hearing
instruments in Missouri, which would include serving as a supervisor of a
hearing instrument specialist in training, and submitting that affidavit with
the renewal application and the appropriate fee to the board office. The
license issued to all these applicants shall be stamped "inactive."
(B) In order for a hearing instrument
specialist to activate an inactive license, the licensee shall submit to the
board office-
1. The renewal
application;
2. The balance of the
active renewal fee. No fee will be prorated;
3. Evidence that the licensee has completed
the required continuing education credits pursuant to
20 CSR
2165-2.050 for each renewal cycle that the license is
inactive;
4. Annual calibration
receipt;
5. The license stamped
"inactive"; and
6. Registered
supervisors must submit proof of current board certification.
(C) The board will issue an
inactive license, which shall be effective until the next regular renewal date.
No penalty fee shall apply.
*Original authority: 346.095, RSMo 1973, amended 1981,
1995; and 346.115.1(7), RSMo 1973, amended 1981, 1993,
1995.
