WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor

Ch. 3

Defined terra: "Hearing aid dealer" § 8-101
(C) FIT HEARING AIDS.
"FIT HEARING AIDS" MEANS:

(1)  SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSES OF CHOOSING, ADAPTING, OR
SELLING HEARING AIDS OR FOR THE USE OF A MEMBER OF A HEALTH
OCCUPATION THAT HAS A PROFESSIONAL CONCERN ABOUT HUMAN HEARING,
TO MEASURE HUMAN HEARING BY ANY MEANS, INCLUDING THE PREPARATION
OF AN AUDIOGRAM BY MEANS OF AN AUDIOMETER AND EVALUATION OF THE
AUDIOGRAM;

(2)  TO MAKE AN IMPRESSION OF A HUMAN EAR FOR THE
PURPOSE OF BUILDING AN EAR MOLD; OR

(3)  TO PROVIDE ADVICE ABOUT THE CHOICE OR USE OF A
HEARING AID BY A HEARING IMPAIRED INDIVIDUAL.

REVISOR'S NOTE: This subsection is new language derived
without substantive change from former Art. 56, §
508(4).

The term "fit hearing aids" is substituted, as the
defined term, for the former term "[p]ractice of
fitting and dealing in hearing aids", since this
subsection deals only with those aspects of the
practice that constitute fitting hearing aids.
Compare subsection (i) of this section, which defines
"provide hearing aid services". The substitution
reflects that the former law sometimes distinguished
selling from fitting hearing aids by use of variations
of the former defined term such as "sale or practice
of fitting hearing aids". See the General Revisor's
Note to this title.

In item (1) of this subsection, the reference to "a
member of a health occupation that has a professional
concern about human hearing" is substituted for the
former reference to "a physician or member of related
professions", to clarify that not only must the
occupation be related to medicine but the practitioner
must be concerned with human hearing.

In item (3) of this subsection, the reference to "a
hearing impaired individual" is substituted for the
former, less appropriate reference to "the
hard-of-hearing".

The Business Occupations Article Review Committee
notes, for consideration by the General Assembly, that
hearing aid dealers believe that the former law
allowed them to evaluate a measurement of human

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