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

• City: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Department: means the Department of Commerce. See Utah Code 58-1-102
• 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
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Division: means the Division of Professional Licensing created in Section 58-1-103. See Utah Code 58-1-102
• Female: means the characteristic of an individual whose biological reproductive system is of the general type that functions in a way that could produce ova. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• 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
• Infected individual: means an individual who harbors an infectious agent and who has manifest disease or inapparent infection. See Utah Code 26B-7-201
• Infectious disease: means a disease of man or animals resulting from an infection. See Utah Code 26B-7-201
• Isolation: means the separation, for the period of communicability, of infected individuals or animals from others, in such places and under such conditions as to prevent the direct or indirect conveyance of the infectious agent from those infected to those who are susceptible or who may spread the agent to others. See Utah Code 26B-7-201
• Licensee: includes any holder of a license, certificate, registration, permit, student card, or apprentice card authorized under this title. See Utah Code 58-1-102
• Local health department: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26A-1-102. See Utah Code 26B-1-102
• Practice of a hearing instrument specialist: means :
       (5)(a) establishing a place of business to practice as a hearing instrument specialist;
       (5)(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;
       (5)(c) providing the patient a written statement of prognosis regarding the need for or usefulness of a hearing instrument for the patient's condition;
       (5)(d) prescribing an appropriate hearing instrument;
       (5)(e) making impressions or earmolds for the fitting of a hearing instrument;
       (5)(f) sale and professional placement of the hearing instrument on a patient;
       (5)(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;
       (5)(h) necessary intervention to produce satisfactory hearing recovery results from a hearing instrument; or
       (5)(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.
• Sexually transmitted disease: means those diseases transmitted through sexual intercourse or any other sexual contact. See Utah Code 26B-7-201
• Supervising hearing instrument specialist: means a hearing instrument specialist who:
       (6)(a) is licensed by and in good standing with the division;
       (6)(b) has practiced full-time as a hearing instrument specialist for not less than two years; and
       (6)(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.
• Woman: means an adult human female. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5