Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 58 > Chapter 46a > Part 1 - General Provisions

• Division: means the Division of Professional Licensing created in Section 58-1-103. See Utah Code 58-1-102
• Person: means :
       (24)(a) an individual;
       (24)(b) an association;
       (24)(c) an institution;
       (24)(d) a corporation;
       (24)(e) a company;
       (24)(f) a trust;
       (24)(g) a limited liability company;
       (24)(h) a partnership;
       (24)(i) a political subdivision;
       (24)(j) a government office, department, division, bureau, or other body of government; and
       (24)(k) any other organization or entity. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• 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
• 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