4747.05 Application for license. - Ohio Statutes

4747.05 Application for license.

(A) The hearing aid dealers and fitters licensing board shall issue to each applicant, within sixty days of receipt of a properly completed application and payment of two hundred sixty-two dollars, a hearing aid dealer’s or fitter’s license if the applicant, if an individual:

(1) Is at least eighteen years of age;

(2) Is a person of good moral character;

(3) Is free of contagious or infectious disease;

(4) Has successfully passed a qualifying examination specified and administered by the board.

(B) If the applicant is a firm, partnership, association, or corporation, the application, in addition to such information as the board requires, shall be accompanied by an application for a license for each person, whether owner or employee, of the firm, partnership, association, or corporation, who engages in dealing in or fitting of hearing aids, or shall contain a statement that such applications are submitted separately. No firm, partnership, association, or corporation licensed pursuant to this chapter shall permit any unlicensed person to sell or fit hearing aids.

(C) Each license issued expires on the thirtieth day of January of the year following that in which it was issued.

Effective Date: 06-26-2003