459.03 Receipt required to be furnished to a person supplied with hearing aid. - Wisconsin Statutes

459.03

459.03 Receipt required to be furnished to a person supplied with hearing aid.

459.03(1)

(1) A hearing instrument specialist who engages in the practice of fitting and dealing in hearing aids shall deliver to each person supplied with a hearing aid a receipt. The receipt shall contain the signature and show the business address and license title and number of the hearing instrument specialist, together with specifications as to the make and model of the hearing aid furnished and full terms of sale clearly stated. If a hearing aid which is not new is sold, the receipt and the container thereof must be clearly marked as "used" or "reconditioned" whichever is applicable.

459.03(2)

(2) The receipt shall contain all of the following information, that shall be set out in not less than 8-point type:

459.03(2)(a)

(a) The terms of the guarantee, if there is any given; and

459.03(2)(b)

(b) A statement that the purchaser has been advised by the hearing instrument specialist that any examination or representation made by the hearing instrument specialist in connection with the fitting and selling of this hearing aid is not an examination, diagnosis, or prescription by a person licensed to practice medicine in this state and therefore must not be regarded as medical opinion or advice.

459.03 - ANNOT.

History: 1989 a. 316; 1991 a. 32; 1997 a. 49; 2003 a. 270; 2009 a. 356.