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 1        AN ACT concerning the regulation of professions.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section  5.   The  Hearing Instrument Consumer Protection
 5    Act is amended by changing Section 5 as follows:

 6        (225 ILCS 50/5) (from Ch. 111, par. 7405)
 7        (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2006)
 8        Sec. 5.  License required. No person shall engage in  the
 9    selling,    practice    of   testing,   fitting,   selecting,
10    recommending,  adapting,  dispensing,  or  servicing  hearing
11    instruments  or  display  a  sign,  advertise,  or  represent
12    oneself as a person who practices the fitting or  selling  of
13    hearing  instruments  unless  such  person  possesses holds a
14    current license issued by the Department as provided in  this
15    Act.   Such  person  shall  be  known  as  a licensed hearing
16    instrument dispenser.  Individuals licensed pursuant  to  the
17    provisions of Section 8 of this Act shall be deemed qualified
18    to  provide  tests  of  human  hearing and hearing instrument
19    evaluations  for  the  purpose  of   dispensing   a   hearing
20    instrument  for  which  any  State  agency may contract.  The
21    license shall be conspicuously  displayed  in  the  place  of
22    business.    Duplicate   licenses  shall  be  issued  by  the
23    Department to licensees operating more than one  office  upon
24    the additional payment set forth in this Act.
25        Except  for  violations of the provisions of this Act, or
26    the rules promulgated under it, nothing  in  this  Act  shall
27    prohibit  a  corporation, partnership, trust, association, or
28    other entity  from  engaging  in  the  business  of  testing,
29    fitting,   servicing,   selecting,  dispensing,  selling,  or
30    offering for sale hearing instruments  at  retail  without  a
31    license, provided it employs only licensed individuals in the
 
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 1    direct  testing,  fitting, servicing, selecting, offering for
 2    sale, or dispensing of such products.  Each such corporation,
 3    partnership, trust, association, or other entity  shall  file
 4    with  the  Department,  prior to doing business in this State
 5    and by July 1 of each  calendar  year  thereafter,  on  forms
 6    prescribed  by the Department, a list of all licensed hearing
 7    instrument  dispensers  employed  by  it  and   a   statement
 8    attesting  that  it  complies  with  this  Act  and the rules
 9    promulgated under it and the regulations of the Federal  Food
10    and  Drug  Administration  and  the  Federal Trade Commission
11    insofar as they are applicable.
12    (Source: P.A. 89-72, eff. 12-31-95; 90-655, eff. 7-30-98.)