1. (a) This title applies to an individual who practices audiology, hearing aid dispensing, speech-language pathology, or music therapy, or assists in the practice of speech-language pathology or audiology in the State.

2. (b) This title does not:

   1. (1) Limit the right of an individual to practice a health occupation that the individual is authorized to practice under this article;
   2. (2) Prohibit an individual from practicing any other profession that the individual is authorized to practice under the laws of this State;
   3. (3) Limit the right of a physician who is authorized to practice medicine under the laws of the State to treat the human ear or fit hearing aids; or
   4. (4) Apply to the servicing, marketing, sale, dispensing, use, customer support, or distribution of over-the-counter hearing aids through in-person transactions, by mail, or online as authorized by federal law and regulations.

Added by Acts 1981, c. 8, § 2, eff. July 1, 1981. Amended by Acts 1981, c. 9, § 2, eff. July 1, 1981; Acts 1989, c. 236, § 2, Oct. 1, 1989; Acts 1990, c. 6, § 11, eff. Feb. 16, 1990; Acts 1992, c. 326, § 3, eff. Oct. 1, 1992; Acts 2007, c. 391, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2007; Acts 2021, c. 713, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2021; Acts 2021, c. 714, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2021; Acts 2021, c. 800, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2021; Acts 2023, c. 60, § 1, eff. July 1, 2023; Acts 2023, c. 61, § 1, eff. July 1, 2023.

Formerly Art. 43, § 792.