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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="2-102" title_number="2" title_name="Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, Speech–language Pathologists, and Music Therapists" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Definitions and Policy">
  <level label="a">
    <text>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.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>This title does not:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Limit the right of an individual to practice a health occupation that the individual is authorized to practice under this article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Prohibit an individual from practicing any other profession that the individual is authorized to practice under the laws of this State;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>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</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>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.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
