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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="2-402" title_number="2" title_name="Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, Speech–language Pathologists, and Music Therapists" subtitle_number="4">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Unless authorized to practice audiology under this title or unless otherwise provided for in this article, a person may not represent to the public by title, by description of services, methods, or procedures, or otherwise that the person:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Is authorized to practice audiology in this State; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Evaluates, examines, directs, instructs, or counsels individuals suffering from disorders or conditions that affect hearing and balance or assists those individuals in the perception of sound.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Unless authorized to practice audiology under this title or unless otherwise provided for in this article, a person may not use, with the intent to represent that the person practices audiology, words or terms, including:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Audiological”;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Audiologist”;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Audiology”;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>“Aural rehabilitation”;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>“Hearing clinic”;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>“Hearing clinician”;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>“Hearing rehabilitation”; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>“Hearing specialist”.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>While performing the duties of that employment, an individual employed by any agency of the federal government may use any of the titles listed in subsection (b) of this section.</text>
  </level>
</section>
