NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 550

SENATE BILL 743

 

 

AN ACT TO MODIFY THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE HEARING AID DEALERS AND FITTERS LICENSING ACT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 93D-3(c) is hereby amended by adding a new subdivision (12) as follows:

"(12)    fund, establish, conduct, approve and sponsor instructional programs for persons who hold an apprentice license and a license as well as for persons interested in obtaining adequate instruction or programs of study to qualify them for registration to the extent that the board deems such instructional programs to be beneficial or necessary."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 93D-5 is hereby amended by adding a new subsection to be subsection (c) as follows:

"(c)       No license shall be issued to any person until he has first held an apprentice license as set forth in G.S. 93D-9 for a period of at least one year; provided, that this subsection shall not apply to those persons qualified under G.S. 93D-6."

Sec. 3.  G.S. 93D-11 is hereby amended by adding a new sentence at the end thereto as follows:

"The board may require all licensees to successfully attend and complete a course or courses of occupational instruction funded, conducted or approved or sponsored by the board on an annual basis as a condition to any license renewal and evidence of satisfactory attendance and completion of any such course or courses shall be provided the board by the licensee."

Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of June, 1975.