Florida Statutes

Fla. Stat. § 484.0401 (2025)

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484.0401 Purpose.—The Legislature recognizes that the dispensing of prescription hearing aids requires particularized knowledge and skill to ensure that the interests of the hearing-impaired public will be adequately served and safely protected. It recognizes that a poorly selected or fitted prescription hearing aid not only will give little satisfaction but may interfere with hearing ability and, therefore, deems it necessary in the interest of the public health, safety, and welfare to regulate the dispensing of prescription hearing aids in this state. Restrictions on the fitting and selling of prescription hearing aids shall be imposed only to the extent necessary to protect the public from physical and economic harm, and restrictions shall not be imposed in a manner which will unreasonably affect the competitive market.

History.—ss. 1, 18, ch. 83-153; ss. 1, 7, ch. 84-94; ss. 1, 19, 20, ch. 86-283; s. 22, ch. 90-341; s. 11, ch. 90-345; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 24, ch. 2023-71.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 1996–2020 · leading case: Robert Daniel Taylor v. Leanne Polhill, 964 F.3d 975 (11th Cir. 2020).

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Robert Daniel Taylor v. Leanne Polhill, 964 F.3d 975 (11th Cir. 2020). “Fla. Stat. §§ 484.0401 et seq. Three of those statutes are at issue in this case.”

Beckwith v. Dep't of Bus. & Prof'l Reg., Bd. of Hearing Aid Specialists, 667 So. 2d 450 (Fla. 1st DCA 1996). · cites it 2× “Citing section 484.0401, Florida Statutes (1989), the department argues that the state has a substantial interest in regulating the sale of hearing aids, and that prevention of “intimidation, harassment, or coercion by a hearing aid specialist or his agent,” the asserted purpose…”

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