Chapter 90

(a) Licensure shall be granted in either speech and language pathology or audiology independently. A person may be licensed in both areas if qualified in both areas. (b) No person may practice or hold himself or herself out as being able to practice speech and language pathology …

(a) Audiologists licensed under this Article may treat minors by administering nonmedical audiologic services to minors of all ages with hearing impairment, from birth to less than 18 years of age. Only individuals licensed to practice medicine under Article 1 of this Chapter or …

(a) To be eligible for permanent licensure by the Board as a speech and language pathologist, the applicant must: (1) Possess at least a master's degree in speech and language pathology or qualifications deemed equivalent by the Board under rules duly adopted by the Board under t…

(a) An applicant for licensure who has satisfied the academic requirements of G.S. 90-295, shall pass a written examination approved or established by the Board. (b) The Board shall administer or approve at least two examinations of the type described in subsection (a) of this se…

(a) To be eligible for temporary licensure an applicant must: (1) Meet the academic and clinical practicum requirements of G.S. 90-295(1), (2), and (3); and (2) Submit a plan of supervised experience complying with the provisions of G.S. 90-295(4); and (3) Pay the temporary licen…

A licensed speech and language pathologist or a licensed audiologist may register with the Board an assistant who works under the licensee's supervision if all of the following requirements are met: (1) The assistant meets the qualifications for registered assistants adopted by t…

(a) A person who holds a license or registration with the Board shall notify the Board in writing of the address of the place or places where he or she engages or intends to engage in the practice of speech and language pathology or audiology. (b) The Board shall keep a record of…

(a) There is created a Review Panel to review all applicants for the physician positions, the physician assistant position, and the nurse practitioner position on the Board. The Review Panel shall consist of nine members, including four from the Medical Society, one from the Old …

(a) The North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners shall grant licenses to practice dentistry to such applicants who are graduates of a reputable dental institution, who, in the opinion of a majority of the Board, shall undergo a satisfactory examination of proficiency in the…

The North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners may establish by regulation reasonable education, training, and equipment standards for safe administration and monitoring of general anesthesia and enteral and parenteral sedation for outpatients in the dental setting. Regulatory stan…

(a) The following definitions apply in this section: (1) Authorized person. - An appropriate person with legal authority to make the health care treatment decision for a patient. (2) Licensed dental hygienist. - An individual who holds a valid license to practice dental hygiene d…

A licensee shall annually pay to the Board a fee in an amount established by the General Assembly for a renewal of his license. A 30-day grace period shall be allowed after expiration of a license during which the license may be renewed on payment of a fee in an amount establishe…

Any person licensed or registered under this Article may have his or her license or registration revoked or suspended for a fixed period by the Board or may have his or her application for license or registration denied by the Board under the provisions of North Carolina General …

Unethical acts and practices shall be defined as including: (1) Obtaining or attempting to obtain any fee by fraud or misrepresentation. (2) Employing directly or indirectly any suspended or unlicensed person to perform any work covered by this Article. (3) Using, or causing or p…

No person, partnership, corporation, or other entity may: (1) Sell, barter, transfer or offer to sell or barter a license. (2) Purchase or procure by barter a license with intent to use it as evidence of the holder's qualification to practice audiology or speech and language path…

(a) There shall be a Board of Examiners for Speech and Language Pathologists and Audiologists, which shall be composed of seven members, who shall all be residents of this State. Two members shall have a paid work experience in audiology for at least five years and hold a North C…

(a) The powers and duties of the Board are as follows: (1) To administer, coordinate, and enforce the provisions of this Article, establish fees, evaluate the qualifications of applicants, supervise the examination of applicants, and issue subpoenas, examine witnesses, and admini…

Persons subject to licensure or registration under this Article shall pay fees to the Board not to exceed the following: (1) Application fee ......................................... $30.00 (2) Examination fee ......................................... 30.00 (3) Initial license fe…

Any person, partnership, or corporation that willfully violates the provisions of this Article shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. (1975, c. 773, s. 1; 1987, c. 665, s. 12; 1993, c. 539, s. 650; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c); 2023-129, s. 12.1( l ).)

If any part of this Article is for any reason held unconstitutional, inoperative, or void, such holding of invalidity shall not affect the remaining portions of the Article; and it shall be construed to have been the legislative intent to pass this Article without such unconstitu…

(a) Disclosure of Locked, Nonproprietary or Proprietary Programming Software. - To the extent not inconsistent with federal law, a licensed audiologist who engages in the fitting or selling of locked hearing aids, as defined in G.S. 93D-7.1(a)(1), shall, at the time of purchase o…

The laws of North Carolina now in force, having provided for the annual renewal of any license issued by the North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners, it is hereby declared to be the policy of this State, that all licenses heretofore issued by the North Carolina State Board…

All dentists licensed under G.S. 90-30 shall be required to attend Board-approved courses of study in subjects relating to dentistry. The Board shall have authority to consider and approve courses, or providers of courses, to the end that those attending will gain (i) information…

(a) The purpose of this Compact is to facilitate interstate practice of audiology and speech-language pathology with the goal of improving public access to audiology and speech-language pathology services. The practice of audiology and speech-language pathology occurs in the stat…

(a) The Commission shall exercise its rulemaking powers pursuant to the criteria set forth in this section and the rules adopted thereunder. Rules and amendments shall become binding as of the date specified in each rule or amendment. (b) If a majority of the legislatures of the …

(a) Dispute Resolution. - Upon request by a member state, the Commission shall attempt to resolve disputes related to the Compact that arise among member states and between member and nonmember states. The Commission shall promulgate a rule providing for both mediation and bindin…

(a) The Compact shall come into effect on the date on which the Compact statute is enacted into law in the tenth member state. The provisions, which become effective at that time, shall be limited to the powers granted to the Commission relating to assembly and the promulgation o…

This Compact shall be liberally construed to effectuate the purposes thereof. The provisions of this Compact shall be severable and if any phrase, clause, sentence, or provision of this Compact is declared to be contrary to the constitution of any member state or of the United St…

(a) Nothing herein prevents the enforcement of any other law of a member state that is not inconsistent with the Compact. (b) All laws in a member state in conflict with the Compact are superseded to the extent of the conflict. (c) All lawful actions of the Commission, including …

(a) As used in this Compact, and except as otherwise provided, the following definitions shall apply: (1) Active duty military. - Full-time duty status in the active uniformed service of the United States, including members of the National Guard and Reserve on active duty orders …

(a) A license issued to an audiologist or speech-language pathologist by a home state to a resident in that state shall be recognized by each member state as authorizing an audiologist or speech-language pathologist to practice audiology or speech-language pathology, under a priv…

(a) To exercise the compact privilege under the terms and provisions of the Compact, the audiologist or speech-language pathologist shall meet all of the following: (1) Hold an active license in the home state. (2) Have no encumbrance on any state license. (3) Be eligible for a c…

Member states shall recognize the right of an audiologist or speech-language pathologist, licensed by a home state in accordance with G.S. 90-312.3 and under rules promulgated by the Commission, to practice audiology or speech-language pathology in any member state via telehealth…

Active duty military personnel, or their spouses, shall designate a home state where the individual has a current license in good standing. The individual may retain the home state designation during the period the service member is on active duty. Subsequent to designating a hom…

(a) In addition to the other powers conferred by state law, a remote state shall have the authority, in accordance with existing state due process law, to: (1) Take adverse action against an audiologist's or speech-language pathologist's privilege to practice within that member s…

(a) The Compact member states hereby create and establish a joint public agency known as the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Compact Commission: (1) The Commission is an instrumentality of the Compact states. (2) Venue is proper and judicial proceedings by or against the …

(a) The Commission shall provide for the development, maintenance, and utilization of a coordinated database and reporting system containing licensure, adverse action, and investigative information on all licensed individuals in member states. (b) Notwithstanding any other provis…

The original license granted by the North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners shall bear a serial number, the full name of the applicant, the date of issuance and shall be signed by the president and the majority of the members of the said Board and attested by the seal of s…

(a) The General Assembly recognizes as a matter of public policy that an individual's rights include the right to a peaceful and natural death and that a patient or the patient's representative has the fundamental right to control the decisions relating to the rendering of the pa…

(a) The following definitions apply in this Article: (1) Declarant. - A person who has signed a declaration in accordance with subsection (c) of this section. (1a) Declaration. - Except as provided in G.S. 90-321.1, any signed, witnessed, dated, and proved document meeting the re…

(a) The requirement of G.S. 90-321 that an advanced directive for a natural death declaration be executed in the presence of two qualified witnesses shall be waived for all instruments executed on or after the effective date of this section and prior to termination of the state o…

(a) If the attending physician determines, to a high degree of medical certainty, that a person lacks capacity to make or communicate health care decisions and the person will never regain that capacity, and: (1) Repealed by Session Laws 2007-502, s. 12, effective October 1, 2007…

The determination that a person is dead shall be made by a physician licensed to practice medicine applying ordinary and accepted standards of medical practice. Brain death, defined as irreversible cessation of total brain function, may be used as a sole basis for the determinati…

(a) This Article shall be known and may be cited as the Right to Try Act. (b) The purpose of Part 1 of this Article is to authorize access to and use of experimental treatments for patients with a terminal illness; to establish conditions for use of experimental treatment; to pro…

The following definitions apply in this Part, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) Eligible patient. - An individual who meets all of the following criteria: a. Has a terminal illness, attested to by a treating physician. b. Has, in consultation with a treating physician, c…

The purpose of Part 2 of this Article is to authorize access to and use of certain investigational adult stem cell treatments for patients with certain severe chronic diseases or terminal illnesses; to regulate the possession, use, and transfer of adult stem cells; and to create …

The following definitions apply in this Part unless the context requires otherwise: (1) Adult stem cell. - An undifferentiated cell that is (i) found in postnatal differentiated tissue and (ii) able to renew itself and differentiate to yield all or nearly all of the specialized c…

(a) An eligible patient is authorized to access and use an investigational adult stem cell treatment under this Part, if the investigational adult stem cell treatment meets all of the following requirements: (1) Is administered directly by a physician certified by an institutiona…

(a) An institutional review board that oversees investigational adult stem cell treatments administered under this Part is required to be affiliated with an accredited medical school located in this State, or an affiliated facility of an accredited medical school located in this …

(a) Except as allowed under subsection (c) and subsection (d) of this section, it is unlawful to knowingly offer to buy, offer to sell, acquire, receive, sell, or otherwise transfer any adult stem cells for valuable consideration for use in an investigational adult stem cell trea…