Oklahoma § 59-1616 - License certificates - Renewals - Inactive status

§ 59-1616. License certificates - Renewals - Inactive status

A. The Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and

Audiology shall issue a license certificate to each person whom it

registers as a speech-language pathologist and/or audiologist.

Licensure shall be granted in either speech-language pathology or

audiology independently. Qualified applicants may be independently

licensed in both. The certificate shall show the full legal name of

the licensee and shall bear a serial number. The serial number is

exclusive and not transferable. The certificate shall be signed by

the chair and executive secretary of the Board under the seal of the

Board.

B. Licenses for independent practitioners expire on the 31st

day of December following their issuance or renewal, and are invalid

thereafter unless renewed. The Board shall notify every person

licensed pursuant to the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology

Licensing Act of the date of expiration and the amount of the

renewal fee. This notice shall be mailed at least one (1) month

before the expiration of the license. Renewal may be made at any

time during the months of November or December upon application

therefore, and by payment of the renewal fee. Failure on the part

of any licensed person to pay such person’s renewal fee before the

first day in January does not deprive the person of the person’s

right to renew the person’s license, but the fee to be paid for

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renewal after December shall be increased by fifty percent (50%) for

each month or fraction thereof that the payment is delayed, up to a

maximum of three times the current renewal fee.

C. A licensed speech-language pathologist or audiologist may

place such person’s license on inactive status if, prior to

expiration of the person’s license, the person makes written

application to the Board for such status and pays a fee of Twentyfive Dollars ($25.00). Thereafter, the person may renew such

person’s license upon payment of a renewal fee equal to one and onehalf (1 1/2) times the then current license fee. During the period

of time the person’s license is in an inactive status, the person

shall not engage in the practice of speech-language pathology or

audiology in the State of Oklahoma.

Added by Laws 1973, c. 203, § 16, emerg. eff. May 17, 1973. Amended

by Laws 1998, c. 202, § 16, eff. July 1, 1998; Laws 2004, c. 280, §

8, eff. July 1, 2004.