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The board may grant the waiver:</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5P0"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:space="preserve" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5000005"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5P0-000006"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:space="preserve" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5C0-000003">    (1)  </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5C0">If the audiologist has an illness that prevented the audiologist from completing the continuing education requirement certified by the audiologist's attending physician, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner; or</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5P0-000006"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:space="preserve" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5C0">    (2)  </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5C0">For the audiologist's undue hardship upon good cause shown to the satisfaction of the board</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5C0">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5P0-000006"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:space="preserve" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5000005"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5P0-000006"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:space="preserve" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5C0">    </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5C0-000001">Source:</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:space="preserve" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5C0"> 24 SDR 33, effective September 22, 1997</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5C0">; 52 SDR 35, effective October 7, 2025</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5C0">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5P0-000006"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:space="preserve" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5C0">    </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5C0-000001">General Authority:</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:space="preserve" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5C0"> SDCL </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes?Statute=36-24-47"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5C0-000007">36-24-4</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5C0-000007">7</span></a><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5C0">(2)</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5C0">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5P0-000006"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:space="preserve" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5C0">    </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5C0-000001">Law Implemented:</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:space="preserve" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5C0"> SDCL </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes?Statute=36-24-12.1"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5C0-000007">36-24-12.1</span></a><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5C0">(</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5C0">4</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5C0">)</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:space="preserve" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5C0">, </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes?Statute=36-24-28.1"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5C0-000007">36-24-28.1</span></a><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5C0">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5P0-000008"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:space="preserve" class="s54b15805-21ec-4c94-8349-80e2a24a4fb5000005"> </span></p></div></body></html>