Mississippi Code Title 73. Professions and Vocations § 73-14-3

(i) The obtaining of any fee or the making of any sale by fraud or misrepresentation.

(ii) Knowingly employing directly or indirectly any suspended or unlicensed person to perform any work covered by this chapter.

(iii) Representing that the professional services or advice of a physician or audiologist will be used or made available in the selling, fitting, adjustment, maintenance or repair of hearing aids when that is not true, or using the words “doctor,” “clinic,” “clinical,” and/or “research audiologist,” “audiologic,” or any other like words, abbreviations or symbols which tend to connote audiological or professional services, when such use is not accurate.

(iv) Permitting another to use his license or certificate or endorsement.

(v) Quoting prices of competitive hearing aids or devices without disclosing that they are not the present current prices, or showing, demonstrating, or representing competitive models as being current models when such is not the fact.

(vi) Imitating or simulating the trademarks, trade names, brands or labels of competitors with the capacity and tendency or effect of misleading or deceiving purchasers or prospective purchasers.

(vii) Defaming competitors by falsely imputing to them dishonorable conduct, inability to perform contracts, questionable credit standing, or by other false representations, or falsely disparaging the products of competitors in any respect, or their business methods, selling prices, values, credit terms, policies or services.

(viii) Stating or implying that the use of any hearing aid will restore or preserve hearing, prevent or retard progression of a hearing impairment.

(ix) Dispensing and selling a hearing aid to a child under the age of eighteen (18) years who has not been examined and cleared for hearing aid use by a licensed physician within a six-month period immediately prior to dispensing and selling the hearing aid.

(x) Representing himself as being an audiologist as defined in Section 73-38-3.