(1) An application for a license as a speech-language pathologist and/or audiologist shall be submitted to the board office in Helena on application forms provided by the department.

(2) Every application shall be typed or written in ink, signed and accompanied by the appropriate application fee and by such evidence, statements or documents as therein required.

(3) The applicant shall be notified, in writing, of the results of the evaluation of his application for license.

(4) Approved applications and all documents filed in support thereof shall be retained by the board with the provision that the board may permit such documents to be withdrawn upon substitution of a true copy.

(5) The board may request such additional information or clarification of information provided in the application as it deems reasonably necessary.

(6) An applicant shall be deemed to have abandoned his application if he does not complete the application requirements for licensure within one year from the date on which the application was filed. An application submitted subsequent to an abandoned application shall be treated as a new application.