N.Y. Education Law § 6548: Registration

§ 6548. Registration. 1. To qualify for registration as a specialist

assistant, each person shall pay a fee of one hundred fifteen dollars to

the department for admission to a department conducted examination, a

fee of forty-five dollars for each reexamination and a fee of seventy

dollars for persons not requiring admission to a department conducted

examination and shall also submit satisfactory evidence, verified by

oath or affirmation, that he or she:

(a) at the time of application is at least twenty-one years of age;

(b) is of good moral character;

(c) has successfully completed a four-year course of study in a

secondary school approved by the board of regents or has passed an

equivalency test; and

(d) has satisfactorily completed an approved program for the training

of specialist assistants.

2. The department shall furnish to each person applying for

registration hereunder an application form calling for such information

as the department deems necessary and shall issue to each applicant who

satisfies the requirements of subdivision one of this section a

certificate of registration as specialist assistant in a particular

medical specialty for the period expiring December thirty-first of the

first odd-numbered year terminating subsequent to such registration.

3. Every registrant shall apply to the department for a certificate of

registration. The department shall mail to every registered specialist

assistant an application form for registration, addressed to the

registrant's post office address on file with the department. Upon

receipt of such application properly executed, together with evidence of

satisfactory completion of such continuing education requirements as may

be established by the commissioner of health pursuant to section

thirty-seven hundred eleven of the public health law, the department

shall issue a certificate of registration. Registration periods shall be

triennial and the registration fee shall be forty-five dollars.