N.Y. Education Law § 6956: Prior nurse-midwifery certification

§ 6956. Prior nurse-midwifery certification. Any individual who is

certified as a nurse-midwife pursuant to section twenty-five hundred

sixty of the public health law before June first, nineteen hundred

ninety-six, shall be deemed to be licensed as a midwife under this

article; provided that each such certified nurse-midwife shall, prior to

that date, submit evidence of such certification to the department

together with the appropriate fee required by subdivision seven of

section sixty-nine hundred fifty-five of this article. Any individual

certified as a nurse-midwife pursuant to section twenty-five hundred

sixty of the public health law (i) may practice under that section until

it is repealed, but (ii) shall not practice pursuant to this article

until after receiving approval from the commissioner and submitting the

fee required by subdivision seven of section sixty-nine hundred

fifty-five of this article.