N.Y. Education Law § 7210: Certificates of authorization

§ 7210. Certificates of authorization. 1. Domestic or foreign

professional service corporations, design professional service

corporations, professional service limited liability companies, foreign

professional service limited liability companies, registered limited

liability partnerships, New York registered foreign limited liability

partnerships, partnerships and joint enterprises specified in

subdivision four of section seventy-two hundred nine of this article,

provided each of the foregoing entities is authorized to provide

professional engineering, land surveying or professional geology

services and general business corporations authorized to provide

professional engineering or land surveying services pursuant to

subdivision six of section seventy-two hundred nine of this article may

offer to provide or provide professional engineering, land surveying or

professional geology services only after obtaining a certificate of

authorization from the department. Except as otherwise authorized by

statute, rule or regulation, other business entities are not authorized

to offer or provide professional engineering, land surveying or

professional geology services and may not obtain certificates of

authorization provided that nothing contained herein shall prohibit an

individual who is licensed to practice professional engineering, land

surveying or professional geology under this article from obtaining a

certificate of authorization upon application and payment of the

appropriate fees provided for under this section.

2. Upon application a certificate of authorization shall be issued by

the department to all individuals, corporations, limited liability

companies, limited liability partnerships, partnerships and joint

enterprises specified in subdivision one of this section and which are

authorized to provide professional engineering or land surveying

services and pay the appropriate fee.

3. A "certificate of authorization" shall authorize such individual,

corporation, limited liability company, limited liability partnership,

partnership or joint enterprise to provide professional engineering or

land surveying services for three years from the date of issuance

subject to, as otherwise prescribed by law, the supervision of the

regents of the university of the state of New York including the power

to discipline and impose penalties in the same manner and to the same

extent as is provided with respect to individuals and their licenses and

registration pursuant to this title.

4. An application, triennial renewal, delinquent or replacement

certificate fee must accompany the "certificate of authorization"

request in the amount shown below. A business entity that fails to renew

its certificate of authorization before the expiration date shall be

required to pay the additional delinquent fee for late filing of ten

dollars for each full month it has practiced after the expiration of its

certificate of authorization.

Application fee and first triennial certificate of authorization -

$125.00;

Triennial renewal fee - $75.00;

Delinquent fee - $10.00 per month of practice without a certificate of

authorization;

Replacement certificate fee - $10.00.

All checks shall be made payable to the state department of education,

state of New York and submitted to the department. If a business

enterprise is not eligible to receive a "certificate of authorization",

the fee will be retained to cover the costs of processing. Triennial

renewal fees for all "certificates of authorization" are due and payable

on or before the filing date of each triennial registration period.

5. The department shall compile a registry of the holders of all

certificates of authorization. Such registry shall include the name and

address of all registrants, state whether a certificate of authorization

has been issued, denied, suspended, or revoked, and disclose whether the

certificate is current or expired. Access to the registry shall be made

available electronically without cost. A record search of the registry

may be obtained in person or by mail provided that a fee of ten dollars

shall be paid for each putative registrant.