N.Y. Education Law § 7603: Requirements for a professional license

§ 7603. Requirements for a professional license. To qualify for a

license as a psychologist, an applicant shall fulfill the following

requirements:

(1) Application: file an application with the department;

(2) Education: have received an education, including a doctoral degree

in psychology, granted on the basis of completion of a program of

psychology registered with the department or the substantial equivalent

thereof, in accordance with the commissioner's regulations;

(3) Experience: have two years of supervised employment or engagement

in appropriate psychology activities satisfactory to the board and in

accordance with the commissioner's regulations. Satisfactory experience

obtained in an entity operating pursuant to a waiver issued by the

department pursuant to section sixty-five hundred three-a of this title

may be accepted by the department, notwithstanding that such experience

may have been obtained prior to the effective date of such section

sixty-five hundred three-a and/or prior to the entity having obtained a

waiver. The department may, for good cause shown, accept satisfactory

experience that was obtained in a setting that would have been eligible

for a waiver but which has not obtained a waiver with the department or

experience that was obtained in good faith by the applicant under the

belief that appropriate authorization had been obtained for the

experience, provided that such experience meets all other requirements

for acceptable experience;

(4) Examination: pass an examination satisfactory to the board and in

accordance with the commissioner's regulations;

(5) Age: be at least twenty-one years of age;

(6) Citizenship: meet no requirement as to United States citizenship;

(7) Character: be of good moral character as determined by the

department; and

(8) Fees: pay a fee of one hundred seventy dollars to the department

for admission to a department conducted examination and for an initial

license, a fee of eighty-five dollars for each reexamination, a fee of

one hundred fifteen dollars for an initial license for persons not

requiring admission to a department conducted examination, and a fee of

one hundred fifty-five dollars for each triennial registration period.