N.Y. Education Law § 8705: Requirements and procedures for professional licensure

§ 8705. Requirements and procedures for professional licensure. To

qualify for a license as a professional medical physicist, an applicant

shall fulfill the following requirements:

1. Application: file an application with the department;

2. Education: have received an education including a master's or

doctoral degree from an accredited college or university in accordance

with the commissioner's regulations. Such person shall have completed

such courses of instruction as are deemed necessary by the commissioner

to practice in the medical physics specialty in which the applicant has

applied for a license;

3. Experience: have experience in his or her medical physics specialty

satisfactory to the board and in accordance with the commissioner's

regulations;

4. Examination: pass an examination in his or her medical specialty

satisfactory to the board and in accordance with the commissioner's

regulations. The examination requirement may be waived by the board on

recommendation of the commissioner for certain applicants with extensive

experience as a medical physicist;

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

6. Fee: pay a fee of three hundred dollars to the department for

admission to a department conducted examination for licensure, a fee of

one hundred fifty dollars for licensure with special competency in the

first specialty and twenty-five dollars for each additional specialty,

and a fee of three hundred dollars for each biennial registration

period.