N.Y. Education Law § 8708: Licensure without examination

§ 8708. Licensure without examination. 1. Within eighteen months of

the effective date of regulations implementing the provisions of this

article, the department may issue a license to practice medical physics

with special competency in one or more specialties in this state,

without an examination, to a person who meets the requirements of

subdivisions one, five and six of section eighty-seven hundred five of

this article and who in addition has an earned bachelor's, master's or

doctoral degree from an accredited college or university that signifies

the completion of a course of study acceptable to the department, and

has demonstrated to the department's satisfaction, in the case of an

earned bachelor's degree, the completion of at least fifteen years of

full-time work experience in the medical physics specialty for which

application is made, or, in the case of an earned master's or doctoral

degree, the completion of at least two years of full-time work

experience in the five years preceding the date of application in the

medical physics specialty for which application is made and the

equivalent of one year or more of full-time work experience in the ten

years preceding the date of application for each additional specialty

for which application is made.

2. On receipt of an application and fee pursuant to section

eighty-seven hundred five of this article, the department may issue a

license to practice medical physics with special competency in one or

more specialties in this state to a person who holds a license to

practice medical physics in another state, territory or jurisdiction

that has requirements for licensing of medical physicists which the

department determines to be substantially the same as the requirements

of this article.