N.Y. Public Health Law § 2896-g: Registration

§ 2896-g. Registration. 1. Every licensee must register biennially

with the department. The department shall mail to every person who has

received a license under this article an application form for

registration requesting such information as the board and the

commissioner may require. Such licensee shall promptly fill out, sign

and forward such application to the department, together with a fee of

forty dollars; however, initial registration shall not require such fee.

Upon receipt and approval of such application and fee, the department

shall issue a certificate of biennial registration. The commissioner

shall establish by rule and regulation the beginning date of the

biennial registration period. In the event that a change in the

established beginning date of the biennial registration period requires

an adjustment in the duration of a registration period, there shall be a

proportionate adjustment in the prescribed fee.

2. Licensees who apply for registration subsequent to the first year

of any biennial registration period shall pay a fee of twenty dollars;

however, initial registration shall not require such fee; upon receipt

and approval of such application and fee, the department shall issue a

certificate of registration for the balance of the biennial registration

period.

3. Registration subsequent to the thirty-first day of December,

nineteen hundred seventy-three, shall require satisfactory completion of

such continuation education programs or courses of study as the board

shall determine are required to assure the licensee's retention of

professional competence in nursing home administration and development

of necessary different, new or advanced nursing home administration

skills and techniques.

4. A nursing home administrator who fails or neglects to apply for

registration before the first day of the next ensuing biennial

registration period as required by the provisions of this section shall

be required to pay for registration an additional fee of five dollars

for each month or part thereof that he is in default, provided, however,

that the additional fee shall not be more than one hundred twenty

dollars.

5. A practicing nursing home administrator who fails to apply and

qualify for registration before the first day of the next ensuing

biennial registration period, shall be an illegal practitioner whose

license may be suspended or revoked and who may be subjected to a civil

penalty, censured or reprimanded by the board in accordance with the

provisions of this article.

6. No person shall be entitled to register as a nursing home

administrator unless he shall hold a license as provided for in this

article. Every unrevoked certificate of registration issued as provided

in this article shall be presumptive evidence in all courts and places

that the person named therein is legally registered.

7. A nursing home administrator who has been heretofore duly licensed

and registered to practice in this state whose license shall not have

been revoked or suspended, and who either before or after registration,

as required by this section, shall have temporarily abandoned the

practice of nursing home administration and surrendered his registration

certificate, may reregister within this state upon complying with the

provisions of this section for registration, including payment of any

fees due as of the date of surrender.

8. Upon receipt of satisfactory evidence that a certificate of

registration has been lost, mutilated or destroyed, the department may

issue a duplicate certificate upon such terms and conditions as the

board shall prescribe with the approval of the commissioner, and upon

the payment of a fee of ten dollars.