N.Y. Public Health Law § 3701: Commissioner; powers and duties

§ 3701. Commissioner; powers and duties. The commissioner shall have

the following powers and duties: 1. to promulgate regulations defining

and restricting the duties which may be assigned to physician assistants

by their supervising physician, the degree of supervision required and

the manner in which such duties may be performed;

2. to conduct and support continuing studies respecting the nature and

scope of the duties of physician assistants in order to promote their

effective functioning as members of the health care team;

3. to determine the desirability of and to establish rules for

requiring continuing education of physician assistants;

4. to furnish the education department with suggested criteria which

may be used by the education department to help determine whether an

applicant for licensure as a physician assistant possesses equivalent

education and training, such as experience as a nurse or military

corpsman, which may be accepted in lieu of all or part of an approved

program;

5. to adopt such other rules and regulations as may be necessary or

appropriate to carry out the purposes of this article.