Sec. 20-206n. Certification. Qualifications.
Sec. 20-206n. Certification. Qualifications. (a) The department may, upon receipt of an application and fee of one hundred fifty dollars, issue a certificate as a dietitian-nutritionist to any applicant who has presented to the commissioner satisfactory
evidence that (1) such applicant is certified as a registered dietitian by the Commission
on Dietetic Registration, or (2) such applicant has (A) successfully passed a written
examination prescribed by the commissioner, and (B) received a master's degree or
doctoral degree, from an institution of higher education accredited to grant such degree
by a regional accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education, with a major course of study which focused primarily on human nutrition or dietetics and which included a minimum of thirty graduate semester credits, twenty-one of
which shall be in not fewer than five of the following content areas: (i) Human nutrition
or nutrition in the life cycle, (ii) nutrition biochemistry, (iii) nutrition assessment, (iv)
food composition or food science, (v) health education or nutrition counseling, (vi)
nutrition in health and disease, and (vii) community nutrition or public health nutrition.
(b) No certificate shall be issued under this section to any applicant against whom
a professional disciplinary action is pending or who is the subject of an unresolved
complaint.
(P.A. 94-210, S. 13; P.A. 02-89, S. 49.)
History: P.A. 02-89 amended Subsec. (a) to make technical changes for purposes of gender neutrality, deleted as obsolete
Subsecs. (b) and (c) authorizing the commissioner, not later than January 1, 1996, to issue a certificate without examination
to any applicant residing in this state on October 1, 1994, who meets certain educational and work experience requirements
and redesignated Subsec. (d) as Subsec. (b).