6541 - Registration.

§ 6541. Registration.    1. To qualify for registration as a physician  assistant or specialist assistant, each person shall pay a  fee  of  one  hundred  fifteen dollars to the department for admission to a department  conducted  examination,  a  fee   of   forty-five   dollars   for   each  reexamination  and  a  fee  of seventy dollars for persons not requiring  admission to a department conducted examination and  shall  also  submit  satisfactory evidence, verified by oath or affirmation, that he or she:    (a) at the time of application is at least twenty-one years of age;    (b) is of good moral character;    (c)  in  the  case  of  an  applicant for registration as a specialist  assistant, has successfully completed a four-year course of study  in  a  secondary  school  approved  by  the  board  of regents or has passed an  equivalency test;    (d) in the case of  an  applicant  for  registration  as  a  physician  assistant,   has   received  an  education  including  a  bachelor's  or  equivalent degree in accordance with the commissioner's regulations;    (e) has satisfactorily completed an approved program for the  training  of  physician  assistants or specialist assistants. The approved program  for the training of physician assistants shall  include  not  less  than  forty  weeks of supervised clinical training and thirty-two credit hours  of classroom work. Applicants for registration as a physician  assistant  who have completed an approved program leading to a bachelor's degree or  equivalent  in  physician  assistant  studies  shall  be  deemed to have  satisfied this paragraph. The commissioner  is  empowered  to  determine  whether  an  applicant 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; and    (f)  in  the  case  of  an  applicant  for registration as a physician  assistant, has obtained a passing score on an examination acceptable  to  the department.    2.   The   department  shall  furnish  to  each  person  applying  for  registration hereunder an application form calling for such  information  as  the department deems necessary and shall issue to each applicant who  satisfies  the  requirements  of  subdivision  one  of  this  section  a  certificate  of  registration  as  a  physician  assistant or specialist  assistant in a particular medical  specialty  for  the  period  expiring  December   thirty-first  of  the  first  odd-numbered  year  terminating  subsequent to such registration.    3. Every registrant shall apply to the department for a certificate of  registration. The department shall mail to  every  registered  physician  assistant and specialist assistant an application form for registration,  addressed  to  the  registrant's  post  office  address on file with the  department. Upon receipt of such application properly executed, together  with evidence of satisfactory completion of  such  continuing  education  requirements  as  may  be  established  by  the  commissioner  of health  pursuant to section thirty-seven hundred one of the public  health  law,  the  department  shall issue a certificate of registration. Registration  periods shall be triennial and the registration fee shall be  forty-five  dollars.