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.