NY Educ L § 6524 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 8 - The Professions Article 131 - Medicine 6524 - Requirements for a Professional License.

§  6524.  Requirements  for  a  professional license. To qualify for a license as  a  physician,  an  applicant  shall  fulfill  the  following requirements:  (1) Application: file an application with the department;  (2)  Education:  have  received  an  education,  including a degree of doctor  of  medicine,  "M.D.",  or  doctor  of  osteopathy,  "D.O.",  or equivalent degree in accordance with the commissioner's regulations;  (3)  Experience:  have  experience  satisfactory  to  the board and in accordance with the commissioner's regulations;  (4) Examination: pass an examination satisfactory to the board and  in accordance with the commissioner's regulations;  (5)   Age:   be  at  least  twenty-one  years  of  age;  however,  the commissioner may waive the  age  requirement  for  applicants  who  have attained  the  age  of eighteen and will be in a residency program until the age of twenty-one;  (6) Citizenship or immigration status: be a United States  citizen  or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States; provided,  however  that  the  board  of  regents may grant a three year waiver for an alien physician to practice in  an  area  which  has  been designated  by  the department as medically underserved, except that the board of regents may grant an additional extension  not  to  exceed  six years  to  an alien physician to enable him or her to secure citizenship or permanent resident status, provided such  status  is  being  actively pursued;  and  provided  further  that the board of regents may grant an additional three year waiver, and at its expiration, an extension for  a period  not  to  exceed  six additional years, for the holder of an H-1b visa, an O-1 visa, or an equivalent or successor visa thereto;  (7) Character: be  of  good  moral  character  as  determined  by  the department; and  (8) Fees: pay a fee of two hundred sixty dollars to the department for admission  to  a  department  conducted  examination  and for an initial license,  a  fee  of  one  hundred   seventy-five   dollars   for   each reexamination,  a  fee of one hundred thirty-five dollars for an initial license for persons not requiring admission to  a  department  conducted examination,  a  fee  of  five  hundred seventy dollars for any biennial registration period commencing August first, nineteen hundred ninety-six and thereafter. The comptroller is hereby  authorized  and  directed  to deposit  the  fee for each biennial registration period into the special revenue funds-other entitled "professional medical conduct account"  for the  purpose of offsetting any expenditures made pursuant to section two hundred thirty of the public health law in relation to the operation  of the  office  of  professional  medical  conduct within the department of health, provided that for each biennial registration  fee  paid  by  the licensee  using  a  credit  card,  the  amount of the administrative fee incurred by the department in processing such  credit  card  transaction shall  be  deposited by the comptroller in the office of the professions account established by section ninety-seven-nnn  of  the  state  finance law. The amount of the funds expended as a result of such increase shall not be greater than such fees collected over the registration period.  (9)  For every license or registration issued after the effective date of this subdivision, an additional fee of thirty dollars shall  be  paid and  deposited  in  the  special revenue fund entitled "the professional medical conduct account" for the purpose of offsetting any  expenditures made  pursuant  to  subdivision fifteen of section two hundred thirty of the public health law. The  amount  of  such  funds  expended  for  such purpose  shall  not  be greater than such additional fees collected over the licensure period or for the duration of such program  if  less  than the licensure period.  (10)  A  physician  shall  not  be  required to pay any fee under this section if he or she certifies to the department that for the period  of registration  or  licensure,  he  or  she  shall  only practice medicine without compensation or the expectation or promise of compensation.  The following  shall not be considered compensation for the purposes of this subdivision: (a) nominal payment solely to enable the  physician  to  be considered  an  employee  of  a  health  care provider, or (b) providing liability coverage to the physician relating to the services provided.  (11) No physician may be re-registered unless he or she,  as  part  of the  re-registration  application,  includes  an  attestation made under penalty of perjury, in a form prescribed by the commissioner, that he or she  has,  within  the  six  months   prior   to   submission   of   the re-registration  application,  updated  his  or her physician profile in accordance  with  subdivision  four  of  section   twenty-nine   hundred ninety-five-a of the public health law.