2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 8 - The Professions › Article 161 - Interior Design › 8305 - Requirements for Certification.

§ 8305. Requirements   for   certification.      1.   To  qualify  for
certification  to  use  the  title  "certified  interior  designer",  an
applicant shall fulfill all the following requirements:
(a) Application: file an application with the department;
(b)  Education:  have  received  at  least seven years of professional
training consisting of academic study and work  experience  relating  to
interior  design  and in accordance with the commissioner's regulations.
These seven years shall contain at least two  but  not  more  than  five
years  of post secondary education, including an associate degree or the
equivalent, in an approved program of interior design;
(c) Experience: have experience  satisfactory  to  the  board  and  in
accordance with the commissioner's regulations;
(d)  Examination: (1) pass an examination satisfactory to the board in
accordance with the commissioner's regulations, and (2) pass a  separate
examination  satisfactory  to the board relative to the fire, safety and
building codes of the state;
(e) Age: be at least twenty-one years of age;
(f) Citizenship: meet no requirements as to United States citizenship;
(g) Character: be  of  good  moral  character  as  determined  by  the
department; and
(h)  Fees:  pay  a  fee of three hundred dollars to the department for
admission to the  two  department  conducted  examinations  and  for  an
initial   license,   a  fee  of  one  hundred  fifty  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, and a fee of two hundred ten  dollars  for  each  triennial
registration period.
2. On recommendation of the board, the department may exempt:
(a)  from  the  requirement  of  subparagraph  one of paragraph (d) of
subdivision one of this section, an applicant who  holds  a  license  of
certification  to  practice as an interior designer issued to him or her
upon examination by a legally constituted  board  of  examiners  in  any
other state or political subdivision of the United States, provided that
at  the  time  the  license  or  certificate was issued by such state or
political subdivision the applicant met the  requirements  of  paragraph
(b)  of  subdivision  one  of  this section for certification to use the
title "certified interior designer" established by this article; or
(b) from the requirements specified in paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision
one  of  this  section  provided the applicant submits, prior to January
first, nineteen  hundred  ninety-six,  satisfactory  evidence  that  the
applicant  has  held  himself or herself out as an interior designer and
has  prepared  interior  design  documents  in   accordance   with   the
requirements  set  forth  in  section eighty-three hundred three of this
article for a minimum of seven years, has received  a  secondary  school
diploma  or  equivalent,  and has passed the examinations required under
paragraph (d) of subdivision one of this section.