Section 6507. Administration by the education department

1.   The
  commissioner and the department shall administer the  admission  to  and
  the practice of the professions.
    2. In administering, the commissioner may:
    a.  Promulgate  regulations,  except  that  no  regulations  shall  be
  promulgated concerning article 131-A of this chapter;
    b. Conduct investigations;
    c. Issue subpoenas;
    d. Grant immunity from prosecution in accordance with section 50.20 of
  the criminal procedure law to anyone subpoenaed in any investigation  or
  hearing conducted pursuant to this title; and
    e.  Excuse,  for  cause acceptable to the commissioner, the failure to
  register with the department. Such excuse shall validate  and  authorize
  such practitioner's right to practice pending registration.
    3. The department assisted by the board for each profession, shall:
    a. Establish standards for preprofessional and professional education,
  experience  and  licensing  examinations  as  required  to implement the
  article for each profession. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
  the commissioner shall establish standards requiring  that  all  persons
  applying,  on  or  after  January  first,  nineteen  hundred ninety-one,
  initially, or for the renewal of, a  license,  registration  or  limited
  permit  to  be  a  physician,  chiropractor,  dentist, registered nurse,
  podiatrist, optometrist,  psychiatrist,  psychologist,  licensed  master
  social  worker,  licensed clinical social worker, licensed creative arts
  therapist, licensed  marriage  and  family  therapist,  licensed  mental
  health  counselor, licensed psychoanalyst, or dental hygienist shall, in
  addition  to  all  the  other   licensure,   certification   or   permit
  requirements,  have  completed  two  hours  of  coursework  or  training
  regarding  the  identification  and  reporting  of   child   abuse   and
  maltreatment.  The  coursework  or  training  shall  be obtained from an
  institution or provider which has been approved  by  the  department  to
  provide  such  coursework  or training. The coursework or training shall
  include information regarding the physical and behavioral indicators  of
  child  abuse  and  maltreatment and the statutory reporting requirements
  set out in sections four hundred thirteen through four hundred twenty of
  the social services law, including but not limited to, when  and  how  a
  report  must  be  made,  what  other actions the reporter is mandated or
  authorized to take, the legal protections afforded  reporters,  and  the
  consequences for failing to report. Such coursework or training may also
  include  information regarding the physical and behavioral indicators of
  the abuse of individuals with mental retardation and other developmental
  disabilities and voluntary reporting of abused or  neglected  adults  to
  the  office  of mental retardation and developmental disabilities or the
  local adult protective services unit. Each applicant shall  provide  the
  department  with  documentation showing that he or she has completed the
  required training. The department shall provide an  exemption  from  the
  child  abuse and maltreatment training requirements to any applicant who
  requests  such  an  exemption  and  who  shows,  to   the   department's
  satisfaction,  that  there would be no need because of the nature of his
  or her practice for him or her to complete such training;
    b. Review qualifications in connection  with  licensing  requirements;
  and
    c. Provide for licensing examinations and reexaminations.
    4. The department shall:
    a.  Register  or approve educational programs designed for the purpose
  of providing professional preparation which meet  standards  established
  by the department.

    b.  Issue  licenses,  registrations,  and limited permits to qualified
  applicants;
    c.  (i)  Issue  a certificate of authority to a qualified professional
  service corporation being organized under section fifteen hundred  three
  of  the  business  corporation  law  or to a university faculty practice
  corporation being organized under section fourteen hundred twelve of the
  not-for-profit corporation law on payment of a fee  of  ninety  dollars,
  (ii)  require  such  corporations  to  file  a  certified  copy  of each
  certificate of incorporation and amendment thereto  within  thirty  days
  after the filing of such certificate or amendment on payment of a fee of
  twenty  dollars,  (iii)  require  such  corporations to file a triennial
  statement required by section fifteen hundred fourteen of  the  business
  corporation law on payment of a fee of one hundred five dollars.
    d.  Revoke  limited  permits on the recommendation of the committee on
  professional conduct for the profession concerned,  except  for  limited
  permits  issued  to  physicians, physician's assistants and specialist's
  assistants which shall be subject to sections two  hundred  thirty,  two
  hundred  thirty-a,  two hundred thirty-b and two hundred thirty-c of the
  public health law;
    e. Maintain public records of licenses issued and retain in its  files
  identifying  data  concerning  each  person  to  whom a license has been
  issued;
    e-1. Compile and make available to the New  York  city  department  of
  buildings  in  electronic  form:  (i)  a  list  of  all  architects  and
  professional engineers currently licensed by  and  registered  with  the
  department; (ii) a list of all architects and professional engineers who
  currently  hold  limited permits issued by the department, together with
  the conditions and limitations applicable to each such  limited  permit;
  and  (iii)  a  list  of  all architects and professional engineers whose
  licenses have been revoked or suspended by the board of regents  of  the
  state  of  New York or who are currently on probation, together with the
  date of revocation or the date and duration of suspension or  probation,
  as  applicable.  The  New  York  city  department of buildings shall not
  accept  plans  or  other  documents   submitted   in   connection   with
  applications  for  work  permits under articles ten through seventeen of
  subchapter  one  of  chapter  one   of   title   twenty-seven   of   the
  administrative  code  of the city of New York by any person representing
  that he  or  she  is  an  architect  or  professional  engineer  without
  verifying,   by  means  of  such  lists,  that  such  person  meets  the
  qualifications established  by  law  to  practice  as  an  architect  or
  professional engineer in New York state.
    f.  Collect the fees prescribed by this title or otherwise provided by
  law;
    g. Prepare an annual report for  the  legislature,  the  governor  and
  other   executive   offices,  the  state  boards  for  the  professions,
  professional societies, consumer agencies and other interested  persons.
  Such  report  shall  include  but  not  be  limited to a description and
  analysis  of  the  administrative  procedures  and  operations  of   the
  department  based  upon  a  statistical  summary  relating  to  (i)  new
  licensure, (ii) discipline, (iii) complaint, investigation, and  hearing
  backlog,  (iv)  budget,  and  (v)  the state boards for the professions.
  Information provided shall be enumerated by profession; and
    h. Establish an administrative unit which shall be responsible for the
  investigation, prosecution and determination of  alleged  violations  of
  professional conduct.
    5. Where an application is submitted for licensure or a limited permit
  in   any  profession  regulated  by  this  title  and  the  commissioner
  determines that while engaged in practice in another  jurisdiction:  (i)

  the  applicant  has  been  subject  to  disciplinary  action  by  a duly
  authorized professional disciplinary agency of such other  jurisdiction,
  where the conduct upon which the disciplinary action was based would, if
  committed in New York state, constitute practicing the profession beyond
  its  authorized scope, with gross incompetence, with gross negligence on
  a particular occasion, or with negligence or incompetence on  more  than
  one occasion under the laws of New York state, or (ii) the applicant has
  voluntarily  or otherwise surrendered his or her professional license in
  another jurisdiction after a disciplinary action  was  instituted  by  a
  duly   authorized   professional   disciplinary  agency  of  such  other
  jurisdiction based on conduct that  would,  if  committed  in  New  York
  state, constitute practicing the profession beyond its authorized scope,
  with gross incompetence, with gross negligence on a particular occasion,
  or  with  negligence or incompetence on more than one occasion under the
  laws of New York state, the department shall evaluate  the  conduct  and
  the  commissioner  may deny licensure or issuance of a limited permit to
  the applicant based on such conduct.
    6. The  commissioner  and  the  department  shall  perform  any  other
  functions necessary to implement this title.