Section 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)  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)  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. 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
    (e)  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.