Section 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.