Section 8708. Licensure without examination

1. Within eighteen months of
  the effective date of regulations implementing the  provisions  of  this
  article,  the department may issue a license to practice medical physics
  with special competency in  one  or  more  specialties  in  this  state,
  without  an  examination,  to  a  person  who  meets the requirements of
  subdivisions one, five and six of section eighty-seven hundred  five  of
  this  article  and who in addition has an earned bachelor's, master's or
  doctoral degree from an accredited college or university that  signifies
  the  completion  of  a course of study acceptable to the department, and
  has demonstrated to the department's satisfaction, in  the  case  of  an
  earned  bachelor's  degree,  the completion of at least fifteen years of
  full-time work experience in the medical  physics  specialty  for  which
  application  is  made, or, in the case of an earned master's or doctoral
  degree,  the  completion  of  at  least  two  years  of  full-time  work
  experience  in  the  five years preceding the date of application in the
  medical  physics  specialty  for  which  application  is  made  and  the
  equivalent  of  one year or more of full-time work experience in the ten
  years preceding the date of application for  each  additional  specialty
  for which application is made.
    2.   On  receipt  of  an  application  and  fee  pursuant  to  section
  eighty-seven hundred five of this article, the department  may  issue  a
  license  to  practice  medical physics with special competency in one or
  more specialties in this state to  a  person  who  holds  a  license  to
  practice  medical  physics  in  another state, territory or jurisdiction
  that has requirements for licensing  of  medical  physicists  which  the
  department  determines  to be substantially the same as the requirements
  of this article.