§ 6548. Registration. 1. To qualify for registration as a 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; and

(d) has satisfactorily completed an approved program for the training
of specialist assistants.

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 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 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 eleven 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.