§ 6956. Prior nurse-midwifery certification. Any individual who is
certified as a nurse-midwife pursuant to section twenty-five hundred
sixty of the public health law before June first, nineteen hundred
ninety-six, shall be deemed to be licensed as a midwife under this
article; provided that each such certified nurse-midwife shall, prior to
that date, submit evidence of such certification to the department
together with the appropriate fee required by subdivision seven of
section sixty-nine hundred fifty-five of this article. Any individual
certified as a nurse-midwife pursuant to section twenty-five hundred
sixty of the public health law (i) may practice under that section until
it is repealed, but (ii) shall not practice pursuant to this article
until after receiving approval from the commissioner and submitting the
fee required by subdivision seven of section sixty-nine hundred
fifty-five of this article.