§ 3701. Commissioner; powers and duties. The commissioner shall have
the following powers and duties: 1. to promulgate regulations defining
and restricting the duties which may be assigned to physician assistants
by their supervising physician, the degree of supervision required and
the manner in which such duties may be performed;

2. to conduct and support continuing studies respecting the nature and
scope of the duties of physician assistants in order to promote their
effective functioning as members of the health care team;

3. to determine the desirability of and to establish rules for
requiring continuing education of physician assistants;

4. to furnish the education department with suggested criteria which
may be used by the education department to help determine whether an
applicant for licensure as a physician assistant 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;

5. to adopt such other rules and regulations as may be necessary or
appropriate to carry out the purposes of this article.