New York Laws
Article 164 - Respiratory Therapists and Respiratory Therapy Technicians
8504 - Requirements for Licensure as a Respiratory Therapist.

§ 8504. Requirements for licensure as a respiratory therapist. To
qualify for a license as a respiratory therapist, an applicant shall
fulfill the following requirements:

1. Application: file an application with the department;

2. Education: have received an education, including completion of an
approved associate degree program in respiratory therapy or in a program
determined by the department to be the equivalent;

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 eighteen years of age;

6. Character: be of good moral character as determined by the
department; and

7. Fees: pay a fee of one hundred seventy-five dollars to the
department for admission to a department conducted examination and for
an initial license; a fee of eighty-five dollars for each
re-examination; a fee of one hundred fifteen dollars for an initial
license for persons not requiring admission to a department conducted
examination and a fee of one hundred fifty-five dollars for each
triennial registration period commencing on and after June first,
nineteen hundred ninety-three.

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