New York Laws
Article 164 - Respiratory Therapists and Respiratory Therapy Technicians
8510 - Requirements for Licensure as a Respiratory Therapy Technician.

§ 8510. Requirements for licensure as a respiratory therapy
technician. To qualify for a license as a respiratory therapy
technician an applicant shall fulfill the following requirements:

1. Application: file an application with the department;

2. Education: have received an education including completion of high
school or its equivalent and have completed an approved one-year
certificate respiratory therapy education program, or a program
determined equivalent, in accordance with the commissioner's
regulations;

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 ninety dollars to the department for admission
to a department conducted examination and for an initial license; a fee
of sixty dollars for each re-examination; a fee of fifty dollars for an
initial license for persons not requiring admission to a department
conducted examination and a fee of ninety dollars for each triennial
registration period commencing on and after June first, nineteen hundred
ninety-three.

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