New York Laws
Article 165 - Clinical Laboratory Technology Practice Act.
8608 - Limited and Provisional Permits.

(b) To qualify for a provisional permit, the applicant shall:
(i) file a provisional permit application with the department;
(ii) have at least one of the following enumerated qualifications:
(A) be licensed as a clinical laboratory technologist, or the
equivalent as determined by the department, in another jurisdiction or
possess a current certification in clinical laboratory technology from a
national certification organization acceptable to the department; or
(B) have received both an education, including a bachelor's degree in
the biological, chemical, or physical sciences, and training in a
clinical laboratory, provided that such education and training are
acceptable to the department; or
(C) have received a bachelor's degree in the biological, chemical, or
physical sciences or in mathematics, and have served as a research
assistant in a research laboratory, under the direction of the director
or the principal researcher of such research laboratory, working on the
research and development of any procedures and examinations to be
conducted by a laboratory, as defined in title five of article five of
the public health law, on material derived from the human body which
provides information for the diagnosis, prevention or treatment of a
disease or assessment of a human medical condition; or
(D) for those seeking a provisional permit as a histotechnician, have
received an education, including an associate's degree that includes a
minimum number of credit hours in the sciences, provided that such
education is acceptable to the department;
(iii) be at least eighteen years of age;
(iv) be of good moral character as determined by the department;
(v) pay a fee of fifty dollars for a provisional permit;
(vi) file a licensure application with the department; and
(vii) pay the licensure fee as outlined in section eighty-six hundred
six of this article.
(c) Each provisional permit shall be subject to the disciplinary
provisions applicable to licensees pursuant to subarticle three of
article one hundred thirty of this title.
3. The board of regents and the department are authorized to adopt
such rules and regulations as may be necessary to implement the
provisions of this section.