2006 New York Code - Requirements For A License As A Public Accountant.

 
    § 7405. Requirements for a license as a public accountant.  To qualify
  for  a  license  as  a public accountant, an applicant shall fulfill the
  following requirements:
    (1) Application: file an application with the department;
    (2) Declaration of intention: a. Have filed a declaration of intention
  to practice as a public accountant with  the  department  on  or  before
  October  first,  nineteen  hundred  fifty-nine, on the basis of evidence
  that the applicant was engaged for a total of six years during  the  ten
  years   immediately   preceding  April  twenty-third,  nineteen  hundred
  fifty-nine, in the practice  of  public  accountancy  as  an  individual
  practitioner  or as a partner of a partnership or as an employee of such
  an individual practitioner or partnership engaged  in  the  practice  of
  public  accountancy  or  as  an  employee  of  a  department,  agency or
  instrumentality  of  the  United  States,  the  state,  or  a  political
  subdivision  of  the  state  in which employment his duties entailed the
  performance of all or some of the services which  would  constitute  the
  practice  of  public  accountancy,  or  a  combination  of the foregoing
  duties, or in the opinion of the board the equivalent thereof;
    b. Establish by evidence satisfactory to the board that at the date of
  the filing of said declaration of intention, the applicant had  complied
  with  the  conditions established by law on April twenty-third, nineteen
  hundred fifty-nine, has not violated the provisions relating to practice
  in public accountancy, and is about to engage in the practice of  public
  accountancy as his principal occupation as an individual practitioner or
  as a partner of a partnership;
    (3)  Character:  be  of  good  moral  character  as  determined by the
  department; and
    (4) Fees: pay a fee to the department for an initial  license  of  two
  hundred  twenty  dollars,  and a fee of two hundred ten dollars for each
  triennial registration period.