2010 New York Code
EDN - Education
Title 8 - THE PROFESSIONS
Article 156 - (7900 - 7907) OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
7904 - Requirements for a professional license.

§ 7904. Requirements  for  a  professional license.   To qualify for a
  license as an occupational therapist, an  applicant  shall  fulfill  the
  following requirements:
    (1) File an application with the department.
    (2)  Have  satisfactorily  completed  an approved occupational therapy
  curriculum in a baccalaureate  or  masters  program,  or  a  certificate
  program satisfactory to the department which is substantially equivalent
  to  a  baccalaureate degree program, in accordance with the commissioner
  of education's regulations.
    (3) Have a minimum of six months of  supervised  occupational  therapy
  experience which supervision and experience shall be satisfactory to the
  board  of occupational therapy and in accordance with the commissioner's
  regulations.
    (4) Pass an examination satisfactory  to  the  board  of  occupational
  therapy and in accordance with the commissioner's regulations.
    (5) Be at least twenty-one years of age.
    (6) Meet no requirements as to United States citizenship.
    (7) Be of good moral character as determined by the department.
    (8) Fees: pay a fee of one hundred forty dollars to the department for
  admission  to  a  department  conducted  examination  and for an initial
  license, a fee of seventy 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.

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