2014 New York Laws
EDN - Education
Title 8 - THE PROFESSIONS
Article 164 - (8500 - 8513) 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.