2015 New York Laws
EDN - Education
Title 8 - THE PROFESSIONS
Article 164 - (8500 - 8513) 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.