2021 New York Laws
EDN - Education
Title 4 - Teachers and Pupils
Article 61 - Teachers and Supervisory and Administrative Staff
3006 - Commissioner of Education to Issue Certificates.

§ 3006. Commissioner  of  education  to  issue  certificates. Types of
certificates. The commissioner of education may issue:
  1. a. A life state certificate  upon  examinations  only  which  shall
entitle  its holder to teach for life in the public schools of the state
without further examination.
  b. Such other certificates as regents general rules shall prescribe.
  c. A temporary license  limited  to  a  school  district,  supervisory
district or city for a period not to exceed one year.
  d.  A  temporary  certificate to a school district upon the request of
the school authorities of the school district, and under such  rules  as
the   regents   shall  establish,  which  shall  authorize  such  school
authorities temporarily to employ persons having unusual  qualifications
in  specific  subjects,  as  visiting lecturers, provided they have been
licensed  pursuant  to  paragraph  e  of  this  subdivision,  so  as  to
supplement the regular programs of teaching of such specific subjects.
  e.  A  temporary  license to a person having unusual qualifications in
specific subjects, authorizing him to teach as a  visiting  lecturer  in
accordance with the provisions of paragraph d of this subdivision.
  2.  Fees.  The  commissioner  shall  charge  the  following  fees  for
certificates issued pursuant to this section.
  a.  Effective  September  first,  nineteen  hundred   ninety-two   and
thereafter,  the  fees  charged  for  each application for the following
types of certificates shall be:
  (i) For a certificate issued under this section based upon  completion
of  a  teacher  education  program  registered  by the department, fifty
dollars;
  (ii) For a certificate issued under this section based upon  education
or  experience  completed  in  other  than  a  teacher education program
registered by the department, one hundred dollars;
  (iii) For a temporary license or a temporary coaching  license,  fifty
dollars;
  (iv)   For   a   continuing  certificate  for  a  teaching  assistant,
thirty-five dollars;
  (v) For a duplicate certificate, twenty-five dollars.
  b. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph a of this  subdivision,
in   a   case   where   an  individual  applies  for  a  certificate  of
qualification, provisional and/or permanent  certificate  within  twelve
months   of   having  been  issued  a  temporary  license  in  the  same
certification  area,  the  fee  for  such  additional   certificate   or
certificates shall be fifty dollars.
  3.  Registration.  a.  Commencing  with  the two thousand sixteen--two
thousand seventeen school year, any holder of a teaching certificate  in
the  classroom  teaching  service,  teaching  assistant  certificate, or
educational leadership certificate that is valid for life as  prescribed
by  the  commissioner  in regulations shall be required to register with
the department every five years in accordance with  regulations  of  the
commissioner.  Such  regulations  shall  prescribe  the date or dates by
which applications for initial registration must be  submitted  and  may
provide    for    staggered    initial   registration   and/or   rolling
re-registration so that re-registrations are distributed as  equally  as
possible throughout the year and across multiple years.
  b.  The  department  shall post an application for registration on its
website.  An  application  shall  be  submitted   for   a   registration
certificate.   Except   as  otherwise  provided  in  this  section,  the
department shall renew the registration of each certificate holder  upon
receipt  of a proper application on a form prescribed by the department.
Any certificate holder who fails to register by  the  beginning  of  the
appropriate  registration period may be subject to late filing penalties

as prescribed  by  the  commissioner.  No  certificate  holder  resuming
practice  after  a  lapse of registration shall be permitted to practice
without verification of re-registration.
  c.  Any  certificate holder who is not engaging in the practice of his
or her profession in this state and does not desire to register shall so
advise the department. Such certificate holder shall not be  subject  to
penalties  as  prescribed by the commissioner for failure to register at
the beginning of the registration period.
  d. Certificate holders shall notify the department of  any  change  of
name  or  mailing  address  within  thirty  days of such change. Willful
failure to register or provide such notice  within  one  hundred  eighty
days  of  such  change may constitute grounds for moral character review
under subdivision seven of section three hundred five of this chapter.