§ 8708. Licensure without examination. 1. Within eighteen months of the effective date of regulations implementing the provisions of this article, the department may issue a license to practice medical physics with special competency in one or more specialties in this state, without an examination, to a person who meets the requirements of subdivisions one, five and six of section eighty-seven hundred five of this article and who in addition has an earned bachelor's, master's or doctoral degree from an accredited college or university that signifies the completion of a course of study acceptable to the department, and has demonstrated to the department's satisfaction, in the case of an earned bachelor's degree, the completion of at least fifteen years of full-time work experience in the medical physics specialty for which application is made, or, in the case of an earned master's or doctoral degree, the completion of at least two years of full-time work experience in the five years preceding the date of application in the medical physics specialty for which application is made and the equivalent of one year or more of full-time work experience in the ten years preceding the date of application for each additional specialty for which application is made.

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2. On receipt of an application and fee pursuant to section eighty-seven hundred five of this article, the department may issue a license to practice medical physics with special competency in one or more specialties in this state to a person who holds a license to practice medical physics in another state, territory or jurisdiction that has requirements for licensing of medical physicists which the department determines to be substantially the same as the requirements of this article.