§ 2896-g. Registration. 1. Every licensee must register biennially
with the department. The department shall mail to every person who has
received a license under this article an application form for
registration requesting such information as the board and the
commissioner may require. Such licensee shall promptly fill out, sign
and forward such application to the department, together with a fee of
forty dollars; however, initial registration shall not require such fee.
Upon receipt and approval of such application and fee, the department
shall issue a certificate of biennial registration. The commissioner
shall establish by rule and regulation the beginning date of the
biennial registration period. In the event that a change in the
established beginning date of the biennial registration period requires
an adjustment in the duration of a registration period, there shall be a
proportionate adjustment in the prescribed fee.

2. Licensees who apply for registration subsequent to the first year
of any biennial registration period shall pay a fee of twenty dollars;
however, initial registration shall not require such fee; upon receipt
and approval of such application and fee, the department shall issue a
certificate of registration for the balance of the biennial registration
period.

3. Registration subsequent to the thirty-first day of December,
nineteen hundred seventy-three, shall require satisfactory completion of
such continuation education programs or courses of study as the board
shall determine are required to assure the licensee's retention of
professional competence in nursing home administration and development
of necessary different, new or advanced nursing home administration
skills and techniques.

4. A nursing home administrator who fails or neglects to apply for
registration before the first day of the next ensuing biennial
registration period as required by the provisions of this section shall
be required to pay for registration an additional fee of five dollars
for each month or part thereof that he is in default, provided, however,
that the additional fee shall not be more than one hundred twenty
dollars.

5. A practicing nursing home administrator who fails to apply and
qualify for registration before the first day of the next ensuing
biennial registration period, shall be an illegal practitioner whose
license may be suspended or revoked and who may be subjected to a civil
penalty, censured or reprimanded by the board in accordance with the
provisions of this article.

6. No person shall be entitled to register as a nursing home
administrator unless he shall hold a license as provided for in this
article. Every unrevoked certificate of registration issued as provided
in this article shall be presumptive evidence in all courts and places
that the person named therein is legally registered.

7. A nursing home administrator who has been heretofore duly licensed
and registered to practice in this state whose license shall not have
been revoked or suspended, and who either before or after registration,
as required by this section, shall have temporarily abandoned the
practice of nursing home administration and surrendered his registration
certificate, may reregister within this state upon complying with the
provisions of this section for registration, including payment of any
fees due as of the date of surrender.

8. Upon receipt of satisfactory evidence that a certificate of
registration has been lost, mutilated or destroyed, the department may
issue a duplicate certificate upon such terms and conditions as the
board shall prescribe with the approval of the commissioner, and upon
the payment of a fee of ten dollars.