To qualify for a license as a respiratory therapy technician an applicant shall fulfill the following requirements:

1. 1. Application: file an application with the department;
2. 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. 3. Experience: have experience satisfactory to the board and in accordance with the commissioner's regulations;
4. 4. Examination: pass an examination satisfactory to the board and in accordance with the commissioner's regulations;
5. 5. Age: be at least eighteen years of age;
6. 6. Character: be of good moral character as determined by the department; and
7. 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.