New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 15 - Department of Motor Vehicles
Chapter I - REGULATIONS OF THE COMMISSIONER
Subchapter A - DRIVER LICENSING AND TRAINING
Part 9 - Driver License Qualifications After Loss Of Consciousness
Section 9.3 - Standards of fitness

(a) such person has not experienced a loss of consciousness within the previous 12-month period, and such person submits a physician's , physician assistant's or nurse practitioner's statement confirming such fact;

(b) such person has experienced loss of consciousness within the previous 12-month period, if such loss of consciousness was due solely to a directed change in medication by a physician, a physician assistant, or nurse practitioner, and such person submits a physician's, a physician assistant's, or nurse practitioner's statement confirming such fact and the commissioner acting after recommendation of his medical consultant finds no grounds to disagree with or to question the physician's , physician assistant's or nurse practitioner's statement; or

(c) such person has experienced loss of consciousness within the previous 12-month period, if such person submits a physician's , physician assistant's or nurse practitioner's statement confirming the physician's , physician assistant's or nurse practitioner's awareness of any or all such incidents and notwithstanding such history, the physician , physician assistant or nurse practitioner recommends licensing by making a positive statement that, in his or her opinion, the condition will not interfere with such person's safe operation of a vehicle on the public highway, and the commissioner acting after recommendation of his or her medical consultant finds no grounds to disagree with or to question the physician's , physician assistant's or nurse practitioner's statement.