New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 22 - JUDICIARY
Subtitle B - Courts
Chapter IV - Supreme Court
Subchapter A - First Judicial Department
Article 1 - Appellate Division
Subarticle B - Special Rules
Part 623 - Mental Health Professionals Panel
Section 623.4 - Establishment of mental health professionals panel
Universal Citation: 22 NY Comp Codes Rules and Regs ยง 623.4
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 39, September 25, 2024
(a) Eligibility requirements. A member of the mental health professionals panel shall:
(1) be a social worker, psychologist,
or psychiatrist licensed by the State of New York;
(2) complete six hours of
introductory training approved by the Presiding Justices of the Appellate
Division of the First and Second Judicial Departments;
(3) demonstrate that he or she
has forensic experience, including having testified and an expert and/or having
submitted a clinical report in connection with one or more of the following
types of court proceedings: custody and visitation, delinquency, persons in
need of supervision, child abuse and neglect, termination of parental rights,
family offense, and adoption;
(4) maintain professional malpractice
insurance; and
(5)
meet such additional requirements as shall be established by the mental health
professionals certification committee with the approval of the Presiding
Justices of the Appellate Divisions of the First and Second Judicial
Departments.
(b) Application. Licensed social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists may apply for membership on the mental health professionals panel for the First and Second Judicial Departments by completing a questionnaire in the form prescribed by the mental health professionals certification committee.
(c) Appointments to panel.
(1) The mental health
professionals committee shall review applications and identify those mental
health professionals who meet the eligibility requirements.
(2) The Presiding Justices of
the Appellate Division in the First and Second Judicial Departments shall, by
joint order, appoint the members of the mental health professionals panel from
among those social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists recommended by the
committee.
(3)
Appointments to the panel shall be for a term of three years. Panel members may
be reappointed to successive terms. Any panel member may be removed prior to
the expiration of his or her term by the joint order of the Presiding Justices
of the Appellate Divisions of the First and Second Judicial Departments upon
the recommendation of the committee.
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