The department may license an applicant who meets all the requirements for licensure in New York State, except examination and has been issued a license or certificate to practice professional engineering, land surveying or professional geology issued to him or her upon written examination by a legally constituted board of examiners in any other state or political subdivision of the United States, provided that the examination for such license or certificate was the equivalent of the examination required in this State at the time it was issued.
N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 8 § 68.10