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• California Business and Professions Code Section 1
  This act shall be known as the Business and Professions Code.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2
  The provisions of this code in so far as they are substantially the same as existing statutory provisions relating to the same subject matter shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3
  All persons who, at the time this code goes into effect, hold office under any of the acts repealed by this code, which offices are...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4
  No action or proceeding commenced before this code takes effect, and no right accrued, is affected by the provisions of this code, but all procedure...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5
  No rights given by any license or certificate under any act repealed by this code are affected by the enactment of this code or by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6
  All persons who, at the time this code goes into effect, are entitled to a certificate under any act repealed by this code, are thereby...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7
  Any conviction for a crime under any act repealed by this code, which crime is continued as a public offense by this code, constitutes a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7.5
  A conviction within the meaning of this code means a plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere. Any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the general provisions hereinafter set forth shall govern the construction of this code.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9
  Division, part, chapter, article and section headings contained herein shall not be deemed to govern, limit, modify, or in any manner affect the scope, meaning,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10
  Whenever, by the provisions of this code, a power is granted to a public officer or a duty imposed upon such an officer, the power...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11
  Writing includes any form of recorded message capable of comprehension by ordinary visual means. Whenever any notice, report, statement, or record is required by this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12
  Licenses issued under the provisions of this section expire at 12 midnight on the last day of the month of birth of licentiates of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12.5
  Whenever in any provision of this code authority is granted to issue a citation for a violation of any provision of this code, that authority...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13
  The term "materia medica" as used in this code or in any initiative act referred to in this code, means those substances listed in the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14
  The present tense includes the past and future tenses; and the future, the present. Each gender includes the other two genders.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14.1
  The Legislature hereby declares its intent that the terms "man" or "men" where appropriate shall be deemed "person" or "persons" and any references to the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 15
  "Section" means a section of this code unless some other statute is specifically mentioned. "Subdivision" means a subdivision of the section in which that term...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16
  The singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17
  "County" includes city and county.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18
  "City" includes city and county.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19
  "Shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 20
  "Oath" includes affirmation.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 21
  "State" means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. In the latter case, it includes the District of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 22
  "Board," as used in any provision of this code, refers to the board in which the administration of the provision is vested, and unless otherwise...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 23
  "Department," unless otherwise defined, refers to the Department of Consumer Affairs. Wherever the laws of this state refer to the Department of Professional and Vocational...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 23.5
  "Director," unless otherwise defined, refers to the Director of Consumer Affairs. Wherever the laws of this state refer to the Director of Professional and Vocational...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 23.6
  "Appointing power," unless otherwise defined, refers to the Director of Consumer Affairs.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 23.7
  Unless otherwise expressly provided, "license" means license, certificate, registration, or other means to engage in a business or profession regulated by this code or referred...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 23.8
  "Licentiate" means any person authorized by a license, certificate, registration, or other means to engage in a business or profession regulated by this code or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 23.9
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, any individual who, while imprisoned in a state prison or other correctional institution, is trained, in the course...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 24
  If any provision of this code, or the application thereof, to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the code, or the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 25
  Any person applying for a license, registration, or the first renewal of a license, after the effective date of this section, as a licensed marriage...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 26
  Wherever, pursuant to this code, any state department, officer, board, agency, committee, or commission is authorized to adopt rules and regulations, such rules and regulations...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 27
  (a) Each entity specified in subdivisions (c), (d), and (e) shall provide on the Internet information regarding the status of every license issued by that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 27.6
  The successor agency to the Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education shall transmit any available data regarding school performance, including, but not limited to,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 28
  The Legislature finds that there is a need to ensure that professionals of the healing arts who have demonstrable contact with victims and potential victims...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 29
  (a) The Board of Psychology and the Board of Behavioral Sciences shall consider adoption of continuing education requirements including training in the area of recognizing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 29.5
  In addition to other qualifications for licensure prescribed by the various acts of boards under the department, applicants for licensure and licensees renewing their licenses...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 30
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any board, as defined in Section 22, and the State Bar and the Department of Real Estate shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 31
  (a) As used in this section, "board" means any entity listed in Section 101, the entities referred to in Sections 1000 and 3600, the State...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 32
  (a) The Legislature finds that there is a need to ensure that professionals of the healing arts who have or intend to have significant contact...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 35
  It is the policy of this state that, consistent with the provision of high-quality services, persons with skills, knowledge, and experience obtained in the armed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 40
  (a) Subject to the standards described in Section 19130 of the Government Code, any board, as defined in Section 22, the State Board of Chiropractic...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 100
  There is in the state government, in the State and Consumer Services Agency, a Department of Consumer Affairs.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 101
  The department is comprised of: (a) The Dental Board of California. (b) The Medical Board of California. (c) The State Board of Optometry. (d) The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 101.6
  The boards, bureaus, and commissions in the department are established for the purpose of ensuring that those private businesses and professions deemed to engage in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 101.7
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, boards shall meet at least three times each calendar year. Boards shall meet at least once each calendar...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 102
  Upon the request of any board regulating, licensing, or controlling any professional or vocational occupation created by an initiative act, the Director of Consumer Affairs...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 102.1
  (a) If the Cemetery Board and the Funeral Directors and Embalmers Board are not consolidated or otherwise restructured on January 1, 1996, the Department of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 102.2
  (a) If the Structural Pest Control Board does not comply with the contingencies specified in paragraphs (a) to (d), inclusive, of Provision 1 of Item...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 102.3
  (a) The director may enter into an interagency agreement with an appropriate entity within the Department of Consumer Affairs as provided for in Section 101...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 103
  Each member of a board, commission, or committee created in the various chapters of Division 2 (commencing with Section 500) and Division 3 (commencing with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 104
  All boards or other regulatory entities within the department' s jurisdiction that the department determines to be health-related may adopt regulations to require licensees to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 105
  Members of boards in the department shall take an oath of office as provided in the Constitution and the Government Code.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 105.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, each member of a board, commission, examining committee, or other similarly constituted agency within the department shall hold...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 106
  The Governor has power to remove from office at any time, any member of any board appointed by him for continued neglect of duties required...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 106.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Governor may remove from office a member of a board or other licensing entity in the department if...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 107
  Pursuant to subdivision (e) of Section 4 of Article VII of the California Constitution, each board may appoint a person exempt from civil service and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 107.5
  If any board in the department uses an official seal pursuant to any provision of this code, the seal shall contain the words "State of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 108
  Each of the boards comprising the department exists as a separate unit, and has the functions of setting standards, holding meetings, and setting dates thereof,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 108.5
  In any investigation, proceeding or hearing which any board, commission or officer in the department is empowered to institute, conduct, or hold, any witness appearing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 109
  (a) The decisions of any of the boards comprising the department with respect to setting standards, conducting examinations, passing candidates, and revoking licenses, are not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 110
  The department shall have possession and control of all records, books, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, funds, appropriations, land and other property--real or personal--now or hereafter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 111
  Unless otherwise expressly provided, any board may, with the approval of the appointing power, appoint qualified persons, who shall be designated as commissioners on examination,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 112
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, no agency in the department, with the exception of the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 113
  Upon recommendation of the director, officers, and employees of the department, and the officers, members, and employees of the boards, committees, and commissions comprising it...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 114
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, any licensee or registrant of any board, commission, or bureau within the department whose license expired while...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 115
  The provisions of Section 114 of this code are also applicable to a licensee or registrant whose license or registration was obtained while in the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 116
  (a) The director may audit and review, upon his or her own initiative, or upon the request of a consumer or licensee, inquiries and complaints...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 118
  (a) The withdrawal of an application for a license after it has been filed with a board in the department shall not, unless the board...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 119
  Any person who does any of the following is guilty of a misdemeanor: (a) Displays or causes or permits to be displayed or has in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 120
  (a) Subdivision (a) of Section 119 shall not apply to a surviving spouse having in his or her possession or displaying a deceased spouse's canceled...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 121
  No licensee who has complied with the provisions of this code relating to the renewal of his or her license prior to expiration of such...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 121.5
  Except as otherwise provided in this code, the application of delinquency fees or accrued and unpaid renewal fees for the renewal of expired licenses or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 122
  Except as otherwise provided by law, the department and each of the boards, bureaus, committees, and commissions within the department may charge a fee for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 123
  It is a misdemeanor for any person to engage in any conduct which subverts or attempts to subvert any licensing examination or the administration of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 123.5
  Whenever any person has engaged, or is about to engage, in any acts or practices which constitute, or will constitute, a violation of Section 123,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 124
  Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 11505 of the Government Code, whenever written notice, including a notice, order, or document served pursuant to Chapter 3.5 (commencing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 125
  Any person, licensed under Division 1 (commencing with Section 100), Division 2 (commencing with Section 500), or Division 3 (commencing with Section 5000) is guilty...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 125.3
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by law, in any order issued in resolution of a disciplinary proceeding before any board within the department or before...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 125.3
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by law, in any order issued in resolution of a disciplinary proceeding before any board within the department or before...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 125.5
  (a) The superior court for the county in which any person has engaged or is about to engage in any act which constitutes a violation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 125.6
  (a) (1) With regard to an applicant, every person who holds a license under the provisions of this code is subject to disciplinary action under...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 125.7
  In addition to the remedy provided for in Section 125.5, the superior court for the county in which any licensee licensed under Division 2 (commencing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 125.8
  In addition to the remedy provided for in Section 125.5, the superior court for the county in which any licensee licensed under Division 3 (commencing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 125.9
  (a) Except with respect to persons regulated under Chapter 11 (commencing with Section 7500), and Chapter 11.6 (commencing with Section 7590) of Division 3, any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 126
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, any board, commission, examining committee, or other similarly constituted agency within the department required prior to the effective...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 127
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the director may require such reports from any board, commission, examining committee, or other similarly constituted agency within...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 128
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, it is a misdemeanor to sell equipment, supplies, or services to any person with knowledge that the equipment, supplies,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 128.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if at the end of any fiscal year, an agency within the Department of Consumer Affairs, except the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 129
  (a) As used in this section, "board" means every board, bureau, commission, committee and similarly constituted agency in the department which issues licenses. (b) Each...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 130
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the term of office of any member of an agency designated in subdivision (b) shall be for a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 131
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no member of an agency designated in subdivision (b) of Section 130 or member of a board, commission, committee,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 132
  No board, commission, examining committee, or any other agency within the department may institute or join any legal action against any other agency within the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 134
  When the term of any license issued by any agency in the department exceeds one year, initial license fees for licenses which are issued during...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 135
  No agency in the department shall, on the basis of an applicant's failure to successfully complete prior examinations, impose any additional limitations, restrictions, prerequisites, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 136
  (a) Each person holding a license, certificate, registration, permit, or other authority to engage in a profession or occupation issued by a board within the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 137
  Any agency within the department may promulgate regulations requiring licensees to include their license numbers in any advertising, soliciting, or other presentments to the public....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 138
  Every board in the department, as defined in Section 22, shall initiate the process of adopting regulations on or before June 30, 1999, to require...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 139
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that occupational analyses and examination validation studies are fundamental components of licensure programs. It is the intent of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 140
  Any board, as defined in Section 22, which is authorized under this code to take disciplinary action against a person who holds a license may...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 141
  (a) For any licensee holding a license issued by a board under the jurisdiction of the department, a disciplinary action taken by another state, by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 142
  This section shall apply to the bureaus and programs under the direct authority of the director, and to any board that, with the prior approval...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 143
  (a) No person engaged in any business or profession for which a license is required under this code governing the department or any board, bureau,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 144
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an agency designated in subdivision (b) shall require an applicant to furnish to the agency a full set...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 145
  The Legislature finds and declares that: (a) Unlicensed activity in the professions and vocations regulated by the Department of Consumer Affairs is a threat to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 146
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a violation of any code section listed in subdivision (c) is an infraction subject to the procedures described...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 147
  (a) Any employee designated by the director shall have the authority to issue a written notice to appear in court pursuant to Chapter 5c (commencing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 148
  Any board, bureau, or commission within the department may, in addition to the administrative citation system authorized by Section 125.9, also establish, by regulation, a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 149
  (a) If, upon investigation, an agency designated in subdivision (e) has probable cause to believe that a person is advertising in a telephone directory with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 150
  The department is under the control of a civil executive officer who is known as the Director of Consumer Affairs.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 151
  The director is appointed by the Governor and holds office at the Governor's pleasure. The director shall receive the annual salary provided for by Chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 152
  For the purpose of administration, the reregistration and clerical work of the department is organized by the director, subject to the approval of the Governor,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 152.5
  For purposes of distributing the reregistration work of the department uniformly throughout the year as nearly as practicable, the boards in the department may, with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 152.6
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, each board within the department shall, in cooperation with the director, establish such license periods and renewal dates...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 153
  The director may investigate the work of the several boards in his department and may obtain a copy of all records and full and complete...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 153.5
  In the event that a newly authorized board replaces an existing or a previous board, the director may appoint an interim executive officer for the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 154
  Any and all matters relating to employment, tenure or discipline of employees of any board, agency or commission, shall be initiated by said board, agency...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 154.2
  (a) The healing arts boards within Division 2 (commencing with Section 500) may employ individuals, other than peace officers, to perform investigative services. (b) The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 154.5
  If a person, not a regular employee of a board under this code, including the Board of Chiropractic Examiners and the Osteopathic Medical Board of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 155
  (a) In accordance with Section 159.5, the director may employ such investigators, inspectors, and deputies as are necessary properly to investigate and prosecute all violations...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 156
  (a) The director may, for the department and at the request and with the consent of a board within the department on whose behalf the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 156.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, individuals or entities contracting with the department or any board within the department for the provision of services...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 156.5
  The director may negotiate and execute for the department and for its component agencies, rental agreements for short-term hiring of space and furnishings for examination...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 157
  Expenses incurred by any board or on behalf of any board in any criminal prosecution or unprofessional conduct proceeding constitute proper charges against the funds...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 158
  With the approval of the Director of Consumer Affairs, the boards and commissions comprising the department or subject to its jurisdiction may make refunds to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 159
  The members and the executive officer of each board, agency, bureau, division, or commission have power to administer oaths and affirmations in the performance of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 159.5
  There is in the department the Division of Investigation. The division is in the charge of a person with the title of chief of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 160
  (a) The Chief and all investigators of the Division of Investigation of the department and all investigators of the Medical Board of California and the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 160.5
  All civil service employees currently employed by the Board of Dental Examiners of the Department of Consumer Affairs, whose functions are transferred as a result...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 161
  The department, or any board in the department, may sell copies of any part of its respective public records, or compilations, extracts, or summaries of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 162
  The certificate of the officer in charge of the records of any board in the department that any person was or was not on a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 163
  Except as otherwise expressly provided by law, the department and each board in the department shall charge a fee of two dollars ($2) for the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 163.5
  Except as otherwise provided by law, the delinquency, penalty, or late fee for any licensee within the Department of Consumer Affairs shall be 50 percent...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 164
  The form and content of any license, certificate, permit, or similar indicia of authority issued by any agency in the department, including any document evidencing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 165
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no board, bureau, committee, commission, or program in the Department of Consumer Affairs shall submit to the Legislature any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 166
  The director shall, by regulation, develop guidelines to prescribe components for mandatory continuing education programs administered by any board within the department. (a) The guidelines...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 200
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this code, any revenues, collections, or receipts accruing to any board in the department may, in the manner determined by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 200.1
  (a) Any accruals that occur on or after September 11, 1993, to any funds or accounts within the Professions and Vocations Fund that realize increased...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 201
  A charge for the estimated administrative expenses of the department, not to exceed the available balance in any appropriation for any one fiscal year, may...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 202
  (a) Upon proper presentation of claims by the department to the State Controller, the State Controller shall draw his or her warrant against any of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 202.5
  Prior to payment to the Department of Justice of any charges for legal services rendered to any board within the department, the Department of Justice...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 203
  The amount of the warrant shall be remitted to the State Treasurer by the department for credit to the Consumer Affairs Fund. The department shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 204
  A sum, not to exceed 1 percent of the total amount appropriated for all of the boards herein mentioned may be withdrawn from the Consumer...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 205
  (a) There is in the State Treasury the Professions and Vocations Fund. The fund shall consist of the following special funds: (1) Accountancy Fund. (2)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 206
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person tendering a check for payment of a fee, fine, or penalty that was subsequently dishonored, shall not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 207
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the money in any fund described in Section 205 that is attributable to administrative fines, civil penalties, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 210
  (a) (1) The department may enter into a contract with a vendor for the BreEZe system, the integrated, enterprisewide enforcement case management and licensing system...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 300
  This chapter may be cited as the Consumer Affairs Act.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 301
  It is the intent of the Legislature and the purpose of this chapter to promote and protect the interests of the people as consumers. The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 302
  As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Department" means the Department of Consumer Affairs. (b) "Director" means the Director...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 303
  There is in the department a Division of Consumer Services under the supervision and control of a chief. The chief shall be appointed by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 305
  The director shall administer and enforce the provisions of this chapter. Every power granted or duty imposed upon the director under this chapter may be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 306
  The director, in accordance with the State Civil Service Act, may appoint and fix the compensation of such clerical or other personnel as may be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 307
  The director may contract for the services of experts and consultants where necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter and may provide compensation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 310
  The director shall have the following powers and it shall be his duty to: (a) Recommend and propose the enactment of such legislation as necessary...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 311
  The director may create an interdepartmental committee to assist and advise him in the implementation of his duties. The members of such committee shall consist...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 312
  The director shall submit to the Governor and the Legislature on or before January 1, 2003, and annually thereafter, a report of programmatic and statistical...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 313
  The director shall provide for the establishment of a comprehensive library of books, documents, studies, and other materials relating to consumers and consumer problems.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 313.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no rule or regulation, except those relating to examinations and qualifications for licensure, and no...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 313.2
  The director shall adopt regulations to implement, interpret, and make specific the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (P.L. 101-336), as they relate to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 313.5
  The director shall periodically publish a bibliography of consumer information available in the department library and elsewhere. Such bibliography shall be sent to subscribers upon...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 315
  (a) For the purpose of determining uniform standards that will be used by healing arts boards in dealing with substance-abusing licensees, there is established in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 315.2
  (a) A board, as described in Section 315, shall order a licensee of the board to cease practice if the licensee tests positive for any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 315.4
  (a) A board, as described in Section 315, may adopt regulations authorizing the board to order a licensee on probation or in a diversion program...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 320
  Whenever there is pending before any state commission, regulatory agency, department, or other state agency, or any state or federal court or agency, any matter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 321
  Whenever it appears to the director that the interests of the consumers of this state are being damaged, or may be damaged, by any person...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 325
  It shall be the duty of the director to receive complaints from consumers concerning (a) unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 325.3
  In addition to the duties prescribed by Section 325, it shall be the duty of the director to receive complaints from consumers concerning services provided...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 326
  (a) Upon receipt of any complaint pursuant to Section 325, the director may notify the person against whom the complaint is made of the nature...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 337
  (a) The department shall prepare and disseminate an informational brochure for victims of psychotherapist-patient sexual contact and advocates for those victims. This brochure shall be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 400
  The Department of Consumer Affairs may, with the approval of the Department of General Services, purchase or otherwise acquire real property and may construct and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 401
  When there is money in the fund of any board or commission comprising the Department of Consumer Affairs or subject to its jurisdiction, which money,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 402
  The Department of Finance, from funds at its disposal for office and housing facilities for any other department, board, or agency, and any other department,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 403
  Any building constructed by the Department of Consumer Affairs under this chapter shall be subject to the supervision of the Department of Consumer Affairs in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 404
  The Department of Consumer Affairs and the Department of General Services may establish rules and regulations for the administration of any building constructed under this
• California Business and Professions Code Section 405
  Rentals received under Section 403 shall be deposited in and disbursed pursuant to that section from the Consumer Affairs Fund.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 450
  In addition to the qualifications provided in the respective chapters of this code, a public member or a lay member of any board shall not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 450.2
  In order to avoid a potential for a conflict of interest, a public member of a board shall not: (a) Be a current or past...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 450.3
  No public member shall either at the time of his appointment or during his tenure in office have any financial interest in any organization subject...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 450.5
  A public member, or a lay member, at any time within five years immediately preceding his or her appointment, shall not have been engaged in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 450.6
  Notwithstanding any other section of law, a public member may be appointed without regard to age so long as the public member has reached the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 451
  If any board shall as a part of its functions delegate any duty or responsibility to be performed by a single member of such board,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 452
  "Board," as used in this chapter, includes a board, advisory board, commission, examining committee, committee or other similarly constituted body exercising powers under this code.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 453
  Every newly appointed board member shall, within one year of assuming office, complete a training and orientation program offered by the department regarding, among other...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 460
  (a) No city or county shall prohibit a person or group of persons, authorized by one of the agencies in the Department of Consumer Affairs...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 461
  No public agency, state or local, shall, on an initial application form for any license, certificate or registration, ask for or require the applicant to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 462
  (a) Any of the boards, bureaus, commissions, or programs within the department may establish, by regulation, a system for an inactive category of licensure for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 465
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) The resolution of many disputes can be unnecessarily costly, time-consuming, and complex when achieved...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 465.5
  It is the intent of the Legislature to permit counties to accomplish all of the following: (a) Encouragement and support of the development and use...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 466
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Dispute resolution" includes, but is not limited to, mediation, conciliation, and arbitration. (b) "Program" means an entity that provides...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 467
  (a) There is in the Division of Consumer Services of the Department of Consumer Affairs a Dispute Resolution Advisory Council. The advisory council shall complete...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 467.1
  (a) A program funded pursuant to this chapter shall be operated pursuant to contract with the county and shall comply with all of the requirements...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 467.2
  A program shall not be eligible for funding under this chapter unless it meets all of the following requirements: (a) Compliance with this chapter and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 467.3
  Programs funded pursuant to this chapter shall provide persons indicating an intention to utilize the dispute resolution process with a written statement prior to the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 467.4
  (a) An agreement resolving a dispute entered into with the assistance of a program shall not be enforceable in a court nor shall it be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 467.5
  Notwithstanding the express application of Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 1115) of Division 9 of the Evidence Code to mediations, all proceedings conducted by a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 467.6
  Each program shall maintain those statistical records required by Section 471.5, and as may be required by the county. The records shall maintain the confidentiality...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 467.7
  (a) Unless the parties have agreed to a binding award, nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit any person who voluntarily enters the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 468
  All funds available to a county for the purposes of this chapter shall be utilized for projects proposed by eligible programs.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 468.1
  Programs shall be selected for funding by a county from the applications submitted therefor.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 468.2
  Applications submitted for funding shall include, but need not be limited to, all of the following information: (a) Evidence of compliance with Sections 467.2, 467.3,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 468.3
  Data supplied by each applicant shall be used to assign relative funding priority on the basis of criteria developed by the advisory council. The criteria...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 469
  Upon the approval of the county, funds available for the purposes of this chapter shall be used for the costs of operation of approved programs....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 470
  A county may accept and disburse funds from any public or private source for the purposes of this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 470.1
  (a) A grant recipient may accept funds from any public or private source for the purposes of this chapter. (b) A county and its representatives...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 470.2
  A county's share of the funding pursuant to this chapter shall not exceed 50 percent of the approved estimated cost of the program.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 470.5
  (a) On and after January 1, 2006, as described in Section 68085.1 of the Government Code, the Administrative Office of the Courts shall make monthly...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 470.6
  A county may carry over moneys received from distributions under Section 470.5 and from the fees for the support of dispute resolution programs authorized by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 471
  (a) The advisory council shall adopt rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of this chapter, including, but not limited to, guidelines to be used...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 471.3
  The rules and regulations adopted by the advisory council pursuant to Section 471 shall be formulated to promote statewide uniformity with the guidelines contained in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 471.5
  Each program funded pursuant to this chapter shall annually provide the county with statistical data regarding its operating budget; the number of referrals, categories, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 472
  Unless the context requires otherwise, the following definitions govern the construction of this chapter: (a) "New motor vehicle" means a new motor vehicle as defined...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 472.1
  The department shall establish a program for certifying each third-party dispute resolution process used for the arbitration of disputes pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 472.2
  (a) Each manufacturer may establish, or otherwise make available to buyers or lessees of new motor vehicles, a qualified third-party dispute resolution process for the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 472.3
  (a) The department, in accordance with the time intervals prescribed pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 472.1, but at least once annually, shall review the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 472.4
  In addition to any other requirements of this chapter, the department shall do all of the following: (a) Establish procedures to assist owners or lessees...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 472.5
  The New Motor Vehicle Board in the Department of Motor Vehicles shall, in accordance with the procedures prescribed in this section, administer the collection of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 475
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this code, the provisions of this division shall govern the denial of licenses on the grounds of: (1) Knowingly...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 476
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), nothing in this division shall apply to the licensure or registration of persons pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 477
  As used in this division: (a) "Board" includes "bureau," "commission," "committee," "department," "division," "examining committee," "program," and "agency." (b) "License" includes certificate, registration or other...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 478
  (a) As used in this division, "application" includes the original documents or writings filed and any other supporting documents or writings including supporting documents provided...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 480
  (a) A board may deny a license regulated by this code on the grounds that the applicant has one of the following: (1) Been convicted...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 481
  Each board under the provisions of this code shall develop criteria to aid it, when considering the denial, suspension or revocation of a license, to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 482
  Each board under the provisions of this code shall develop criteria to evaluate the rehabilitation of a person when: (a) Considering the denial of a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 484
  No person applying for licensure under this code shall be required to submit to any licensing board any attestation by other persons to his good...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 485
  Upon denial of an application for a license under this chapter or Section 496, the board shall do either of the following: (a) File and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 486
  Where the board has denied an application for a license under this chapter or Section 496, it shall, in its decision, or in its notice...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 487
  If a hearing is requested by the applicant, the board shall conduct such hearing within 90 days from the date the hearing is requested unless...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 488
  Except as otherwise provided by law, following a hearing requested by an applicant pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 485, the board may take any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 489
  Any agency in the department which is authorized by law to deny an application for a license upon the grounds specified in Section 480 or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 490
  (a) In addition to any other action that a board is permitted to take against a licensee, a board may suspend or revoke a license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 490.5
  A board may suspend a license pursuant to Section 17520 of the Family Code if a licensee is not in compliance with a child support...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 491
  Upon suspension or revocation of a license by a board on one or more of the grounds specified in Section 490, the board shall: (a)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 492
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, successful completion of any diversion program under the Penal Code, or successful completion of an alcohol and drug problem...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 493
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in a proceeding conducted by a board within the department pursuant to law to deny an application for a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 494
  (a) A board or an administrative law judge sitting alone, as provided in subdivision (h), may, upon petition, issue an interim order suspending any licentiate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 494.5
  (a) (1) Except as provided in paragraphs (2), (3), and (4), a state governmental licensing entity shall refuse to issue, reactivate, reinstate, or renew a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 495
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any entity authorized to issue a license or certificate pursuant to this code may publicly reprove a licentiate or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 496
  A board may deny, suspend, revoke, or otherwise restrict a license on the ground that an applicant or licensee has violated Section 123 pertaining to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 498
  A board may revoke, suspend, or otherwise restrict a license on the ground that the licensee secured the license by fraud, deceit, or knowing misrepresentation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 499
  A board may revoke, suspend, or otherwise restrict a license on the ground that the licensee, in support of another person's application for license, knowingly...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 500
  Whenever the register or book of registration of the Medical Board of California, the Board of Dental Examiners, or the Board of Pharmacy is destroyed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 501
  For the reproduction of the destroyed register or book the board shall make use of such existing official printed registers, books or matter, certificates, affidavits...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 510
  (a) The purpose of this section is to provide protection against retaliation for health care practitioners who advocate for appropriate health care for their patients...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 511
  (a) No subcontract between a physician and surgeon, physician and surgeon group, or other licensed health care practitioner who contracts with a health care service...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 511.1
  (a) In order to prevent the improper selling, leasing, or transferring of a health care provider's contract, it is the intent of the Legislature that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 511.3
  (a) When a contracting agent sells, leases, or transfers a health provider's contract to a payor, the rights and obligations of the provider shall be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 511.4
  (a) A contracting agent, as defined in paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of Section 511.1, shall beginning July 1, 2006, prior to contracting, annually thereafter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 512
  (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), no contract that is issued, amended, renewed, or delivered on or after January 1, 1999, between...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 525
  No dispensing optician, optometrist, or physician and surgeon shall dispense, prescribe, or sell any eyeglasses for use of a person whose sight is limited to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 526
  A dispensing optician, optometrist, or physician and surgeon shall not be subject to disciplinary action under this article unless he is informed by the person...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 527
  Any dispensing optician, optometrist, or physician and surgeon who violates this article is subject to disciplinary action by the board which issues his certificate to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 550
  As used in this article, "ophthalmia neonatorum," independent of the nature of the infection, means any condition of the eye, or eyes, of any infant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 551
  It is the duty of any physician, surgeon, obstetrician, midwife, nurse, maternity home or hospital of any nature, parent, relative, and any person or persons...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 552
  Any case of ophthalmia neonatorum or of blindness resulting from it upon which one accused of a violation of this article has been in attendance...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 553
  All maternity homes, hospitals, and similar institutions wherein childbirths occur shall keep a record of all cases of ophthalmia neonatorum occurring or discovered therein. These...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 554
  The local health officer shall: (a) Investigate each case filed with him in pursuance of this article, and all other cases coming to his attention....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 555
  The State Department of Health Services shall: (a) Enforce the provisions of this article. (b) Promulgate rules and regulations necessary to carry out properly the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 556
  The failure of any person mentioned in Section 551 to report, or the failure of any maternity home, hospital, or similar institution, to use the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 557
  If the person is a physician, midwife, or is a person who is professionally employed, the third conviction is sufficient cause for the revocation of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 558
  One-half of all fines collected hereunder shall go to the county wherein the prosecution was had, and the remaining one-half thereof shall go into the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 580
  No person, company, or association shall sell or barter or offer to sell or barter any medical degree, podiatric degree, or osteopathic degree, or chiropractic...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 581
  No person, company, or association shall purchase or procure by barter or by any unlawful means or method, or have in possession any diploma, certificate,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 582
  No person, company, or association shall use or attempt to use any diploma, certificate, transcript, or any other writing which has been purchased, fraudulently issued,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 583
  No person shall in any document or writing required of an applicant for examination, license, certificate, or registration under this division, the Osteopathic Initiative Act,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 584
  No person shall violate the security of any examination, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 123, or impersonate, attempt to impersonate, or solicit the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 585
  Any person, company, or association violating the provisions of this article is guilty of a felony and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 601
  Every person who willfully writes, composes or publishes any notice or advertisement of any medicine or means for producing or facilitating a miscarriage or abortion,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 650
  (a) Except as provided in Chapter 2.3 (commencing with Section 1400) of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code, the offer, delivery, receipt, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 650.01
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 650, or any other provision of law, it is unlawful for a licensee to refer a person for laboratory, diagnostic nuclear medicine,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 650.02
  The prohibition of Section 650.01 shall not apply to or restrict any of the following: (a) A licensee may refer a patient for a good...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 650.1
  (a) Any amount payable to any hospital, as defined in Section 4028, or any person or corporation prohibited from pharmacy permit ownership by subdivision (a)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 650.2
  Notwithstanding Section 650 or any other provision of law, it shall not be unlawful for a person licensed pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 650.3
  (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 650 or any other provision of law, it shall not be unlawful for a person licensed pursuant to the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 650.4
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 650, subdivision (o) of Section 4982, or any other provision of law, it shall not be unlawful for a person licensed pursuant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 651
  (a) It is unlawful for any person licensed under this division or under any initiative act referred to in this division to disseminate or cause...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 651.3
  (a) Any labor organization, bona fide employee group or bona fide employee association having contracted health care services from a health care service plan under...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 652
  Violation of this article in the case of a licensed person constitutes unprofessional conduct and grounds for suspension or revocation of his or her license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 652.5
  Except as otherwise provided in this article, any violation of this article constitutes a misdemeanor as to any and all persons, whether or not licensed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 653
  The word "person" as used in this article includes an individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company, or cooperative association.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 654
  No person licensed under Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 2000) of this division may have any membership, proprietary interest or coownership in any form in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 654.1
  Persons licensed under Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 1600) of this division or licensed under Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 2000) of this division or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 654.2
  (a) It is unlawful for any person licensed under this division or under any initiative act referred to in this division to charge, bill, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 654.3
  (a) A dentist, or an employee or agent of a dentist, shall not charge treatment or costs to an open-end credit, that is extended by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 655
  (a) No person licensed under Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 3000) of this division may have any membership, proprietary interest, coownership, landlord-tenant relationship, or any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 655.2
  No physician and surgeon or medical corporation licensed under Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 2000), nor any audiologist who is not a licensed hearing aid...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 655.5
  (a) It is unlawful for any person licensed under this division or under any initiative act referred to in this division, or any clinical laboratory,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 655.7
  (a) (1) A person licensed under this division or under an initiative act referred to in this division shall not charge, bill, or otherwise solicit...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 655.8
  (a) It is unlawful for any person licensed under this division or under any initiative act referred to in this division to charge, bill, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 656
  Whenever any person has engaged, or is about to engage, in any acts or practices that constitute, or will constitute, a violation of this article,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 657
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) Californians spend more than one hundred billion dollars ($100,000,000,000) annually on health care. (2)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 675
  Every person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation offering a course of instruction in any type of nursing, including vocational nursing or practical nursing, which course...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 676
  The provisions contained in this article shall not apply to inservice training programs given in institutions for the purpose of qualifying persons to work therein,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 677
  Every person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation subject to the provisions of this article shall maintain records for at least three years, which records shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 678
  The failure to give the notice required by this article shall make any contract entered into between the parties null and void.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 679
  Any person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation who violates this article is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 680
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a health care practitioner shall disclose, while working, his or her name and practitioner's license status, as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 680.5
  (a) (1) A health care practitioner licensed under Division 2 (commencing with Section 500) shall communicate to a patient his or her name, state-granted practitioner...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 681
  (a) Commencing July 1, 2000, every person licensed pursuant to this division who collects human biological specimens for clinical testing or examination, shall secure, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 682
  An individual authorized to prescribe emergency contraception who issues a prescription or order for emergency contraception drug therapy as a result of a patient contact...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 683
  (a) A board shall report, within 10 working days, to the State Department of Health Care Services the name and license number of a person...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 685
  (a) (1) A board may cite and fine a currently licensed health care practitioner if he or she is in default on a United States...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 690
  (a) Except as provided in Section 4601 of the Labor Code and Section 2627 of the Unemployment Insurance Code, neither the administrators, agents, or employees...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 700
  It is the intent of the Legislature to establish in this article an inactive category of health professionals' licensure. Such inactive licenses or certificates are...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 701
  Each healing arts board referred to in this division shall issue, upon application and payment of the normal renewal fee, an inactive license or certificate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 702
  The holder of an inactive healing arts license or certificate issued pursuant to this article shall not engage in any activity for which an active...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 703
  An inactive healing arts license or certificate issued pursuant to this article shall be renewed during the same time period at which an active license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 704
  In order for the holder of an inactive license or certificate issued pursuant to this article to restore his or her license or certificate to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 710
  It is the policy of the State of California that, consistent with high quality health care services, persons with skills, knowledge and experience obtained in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 714
  (a) A hospital may enter into an agreement with the Armed Forces of the United States to authorize a physician and surgeon, physician assistant, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 715
  Unless otherwise required by federal law or regulation, no board under this division which licenses dentists, physicians and surgeons, podiatrists, or nurses may require a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 716
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a board under this division may deny issuance of a license to an applicant or take disciplinary action against...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 717
  This article is not intended to address the scope of practice of a dentist, physician and surgeon, or nurse licensed under this division, and nothing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 718
  A physician and surgeon who is not licensed in this state but who is a commissioned officer on active duty in the medical corps of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 725
  (a) Repeated acts of clearly excessive prescribing, furnishing, dispensing, or administering of drugs or treatment, repeated acts of clearly excessive use of diagnostic procedures, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 726
  The commission of any act of sexual abuse, misconduct, or relations with a patient, client, or customer constitutes unprofessional conduct and grounds for disciplinary action...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 727
  The provisions of subdivision (2) of Section 1103 of the Evidence Code shall apply in disciplinary proceedings brought against a licensee for acts in violation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 728
  (a) Any psychotherapist or employer of a psychotherapist who becomes aware through a patient that the patient had alleged sexual intercourse or alleged sexual contact...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 729
  (a) Any physician and surgeon, psychotherapist, alcohol and drug abuse counselor or any person holding himself or herself out to be a physician and surgeon,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 730
  Any person licensed under this division or under any initiative act referred to in this division shall not perform any medical evaluation for which the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 730.5
  (a) It is unprofessional conduct and a crime, as provided in Section 4935, for a physician and surgeon, osteopathic physician, dentist, or podiatrist to direct...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 731
  (a) Any person licensed, certified, registered, or otherwise subject to regulation pursuant to this division who engages in, or who aids or abets in, a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 732
  (a) A physician and surgeon and a dentist shall refund any amount that a patient has paid for services rendered that has subsequently been paid...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 733
  (a) No licentiate shall obstruct a patient in obtaining a prescription drug or device that has been legally prescribed or ordered for that patient. A...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 800
  (a) The Medical Board of California, the Board of Psychology, the Dental Board of California, the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, the State Board of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 801
  (a) Except as provided in Section 801.01 and subdivisions (b), (c), and (d) of this section, every insurer providing professional liability insurance to a person...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 801.01
  The Legislature finds and declares that the filing of reports with the applicable state agencies required under this section is essential for the protection of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 801.1
  (a) Every state or local governmental agency that self-insures a person who holds a license, certificate, or similar authority from or under any agency specified...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 802
  (a) Every settlement, judgment, or arbitration award over three thousand dollars ($3,000) of a claim or action for damages for death or personal injury caused...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 802.1
  (a) (1) A physician and surgeon, osteopathic physician and surgeon, and a doctor of podiatric medicine shall report either of the following to the entity...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 802.5
  (a) When a coroner receives information that is based on findings that were reached by, or documented and approved by a board-certified or board-eligible pathologist...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 803
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), within 10 days after a judgment by a court of this state that a person who holds a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 803.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Medical Board of California, the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, and the California Board of Podiatric Medicine...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 803.5
  (a) The district attorney, city attorney, or other prosecuting agency shall notify the Medical Board of California, the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, the California...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 803.6
  (a) The clerk of the court shall transmit any felony preliminary hearing transcript concerning a defendant licensee to the Medical Board of California, the Osteopathic...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 804
  (a) Any agency to whom reports are to be sent under Section 801, 801.1, 802, or 803, may develop a prescribed form for the making...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 804.5
  The Legislature recognizes that various types of entities are creating, implementing, and maintaining patient safety and risk management programs that encourage early intervention in order...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 805
  (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following definitions: (1) (A) "Peer review" means both of the following: (i) A process...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 805.01
  (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following definitions: (1) "Agency" has the same meaning as defined in Section 805. (2)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 805.1
  (a) The Medical Board of California, the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, and the Dental Board of California shall be entitled to inspect and copy...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 805.2
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to provide for a comprehensive study of the peer review process as it is conducted by peer...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 805.5
  (a) Prior to granting or renewing staff privileges for any physician and surgeon, psychologist, podiatrist, or dentist, any health facility licensed pursuant to Division 2...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 805.6
  (a) The Medical Board of California, the Osteopathic Medical Board, and the Dental Board of California shall establish a system of electronic notification that is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 805.7
  (a) The Medical Board of California shall work with interested parties in the pursuit and establishment of a pilot program, similar to those proposed by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 806
  Each agency in the department receiving reports pursuant to the preceding sections shall prepare a statistical report based upon these records for presentation to the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 807
  Each agency in the department shall notify every person licensed, certified or holding similar authority issued by it, and the department shall notify every insurance...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 808
  For purposes of this article, reports affecting respiratory care practitioners required to be filed under Sections 801, 802, and 803 shall be filed with the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 808.5
  For purposes of this article, reports affecting psychologists required to be filed under Sections 801, 801.1, 802, 803, 803.5, and 803.6 shall be filed with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 809
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares the following: (1) In 1986, Congress enacted the federal Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (42 U.S.C....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 809.05
  It is the policy of this state that peer review be performed by licentiates. This policy is subject to the following limitations: (a) The governing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 809.08
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the sharing of information between peer review bodies is essential to protect the public health. (b) Upon...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 809.1
  (a) A licentiate who is the subject of a final proposed action of a peer review body for which a report is required to be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 809.2
  If a licentiate timely requests a hearing concerning a final proposed action for which a report is required to be filed under Section 805, the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 809.3
  (a) During a hearing concerning a final proposed action for which reporting is required to be filed under Section 805, both parties shall have all...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 809.4
  (a) Upon the completion of a hearing concerning a final proposed action for which a report is required to be filed under Section 805, the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 809.5
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 809 to 809.4, inclusive, a peer review body may immediately suspend or restrict clinical privileges of a licentiate where the failure to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 809.6
  (a) The parties are bound by any additional notice and hearing provisions contained in any applicable professional society or medical staff bylaws which are not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 809.7
  Sections 809.1 to 809.4, inclusive, shall not apply to peer review proceedings conducted in state or county hospitals, in hospitals owned by, operated by, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 809.8
  Nothing in Sections 809 to 809.7, inclusive, shall affect the availability of judicial review under Section 1094.5 of the Code of Civil Procedure nor the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 809.9
  In any suit brought to challenge an action taken or a restriction imposed which is required to be reported pursuant to Section 805, the court...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 810
  (a) It shall constitute unprofessional conduct and grounds for disciplinary action, including suspension or revocation of a license or certificate, for a health care professional...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 820
  Whenever it appears that any person holding a license, certificate or permit under this division or under any initiative act referred to in this division...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 821
  The licentiate's failure to comply with an order issued under Section 820 shall constitute grounds for the suspension or revocation of the licentiate's certificate or
• California Business and Professions Code Section 822
  If a licensing agency determines that its licentiate's ability to practice his or her profession safely is impaired because the licentiate is mentally ill, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 823
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, reinstatement of a licentiate against whom action has been taken pursuant to Section 822 shall be governed by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 824
  The licensing agency may proceed against a licentiate under either Section 820, or 822, or under both sections.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 825
  As used in this article with reference to persons holding licenses as physicians and surgeons, "licensing agency" means a panel of the Division of Medical
• California Business and Professions Code Section 826
  The proceedings under Sections 821 and 822 shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) of Part 1 of Division 3...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 827
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 828
  If the licensing agency determines, pursuant to proceedings conducted under Section 820, that there is insufficient evidence to bring an action against the licentiate pursuant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 850
  No healing arts licensing board or examining committee under the Department of Consumer Affairs shall by regulation require an applicant for licensure or certification to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 851
  A healing arts licensure board or examining committee may by regulation require an applicant for licensure or certification to meet the standards of a specified...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 852
  (a) The Task Force on Culturally and Linguistically Competent Physicians and Dentists is hereby created and shall consist of the following members: (1) The State...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 853
  (a) The Licensed Physicians and Dentists from Mexico Pilot Program is hereby created. This program shall allow up to 30 licensed physicians specializing in family...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 854
  Criteria for issuing three-year nonrenewable medical licenses and dental permits under this article shall not be utilized at any time as the standard for issuing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 855
  (a) Up to 70 international medical graduates who have passed their United States medical license examination on the first attempt and who have been working...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 860
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares both of the following: (1) California's system of care suffers from a severe shortage of professionals and paraprofessionals in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 900
  (a) Nothing in this division applies to a health care practitioner licensed in another state or territory of the United States who offers or provides...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 901
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following provisions apply: (1) "Board" means the applicable healing arts board, under this division or an initiative act...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 920
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Health Care Professional Disaster Response Act.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 921
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1) In times of national or state disasters, a shortage of qualified health care practitioners may exist...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 922
  (a) A physician and surgeon who satisfies the requirements of Section 2439 but whose license has been expired for less than five years may be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1000
  The law governing practitioners of chiropractic is found in an initiative act entitled "An act prescribing the terms upon which licenses may be issued to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1001
  In each year, the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners shall compile and may thereafter publish and sell a complete directory of all persons within the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1002
  Whenever any person has engaged in or is about to engage in any acts or practices which constitute or will constitute an offense against the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1003
  (a) Except as otherwise allowed by law, the employment of runners, cappers, steerers, or other persons to procure patients constitutes unprofessional conduct. (b) A licensee...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1004
  The State Board of Chiropractic Examiners shall investigate any licensee against whom an information or indictment has been filed that alleges a violation of Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1005
  The provisions of Sections 12.5, 23.9, 29.5, 30, 31, 35, 104, 114, 115, 119, 121, 121.5, 125, 125.6, 136, 137, 140, 141, 143, 163.5, 461,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1050
  A chiropractic corporation is a corporation which is registered with the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners with reference to corporations rendering professional services as chiropractors...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1051
  An applicant for registration as a chiropractic corporation shall supply to the board all necessary and pertinent documents and information requested by the board concerning...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1053
  Each chiropractic corporation shall file with the board a report containing such information relating to professional corporations as may be required by board regulations as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1054
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the name of a chiropractic corporation and any name or names under which it may be rendering professional services,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1055
  Except as provided in Section 13403 of the Corporations Code, relating to the Professional Corporation Act, each director and each officer of a chiropractic corporation,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1056
  The income of a chiropractic corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shareholder is a disqualified person (as defined in the Professional Corporation Act)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1057
  A chiropractic corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which or the failure to do which would constitute unprofessional...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1058
  Moneys received by the board pursuant to this article shall be used to carry out the purposes of this article.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1200
  Every provision of this chapter shall be liberally construed to protect the interests of all persons affected.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1201
  As used in this chapter, "person" includes firm, association, partnership, individual, limited liability company, and corporation.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1202
  As used in this chapter, "department" means the State Department of Health Services.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1202.5
  (a) For purposes of this chapter "CLIA" means the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (42 U.S.C. Sec. 263a; P.L. 100-578) and the regulations...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1203
  As used in this chapter, "clinical laboratory bioanalyst" or "bioanalyst" means a person licensed under Section 1260 to engage in clinical laboratory practice and direction...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1204
  As used in this chapter, "clinical laboratory scientist" means any person other than a licensed clinical laboratory bioanalyst or trainee who is licensed under Sections...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1205
  As used in this chapter, "trainee" means any person licensed under this chapter for the purpose of receiving comprehensive practical experience and instruction in clinical...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1206
  (a) For the purposes of this chapter the following definitions are applicable: (1) "Biological specimen" means any material that is derived from the human body....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1206.5
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 1206 and except as otherwise provided in Section 1241, no person shall perform a clinical laboratory test or examination...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1207
  (a) As used in this chapter, "clinical chemist," or "clinical microbiologist," or "clinical toxicologist," or "clinical genetic molecular biologist," or "clinical cytogeneticist," or "oral and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1208
  (a) For the purposes of this chapter whenever the department determines that a new category of license is necessary, either to direct a laboratory, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1209
  (a) As used in this chapter, "laboratory director" means any person who is a duly licensed physician and surgeon, or, only for purposes of a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1209.1
  (a) As used in this chapter, "histocompatibility laboratory director" means a physician and surgeon licensed to practice medicine pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1209.5
  (a) "Autoverification" means the use of a computer algorithm in conjunction with automated clinical laboratory instrumentation to review and verify the results of a clinical...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1210
  (a) As used in this chapter, "clinical chemist scientist," "clinical microbiologist scientist," "clinical toxicologist scientist," "clinical immunohematologist scientist," "clinical genetic molecular biologist scientist," "clinical cytogeneticist...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1211
  (a) As used in this chapter, "owner" means any person with an ownership or control interest in a clinical laboratory. (b) "Person with an ownership...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1211.5
  For the purposes of this chapter, "cytological slides" shall refer to cellular materials submitted for preliminary cytologic examination.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1212
  (a) As used in this chapter, "unlicensed laboratory personnel" means a laboratory aide, histocompatibility technician, cardiopulmonary technician, or other person performing the activities authorized by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1213
  As used in this chapter, "school" means any place, establishment, or institution organized and operated to offer training for one or more of the personnel...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1214
  As used in this chapter, "health fair" means a program of health assessment procedures offered to the general public that may include screening, self-ordered, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1220
  (a) (1) Each clinical laboratory shall maintain records, equipment, and facilities that are adequate and appropriate for the services rendered. (2) (A) Except for tests...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1220.5
  (a) The Department of Health Services shall develop, and provide to all licensed clinical laboratories, a form in triplicate to be used by employees, agents,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1221
  The department may employ special examiners, and may make regulations for the conduct of examinations under this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1222
  The department may approve schools that are accredited by the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1222.5
  The department may approve schools seeking to provide instruction in clinical laboratory technic which in the judgment of the department will provide instruction adequate to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1223
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that it is the public policy of the state to ensure that California's laboratory standards, including its laboratory personnel...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1224
  The department may, pursuant to Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, adopt, amend, or repeal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1224.5
  The department shall conduct a study to determine whether the persons conducting tests in physician office laboratories under paragraph (12) of subdivision (b) of, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1225
  (a) In order to carry out this chapter, any duly authorized representative of the department may do any of the following: (1) Enter or inspect...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1226
  Annually the department may compile and may thereafter publish and sell a directory of persons within the state licensed under the provisions of this chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1227
  Every person or clinical laboratory licensed or registered under this chapter shall report to the department, within 30 days thereof, any change of name or
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1228
  The department shall appoint a multidisciplinary committee to assist, advise, and make recommendations for the establishment of rules and regulations necessary to insure proper administration...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1240
  This chapter does not authorize any person to practice medicine and surgery or to furnish the services of physicians for the practice of medicine and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1241
  (a) This chapter applies to all clinical laboratories in California or receiving biological specimens originating in California for the purpose of performing a clinical laboratory...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1241.1
  (a) A primary care clinic, licensed pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1204 of the Health and Safety Code, that is operating within a network...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1242
  Any person duly licensed under the provisions of this chapter to perform tests called for in a clinical laboratory may perform skin tests for specific...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1242.5
  Notwithstanding paragraphs (2) and (3) of subdivision (b) of Section 1241, the department may by regulation authorize laboratory personnel certified pursuant to Section 1246 to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1242.6
  (a) Any registered nurse licensed under the provisions of Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 2700) of Division 2 may perform arterial puncture, venipuncture, or skin...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1243
  A student regularly matriculated in any college or university accredited by an accrediting agency acceptable to the department, or in any legally chartered school approved...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1244
  (a) Nothing in this chapter shall restrict, limit, or prevent a program of nondiagnostic general health assessment provided that: (1) The program meets the requirements...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1244.1
  Thirty days prior to operating a program of nondiagnostic general health assessment, the entity or person operating that program shall file the following documentation with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1244.3
  Responsibility for enforcement of Sections 1244 and 1244.1 shall be with the local health officer or his or her authorized designee, including public health laboratory...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1244.4
  Any fee for the filing of documentation and related enforcement activities pursuant to Section 1244, 1244.1, and 1244.3 shall be determined by the local enforcement...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1245
  (a) Any individual may perform a blood gas analysis if all the following conditions exist: (1) He or she has earned a high school diploma...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1246
  (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), and in Section 23158 of the Vehicle Code, an unlicensed person employed by a licensed clinical...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1246.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person may request, and any licensed clinical laboratory or public health laboratory may perform, the laboratory tests specified...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1247
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Hemodialysis Technician Training Act.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1247.2
  For the purpose of this article, the following terms have the following meaning: (a) "Immediate supervision" means supervision of dialysis treatment in the same room...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1247.3
  The treatment of patients by a hemodialysis technician includes performing venipuncture and arterial puncture for the purpose of providing dialysis treatment for a patient. The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1247.4
  The department may adopt regulations it deems necessary to implement this article.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1247.5
  A hemodialysis clinic or unit within a licensed clinic or hospital, as defined respectively in Sections 1204 and 1250 of the Health and Safety Code,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1247.6
  (a) Except during training under immediate supervision, and except as provided in Section 1247.62, no person shall provide services as a hemodialysis technician without being...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1247.61
  To be certified by the department as a Certified Hemodialysis Technician (CHT), a person shall meet all of the following requirements: (a) Have a high...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1247.63
  (a) Certification of a hemodialysis technician issued by the department pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1247.6 shall be valid for four years. (b) A...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1247.64
  A hemodialysis technician may obtain the in-service training or continuing education required by subdivision (b) of Section 1247.63 from one or more of the following...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1247.66
  (a) The department may deny, suspend, or revoke the certification of a hemodialysis technician if it finds that the hemodialysis technician is not in compliance...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1247.7
  An employee in training shall be classified as a hemodialysis technician trainee and shall be under the immediate supervision of a licensed physician and surgeon...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1247.8
  Each hemodialysis unit or clinic shall have information available for inspection by the department survey teams which verifies that the hemodialysis technicians employed at the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1247.9
  No person or entity shall provide chronic dialysis services to patients in this state unless the services are provided under the direction of a chronic...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1260
  The department shall issue a clinical laboratory bioanalyst's license to each person who is a lawful holder of a degree of master of arts, master...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1260.1
  The department shall issue a histocompatibility laboratory director's license to each person who meets the qualifications specified in Section 1209.1.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1260.3
  (a) The department shall issue a medical laboratory technician license to each person who meets the following requirements: (1) Has met the requirements of this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1261
  The department shall issue a clinical laboratory scientist's or a limited clinical laboratory scientist's license to each person who is a lawful holder of a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1261.5
  The department may issue limited clinical laboratory scientist's licenses in chemistry, microbiology, toxicology, histocompatibility, immunohematology, genetic molecular biology, cytogenetics, or other areas of laboratory specialty...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1261.6
  The department may issue a limited clinical laboratory scientist's license in cytogenetics to any person with a minimum of seven years of work experience in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1262
  No clinical laboratory scientist's or limited clinical laboratory scientist's license shall be issued by the department except after examination; provided, that a temporary clinical laboratory...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1262.5
  Notwithstanding Section 135, an applicant for a clinical laboratory or limited technologist license who fails to pass the written examination two times shall not be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1263
  The department shall license as trainees those individuals desiring to train for either a clinical laboratory scientist's license or a limited clinical laboratory scientist's license,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1264
  The department shall issue a clinical chemist, clinical microbiologist, clinical toxicologist, clinical molecular biologist, or clinical cytogeneticist license to each person who has applied for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1265
  (a) (1) A clinical laboratory performing clinical laboratory tests or examinations classified as of moderate or of high complexity under CLIA shall obtain a clinical...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1265.1
  (a) A primary care clinic that submits an application to the State Department of Public Health for clinic licensure pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1266
  The clinical laboratory license and the license or current renewal permit of each person performing tests shall be conspicuously posted in the clinical laboratory.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1267
  Any denial, suspension, or revocation of a license under this chapter shall be conducted in compliance with Section 100171 of the Health and Safety Code.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1268
  Upon filing application therefor, containing such information as the department may require, and the payment of the license fee, the department shall issue to any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1269
  (a) Unlicensed laboratory personnel may perform any of the activities identified in subdivision (b), in a licensed clinical laboratory, under the direct and constant supervision...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1269.3
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 1206.5 and 1269, within the specialty of pathology, a person certified as a pathologists' assistant by the American Association of Pathologists' Assistants,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1269.5
  The department may deny, suspend, or revoke any license, registration, or certificate issued under this chapter for performance by unlicensed laboratory personnel of any activity...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1270
  (a) On and after January 1, 1991, no person may perform examinations of cytological slides without first obtaining a license as a cytotechnologist from the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1270.5
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 1301, an application for the renewal of, and payment of the renewal fees for, a cytotechnologist license shall be governed by this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1271
  (a) A cytotechnologist shall not examine more than 80 gynecologic slides in a 24-hour period when performing a manual review of slides. (b) The maximum...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1271.1
  (a) Clinical laboratories which are licensed pursuant to this chapter and provide cytology services shall, if the licensee ceases operation, preserve records, reports, cytology slides,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1272
  A clinical laboratory shall participate in a state-approved proficiency testing program and demonstrate satisfactory performance in all of the laboratory specialities that include tests performed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1272.4
  The department shall establish standards for the evaluation of cytologic slides, for reporting the adequacy of cytologic slides, for a cytotechnologist competency program, and for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1272.6
  The department shall, on or before January 1, 1992, develop or adopt a proficiency testing program for laboratories providing cytology services which may be administered...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1274
  (a) A laboratory shall document to persons submitting cytologic samples for evaluation, on a quarterly basis, informational letters on all cases of HSIL (high-grade squamous...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1275
  The department shall develop and implement regulations for continuing education for persons licensed pursuant to this chapter on or before January 1, 1992, after consulting...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1280
  It is unlawful for any person to represent himself or act as a licensed individual under this chapter unless he is, in fact, duly licensed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1281
  It is unlawful for any person to own, operate, maintain, direct, or engage in the business of operating a clinical laboratory, as defined in this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1281.1
  It is unlawful for any person, including a person who owns, operates, or directs a clinical laboratory, to provide, offer, or solicit, any form of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1282
  It is unlawful for any person to engage in clinical laboratory practice in a clinical laboratory unless he or she is a duly licensed physician...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1282.2
  It is unlawful for any person to perform venipuncture, skin puncture, or arterial puncture to collect a biological specimen unless he or she is authorized...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1282.3
  (a) It is unlawful for any person to act with willful or wanton disregard for a person's safety that exposes the person to a substantial...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1283
  It is unlawful for any person to conduct, maintain, or operate a clinical laboratory unless he is a duly licensed physician and surgeon or is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1284
  It is unlawful for a duly licensed physician and surgeon, or any person authorized to serve as director under this chapter, to serve only as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1285
  It is unlawful for any person conducting, maintaining, or operating a clinical laboratory to employ any person to perform clinical laboratory procedures unless the person...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1286
  It is unlawful for any person to operate a school or conduct any course for the purpose of training or preparing persons to perform duties,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1287
  (a) Any person who violates any provision of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable upon conviction by imprisonment in the county jail for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1288
  Any person conducting or operating a clinical laboratory may accept assignments for tests only from and make reports only to persons licensed under the provisions...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1288.3
  (a) If a clinical laboratory employee, agent, or courier retrieves biological specimens located in a public place outside of the custodial control of a licensee,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1288.5
  No person may solicit or accept any biological specimen for clinical laboratory testing or examination unless there is in effect for the clinical laboratory where...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1289
  The violating or attempting to violate, directly or indirectly, or assisting in or abetting the violation of or conspiring to violate any provision or term...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1290
  With the exception of narcotics and dangerous drugs stored on the licensed clinical laboratory premises for use exclusively as standards for the purpose of testing,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1291
  Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit a licensed physician and surgeon from instructing or training any person employed by him to work in a laboratory...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1300
  The amount of application, registration, and license fees under this chapter shall be as follows: (a) The application fee for a histocompatibility laboratory director's, clinical...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1300.1
  The application and renewal fees for clinical laboratory licenses specified in Section 1300 shall be adjusted annually in the manner specified in Section 100450 of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1300.2
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the total fees collected under this chapter shall not exceed the costs incurred by the department for licensing,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1301
  (a) The annual renewal fee for a clinical laboratory license or registration set under this chapter shall be paid during the 30-day period before the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1301.1
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the department may establish such license periods and renewal dates for all licenses issued under this chapter in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1302
  (a) There is hereby established in the State Treasury, the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Fund. (b) All fees established under this chapter and Chapter 4 (commencing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1310
  If the department determines that a laboratory that has been issued a license or registration under this chapter, except for a laboratory only performing tests...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1311
  The department shall have three years from the date of a violation of this chapter or of a regulation adopted thereunder to file a civil...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1320
  The department may deny, suspend, or revoke any license or registration issued under this chapter for any of the following reasons: (a) Conduct involving moral...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1321
  For purposes of this chapter, a conviction means a plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere. An action...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1322
  The proceedings under this chapter for the suspension or revocation of a license or registration shall be conducted in accordance with Section 100171 of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1323
  The department may temporarily suspend a license or registration prior to any hearing, when it has determined that the action is necessary to protect the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1324
  Except for a person or entity whose license was revoked automatically under Section 1265, no person or entity who has owned or operated a clinical...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1325
  Notwithstanding Sections 1267 and 1322, the license or registration of a clinical laboratory that has been excluded from participation under the Medicare program (Title XVIII...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1326
  The department may bring an action to enjoin the violation or threatened violation of this chapter or the regulations adopted pursuant thereto in the superior...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1327
  The department may enter into agreements with the Secretary of Health and Human Services for the use of the services or facilities of the department...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1600
  This chapter constitutes the chapter on dentistry of the Business and Professions Code. It may be known and cited as the Dental Practice Act. Whenever...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1601.1
  (a) There shall be in the Department of Consumer Affairs the Dental Board of California in which the administration of this chapter is vested. The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1601.2
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Dental Board of California in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1601.3
  (a) All committees of the board have the authority to evaluate all suggestions or requests for regulatory changes related to their committee. Committees shall have...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1601.5
  For purposes of Section 1601, "practicing dentist" includes a member of a faculty of any dental college or dental department of any medical college in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1602
  All of the members of the board, except the public members, shall have been actively and legally engaged in the practice of dentistry in the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1603
  Except for the initial appointments, members of the board shall be appointed for a term of four years, and each member shall hold office until...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1603a
  A member of the Board of Dental Examiners who has served two terms shall not be eligible for reappointment to the board. In computing two...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1604
  Each member of the board, upon his or her qualification, shall file with the executive officer his or her post office address, and thereafter any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1605
  The Governor has power to remove from office at any time any member of the board for continued neglect of duty required by this chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1606
  The board shall elect a president, a vice president and a secretary from its membership. This section controls over the provisions of section 107 of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1607
  The board shall meet regularly once each year in San Francisco and once each year in Los Angeles after the commencement of the dental schools...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1608
  Special meetings may be held at such times as the board may elect, or on the call of the president of the board, or of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1609
  Meetings may be held at any time and place by unanimous consent evidenced either by writing or by the presence of any member whose consent...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1610
  Eight members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1611
  The board shall carry out the purposes and enforce the provisions of this chapter. It shall examine all applicants for a license to practice dentistry...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1611.3
  The board shall comply with the requirements of Section 138 by January 1, 2013. The board shall require that the notice under that section include...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1611.5
  The board may inspect the books, records, and premises of any dentist licensed under this chapter in response to a complaint that a licensee has...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1612
  The board shall keep a record of the names of all persons to whom licenses have been granted by it to practice dentistry, and such...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1613
  The board shall have and use a seal bearing the name "Board of Dental Examiners of California."
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1614
  The board may adopt reasonably necessary rules not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter concerning: (a) The holding of meetings. (b) The holding of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1615
  Each member of the board shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103. The secretary shall be entitled to traveling and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1616
  The board shall have full power to employ all necessary investigators, clerical and other assistants and appoint its own attorney, prescribe his duties and fix...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1616.5
  (a) The board, by and with the approval of the director, may appoint a person exempt from civil service who shall be designated as an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1616.6
  There is hereby established within the board a full-time management level staff position, under the direction of the executive officer, whose sole responsibilities shall be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1617
  A copy of any part or all of the books of the board duly certified by the executive officer shall be primary evidence in any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1618
  The original books, records, and papers of the board shall be kept at the office of the executive officer, which shall be at such place...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1618.5
  (a) The board shall provide to the Director of the Department of Managed Health Care a copy of any accusation filed with the Office of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1619
  The examination papers of any applicant shall be kept for the period of one year and may then be destroyed, but they shall be open...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1619.1
  Notwithstanding Section 1619, the board need not retain the National Board of Dental Examiners' examination papers.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1620.1
  The Department of Consumer Affairs, in conjunction with the board and the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection, shall review the scope of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1621
  The board shall utilize in the administration of its licensure examinations only examiners whom it has appointed and who meet the following criteria: (a) Possession...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1625
  Dentistry is the diagnosis or treatment, by surgery or other method, of diseases and lesions and the correction of malpositions of the human teeth, alveolar...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1625.1
  (a) Any of the following entities may employ licensees and dental assistants and charge for the professional services they render, and shall not be deemed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1625.2
  (a) For purposes of subdivision (e) of Section 1625, the ownership or management, by a tax-exempt nonprofit corporation supported and maintained in whole or in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1625.3
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon the incapacity or death of a dentist, if the requirements of Section 1625.4 are met, any of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1625.4
  (a) Where the dental practice of an incapacitated or deceased dentist is a sole proprietorship or where an incapacitated or deceased dentist is the sole...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1625.5
  The following written notification shall be included with, or as part of, all application forms required for a license to practice dentistry pursuant to this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1626
  It is unlawful for any person to engage in the practice of dentistry in the state, either privately or as an employee of a governmental...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1626.2
  A dentist licensed under this chapter is a licentiate for purposes of paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 805, and thus is a health...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1626.5
  (a) A licensed dentist, or group of dentists, or dental corporation shall not share in any fee charged by a person for performing acupuncture or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1626.5
  In addition to the exemptions set forth in Section 1626, the operations by bona fide students of registered dental assisting, registered dental assisting in extended...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1627
  The license of any dentist, existing at the time of the passage of this chapter, shall continue in force until it expires or is forfeited...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1627.5
  (a) No person licensed under this chapter, who in good faith renders emergency care at the scene of an emergency occurring outside the place of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1627.7
  (a) A dentist shall not be liable for damages for injury or death caused in an emergency situation occurring in the dentist's office or in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1628
  Any person over 18 years of age is eligible to take an examination before the board upon making application therefor and meeting all of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1628.5
  The board may deny an application to take an examination for licensure as a dentist or dental auxiliary or an application for registration as a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1628.7
  (a) The board may, upon an applicant's successful completion of the board examination, in its sole discretion, issue a probationary license to an applicant for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1629
  (a) Any member of the board may inquire of any applicant for examination concerning his or her qualifications or experience and may take testimony of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1630
  The examination of applicants for a license to practice dentistry in this state, as described in Section 1632, shall be sufficiently thorough to test the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1632
  (a) The board shall require each applicant to successfully complete the Part I and Part II written examinations of the National Board Dental Examination of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1632.1
  (a) With regard to the portfolio examination specified in paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) of Section 1632, the board shall independently monitor and audit the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1632.5
  (a) Prior to implementation of paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) of Section 1632, the department's Office of Professional Examination Services shall review the Western Regional...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1632.6
  (a) As part of the ongoing implementation of paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) of Section 1632, the board shall review the portfolio examination to ensure...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1633
  (a) When an applicant for a license has received a grading of 85 percent or above in any given subject, he or she shall be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1634
  A person successfully passing the examination shall be registered as a licensed dentist on the board register, as provided in Section 1612, and shall be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1634.1
  Notwithstanding Section 1634, the board may grant a license to practice dentistry to an applicant who submits all of the following to the board: (a)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1634.2
  (a) An advanced education program's compliance with subdivision (c) of Section 1634.1 shall be regularly reviewed by the department pursuant to Section 139. (b) An...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1635.5
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 1634, the board may grant a license to practice dentistry to an applicant who has not taken an examination before the board,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1635.7
  Any person licensed pursuant to Section 1635.5 shall be required to fulfill continuing education requirements established by the board pursuant to Section 1645 before his...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1636.4
  (a) The Legislature recognizes the need to ensure that graduates of foreign dental schools who have received an education that is equivalent to that of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1636.6
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that in order to assure that the people of California receive the highest quality of dental care, dentists graduating...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1638
  (a) For purposes of this article, "oral and maxillofacial surgery" means the diagnosis and surgical and adjunctive treatment of diseases, injuries, and defects which involve...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1638.1
  (a) (1) A person licensed pursuant to Section 1634 who wishes to perform elective facial cosmetic surgery shall first apply for and receive a permit...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1638.2
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person licensed pursuant to Section 1634 who holds a permit to perform elective facial cosmetic surgery issued...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1638.3
  (a) The fee to renew an oral and maxillofacial surgery permit shall be the same as that for renewal of a dental license as determined...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1638.5
  An oral and maxillofacial surgery permit shall be automatically suspended for any period of time during which the holder does not possess a current valid...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1638.7
  The next occupational analysis of dental licensees and oral and maxillofacial facial surgeons pursuant to Section 139 shall include a survey of the training and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1640
  Any person meeting all the following eligibility requirements may apply for a special permit: (a) Furnishing satisfactory evidence of having a pending contract with a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1640.1
  As used in this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Specialty" means an area of dental practice approved by the American Dental Association and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1640.2
  (a) The board shall limit the number of special permits to practice in a discipline at a college to the number that may be properly...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1640.3
  The board may issue a special permit to a dentist who does not meet the eligibility requirements pursuant to Section 1640 if he or she...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1642
  Every person to whom a special permit is issued shall be entitled to practice in their recognized specialty or discipline at the dental college at...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1645
  (a) Effective with the 1974 license renewal period, if the board determines that the public health and safety would be served by requiring all holders...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1645.1
  (a) By January 1, 2006, a person who holds a registered dental assistant license shall provide evidence of having successfully completed board-approved courses in radiation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1646
  "General anesthesia," as used in this article, means a controlled state of depressed consciousness or unconsciousness, accompanied by partial or complete loss of protective reflexes,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1646.1
  (a) No dentist shall administer or order the administration of general anesthesia on an outpatient basis for dental patients unless the dentist either possesses a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1646.2
  (a) A dentist who desires to administer or order the administration of general anesthesia shall apply to the board on an application form prescribed by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1646.3
  Any dentist holding a permit shall maintain medical history, physical evaluation, and general anesthesia records as required by board regulations.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1646.4
  (a) Prior to the issuance or renewal of a permit for the use of general anesthesia, the board may, at its discretion, require an onsite...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1646.5
  A permittee shall be required to complete 24 hours of approved courses of study related to general anesthesia as a condition of renewal of a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1646.6
  (a) The application fee for a permit or renewal under this article shall not exceed two hundred fifty dollars ($250). (b) The fee for an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1646.7
  (a) A violation of this article constitutes unprofessional conduct and is grounds for the revocation or suspension of the dentist's permit, license, or both, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1646.8
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to authorize a dentist to administer or directly supervise the administration of general anesthesia for reasons other than...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1646.9
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including, but not limited to, Section 1646.1, a physician and surgeon licensed pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1647
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that a commendable patient safety record has been maintained in the past by dentists and those other qualified providers...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1647.1
  (a) As used in this article, "conscious sedation" means a minimally depressed level of consciousness produced by a pharmacologic or nonpharmacologic method, or a combination...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1647.2
  (a) No dentist shall administer or order the administration of, conscious sedation on an outpatient basis for dental patients unless one of the following conditions...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1647.3
  (a) A dentist who desires to administer or order the administration of conscious sedation, shall apply to the board on an application form prescribed by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1647.5
  A permittee shall be required to complete 15 hours of approved courses of study related to conscious sedation as a condition of renewal of a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1647.6
  A physical evaluation and medical history shall be taken before the administration of conscious sedation. Any dentist holding a permit shall maintain records of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1647.7
  (a) Prior to the issuance or renewal of a permit to administer conscious sedation, the board may, at its discretion, require an onsite inspection and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1647.8
  (a) The application fee for a permit or renewal under this article shall not exceed two hundred fifty dollars ($250). (b) The fee for an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1647.9
  A violation of any provision of this article constitutes unprofessional conduct and is grounds for the revocation or suspension of the dentist's permit, license, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1647.10
  As used in this article: (a) "Oral conscious sedation" means a minimally depressed level of consciousness produced by oral medication that retains the patient's ability...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1647.11
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 1647.2, a dentist may not administer oral conscious sedation on an outpatient basis to a minor patient unless one...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1647.12
  A dentist who desires to administer, or order the administration of, oral conscious sedation for minor patients, who does not hold a general anesthesia permit,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1647.13
  A certificate holder shall be required to complete a minimum of 7 hours of approved courses of study related to oral conscious sedation of minor...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1647.14
  (a) A physical evaluation and medical history shall be taken before the administration of, oral conscious sedation to a minor. Any dentist who administers, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1647.15
  The fee for an application for initial certification or renewal under this article shall not exceed the amount necessary to cover administration and enforcement costs...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1647.16
  Any office in which oral conscious sedation of minor patients is conducted pursuant to this article shall, unless otherwise provided by law, meet the facilities...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1647.17
  A violation of any provision of this article constitutes unprofessional conduct and is grounds for the revocation or suspension of the dentist's permit, certificate, license,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1647.18
  As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Adult patient" means a dental patient 13 years of age or older....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1647.19
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 1647.2, a dentist may not administer oral conscious sedation on an outpatient basis to an adult patient unless the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1647.20
  A dentist who desires to administer, or order the administration of, oral conscious sedation for adult patients, who does not hold a general anesthesia permit,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1647.21
  A certificate holder shall be required to complete a minimum of seven hours of approved courses of study related to oral conscious sedation of adult...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1647.22
  (a) A physical evaluation and medical history shall be taken before the administration of oral conscious sedation to an adult. Any dentist who administers, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1647.23
  The fee for an application for initial certification or renewal under this article shall not exceed the amount necessary to cover administration and enforcement costs...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1647.24
  Any office in which oral conscious sedation of adult patients is conducted pursuant to this article shall, unless otherwise provided by law, meet the facilities...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1647.25
  A violation of any provision of this article constitutes unprofessional conduct and is grounds for the revocation or suspension of the dentist's permit, certificate, license,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1647.26
  The sum of forty-seven thousand dollars ($47,000) is hereby appropriated for the 2005-06 fiscal year from the State Dentistry Fund to the Department of Consumer...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1648.10
  (a) The Board of Dental Examiners of California shall develop and distribute a fact sheet describing and comparing the risks and efficacy of the various...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1648.15
  The fact sheet set forth by Section 1648.10 shall be provided by a dentist to every new patient and to patients of record prior to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1648.20
  (a) This article shall not apply to any surgical, endodontic, periodontic, or orthodontic dental procedure in which dental restorative materials are not used. (b) For...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1650
  Every person who is now or hereafter licensed to practice dentistry in this state shall register on forms prescribed by the board, his or her...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1651
  Any dentist who removes his place of practice shall register each change made by him within one month after making said change. In the event...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1653
  The secretary shall issue a certificate of registration for each licentiate hereunder and for each office registered by such licentiate. The license and certificate may...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1654
  Any licensed person who shall change his or her name according to law shall, within 10 days after that change, reregister with the executive officer...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1655
  Any failure on the part of any person holding such license to register it as directed for a period of six months after its issuance...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1656
  On and after January 1, 1985, every dentist licensed to practice dentistry in the state and any person working in a dentist's office who operates...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1657
  (a) A licensed dentist may operate one mobile dental clinic or unit registered as a dental office or facility. The mobile dental clinic or unit...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1658
  (a) When a licensee desires to have more than one place of practice, he or she shall, prior to the opening of the additional office,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1658.1
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit a licensed dentist from maintaining more than one dental office in this state if all of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1658.2
  (a) "Additional place of practice," as used in this article, means any place of practice that increases the number of places of practice of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1658.3
  Nothing in this article shall limit or authorize the board to limit the number of additional places of practice authorized by the board, which are...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1658.4
  The transfer after October 1, 1961, of any additional office from one licentiate to another, other than as authorized by this article, shall terminate the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1658.5
  The transfer of the location of one additional office to a new location within the same county shall not be considered the establishment of a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1658.6
  Failure to comply with the provisions of this article relating to the operation of additional offices shall be a ground for the suspension or revocation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1658.7
  The board shall have the power to carry out the provisions of this article by uniform rules and regulations.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1658.8
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a licensed dentist may operate a mobile dental unit provided by his or her property and casualty insurer...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1670
  Any licentiate may have his license revoked or suspended or be reprimanded or be placed on probation by the board for unprofessional conduct, or incompetence,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1670.1
  (a) Any licentiate under this chapter may have his or her license revoked or suspended or be reprimanded or be placed on probation by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1670.2
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, any proceeding initiated by the board against a licensee for the violation of any provision of this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1671
  The board may discipline a licentiate by placing him or her on probation under various terms and conditions, which may include, but are not limited...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1672
  (a) When the board disciplines a licensee by placing him or her on probation, the board may, in addition to the terms and conditions described...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1678
  Upon the revocation of any license, the fact shall be noted upon the records of the board and the license shall be marked as canceled...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1680
  Unprofessional conduct by a person licensed under this chapter is defined as, but is not limited to, any one of the following: (a) The obtaining...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1681
  In addition to other acts constituting unprofessional conduct within the meaning of this chapter, it is unprofessional conduct for a person licensed under this chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1682
  In addition to other acts constituting unprofessional conduct under this chapter, it is unprofessional conduct for: (a) Any dentist performing dental procedures to have more...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1683
  (a) Every dentist, dental health professional, or other licensed health professional who performs a service on a patient in a dental office shall identify himself...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1684
  In addition to other acts constituting unprofessional conduct under this chapter, it is unprofessional conduct for a person licensed under this chapter to perform, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1684.1
  (a) (1) A licensee who fails or refuses to comply with a request for the dental records of a patient, that is accompanied by that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1684.5
  (a) In addition to other acts constituting unprofessional conduct under this chapter, it is unprofessional conduct for any dentist to perform or allow to be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1685
  In addition to other acts constituting unprofessional conduct under this chapter, it is unprofessional conduct for a person licensed under this chapter to require, either...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1686
  A person whose license, certificate, or permit has been revoked or suspended, who has been placed on probation, or whose license, certificate, or permit was...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1687
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, with regard to an individual who is required to register as a sex offender pursuant to Section 290...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1695
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the Board of Dental Examiners of California seek ways and means to identify and rehabilitate licentiates whose...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1695.1
  As used in this article: (a) "Board" means the Board of Dental Examiners of California. (b) "Committee" means a diversion evaluation committee created by this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1695.2
  One or more diversion evaluation committees is hereby created in the state to be established by the board. The board shall establish criteria for the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1695.3
  Each member of a committee shall receive per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1695.4
  The board shall administer the provisions of this article.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1695.5
  (a) The board shall establish criteria for the acceptance, denial, or termination of licentiates in a diversion program. Unless ordered by the board as a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1695.6
  A committee created under this article operates under the direction of the program manager. The program manager has the primary responsibility to review and evaluate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1696
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1697
  Each licentiate who requests participation in a diversion program shall agree to cooperate with the treatment program designed by the committee and approved by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1698
  (a) After the committee and the program manager in their discretion have determined that a licentiate has been rehabilitated and the diversion program is completed,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1699
  The board shall provide for the representation of any person making reports to a committee or the board under this article in any action for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1700
  Any person, company, or association is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not less...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1700.5
  Notwithstanding Section 1700, any person who holds a valid, unrevoked, and unsuspended certificate as a dentist under this chapter may append the letters "D.D.S." to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1701
  Any person is for the first offense guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punishable by a fine of not less than two hundred dollars...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1701.1
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 1700 and 1701, a person who willfully, under circumstances or conditions that cause or create risk of bodily harm, serious physical or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1701.5
  Any association or partnership or corporation or group of three or more dentists, engaging in practice under any name that would otherwise be in violation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1702
  Nothing in this article shall prohibit the conferring of degrees and the bestowing of diplomas by reputable dental colleges of this State which have been...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1703
  The board, or any member or officer thereof, may prefer a complaint for violation of this chapter, or any part thereof, before any court of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1705
  In addition to the other proceedings provided for in this chapter, the superior court of any county, on application of the board, shall issue an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1705.5
  Whenever any person has engaged or is about to engage in any acts or practices which constitute or will constitute an offense against this chapter,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1706
  (a) Every complete upper or lower denture fabricated by a licensed dentist, or fabricated pursuant to the dentist's work order, shall be marked with the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1715
  Licenses issued under the provisions of this chapter, unless specifically excepted, expire at 12 midnight on the legal birth date of a licentiate of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1715.1
  The provisions of Sections 1715, 1716, 1717, 1718, 1718.1, 1718.2, and 1718.3 shall also apply to and govern the expiration, renewal, restoration, reinstatement, and reissuance...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1715.5
  (a) A licensee shall, upon his or her initial licensure and any subsequent application for renewal, report the completion of any advanced educational program accredited...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1716
  Nothing contained in this chapter shall exempt from the payment of the renewal fee any person authorized to practice dentistry in the State of California,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1716.1
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 1716, the board may, by regulation, reduce the renewal fee for a licensee who has practiced dentistry for 20 years or more...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1717
  To renew an unexpired license, the licensee shall, before the time at which the license would otherwise expire, apply for renewal on a form prescribed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1718
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, an expired license may be renewed at any time within five years after its expiration on filing of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1718.1
  A suspended license is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article, but such renewal does not entitle the licensee, while...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1718.2
  A revoked license is subject to expiration as provided in this article, but it may not be renewed. If it is reinstated after its expiration,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1718.3
  (a) A license which is not renewed within five years after its expiration may not be renewed, restored, reinstated, or reissued thereafter, but the holder...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1719
  Upon collection by the proper officer of the court, 75 percent of the fines or forfeitures of bail in any case in which any person...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1720
  The executive officer shall on or before the 10th day of each month pay to the State Treasury and report to the Controller all fines,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1721
  Except as provided in Sections 1721.5, 1944, and 1945, all funds received by the Treasurer under the authority of this chapter shall be placed in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1721.5
  (a) All funds received by the Treasurer pursuant to Section 1725 shall be placed in the State Dental Assistant Fund for the purposes of administering...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1722
  The amount of seven hundred dollars ($700) of the fund shall constitute a revolving fund and may be drawn upon the warrant of the president...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1723
  All fines, penalties, and forfeitures, including the examination fee, imposed or collected by the board under any provision of this chapter shall be paid to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1724
  The amount of charges and fees for dentists licensed pursuant to this chapter shall be established by the board as is necessary for the purpose...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1724.5
  The amount of fees payable in connection with permits issued under Section 1701.5 is as follows: (a) The initial permit fee is an amount equal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1725
  The amount of the fees prescribed by this chapter that relate to the licensing and permitting of dental assistants shall be established by regulation and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1740
  It is the intention of the Legislature by enactment of this article to permit the full utilization of dental auxiliaries in order to meet the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1741
  As used in this article: (a) "Board" means the Dental Board of California. (b) "Direct supervision" means supervision of dental procedures based on instructions given...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1742
  (a) There is hereby created a Dental Assisting Council of the Dental Board of California, which shall consider all matters relating to dental assistants in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1743
  (a) The board shall have the following duties and authority related to applications: (1) Shall review and evaluate all applications for licensure in all dental...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1747
  The procedure on all matters relating to the denial, suspension, or revocation of licenses granted under this article shall be governed by the provisions of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1749.1
  In addition to any other examination required by this article, the board may require applicants for licensure under this article to successfully complete an examination...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1750
  (a) A dental assistant is an individual who, without a license, may perform basic supportive dental procedures, as authorized by Section 1750.1 and by regulations...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1750.1
  (a) A dental assistant may perform the following duties under the general supervision of a supervising licensed dentist: (1) Extra-oral duties or procedures specified by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1750.2
  (a) On and after January 1, 2010, the board may issue an orthodontic assistant permit to a person who files a completed application including a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1750.3
  A person holding an orthodontic assistant permit pursuant to Section 1750.2 may perform the following duties under the direct supervision of a licensed dentist: (a)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1750.4
  (a) On and after January 1, 2010, the board may issue a dental sedation assistant permit to a person who files a completed application including...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1750.5
  A person holding a dental sedation assistant permit pursuant to Section 1750.4 may perform the following duties under the direct supervision of a licensed dentist...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1751
  (a) At least once every seven years, the board shall review the allowable duties for dental assistants, registered dental assistants, registered dental assistants in extended...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1752.1
  (a) The board may license as a registered dental assistant a person who files an application and submits written evidence, satisfactory to the board, of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1752.3
  (a) On and after January 1, 2010, the written examination for registered dental assistant licensure required by Section 1752.1 shall comply with Section 139. (b)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1752.4
  (a) A registered dental assistant may perform all of the following duties: (1) All duties that a dental assistant is allowed to perform. (2) Mouth-mirror...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1752.6
  A registered dental assistant licensed on and after January 1, 2010, shall provide evidence of successful completion of a board-approved course in the application of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1753
  (a) On and after January 1, 2010, the board may license as a registered dental assistant in extended functions a person who submits written evidence,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1753.4
  On and after January 1, 2010, each applicant for licensure as a registered dental assistant in extended functions shall successfully complete an examination consisting of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1753.5
  (a) A registered dental assistant in extended functions licensed on or after January 1, 2010, is authorized to perform all duties and procedures that a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1753.6
  (a) Each person who holds a license as a registered dental assistant in extended functions on the operative date of this section may only perform...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1753.7
  (a) A licensed dentist may simultaneously utilize in his or her practice no more than three registered dental assistants in extended functions or registered dental...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1765
  No person other than a licensed dental hygienist or a licensed dentist may engage in the practice of dental hygiene or perform dental hygiene procedures...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1767
  The board shall adopt regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this article.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1771
  Any person, other than a person who has been issued a license or permit by the board, who holds himself or herself out as a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1772
  The board shall seek to obtain an injunction against any dental hygienist who provides services in alternative practice pursuant to Sections 1774 and 1775 if...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1773
  The provisions of Sections 1715, 1718, 1718.1, 1718.2, and 1718.3 shall govern the renewal, restoration, reinstatement, and reissuance of licenses issued under this article. The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1774
  (a) The board shall license as a registered dental hygienist in alternative practice a person who demonstrates satisfactory performance on an examination required by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1775
  (a) A registered dental hygienist in alternative practice may perform those preventive and therapeutic functions described in subdivision (a) of Section 1760, subdivision (a) of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1777
  While employed by or practicing in a primary care clinic or specialty clinic licensed pursuant to Section 1204 of the Health and Safety Code, in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1800
  A dental corporation is a corporation that is authorized to render professional services, as defined in Sections 13401 and 13401.5 of the Corporations Code, if...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1804
  Notwithstanding subdivision (i) of Section 1680 and subdivision (g) of Section 1701, the name of a dental corporation and any name or names under which...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1805
  Except as provided in Sections 13401.5 and 13403 of the Corporations Code, each director, shareholder, and officer of a dental corporation shall be a licensed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1806
  The income of a dental corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shareholder is a disqualified person (as defined in the Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1807
  A dental corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which or the failure to do which would constitute unprofessional...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1808
  The board may formulate and enforce rules and regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of this article and the Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation Act,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1900
  It is the intent of the Legislature by enactment of this article to permit the full utilization of registered dental hygienists, registered dental hygienists in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1901
  (a) There is hereby created within the jurisdiction of the Dental Board of California a Dental Hygiene Committee of California in which the administration of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1902
  For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) "Committee" means the Dental Hygiene Committee of California. (b) "Dental board" means the Dental Board...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1902.1
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the committee in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever the protection of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1903
  (a) (1) The committee shall consist of nine members appointed by the Governor. Four shall be public members, one member shall be a practicing general...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1904
  The committee shall meet at least two times each calendar year and shall conduct additional meetings in appropriate locations that are necessary to transact its
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1905
  (a) The committee shall perform the following functions: (1) Evaluate all registered dental hygienist, registered dental hygienist in alternative practice, and registered dental hygienist in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1905.1
  Until January 1, 2010, the committee may contract with the dental board to carry out any of the provisions of this article. On and after...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1905.2
  Recommendations by the committee regarding scope of practice issues, as specified in paragraph (8) of subdivision (a) of Section 1905, shall be approved, modified, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1906
  (a) The committee shall adopt, amend, and revoke regulations to implement the requirements of this article. (b) All regulations adopted by the committee shall comply...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1907
  The following functions may be performed by a registered dental hygienist, in addition to those authorized pursuant to Sections 1908 to 1914, inclusive: (a) All...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1908
  (a) The practice of dental hygiene includes dental hygiene assessment and development, planning, and implementation of a dental hygiene care plan. It also includes oral...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1909
  A registered dental hygienist is authorized to perform the following procedures under direct supervision of a licensed dentist, after submitting to the committee evidence of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1909.5
  Courses of instruction for direct supervision duties added to the scope of practice of dental hygiene on or after July 1, 2009, shall be submitted...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1910
  A registered dental hygienist is authorized to perform the following procedures under general supervision: (a) Preventive and therapeutic interventions, including oral prophylaxis, scaling, and root...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1911
  (a) A registered dental hygienist may provide, without supervision, educational services, oral health training programs, and oral health screenings. (b) A registered dental hygienist shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1912
  Any procedure performed or service provided by a registered dental hygienist that does not specifically require direct supervision shall require general supervision, so long as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1913
  Unless otherwise specified in this chapter, a registered dental hygienist may perform any procedure or provide any service within the scope of his or her...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1914
  A registered dental hygienist may use any material or device approved for use in the performance of a service or procedure within his or her...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1915
  No person other than a registered dental hygienist, registered dental hygienist in alternative functions, or registered dental hygienist in extended functions or a licensed dentist...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1916
  (a) An applicant for licensure under this article shall furnish electronic fingerprint images for submission to state and federal criminal justice agencies, including, but not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1917
  The committee shall grant initial licensure as a registered dental hygienist to a person who satisfies all of the following requirements: (a) Completion of an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1917.1
  (a) The committee may grant a license as a registered dental hygienist to an applicant who has not taken a clinical examination before the committee,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1917.2
  (a) The committee shall license as a registered dental hygienist a third- or fourth-year dental student who is in good standing at an accredited California...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1918
  The committee shall license as a registered dental hygienist in extended functions a person who meets all of the following requirements: (a) Holds a current...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1920
  (a) A person who holds a current and active license as a registered dental hygienist in extended functions or a registered dental hygienist in alternative...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1921
  In addition to any other duties or functions authorized by law, a registered dental hygienist in extended functions or a registered dental hygienist in alternative...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1922
  The committee shall license as a registered dental hygienist in alternative practice a person who demonstrates satisfactory performance on an examination in California law and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1924
  A person licensed as a registered dental hygienist who has completed the prescribed classes through the Health Manpower Pilot Project (HMPP) and who has established...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1925
  A registered dental hygienist in alternative practice may practice, pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1907, subdivision (a) of Section 1908, and subdivisions (a) and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1926
  A registered dental hygienist in alternative practice may perform the duties authorized pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1907, subdivision (a) of Section 1908, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1927
  A registered dental hygienist in alternative practice shall not do any of the following: (a) Infer, purport, advertise, or imply that he or she is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1928
  A registered dental hygienist in alternative practice may submit or allow to be submitted any insurance or third-party claims for patient services performed as authorized...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1929
  (a) A registered dental hygienist in alternative practice may hire other registered dental hygienists in alternative practice to assist in his or her practice. (b)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1930
  A registered dental hygienist in alternative practice shall provide to the committee documentation of an existing relationship with at least one dentist for referral, consultation,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1931
  (a) (1) A dental hygienist in alternative practice may provide services to a patient without obtaining written verification that the patient has been examined by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1932
  (a) The committee may, in its sole discretion, issue a probationary license to an applicant who has satisfied all requirements for licensure as a registered...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1933
  A licensee shall be issued a substitute license upon request and payment of the required fee. The request shall be accompanied by an affidavit or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1934
  A licensee who changes his or her address of record shall notify the committee within 30 days of the change. A licensee who changes his...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1935
  If not renewed, a license issued under the provisions of this article, unless specifically excepted, expires at 12 midnight on the last day of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1936
  Except as otherwise provided in this article, an expired license may be renewed at any time within five years after its expiration by filing an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1936.1
  (a) If the committee determines that the public health and safety would be served by requiring all holders of licenses under this article to continue...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1937
  A suspended license is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article. The renewal does not entitle the licensee, while the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1938
  A revoked license is subject to expiration as provided in this article. A revoked license may not be renewed. If it is reinstated after its...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1939
  A license that is not renewed within five years after its expiration may not be renewed, restored, reinstated, or reissued. The holder of the license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1940
  (a) A licensee who desires an inactive license shall submit an application to the committee on a form provided by the committee. (b) In order...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1941
  It is the intent of this article that the committee grant or renew approval of only those educational programs for a registered dental hygienist, a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1943
  (a) The committee may deny an application to take an examination for licensure as a registered dental hygienist, a registered dental hygienist in alternative practice,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1944
  (a) The committee shall establish by resolution the amount of the fees that relate to the licensing of a registered dental hygienist, a registered dental...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1947
  A license issued under this article and a license issued under this chapter to a registered dental hygienist, to a registered dental hygienist in alternative...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1949
  A licensee may have his or her license revoked or suspended, or may be reprimanded or placed on probation by the committee for unprofessional conduct,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1950
  (a) A licensee may have his or her license revoked or suspended, or may be reprimanded or placed on probation by the committee, for conviction...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1950.5
  Unprofessional conduct by a person licensed under this article is defined as, but is not limited to, any one of the following: (a) The obtaining...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1951
  The committee may discipline a licensee by placing him or her on probation under various terms and conditions that may include, but are not limited...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1952
  It is unprofessional conduct for a person licensed under this article to do any of the following: (a) Obtain or possess in violation of law,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1953
  (a) A registered dental hygienist, registered dental hygienist in alternative practice, or registered dental hygienist in extended functions who performs a service on a patient...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1954
  (a) It is unprofessional conduct for a person licensed under this article to perform, or hold himself or herself out as able to perform, professional...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1955
  (a) (1) A licensee who fails or refuses to comply with a request for a patient's dental or dental hygiene records that is accompanied by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1956
  It is unprofessional conduct for a person licensed under this article to require, either directly or through an office policy, or knowingly permit the delivery...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1957
  (a) A person whose license has been revoked or suspended, who has been placed on probation, or whose license was surrendered pursuant to a stipulated...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1958
  A person, company, or association is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail not less than...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1959
  A person who holds a valid, unrevoked, and unsuspended license as a registered dental hygienist, registered dental hygienist in alternative practice, or registered dental hygienist...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1960
  For the first offense, a person is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punishable by a fine of not less than two hundred dollars...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1961
  A person who willfully, under circumstances that cause risk of bodily harm, serious physical or mental illness, or death, practices, attempts to practice, advertises, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1962
  (a) An association, partnership, corporation, or group of three or more registered dental hygienists in alternative practice engaging in practice under a name that would...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1963
  The committee may file a complaint for violation of any part of this article with any court of competent jurisdiction and may, by its officers,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1964
  In addition to the other proceedings provided for in this article, on application of the committee, the superior court of any county shall issue an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1965
  If a person has engaged in or is about to engage in an act that constitutes an offense against this chapter, the superior court of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1966
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the committee seek ways and means to identify and rehabilitate licensees whose competency may be impaired...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1966.1
  (a) The committee shall establish criteria for the acceptance, denial, or termination of licensees in a diversion program. Unless ordered by the committee as a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1966.2
  Each diversion evaluation committee shall have the following duties and responsibilities: (a) To evaluate those licensees who request to participate in the diversion program according...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1966.3
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1966.4
  Each licensee who requests participation in a diversion program shall agree to cooperate with the treatment program designed by a diversion evaluation committee and to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1966.5
  (a) After a diversion evaluation committee, in its discretion, has determined that a licensee has been rehabilitated and the diversion program is completed, the diversion...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1966.6
  The committee shall provide for the representation of any person making reports to a diversion evaluation committee or the committee under this article in any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1970
  There is hereby established in the Dental Board of California the Dental Corps Loan Repayment Program of 2002, which shall become operative on January 1,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1970.5
  It is the intent of the this article that the Dental Board of California, in consultation with the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1971
  For the purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Board" means the Dental Board of California. (b) "Office" means the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1972
  (a) Program applicants shall possess a current valid license to practice dentistry in this state issued by the board pursuant to Section 1626. (b) The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1973
  (a) The Dentally Underserved Account is hereby created in the State Dentistry Fund. (b) The sum of three million dollars ($3,000,000) is hereby authorized to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1975
  The terms of loan repayment granted under this article shall be as follows: (a) After a program participant has completed one year of providing services...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1976
  (a) On January 1, 2003, applications from dentists for program participation may be submitted. (b) The board shall report to the Legislature, no later than...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2000
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Medical Practice Act. Whenever a reference is made to the Medical Practice Act by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2001
  (a) There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs a Medical Board of California that consists of 15 members, seven of whom shall be public...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2001.1
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Medical Board of California in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2002
  Unless otherwise expressly provided, the term "board" as used in this chapter means the Medical Board of California. As used in this chapter or any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2004
  The board shall have the responsibility for the following: (a) The enforcement of the disciplinary and criminal provisions of the Medical Practice Act. (b) The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2006
  (a) Any reference in this chapter to an investigation by the board shall be deemed to refer to a joint investigation conducted by employees of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2007
  Members of the board shall only be appointed from persons who have been citizens of this state for at least five years next preceding their...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2008
  The board may appoint panels from its members for the purpose of fulfilling the obligations established in subdivision (c) of Section 2004. Any panel appointed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2010
  Each member of the board shall be appointed for a term of four years. Vacancies occuring on the board shall be filled by appointment of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2011
  The appointing power may remove any member of the board for neglect of duty required by this chapter, incompetency, or unprofessional conduct.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2012
  The board shall elect a president, a vice president, and a secretary from its members.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2013
  (a) The board and a panel appointed under this chapter may convene from time to time as deemed necessary by the board. (b) Four members...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2014
  Notice of each meeting of the board shall be given in accordance with the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2015
  The president of the board may call meetings of any duly appointed and created committee or panel of the board at a specified time and
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2015.5
  The board may establish advisory committees consisting of persons who have a physician's and surgeon's certificate issued by the board that is in good standing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2016
  Each member of the board and its committees shall receive per diem and travel expenses as provided in Section 103.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2017
  The board and each committee or panel shall keep an official record of all their proceedings.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2018
  The board may adopt, amend, or repeal, in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, those regulations as may be necessary to enable...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2019
  The office of the board shall be in the City of Sacramento. Suboffices may be established in the Cities of Los Angeles, San Diego, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2020
  (a) The board may employ an executive director exempt from the provisions of the Civil Service Act and may also employ investigators, legal counsel, medical...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2021
  (a) If the board publishes a directory pursuant to Section 112, it may require persons licensed pursuant to this chapter to furnish any information as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2022
  The directory shall be prima facie evidence of the authority of the persons named therein to practice under this act, unless such authority has been...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2023
  (a) The board, in conjunction with the Health Professions Education Foundation, shall study the issue of its providing medical malpractice insurance to physicians and surgeons...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2023.5
  (a) The board, in conjunction with the Board of Registered Nursing, and in consultation with the Physician Assistant Committee and professionals in the field, shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2024
  (a) The board may select and contract with necessary medical consultants who are licensed physicians and surgeons to assist it in its programs. Subject to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2025
  The board through its regular mailing shall notify all licensees of the existence of pain management guidelines published by the Agency for Health Care Policy...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2027
  (a) The board shall post on the Internet the following information in its possession, custody, or control regarding licensed physicians and surgeons: (1) With regard...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2028
  (a) The Medical Board of California shall consult with the California State Board of Pharmacy and commission a study and report its results to the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2028.5
  (a) The board may establish a pilot program to expand the practice of telemedicine in this state. (b) To implement this pilot program, the board...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2029
  The board shall keep a copy of a complaint it receives regarding the poor quality of care rendered by a licensee for 10 years from...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2030
  The provisions of this chapter insofar as they are substantially the same as provisions relating to the same subject matter of previous medical practice acts...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2031
  The rights given by any certificate issued under any preceding medical practice act are not affected by the enactment of this chapter, nor by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2032
  "Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, or other organization, or any combination thereof, except that only natural persons shall be licensed under...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2033
  "Professional" relates to the art and science of medicine and surgery and to such other arts and sciences as may be included within the field...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2034
  "Medical licensing authority" refers to any officer, board, commission, or department of another state upon whose certificate a reciprocity certificate may be issued.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2036
  Whenever a course of instruction is required for any certificate, it shall be satisfied by a resident course of medical instruction. Whenever a resident course...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2037
  Whenever any requirement is provided for any certificate relating to a medical school or hospital, or any reference is made to a medical school or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2038
  Whenever the words "diagnose" or "diagnosis" are used in this chapter, they include any undertaking by any method, device, or procedure whatsoever, and whether gratuitous...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2039
  All certificates issued by the board shall state the extent and character of the practice which is permitted.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2040
  The terms "license" and "certificate" as used in this chapter are deemed to be synonomous.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2041
  The term "licensee" as used in this chapter means the holder of a physician's and surgeon's certificate or doctor of podiatric medicine's certificate, as the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2050
  The Division of Licensing shall issue one form of certificate to all physicians and surgeons licensed by the board which shall be designated as a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2051
  The physician's and surgeon's certificate authorizes the holder to use drugs or devices in or upon human beings and to sever or penetrate the tissues...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2052
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 146, any person who practices or attempts to practice, or who advertises or holds himself or herself out as practicing, any system...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2052.5
  (a) The proposed registration program developed pursuant to subdivision (b) shall provide that, for purposes of the proposed registration program: (1) A physician and surgeon...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2053.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person who complies with the requirements of Section 2053.6 shall not be in violation of Section 2051...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2053.6
  (a) A person who provides services pursuant to Section 2053.5 that are not unlawful under Section 2051 or 2052 shall, prior to providing those services,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2054
  (a) Any person who uses in any sign, business card, or letterhead, or, in an advertisement, the words "doctor" or "physician," the letters or prefix...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2055
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person issued a physician's and surgeon's certificate by the Medical Board of California pursuant to the provisions of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2056
  (a) The purpose of this section is to provide protection against retaliation for physicians who advocate for medically appropriate health care for their patients pursuant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2056.1
  (a) The purpose of this section is to ensure that health care service plans and their contracting entities do not enter into contracts with physicians...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2058
  (a) Nothing in this chapter prohibits service in the case of emergency, or the domestic administration of family remedies. (b) Nothing in this chapter shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2060
  Nothing in this chapter applies to any practitioner located outside this state, when in actual consultation, whether within this state or across state lines, with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2061
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as limiting the practice of other persons licensed, certified, or registered under any other provision of law relating...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2062
  Testing and guidance programs in schools, colleges, and universities and physical fitness tests given by public and private agencies in connection with employment or issuance...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2063
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed so as to discriminate against any particular school of medicine or surgery, school or college of podiatric medicine,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2064
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent a regularly matriculated student undertaking a course of professional instruction in an approved medical school, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2064.1
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2064 or any other provisions of this chapter, a regularly matriculated student undertaking a course of professional instruction in a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2064.2
  No medical school or clinical training program shall deny access to elective clerkships or preceptorships in any medical school or clinical training program in this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2065
  Unless otherwise provided by law, no postgraduate trainee, intern, resident, postdoctoral fellow, or instructor may engage in the practice of medicine, or receive compensation therefor,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2066
  (a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit a foreign medical graduate from engaging in the practice of medicine whenever and wherever required...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2067
  An applicant for a physician's and surgeon's certificate who is found by the Division of Licensing to be deficient in the education and clinical instruction...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2068
  This chapter shall not be construed to prohibit any person from providing nutritional advice or giving advice concerning proper nutrition. However, this section confers no...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2069
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a medical assistant may administer medication only by intradermal, subcutaneous, or intramuscular injections and perform skin tests...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2070
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a medical assistant may perform venipuncture or skin puncture for the purposes of withdrawing blood upon specific authorization and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2071
  The Division of Licensing shall adopt and administer regulations that establish standards for technical supportive services that may be performed by a medical assistant. Nothing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2072
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law and subject to the provisions of the State Civil Service Act, any person who is licensed to practice medicine...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2073
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person who is licensed to practice medicine in any other state who meets the requirements for application set...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2074
  Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit the employment of a licensed physician and surgeon practicing in the specialty of ophthalmology by an optometrist licensed under...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2075
  The performance of acupuncture by a certified acupuncturist or other licentiate legally authorized to practice acupuncture within his or her scope of practice or a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2076
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a physician and surgeon who is licensed to practice medicine in another state or country shall be exempt...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2076.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a physician and surgeon lawfully practicing medicine in another state or country may be exempted from licensure while...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2077
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a physician and surgeon may delegate various orthopaedic medical tasks to individuals who have completed training as orthopaedic...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2078
  (a) As used in this section, "DMSO" means dimethyl sulfoxide. (b) A licensed physician and surgeon shall, prior to treating a patient with a DMSO...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2079
  (a) A physician and surgeon who desires to administer general anesthesia in the office of a dentist pursuant to Section 1646.9, shall provide the Medical...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2080
  (a) Except as otherwise provided, the provisions of this article applicable to applications generally shall apply to all certificates issued. (b) Every applicant for a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2081
  Each application shall be made upon a form provided by the Division of Licensing, and each application form shall contain a legal verification to be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2082
  Each application shall include the following: (a) A diploma issued by an approved medical school. The requirements of the school shall have been at the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2083
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), each application for a certificate shall be accompanied by the fee required by this chapter and shall be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2084
  The Division of Licensing may approve every school which substantially complies with the requirements of this chapter for resident courses of professional instruction. Graduates of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2085
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 2084, a graduate of an approved medical school located in the United States or Canada who has graduated from a special medical...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2086
  The Division of Licensing may utilize medical consultants and investigators employed by the board pursuant to Section 2020 to evaluate the curricula of medical schools....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2087
  If any medical school is not approved by the Division of Licensing or any applicant for licensure is rejected by it, then the school or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2088
  (a) An applicant for a physician's and surgeon's license who is otherwise eligible for that license but is unable to practice some aspects of medicine...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2089
  (a) Each applicant for a physician's and surgeon's certificate shall show by official transcript or other official evidence satisfactory to the Division of Licensing that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2089.5
  (a) Clinical instruction in the subjects listed in subdivision (b) of Section 2089 shall meet the requirements of this section and shall be considered adequate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2089.7
  (a) The requirement of four weeks of clinical course instruction in family medicine shall apply only to those applicants for licensure who graduate from medical...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2090
  "Human sexuality" as used in Sections 2089 and 2191 means the study of a human being as a sexual being and how he or she...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2091
  The requirement that instruction in child abuse detection and treatment be provided shall apply only to applicants who matriculate on or after September 1, 1979.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2091.1
  The requirement that instruction in alcoholism and other chemical substance dependency be provided applies only to applicants who matriculate on or after September 1, 1985.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2091.2
  The requirements that instruction in spousal or partner abuse detection and treatment be provided shall apply only to applicants who matriculate on or after September...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2096
  (a) In addition to other requirements of this chapter, before a physician's and surgeon's license may be issued, each applicant, including an applicant applying pursuant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2099
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the Division of Licensing may delegate to any member of the division its authority to approve the admission...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2099.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an originating license for an osteopathic physician's and surgeon's certificate issued by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2100
  The provisions of this article shall apply to all applications of graduates of medical schools located outside the United States or Canada. Such applicants shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2102
  An applicant whose professional instruction was acquired in a country other than the United States or Canada shall provide evidence satisfactory to the board of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2103
  An applicant who is a citizen of the United States shall be eligible for a physician's and surgeon's certificate if he or she has completed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2104
  The Division of Licensing shall approve programs of supervised clinical training in hospitals for the purpose of providing basic clinical training to students who are...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2104.5
  The board, in consultation with various medical schools located in California, the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, and executive directors and medical directors...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2105
  No hospital licensed by this state, or operated by the state or a political subdivision thereof, or which receives state financial assistance, directly or indirectly,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2107
  (a) The Legislature intends that the board shall have the authority to substitute postgraduate education and training to remedy deficiencies in an applicant's medical school...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2111
  (a) Physicians who are not citizens but who meet the requirements of subdivision (b), are legally admitted to the United States, and who seek postgraduate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2112
  (a) Physicians who are not citizens but are legally admitted to the United States and who seek postgraduate study, may, after application to and approval...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2113
  (a) Any person who does not immediately qualify for a physician's and surgeon's certificate under this chapter and who is offered by the dean of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2115
  (a) Physicians who are not citizens but are legally admitted to the United States and who seek postgraduate study may, after application to and approval...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2135
  The board shall issue a physician and surgeon's certificate to an applicant who meets all of the following requirements: (a) The applicant holds an unlimited...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2135.5
  Upon review and recommendation, the Division of Licensing may determine that an applicant for a physician's and surgeon's certificate has satisfied the medical curriculum requirements...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2141
  (a) An applicant under this article shall file a verified application on a form furnished by the Division of Licensing. (b) Each application shall include...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2143
  An applicant for a reciprocity certificate need not have completed the first year of postgraduate training required in Section 2096 prior to the issuance of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2144
  The Division of Licensing may make an independent investigation of the educational qualifications and the ability and standing of the applicant. If, after this investigation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2151
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Division of Licensing may issue a physician and surgeon's certificate to a diplomate of the National Board of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2153
  In addition to the requirements of Section 164, a certificate issued under this article shall include in its description the basis upon which the certificate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2153.5
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the Osteopathic Medical Board of California shall issue an osteopathic physician's and surgeon's certificate on reciprocity to an applicant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2155
  For the purposes of this article: (a) "Division" means the Division of Licensing. (b) "The practice of medicine" means all activities authorized by a physician's...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2160
  The interest to be paid shall be two percentage points less than the authorized interest rate on California Water Bonds at the time of the
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2163
  The loan shall be repayable to the Contingent Fund of the Medical Board of California in equal or graduated periodic installments, according to a schedule...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2164
  Where any borrower who has obtained one or more loans under this article engages in the practice of medicine in an area deficient in physician...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2166
  The liability to repay the unpaid balance of the loan and accrued interest thereon shall be cancelled upon the death of the borrower, or if...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2167
  The division may assess a charge with respect to a loan made under this article for failure of the borrower to pay all or part...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2168
  (a) A special faculty permit authorizes the holder to practice medicine only within the medical school itself and any affiliated institution in which the permitholder...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2168.1
  (a) Any person who meets all of the following eligibility requirements may apply for a special faculty permit: (1) Is academically eminent. For purposes of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2168.2
  An application for a special faculty permit shall be made on a form prescribed by the Division of Licensing and shall include any information that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2168.3
  A special faculty permit may be denied, suspended, or revoked for any violation that would be grounds for denial, suspension, or revocation of a physician...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2168.4
  (a) A special faculty permit expires and becomes invalid at midnight on the last day of the permitholder's birth month during the second year of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2168.5
  The Medical Board of California shall report to the Legislature by December 31, 2011, on the status of the special faculty permit program.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2169
  A person who holds a special faculty permit shall meet the continuing medical education requirements set forth in Article 10 (commencing with Section 2190).
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2170
  (a) All applicants for a physician's and surgeon's certificate shall take the examination provided for in this article unless provisions of this chapter otherwise provide....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2171
  All examinations shall be designed to ascertain the applicant' s fitness to practice medicine. Unless otherwise provided the examination shall be in writing.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2175
  State examination records shall be kept on file by the board until June 1, 2070. Examinees shall be known and designated by number only, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2176
  Examinations for a physician's and surgeon's certificate may be conducted by the Division of Licensing under a uniform examination system, and for that purpose the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2177
  (a) A passing score is required for an entire examination or for each part of an examination, as established by resolution of the board. (b)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2179
  The Division of Licensing shall insure that nutrition is included on the examination for a certificate as a physician and surgeon.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2183
  An applicant for a physician's and surgeon's certificate shall pass the national examination for medical licensure in biomedical sciences and clinical sciences, including geriatric medicine,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2184
  (a) Each applicant shall obtain on the written examination a passing score, established by the board pursuant to Section 2177. (b) (1) Passing scores on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2186
  An applicant who is a diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners shall not be required to take the written examination prescribed by this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2190
  In order to ensure the continuing competence of licensed physicians and surgeons, the board shall adopt and administer standards for the continuing education of those...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2190.1
  (a) The continuing medical education standards of Section 2190 may be met by educational activities that meet the standards of the Division of Licensing and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2190.2
  The Division of Licensing shall establish criteria that providers of continuing medical education shall follow to ensure attendance by licensees throughout the entire course.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2190.3
  All general internists and family physicians who have a patient population of which over 25 percent are 65 years of age or older shall complete...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2190.5
  (a) All physicians and surgeons shall complete a mandatory continuing education course in the subjects of pain management and the treatment of terminally ill and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2191
  (a) In determining its continuing education requirements, the Division of Licensing shall consider including a course in human sexuality as defined in Section 2090 and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2191.1
  The Division of Licensing shall encourage every physician and surgeon to take a course in pharmacology and pharmaceuticals as part of his or her continuing
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2191.2
  The division shall encourage every physician and surgeon to take a course in geriatric medicine, including geriatric pharmacology, as part of his or her continuing
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2196
  The board shall periodically develop and disseminate information and educational material regarding the detection and treatment of child abuse and neglect to each licensed physician...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2196.1
  The board shall periodically develop and disseminate information and educational material regarding the detection and treatment of elder abuse and neglect to each licensed physician...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2196.2
  The board shall periodically develop and disseminate information and educational material regarding pain management techniques and procedures to each licensed physician and surgeon and to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2196.5
  The board shall periodically disseminate information and educational material regarding the detection and treatment of spousal or partner abuse to each licensed physician and surgeon...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2196.6
  The board shall periodically disseminate information and educational material regarding the prevention and treatment of chronic disease by the application of changes in nutrition and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2196.7
  The board shall convene a working group of interested parties to discuss nutrition and lifestyle behavior for the prevention and treatment of chronic disease at...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2198
  (a) This article shall be known and may be cited as the Cultural and Linguistic Competency of Physicians Act of 2003. The cultural and linguistic...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2198.1
  For purposes of this article, "cultural and linguistic competency" means cultural and linguistic abilities that can be incorporated into therapeutic and medical evaluation and treatment,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2200
  California is currently experiencing a geographical and specialty maldistribution of physicians and surgeons. It is the intent of the Legislature to address these problems by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2201
  For the purposes of this article: (a) "Commission" means the California Healthcare Workforce Policy Commission. (b) "Division" means the Division of Licensing of the Medical...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2202
  The division shall administer the loan program to licensed physicians and surgeons.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2204
  No licensed physician and surgeon shall be awarded a loan under this article unless he or she meets the following requirements: (a) The applicant is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2205
  Applications for loans shall be made to the division, upon forms provided by it, at the times and in the manner prescribed by the regulations...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2206
  The division shall award loans on the basis of local need and those areas of the state which are deficient in primary care services, as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2208
  Loans made pursuant to this article shall be repayable to the Contingent Fund of the Medical Board of California or cancelled under the following conditions:...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2209
  The liability to repay the loan shall be cancelled upon the death of the borrower, or if the division determines that he or she has...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2210
  (a) In addition to the principal of the loan, interest shall accrue on the principal of all loans made at a rate which shall be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2212
  The division may assess a charge with respect to a loan made under this article for failure of the borrower to pay all or part...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2213
  The commission shall, under the provisions of this article, make a determination in priority as to which areas of the state are deficient in primary...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2215
  The Legislature finds and declares that in this state, significant surgeries are being performed in unregulated out-of-hospital settings. The Legislature further finds and declares that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2216
  On or after July 1, 1996, no physician and surgeon shall perform procedures in an outpatient setting using anesthesia, except local anesthesia or peripheral nerve...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2216.1
  On and after July 1, 2000, it is unprofessional conduct for a physician and surgeon to perform procedures in any outpatient setting except in compliance...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2216.2
  (a) It is unprofessional conduct for a physician and surgeon to fail to provide adequate security by liability insurance, or by participation in an interindemnity...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2217
  The Division of Licensing of the Medical Board of California may adopt regulations to implement this article and Chapter 1.3 (commencing with Section 1248) of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2220
  Except as otherwise provided by law, the board may take action against all persons guilty of violating this chapter. The board shall enforce and administer...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2220.05
  (a) In order to ensure that its resources are maximized for the protection of the public, the Medical Board of California shall prioritize its investigative...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2220.08
  (a) Except for reports received by the board pursuant to Section 805 that may be treated as complaints by the board and new complaints relating...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2220.5
  (a) The Medical Board of California is the only licensing board that is authorized to investigate or commence disciplinary actions relating to physicians and surgeons...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2220.6
  The board shall investigate any licensee against whom an information or indictment has been filed that alleges a violation of Section 550 of the Penal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2220.7
  (a) A physician and surgeon shall not include or permit to be included any of the following provisions in an agreement to settle a civil...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2221
  (a) The board may deny a physician's and surgeon's certificate to an applicant guilty of unprofessional conduct or of any cause that would subject a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2221.05
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 2221, the board may issue a physician's and surgeon's certificate to an applicant who has committed minor violations that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2221.1
  (a) The board and the Board of Podiatric Medicine shall investigate and may take disciplinary action, including, but not limited to, revocation or suspension of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2222
  The California Board of Podiatric Medicine shall enforce and administer this article as to doctors of podiatric medicine. Any acts of unprofessional conduct or other...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2224
  (a) The board may delegate the authority under this chapter to conduct investigations and inspections and to institute proceedings to the executive director of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2225
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 2263 and any other provision of law making a communication between a physician and surgeon or a doctor of podiatric medicine and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2225.3
  The board, the California Board of Podiatric Medicine, and the Attorney General, shall return any original documents received pursuant to Section 2225 to the licensee...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2225.5
  (a) (1) A licensee who fails or refuses to comply with a request for the certified medical records of a patient, that is accompanied by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2226
  The Division of Medical Quality or the Senior Assistant Attorney General of the Health Quality Enforcement Section may inspect a licensed general or specialized hospital...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2227
  (a) A licensee whose matter has been heard by an administrative law judge of the Medical Quality Hearing Panel as designated in Section 11371 of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2227.5
  The board shall keep a copy of a complaint it receives concerning the unprofessional conduct of a licensee for seven years or until the statute...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2228
  The authority of the board or the California Board of Podiatric Medicine to discipline a licensee by placing him or her on probation includes, but...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2229
  (a) Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Division of Medical Quality, the California Board of Podiatric Medicine, and administrative law...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2230
  (a) All proceedings against a licensee for unprofessional conduct, or against an applicant for licensure for unprofessional conduct or cause, shall be conducted in accordance...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2230.5
  (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b), (c), and (e), any accusation filed against a licensee pursuant to Section 11503 of the Government Code shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2231
  An administrative law judge as designated in Section 11371 of the Government Code may utilize the procedures in Section 11515 of the Government Code concerning...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2232
  (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b), (c), and (d), the board shall promptly revoke the license of any person who, at any time after...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2233
  The board may, by stipulation or settlement with the affected physician and surgeon, issue a public letter of reprimand after it has conducted an investigation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2234
  The board shall take action against any licensee who is charged with unprofessional conduct. In addition to other provisions of this article, unprofessional conduct includes,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2234.1
  (a) A physician and surgeon shall not be subject to discipline pursuant to subdivision (b), (c), or (d) of Section 2234 solely on the basis...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2235
  Upon referral from the division, the Senior Assistant Attorney General of the Health Quality Enforcement Section shall initiate action against any licensee who obtains a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2236
  (a) The conviction of any offense substantially related to the qualifications, functions, or duties of a physician and surgeon constitutes unprofessional conduct within the meaning...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2236.1
  (a) A physician and surgeon's certificate shall be suspended automatically during any time that the holder of the certificate is incarcerated after conviction of a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2236.2
  (a) Notwithstanding Article 9 (commencing with Section 700) of Chapter 1 of Division 2 or any other provision of law, a physician and surgeon's certificate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2237
  (a) The conviction of a charge of violating any federal statutes or regulations or any statute or regulation of this state, regulating dangerous drugs or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2238
  A violation of any federal statute or federal regulation or any of the statutes or regulations of this state regulating dangerous drugs or controlled substances...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2239
  (a) The use or prescribing for or administering to himself or herself, of any controlled substance; or the use of any of the dangerous drugs...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2240
  (a) Any physician and surgeon who performs a scheduled medical procedure outside of a general acute care hospital, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2241
  (a) A physician and surgeon may prescribe, dispense, or administer prescription drugs, including prescription controlled substances, to an addict under his or her treatment for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2241.3
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, nothing shall preclude a physician and surgeon from prescribing the use of a phototherapy device to a patient of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2241.5
  (a) A physician and surgeon may prescribe for, or dispense or administer to, a person under his or her treatment for a medical condition dangerous...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2241.6
  The Division of Medical Quality shall develop standards before June 1, 2002, to assure the competent review in cases concerning the management, including, but not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2242
  (a) Prescribing, dispensing, or furnishing dangerous drugs as defined in Section 4022 without an appropriate prior examination and a medical indication, constitutes unprofessional conduct. (b)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2242.1
  (a) No person or entity may prescribe, dispense, or furnish, or cause to be prescribed, dispensed, or furnished, dangerous drugs or dangerous devices, as defined...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2243
  Upon referral by the National Health Services Corps to the Attorney General of the United States of any physician or surgeon who fails to provide...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2244
  A physician and surgeon who collects biological specimens for clinical testing or examination shall secure or ensure that his or her employees, agents, or contractors...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2246
  Any proposed decision or decision issued under this article that contains any finding of fact that the licensee engaged in any act of sexual exploitation,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2247
  (a) A licensee shall meet the requirements set forth in subdivision (f) of Section 1031 of the Government Code prior to performing either of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2248
  This section shall be known as, and may be cited as, the Grant H. Kenyon Prostate Cancer Detection Act. (a) If a physician and surgeon,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2248.5
  (a) A standardized written summary in layman's language and in a language understood by patients shall be approved by the State Department of Health Services....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2249
  (a) A physician and surgeon primarily responsible for providing a patient an annual gynecological examination shall provide that patient during the annual examination in layperson's...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2250
  The willful failure to comply with the requirements of Article 6 (commencing with Section 14191) of Chapter 7 of Part 3 of Division 9 of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2251
  The prescribing, dispensing, administering, or furnishing of liquid silicone for the purpose of injecting such substance into a human breast or mammary constitutes unprofessional conduct.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2252
  The violation of Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 109250) of Part 4 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code, or any violation of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2253
  (a) Failure to comply with the Reproductive Privacy Act (Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 123460) of Chapter 2 of Part 2 of Division 106 of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2254
  The violation of Section 123440 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to research on aborted products of human conception, constitutes unprofessional conduct.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2255
  The violation of any provision of Chapter 2.3 (commencing with Section 1400) of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to the unlawful...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2256
  Any intentional violation of Sections 5326.2 to 5326.8, inclusive, of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to the rights of involuntarily confined inpatients, constitutes unprofessional
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2257
  The violation of Section 109275 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to informed consent for the treatment of breast cancer, constitutes unprofessional conduct.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2258
  The violation of Section 1708.5 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to the use of laetrile or amygdalin with respect to cancer therapy, constitutes...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2259
  (a) A physician and surgeon shall give each patient a copy of the standardized written summary, as developed pursuant to subdivision (e), describing silicone implants...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2259.5
  (a) A physician and surgeon shall give each patient a copy of the standardized written summary, as developed pursuant to subdivision (e), describing collagen injections...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2259.7
  The Medical Board of California shall adopt extraction and postoperative care standards in regard to body liposuction procedures performed by a physician and surgeon outside...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2259.8
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an elective cosmetic surgery procedure may not be performed on a patient unless the patient has received, within...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2260
  (a) A physician and surgeon who removes sperm or ova from a patient shall, before the sperm or ova are used for a purpose other...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2260.5
  A violation of Section 24185 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to human cloning, constitutes unprofessional conduct.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2261
  Knowingly making or signing any certificate or other document directly or indirectly related to the practice of medicine or podiatry which falsely represents the existence...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2262
  Altering or modifying the medical record of any person, with fraudulent intent, or creating any false medical record, with fraudulent intent, constitutes unprofessional conduct. In...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2263
  The willful, unauthorized violation of professional confidence constitutes unprofessional conduct.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2264
  The employing, directly or indirectly, the aiding, or the abetting of any unlicensed person or any suspended, revoked, or unlicensed practitioner to engage in the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2266
  The failure of a physician and surgeon to maintain adequate and accurate records relating to the provision of services to their patients constitutes unprofessional conduct.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2271
  Any advertising in violation of Section 17500, relating to false or misleading advertising, constitutes unprofessional conduct.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2272
  Any advertising of the practice of medicine in which the licensee fails to use his or her own name or approved fictitious name constitutes unprofessional
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2273
  (a) Except as otherwise allowed by law, the employment of runners, cappers, steerers, or other persons to procure patients constitutes unprofessional conduct. (b) A licensee...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2274
  (a) The use by any licensee of any certificate, of any letter, letters, word, words, term, or terms either as a prefix, affix, or suffix...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2275
  Any person who held a physician's and surgeon's certificate under the jurisdiction of the Osteopathic Medical Board of California and a degree of doctor of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2276
  Unless the holder of any certificate provided for in this chapter has been granted the degree of doctor of osteopathy after the completion of a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2277
  Unless the holder of any certificate provided for in this chapter has been granted the degree of doctor of podiatric medicine after the completion of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2278
  Unless a person authorized under this chapter to use the title "doctor" or the letters or prefix "Dr." holds a physician's and surgeon's certificate, the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2280
  No licensee shall practice medicine while under the influence of any narcotic drug or alcohol to such an extent as to impair his or her...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2281
  A physician and surgeon or a student undertaking a course of professional instruction or a clinical training program, may not perform a pelvic examination on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2282
  The regular practice of medicine in a licensed general or specialized hospital having five or more physicians and surgeons on the medical staff, which does...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2282.5
  (a) The medical staff's right of self-governance shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following: (1) Establishing, in medical staff bylaws, rules,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2282.5
  (a) The medical staff's right of self-governance shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following: (1) Establishing, in medical staff bylaws, rules,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2283
  The regular practice of medicine in a licensed general or specialized hospital having less than five physicians and surgeons on the medical staff, which does...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2284
  (a) A licensed physician and surgeon or a licensed podiatrist, or a group of physicians and surgeons or podiatrists, or a medical or podiatry corporation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2285
  The use of any fictitious, false, or assumed name, or any name other than his or her own by a licensee either alone, in conjunction...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2286
  It shall constitute unprofessional conduct for any licensee to violate, to attempt to violate, directly or indirectly, to assist in or abet the violation of,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2287
  The purchase, sale, or barter, or offering to purchase, sell, or barter any medical or podiatric degree, or any degree, diploma, certificate, affidavit, transcript, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2288
  The impersonation of any applicant or acting as proxy for any applicant in any examination required under this chapter for a certificate constitutes unprofessional conduct.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2289
  The impersonation of another licensed practitioner or permitting or allowing another person to use his or her certificate to engage in the practice of medicine...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2290
  The provisions of Article 4 (commencing with Section 580) of Chapter 1, relating to frauds of medical records, degrees, diplomas, certificates, and transcripts are not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2290.5
  (a) For purposes of this division, the following definitions shall apply: (1) "Asynchronous store and forward" means the transmission of a patient's medical information from...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2291
  It is unprofessional conduct for any licensee not a member or authorized official of the board, or of the California Board of Podiatric Medicine in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2292
  (a) A licensee may be ordered to undergo a professional competency examination if, after investigation and review by a medical expert designated by the division...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2293
  (a) The professional competency examination shall be in the form of an oral clinical examination to be administered by three physician examiners selected by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2294
  (a) If the division proceeds pursuant to the provisions of Sections 2292 and 2293 and the physician passes the professional competency examination administered, the division...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2305
  The revocation, suspension, or other discipline, restriction, or limitation imposed by another state upon a license or certificate to practice medicine issued by that state,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2306
  If a licensee's right to practice medicine is suspended, he or she shall not engage in the practice of medicine during the term of such...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2307
  (a) A person whose certificate has been surrendered while under investigation or while charges are pending or whose certificate has been revoked or suspended or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2310
  (a) If a physician and surgeon possesses a license or is otherwise authorized to practice medicine (1) in any state other than California or (2)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2311
  Whenever any person has engaged in or is about to engage in any acts or practices that constitute or will constitute an offense against this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2312
  The Division of Medical Quality shall seek to obtain an injunction against any physician and surgeon within its jurisdiction if the division has reasonable cause...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2313
  The board shall report annually to the Legislature, no later than October 1 of each year, the following information: (a) The total number of temporary...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2314
  (a) Unless it is otherwise expressly provided, any person, whether licensed under this chapter or not, who violates any provision of this article is guilty...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2315
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by law, any person found guilty of a misdemeanor for a violation of this chapter shall be punished by a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2316
  If a licensed physician and surgeon who provides expertise to the board in the evaluation of an applicant or a licensee is, as a result...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2317
  If a person, not a regular employee of the board, is hired, under contract, or retained under any other arrangement, paid or unpaid, to provide...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2318
  In addition to any immunity afforded by Sections 43.8 and 47 of the Civil Code, if applicable, any person, including, but not limited to, a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2319
  (a) The board shall set as a goal the improvement of its disciplinary system by January 1, 1992, so that an average of no more...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2330
  Complainants against licensees of the board, including licensees of allied health boards within the jurisdiction of the board, and of the Board of Podiatric Medicine,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2332
  (a) The Division of Medical Quality or the Health Quality Enforcement Section of the office of the Attorney General may establish panels or lists of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2334
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, with respect to the use of expert testimony in matters brought by the Medical Board of California, no...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2335
  (a) All proposed decisions and interim orders of the Medical Quality Hearing Panel designated in Section 11371 of the Government Code shall be transmitted to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2336
  The Division of Medical Quality and the California Board of Podiatric Medicine shall adopt rules, pursuant to Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2337
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, superior court review of a decision revoking, suspending, or restricting a license shall take preference over all other civil...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2360
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the Osteopathic Medical Board of California seek ways and means to identify and rehabilitate osteopathic physicians and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2361
  As used in this article: (a) "Board" means the Osteopathic Medical Board of California. (b) "Diversion program" means a treatment program created by this article...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2362
  One or more diversion evaluation committees are hereby created in the state to be established by the board. The board shall establish criteria and appoint...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2363
  Each member of the committee shall receive per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2364
  The board shall administer this article.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2365
  (a) The board shall establish criteria for the acceptance, denial, or termination of participants in the diversion program. Unless ordered by the board as a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2366
  A committee created under this article operates under the direction of the diversion program manager. The program manager has the primary responsibility to review and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2367
  (a) Each licensee who requests participation in a treatment program shall agree to cooperate with the treatment program designed by the committee and approved by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2368
  An administrative fee to be established by the board, may be charged for participation in the program; all costs of treatment shall be paid by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2369
  (a) After the committee and the program manager, in their discretion, have determined that a participant has been rehabilitated and the program is completed, the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2370
  The board shall provide for the representation of any persons making reports to the diversion evaluation committee or to the board under this article in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2380
  There is created within the board a Bureau of Medical Statistics. The purpose of the bureau is to provide the board and its divisions with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2381
  As used in this article, "bureau" means the Bureau of Medical Statistics.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2382
  The bureau shall conduct such research, including the gathering of appropriate statistics, as deemed desirable by the board and its divisions and related to their...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2383
  The bureau may prepare and issue the information questionnaire and report therefrom as required in Chapter 1.6 (commencing with Section 920).
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2386
  The bureau shall be the repository for all reports filed with the board pursuant to Article 11 (commencing with Section 800) of Chapter 2, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2392
  The board shall report at least annually to the Legislature on the data collected by the bureau pursuant to this article. Such reports and any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2395
  No licensee, who in good faith renders emergency care at the scene of an emergency, shall be liable for any civil damages as a result...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2395.5
  (a) A licensee who serves on an on-call basis to a hospital emergency room, who in good faith renders emergency obstetrical services to a person...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2396
  No licensee, who in good faith upon the request of another person so licensed, renders emergency medical care to a person for medical complication arising...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2397
  (a) A licensee shall not be liable for civil damages for injury or death caused in an emergency situation occurring in the licensee's office or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2398
  No licensee, who in good faith and without compensation renders voluntary emergency medical assistance to a participant in a community college or high school athletic...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2400
  Corporations and other artificial legal entities shall have no professional rights, privileges, or powers. However, the Division of Licensing may in its discretion, after such...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2401
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 2400, a clinic operated primarily for the purpose of medical education by a public or private nonprofit university medical school, which is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2402
  The provisions of Section 2400 do not apply to a medical or podiatry corporation practicing pursuant to the Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation Act (Part 4 (commencing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2406
  A medical corporation or podiatry corporation is a corporation which is authorized to render professional services, as defined in Sections 13401 and 13401.5 of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2407
  A medical or podiatry corporation shall be subject to the provisions of Sections 2285 and 2415.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2408
  Except as provided in Sections 13401.5 and 13403 of the Corporations Code, each shareholder, director and officer of a medical or podiatry corporation, except an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2409
  The income of a medical and podiatry corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shareholder is a disqualified person, as defined in Section 13401...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2410
  A medical or podiatry corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which or the failure to do which would...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2411
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the offering and operation by a medical corporation of a health care service plan licensed pursuant to the provisions...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2412
  The Division of Licensing may adopt and enforce regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of this article and the Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation Act...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2413
  This article shall apply to medical corporations which have physicians and surgeons licensed by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California as shareholders, officers, and directors...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2415
  (a) Any physician and surgeon or any doctor of podiatric medicine, as the case may be, who as a sole proprietor, or in a partnership,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2416
  Physicians and surgeons and doctors of podiatric medicine may conduct their professional practices in a partnership or group of physician and surgeons or a partnership...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2417
  (a) If the Department of Insurance has evidence that a business is being operated in violation of this chapter, Part 4 (commencing with Section 13400)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2418
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (1) The State of California is facing a growing crisis in physician supply due,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2420
  The provisions of this article apply to, determine the expiration of, and govern the renewal of, each of the following certificates, licenses, registrations, and permits...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2421
  As used in this article, the terms: (a) "License" includes "certificate," "permit," and "registration." (b) "Licensee" includes the holder of a license. (c) "Licensing authority"...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2422
  All licenses expire and become invalid at 12 midnight on the last day of February of each even-numbered year if not renewed. To renew an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2423
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 2422: (1) All physician and surgeon's certificates, certificates to practice podiatric medicine, registrations of spectacle lens dispensers and contact lens dispensers, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2424
  (a) The Division of Licensing or the California Board of Podiatric Medicine, as the case may be, shall notify in writing by certified mail, return...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2425
  (a) The Division of Licensing may prepare and mail to every licensed physician at the time of license renewal a questionnaire containing any questions as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2425.1
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Currently, California is experiencing an access to health care crisis that, in large measure, is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2425.3
  (a) A licensed physician and surgeon shall report to the board, immediately upon issuance of an initial license and at the time of license renewal,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2426
  (a) A licensee shall report to the board at the time of renewal of a license any financial interest that the licensee or a member...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2427
  (a) Except as provided in Section 2429, a license which has expired may be renewed at any time within five years after its expiration on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2428
  (a) A person who fails to renew his or her license within five years after its expiration may not renew it, and it may not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2429
  (a) A license which is suspended for unprofessional conduct is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article, but such renewal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2432
  Upon filing an application therefor, containing such information as the licensing authority may require and accompanied by the required duplicate certificate fee, if any, a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2433
  Upon filing an application therefor, containing such information as the licensing authority may require and accompanied by the required endorsement fee, if any, the licensure...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2435
  The following fees apply to the licensure of physicians and surgeons: (a) Each applicant for a certificate based upon a national board diplomate certificate, each...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2435.1
  (a) In addition to the fees charged for the initial issuance or biennial renewal of a physician and surgeon's certificate pursuant to Section 2435, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2435.2
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if Article 14 (commencing with Section 2340) becomes inoperative or the diversion program described in that article is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2435.3
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if Section 12529.6 of the Government Code remains operative on or after July 1, 2008, and is not repealed,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2436
  The fees in this article fixed by the board shall be set forth as emergency regulations duly adopted by the Division of Licensing.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2436.5
  (a) In addition to the fees charged for the initial issuance or biennial renewal of a physician and surgeon's certificate pursuant to Section 2435, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2437
  The board may fix a fee for the approval of postgraduate training for clinical service programs approved by the Division of Licensing at an amount...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2439
  (a) Every licensee is exempt from the payment of the renewal fee and requirement for continuing medical education if the licensee has applied to the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2440
  (a) Every licensee is exempt from the payment of the renewal fee while engaged in full-time training or active service in the Army, Navy, Air...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2441
  Any licensee who demonstrates to the satisfaction of the board that he or she is unable to practice medicine due to a disability may request...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2442
  The renewal fee shall be waived for a physician and surgeon residing in California who certifies to the Medical Board of California that license renewal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2443
  The following fees apply to fictitious-name permits issued under Section 2415: (a) The initial permit fee shall be fifty dollars ($50). If the permit will...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2445
  All moneys paid to and received by the board shall be paid into the State Treasury and shall be credited to the Contingent Fund of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2446
  Unless otherwise expressly provided in this chapter, all fines imposed or forfeitures of bail collected by any court in connection with any violation of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2447
  The board shall refund any fees, fines, or forfeitures in accordance with the provisions of Section 158. The board may expend from its contingent fund...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2448
  Notwithstanding the possession by a licensee of a renewal receipt or other acknowledgement of renewal of licensure, a license issued and renewed may, at any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2450
  There is a Board of Osteopathic Examiners of the State of California, established by the Osteopathic Act, which shall be known as the Osteopathic Medical...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2450.1
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Osteopathic Medical Board of California in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2450.3
  There is within the jurisdiction of the Osteopathic Medical Board of California a Naturopathic Medicine Committee authorized under the Naturopathic Doctors Act (Chapter 8.2 (commencing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2451
  The words "Medical Board of California," the term "board," or any reference to a division of the Medical Board of California as used in this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2452
  This chapter applies to the Osteopathic Medical Board of California so far as consistent with the Osteopathic Act. Unless otherwise provided, this article is administered...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2453
  (a) It is the policy of this state that holders of M.D. degrees and D.O. degrees shall be accorded equal professional status and privileges as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2453.5
  Individuals possessing physician's and surgeon's certificates issued by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California shall not hold themselves out to be board certified unless the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2454.5
  In order to ensure the continuing competence of licensed osteopathic physicians and surgeons, the board shall adopt and administer standards for the continuing education of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2455
  The amount of fees and refunds is that established by the following schedule for any certificate issued by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California. All...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2455.1
  (a) In addition to the fees charged pursuant to Section 2455, and at the time those fees are charged, the board shall charge each applicant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2455.2
  (a) A licensed osteopathic physician and surgeon shall report to the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, at the time of initial licensure, any specialty board...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2456
  (a) Each person holding a certificate issued by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California residing in or out of California shall pay the board a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2456.1
  All osteopathic physician's and surgeon's certificates shall expire at 12 midnight on the last day of the birth month of the licensee during the second...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2456.2
  (a) The board shall notify in writing by certified mail, return receipt requested, any physician and surgeon who does not renew his or her license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2456.3
  Except as provided in Section 2429, a license which has expired may be renewed at any time within five years after its expiration by filing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2457
  The failure of any person holding a certificate issued by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California to pay the biennial license fee during the time...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2457.5
  (a) In addition to Article 12 (commencing with Section 2220), the charging, or obtaining of an unconscionable fee for professional services rendered to a patient...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2458
  When the prosecution for a violation of this chapter is initiated by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, 75 percent of all fines and forfeitures...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2459
  The Osteopathic Medical Board of California shall not issue any drugless practitioner's certificates under this chapter or any other law. All persons holding drugless practitioner's...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2459.5
  An osteopathic physician and surgeon licensed pursuant to the Osteopathic Initiative Act may utilize the services of an aide to assist the osteopathic physician and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2459.6
  (a) For the purposes of Section 2459.5 and this section: (1) "Osteopathic physician and surgeon" means a person defined in the Osteopathic Initiative Act. (2)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2459.7
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no osteopathic physician and surgeon shall utilize an osteopathic aide to perform services other than those specified in Sections...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2460
  (a) There is created within the jurisdiction of the Medical Board of California the California Board of Podiatric Medicine. (b) This section shall remain in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2460.1
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the California Board of Podiatric Medicine in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2461
  As used in this article: (a) "Division" means the Division of Licensing of the Medical Board of California. (b) "Board" means the California Board of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2462
  The board shall consist of seven members, three of whom shall be public members. Not more than one member of the board shall be a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2463
  Each member of the board, except the public members, shall be appointed from persons having all of the following qualifications: (a) Be a citizen of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2464
  The public members shall be appointed from persons having all of the following qualifications: (a) Be a citizen of this state for at least five...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2465
  No person who directly or indirectly owns any interest in any college, school, or other institution engaged in podiatric medical instruction shall be appointed to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2466
  All members of the board shall be appointed for terms of four years. Vacancies shall immediately be filled by the appointing power for the unexpired...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2467
  (a) The board may convene from time to time as it deems necessary. (b) Four members of the board constitute a quorum for the transaction...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2468
  Notice of each meeting of the board shall be given in accordance with the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2469
  Each member of the board shall receive per diem and expenses as provided in Section 2016.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2470
  The board may adopt, amend, or repeal, in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, regulations necessary to enable the board to carry...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2471
  Except as provided by Section 159.5, the board may employ, within the limits of the funds received by the board, all personnel necessary to carry...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2472
  (a) The certificate to practice podiatric medicine authorizes the holder to practice podiatric medicine. (b) As used in this chapter, "podiatric medicine" means the diagnosis,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2474
  Any person who uses in any sign or in any advertisement or otherwise, the word or words "doctor of podiatric medicine," "doctor of podiatry," "podiatric...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2475
  Unless otherwise provided by law, no postgraduate trainee, intern, resident postdoctoral fellow, or instructor may engage in the practice of podiatric medicine, or receive compensation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2475.1
  Before a resident's license may be issued, each applicant shall show by evidence satisfactory to the board, submitted directly to the board by the national...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2475.2
  As used in this article, "podiatric residency" means a program of supervised postgraduate clinical training, one year or more in duration, approved by the board.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2475.3
  (a) The board shall approve podiatric residency programs, as defined in Section 2475.2, in the field of podiatric medicine, for persons who are applicants for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2476
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent a regularly matriculated student undertaking a course of professional instruction in an approved college or school...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2477
  Nothing in this chapter prohibits the manufacture, the recommendation, or the sale of either corrective shoes or appliances for the human feet.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2479
  The division shall issue, upon the recommendation of the board, a certificate to practice podiatric medicine to each applicant who meets the requirements of this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2480
  The board shall have full authority to investigate and to evaluate each applicant applying for a certificate to practice podiatric medicine and to make a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2481
  Each applicant who commenced professional instruction in podiatric medicine after September 1, 1959, shall show by an official transcript or other official evidence submitted directly...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2483
  (a) Each applicant for a certificate to practice podiatric medicine shall show by an official transcript or other official evidence satisfactory to the board that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2484
  In addition to any other requirements of this chapter, before a certificate to practice podiatric medicine may be issued, each applicant shall show by evidence...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2486
  The Medical Board of California shall issue, upon the recommendation of the board, a certificate to practice podiatric medicine if the applicant has submitted directly...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2488
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Medical Board of California shall issue, upon the recommendation of the board, a certificate to practice podiatric medicine...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2492
  (a) The board shall examine every applicant for a certificate to practice podiatric medicine to ensure a minimum of entry-level competence at the time and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2493
  (a) An applicant for a certificate to practice podiatric medicine shall pass an examination in the subjects required by Section 2483 in order to ensure...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2495
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the board may delegate to officials of the board the authority to approve the admission of applicants to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2496
  In order to ensure the continuing competence of persons licensed to practice podiatric medicine, the board shall adopt and administer regulations in accordance with the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2497
  (a) The board may order the denial of an application for, or the suspension of, or the revocation of, or the imposition of probationary conditions...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2497.5
  (a) The board may request the administrative law judge, under his or her proposed decision in resolution of a disciplinary proceeding before the board, to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2498
  (a) The board shall have the responsibility for reviewing the quality of podiatric medical practice carried out by persons licensed to practice podiatric medicine. (b)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2499
  There is in the State Treasury the Board of Podiatric Medicine Fund. Notwithstanding Section 2445, the division shall report to the Controller at the beginning...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2499.5
  The following fees apply to certificates to practice podiatric medicine. The amount of fees prescribed for doctors of podiatric medicine shall be those set forth...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2499.6
  The fees in this article shall be fixed by the board in accordance with Section 313.1.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2499.8
  Any licensee who demonstrates to the satisfaction of the board that he or she is unable to practice podiatric medicine due to a disability may...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2500
  The boards acknowledge the significant interest of physicians and patients alike in integrating preventative approaches and holistic-based alternatives into the practice of medicine, including, but...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2501
  In fulfilling their responsibilities under this article, the boards shall , on or before July 1, 2002, establish disciplinary policies and procedures to reflect emerging...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2505
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Licensed Midwifery Practice Act of 1993.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2506
  As used in this article the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Board" means the Medical Board of California. (b) "Licensed midwife" means an individual to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2507
  (a) The license to practice midwifery authorizes the holder, under the supervision of a licensed physician and surgeon, to attend cases of normal childbirth and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2508
  (a) A licensed midwife shall disclose in oral and written form to a prospective client all of the following: (1) All of the provisions of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2509
  The board shall create and appoint a Midwifery Advisory Council consisting of licensees of the board in good standing, who need not be members of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2511
  (a) No person, other than one who has been licensed to practice midwifery by the board, shall hold himself or herself out as a licensed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2512
  The board shall issue a license to practice midwifery to all applicants who meet the requirements of this article and who pay the fee required...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2512.5
  A person is qualified for a license to practice midwifery when he or she satisfies one of the following requirements: (a) (1) Successful completion of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2513
  (a) An approved midwifery education program shall offer the opportunity for students to obtain credit by examination for previous midwifery education and clinical experience. The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2514
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent a bona fide student who is enrolled or participating in a midwifery education program or who...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2514.5
  (a) Within 60 days following January 1, 1998, the board shall adopt regulations setting forth educational requirements. To develop these regulations, the board shall update...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2515
  The board shall approve specific educational programs intended to meet the requirements of subdivision (a) of Section 2512.5 and Section 2514 for the course of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2515.5
  Each applicant shall show by evidence satisfactory to the board that he or she has met the educational standards established by the board pursuant to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2516
  (a) Each licensed midwife who assists, or supervises a student midwife in assisting, in childbirth that occurs in an out-of-hospital setting shall annually report to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2517
  A person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor violation of Section 2052, prior to the effective date of this article, shall not be barred...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2518
  (a) Licenses issued pursuant to this article shall be renewable every two years upon payment of the fee prescribed by Section 2520 and submission of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2519
  The board may suspend or revoke the license of a midwife for any of the following: (a) Unprofessional conduct, which includes, but is not limited...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2520
  (a) (1) The fee to be paid upon the filing of a license application shall be fixed by the board at not less than seventy-five...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2521
  Any person who violates this article is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2529
  Graduates of the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, the San Diego Psychoanalytic Institute, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2529.5
  Each person to whom registration is granted under the provisions of this chapter shall pay into the Contingent Fund of the Medical Board of California...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2530
  This act may be cited as the "Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists and Hearing Aid Dispensers Licensure Act."
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2530.1
  The Legislature finds and declares that the practice of speech-language pathology and audiology and hearing aid dispensing in California affects the public health, safety, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2530.2
  As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) "Board" means the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Board. As used...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2530.3
  (a) A person represents himself or herself to be a speech-language pathologist when he or she holds himself or herself out to the public by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2530.4
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as authorizing a speech-language pathologist or audiologist to practice medicine, surgery, or any other form of healing, except...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2530.5
  (a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as restricting hearing testing conducted by licensed physicians and surgeons or by persons conducting hearing tests under...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2530.6
  Speech-language pathologists and audiologists supervising speech-language pathology or audiology aides shall register with the board the name of each aide working under their supervision. The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2531
  (a) There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs a Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Board in which the enforcement and administration...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2531.02
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Board in exercising its licensing, regulatory,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2531.05
  (a) The Hearing Aid Dispensing Committee is hereby created within the jurisdiction of the board. (b) The committee shall be comprised of the following board...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2531.06
  (a) The board is vested with the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction over the licensing and regulation of hearing aid dispensers as provided under...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2531.1
  (a) Each member of the board shall hold office for a term of four years, and shall serve until the appointment and qualification of his...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2531.2
  The membership of the board shall include two licensed speech-language pathologists, two licensed audiologists, one of whom shall be an audiologist that dispenses hearing aids,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2531.3
  The board shall examine every applicant for a speech-language pathology license or an audiology license at the time and place designated by the board in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2531.4
  The board shall have full authority to investigate and to evaluate each and every applicant applying for a license to practice speech-language pathology or a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2531.5
  The board shall issue, suspend, and revoke licenses and approvals to practice speech-language pathology and audiology as authorized by this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2531.6
  The Governor has power to remove from office any member of the board for neglect of any duty required by this chapter, for incompetency, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2531.7
  The board shall elect annually a chairperson and vice chairperson from among its members. The board shall hold at least one regular meeting each year....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2531.75
  (a) The board may appoint a person exempt from civil service who shall be designated as an executive officer and who shall exercise the powers...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2531.8
  Five members of the board shall at all times constitute a quorum.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2531.9
  Each member of the board shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2531.95
  The board shall from time to time adopt the regulations that may be necessary to effectuate this chapter. In adopting regulations the board shall comply...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2532
  No person shall engage in the practice of speech-language pathology or audiology or represent himself or herself as a speech-language pathologist or audiologist unless he...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2532.1
  (a) Each person desiring to obtain a license shall make application to the board, upon a form as prescribed by the board. (b) A separate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2532.2
  Except as required by Section 2532.25, to be eligible for licensure by the board as a speech-language pathologist or audiologist, the applicant shall possess all...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2532.25
  (a) An applicant seeking licensure as an audiologist shall possess a doctorate in audiology earned from an educational institution approved by the board. The board...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2532.3
  (a) Upon approval of an application filed pursuant to Section 2532.1, and upon the payment of the fee prescribed by subdivision (i) of Section 2534.2,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2532.4
  (a) The board may direct applicants to be examined for knowledge in whatever theoretical or applied fields in speech-language pathology or audiology it deems appropriate....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2532.5
  Every person holding a license under this chapter shall display it conspicuously in his or her primary place of practice.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2532.6
  (a) The Legislature recognizes that the education and experience requirements of this chapter constitute only minimal requirements to assure the public of professional competence. The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2532.7
  (a) Upon approval of an application filed pursuant to Section 2532.1, and upon payment of the fee prescribed by Section 2534.2, the board may issue...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2532.8
  (a) The board shall deem a person who holds a valid certificate of clinical competence in speech-language pathology or audiology issued by the American Speech-Language-Hearing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2533
  The board may refuse to issue, or issue subject to terms and conditions, a license on the grounds specified in Section 480, or may suspend,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2533.1
  A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge substantially related to the qualifications, functions,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2533.2
  Proceedings under this article shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2533.3
  Except as provided in Section 2538.42, any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2533.4
  Whenever any person other than a licensed speech-language pathologist or audiologist has engaged in any act or practice which constitutes an offense against this chapter,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2534
  The board shall report to the Controller at the beginning of each month for the month preceding the amount and source of all revenue received...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2534.1
  The board shall keep records that will reasonably ensure that funds expended in the administration of each licensing or registration category shall bear a reasonable...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2534.2
  The amount of the fees prescribed by this chapter is that established by the following schedule: (a) (1) The application fee and renewal fee for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2535
  (a) All licenses issued as of January 1, 1992, shall expire at 12 a.m. of the last date of the birth month of the licensee...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2535.2
  Except as provided in Section 2535.3, a license that has expired may be renewed at any time within five years after its expiration upon filing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2535.4
  A person who fails to renew his or her license within the five years after its expiration may not renew it, and it may not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2536
  A speech-language pathology corporation or an audiology corporation is a corporation which is authorized to render professional services, as defined in Section 13401 of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2537
  It shall constitute unprofessional conduct and a violation of this chapter for any person licensed under this chapter to violate, attempt to violate, directly or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2537.1
  A speech-language pathology corporation or an audiology corporation shall not do or fail to do any act that the doing or failing to do would...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2537.2
  Except as provided in Sections 13401.5 and 13403 of the Corporations Code, each shareholder, director and officer of a speech-language pathology corporation or an audiology...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2537.3
  The income of a speech-language pathology corporation or an audiology corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shareholder is a disqualified person, as defined...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2537.4
  (a) The name of a speech-language pathology corporation under which it may render professional services shall include one of the words specified in subdivision (a)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2537.5
  The board may adopt and enforce regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of this article, and the Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation Act, including regulations...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538
  A person seeking approval as a speech-language pathology assistant shall make application to the board for that approval.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.1
  (a) The board shall adopt regulations, in collaboration with the State Department of Education, the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, and the Advisory Commission on Special...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.3
  (a) A person applying for approval as a speech-language pathology assistant shall have graduated from a speech-language pathology assistant associate of arts degree program, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.5
  This article shall not be construed to limit the utilization of a speech aide or other personnel employed by a public school working under the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.7
  (a) No person who is not registered as a speech-language pathology assistant shall utilize the title speech-language pathology assistant or a similar title that includes...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.10
  For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Advertise" and its variants include the use of a newspaper, magazine, or other...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.11
  (a) "Practice of fitting or selling hearing aids," as used in this article, means those practices used for the purpose of selection and adaptation of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.12
  A licensee may conduct hearing screenings at a health fair or similar event by the application of a binary puretone screening at a preset intensity...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.13
  In fitting hearing aids, a hearing aid dispenser shall not take facial measurements or fit, adjust, or adapt lenses or spectacle frames, except that a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.14
  "Hearing aid dispenser," as used in this article, means a person engaged in the practice of fitting or selling hearing aids to an individual with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.15
  "Sell" or "sale" means any transfer of title or of the right to use by lease, bailment, or any other contract, excluding wholesale transactions with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.16
  The board shall keep a record of all prosecutions for violations of this article and of all examinations held for applicants for licenses together with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.17
  The board may recommend the preparation of and administration of a course of instruction concerned with the fitting and selection of hearing aids. The board...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.18
  All holders of licenses to sell or fit hearing aids shall continue their education after receiving the license. The board shall provide by regulation, as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.19
  (a) The board may prosecute any and all persons for any violation of this article. (b) The board shall hear and decide all matters, including,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.20
  It is unlawful for an individual to engage in the practice of fitting or selling hearing aids, or to display a sign or in any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.21
  This article does not apply to a person engaged in the practice of fitting hearing aids if his practice is for a governmental agency, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.22
  This article does not apply to nor affect any physician and surgeon licensed under Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 2000) of Division 2 who does...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.23
  (a) Hearing aids may be sold by catalog or direct mail provided that: (1) The seller is licensed as a hearing aid dispenser in this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.24
  Each person desiring to obtain a license to engage in the practice of fitting or selling hearing aids shall make application to the board. The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.25
  (a) The board shall prepare, approve, grade, and conduct examinations of applicants for a hearing aid dispenser's license. The board may provide that the preparation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.26
  The board shall issue a license to all applicants who have satisfied this chapter, who are at least 18 years of age, who possess a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.27
  (a) An applicant who has fulfilled the requirements of Section 2538.24 and has made application therefor, may have a temporary license issued to him or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.28
  (a) An applicant who has fulfilled the requirements of Section 2538.24, and has made application therefor, and who proves to the satisfaction of the board...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.29
  A temporary licensee under Section 2538.28 shall take the license examination within the first 10 months after the temporary license is issued. Failure to take...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.30
  (a) A temporary licensee shall not be the sole proprietor of, manage, or independently operate a business which engages in the fitting or sale of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.31
  Practical examinations shall be held by the board at least twice a year. The time and place of any practical examination shall be fixed by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.32
  Every applicant who obtains a passing score determined by the Angoff criterion-referenced method of establishing the point in each examination shall be deemed to have...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.33
  (a) Before engaging in the practice of fitting or selling hearing aids, each licensee shall notify the board in writing of the address or addresses...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.34
  (a) Every licensee who engages in the practice of fitting or selling hearing aids shall have and maintain an established retail business address to engage...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.35
  A licensee shall, upon the consummation of a sale of a hearing aid, deliver to the purchaser a written receipt, signed by or on behalf...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.36
  (a) Whenever any of the following conditions are found to exist either from observations by the licensee or on the basis of information furnished by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.37
  No hearing aid shall be sold by an individual licensed under this chapter, to a person 16 years of age or younger, unless within the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.38
  A licensee shall, upon the consummation of a sale of a hearing aid, keep and maintain records in his or her office or place of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.39
  A hearing aid dispenser who is the owner, manager, or franchisee at a location where hearing aids are fit or sold, shall be responsible for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.40
  Upon denial of an application for license, the board shall notify the applicant in writing, stating (1) the reason for the denial and (2) that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.41
  Before setting aside the revocation or suspension of any license or modifying the probation of any licensee, the board may require the petitioner to pass...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.42
  Any person who violates any of the provisions of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.43
  It is unlawful to sell or barter, or offer to sell or barter, any license issued by the board.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.44
  It is unlawful to purchase or procure by barter any license issued by the board with intent to use the same as evidence of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.45
  It is unlawful to alter with fraudulent intent in any material regard a license issued by the board.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.46
  It is unlawful to use or attempt to use any license issued by the board that has been purchased, fraudulently issued, counterfeited, or materially altered...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.47
  It is unlawful to willfully make any false statement in a material regard in an application for an examination before the board for a license.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.48
  It is unlawful to engage in the practice of fitting or selling hearing aids in this state without having at the time of so doing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.49
  It is unlawful for a licensed hearing aid dispenser to fit or sell a hearing aid unless he or she first does all of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.50
  It is unlawful to advertise by displaying a sign or otherwise or hold himself or herself out to be a person engaged in the practice...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.51
  It is unlawful to engage in the practice of fitting or selling hearing aids without the licensee having and maintaining an established business address, routinely...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.52
  When tests are conducted by persons licensed under this article in connection with the fitting and selling of hearing aids, the provisions of this article...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.53
  (a) A license issued under this article expires at midnight on its assigned renewal date. (b) To renew an unexpired license, the licensee shall, on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.54
  Except as otherwise provided in this article, an expired license may be renewed at any time within three years after its expiration on filing of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.55
  A license which has been suspended is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article but such renewal does not entitle...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.56
  A license that is not renewed within three years after its expiration may not be renewed, restored, reissued, or reinstated thereafter, but the holder of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2538.57
  The amount of fees and penalties prescribed by this article shall be those set forth in this section unless a lower fee is fixed by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2539.1
  (a) (1) On and after January 1, 2010, in addition to satisfying the licensure and examination requirements described in Sections 2532 and 2532.2, no licensed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2539.2
  (a) Hearing aids may be sold by catalog or direct mail provided that: (1) The seller is licensed as an audiologist in this state and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2539.4
  A licensed audiologist shall, upon the consummation of a sale of a hearing aid, deliver to the purchaser a written receipt, signed by or on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2539.6
  (a) Whenever any of the following conditions are found to exist either from observations by the licensed audiologist or on the basis of information furnished...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2539.8
  No hearing aid shall be sold by an individual licensed as an audiologist under this chapter to a person 16 years of age or younger,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2539.10
  A licensed audiologist shall, upon the consummation of a sale of a hearing aid, keep and maintain records in his or her office or place...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2539.12
  A licensed audiologist who is the owner, manager, or franchisee at a location where hearing aids are fit or sold, shall be responsible for the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2539.14
  The provisions of subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 2538.11 and the provisions of Section 2538.12 do not apply to a licensed audiologist who satisfies...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2540
  No person other than a physician and surgeon or optometrist may measure the powers or range of human vision or determine the accommodative and refractive...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2540.1
  Any reference to the "Division of Medical Quality" or to the "Division of Licensing" in this chapter shall be deemed to refer to the Medical...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2541
  A prescription ophthalmic device includes each of the following: (a) Any spectacle or contact lens ordered by a physician and surgeon or optometrist, that alters...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2541.1
  (a) A spectacle lens prescription shall include all of the following: (1) The dioptric power of the lens. When the prescription needed by the patient...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2541.2
  (a) (1) The expiration date of a contact lens prescription shall not be less than one to two years from the date of issuance, unless...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2541.3
  (a) The State Department of Public Health, the State Board of Optometry and the Division of Licensing and Division of Medical Quality of the Medical...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2541.6
  No prescription ophthalmic device that does not meet the standards adopted by the State Department of Public Health, the State Board of Optometry, or the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2542
  A registered dispensing optician shall fit, adjust, or dispense contact lenses, including plano contact lenses, only on the valid prescription of a physician and surgeon...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2543
  (a) Except as provided in the Nonresident Contact Lens Seller Registration Act (Chapter 5.45 (commencing with Section 2546), the right to dispense, sell or furnish...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2544
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an assistant in any setting where optometry or ophthalmology is practiced who is acting under the direct responsibility...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2545
  (a) Whenever any person has engaged, or is about to engage, in any acts or practices which constitute, or will constitute, an offense against this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2546
  This act may be cited as the "Nonresident Contact Lens Seller Registration Act."
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2546.1
  (a) On and after January 1, 1997, no person located outside California shall ship, mail, or deliver in any manner, contact lenses at retail to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2546.2
  All references in this chapter to the division shall mean the Medical Board of California.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2546.3
  The division may adopt, amend, or repeal any rules and regulations that are reasonably necessary to carry out this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2546.4
  Application for registration as a nonresident contact lens seller shall be made on forms prescribed by the division, accompanied by the fee prescribed by this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2546.5
  In order to obtain and maintain registration, a nonresident contact lens seller shall: (a) Be in good standing and either registered or otherwise authorized in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2546.6
  (a) Contact lenses may be sold only upon receipt of a written prescription or a copy of a written prescription and may be sold in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2546.7
  (a) A certificate may be denied, suspended, revoked, or otherwise subjected to discipline for any of the following: (1) Incompetence, gross negligence, or repeated similar...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2546.8
  Every registration issued to a nonresident contact lens seller shall expire 24 months after the initial date of issuance. To renew an unexpired registration, the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2546.9
  The amount of fees prescribed in connection with the registration of nonresident contact lens sellers is that established by the following schedule: (a) The initial...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2546.10
  (a) Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter shall be subject to a fine of not less than one thousand dollars...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2550
  Individuals, corporations, and firms engaged in the business of filling prescriptions of physicians and surgeons licensed by the Division of Licensing of the Medical Board...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2550.1
  All references in this chapter to the board or the Board of Medical Examiners or division shall mean the Medical Board of California.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2551
  Individuals, corporations, and firms shall make application for registration and shall not engage in that business prior to being issued a certificate of registration. Application...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2552
  Each application shall be verified under oath by the person required to sign the application and shall designate the name, address, and business telephone number...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2553
  If the board, after investigation, approves the application, it shall register the applicant and issue to the applicant a certificate of dispensing optician. A separate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2553.1
  (a) If a registered dispensing optician sells or transfers ownership of his or her place of business, both of the following requirements shall be satisfied:...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2553.5
  (a) A registered dispensing optician may fit and adjust spectacle lenses and frames or take facial measurements in any of the following locations: (1) A...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2553.6
  The board shall deny any application for registration under this chapter if any person licensed under Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 2000), for whom the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2554
  Each registrant shall conspicuously and prominently display at each registered location the name of the registrant's employee who is currently designated to handle customer inquiries...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2555
  Certificates issued hereunder may in the discretion of the division be suspended or revoked or subjected to terms and conditions of probation for violating or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2555.1
  In the discretion of the Division of Licensing, a certificate issued hereunder may be suspended or revoked if an individual certificate holder or persons having...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2556
  It is unlawful to do any of the following: to advertise the furnishing of, or to furnish, the services of a refractionist, an optometrist, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2556.5
  Any person who holds himself out as a "dispensing optician" or "registered dispensing optician" or who uses any other term or letters indicating or implying...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2557
  This chapter shall not affect any person licensed as an optometrist under Chapter 7 of Division II of this code, or any physician and surgeon...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2558
  Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2559
  Whenever any person has engaged, or is about to engage, in any acts or practices which constitute, or will constitute, a violation of any provision...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2559.1
  On and after January 1, 1988, no individual may fit and adjust spectacle lenses unless the registration requirement of Section 2550 is complied with, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2559.2
  (a) An individual shall apply for registration as a registered spectacle lens dispenser on forms prescribed by the division. The division shall register an individual...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2559.3
  A certificate issued to a registered spectacle lens dispenser may, in the discretion of the division, be suspended or revoked for violating or attempting to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2559.4
  This article shall not apply to an assistant fitting spectacle lenses pursuant to Section 2544 if the assistant is acting under the direct responsibility and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2559.5
  This article shall become operative on January 1, 1988. However, the division may, prior to that date, accept and process applications, including the collection of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2559.6
  No spectacle lens prescription that is issued on or after January 1, 1999, shall be dispensed unless the prescription meets the requirements of Section 2541.1....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2560
  No individual may fit and adjust contact lenses, including plano contact lenses, unless the registration requirement of Section 2550 is complied with, and unless (a)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2561
  An individual shall apply for registration as a registered contact lens dispenser on forms prescribed by the division. The division shall register an individual as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2562
  Upon satisfactory completion of the fitting of contact lenses, but in no event more than 60 days after receipt of the prescription, a registered contact...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2563
  A certificate issued to a registered contact lens dispenser may in the discretion of the division be suspended or revoked for violating or attempting to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2564
  The provisions of this article shall not apply to an assistant fitting contact lenses while acting under the direct responsibility and supervision of a physician...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2564.5
  A registered dispensing optician fitting contact lenses shall maintain accessible handwashing facilities on the premises and those facilities shall be used before each fitting of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2564.6
  A registered dispensing optician shall comply with the applicable provisions of Section 2541.2.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2565
  The amount of fees prescribed in connection with the registration of dispensing opticians shall be as set forth in this section unless a lower fee...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2566
  The amount of fees prescribed in connection with certificates for contact lens dispensers, unless a lower fee is fixed by the division, is as follows:...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2566.1
  The amount of fees prescribed in connection with certificates for spectacle lens dispensers shall be as set forth in this section unless a lower fee...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2567
  (a) The provisions of Article 19 (commencing with Section 2420) and Article 20 (commencing with Section 2435) of Chapter 5 which are not inconsistent or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2568
  The board shall report to the Controller at the beginning of each month for the month preceding the amount and source of all revenue received...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2569
  The powers and duties of the board, as set forth in this chapter, shall be subject to the review required by Division 1.2 (commencing with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570
  This chapter may be cited as the Occupational Therapy Practice Act.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570.1
  The Legislature finds and declares that the practice of occupational therapy in California affects the public health, safety, and welfare and there is a necessity...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570.2
  As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise: (a) "Appropriate supervision of an aide" means that the responsible occupational therapist or occupational therapy...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570.3
  (a) No person shall practice occupational therapy or hold himself or herself out as an occupational therapist or as being able to practice occupational therapy,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570.4
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as preventing or restricting the practice, services, or activities of any of the following persons: (a) Any person...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570.5
  (a) A limited permit may be granted to any person who has completed the education and experience requirements of this chapter. (b) A person who...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570.6
  An applicant applying for a license as an occupational therapist as an occupational therapy assistant shall file with the board a written application provided by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570.7
  (a) An applicant who has satisfied the requirements of Section 2570.6 may apply for examination for licensure in a manner prescribed by the board. Subject...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570.8
  For the purposes of verifying a license issued under this chapter, a person may rely on the licensure information posted on the board's Internet Web...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570.9
  The board shall issue a license to any applicant who meets the requirements of this chapter, including the payment of the prescribed licensure or renewal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570.10
  (a) Any license issued under this chapter shall be subject to renewal as prescribed by the board and shall expire unless renewed in that manner....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570.11
  Upon a written request, the board may grant inactive status to an occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant who is in good standing, who meets...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570.13
  (a) Consistent with this section, subdivisions (a), (b), and (c) of Section 2570.2, and accepted professional standards, the board shall adopt rules necessary to assure...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570.14
  An initial applicant who has not been actively engaged in the practice of occupational therapy within the past five years shall provide to the board,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570.15
  Occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants trained outside of the United States and its possessions shall be required to satisfy the examination requirements of Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570.16
  Initial license and renewal fees shall be established by the board in an amount that does not exceed a ceiling of one hundred fifty dollars...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570.17
  (a) The board shall issue, upon application and payment of a twenty-five dollar ($25) fee, a retired license to an occupational therapist or an occupational...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570.18
  (a) A person shall not represent to the public by title, by description of services, methods, or procedures, or otherwise, that the person is authorized...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570.185
  (a) An occupational therapist shall document his or her evaluation, goals, treatment plan, and summary of treatment in the patient record. (b) An occupational therapy...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570.19
  (a) There is hereby created a California Board of Occupational Therapy, hereafter referred to as the board. The board shall enforce and administer this chapter....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570.20
  (a) The board shall administer, coordinate, and enforce the provisions of this chapter, evaluate the qualifications, and approve the examinations for licensure under this chapter....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570.21
  Subject to Sections 107 and 154, the board may employ an executive officer and other officers and employees
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570.22
  All fees collected by the board shall be paid into the State Treasury and shall be credited to the Occupational Therapy Fund which is hereby...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570.23
  Any person who violates Section 2570.3 is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570.24
  If any provision of this chapter, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other provisions...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570.25
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the California Board of Occupational Therapy in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570.26
  (a) The board may, after a hearing, deny, suspend, revoke, or place on probation a license, inactive license, or limited permit. (b) As used in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570.27
  (a) The board may discipline a licensee by any or a combination of the following methods: (1) Placing the license on probation with terms and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570.28
  The board may deny or discipline a licensee for any of the following: (a) Unprofessional conduct, including, but not limited to, the following: (1) Incompetence...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570.29
  In addition to other acts constituting unprofessional conduct within the meaning of this chapter, it is unprofessional conduct for a person licensed under this chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570.30
  The board shall retain jurisdiction to proceed with any investigation, action or disciplinary proceeding against a license, or to render a decision suspending or revoking...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570.31
  If a license is suspended, the holder may not practice occupational therapy during the term of suspension. Upon the expiration of the term of suspension,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570.32
  (a) A holder of a license that has been revoked, suspended, or placed on probation, may petition the board for reinstatement or modification of a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2570.36
  If a licensee has knowledge that an applicant or licensee may be in violation of, or has violated, any of the statutes or regulations administered...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2571
  (a) An occupational therapist licensed pursuant to this chapter and approved by the board in the use of physical agent modalities may apply topical medications...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2585
  (a) Any person representing himself or herself as a registered dietitian shall meet one of the following qualifications: (1) Been granted, prior to January 1,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2586
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a registered dietitian, or other nutritional professional meeting the qualifications set forth in subdivision (e) of Section 2585...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2586.2
  A person may engage in the activities set forth in subdivision (a) of Section 2586 if the person meets both of the following requirements: (a)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2586.4
  A person may engage in the activities set forth in subdivision (d) of Section 2586 if the person meets both of the following requirements: (a)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2586.6
  A person may engage in the activities set forth in subdivision (a) of Section 2586 for six months from the date that he or she...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2586.8
  A person may engage in the activities set forth in subdivision (d) of Section 2586 for six months from the date he or she completed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2590
  (a) For purposes of this section, "perfusion" means those functions necessary for the support, treatment, measurement, or supplementation of the cardiovascular system, circulatory system with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2591
  (a) After completion of an approved perfusion training program, as defined in Section 2592, and until notification of passage of the entire examination of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2592
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 2590, all persons calling themselves perfusionists shall be graduates of an approved perfusion training program. (b) For purposes...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2593
  (a) During the period of any clinical training provided by an approved perfusion training program, perfusion may be performed by a student enrolled in the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2595
  Nothing in this chapter shall limit, preclude, or otherwise interfere with the practices of other persons licensed or otherwise authorized to practice under this division...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2596
  It is the intent of the Legislature that authority be reserved to the Division of Licensing of the Medical Board of California to adopt examination,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2600
  This chapter may be cited as the Physical Therapy Practice Act.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2601
  "Board" as used in this chapter means the Physical Therapy Board of California.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2602
  The Physical Therapy Board of California, hereafter referred to as the board, shall enforce and administer this chapter. This section shall become inoperative on July...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2602.1
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Physical Therapy Board of California in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2603
  The members of the board consist of the following: one physical therapist involved in the education of physical therapists, three physical therapists who shall have...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2604
  The members of the board shall be appointed for a term of four years, expiring on the first day of June of each year. The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2604.5
  The public members shall be appointed from persons having all of the following qualifications: (a) Be a citizen of California. (b) Shall not be an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2606
  Each member of the board shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2607
  The board may employ, subject to law, such clerical assistants and, except as provided in Section 159.5, other employees as it may deem necessary to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2607.5
  The board may appoint a person exempt from civil service who shall be designated as an executive officer and who shall exercise the powers and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2608
  The procedure in all matters and proceedings relating to the denial, suspension, or revocation of licenses under this chapter shall be governed by the provisions...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2608.5
  Each member of the board, or any licensed physical therapist appointed by the board, may inspect, or require reports from, a general or specialized hospital...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2609
  The board shall issue, suspend, and revoke licenses and approvals to practice physical therapy as provided in this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2611
  The board shall hold at least one regular meeting annually in the Cities of Sacramento, Los Angeles and San Francisco. The board may convene from...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2612
  Notice of each meeting of the board shall be given in accordance with the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2613
  The board may appoint qualified persons to give the whole or any portion of any examination as provided in this chapter, who shall be designated...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2614
  (a) The board shall hear all matters, including but not limited to, any contested case or any petition for reinstatement, restoration, or modification of probation....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2615
  The board shall from time to time adopt regulations that may be necessary to effectuate this chapter. In adopting regulations the board shall comply with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2620
  (a) Physical therapy means the art and science of physical or corrective rehabilitation or of physical or corrective treatment of any bodily or mental condition...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2620.3
  A physical therapist licensed pursuant to this chapter may apply topical medications as part of the practice of physical therapy as defined in Section 2620...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2620.5
  A physical therapist may, upon specified authorization of a physician and surgeon, perform tissue penetration for the purpose of evaluating neuromuscular performance as a part...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2620.7
  (a) A physical therapist shall document his or her evaluation, goals, treatment plan, and summary of treatment in the patient record. (b) A physical therapist...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2621
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as authorizing a physical therapist to practice medicine, surgery, or any other form of healing except as authorized...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2622
  "Physical therapist" and "physical therapist technician" mean a person who is licensed pursuant to this chapter to practice physical therapy. For purposes of this chapter,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2630
  It is unlawful for any person or persons to practice, or offer to practice, physical therapy in this state for compensation received or expected, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2632
  All licenses for the practice of physical therapy in this state shall be issued by the board, and all applications for the licenses shall be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2633
  (a) A person holding a license as a physical therapist issued by the board may use the title "physical therapist" or the letters "P.T." or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2634
  The board may investigate each and every applicant for a license, before a license is issued, in order to determine whether or not the applicant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2635
  Every applicant for a license under this chapter shall, at the time of application, be a person over 18 years of age, not addicted to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2636
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, no person shall receive a license under this chapter without first successfully passing the following examinations: (1)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2636.5
  (a) An applicant may be issued a license without a written examination if he or she meets all of the following: (1) He or she...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2638
  Any applicant for licensure as a physical therapist who fails to pass the examination required by the board may take another examination and shall pay...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2639
  Every graduate of an approved physical therapist education program who has filed a complete application for licensure with the board for the first time may,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2640
  (a) If the board uses computer administered testing for the administration of the licensing examination, this section shall apply and Section 2639 shall not apply....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2650
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, each applicant for a license as a physical therapist shall be a graduate of a professional degree...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2650.1
  During the period of clinical practice referred to in Section 2650 or in any similar period of observation or related educational experience involving recipients of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2650.2
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent a regularly matriculated student undertaking a course of professional instruction in an approved physical therapist education...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2651
  The board may approve only those physical therapist education programs that prove to the satisfaction of the board that they comply with the minimum physical...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2652
  All physical therapist education programs, whether situated in this state or not, furnishing courses of study meeting the standards required by Sections 2650 and 2651...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2653
  (a) An applicant for a license as a physical therapist who was issued a diploma by a physical therapist education program that is not an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2655
  As used in this article: (a) "Physical therapist" means a physical therapist licensed by the board. (b) "Physical therapist assistant" means a person who meets...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2655.1
  The board shall adopt regulations that set forth standards and requirements for the adequate supervision of physical therapist assistants.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2655.11
  A person holding an approval as a physical therapist assistant issued by the board may use the title "physical therapist assistant" or "physical therapy assistant"...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2655.2
  A physical therapist shall not supervise more physical therapist assistants at any one time than in the opinion of the board can be adequately supervised....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2655.3
  A person seeking approval as a physical therapist assistant shall make application to the board for that approval. Every person applying for approval as a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2655.6
  Any applicant for approval as a physical therapist assistant who fails to pass the examination given by the board may take another examination and shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2655.7
  Notwithstanding Section 2630, a physical therapist assistant may assist in the provision of physical therapy service provided the assistance is rendered under the supervision of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2655.71
  (a) An applicant may be issued an approval as a physical therapist assistant without written examination if he or she meets all of the following...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2655.75
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent a regularly matriculated student undertaking a course of instruction in an approved physical therapist assistant education...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2655.8
  Any person, other than one who has been approved by the board, who holds himself or herself out as a "physical therapist assistant" or who...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2655.9
  (a) The board shall approve each physical therapist assistant education program that proves to the satisfaction of the board that it complies with criteria for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2655.91
  Every graduate of an approved physical therapist assistant education program who has filed a complete physical therapist assistant application with the board for the first...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2655.92
  The board may adopt regulations as reasonably necessary to carry out the purposes of this article. The board shall adopt a regulation formulating a definition...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2655.93
  (a) If the committee uses computer administered testing for the administration of the examination, this section shall apply and Section 2655.91 shall not apply. (b)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2660
  The board may, after the conduct of appropriate proceedings under the Administrative Procedure Act, suspend for not more than 12 months, or revoke, or impose...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2660.1
  A patient, client, or customer of a licentiate under this chapter is conclusively presumed to be incapable of giving free, full, and informed consent to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2660.2
  (a) The board may refuse a license to any applicant guilty of unprofessional conduct or sexual activity referred to in Section 2660.1. The board may,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2660.3
  In lieu of filing or prosecuting a formal accusation against a licensee, the board may, upon stipulation or agreement by the licensee, issue a public...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2660.5
  The board shall deny a physical therapist license or physical therapist assistant approval to an applicant who is required to register pursuant to Section 290...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2660.7
  In addition to the penalties prescribed by Section 123, if the board determines that an applicant for licensure or a licensee has engaged, or has...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2661
  A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge of a felony or of any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2661.5
  (a) In any order issued in resolution of a disciplinary proceeding before the board, the board may request the administrative law judge to direct any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2661.6
  (a) The board shall establish a probation monitoring program to monitor probationary licenses. (b) The program may employ nonpeace officer staff to perform its probation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2661.7
  (a) A person whose license or approval has been revoked or suspended, or who has been placed on probation, may petition the Physical Therapy Board...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2662
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the board shall seek ways and means to identify and rehabilitate physical therapists and physical therapist assistants...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2663
  The board shall establish and administer a diversion program for the rehabilitation of physical therapists and physical therapist assistants whose competency is impaired due to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2664
  (a) Any diversion evaluation committee established by the board shall have at least three members. In making appointments to a diversion evaluation committee, the board...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2665
  Each diversion evaluation committee has the following duties and responsibilities: (a) To evaluate physical therapists and physical therapist assistants who request participation in the program...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2666
  (a) Criteria for acceptance into the diversion program shall include all of the following: (1) The applicant shall be licensed as a physical therapist or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2667
  All board and diversion evaluation committee records and records of proceedings and participation of a physical therapist or physical therapist assistant in a program shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2668
  (a) A fee to cover the actual cost of administering the program shall be charged for participation in the program. If the board contracts with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2669
  Participation in a diversion program shall not be a defense to any disciplinary action which may be taken by the board. This section does not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2670
  Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2672
  Whenever any person has engaged or is about to engage in any acts or practices which constitute or will constitute an offense against this chapter,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2674
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no physical therapist shall be subject to discipline by the board for providing physical therapy services as a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2676
  (a) A person renewing his or her license or approval shall submit proof satisfactory to the board that, during the preceding two years, he or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2680
  The board shall keep a record of its proceedings under this chapter, and a register of all persons licensed under it. The register shall show...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2681
  Within 10 days after the beginning of each calendar month the board shall report to the State Controller the amount and source of all collections...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2682
  There is in the State Treasury the Physical Therapy Fund. All collections from persons licensed or approved or seeking to be licensed or approved shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2683
  Except as provided in Section 2684, the provisions of Article 19 (commencing with Section 2420) of Chapter 5 apply to the issuance and govern the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2684
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 2422, any license or approval for the practice of physical therapy shall expire at midnight on the last day of the birth...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2685
  At least 60 days before the expiration of any license or approval, the board shall mail to each licensee under this chapter, at the latest...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2687
  All fees earned by the board and all fines and forfeitures of bail to which the board is entitled shall be reported at the beginning...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2688
  The amount of fees assessed in connection with licenses issued under this chapter is as follows: (a) (1) The fee for an application for licensure...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2688.5
  The board shall submit a report to the fiscal and appropriate policy committees of the legislature whenever the board increases any fee. The report shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2689
  (a) The board may establish by regulation suitable application and renewal fees of not more than two hundred dollars ($200), for persons certified to perform...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2690
  A physical therapy corporation is a corporation that is authorized to render professional services, as defined in Section 13401 of the Corporations Code, so long...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2691
  It shall constitute unprofessional conduct and a violation of this chapter for any person licensed under this chapter to violate, attempt to violate, directly or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2692
  A physical therapy corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which or the failure to do which would constitute...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2693
  The name of a physical therapy corporation and any name or names under which it may render professional services shall contain the words "physical therapy"...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2694
  Except as provided in Section 13403 of the Corporations Code, each shareholder, director and officer of a physical therapy corporation, except an assistant secretary and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2695
  The income of a physical therapy corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shareholder is a disqualified person, as defined in Section 13401 of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2696
  The board may adopt and enforce regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of this article, including regulations requiring (a) that the bylaws of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2700
  This chapter of the Business and Professions Code constitutes the chapter on professional nursing and shall be construed as revisory and amendatory of the laws...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2702
  Each member of the board shall be a citizen of the United States and a resident of the State of California. Four members shall represent...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2703
  All appointments shall be for a term of four years and vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired term. No person shall serve more than...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2706
  The Governor has the power to remove any member of the board from office for neglect of any duty required by law, or for incompetency,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2707
  The board shall annually elect from its members a president, vice president, and any other officers as it may deem necessary. The officers of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2708.1
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Board of Registered Nursing in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2709
  The board for the purpose of transacting its business shall meet at least once every three months, at times and places it designates by resolution.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2709.5
  The board shall accept in payment of any fee required by this chapter cash or any customary or generally accepted medium of exchange, including check,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2710
  Special meetings may be held at such times as the board may elect, or on the call of the president of the board, or of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2710.5
  The board, with permission of the Director of the Department of Consumer Affairs, may form advisory committees to advise the board on the implementation of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2712
  Five members of the board constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2713
  The board shall keep a record of all its proceedings, including a register of all applicants for licenses under this chapter and the action of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2714
  The office of the board shall be in the city of Sacramento. Suboffices may be established in Los Angeles and San Francisco and such records...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2715
  The board shall prosecute all persons guilty of violating the provisions of this chapter. Except as provided by Section 159.5, the board, in accordance with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2716
  Each member of the board shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2717
  (a) The board shall collect and analyze workforce data from its licensees for future workforce planning. The board may collect the data at the time...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2725
  (a) In amending this section at the 1973-74 session, the Legislature recognizes that nursing is a dynamic field, the practice of which is continually evolving...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2725.1
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a registered nurse may dispense drugs or devices upon an order by a licensed physician and surgeon if the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2725.3
  (a) A health facility licensed pursuant to subdivision (a), (b), or (f), of Section 1250 of the Health and Safety Code shall not assign unlicensed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2725.5
  "Advanced practice registered nurse" means those licensed registered nurses who have met the requirements of Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 2746), Article 7 (commencing with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2726
  Except as otherwise provided herein, this chapter confers no authority to practice medicine or surgery.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2727
  This chapter does not prohibit: (a) Gratuitous nursing of the sick by friends or members of the family. (b) Incidental care of the sick by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2727.5
  A person licensed under this chapter who in good faith renders emergency care at the scene of an emergency which occurs outside both the place...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2728
  If adequate medical and nursing supervision by a professional nurse or nurses is provided, nursing service may be given by attendants, psychiatric technicians, or psychiatric...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2728.5
  Except for those provisions of law relating to directors of nursing services, nothing in this chapter or any other provision of law shall prevent the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2729
  Nursing services may be rendered by a student when these services are incidental to the course of study of one of the following: (a) A...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2730
  If he does not represent or hold himself out as a professional nurse licensed to practice in this State and if he has an engagement,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2731
  This chapter does not prohibit nursing or the care of the sick, with or without compensation or personal profit, when done by the adherents of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2732
  No person shall engage in the practice of nursing, as defined in Section 2725, without holding a license which is in an active status issued...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2732.05
  (a) Every employer of a registered nurse, every employer of a registered nurse required to hold any board-issued certification, and every person acting as an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2732.1
  (a) An applicant for license by examination shall submit a written application in the form prescribed by the board. Upon approval of the application, the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2733
  (a) Upon approval of an application filed pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 2732.1, and upon the payment of the fee prescribed by subdivision (k)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2734
  Upon application in writing to the board and payment of the biennial renewal fee, a licensee may have his license placed in an inactive status...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2736
  (a) An applicant for licensure as a registered nurse shall comply with each of the following: (1) Have completed such general preliminary education requirements as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2736.1
  (a) The course of instruction for an applicant who matriculates on or after September 1, 1985, shall include training in the detection and treatment of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2736.5
  (a) Any person who has served on active duty in the medical corps of any of the Armed Forces of the United States and who...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2736.6
  The board shall determine by regulation the additional preparation in nursing, in a school approved by the board, which is required for a vocational nurse,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2737
  An applicant for a license authorizing him to practice nursing in this State under this chapter, upon the filing of his application shall pay the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2738
  The board shall hold not less than two examinations each year at such times and places as the board may determine.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2740
  Examinations shall be written, but in the discretion of the board may be supplemented by an oral or practical examination in such subjects as the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2741
  An application for reexamination shall be accompanied by the fees prescribed by this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2742
  The board shall issue a license to each applicant who passes the examination and meets all other licensing requirements. The form of the license shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2746
  The board shall issue a certificate to practice nurse-midwifery to any person who qualifies under this article and is licensed pursuant to the provisions of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2746.1
  Every applicant for a certificate to practice nurse-midwifery shall comply with all the provisions of this article in addition to the provisions of this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2746.2
  Each applicant shall show by evidence satisfactory to the board that he has met the educational standards established by the board or has at least...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2746.3
  Midwife's certificates issued by the Medical Board of California prior to the effective date of this article shall be renewable only by such board.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2746.4
  Nothing in this article shall be construed to prevent the practice of midwifery by a person possessing a midwife's certificate issued by the Medical Board...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2746.5
  (a) The certificate to practice nurse-midwifery authorizes the holder, under the supervision of a licensed physician and surgeon, to attend cases of normal childbirth and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2746.51
  (a) Neither this chapter nor any other provision of law shall be construed to prohibit a certified nurse-midwife from furnishing or ordering drugs or devices,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2746.52
  Notwithstanding Section 2746.5, the certificate to practice nurse-midwifery authorizes the holder to perform and repair episiotomies, and to repair first-degree and second-degree lacerations of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2746.7
  An applicant for certification pursuant to this article shall submit a written application in the form prescribed by the board, accompanied by the fee prescribed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2746.8
  Each certificate issued pursuant to this article shall be renewable biennially, and each person holding a certificate under this article shall apply for a renewal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2750
  Every certificate holder or licensee, including licensees holding temporary licenses, or licensees holding licenses placed in an inactive status, may be disciplined as provided in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2751
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the board may, in its discretion, accept the surrender of a license through a stipulated agreement in the absence of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2759
  The board shall discipline the holder of any license, whose default has been entered or who has been heard by the board and found guilty,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2760
  If the holder of a license is suspended, he or she shall not be entitled to practice nursing during the term of suspension. Upon the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2760.1
  (a) A registered nurse whose license has been revoked or suspended or who has been placed on probation may petition the board for reinstatement or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2761
  The board may take disciplinary action against a certified or licensed nurse or deny an application for a certificate or license for any of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2762
  In addition to other acts constituting unprofessional conduct within the meaning of this chapter it is unprofessional conduct for a person licensed under this chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2764
  The lapsing or suspension of a license by operation of law or by order or decision of the board or a court of law, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2765
  A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge substantially related to the qualifications, functions...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2770
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the Board of Registered Nursing seek ways and means to identify and rehabilitate registered nurses whose competency...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2770.1
  As used in this article: (a) "Board" means the Board of Registered Nursing. (b) "Committee" means a diversion evaluation committee created by this article. (c)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2770.2
  One or more diversion evaluation committees is hereby created in the state to be established by the board. Each committee shall be composed of five...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2770.3
  Each member of a committee shall receive per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2770.4
  Three members of a committee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting. Any action requires a majority vote of the
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2770.5
  Each committee shall elect from its membership a chairperson and a vice chairperson.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2770.6
  The board shall administer the provisions of this article.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2770.7
  (a) The board shall establish criteria for the acceptance, denial, or termination of registered nurses in the diversion program. Only those registered nurses who have...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2770.8
  A committee created under this article operates under the direction of the diversion program manager. The program manager has the primary responsibility to review and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2770.9
  The committee shall inform each registered nurse who requests participation in a program of the procedures followed in the program, of the rights and responsibilities...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2770.10
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2770.11
  (a) Each registered nurse who requests participation in a diversion program shall agree to cooperate with the rehabilitation program designed by the committee and approved...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2770.12
  (a) After the committee and the program manager in their discretion have determined that a registered nurse has successfully completed the diversion program, all records...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2770.13
  The board shall provide for the legal representation of any person making reports under this article to a committee or the board in any action...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2770.14
  (a) The board shall produce reports which include, but are not limited to, information concerning the number of cases accepted, denied, or terminated with compliance...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2775
  A nursing corporation is a corporation which is authorized to render professional services, as defined in Section 13401 of the Corporations Code, so long as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2776
  It shall constitute unprofessional conduct and a violation of this chapter for any person licensed under this chapter to violate, attempt to violate, directly or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2777
  A nursing corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which or the failure to do which would constitute unprofessional...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2778
  The name of a nursing corporation and any name or names under which it may render professional services shall contain the words "nursing" or "registered...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2779
  Except as provided in Sections 13401.5 and 13403 of the Corporations Code, each shareholder, director and officer of a nursing corporation, except an assistant secretary...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2780
  The income of a nursing corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shareholder is a disqualified person, as defined in Section 13401 of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2781
  The board may adopt and enforce regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of this article, including regulations requiring (a) that the bylaws of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2785
  The board shall prepare and maintain a list of approved schools of nursing in this state whose graduates, if they have the other necessary qualifications...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2785.5
  The board shall establish a workgroup, or use an existing committee, to encourage and facilitate efficient transfer agreements or other enrollment models between associate degree...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2786
  (a) An approved school of nursing is one that has been approved by the board, gives the course of instruction approved by the board, covering...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2786.6
  The board shall deny the application for approval made by, and shall revoke the approval given to, any school of nursing which: (a) Does not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2788
  It shall be the duty of the board, through its executive officer, to inspect all schools of nursing in this state at such times as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2789
  None of the provisions of this chapter shall be applicable to any school or schools conducted by any well recognized church or denomination for the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2795
  Except as provided in this chapter, it is unlawful for any person to do any of the following: (a) To practice or to offer to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2796
  It is unlawful for any person or persons not licensed or certified as provided in this chapter to use the title "registered nurse," the letters...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2797
  It is unlawful for a person to wilfully make any false representation or to impersonate any other person or permit or aid any person in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2798
  It is unlawful for anyone to conduct a school of nursing unless the school has been approved as an accredited school by the board. This...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2799
  Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon a conviction thereof shall be punished by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2800
  None of the sections in this article, except Sections 2796 and 2797, shall be applicable to any person or persons specifically exempted from the general...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2810
  There is established in the State Treasury a Board of Registered Nursing Fund. The California Board of Nursing Education and Nurse Registration Fund of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2811
  (a) Each person holding a regular renewable license under this chapter, whether in an active or inactive status, shall apply for a renewal of his...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2811.5
  (a) Each person renewing his or her license under Section 2811 shall submit proof satisfactory to the board that, during the preceding two-year period, he...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2811.6
  Providers of continuing education programs approved by the board pursuant to Section 2811.5 shall make available for board inspection records of continuing education courses given...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2812
  Within 10 days after the beginning of each month, the board shall report to the State Controller the amount and source of all collections made...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2814
  All money in the Board of Registered Nursing Fund is hereby appropriated to carry out the provisions of this chapter, and the promotion of nursing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2815
  Subject to the provisions of Section 128.5, the amount of the fees prescribed by this chapter in connection with the issuance of licenses for registered...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2815.1
  As provided in subdivision (d) of Section 2815, the Board of Registered Nursing shall collect an additional ten dollar ($10) assessment at the time of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2815.5
  The amount of the fees prescribed by this chapter in connection with the issuance of certificates as nurse-midwives is that fixed by the following schedule:...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2815.7
  The board shall report to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of each house of the Legislature whenever the board proposes or adopts an increase...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2816
  The nonrefundable fee to be paid by a registered nurse for an evaluation of his or her qualifications to use the title "public health nurse"...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2817
  The qualifications prescribed by the board under this article shall include a requirement that an applicant for employment as a public health nurse and all...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2818
  (a) The Legislature recognizes that public health nursing is a service of crucial importance for the health, safety, and sanitation of the population in all...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2819
  In order to effect a speedy and efficient transfer of public health nurse certification from the State Department of Health Services to the board, existing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2820
  Nothing in this article shall be construed as expanding the scope of practice of a registered nurse beyond that which is authorized under Section 2725.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2825
  This article may be cited as the Nurse Anesthetists Act.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2826
  As used in this article: (a) "Nurse anesthetist" means a person who is a registered nurse, licensed by the board and who has met standards...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2827
  The utilization of a nurse anesthetist to provide anesthesia services in an acute care facility shall be approved by the acute care facility administration and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2828
  In an acute care facility, a nurse anesthetist who is not an employee of the facility shall, nonetheless, be subject to the bylaws of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2829
  It is unlawful for any person or persons to advertise, use any title, sign, card, or device, or to otherwise hold himself or herself out...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2830
  The board shall issue a certificate to practice nurse anesthesia to any person who qualifies under this article and is licensed pursuant to the provisions...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2830.5
  Every applicant shall show by evidence satisfactory to the board that he or she has met the requirements of this article.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2830.6
  Notwithstanding Section 2830, the board shall certify all applicants who can show certification by the Council on Certification of Nurse Anesthetists or the Council on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2830.7
  The amount of the fees prescribed by this chapter in connection with the issuance of certificates as nurse anesthetists is that fixed by the following...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2831
  An applicant for certification pursuant to this article shall submit a written application in the form prescribed by the board, accompanied by the fee prescribed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2832
  Every applicant for a certificate to practice nurse anesthesia shall comply with all the provisions of this article in addition to the provisions of this
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2833
  Each certificate issued pursuant to this article shall be renewable biennially, and each person holding a certificate under this article shall apply for a renewal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2833.3
  Nothing in this article shall be construed to limit a certified nurse anesthetist's ability to practice nursing.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2833.5
  Except as provided in Section 2725 and in this section, the practice of nurse anesthetist does not confer authority to practice medicine or surgery.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2833.6
  This chapter is not intended to address the scope of practice of, and nothing in this chapter shall be construed to restrict, expand, alter, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2834
  The Legislature finds that various and conflicting definitions of the nurse practitioner are being created by state agencies and private organizations within California. The Legislature...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2835
  No person shall advertise or hold himself out as a "nurse practitioner" who is not a nurse licensed under this chapter and does not, in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2835.5
  (a) A registered nurse who is holding himself or herself out as a nurse practitioner or who desires to hold himself or herself out as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2835.7
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in addition to any other practices that meet the general criteria set forth in statute or regulation for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2836
  (a) The board shall establish categories of nurse practitioners and standards for nurses to hold themselves out as nurse practitioners in each category. Such standards...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2836.1
  Neither this chapter nor any other provision of law shall be construed to prohibit a nurse practitioner from furnishing or ordering drugs or devices when...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2836.2
  Furnishing or ordering of drugs or devices by nurse practitioners is defined to mean the act of making a pharmaceutical agent or agents available to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2836.3
  (a) The furnishing of drugs or devices by nurse practitioners is conditional on issuance by the board of a number to the nurse applicant who...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2837
  Nothing in this article shall be construed to limit the current scope of practice of a registered nurse authorized pursuant to this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2838
  No person shall advertise or hold himself or herself out as a "clinical nurse specialist" unless he or she is a nurse licensed under this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2838.1
  (a) On and after July 1, 1998, any registered nurse who holds himself or herself out as a clinical nurse specialist or who desires to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2838.2
  (a) A clinical nurse specialist is a registered nurse with advanced education, who participates in expert clinical practice, education, research, consultation, and clinical leadership as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2838.3
  This article shall become operative on July 1, 1998.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2838.4
  Nothing in this article shall be construed to limit, revise, or expand the current scope of practice of a registered nurse.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2840
  This chapter of the Business and Professions Code constitutes the chapter on vocational nursing and may be cited as the Vocational Nursing Practice Act.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2840.5
  (a) The Legislature hereby declares the practice of licensed vocational nursing to be a profession. (b) This section shall not be construed to affect the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2841
  (a) There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs a Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians of the State of California, consisting of 11...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2841.1
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians of the State of California in exercising...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2842
  (a) Each member of the board shall be a citizen of the United States and a resident of the State of California. The board shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2843
  Members of the board shall be appointed for a term of four years. Vacancies occurring shall be filled by appointment for the unexpired term. Appointments...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2845
  The Governor has the power to remove any member of the board from office for neglect of any duty required by law, or for incompetency,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2846
  The board at its first meeting after appointment, and annually thereafter at its first meeting in each year, shall elect from its members a president,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2847
  (a) The board shall select an executive officer who shall perform duties as are delegated by the board and who shall be responsible to it...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2848
  The board for the purpose of transacting its business shall meet at least twice each year, at times and places it designates by resolution.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2849
  Special meetings may be held at such times as the board may elect, or on the call of the president of the board, or of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2850
  Meetings may be held at any time and place by the written consent of all members of the board.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2851
  Six members of the board constitute a quorum for transaction of business at any meeting.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2852
  The board shall keep a record of all its proceedings, including a register of all applicants for licenses under this chapter and the action of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2853
  The office of the board shall be in the City of Sacramento. Suboffices may be established in Los Angeles and San Francisco and such records...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2854
  The board shall prosecute all persons guilty of violating the provisions of this chapter. It may employ such clerical assistance as it may deem necessary...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2855
  Each member of the board shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2857
  The board shall issue a license designated as licensed vocational nurse license.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2858
  The board shall accept in payment of any fee required by this chapter cash or any customary or generally accepted medium of exchange, including check,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2859
  The practice of vocational nursing within the meaning of this chapter is the performance of services requiring those technical, manual skills acquired by means of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2860
  This chapter confers no authority to practice medicine or surgery or to undertake the prevention, treatment or cure of disease, pain, injury, deformity, or mental...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2860.5
  A licensed vocational nurse when directed by a physician and surgeon may do all of the following: (a) Administer medications by hypodermic injection. (b) Withdraw...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2860.7
  (a) A licensed vocational nurse, acting under the direction of a physician may perform: (1) tuberculin skin tests, coccidioidin skin tests, and histoplasmin skin tests,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2861
  This chapter does not prohibit the performance of nursing services by any person not licensed under this chapter; provided, that such person shall not in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2861.5
  A person licensed under this chapter who in good faith renders emergency care at the scene of an emergency which occurs outside both the place...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2862
  Vocational nursing services may be rendered by a student enrolled in an approved school of vocational nursing when these services are incidental to his or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2863
  This chapter does not prohibit vocational nursing or the care of the sick, with or without compensation or personal profit, when done by the adherents...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2864
  Every licensee under this chapter may be known as a licensed vocational nurse and may place the letters "L.V.N." after his name.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2866
  An applicant for a licensed vocational nurse license shall comply with each of the following: (a) Be at least 17 years of age. (b) Have...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2867
  An applicant for a license authorizing him to practice vocational nursing in this State under this chapter, upon the filing of his application shall pay...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2867.5
  Every person to whom a license is issued after August 30, 1962, shall, as a condition precedent to its issuance, and in addition to any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2867.6
  After receiving the results of having passed the examination and upon receipt of the initial license fee required by subdivision (e) of Section 2895, the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2868
  The board shall hold not less than two examinations each year for applicants desirous of practicing vocational nursing in this State, at such times and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2870
  Examinations shall be written, but in the discretion of the board may be supplemented by an oral or practical examination in such subjects as the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2871
  Any applicant who fails to pass his first examination may take a second examination upon payment of the fee required by this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2872
  The board shall issue a license to each applicant who passes the examination. The form of the license shall be determined in accordance with Section
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2872.1
  The board upon written application and receipt of the required application fee may issue a license without examination to any applicant who possesses a valid,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2872.2
  An applicant for license by examination shall submit a written application in the form prescribed by the board. Provided that the application for licensure by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2873
  Any person possessing either the education or the experience, or any combination of both the education and the experience, equivalent to that acquired in an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2873.5
  Any person who has served on active duty in the medical corps of any of the armed forces, in which no less than an aggregate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2873.6
  (a) Any person who on the effective date of this section is employed as a medical technical assistant or as a senior medical technical assistant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2875
  Every licensee may be disciplined as provided in this article. The proceedings under this article shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 5 of Part...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2876
  The board shall discipline the holder of any license, whose default has been entered or who has been heard by the board and found guilty,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2877
  If the holder of a license is suspended, he shall not be entitled to practice vocational nursing during the term of suspension and shall return...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2878
  The board may suspend or revoke a license issued under this chapter for any of the following: (a) Unprofessional conduct, which includes, but is not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2878.1
  (a) If a licensed vocational nurse has knowledge that another person has committed any act prohibited by Section 2878, the licensed vocational nurse shall report...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2878.5
  In addition to other acts constituting unprofessional conduct within the meaning of this chapter, it is unprofessional conduct for a person licensed under this chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2878.6
  A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge substantially related to the qualifications, functions...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2878.7
  (a) A person whose license has been revoked, suspended, surrendered, or placed on probation, may petition the board for reinstatement or modification of the penalty,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2878.8
  The board may deny any application or may suspend or revoke any license issued under this chapter based upon the denial of licensure, suspension, restriction,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2878.9
  (a) The board may issue an initial license on probation, with specific terms and conditions, to any applicant who has violated any term of this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2879
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 2878 or any other provision of law, the board may revoke, suspend, or deny at any time a license under this chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2880
  The board shall prepare and maintain a list of approved schools of vocational nursing in this state whose graduates, if they have the other necessary...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2881
  An approved school of vocational nursing is one which has been approved by the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians of the State of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2881.1
  The board shall deny the application for approval made by, and shall revoke the approval given to, any school of vocational nursing that does not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2882
  The course of instruction of an approved school of vocational nursing shall consist of not less than the required number of hours of instruction in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2883
  It shall be the duty of the board, through an official representative, to inspect or review all schools of vocational nursing in this state at...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2884
  None of the provisions of this chapter shall be applicable to any school or schools conducted by any well recognized church or denomination for the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2885
  It is unlawful for any person or persons not licensed as provided in this chapter to impersonate in any manner or pretend to be a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2886
  It is unlawful for a person to wilfully make any false representation or to impersonate any other person or permit or aid any person in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2887
  Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon a conviction thereof shall be punished by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2890
  The Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2892
  Licenses issued under this chapter prior to January 1, 1974, shall, unless renewed, expire on the last day of the month following the month in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2892.1
  Except as provided in Sections 2892.3 and 2892.5, an expired license may be renewed at any time within four years after its expiration upon filing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2892.2
  A suspended license is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article, but such renewal does not entitle the licensee, while...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2892.3
  A revoked license is subject to expiration as provided in this article, but it may not be renewed. If it is reinstated after its expiration,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2892.4
  A license which is not renewed within four years after its expiration may not be renewed, restored, reissued, or reinstated thereafter, but the holder of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2892.5
  (a) Each person renewing his or her license under the provisions of this chapter shall submit proof satisfactory to the board that, during the preceding...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2892.6
  The board shall collect a biennial fee, not to exceed two hundred dollars ($200), from any provider of a course in continuing education who requests...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2893
  At least once in every calendar month, the board shall furnish the Controller a detailed statement of all moneys collected by the board under this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2894
  All money in the Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians Fund shall be used to carry out the provisions of this chapter, including the promotion of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2895
  The amount of the fees prescribed by this chapter in connection with the issuance of licenses under its provisions is that fixed by the following...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2895.1
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an applicant for license renewal who receives his or her license after payment by a check or money order...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2895.5
  As provided in subdivision (d) of Section 2895, the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians shall collect an additional five dollar ($5) assessment at...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2900
  The Legislature finds and declares that practice of psychology in California affects the public health, safety, and welfare and is to be subject to regulation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2901
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Psychology Licensing Law."
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2902
  As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise and except as in this chapter expressly otherwise provided the following definitions apply: (a)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2903
  No person may engage in the practice of psychology, or represent himself or herself to be a psychologist, without a license granted under this chapter,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2903.1
  A psychologist licensed under this chapter may use biofeedback instruments which do not pierce or cut the skin to measure physical and mental functioning.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2904
  The practice of psychology shall not include prescribing drugs, performing surgery or administering electroconvulsive therapy.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2904.5
  A psychologist licensed under this chapter is a licentiate for purposes of paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 805, and thus is a health...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2905
  The practice of psychology shall be as defined as in Section 2903, any existing statute in the State of California to the contrary notwithstanding.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2907
  Corporations shall have no professional rights, privileges, or powers, and shall not be permitted to practice psychology, nor shall the liability of any licensed psychologist...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2907.5
  Nothing in Section 2907 shall be deemed to apply to the acts of a psychological corporation practicing pursuant to the Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation Act, as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2908
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent qualified members of other recognized professional groups licensed to practice in the State of California, such...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2909
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as restricting or preventing activities of a psychological nature or the use of the official title of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2910
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to restrict or prevent activities of a psychological nature on the part of persons who are salaried employees...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2911
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as restricting the activities and services of a graduate student or psychological intern in psychology pursuing a course...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2912
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to restrict or prevent a person who is licensed as a psychologist at the doctoral level in another...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2913
  A person other than a licensed psychologist may be employed by a licensed psychologist, by a licensed physician and surgeon who is board certified in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2914
  Each applicant for licensure shall comply with all of the following requirements: (a) Is not subject to denial of licensure under Division 1.5. (b) Possess...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2914.1
  The board shall encourage every licensed psychologist to take a continuing education course in geriatric pharmacology as a part of his or her continuing education.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2914.2
  The board shall encourage licensed psychologists to take continuing education courses in psychopharmacology and biological basis of behavior as part of their continuing education.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2914.3
  (a) The board shall encourage institutions that offer a doctorate degree program in psychology to include in their biobehavioral curriculum, education and training in psychopharmacology...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2915
  (a) Except as provided in this section, on or after January 1, 1996, the board shall not issue any renewal license unless the applicant submits...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2915.5
  (a) Any applicant for licensure as a psychologist who began graduate study on or after January 1, 2004, shall complete, as a condition of licensure,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2915.7
  (a) A licensee who began graduate study prior to January 1, 2004, shall complete a three-hour continuing education course in aging and long-term care during...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2916
  If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect any of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2918
  The confidential relations and communications between psychologist and client shall be privileged as provided by Article 7 (commencing with Section 1010) of Chapter 4 of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2919
  A licensed psychologist shall retain a patient's health service records for a minimum of seven years from the patient's discharge date. If the patient is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2920
  The Board of Psychology shall enforce and administer this chapter. The board shall consist of nine members, four of whom shall be public members. This...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2920.1
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Board of Psychology in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever the protection...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2921
  Each member of the board shall hold office for a term of four years, and shall serve until the appointment and qualification of his or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2922
  In appointing the members of the board, except the public members, the Governor shall use his or her judgment to select psychologists who represent, as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2923
  Each member of the board shall have all of the following qualifications: (a) He or she shall be a resident of this state. (b) Each...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2924
  The Governor has power to remove from office any member of the board for neglect of any duty required by this chapter, for incompetency, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2925
  The board shall elect annually a president and vice president from among its members.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2926
  The board shall hold at least one regular meeting each year. Additional meetings may be held upon call of the chairman or at the written...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2927
  Five members of the board shall at all times constitute a quorum.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2927.5
  Notice of each regular meeting of the board shall be given in accordance with the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2928
  The board shall administer and enforce this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2929
  The board shall adopt a seal, which shall be affixed to all licenses issued by the board.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2930
  The board shall from time to time adopt rules and regulations as may be necessary to effectuate this chapter. In adopting rules and regulations the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2930.5
  (a) Any psychologist, who as a sole proprietor, or in a partnership, group, or professional corporation, desires to practice under any name that would otherwise...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2931
  The board shall examine and pass upon the qualifications of the applicants for a license as provided by this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2933
  Except as provided by Section 159.5, the board shall employ and shall make available to the board within the limits of the funds received by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2934
  Notwithstanding Section 112, the board may issue, biennially, a current geographical directory of licensed psychologists. The directory may be sent to licensees and to other...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2935
  Each member of the board shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2936
  The board shall adopt a program of consumer and professional education in matters relevant to the ethical practice of psychology. The board shall establish as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2940
  Each person desiring to obtain a license from the board shall make application to the board. The application shall be made upon a form and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2941
  Each applicant for a psychology license shall be examined by the board, and shall pay to the board, at least 30 days prior to the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2942
  The board may examine by written or computer-assisted examination or by both. All aspects of the examination shall be in compliance with Section 139. The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2943
  The board may examine for knowledge in whatever theoretical or applied fields in psychology as it deems appropriate. It may examine the candidate with regard...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2944
  The board shall grade the written examination and keep the written examination papers for at least one year, unless a uniform examination is conducted pursuant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2946
  The board shall grant a license to any person who passes the board's supplemental licensing examination and, at the time of application, has been licensed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2947
  The board may appoint qualified persons to give the whole or any portion of any examination provided for in this chapter, who shall be designated...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2948
  The board shall issue a license to all applicants who meet the requirements of this chapter and who pay to the board the initial license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2960
  The board may refuse to issue any registration or license, or may issue a registration or license with terms and conditions, or may suspend or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2960.05
  (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b), (c), and (e), any accusation filed against a licensee pursuant to Section 11503 of the Government Code shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2960.1
  Notwithstanding Section 2960, any proposed decision or decision issued under this chapter in accordance with the procedures set forth in Chapter 5 (commencing with Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2960.2
  (a) A licensee shall meet the requirements set forth in subdivision (f) of Section 1031 of the Government Code prior to performing either of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2960.5
  The board may refuse to issue any registration or license whenever it appears that an applicant may be unable to practice his or her profession...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2960.6
  The board may deny any application for, or may suspend or revoke a license or registration issued under this chapter for, any of the following:...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2961
  The board may deny an application for, or issue subject to terms and conditions, or suspend or revoke, or impose probationary conditions upon, a license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2962
  (a) A person whose license or registration has been revoked, suspended, or surrendered, or who has been placed on probation, may petition the board for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2963
  A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge which is substantially related to the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2964
  Whenever the board orders a license revoked for cause, with the exception of nonpayment of fees, or restores a license, these facts shall be reported...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2964.3
  Any person required to register as a sex offender pursuant to Section 290 of the Penal Code, is not eligible for licensure or registration by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2964.5
  The board at its discretion may require any licensee placed on probation or whose license is suspended, to obtain additional professional training, to pass an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2964.6
  An administrative disciplinary decision that imposes terms of probation may include, among other things, a requirement that the licensee who is being placed on probation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2965
  The proceedings under this article shall be conducted by the board in accordance with Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) of Part 1 of Division...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2966
  (a) A psychologist's license shall be suspended automatically during any time that the holder of the license is incarcerated after conviction of a felony, regardless...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2969
  (a) (1) A licensee who fails or refuses to comply with a request for the medical records of a patient, that is accompanied by that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2970
  Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2971
  Whenever any person other than a licensed psychologist has engaged in any act or practice that constitutes an offense against this chapter, the superior court...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2980
  There is in the State Treasury the Psychology Fund. The board shall report to the Controller at the beginning of each calendar month, for the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2981
  The money in the Psychology Fund shall be used for the administration of this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2982
  All licenses expire and become invalid at 12 midnight on the last day of February, 1980, and thereafter shall expire at 12 midnight of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2983
  Every person to whom a license is issued shall, as a condition precedent to its issuance, and in addition to any application, examination or other...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2984
  Except as provided in Section 2985, a license that has expired may be renewed at any time within three years after its expiration on filing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2985
  A suspended license is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article, but such renewal does not entitle the licensee, while...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2986
  A person who fails to renew his or her license within the three years after its expiration may not renew it, and it may not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2987
  The amount of the fees prescribed by this chapter shall be determined by the board, and shall be as follows: (a) The application fee for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2987.2
  In addition to the fees charged pursuant to Section 2987 for the biennial renewal of a license, the board shall collect an additional fee of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2987.3
  The following fees apply to fictitious-name permits issued under Section 2930.5. (a) The initial permit fee is an amount equal to the renewal fee in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2987.5
  Every person licensed under this chapter is exempt from the payment of the renewal fee in any one of the following instances: While engaged in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2988
  A licensed psychologist who for reasons, including, but not limited to, retirement, ill health, or absence from the state, is not engaged in the practice...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2989
  The fees in this article shall be fixed by the board and shall be set forth with the regulations which are duly adopted under this
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2995
  A psychological corporation is a corporation that is authorized to render professional services, as defined in Section 13401 of the Corporations Code, so long as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2996
  It shall constitute unprofessional conduct and a violation of this chapter for any person licensed under this chapter to violate, attempt to violate, directly or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2996.1
  A psychological corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which or the failure to do which would constitute unprofessional...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2996.2
  The income of a psychological corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shareholder is a disqualified person, as defined in Section 13401 of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2997
  Except as provided in Sections 13401.5 and 13403 of the Corporations Code, each shareholder, director and officer of a psychological corporation, except an assistant secretary...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2998
  The name of a psychological corporation and any name or names under which it may render professional services shall contain one of the words specified...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2999
  The board may adopt and enforce regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of this article, including regulations requiring (a) that the bylaws of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3000
  This chapter constitutes the chapter on optometry. It shall be known and may be cited as the Optometry Practice Act.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3001
  As used in this chapter, an ophthalmic lens is any lens which has a spherical, cylindrical or prismatic power or value.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3002
  As used in this chapter, a trial frame or test lens is any frame or lens used in testing the eye, which is not sold...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3003
  As used in this chapter, "optometrist" means a person who is licensed to practice optometry in this state under the authority of this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3004
  As used in this chapter, "board" means the State Board of Optometry.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3005
  As used in this chapter, "place of practice" means any location where optometry is practiced.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3006
  As used in this chapter, the term "advertise" and any of its variants include the use of a newspaper, magazine, or other publication, book, notice,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3007
  An optometrist shall retain a patient's records for a minimum of seven years from the date he or she completes treatment of the patient. If...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3010.1
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the State Board of Optometry in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3010.5
  (a) There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs a State Board of Optometry in which the enforcement of this chapter is vested. The board...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3011
  Members of the board, except the public members, shall be appointed only from persons who are registered optometrists of the State of California and actually...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3013
  (a) Each member of the board shall hold office for a term of four years, and shall serve until the appointment and qualification of his...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3014
  The board shall elect from its membership a president, a vice president, and a secretary who shall hold office for one year or until the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3014.6
  (a) The board may appoint a person exempt from civil service who shall be designated as an executive officer and who shall exercise the powers...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3016
  Each member of the board shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3017
  The board shall hold regular meetings every calendar quarter. Special meetings shall be held upon request of a majority of the members of the board...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3018
  The board shall keep an accurate record of all of its licensees, proceedings, and meetings.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3019
  The board shall keep a record of all prosecutions for violations of this chapter and of all applications for licensure and examination.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3023
  For the purposes of this chapter, the board shall accredit schools, colleges, and universities in or out of this state providing optometric education, that it...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3024
  The board may grant or refuse to grant certificates of registration as provided in this chapter and may revoke or suspend the certificate of registration...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3025
  The board may make and promulgate rules and regulations governing procedure of the board, the admission of applicants for examination for certificates of registration as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3025.1
  The board may adopt rules and regulations that are, in its judgment, reasonable and necessary to ensure that optometrists have the knowledge to adequately protect...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3025.2
  The board may adopt rules and regulations that are, in its judgment, reasonable and necessary to ensure that optometrists have the knowledge to adequately protect...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3025.5
  The board may adopt regulations prescribing minimum standards governing the optometric services offered or performed, the equipment, or the sanitary conditions, in all offices for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3025.6
  The board may adopt regulations clarifying the level of training and the level of supervision of assistants.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3025.7
  Except as provided in Sections 3102 and 3103, nothing contained in Section 651.3 shall be construed as authorizing the board to adopt, amend, or repeal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3026
  The board may adopt and use a common seal and establish a permanent office or offices.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3027
  The board shall employ an executive officer and other necessary assistance in the carrying out of the provisions of this chapter. The executive officer shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3028
  The Attorney General shall act as the legal counsel for the board and his or her services shall be a charge against it.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3040
  It is unlawful for a person to engage in the practice of optometry or to display a sign or in any other way to advertise...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3041
  (a) The practice of optometry includes the prevention and diagnosis of disorders and dysfunctions of the visual system, and the treatment and management of certain...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3041.1
  With respect to the practices set forth in subdivisions (b), (d), and (e) of Section 3041, optometrists diagnosing or treating eye disease shall be held...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3041.2
  (a) The State Board of Optometry shall by regulation, establish educational and examination requirements for licensure to insure the competence of optometrists to practice pursuant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3041.3
  (a) In order to be certified to use therapeutic pharmaceutical agents and authorized to diagnose and treat the conditions listed in subdivisions (b), (d), and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3042
  The provisions of this chapter do not prevent a licensed physician and surgeon from treating or fitting glasses to the human eye, or from doing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3042.5
  (a) The practice of persons actually enrolled as undergraduate or graduate students of optometry in the clinical departments of schools or colleges of optometry accredited...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3043
  The provisions of this chapter do not prohibit the sale of goggles, sun glasses, colored glasses or occupational eye-protective devices if they do not have...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3044
  A person over the age of 18 years desiring to engage in the practice of optometry in this state may file an application for examination...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3045
  Applications shall be verified by the oath of the applicant and shall contain information and evidence satisfactory to the board showing the eligibility of the
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3046
  In order to obtain a license to practice optometry in California, an applicant shall have graduated from an accredited school of optometry, passed the required...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3051
  All applicants for examination for a certificate of registration in accordance with the educational and examination requirements adopted pursuant to Section 3023.1 shall show the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3053
  All examinations shall be practical in character, designed to ascertain applicants' fitness to practice the profession of optometry and conducted in the English language. The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3054
  The passing grades for the licensure examination shall be based on psychometrically sound principles of establishing minimum qualifications and levels of competency. If an applicant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3055
  The board shall issue a license to an applicant who meets the requirements of this chapter, including the payment of the prescribed licensure, certification, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3056
  (a) The board may issue a license to practice optometry to a person who meets all of the following qualifications: (1) Has a degree as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3057
  (a) The board may issue a license to practice optometry to a person who meets all of the following requirements: (1) Has a degree as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3057.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the board shall permit a person who meets all of the following requirements to take the examinations for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3059
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the public health and safety would be served by requiring all holders of licenses to practice...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3060
  The board shall periodically develop and disseminate to all persons licensed to practice optometry information and educational material regarding all of the following: (a) The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3070
  (a) Before engaging in the practice of optometry, each licensed optometrist shall notify the board in writing of the address or addresses where he or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3070.1
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) "Health facility" means a health facility as defined in Section 1250...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3075
  An optometrist shall post in each location where he or she practices optometry, in an area that is likely to be seen by all patients...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3076
  A licensed optometrist shall deliver to each patient that makes a payment to the practice, excluding insurance copayments and deductibles, a receipt that contains all...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3077
  As used in this section "office" means any office or other place for the practice of optometry. (a) No person, singly or in combination with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3078
  (a) It is unlawful to practice optometry under a false or assumed name, or to use a false or assumed name in connection with the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3090
  Except as otherwise provided by law, the board may take action against all persons guilty of violating this chapter or any of the regulations adopted...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3091
  (a) The board may deny an optometrist license to any applicant guilty of unprofessional conduct or of any cause that would subject a licensee to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3092
  All proceedings against a licensee for any violation of this chapter or any of the regulations adopted by the board, or against an applicant for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3093
  Before setting aside the revocation or suspension of any certificate the board may require the applicant to pass the regular examination given for applicants for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3094
  In addition to other proceedings provided for in this chapter, whenever any person has engaged, or is about to engage, in any acts or practices...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3095
  In accordance with Section 125.9, the board may establish a system for the issuance of citations, and the assessment of administrative fines, as deemed appropriate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3096
  (a) A licensee may be ordered to undergo a professional competency examination if, after investigation and review by the Board of Optometry, there is reasonable...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3097
  The sending of a solicitor from house to house or the soliciting from house to house by the holder of an optometrist license constitutes a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3098
  When the holder uses the title of "Doctor" or "Dr." as a prefix to his name, without using the word "optometrist" as a suffix to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3099
  No optometrist shall advertise or otherwise hold himself or herself out to be a specialist in eye disease and the treatment thereof.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3100
  The holding out as having a special knowledge of optometry, as defined in this chapter, by the holder of a license, constitutes a cause to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3101
  It is unlawful to advertise by displaying a sign or otherwise or hold himself or herself out to be an optometrist without having at the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3102
  It is unlawful to advertise as being free or without cost the furnishing of optometric services where these services are contingent upon payment or other...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3103
  It is unlawful to include in any advertisement relating to the sale or disposition of goggles, sunglasses, colored glasses or occupational eye-protective devices, any words...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3104
  The employing of what are known as "cappers" or "steerers" to obtain business constitutes unprofessional conduct.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3105
  Altering or modifying the medical record of any person, with fraudulent intent, or creating any false medical record, with fraudulent intent, constitutes unprofessional conduct. In...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3106
  Knowingly making or signing any certificate or other document directly or indirectly related to the practice of optometry that falsely represents the existence or nonexistence...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3107
  It is unlawful to use or attempt to use any license issued by the board that has been purchased, fraudulently issued, counterfeited, or issued by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3108
  When the holder is suffering from a contagious or infectious disease, it constitutes a cause to suspend his or her license during the period of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3109
  Directly or indirectly accepting employment to practice optometry from any person not having a valid, unrevoked license as an optometrist or from any company or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3110
  The board may take action against any licensee who is charged with unprofessional conduct, and may deny an application for a license if the applicant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3111
  It is unprofessional conduct and a violation of this chapter for a person licensed under this chapter to violate, attempt to violate, assist in the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3120
  Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3137
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, any accusation filed against a licensee pursuant to Section 11503 of the Government Code for the violation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3145
  There is the Optometry Fund in the State Treasury. Unless otherwise provided, all money collected under the authority of this chapter shall be paid into...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3145.5
  Administrative fines collected pursuant to Section 3095 shall be deposited in the Optometry Fund. It is the legislative intent that moneys collected as fines and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3146
  A license issued under this chapter expires at midnight on the last day of the licenseholder's birth month following its original issuance and thereafter at...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3147
  Except as otherwise provided by Section 114, an expired license may be renewed at any time within three years after its expiration by filing an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3147.5
  A license that has been suspended is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article, but renewal does not entitle the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3147.6
  Except as otherwise provided by Section 114, a license that is not renewed within three years after its expiration may be restored thereafter, if no...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3147.7
  The provisions of Section 3147.6 shall not apply to a person holding a license that has not been renewed within three years of expiration, if...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3148
  From each fee for the renewal of a license for the biennial renewal of a license, there shall be paid the sum of sixteen dollars...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3150
  The department may make all necessary disbursements to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3152
  The amounts of fees and penalties prescribed by this chapter shall be established by the board in amounts not greater than those specified in the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3152.5
  The board may require each applicant for a certificate to use therapeutic pharmaceutical agents, pursuant to Section 3041.3, to pay an application fee, and may...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3160
  An optometric corporation is a corporation that is authorized to render professional services, as described in Sections 13401 and 13401.5 of the Corporations Code, if...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3163
  Except as provided in Section 3125, the name of an optometric corporation and any name or names under which it may be rendering professional services...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3164
  Except as provided in Sections 13401.5 and 13403 of the Corporations Code, each director, shareholder, and officer of an optometric corporation shall be a licensed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3165
  The income of an optometric corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shareholder is a disqualified person (as defined in the Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3166
  An optometric corporation shall not do or fail to do an act the doing of which or the failure to do which would constitute unprofessional...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3167
  The board may formulate and enforce rules and regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of this article, including rules and regulations requiring (a)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3500
  In its concern with the growing shortage and geographic maldistribution of health care services in California, the Legislature intends to establish in this chapter a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3500.5
  This chapter shall be known and cited as the Physician Assistant Practice Act.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3501
  (a) As used in this chapter: (1) "Board" means the Medical Board of California. (2) "Approved program" means a program for the education of physician...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3502
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a physician assistant may perform those medical services as set forth by the regulations of the board when...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3502.1
  (a) In addition to the services authorized in the regulations adopted by the board, and except as prohibited by Section 3502, while under the supervision...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3502.2
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a physician assistant may perform the physical examination and any other specified medical services that are required pursuant to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3502.3
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in addition to any other practices that meet the general criteria set forth in this chapter or the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3502.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a physician assistant may perform those medical services permitted pursuant to Section 3502 during any state of war emergency,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3503
  No person other than one who has been licensed to practice as a physician assistant shall practice as a physician assistant or in a similar...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3503.5
  (a) A person licensed under this chapter who in good faith renders emergency care at the scene of an emergency that occurs outside both the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3504
  There is established a Physician Assistant Committee of the Medical Board of California. The committee consists of nine members. This section shall remain in effect...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3504.1
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Physician Assistant Committee of the Medical Board of California in exercising its licensing, regulatory,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3505
  The members of the committee shall include one member of the Medical Board of California, a physician representative of a California medical school, an educator...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3506
  Each member of the committee shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3507
  The appointing power has power to remove from office any member of the committee, as provided in Section 106.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3508
  (a) The committee may convene from time to time as deemed necessary by the committee. (b) Notice of each meeting of the committee shall be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3509
  It shall be the duty of the committee to: (a) Establish standards and issue licenses of approval for programs for the education and training of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3509.5
  The committee shall elect annually a chairperson and a vice chairperson from among its members.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3510
  The committee may adopt, amend, and repeal regulations as may be necessary to enable it to carry into effect the provisions of this chapter; provided,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3511
  Five members shall constitute a quorum for transacting any business. The affirmative vote of a majority of those present at a meeting of the committee...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3512
  (a) Except as provided in Sections 159.5 and 2020, the committee shall employ within the limits of the Physician Assistant Fund all personnel necessary to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3513
  The committee shall recognize the approval of training programs for physician assistants approved by a national accrediting organization. Physician assistant training programs accredited by a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3514.1
  (a) The committee shall formulate by regulation guidelines for the consideration of applications for licensure as a physician's assistant. (b) The committee shall formulate by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3516
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a physician assistant licensed by the committee shall be eligible for employment or supervision by any physician and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3516.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law and in accordance with regulations established by the board, the director of emergency care services in a hospital...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3517
  The committee shall require a written examination of physician assistants in the manner and under the rules and regulations as it shall prescribe, but the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3518
  The committee shall keep current, two separate registers, one for approved supervising physicians and one for licensed physician's assistants, by specialty if applicable. These registers...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3519
  The committee shall issue under the name of the Medical Board of California a license to all physician assistant applicants who meet all of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3519.5
  (a) The committee may issue under the name of the board a probationary license to an applicant subject to terms and conditions, including, but not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3520
  Within 10 days after the beginning of each calendar month the board shall report to the Controller the amount and source of all collections made...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3521
  The fees to be paid for approval to supervise physician assistants are to be set by the committee as follows: (a) An application fee not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3521.1
  The fees to be paid by physician assistants are to be set by the committee as follows: (a) An application fee not to exceed twenty-five...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3521.2
  The fees to be paid by physician assistant training programs are to be set by the committee as follows: (a) An application fee not to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3521.5
  The committee shall report to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of each house of the Legislature whenever the board approves a fee increase pursuant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3522
  An approval to supervise physician assistants shall expire at 12 midnight on the last day of the birth month of the physician and surgeon during...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3523
  All physician assistant licenses shall expire at 12 midnight of the last day of the birth month of the licensee during the second year of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3524
  A license or approval that has expired may be renewed at any time within five years after its expiration by filing an application for renewal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3524.5
  The committee may require a licensee to complete continuing education as a condition of license renewal under Section 3523 or 3524. The committee shall not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3525
  A suspended license is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this chapter. However, such renewal does not entitle such holder, to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3526
  A person who fails to renew his or her license or approval within five years after its expiration may not renew it, and it may...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3527
  (a) The committee may order the denial of an application for, or the issuance subject to terms and conditions of, or the suspension or revocation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3528
  Any proceedings involving the denial, suspension, or revocation of the application for licensure or the license of a physician assistant, the application for approval or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3529
  The committee may hear any matters filed pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 3527, or may assign any such matter to a hearing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3530
  (a) A person whose license or approval has been revoked or suspended, or who has been placed on probation, may petition the committee for reinstatement...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3531
  A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge of a felony or of any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3532
  Any person who violates Section 3502, 3503, 3515, or 3516 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3533
  Whenever any person has engaged in any act or practice which constitutes an offense against this chapter, the superior court of any county, on application...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3534
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the examining committee shall seek ways and means to identify and rehabilitate physician assistants whose competency...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3534.1
  The examining committee shall establish and administer a diversion program for the rehabilitation of physician assistants whose competency is impaired due to the abuse of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3534.2
  (a) Any committee established by the examining committee shall have at least three members. In making appointments to a committee the examining committee shall consider...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3534.3
  Each committee has the following duties and responsibilities: (a) To evaluate physician assistants who request participation in the program and to make recommendations to the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3534.4
  Criteria for acceptance into the diversion program shall include all of the following: (a) the applicant shall be licensed as a physician assistant by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3534.5
  A participant may be terminated from the program for any of the following reasons: (a) the participant has successfully completed the treatment program; (b) the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3534.6
  In addition to the criteria and causes set forth in Section 3534.4, the examining committee may set forth in its regulations additional criteria for admission...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3534.7
  All examining committee and committee records and records of proceedings and participation of a physician assistant in a program shall be confidential and are not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3534.8
  A fee may be charged for participation in the program.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3534.9
  If the examining committee contracts with any other entity to carry out this section, the executive officer of the examining committee or the program manager...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3534.10
  Participation in a diversion program shall not be a defense to any disciplinary action which may be taken by the examining committee. This section does...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3535
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, physicians and surgeons licensed by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California may use or employ physician assistants provided...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3537.10
  (a) Subject to the other provisions of this article, the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, hereafter in this article referred to as the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3537.15
  (a) Prior to establishment of an ongoing international medical graduate physician assistant training program, the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development shall coordinate the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3537.20
  Any person who has satisfactorily completed the program established by this article shall be eligible for licensure by the committee as a "physician assistant" if...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3537.25
  Both the pilot and the ongoing training program shall provide training at no cost to the participants in return for a written, enforceable agreement by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3537.30
  (a) The Legislature recognizes that the goal of this program would be compromised if participants do not observe their commitments under this program to provide...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3537.35
  The Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development shall, in addition to other duties described in this article, do all of the following: (a) Determine...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3537.40
  The Physician Assistant Training Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury for the purpose of receipt of funds collected pursuant to paragraph (2) of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3537.45
  The program established pursuant to this article shall not be funded, directly or indirectly, from an increase in the fees charged to physician assistants, supervising...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3537.50
  No General Fund revenues shall be expended to carry out this article. The implementation of the pilot program and, if applicable, the permanent program established...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3540
  A physician assistants corporation is a corporation which is authorized to render professional services, as defined in Section 13401 of the Corporations Code, so long...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3541
  It shall constitute unprofessional conduct and a violation of this chapter for any person licensed under this chapter to violate, attempt to violate, directly or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3542
  A physician assistant corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which or the failure to do which would constitute...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3543
  The name of a physician assistant corporation and any name or names under which it may render professional services shall contain the words "physician assistant,"...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3544
  Except as provided in Sections 13401.5 and 13403 of the Corporations Code, each shareholder, director and officer of a physician assistant corporation, except an assistant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3545
  The income of a physician assistant corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shareholder is a disqualified person, as defined in Section 13401 of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3546
  The board may adopt and enforce regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of this article, including regulations requiring (a) that the bylaws of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3575
  (a) For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (1) "Board" means the Medical Board of California. (2) "Polysomnography" means the treatment,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3576
  (a) A registration under this chapter may be denied, suspended, revoked, or otherwise subjected to discipline for any of the following by the holder: (1)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3577
  (a) Each person who applies for registration under this chapter shall pay into the Contingent Fund of the Medical Board of California a fee to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3578
  Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit a clinic or health facility licensed pursuant to Division 2 (commencing with Section 1200) of the Health and Safety...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3579
  Nothing in this chapter shall apply to diagnostic electroencephalograms conducted in accordance with the guidelines of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3600
  The law governing licentiates of the Osteopathic Medical Board of California is found in the Osteopathic Act and in Chapter 5 of Division 2, relating...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3610
  This chapter may be cited as the Naturopathic Doctors Act.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3612
  The Naturopathic Medicine Committee is hereby created within the Osteopathic Medical Board of California.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3613
  The following definitions apply for the purposes of this chapter: (a) "Committee" means the Naturopathic Medicine Committee within the Osteopathic Medical Board of California. Any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3615
  The provisions of this chapter are severable. If any provision of this chapter or its application is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3620
  The committee shall enforce and administer the provisions of this chapter and shall be solely responsible for the implementation of this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3620.1
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the committee in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever the protection of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3621
  (a) The committee shall consist of nine members appointed by the Governor. Members of the committee shall include five members who are California licensed naturopathic...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3621.5
  The committee shall meet at least two times each calendar year and shall conduct additional meetings in appropriate locations that are necessary to transact its
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3622
  (a) The committee shall adopt regulations in order to carry out the purposes of this chapter. (b) Unless contrary to the provisions of this chapter,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3623
  (a) The committee shall approve a naturopathic medical education program accredited by the Council on Naturopathic Medical Education or an equivalent federally recognized accrediting body...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3624
  (a) The committee may grant a certificate of registration to practice naturopathic medicine to a person who does not hold a naturopathic doctor's license under...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3624.5
  (a) This chapter does not apply to a practitioner licensed as a naturopathic doctor in another state or country who meets both of the following...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3626
  The committee may employ other officers and employees as necessary to discharge the duties of the committee.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3627
  (a) The committee shall establish a naturopathic formulary advisory subcommittee to determine a naturopathic formulary based upon a review of naturopathic medical education and training....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3628
  (a) The committee shall establish a naturopathic childbirth attendance advisory subcommittee to issue recommendations concerning the practice of naturopathic childbirth attendance based upon a review...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3630
  An applicant for a license as a naturopathic doctor shall file with the committee a written application on a form provided by the committee that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3631
  An applicant for licensure shall pass the Naturopathic Physicians Licensing Examination (NPLEX) or an equivalent approved by the North American Board of Naturopathic Examiners. In...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3633
  The committee may grant a license to an applicant who is licensed and in good standing as a naturopathic doctor in another state, jurisdiction, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3633.1
  The committee may grant a license to an applicant who meets the requirements of Section 3630, but who graduated prior to 1986, pre-NPLEX, and passed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3634
  A license issued under this chapter shall be subject to renewal biennially as prescribed by the committee and shall expire unless renewed in that manner....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3635
  (a) In addition to any other qualifications and requirements for licensure renewal, the committee shall require the satisfactory completion of 60 hours of approved continuing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3636
  (a) Upon a written request, the committee may grant inactive status to a naturopathic doctor who is in good standing and who meets the requirements...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3637
  Only an individual may be licensed under this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3640
  (a) A naturopathic doctor may order and perform physical and laboratory examinations for diagnostic purposes, including, but not limited to, phlebotomy, clinical laboratory tests, speculum...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3640.1
  The committee shall make recommendations to the Legislature not later than January 1, 2007, regarding the potential development of scope and supervision requirements of a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3640.2
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a naturopathic assistant may do all of the following: (a) Administer medication only by intradermal, subcutaneous, or intramuscular injections...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3640.3
  (a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as authorizing the licensure of naturopathic assistants. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as authorizing the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3640.5
  Nothing in this chapter or any other provision of law shall be construed to prohibit a naturopathic doctor from furnishing or ordering drugs when all...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3640.7
  Notwithstanding the requirements of Section 3640.5 or any other provision of this chapter, a naturopathic doctor may independently prescribe epinephrine to treat anaphylaxis and natural...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3641
  (a) A naturopathic doctor shall document his or her observations, diagnosis, and summary of treatment in the patient record. Patient records shall be maintained for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3642
  A naturopathic doctor may not perform any of the following functions: (a) Prescribe, dispense, or administer a controlled substance or device identified in Sections 801...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3643
  This chapter may not be construed to authorize a naturopathic doctor to practice medicine, as defined under Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 2000), except as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3643.5
  (a) This chapter may not be construed to limit the practice of a person licensed, certified, or registered under any other provision of law relating...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3644
  This chapter does not prevent or restrict the practice, services, or activities of any of the following: (a) A person licensed, certified, or otherwise recognized...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3645
  (a) This chapter permits, and does not restrict the use of, the following titles by persons who are educated and trained as any of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3650
  A naturopathic doctor may perform naturopathic childbirth attendance if he or she has completed additional training and has been granted a certificate of specialty practice...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3651
  In order to be certified for the specialty practice of naturopathic childbirth attendance, a naturopathic doctor shall obtain a passing grade on the American College...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3651.5
  A naturopathic doctor certified for the specialty practice of naturopathic childbirth attendance shall do both of the following: (a) Maintain current certification in neonatal resuscitation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3652
  (a) A certificate of specialty practice in naturopathic childbirth attendance shall expire concurrently with the licensee's naturopathic doctor's license. (b) The certificate may be renewed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3653
  (a) Naturopathic childbirth attendance does not include the use or performance of any of the following: (1) Forceps delivery. (2) General or spinal anesthesia. (3)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3654
  In addition to Section 3640, a naturopathic doctor who holds a specialty certificate in naturopathic childbirth attendance may administer, order, or perform any of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3655
  (a) A licensee holding a speciality certificate in naturopathic childbirth attendance shall disclose to each client, in writing, the following: (1) The qualifications and credentials...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3660
  Except as provided in subdivision (h) of Section 3644, a person shall have a valid, unrevoked, or unsuspended license issued under this chapter to do...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3661
  A naturopathic doctor who uses the term or designation "Dr." shall further identify himself or herself as "Naturopathic Doctor," "Licensed Naturopathic Doctor," "Doctor of Naturopathic...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3662
  It shall constitute unprofessional conduct for a naturopathic doctor to violate, attempt to violate, assist in the violation of, or conspire to violate, any provision...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3663
  (a) The committee shall have the responsibility for reviewing the quality of the practice of naturopathic medicine carried out by persons licensed as naturopathic doctors...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3664
  A person who violates Section 3660 or 3661 is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not more...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3670
  A naturopathic corporation is a corporation that is authorized to render professional services, as defined in Section 13401 of the Corporations Code, if the corporation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3671
  A naturopathic corporation shall not engage in any conduct that constitutes unprofessional conduct. In the conduct of its practice, the naturopathic corporation shall comply with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3672
  The income of a naturopathic corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shareholder is a disqualified person, as defined in Section 13401 of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3673
  Except as provided in Section 13403 of the Corporations Code, each director, shareholder, and officer of a naturopathic corporation, except an assistant secretary and an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3674
  The name of a naturopathic corporation and any name or names under which it may render professional services, shall contain the words "naturopathic" or "naturopathic...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3675
  The committee may adopt and enforce regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of this article, including, but not limited to, regulations requiring the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3680
  The committee shall establish the amount of the fee assessed to conduct activities of the committee, including the amount of fees for applicant licensure, licensure...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3681
  (a) All fees collected by the committee shall be paid into the State Treasury and shall be credited to the Naturopathic Doctor's Fund which is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3685
  (a) The repeal of this chapter renders the committee subject to the review required by Division 1.2 (commencing with Section 473). (b) The committee shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3686
  This chapter shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2014, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3700
  This chapter may be cited as the "Respiratory Care Practice Act."
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3701
  The Legislature finds and declares that the practice of respiratory care in California affects the public health, safety, and welfare and is to be subject...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3702
  Respiratory care as a practice means a health care profession employed under the supervision of a medical director in the therapy, management, rehabilitation, diagnostic evaluation,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3702.7
  Mechanical or physiological ventilatory support as used in subdivision (d) of Section 3702 includes, but is not limited to, any system, procedure, machine, catheter, equipment,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3703
  (a) The settings in which respiratory care may be practiced include licensed health care facilities, hospitals, clinics, ambulatory or home health care, physicians' offices, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3704
  As used in this chapter, these terms shall be defined as follows: (a) "Board" means the Respiratory Care Board of California. (b) "Department" means the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3705
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as authorizing a respiratory care practitioner to practice medicine, surgery, or any other form of healing, except as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3706
  A person licensed under this chapter who in good faith renders emergency care at the scene of an emergency which occurs outside both the place...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3710
  (a) The Respiratory Care Board of California, hereafter referred to as the board, shall enforce and administer this chapter. (b) This section shall remain in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3710.1
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Respiratory Care Board of California in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3711
  The members of the board shall be the following: one physician and surgeon, four respiratory care practitioners, each of whom shall have practiced respiratory care...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3712
  The members of the board shall be appointed as follows: (a) Two respiratory care practitioners and one public member shall be appointed by the Speaker...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3713
  (a) The public members shall be appointed from persons having the following qualifications: (1) Be a citizen of the United States of America. (2) Be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3715
  Each member of the board shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3716
  The board may employ an executive officer exempt from civil service and, subject to the provisions of law relating to civil service, clerical assistants and,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3717
  (a) The board, or any licensed respiratory care practitioner, enforcement staff, or investigative unit appointed by the board, may inspect, or require reports from, a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3718
  The board shall issue, deny, suspend, and revoke licenses to practice respiratory care as provided in this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3719
  Each person renewing his or her license shall submit proof satisfactory to the board that, during the preceding two-year period, he or she completed the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3719.5
  The board may require successful completion of one or more professional courses offered by the board, the American Association for Respiratory Care, or the California...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3720
  The board shall hold at least one regular meeting annually. The board may convene from time to time until its business is concluded. Special meetings...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3722
  The board shall adopt any regulations as may be necessary to effectuate this chapter. In adopting rules and regulations, the board shall comply with Chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3730
  All licenses for the practice of respiratory care in this state shall be issued by the board, and all applications for those licenses shall be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3731
  A person holding a license as a respiratory care practitioner issued by the board shall use the title "respiratory care practitioner" or the letters "RCP"....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3732
  (a) The board shall investigate an applicant for a license, before a license is issued, in order to determine whether or not the applicant has...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3735
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, no applicant shall receive a license under this chapter without first successfully passing the national respiratory therapist examination...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3735.5
  The requirements to pass the written examination shall not apply to an applicant who at the time of his or her application has passed, to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3739
  (a) (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, every person who has filed an application for licensure with the board may, between the dates...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3740
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, all applicants for licensure under this chapter shall have completed an education program for respiratory care that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3741
  (a) During the period of any clinical training, respiratory care services may be rendered by a student enrolled in an approved respiratory care training program...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3742
  During the period of any clinical training, a student respiratory care practitioner shall be under the direct supervision of a person holding a valid and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3750
  The board may order the denial, suspension, or revocation of, or the imposition of probationary conditions upon, a license issued under this chapter, for any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3750.5
  In addition to any other grounds specified in this chapter, the board may deny, suspend, place on probation, or revoke the license of any applicant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3750.51
  (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b), (c), and (e), any accusation filed against a licensee pursuant to Section 11503 of the Government Code shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3750.6
  Upon request, every holder of a pocket license shall produce for inspection the original pocket license issued by the board. A facsimile of the license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3751
  (a) A person whose license has been revoked, surrendered, or suspended, or placed on probation, may petition the board for reinstatement, modification, or termination of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3751.5
  Notwithstanding Section 489, a person whose application for licensure has been denied for cause may reapply to the board for licensure only after a period...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3752
  A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge of any offense which substantially relates...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3752.5
  For purposes of Division 1.5 (commencing with Section 475), and this chapter, a crime involving bodily injury or attempted bodily injury shall be considered a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3752.6
  For purposes of Division 1.5 (commencing with Section 475), and this chapter, a crime involving sexual misconduct or attempted sexual misconduct, whether or not with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3752.7
  Notwithstanding Section 3750, any proposed decision or decision issued under this chapter in accordance with the procedures set forth in Chapter 5 (commencing with Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3753
  The procedure in all matters and proceedings relating to the denial, suspension, or revocation of licenses under this chapter shall be governed by the provisions...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3753.1
  (a) An administrative disciplinary decision imposing terms of probation may include, among other things, a requirement that the licensee-probationer pay the monetary costs associated with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3753.5
  (a) In any order issued in resolution of a disciplinary proceeding before the board, the board or the administrative law judge may direct any practitioner...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3753.7
  For purposes of this chapter, costs of prosecution shall include attorney general or other prosecuting attorney fees, expert witness fees, and other administrative, filing, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3754
  The board may deny an application for, or issue with terms and conditions, or suspend or revoke, or impose probationary conditions upon, a license in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3754.5
  The board shall initiate action against any licensee who obtains a license by fraud or misrepresentation. The board shall take action against any licensee whose...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3755
  The board may take action against any respiratory care practitioner who is charged with unprofessional conduct in administering, or attempting to administer, direct or indirect...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3756
  (a) A respiratory care practitioner who provides respiratory care may be ordered to undergo a professional competency examination approved by the board if, after investigation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3757
  The board may refuse to issue a license or an authorization to work as a "respiratory care practitioner applicant" whenever it appears that the applicant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3758
  (a) Any employer of a respiratory care practitioner shall report to the Respiratory Care Board the suspension or termination for cause of any practitioner in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3758.5
  If a licensee has knowledge that another person may be in violation of, or has violated, any of the statutes or regulations administered by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3758.6
  (a) In addition to the reporting required under Section 3758, an employer shall also report to the board the name, professional licensure type and number,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3759
  Pursuant to Section 43.8 of the Civil Code, no person shall incur any civil penalty as a result of making any report required by this
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3760
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, no person shall engage in the practice of respiratory care, respiratory therapy, or inhalation therapy. For purposes...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3761
  (a) No person may practice respiratory care or represent himself or herself to be a respiratory care practitioner in this state, without a valid license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3762
  Nothing in this chapter is intended to limit, preclude, or otherwise interfere with the practices of other licensed personnel in carrying out authorized and customary...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3763
  Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3764
  Whenever any person has engaged or is about to engage in any acts or practices that constitute or will constitute an offense against this chapter,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3765
  This act does not prohibit any of the following activities: (a) The performance of respiratory care that is an integral part of the program of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3766
  (a) The board may issue a citation containing an order of abatement and civil penalties against a person who acts in the capacity of, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3767
  (a) The board shall issue a citation to a person and to his or her employer or contractor, if, upon inspection or investigation, either upon...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3768
  (a) After the exhaustion of the review procedures provided for in Section 3767, and as adopted by regulation, the board may apply to the appropriate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3769.3
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision, the board may, by stipulation with the affected licensee, issue a public reprimand, after it has conducted an investigation, in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3770
  The department shall keep a record of its proceedings under this chapter, and a register of all persons licensed under it. The register shall show...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3771
  Within 10 days after the beginning of each calendar month, the board shall report to the Controller the amount and source of all collections made...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3772
  (a) There is established in the State Treasury the Respiratory Care Fund. All collections from persons licensed or seeking to be licensed under this chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3773
  (a) At the time of application for renewal of a respiratory care practitioner license, the licensee shall notify the board of all of the following:...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3774
  On or before the birthday of a licensed practitioner in every other year, following the initial licensure, the board shall mail to each practitioner licensed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3775
  The amount of fees provided in connection with licenses or approvals for the practice of respiratory care shall be as follows: (a) The application fee...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3775.5
  The fee for an inactive license shall be the same as the renewal fee for the practice of respiratory care as specified in Section 3775.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3775.6
  (a) A licensee may request that his or her license be placed in a "retired" status at any time, provided the license has not been...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3776
  (a) Any person who submits to the board a check for fees that is returned unpaid shall pay all subsequent required fees by cashier' s...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3777
  Where an applicant is issued a license to practice respiratory care, and it is later discovered that all required fees have not been paid, approved...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3778
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board may contract with a collection service for the purpose of collecting outstanding fees, fines, or cost recovery...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3779
  For purposes of license verification, a person may rely upon the licensing information as it is displayed on the board's Internet Web site that includes...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4000
  This chapter constitutes, and may be cited as, the Pharmacy Law.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4001
  (a) There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs a California State Board of Pharmacy in which the administration and enforcement of this chapter is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4001.1
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the California State Board of Pharmacy in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4001.5
  The Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection shall review the state's shortage of pharmacists and make recommendations on a course of action to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4002
  (a) The board shall elect a president, a vice president, and a treasurer. The officers of the board shall be elected by a majority of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4003
  (a) The board, with the approval of the director, may appoint a person exempt from civil service who shall be designated as an executive officer...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4004
  No member of the board shall teach pharmacy in any of its branches, unless he or she teaches as either one of the following: (a)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4005
  (a) The board may adopt rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the laws of this state, as may be necessary for the protection of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4006
  The board may adopt regulations consistent with this chapter and Section 111485 of the Health and Safety Code or regulations adopted thereunder, limiting or restricting...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4007
  (a) Nothing in Section 4005 shall be construed as authorizing the board to adopt rules of professional conduct relating to price fixing or advertising of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4008
  (a) Except as provided by Section 159.5, the board may employ inspectors of pharmacy. The inspectors, whether the inspectors are employed by the board or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4009
  The board may not adopt or amend any rule or regulation that thereby would conflict with Section 1186 of the Labor Code.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4010
  All authorized officers of the law, while investigating violations of this chapter in performance of their official duties, and any person working under their immediate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4011
  The board shall administer and enforce this chapter and the Uniform Controlled Substances Act (Division 10 (commencing with Section 11000) of the Health and Safety
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4012
  The board shall upon request furnish any person with a copy of the laws or regulations relating to dangerous drugs, the furnishing or possession of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4013
  (a) Any facility licensed by the board shall join the board's e-mail notification list within 60 days of obtaining a license or at the time...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4015
  For purposes of this chapter, the definitions of the terms in this article shall govern the construction of this chapter, unless otherwise indicated.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4016
  "Administer" means the direct application of a drug or device to the body of a patient or research subject by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or other
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4017
  "Authorized officers of the law" means inspectors of the California State Board of Pharmacy, inspectors of the Food and Drug Branch of the State Department...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4018
  "Board" means the California State Board of Pharmacy.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4019
  An "order," entered on the chart or medical record of a patient registered in a hospital or a patient under emergency treatment in the hospital,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4021
  "Controlled substance" means any substance listed in Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11053) of Division 10 of the Health and Safety Code.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4022
  "Dangerous drug" or "dangerous device" means any drug or device unsafe for self-use in humans or animals, and includes the following: (a) Any drug that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4022.5
  (a) "Designated representative" means an individual to whom a license has been granted pursuant to Section 4053. A pharmacist fulfilling the duties of Section 4053...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4023
  "Device" means any instrument, apparatus, machine, implant, in vitro reagent, or contrivance, including its components, parts, products, or the byproducts of a device, and accessories...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4023.5
  For the purposes of this chapter, "direct supervision and control" means that a pharmacist is on the premises at all times and is fully aware...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4024
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), "dispense" means the furnishing of drugs or devices upon a prescription from a physician, dentist, optometrist, podiatrist, veterinarian,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4025
  "Drug" means any of the following: (a) Articles recognized in the official United States Pharmacopoeia, official National Formulary or official Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4025.1
  "Nonprescription drug" means a drug which may be sold without a prescription and which is labeled for use by the consumer in accordance with the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4026
  "Furnish" means to supply by any means, by sale or otherwise.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4026.5
  "Good standing" means a license issued by the board that is unrestricted by disciplinary action taken pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4027
  (a) As used in this chapter, the terms "skilled nursing facility," "intermediate care facility," and other references to health facilities shall be construed with respect...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4028
  "Licensed hospital" means an institution, place, building, or agency that maintains and operates organized facilities for one or more persons for the diagnosis, care, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4029
  (a) "Hospital pharmacy" means and includes a pharmacy, licensed by the board, located within any licensed hospital, institution, or establishment that maintains and operates organized...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4030
  "Intern pharmacist" means a person issued a license pursuant to Section 4208.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4031
  "Laboratory" means a research, teaching, or testing laboratory not engaged in the dispensing or furnishing of drugs or devices but using dangerous drugs or dangerous...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4032
  "License" means and includes any license, permit, registration, certificate, or exemption issued by the board and includes the process of applying for and renewing the
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4033
  (a) (1) "Manufacturer" means and includes every person who prepares, derives, produces, compounds, or repackages any drug or device except a pharmacy that manufactures on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4034
  (a) "Pedigree" means a record, in electronic form, containing information regarding each transaction resulting in a change of ownership of a given dangerous drug, from...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4034.1
  (a) (1) Upon the effective date of federal legislation or adoption of a federal regulation addressing pedigree or serialization measures for dangerous drugs, Sections 4034,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4035
  "Person" includes firm, association, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, state governmental agency, or political subdivision.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4036
  "Pharmacist" means a natural person to whom a license has been issued by the board, under Section 4200, except as specifically provided otherwise in this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4036.5
  "Pharmacist-in-charge" means a pharmacist proposed by a pharmacy and approved by the board as the supervisor or manager responsible for ensuring the pharmacy's compliance with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4037
  (a) "Pharmacy" means an area, place, or premises licensed by the board in which the profession of pharmacy is practiced and where prescriptions are compounded....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4038
  (a) "Pharmacy technician" means an individual who assists a pharmacist in a pharmacy in the performance of his or her pharmacy related duties, as specified...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4039
  "Physicians," "dentists," "optometrists," "pharmacists," "podiatrists," "veterinarians," "veterinary surgeons," "registered nurses," "naturopathic doctors," and "physician's assistants" are persons authorized by a currently valid and unrevoked license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4040
  (a) "Prescription" means an oral, written, or electronic transmission order that is both of the following: (1) Given individually for the person or persons for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4040.5
  "Reverse distributor" means every person who acts as an agent for pharmacies, drug wholesalers, manufacturers, and other entities by receiving, inventorying, and managing the disposition...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4041
  "Veterinary food-animal drug retailer" is an area, place, or premises, other than a pharmacy, that holds a valid license from the Board of Pharmacy of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4042
  "Veterinary food-animal drugs" as used in this chapter shall include the following: (a) Any drug to be used in food-producing animals bearing the legend, "Caution,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4043
  (a) "Wholesaler" means and includes a person who acts as a wholesale merchant, broker, jobber, customs broker, reverse distributor, agent, or a nonresident wholesaler, who...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4044
  "Repackager" means a person or entity that is registered with the federal Food and Drug Administration as a repackager and operates an establishment that packages...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4045
  "Third-party logistics provider" or "reverse third-party logistic provider" means an entity licensed as a wholesaler that contracts with a dangerous drug manufacturer to provide or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4050
  (a) In recognition of and consistent with the decisions of the appellate courts of this state, the Legislature hereby declares the practice of pharmacy to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4051
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, it is unlawful for any person to manufacture, compound, furnish, sell, or dispense any dangerous drug or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4052
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacist may: (1) Furnish a reasonable quantity of compounded drug product to a prescriber for office use...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4052.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacist may perform the following procedures or functions in a licensed health care facility in accordance with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4052.2
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacist may perform the following procedures or functions as part of the care provided by a health...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4052.3
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacist may furnish emergency contraception drug therapy in accordance with either of the following: (1) Standardized procedures...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4052.4
  Notwithstanding Section 2038 or any other provision of law, a pharmacist may perform skin puncture in the course of performing routine patient assessment procedures or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4052.5
  (a) In addition to the authority allowed under Section 4073, a pharmacist filling a prescription order for a drug product may select a different form...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4052.7
  (a) A pharmacy may, at a patient's request, repackage a drug previously dispensed to the patient or to the patient's agent pursuant to a prescription....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4053
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 4051, the board may issue a license as a designated representative to provide sufficient and qualified supervision in a wholesaler or veterinary...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4054
  Section 4051 shall not apply to a manufacturer or wholesaler that provides dialysis drugs and devices directly to patients.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4055
  Nothing in this chapter, nor any other law, shall prohibit the sale of devices to clinics that have been issued a clinic license pursuant to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4056
  (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, a licensed hospital that contains 100 beds or fewer, and that does not employ a full-time pharmacist, may...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4057
  (a) Except as provided in Sections 4006, 4240, and 4342, this chapter does not apply to the retail sale of nonprescription drugs that are not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4058
  Every person holding a license issued under this chapter to operate a premises shall display the original license and current renewal license upon the licensed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4059
  (a) A person may not furnish any dangerous drug, except upon the prescription of a physician, dentist, podiatrist, optometrist, veterinarian, or naturopathic doctor pursuant to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4059.5
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, dangerous drugs or dangerous devices may only be ordered by an entity licensed by the board and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4060
  No person shall possess any controlled substance, except that furnished to a person upon the prescription of a physician, dentist, podiatrist, optometrist, veterinarian, or naturopathic...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4061
  (a) No manufacturer's sales representative shall distribute any dangerous drug or dangerous device as a complimentary sample without the written request of a physician, dentist,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4062
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 4059 or any other provision of law, a pharmacist may, in good faith, furnish a dangerous drug or dangerous device in reasonable...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4063
  No prescription for any dangerous drug or dangerous device may be refilled except upon authorization of the prescriber. The authorization may be given orally or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4064
  (a) A prescription for a dangerous drug or dangerous device may be refilled without the prescriber's authorization if the prescriber is unavailable to authorize the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4065
  (a) "Injection card system," as used in this section, means a system that enables a facility to authorize an outpatient to receive injections of controlled...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4066
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 4059, a wholesaler or pharmacy may furnish dangerous drugs to the master or first officer of an ocean vessel, pursuant to a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4067
  (a) No person or entity shall dispense or furnish, or cause to be dispensed or furnished, dangerous drugs or dangerous devices, as defined in Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4068
  (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, a prescriber may dispense a dangerous drug, including a controlled substance, to an emergency room patient if all...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4070
  (a) Except as provided in Section 4019 and subdivision (b), an oral or an electronic data transmission prescription as defined in subdivision (c) of Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4071
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a prescriber may authorize his or her agent on his or her behalf to orally or electronically transmit a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4071.1
  (a) A prescriber, a prescriber's authorized agent, or a pharmacist may electronically enter a prescription or an order, as defined in Section 4019, into a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4072
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacist, registered nurse, licensed vocational nurse, licensed psychiatric technician, or other healing arts licentiate, if so authorized...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4073
  (a) A pharmacist filling a prescription order for a drug product prescribed by its trade or brand name may select another drug product with the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4074
  (a) A pharmacist shall inform a patient orally or in writing of the harmful effects of a drug dispensed by prescription if the drug poses...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4075
  No prescription for a controlled substance transmitted by means of an oral or electronically transmitted order shall be furnished to any person unknown and unable...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4076
  (a) A pharmacist shall not dispense any prescription except in a container that meets the requirements of state and federal law and is correctly labeled...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4076.5
  (a) The board shall promulgate regulations that require, on or before January 1, 2011, a standardized, patient-centered, prescription drug label on all prescription medicine dispensed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4077
  (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), no person shall dispense any dangerous drug upon prescription except in a container correctly labeled with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4078
  (a) (1) No person shall place a false or misleading label on a prescription. (2) No prescriber shall direct that a prescription be labeled with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4080
  All stock of any dangerous drug or dangerous device or of shipments through a customs broker or carrier shall be, at all times during business...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4081
  (a) All records of manufacture and of sale, acquisition, or disposition of dangerous drugs or dangerous devices shall be at all times during business hours...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4082
  When called upon by an inspector, the owner or manager of any entity licensed by the board, or other store, shop, building, or premises retailing,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4083
  (a) An inspector may issue an order of correction to a licensee directing the licensee to comply with this chapter or regulations adopted pursuant to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4084
  (a) When a board inspector finds, or has probable cause to believe, that any dangerous drug or dangerous device is adulterated, misbranded, or counterfeit, the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4085
  (a) It is unlawful for any person to remove, sell, or dispose of an embargoed dangerous drug or dangerous device without permission of the board....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4086
  (a) If a dangerous drug or dangerous device is alleged to be adulterated or counterfeit, the board shall commence proceedings in the superior court in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4100
  (a) Within 30 days after changing his or her address of record with the board or after changing his or her name according to law,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4101
  (a) A pharmacist may take charge of and act as the pharmacist-in-charge of a pharmacy upon application by the pharmacy and approval by the board....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4103
  Notwithstanding Section 2038, or any other provision of law, a pharmacist may take a person's blood pressure and may inform the person of the results,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4104
  (a) Every pharmacy shall have in place procedures for taking action to protect the public when a licensed individual employed by or with the pharmacy...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4105
  (a) All records or other documentation of the acquisition and disposition of dangerous drugs and dangerous devices by any entity licensed by the board shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4106
  For purposes of license verification, a person may rely upon the licensing information as it is displayed on the board's Internet Web site that includes...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4107
  The board may not issue more than one site license to a single premises except to issue a veterinary food-animal drug retailer license to a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4110
  (a) No person shall conduct a pharmacy in the State of California unless he or she has obtained a license from the board. A license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4111
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), (d), or (e), the board shall not issue or renew a license to conduct a pharmacy to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4112
  (a) Any pharmacy located outside this state that ships, mails, or delivers, in any manner, controlled substances, dangerous drugs, or dangerous devices into this state...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4113
  (a) Every pharmacy shall designate a pharmacist-in-charge and, within 30 days thereof, shall notify the board in writing of the identity and license number of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4114
  (a) An intern pharmacist may perform all functions of a pharmacist at the discretion of and under the direct supervision and control of a pharmacist...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4115
  (a) A pharmacy technician may perform packaging, manipulative, repetitive, or other nondiscretionary tasks, only while assisting, and while under the direct supervision and control of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4115.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacy technician trainee may be placed in a pharmacy to complete an externship for the purpose of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4116
  (a) No person other than a pharmacist, an intern pharmacist, an authorized officer of the law, or a person authorized to prescribe shall be permitted...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4117
  No person other than a pharmacist, an intern pharmacist, a pharmacy technician, an authorized officer of the law, a person authorized to prescribe, a registered...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4118
  (a) When, in the opinion of the board, a high standard of patient safety, consistent with good patient care, can be provided by the licensure...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4119
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacy may furnish a dangerous drug or dangerous device to a licensed health care facility for storage...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4119.1
  (a) A pharmacy may provide pharmacy services to a health facility licensed pursuant to subdivision (c), (d), or both, of Section 1250 of the Health...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4119.2
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacy may furnish epinephrine auto-injectors to a school district or county office of education pursuant to Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4119.5
  (a) A pharmacy can transfer a reasonable supply of dangerous drugs to another pharmacy. (b) A pharmacy may repackage and furnish to a prescriber a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4120
  (a) A nonresident pharmacy shall not sell or distribute dangerous drugs or dangerous devices in this state through any person or media other than a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4121
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 651, an advertisement of the retail price for a drug that requires a prescription shall be limited to quantities of the drug...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4122
  (a) In every pharmacy there shall be prominently posted in a place conspicuous to, and readable by, prescription drug consumers a notice provided by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4123
  Any pharmacy that contracts to compound a drug for parenteral therapy, pursuant to a prescription, for delivery to another pharmacy shall report that contractual arrangement...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4124
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 2543, a pharmacist may dispense replacement contact lenses pursuant to a valid prescription of a physician or optometrist. Nothing in this section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4125
  (a) Every pharmacy shall establish a quality assurance program that shall, at a minimum, document medication errors attributable, in whole or in part, to the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4126
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a covered entity may contract with a pharmacy to provide pharmacy services to patients of the covered entity,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4126.5
  (a) A pharmacy may furnish dangerous drugs only to the following: (1) A wholesaler owned or under common control by the wholesaler from whom the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4127
  The board shall adopt regulations establishing standards for compounding injectable sterile drug products in a pharmacy.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4127.1
  (a) A pharmacy shall not compound injectable sterile drug products in this state unless the pharmacy has obtained a license from the board pursuant to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4127.2
  (a) A nonresident pharmacy may not compound injectable sterile drug products for shipment into the State of California without a license issued by the board...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4127.3
  (a) Whenever the board has a reasonable belief, based on information obtained during an inspection or investigation by the board, that a pharmacy compounding injectable...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4127.4
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a violation of this article, or regulations adopted pursuant thereto, may subject the person or entity that committed the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4127.6
  This article shall become operative upon the allocation of positions to the board for the implementation of the provisions of this article in the annual...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4127.7
  On and after July 1, 2005, a pharmacy shall compound sterile injectable products from one or more nonsterile ingredients in one of the following environments:...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4127.8
  The board may, at its discretion, issue a temporary license to compound injectable sterile drug products, when the ownership of a pharmacy that is licensed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4141
  No person shall furnish hypodermic needles or syringes, by sale or otherwise, without a license issued by the board, except as otherwise provided by this
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4142
  Except as otherwise provided by this article, no hypodermic needle or syringe shall be sold at retail except upon the prescription of a physician, dentist,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4143
  This article shall not apply to the sale of hypodermic syringes and needles at wholesale by pharmacies, drug wholesalers, drug manufacturers or manufacturers and dealers...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4144
  (a) A person may sell or obtain hypodermic needles and hypodermic syringes without a prescription or permit, for uses that the board determines are industrial,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4144.5
  (a) A person may sell or obtain hypodermic needles and hypodermic syringes without a prescription or permit, for uses that the board determines are industrial,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4145
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacist or physician may, without a prescription or a permit, furnish hypodermic needles and syringes for human...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4145.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacist or physician may, without a prescription or a permit, furnish hypodermic needles and syringes for human...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4146
  A pharmacy may accept the return of needles and syringes from the public if contained in a sharps container, as defined in Section 117750 of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4147
  (a) For the purposes of this section, "playground" means any park or outdoor recreational area specifically designed to be used by children that has play...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4148
  (a) All stocks of hypodermic needles or syringes shall be confiscated if found outside the licensed premises of any person holding a permit under Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4148.5
  (a) All stocks of hypodermic needles or syringes shall be confiscated if found outside the licensed premises of any person holding a permit under Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4149
  (a) A nonresident distributor shall not sell or distribute hypodermic needles or syringes in this state without obtaining a license from the board pursuant to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4149.5
  (a) Local authorizations related to Sections 4144, 4145, and 4148 of this code and Sections 11364 and 121285 of the Health and Safety Code shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4150
  (a) A pharmacy corporation means a corporation that is authorized to render professional services, as defined in Section 13401 of the Corporations Code, so long...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4151
  Each shareholder, director, and officer of a pharmacy corporation, except an assistant secretary and an assistant treasurer, shall be a licensed person as defined in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4152
  The name of a pharmacy corporation and any name or names under which it may render professional services shall contain the word "pharmacist," "pharmacy," or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4153
  The income of a pharmacy corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shareholder is a disqualified person, as defined in Section 13401 of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4154
  The board may adopt and enforce regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of this article, including regulations requiring (a) that the bylaws of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4155
  Nothing in this article shall be construed as requiring the applicant or holder of a pharmacy permit pursuant to Section 4110 to be a pharmacy
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4156
  A pharmacy corporation shall not do, or fail to do, any act where doing or failing to do the act would constitute unprofessional conduct under...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4160
  (a) A person may not act as a wholesaler of any dangerous drug or dangerous device unless he or she has obtained a license from...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4161
  (a) A person located outside this state that (1) ships, sells, mails, or delivers dangerous drugs or dangerous devices into this state or (2) sells,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4162
  (a) (1) An applicant, that is not a government owned and operated wholesaler, for the issuance or renewal of a wholesaler license shall submit a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4162.5
  (a) (1) An applicant for the issuance or renewal of a nonresident wholesaler license shall submit a surety bond of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000),...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4163
  (a) A manufacturer, wholesaler, repackager, or pharmacy may not furnish a dangerous drug or dangerous device to an unauthorized person. (b) Dangerous drugs or dangerous...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4163.1
  It is the intent of the Legislature that commencing on January 1, 2007, and continuing through the full implementation of the pedigree requirements specified by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4163.1
  (a) For purposes of Sections 4034 and 4163, "drop shipment" means a sale of a dangerous drug by the manufacturer of the dangerous drug whereby...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4163.2
  (a) (1) A manufacturer, wholesaler, or pharmacy lawfully possessing or owning dangerous drugs manufactured or distributed prior to the operative date of the pedigree requirements,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4163.3
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that participants in the distribution chain for dangerous drugs, including manufacturers, wholesalers, or pharmacies furnishing, administering, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4163.4
  (a) All units of dangerous drug in the possession of a wholesaler or pharmacy, for which the manufacturer does not hold legal title on the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4163.5
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: (1) The electronic pedigree system required by Sections 4034 and 4163 will provide tremendous benefits to the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4164
  (a) A wholesaler licensed by the board that distributes controlled substances, dangerous drugs, or dangerous devices within or into this state shall report to the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4165
  A wholesaler licensed by the board who sells or transfers any dangerous drug or dangerous device into this state or who receives, by sale or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4166
  (a) Any wholesaler that uses the services of any carrier, including, but not limited to, the United States Postal Service or any common carrier, shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4167
  A wholesaler shall not obtain, by purchase or otherwise, any dangerous drugs or dangerous devices that it cannot maintain, in a secure manner, on the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4168
  A county or municipality may not issue a business license for any establishment that requires a wholesaler license unless the establishment possesses a current wholesaler...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4169
  (a) A person or entity may not do any of the following: (1) Purchase, trade, sell, or transfer dangerous drugs or dangerous devices at wholesale...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4170
  (a) No prescriber shall dispense drugs or dangerous devices to patients in his or her office or place of practice unless all of the following...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4170.5
  (a) Veterinarians in a veterinary teaching hospital operated by an accredited veterinary medical school may dispense and administer dangerous drugs and devices and controlled substances...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4171
  (a) Section 4170 shall not prohibit the furnishing of a limited quantity of samples by a prescriber, if the prescriber dispenses the samples to the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4172
  A prescriber who dispenses drugs pursuant to Section 4170 shall store all drugs to be dispensed in an area that is secure. The Medical Board...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4173
  This chapter does not prevent the dispensing of drugs or devices by registered nurses functioning pursuant to Section 2725.1.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4174
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacist may dispense drugs or devices upon the drug order of a nurse practitioner functioning pursuant to Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4175
  (a) The California State Board of Pharmacy shall promptly forward to the appropriate licensing entity, including the Medical Board of California, the Veterinary Medical Board,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4180
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, any of the following clinics may purchase drugs at wholesale for administration or dispensing, under the direction...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4181
  (a) Prior to the issuance of a clinic license authorized under Section 4180, the clinic shall comply with all applicable laws and regulations of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4182
  (a) Each clinic that makes an application for a license under Section 4180 shall show evidence that the professional director is responsible for the safe,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4183
  No clinic dispensing drugs pursuant to this article shall be eligible for any professional dispensing fee that may be authorized under the Medi-Cal program (Chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4184
  No Schedule II controlled substance shall be dispensed by the clinic. This limitation shall not be construed to prohibit a physician dispensing a Schedule II...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4185
  The board shall have the authority to inspect a clinic at any time in order to determine whether a clinic is, or is not, operating...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4186
  (a) Automated drug delivery systems, as defined in subdivision (h), may be located in any clinic licensed by the board pursuant to Section 4180. If...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4190
  (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, a surgical clinic, as defined in paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 1204 of the Health and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4191
  (a) Prior to the issuance of a clinic license authorized under this article, the clinic shall comply with all applicable laws and regulations of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4192
  (a) Each clinic that makes an application for a license under this article shall show evidence that the professional director is responsible for the safe,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4193
  No clinic holding a license pursuant to this article shall be eligible for any professional dispensing fee that may be authorized under the Medi-Cal program...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4194
  No Schedule II controlled substance shall be dispensed in the clinic. This limitation does not prohibit a physician from dispensing a Schedule II drug to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4195
  The board shall have the authority to inspect a clinic at any time in order to determine whether a clinic is, or is not, operating...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4196
  (a) No person shall conduct a veterinary food-animal drug retailer in the State of California unless he or she has obtained a license from the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4197
  (a) The following minimum standards shall apply to all veterinary food-animal drug retailers licensed by the board: (1) Each retailer shall store veterinary food-animal drugs...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4198
  (a) Each veterinary food-animal drug retailer shall have written policies and procedures related to the handling and dispensing of veterinary food-animal drugs by veterinary food-animal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4199
  (a) Any veterinary food-animal drug dispensed pursuant to a prescription from a licensed veterinarian for food producing animals from a veterinary food-animal drug retailer pursuant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4200
  (a) The board may license as a pharmacist an applicant who meets all the following requirements: (1) Is at least 18 years of age. (2)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4200.1
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 135, an applicant may take the North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination four times, and may take the California Practice Standards and Jurisprudence...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4200.2
  When developing the California Practice Standards and Jurisprudence Examination for Pharmacists, the board shall include all of the following: (a) Examination items to demonstrate the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4200.3
  (a) The examination process shall be regularly reviewed pursuant to Section 139. (b) The examination process shall meet the standards and guidelines set forth in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4200.4
  An applicant who fails the national examination may not retake the examination for at least 90 days or for a period established by regulations adopted...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4200.5
  (a) The board shall issue, upon application and payment of the fee established by Section 4400, a retired license to a pharmacist who has been...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4201
  (a) Each application to conduct a pharmacy, wholesaler, or veterinary food-animal drug retailer, shall be made on a form furnished by the board, and shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4202
  (a) The board may issue a pharmacy technician license to an individual if he or she is a high school graduate or possesses a general...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4203
  (a) Each application for a license under Section 4180 shall be made on a form furnished by the board. The form of application for a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4204
  (a) Each application for a license under Section 4190 shall be made on a form furnished by the board. The form of application for a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4205
  (a) A license issued pursuant to Section 4110, 4120, 4160, or 4161 shall be considered a license within the meaning of Section 4141. (b) The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4207
  (a) Upon receipt of an application for a license and the applicable fee, the board shall make a thorough investigation to determine whether the applicant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4208
  (a) At the discretion of the board, an intern pharmacist license may be issued for a period of: (1) One to six years to a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4209
  (a) (1) An intern pharmacist shall complete 1,500 hours of pharmacy practice before applying for the pharmacist licensure examination. (2) This pharmacy practice shall comply...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4231
  (a) The board shall not renew a pharmacist license unless the applicant submits proof satisfactory to the board that he or she has successfully completed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4232
  (a) The courses shall be in the form of postgraduate studies, institutes, seminars, lectures, conferences, workshops, extension studies, correspondence courses, and other similar methods of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4234
  The board may, in accordance with the intent of this article, make exceptions from the requirements of this article in emergency or hardship cases.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4240
  (a) The California Hazardous Substances Act, Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 108100) of Part 3 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code, applies...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4300
  (a) Every license issued may be suspended or revoked. (b) The board shall discipline the holder of any license issued by the board, whose default...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4301
  The board shall take action against any holder of a license who is guilty of unprofessional conduct or whose license has been procured by fraud...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4301.5
  (a) If a pharmacist possesses a license or is otherwise authorized to practice pharmacy in any other state or by an agency of the federal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4302
  The board may deny, suspend, or revoke any license of a corporation where conditions exist in relation to any person holding 10 percent or more...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4303
  (a) The board may report any violation by a nonresident pharmacy of the laws and regulations of this state, any other state, or of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4304
  The board may deny, revoke, or suspend any license issued pursuant to Section 4161 for any violation of this chapter or for any violation of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4305
  (a) Failure by any pharmacist to notify the board in writing that he or she has ceased to act as the pharmacist-in-charge of a pharmacy,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4305.5
  (a) A person who has obtained a license to conduct a wholesaler or veterinary food-animal drug retailer, shall notify the board within 30 days of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4306
  It shall constitute unprofessional conduct and a violation of this chapter for any person licensed under this chapter to violate, attempt to violate, directly or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4306.5
  Unprofessional conduct for a pharmacist may include any of the following: (a) Acts or omissions that involve, in whole or in part, the inappropriate exercise...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4306.6
  If the board disciplines a pharmacist-in-charge for the violation of a state or federal law or regulation committed by another person and the pharmacist-in-charge reported...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4307
  (a) Any person who has been denied a license or whose license has been revoked or is under suspension, or who has failed to renew...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4308
  Whenever a person is prohibited from serving as a manager, administrator, owner, member, officer, director, associate, or partner of a licensee as provided by Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4309
  (a) A person whose license has been revoked or suspended or who has been placed on probation may petition the board for reinstatement or modification...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4310
  Immediately upon the denial of any application for a license the board shall notify the applicant in writing. Within 10 days after the board mails...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4311
  (a) Any license issued by the board, or the holder thereof, shall be suspended automatically during any time that the person is incarcerated after conviction...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4312
  (a) The board may cancel the license of a wholesaler, pharmacy, or veterinary food-animal drug retailer if the licensed premises remain closed, as defined in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4313
  In determining whether to grant an application for licensure or whether to discipline or reinstate a license, the board shall give consideration to evidence of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4314
  (a) The board may issue citations containing fines and orders of abatement for any violation of Section 733, for any violation of this chapter or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4315
  (a) The executive officer, or his or her designee, may issue a letter of admonishment to a licensee for failure to comply with Section 733,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4320
  (a) The penalties prescribed in this chapter may be recovered in any court having jurisdiction, by a civil action instituted by the board in the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4321
  (a) Any person who knowingly violates any of the provisions of this chapter, when no other penalty is provided, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4322
  Any person who attempts to secure or secures licensure for himself or herself or any other person under this chapter by making or causing to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4323
  Every person who, in order to obtain any drug, falsely represents himself or herself to be a physician or other person who can lawfully prescribe...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4324
  (a) Every person who signs the name of another, or of a fictitious person, or falsely makes, alters, forges, utters, publishes, passes, or attempts to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4325
  (a) No person other than a physician, dentist, podiatrist, veterinarian, pharmacist, or other person authorized by law to dispense, administer, or prescribe controlled substances, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4326
  (a) Any person who obtains a hypodermic needle or hypodermic syringe by a false or fraudulent representation or design or by a forged or fictitious...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4327
  Any person who, while on duty, sells, dispenses or compounds any drug while under the influence of any dangerous drug or alcoholic beverages shall be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4328
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, any person who permits the compounding or dispensing of prescriptions, or the furnishing of dangerous drugs in his...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4329
  Any nonpharmacist who takes charge of or acts as supervisor, manager, or pharmacist-in-charge of any pharmacy, or who compounds or dispenses a prescription or furnishes...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4330
  (a) Any person who has obtained a license to conduct a pharmacy, who fails to place in charge of the pharmacy a pharmacist, or any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4331
  (a) A person who is neither a pharmacist nor a designated representative and who takes charge of a wholesaler or veterinary food-animal drug retailer or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4332
  Any person who fails, neglects, or refuses to maintain the records required by Section 4081 or who, when called upon by an authorized officer or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4333
  (a) All prescriptions filled by a pharmacy and all other records required by Section 4081 shall be maintained on the premises and available for inspection...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4335
  Any person who knowingly violates subdivision (b) of Section 4312 is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4336
  (a) Every person who knowingly or willfully violates Section 4055, 4059, 4060, 4061, 4062, 4063, 4064, 4065, 4077, 4080, 4081, 4083, or 4332 with respect...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4337
  Except as otherwise specified, all fines collected for violations of this chapter shall be paid as follows: one-half into the State Treasury to the credit...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4338
  In addition to any fine assessed under Section 4321, the judge may assess a fine not to exceed seventy dollars ($70) against any person who...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4339
  (a) The board may bring an action to enjoin the violation of any provision of this chapter in any superior court in and for the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4340
  It is unlawful for any nonresident pharmacy that is not registered pursuant to Section 4112 or for any person who is a resident of this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4341
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, prescription drugs or devices may be advertised if the advertisement conforms with the requirements of Section 651.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4342
  (a) The board may institute any action or actions as may be provided by law and that, in its discretion, are necessary, to prevent the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4343
  No building shall have upon it or displayed within it or affixed to or used in connection with it a sign bearing the word or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4360
  The board shall operate a pharmacists recovery program to rehabilitate pharmacists and intern pharmacists whose competency may be impaired due to abuse of alcohol, drug...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4361
  (a) "Participant" means a pharmacist or intern pharmacist who has entered the pharmacists recovery program. (b) "Pharmacists recovery program" means the rehabilitation program created by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4362
  (a) A pharmacist or intern pharmacist may enter the pharmacists recovery program if: (1) The pharmacist or intern pharmacist is referred by the board instead...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4364
  (a) The board shall establish criteria for the participation of pharmacists and intern pharmacists in the pharmacists recovery program. (b) The board may deny a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4365
  The board shall contract with one or more qualified contractors to administer the pharmacists recovery program.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4366
  The functions of the contractor administering the pharmacists recovery program shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (a) To evaluate those pharmacists and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4369
  (a) Any failure to comply with the treatment contract, determination that the participant is failing to derive benefit from the program, or other requirements of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4371
  (a) The executive officer of the board shall designate a program manager of the pharmacists recovery program. The program manager shall have background experience in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4372
  All board records and records of the pharmacists recovery program pertaining to the treatment of a pharmacist or intern pharmacist in the program shall be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4373
  No member of the board shall be liable for any civil damages because of acts or omissions that may occur while acting in good faith...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4380
  (a) The resale, by any person, of drugs acquired at preferentially low prices permitted under federal law only because of the Nonprofit Institutions Act (15...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4381
  (a) A violation of this article is an act of unfair competition within the meaning of Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 17200) of Part 2...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4382
  The board may audit persons for compliance with the limits established in paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 4380 except that in the case...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4400
  The amount of fees and penalties prescribed by this chapter, except as otherwise provided, is that fixed by the board according to the following schedule:...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4401
  Every pharmacist who desires to retain his or her license on the books of the board shall biennially pay to the executive officer of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4402
  (a) Any pharmacist license that is not renewed within three years following its expiration may not be renewed, restored, or reinstated and shall be canceled...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4403
  The board shall not reissue or renew any license without the payment of the fees required by this chapter and the payment of all fees...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4404
  If any license issued under this chapter is lost or destroyed, or if any person desires a reissuance of his or her license, the board...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4405
  All fines recoverable under this chapter shall be paid by the magistrate receiving the same to the board, except where other provision is made in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4406
  All fees collected on behalf of the board and all receipts of every kind and nature shall be reported each month for the month preceding...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4407
  All compensation of members and all other expenses of the board shall be paid out of the examination and registration fees and fines.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4409
  At the time a pharmacy license is renewed pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 4110 or a pharmacist license is renewed pursuant to Section 4401,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4425
  (a) As a condition for the participation of a pharmacy in the Medi-Cal program pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) of Division 9...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4426
  The State Department of Health Care Services shall conduct a study of the adequacy of Medi-Cal pharmacy reimbursement rates including the cost of providing prescription...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4500
  This chapter is known and may be cited as the "Psychiatric Technicians Law."
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4501
  (a) "Board," as used in this chapter, means the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians of the State of California. (b) This section shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4501.1
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the board in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever the protection of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4502
  As used in this chapter, "psychiatric technician" means any person who, for compensation or personal profit, implements procedures and techniques which involve understanding of cause...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4502.1
  A psychiatric technician, working in a mental health facility or developmental disability facility, when prescribed by a physician and surgeon, may administer medications by hypodermic
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4502.2
  A psychiatric technician, when prescribed by a physician and surgeon, may withdraw blood from a patient with a mental illness or developmental disability if the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4502.3
  (a) A psychiatric technician, when prescribed by a physician and surgeon, may perform the following activities on a patient with a mental illness or developmental...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4503
  (a) The board shall administer and enforce this chapter. (b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2016, and as of that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4504
  The board may adopt rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4505
  Except as provided by Section 159.5, the board may employ whatever personnel is necessary for the administration of this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4507
  This chapter shall not apply to the following: (a) Physicians and surgeons licensed pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 2000) of Division 2. (b)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4508
  This chapter does not prohibit provisions of the services regulated herein with or without compensation or personal profit, when done by the tenets of any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4509.5
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent persons from performing services described in Section 4502 for purposes of training to qualify for licensure...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4510
  The board shall issue a psychiatric technician's license to each applicant who qualifies therefor, and, if required to take it, successfully passes the examination given...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4510.1
  An applicant for license by examination shall submit a written application in the form prescribed by the board. Provided that the application for licensure is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4511
  An applicant for a psychiatric technician's license shall have the following qualifications: (a) Be at least 18 years of age. (b) Have successfully completed an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4511.2
  The board shall deny the application for approval made by, and shall revoke the approval given to, any psychiatric technician school that does not give...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4512
  An applicant for a psychiatric technician's license shall, upon the filing of his application, pay to the board the application fee prescribed by this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4513
  Unless otherwise provided in this chapter, every applicant for a psychiatric technician's license shall be examined by the board. The examination shall be held at...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4515
  Upon written application and receipt of the required application fee the board may issue a license to any applicant who possesses a valid unrevoked license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4516
  Every person licensed under this chapter may be known as a licensed psychiatric technician and may place the letters P.T. after his name.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4517
  The board may, in its discretion, provide for a continuing education program in connection with the professional functions and courses described in this chapter. The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4518
  In the event the board adopts a continuing education program, the board may collect a biennial fee as prescribed under Section 4548 from any provider...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4519
  (a) In the case of a person who is employed by the state as a psychiatric technician, no state funds shall be expended in releasing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4520
  Every licensed psychiatric technician under this chapter may be disciplined as provided in this article. The disciplinary proceedings shall be conducted by the board in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4521
  The board may suspend or revoke a license issued under this chapter for any of the following reasons: (a) Unprofessional conduct, which includes, but is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4521.1
  (a) The board may issue an initial license on probation, with specific terms and conditions, to any applicant who has violated any term of this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4521.2
  (a) If a psychiatric technician has knowledge that another person has committed any act prohibited by Section 4521, the psychiatric technician shall report this information...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4521.6
  The board may deny any application or may suspend or revoke any license or permit issued under this chapter, for any of the following: (a)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4522
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 4521 or any other provision of law, the board may revoke, suspend, or deny at any time a license under this chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4523
  A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge substantially related to the qualifications, functions...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4524
  (a) A person whose license has been revoked, suspended, surrendered, or placed on probation, may petition the board for reinstatement or modification of the penalty,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4530
  The board shall prepare and maintain a list of approved schools which offer an approved program for psychiatric technicians.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4531
  The course of instruction of an approved school shall consist of not less than the number of hours or semester units of instruction required for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4532
  The board shall provide for the periodic inspection or review of all psychiatric technician schools in this state. Written reports of the inspection or review...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4521.2
  (a) If a psychiatric technician has knowledge that another person has committed any act prohibited by Section 4521, the psychiatric technician shall report this information...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4521.6
  The board may deny any application or may suspend or revoke any license or permit issued under this chapter, for any of the following: (a)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4522
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 4521 or any other provision of law, the board may revoke, suspend, or deny at any time a license under this chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4523
  A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge substantially related to the qualifications, functions...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4524
  (a) A person whose license has been revoked, suspended, surrendered, or placed on probation, may petition the board for reinstatement or modification of the penalty,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4540
  After January 1, 1970, no person shall perform services described in Section 4502 without a license issued under this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4541
  It is unlawful for any person to use any title or letters which imply that he is a certified or licensed psychiatric technician unless at...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4542
  It is unlawful for any person willfully to make any false representation, impersonate any other person, or permit or aid any other person in any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4543
  Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon a conviction thereof shall be punished by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4544
  A license expires each year on that date prescribed by the board, if not renewed. To renew an unexpired license the holder thereof shall, on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4544.5
  The board may establish a biennial renewal period.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4545
  Except as provided in Section 4545.2, a license that has expired may be renewed at any time within four years after its expiration on filing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4545.1
  A suspended certificate is subject to expiration in the same manner as provided in this article for an unsuspended certificate, is subject to renewal in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4545.2
  A revoked certificate is subject to expiration in the same manner as provided in this article for an unrevoked certificate, but it may not be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4545.3
  A certificate and the holder thereof are subject to this section in the same manner as are a license and the holder thereof. A license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4546
  The board shall report each month to the Controller the amount and source of all revenue received by it pursuant to this chapter and at...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4547
  All expenses incurred in the operation of this chapter shall be paid out of the Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians Fund from the revenue received...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4548
  The amount of the fees prescribed by this chapter in connection with the issuance of licenses under its provisions shall be according to the following...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4600
  As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Approved school" or "approved massage school" means a school approved by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4600.5
  (a) The California Massage Therapy Council, as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 4600, shall be created and shall have the responsibilities and duties set...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4601
  (a) The council shall issue a certificate under this chapter to an applicant who satisfies the requirements of this chapter. (b) (1) In order to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4601.2
  No certificates shall be issued by the organization pursuant to this chapter prior to September 1, 2009.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4601.3
  (a) Prior to issuing a certificate to the applicant or designating a custodian of records, the council shall require the applicant or the custodian of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4601.4
  Council directors, employees, or volunteer individuals may undergo the background investigation process delineated in Section 4601.3.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4602
  (a) The council may discipline a certificate holder by any, or a combination, of the following methods: (1) Placing the certificate holder on probation. (2)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4602.5
  (a) Upon the request of any law enforcement agency or any other representative of a local government agency with responsibility for regulating, or administering a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4603
  It is a violation of this chapter for a certificate holder to commit, and the council may deny an application for a certificate or discipline...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4603.1
  (a) No certificate holder or certificate applicant may be disciplined or denied a certificate pursuant to Section 4603 except according to procedures satisfying the requirements...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4603.5
  It shall be the responsibility of any certificate holder to notify the council of his or her home address, as well as the address of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4603.7
  A certificate holder shall include the name under which he or she is certified and his or her certificate number in any and all advertising...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4604
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 4601, the council may grant a massage practitioner certificate to any person who applies on or before January 1, 2012, with one...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4605
  It is an unfair business practice for any person to state or advertise or put out any sign or card or other device, or to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4606
  It is an unfair business practice for any person to hold oneself out or use the title of "certified massage therapist" or "certified massage practitioner"...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4607
  The superior court in and for the county in which any person acts as a massage practitioner or massage therapist in violation of the provisions...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4608
  Nothing in this chapter is intended to limit or prohibit a person who obtains a certification pursuant to this chapter from providing services pursuant to,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4612
  (a) (1) The holder of a certificate issued pursuant to this chapter shall have the right to practice massage, consistent with this chapter and the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4613
  (a) Nothing in this chapter shall restrict or limit in any way the authority of a city, county, or city and county to adopt a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4614
  The Legislature finds and declares that due to important health, safety, and welfare concerns that affect the entire state, establishing a uniform standard of certification...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4615
  This chapter shall be subject to the review required by Article 7.5 (commencing with Section 9147.7) of Chapter 1.5 of Part 1 of Division 2...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4616
  This chapter shall be liberally construed to effectuate its purposes. If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4620
  This chapter shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2015, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4800
  (a) There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs a Veterinary Medical Board in which the administration of this chapter is vested. The board consists...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4800.1
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Veterinary Medical Board in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever the protection...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4801
  (a) Each veterinarian member of the board shall be a bona fide resident of this state for a period of at least five years immediately...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4802
  The members of the board shall hold office for a term of four years. Each member shall serve until the appointment and qualification of his...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4803
  The Governor may, in his judgment, remove any member of the board for neglect of duty or other sufficient cause, after due notice and hearing.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4804
  The board shall elect a president, vice president, and any other officers of the board as shall be necessary, from its membership. The Attorney General...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4804.5
  The board may appoint a person exempt from civil service who shall be designated as an executive officer and who shall exercise the powers and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4805
  The executive officer of the board may administer oaths or affirmations upon matters pertaining to the business of the board. Any person willfully making any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4806
  Each member of the board shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4807
  Five members of the board constitute a quorum for transaction of business at any meeting of the board.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4808
  The board may in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, adopt, amend, or repeal rules and regulations that are reasonably necessary to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4809
  The board shall keep an official record of its meetings, and it shall also keep an official register of all applicants for licenses. The register...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4809.5
  The board may at any time inspect the premises in which veterinary medicine, veterinary dentistry, or veterinary surgery is being practiced.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4809.6
  The enforcement of Sections 4809.5 and 4854 of this chapter is a function exclusively reserved to the Veterinary Medical Board and the state has preempted...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4809.7
  The board shall establish a regular inspection program which will provide for random, unannounced inspections.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4809.8
  (a) The board shall establish an advisory committee to assist, advise, and make recommendations for the implementation of rules and regulations necessary to ensure proper...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4810
  (a) As used in this chapter: (1) "Board" means the Veterinary Medical Board. (2) "Committee" means the Registered Veterinary Technician Committee. (3) "Multidisciplinary committee" means...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4810
  (a) As used in this chapter: (1) "Board" means the Veterinary Medical Board. (2) "Multidisciplinary committee" means the Veterinary Medicine Multidisciplinary Advisory Committee established pursuant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4811
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Veterinary Medicine Practice Act."
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4825
  It is unlawful for any person to practice veterinary medicine or any branch thereof in this State unless at the time of so doing, such...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4825.1
  These definitions shall govern the construction of this chapter as it applies to veterinary medicine. (a) "Diagnosis" means the act or process of identifying or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4826
  A person practices veterinary medicine, surgery, and dentistry, and the various branches thereof, when he or she does any one of the following: (a) Represents...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4826.1
  A veterinarian who on his or her own initiative, at the request of an owner, or at the request of someone other than the owner,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4826.2
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a veterinarian, registered veterinary technician, or an unregistered assistant working under the supervision of a veterinarian, may provide veterinary...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4827
  Nothing in this chapter prohibits any person from: (a) Practicing veterinary medicine as a bona fide owner of one's own animals. This exemption applies to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4828
  All veterinarians actually engaged and employed as veterinarians by the state, or a county, city, corporation, firm or individual are practicing veterinary medicine and shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4829
  Any license granted to any person to practice veterinary medicine, or any branch thereof, in this State issued under any preceding act relating to veterinary...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4830
  (a) This chapter does not apply to: (1) Veterinarians while serving in any armed branch of the military service of the United States or the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4830.5
  Whenever any licensee under this chapter has reasonable cause to believe that a dog has been injured or killed through participation in a staged animal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4830.7
  Whenever any licensee under this chapter has reasonable cause to believe an animal under its care has been a victim of animal abuse or cruelty,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4830.8
  (a) An attending or on-call veterinarian at a rodeo event shall, pursuant to Section 596.7 of the Penal Code, report to the board any animal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4831
  Any person, who violates or aids or abets in violating any of the provisions of this chapter, is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4832
  (a) The board shall establish an advisory committee on issues pertaining to the practice of veterinary technicians, that shall be known as the Registered Veterinary...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4833
  (a) The committee shall advise and may assist the board in the examination of applicants for veterinary technician registration. The examination shall be held at...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4834
  (a) The board has the power to remove from office at any time any member of the committee for continued neglect of any duty required...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4835
  (a) Each member of the committee shall receive a per diem and expenses, as provided in Section 103. (b) This section shall become inoperative on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4836
  (a) The board shall adopt regulations establishing animal health care tasks and an appropriate degree of supervision required for those tasks that may be performed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4836.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a registered veterinary technician or an unregistered assistant may administer a drug, including, but not limited to, a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4836.5
  The board shall take action pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 4875) of this chapter against any veterinarian licensed or authorized to practice in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4837
  The board may revoke or suspend the registration of a registered veterinary technician in this state after notice and hearing for any cause provided in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4838
  Effective with the 1976 renewal period, if the board determines that the public health and safety would be served by requiring all registrants under the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4839
  (a) For purposes of this article, a registered veterinary technician means a person who has met the requirements set forth in Sections 4841.4 and 4841.5,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4839.5
  No person shall use the title "registered veterinary technician" or "veterinary technician," or any other words, letters, or symbols, including, but not limited to, the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4840
  (a) Registered veterinary technicians and unregistered assistants are approved to perform those animal health care services prescribed by law under the supervision of a veterinarian...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4840.2
  Registered veterinary technicians and unregistered assistants shall not perform the following health care services: (a) Surgery. (b) Diagnosis and prognosis of animal diseases. (c) Prescribing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4840.5
  Under conditions of an emergency, a registered veterinary technician may render such lifesaving aid and treatment as may be prescribed under regulations adopted by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4840.6
  Any registered veterinary technician registered in this state who in good faith renders emergency animal health care at the scene of the emergency, or his...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4840.7
  (a) A registered veterinary technician who has been examined by the board in the area of radiation safety and techniques may operate radiographic equipment under...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4840.9
  Registered veterinary technicians and unregistered assistants may be employed by any veterinarian licensed or authorized to practice in this state or by any governmental agency...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4841
  Any person performing any of the tasks designated by the board pursuant to Section 4836 and any person representing himself or herself as a registered...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4841.1
  (a) This article shall not apply to students in the clinical portion of their final year of study in a board-approved California veterinary technology program...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4841.4
  (a) The board shall, by means of examination, determine the professional qualifications of all applicants who wish to register as veterinary technicians in California. No...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4841.5
  To be eligible to take the written and practical examination for registration as a registered veterinary technician, the applicant shall: (a) Be at least 18...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4842
  The board may deny an application to take a written and practical examination for registration as a registered veterinary technician if the applicant has done...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4842.1
  The board shall issue a certificate of registration to each applicant who passes the examination. The form of the certificate shall be determined by the
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4842.2
  All funds collected by the board under this article shall be deposited in the Veterinary Medical Board Contingent Fund.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4842.5
  The amount of fees prescribed by this article is that fixed by the following schedule: (a) The fee for filing an application for examination shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4842.6
  (a) Each individual registered by the board shall biennially apply for renewal of his or her license or registration on or before the last day...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4842.7
  Every person registered by the board under this article who changes his or her mailing address shall notify the board of his or her new...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4843
  The board shall approve all schools or institutions offering a curriculum for training registered veterinary technicians. Application forms for schools requesting approval shall be furnished...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4843.5
  Except as otherwise provided in this article, an expired certificate of registration may be renewed at any time within five years after its expiration on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4844
  A person who fails to renew his certificate of registration within five years after its expiration may not renew it, and it shall not be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4845
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board may, in its sole discretion, issue a probationary registration to an applicant subject to terms and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4845.5
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 4837 and 4842.6 or any other provision of law, the board may revoke, suspend, or deny at any time a registration under...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4846
  Applications for a license shall be upon a form furnished by the board and, in addition, shall be accompanied by a diploma or other verification...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4846.1
  If the veterinary college from which an applicant is graduated is not recognized by the board, the board shall have the authority to determine the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4846.2
  If the board finds in evaluating the graduate described in Section 4846.1 that such applicant is deficient in qualification or in the quality of his...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4846.4
  (a) Each individual licensed by the board shall biennially apply for renewal of his or her license or registration on or before the last day...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4846.5
  (a) Except as provided in this section, the board shall issue renewal licenses only to those applicants that have completed a minimum of 36 hours...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4847
  The board shall number consecutively all applications received, note upon each the disposition made of it, and preserve the same for reference.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4848
  (a) (1) The board shall, by means of examination, ascertain the professional qualifications of all applicants for licenses to practice veterinary medicine in this state...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4848.3
  (a) The board shall issue a temporary license valid for one year to an applicant accepted into a qualifying internship or residency program that meets...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4849
  The state board examination shall be given at least twice each year. It shall include all the subjects that are ordinarily included in the curricula...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4850
  Every person holding a license under this chapter shall conspicuously display the license in his or her principal place of business.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4852
  Every person holding a license issued under this chapter who changes his or her mailing address shall notify the board of his or her new...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4853
  (a) All premises where veterinary medicine, veterinary dentistry, veterinary surgery, and the various branches thereof is being practiced shall be registered with the board. The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4853.1
  (a) Each application to register a premise pursuant to Section 4853 shall be made on a form provided by the board. An application for renewal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4853.5
  When it has been adjudicated in an administrative hearing that the licensee manager has failed to keep the premises and all equipment therein in a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4853.6
  The board shall withhold, suspend or revoke registration of veterinary premises: (a) When the licensee manager set forth in the application in accordance with Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4854
  All premises where veterinary medicine, veterinary dentistry, or veterinary surgery is being practiced, and all instruments, apparatus and apparel used in connection with those practices,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4854.5
  (a) Every off-campus educational program site shall display in a conspicuous place a consumer notification specifying that the veterinary facilities are also being used for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4855
  A veterinarian subject to the provisions of this chapter shall, as required by regulation of the board, keep a written record of all animals receiving...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4856
  (a) All records required by law to be kept by a veterinarian subject to this chapter, including, but not limited to, records pertaining to diagnosis...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4857
  (a) A veterinarian licensed under the provisions of this chapter shall not disclose any information concerning an animal receiving veterinary services, the client responsible for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4860
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the Veterinary Medical Board seek ways and means to identify and rehabilitate veterinarians and registered veterinary technicians...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4861
  One or more diversion evaluation committees is hereby authorized to be established by the board. Each diversion evaluation committee shall be composed of five persons...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4862
  Each member of a diversion evaluation committee shall receive per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4863
  Three members of a diversion evaluation committee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting. Any action requires the majority vote...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4864
  Each diversion evaluation committee shall elect from its membership a chairperson and a vice chairperson.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4865
  The board shall administer the provisions of this article.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4866
  (a) The board shall establish criteria for the acceptance, denial, or termination of veterinarians and registered veterinary technicians in a diversion program. Only those veterinarians...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4867
  The diversion evaluation committee shall inform each veterinarian and registered veterinary technician who requests participation in a program of the procedures followed in the program,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4868
  Each diversion evaluation committee shall have the following duties and responsibilities: (a) To evaluate those veterinarians and registered veterinary technicians who request participation in the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4869
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4870
  Each veterinarian and registered veterinary technician who requests participation in a diversion program shall agree to cooperate with the treatment program designed by a diversion...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4871
  (a) After a diversion evaluation committee in its discretion has determined that a veterinarian or registered veterinary technician has been rehabilitated and the diversion program...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4872
  The board shall provide for the representation of any persons making reports to a diversion evaluation committee or the board under this article in any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4873
  The board shall charge each veterinarian and registered veterinary technician who is accepted to participate in the diversion program a diversion program registration fee. The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4875
  The board may revoke or suspend for a certain time the license or registration of any person to practice veterinary medicine or any branch thereof...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4875.1
  (a) In order to ensure that its resources are maximized for the protection of the public, the board shall prioritize its investigative and prosecutorial resources...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4875.2
  If, upon completion of an investigation, the executive officer has probable cause to believe that a veterinarian, a registered veterinary technician, or an unlicensed person...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4875.3
  (a) If the board determines, as a result of its inspection of the premises pursuant to Section 4809.5, or any other place where veterinary medicine,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4875.4
  (a) The board shall, in the manner prescribed in Section 4808, adopt regulations covering the assessment of civil penalties under this article which give due...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4875.6
  (a) If a veterinarian, a registered veterinary technician, or an unlicensed person desires to administratively contest a civil citation or the proposed assessment of a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4876
  In addition to its authority to suspend or revoke a license or registration, or assess a fine on a person licensed or registered under this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4881
  The executive officer in all cases of suspension, revocation, or restriction of licenses or assessment of fines shall enter on the register the fact of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4883
  The board may deny, revoke, or suspend a license or registration or assess a fine as provided in Section 4875 for any of the following:...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4885
  A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge of a felony or of any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4886
  In reinstating a license or registration that has been revoked or suspended under Section 4883, the board may impose terms and conditions to be followed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4887
  A person whose license or registration has been revoked or who has been placed on probation may petition the board for reinstatement or modification of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4900
  (a) All veterinary licenses and veterinary technician registrations shall expire at 12 midnight of the last day of the birth month of the licensee or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4901
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, an expired license or registration may be renewed at any time within five years after its expiration on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4901.1
  A license or registration that is suspended is subject to expiration, and shall be renewed as provided in this chapter, but that renewal does not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4901.2
  A revoked license or registration is subject to expiration as provided in this article, but it may not be renewed. If it is reinstated after...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4902
  A person who fails to renew his license within five years after its expiration may not renew it, and it shall not be restored, reissued,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4903
  Of all fines or forfeitures of bail in any case wherein any person is charged with a violation of any of the provisions of this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4904
  All fees collected on behalf of the board and all receipts of every kind and nature shall be reported each month for the month preceding...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4905
  The following fees shall be collected by the board and shall be credited to the Veterinary Medical Board Contingent Fund: (a) The fee for filing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4910
  A veterinary corporation is a corporation which is authorized to render professional services, as defined in Section 13401 of the Corporations Code, so long as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4911
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the name of a veterinary corporation and any name or names under which it renders professional services shall include...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4912
  Except as provided in Section 13403 of the Corporations Code, each director, shareholder, and officer of a veterinary corporation shall be a licensed person as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4913
  The income of a veterinary corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shareholder is a disqualified person (as defined in Section 13401 of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4914
  A veterinary corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which or the failure to do which would constitute unprofessional...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4915
  It shall constitute unprofessional conduct and a violation of this chapter, punishable as specified in Section 4831, for any person licensed under this chapter to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4916
  The board may formulate and enforce rules and regulations to carry out the purposes and the objectives of this article, including rules and regulations requiring...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4917
  Nothing in this article requires an applicant for or a holder of a certificate of registration of veterinary premises described in Section 4853 to be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4925
  (a) This chapter constitutes the chapter on acupuncture of the Business and Professions Code. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4926
  In its concern with the need to eliminate the fundamental causes of illness, not simply to remove symptoms, and with the need to treat the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4927
  As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) "Board" means the Acupuncture "Board". (b) "Person" means any individual, organization, or corporate body,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4928
  The Acupuncture Board, which consists of seven members, shall enforce and administer this chapter. This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2013,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4928.1
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Acupuncture Board in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever the protection of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4929
  Three members of the board shall be acupuncturists with at least five years of experience in acupuncture and four members shall be public members who...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4930
  Each member of the board shall be appointed for a term of four years.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4931
  Each member of the board shall receive per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4933
  (a) The board shall administer this chapter. (b) The board may adopt, amend, or repeal, in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4934
  (a) The board, by and with the approval of the director, may employ personnel necessary for the administration of this chapter, and the board, by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4934.1
  (a) The Legislature requests the Milton Marks "Little Hoover" Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy to conduct a comprehensive analysis consisting of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4934.2
  The board shall conduct the following studies and reviews, and shall report its findings and recommendations to the department and the Joint Committee on Boards,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4935
  (a) (1) It is a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) and not more than two thousand five...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4937
  An acupuncturist's license authorizes the holder thereof: (a) To engage in the practice of acupuncture. (b) To perform or prescribe the use of Asian massage,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4938
  The board shall issue a license to practice acupuncture to any person who makes an application and meets the following requirements: (a) Is at least...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4939
  (a) On or before January 1, 2004, the board shall establish standards for the approval of schools and colleges offering education and training in the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4940
  (a) The board shall establish standards for the approval of tutorial programs for education and training in the practice of acupuncture, that satisfy the requirements...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4941
  In reviewing applications for licensure based upon the completion of a tutorial program in acupuncture, the board may provide that credit is granted for relevant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4944
  (a) The board shall have the authority to investigate and evaluate each and every applicant applying for a license to practice acupuncture and to make...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4945
  (a) The committee shall establish standards for continuing education for acupuncturists. (b) The committee shall require each acupuncturist to complete 15 hours of continuing education...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4945
  (a) The board shall establish standards for continuing education for acupuncturists. (b) The board shall require each acupuncturist to complete 50 hours of continuing education...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4947
  (a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent the practice of acupuncture by a person licensed as a dentist or a podiatrist, within...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4948
  The provisions of this chapter shall not be construed to make unlawful the activities of persons involved in research pursuant to Section 2075.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4949
  The provisions of this chapter shall not prohibit an acupuncturist from another state or country, who is not a licensed acupuncturist in this state, who...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4955
  The board may deny, suspend, or revoke, or impose probationary conditions upon, the license of any acupuncturist if he or she is guilty of unprofessional...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4955.1
  The board may deny, suspend, revoke, or impose probationary conditions upon the license of any acupuncturist if he or she is guilty of committing a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4955.2
  The board may deny, suspend, revoke, or impose probationary conditions upon the license of any acupuncturist if he or she is guilty of committing any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4956
  A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge which is substantially related to the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4959
  (a) The board may request the administrative law judge, under his or her proposed decision in resolution of a disciplinary proceeding before the board, to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4960
  Disciplinary proceedings under this article shall be conducted pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) of Part 1 of Division...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4960.2
  The board in all cases of revocation shall certify the fact of the revocation, under the seal of the board, to the business licensing entity...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4960.5
  (a) A person whose license or registration has been revoked, suspended, or surrendered, or who has been placed on probation, may petition the board for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4961
  (a) Every person who is now or hereafter licensed to practice acupuncture in this state shall register, on forms prescribed by the Acupuncture Board, his...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4963
  Whenever any person has engaged in an act or practice which constitutes an offense against this chapter, a superior court of a county on application...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4964
  The provisions of this article insofar as they are substantially the same as provisions relating to the same subject matter of any previous acupuncture licensure...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4965
  (a) Licenses issued pursuant to this chapter shall expire on the last day of the birth month of the licensee during the second year of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4966
  Except as provided in Section 4969, a license that has expired may be renewed at any time within three years after its expiration by filing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4967
  A person who fails to renew his or her license within three years after its expiration may not renew it, and it may not be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4969
  (a) A suspended license is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article, but the renewal does not entitle the acupuncturist,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4970
  The amount of fees prescribed for licensed acupuncturists shall be those set forth in this section unless a lower fee is fixed by the board...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4971
  The amount of fees prescribed for acupuncture tutorial programs shall be as follows: (a) The application and registration fee to supervise an acupuncture trainee is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4972
  Fees fixed by the board shall be set forth in regulations duly adopted by the board.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4973
  A fee for the inspection or reinspection of a school or college of acupuncture for purposes of approval or continued approval shall be charged at...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4974
  The board shall report to the Controller at the beginning of each month for the month preceding the amount and source of all revenue received...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4975
  An acupuncture corporation is a corporation which is authorized to render professional services, as defined in Section 13401 of the Corporations Code, so long as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4976
  It shall constitute unprofessional conduct and a violation of this chapter for any person licensed under this chapter to violate, attempt to violate, directly or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4977
  An acupuncture corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which or the failure to do which would constitute unprofessional...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4977.1
  The income of an acupuncture corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shareholder is a disqualified person (as defined in Section 13401 of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4977.2
  Except as provided in Section 13403 of the Corporations Code, each director, shareholder, and officer of an acupuncture corporation, except an assistant secretary and an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4978
  The name of an acupuncture corporation and any name or names under which it may render professional services shall contain words "acupuncture" or "acupuncturist" and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4979
  The board may adopt and enforce regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of this article, including, but not limited to, regulations requiring (a)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980
  (a) Many California families and many individual Californians are experiencing difficulty and distress, and are in need of wise, competent, caring, compassionate, and effective counseling...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.01
  (a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to constrict, limit, or withdraw the Medical Practice Act, the Social Work Licensing Law, the Nursing Practice...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.02
  For the purposes of this chapter, the practice of marriage and family therapy shall mean that service performed with individuals, couples, or groups wherein interpersonal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.03
  (a) "Board," as used in this chapter, means the Board of Behavioral Sciences. (b) "Intern," as used in this chapter, means an unlicensed person who...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.04
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Marriage and Family Therapist Act.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.08
  (a) The title "licensed marriage, family and child counselor" or "marriage, family and child counselor" is hereby renamed "licensed marriage and family therapist" or "marriage...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.10
  A person engages in the practice of marriage and family therapy when he or she performs or offers to perform or holds himself or herself...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.30
  Except as otherwise provided herein, a person desiring to practice and to advertise the performance of marriage and family therapy services shall apply to the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.31
  A licensee shall display his or her license in a conspicuous place in the licensee's primary place of practice.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.34
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the board employ its resources for each and all of the following functions: (a) The licensing of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.35
  (a) The Legislature acknowledges that the basic obligation to provide a complete and accurate application for a marriage and family therapist license lies with the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.36
  (a) This section shall apply to the following: (1) Applicants for licensure or registration who begin graduate study before August 1, 2012, and do not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.37
  (a) This section shall apply to applicants for licensure or registration who begin graduate study before August 1, 2012, and complete that study on or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.38
  (a) Each educational institution preparing applicants to qualify for registration or licensure shall notify each of its students by means of its public documents or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.39
  (a) An applicant for licensure whose education qualifies him or her under Section 4980.37 shall complete, as a condition of licensure, a minimum of 10...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.395
  (a) A licensee who began graduate study prior to January 1, 2004, shall complete a three-hour continuing education course in aging and long-term care during...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.397
  (a) Effective January 1, 2013, an applicant for licensure as a marriage and family therapist shall pass the following two examinations as prescribed by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.398
  (a) Each applicant who had previously taken and passed the standard written examination shall also obtain a passing score on the clinical examination in order...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.399
  (a) Each applicant and registrant shall obtain a passing score on a board-administered California law and ethics examination in order to qualify for licensure. (b)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.40
  To qualify for a license, an applicant shall have all of the following qualifications: (a) Meet the educational requirements of Section 4980.36 or both Sections...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.40
  To qualify for a license, an applicant shall have all of the following qualifications: (a) Meet the educational requirements of Section 4980.36 or both Sections...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.40.5
  (a) A doctoral or master's degree in marriage, family, and child counseling, marital and family therapy, couple and family therapy, psychology, clinical psychology, counseling psychology,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.41
  (a) An applicant for licensure whose education qualifies him or her under Section 4980.37 shall complete the following coursework or training in order to be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.42
  (a) Trainees performing services in any work setting specified in subdivision (d) of Section 4980.43 may perform those activities and services as a trainee, provided...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.43
  (a) Prior to applying for licensure examinations, each applicant shall complete experience that shall comply with the following: (1) A minimum of 3,000 hours completed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.44
  An unlicensed marriage and family therapist intern employed under this chapter shall comply with the following requirements: (a) Possess, at a minimum, a master's degree...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.45
  (a) A licensed professional in private practice who has satisfied the requirements of subdivision (g) of Section 4980.03 may supervise or employ, at any one...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.46
  Any licensed marriage and family therapist who conducts a private practice under a fictitious business name shall not use any name that is false, misleading,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.48
  (a) A trainee shall, prior to performing any professional services, inform each client or patient that he or she is an unlicensed marriage and family...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.50
  (a) Every applicant who meets the educational and experience requirements and applies for a license as a marriage and family therapist shall be examined by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.50
  Effective January 1, 2013, the following shall apply: (a) Every applicant who meets the educational and experience requirements and applies for a license as a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.54
  (a) The Legislature recognizes that the education and experience requirements in this chapter constitute only minimal requirements to assure that an applicant is prepared and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.55
  As a model for all therapeutic professions, and to acknowledge respect and regard for the consuming public, all marriage and family therapists are encouraged to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.57
  (a) The board shall require a licensee who began graduate study prior to January 1, 2004, to take a continuing education course during his or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.60
  (a) The board may adopt those rules and regulations as may be necessary to enable it to carry into effect the provisions of this chapter....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.70
  Except as provided by Section 159.5, the board may employ whatever additional personnel is necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.72
  (a) This section applies to persons who are licensed outside of California and apply for licensure on or after January 1, 2014. (b) The board...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.74
  (a) This section applies to persons who apply for licensure or registration on or after January 1, 2014, and who do not hold a license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.76
  An applicant for licensure or registration with a degree obtained from an educational institution outside the United States shall provide the board with a comprehensive...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.78
  (a) This section applies to persons who apply for licensure or registration on or after January 1, 2014. (b) For purposes of Sections 4980.72 and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.80
  (a) This section applies to persons who apply for licensure between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2013, inclusive. (b) The board may issue a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.90
  (a) This section applies to persons who apply for licensure between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2013, inclusive. (b) Experience gained outside of California...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4982
  The board may deny a license or registration or may suspend or revoke the license or registration of a licensee or registrant if he or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4982.05
  (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b), (c), and (e), any accusation filed against a licensee pursuant to Section 11503 of the Government Code shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4982.1
  The board may refuse to issue any registration or license whenever it appears that an applicant may be unable to practice his or her profession...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4982.15
  (a) The board may place a license or registration on probation under the following circumstances: (1) In lieu of, or in addition to, any order...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4982.25
  The board may deny an application, or may suspend or revoke a license or registration issued under this chapter, for any of the following: (a)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4982.26
  The board shall revoke any license issued under this chapter upon a decision made in accordance with the procedures set forth in Chapter 5 (commencing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4982.3
  The proceedings conducted under this article shall be held in accordance with Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) of Part 1 of Division 3 of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4983
  Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4983.1
  In addition to other proceedings provided for in this chapter, whenever any person has engaged, or is about to engage, in any acts or practices...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4984
  (a) Licenses issued under this chapter shall expire no more than 24 months after the issue date. The expiration date of the original license shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4984.01
  (a) The marriage and family therapist intern registration shall expire one year from the last day of the month in which it was issued. (b)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4984.01
  (a) The marriage and family therapist intern registration shall expire one year from the last day of the month in which it was issued. (b)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4984.1
  A licensee may renew a license at any time within three years after its expiration by completing all of the actions described in subdivision (b)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4984.2
  A suspended license is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article, but such renewal does not entitle the licensee, while...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4984.3
  A revoked license is subject to expiration as provided in this article, but it may not be renewed. If it is reinstated after its expiration,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4984.4
  A license that is not renewed within three years after its expiration may not be renewed, restored, reinstated, or reissued; however, the licensee may apply...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4984.41
  (a) The board shall issue, upon application and payment of the fee fixed by this chapter, a retired license to a marriage and family therapist...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4984.5
  The board shall report each month to the Controller the amount and source of all revenue received pursuant to this chapter and at the same...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4984.7
  (a) The board shall assess the following fees relating to the licensure of marriage and family therapists: (1) The application fee for an intern registration...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4984.7
  (a) The board shall assess the following fees relating to the licensure of marriage and family therapists: (1) The application fee for an intern registration...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4984.72
  (a) An applicant who fails a standard or clinical vignette written examination may, within one year from the notification date of that failure, retake the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4984.72
  (a) Effective January 1, 2013, an applicant who fails the clinical examination may, within one year from the notification date of that failure, retake the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4984.75
  In addition to the fees charged pursuant to Section 4984.7 for the biennial renewal of a license pursuant to Section 4984, the board shall collect...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4984.8
  (a) A licensee may apply to the board to request that his or her license be placed on inactive status. (b) A licensee on inactive...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4984.9
  A licensee or registrant shall give written notice to the board of a name change within 30 days after each change, giving both the old...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4987.5
  A marriage and family therapy corporation is a corporation that is authorized to render professional services, as defined in Section 13401 of the Corporations Code,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4987.6
  It shall constitute unprofessional conduct and a violation of this chapter for any person licensed under this chapter to violate, attempt to violate, directly or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4987.7
  The name of a marriage and family therapy corporation shall contain one or more of the words "marriage," "family," or "child" together with one or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4987.8
  Except as provided in Section 13403 of the Corporations Code, each director, shareholder, and officer of a marriage and family therapy corporation shall be a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4988
  The income of a marriage and family therapy corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shareholder is a disqualified person (as defined in the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4988.1
  A marriage and family therapy corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which or the failure to do which...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4988.2
  The board may formulate and enforce rules and regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of this article, including rules and regulations requiring (a)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989
  The powers and duties of the board, as set forth in this chapter, shall be subject to the review required by Division 1.2 (commencing with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.10
  This chapter shall be known, and may be cited as, the Educational Psychologist Practice Act.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.12
  The Board of Behavioral Sciences shall administer and enforce the provisions of this chapter. For the purposes of this chapter it shall be designated as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.13
  A person engages in the practice of educational psychology when he or she performs or offers to perform or holds himself or herself out as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.14
  The practice of educational psychology is the performance of any of the following professional functions pertaining to academic learning processes or the educational system or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.16
  (a) A person appropriately credentialed by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing may perform the functions authorized by that credential in a public school without a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.18
  The board may, by rules or regulations, adopt, amend, or repeal rules of professional conduct appropriate to the establishment and maintenance of a high standard...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.20
  (a) The board may issue a license as an educational psychologist if the applicant satisfies, with proof satisfactory to the board, the following requirements: (1)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.22
  (a) Only persons who satisfy the requirements of Section 4989.20 are eligible to take the licensure examination. (b) An applicant who fails the written examination...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.24
  The board shall not issue a license to a person who has been convicted of a crime in this or any other state or in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.26
  The board may refuse to issue a license to an applicant if it appears he or she may be unable to practice safely due to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.28
  The board may deny an application for licensure if the applicant is or has been guilty of unprofessional conduct as described in Section 4989.54.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.30
  A license issued under this chapter shall expire no later than 24 months after its date of issue. The expiration date of the original license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.32
  To renew an unexpired license, the licensee shall, on or before the expiration date of the license, take all of the following actions: (a) Apply...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.34
  (a) To renew his or her license, a licensee shall certify to the board, on a form prescribed by the board, completion in the preceding...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.36
  A licensee may renew a license that has expired at any time within three years after its expiration date by taking all of the actions...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.38
  A suspended license is subject to expiration as provided in this article and may be renewed, following the period of suspension, if the licensee takes...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.40
  A revoked license is subject to expiration as provided in this article and shall not be renewed. The applicant may apply to the board for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.42
  A license that is not renewed within three years after its expiration may not be renewed, restored, reinstated, or reissued thereafter. A licensee may apply...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.44
  (a) A licensee may apply to the board to request that his or her license be placed on inactive status. (b) A licensee on inactive...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.45
  (a) The board shall issue, upon application and payment of the fee fixed by this chapter, a retired license to a licensed educational psychologist who...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.46
  A licensee shall give written notice to the board of a name change within 30 days after each change, providing both the old and new...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.48
  A licensee shall display his or her license in a conspicuous place in the licensee's primary place of practice.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.49
  "Advertising," as used in this chapter, includes, but is not limited to, any public communication as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 651, the issuance...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.50
  Except as authorized by this chapter, it is unlawful for any person to practice educational psychology or use any title or letters that imply that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.52
  All consideration, compensation, or remuneration received by the licensee shall be in relation to professional counseling services actually provided by the licensee. Nothing in this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.54
  The board may deny a license or may suspend or revoke the license of a licensee if he or she has been guilty of unprofessional...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.56
  The board shall revoke the license of a licensee, other than one who is also licensed as a physician and surgeon, who uses or offers...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.58
  The board shall revoke the license of a licensee upon a decision that contains a finding of fact that the licensee engaged in an act...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.60
  A person whose license has been suspended or revoked shall not, until the reinstatement of his or her license, engage in any activity to which...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.62
  All proceedings by the board to suspend, revoke, or to take other disciplinary action against a licensee shall be conducted pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.64
  In addition to other proceedings provided for in this chapter, whenever a person has engaged, or is about to engage, in an act or practice...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.66
  A person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.68
  (a) The board shall assess the following fees relating to the licensure of educational psychologists: (1) The application fee for examination eligibility shall be one...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4989.70
  The board shall report each month to the Controller the amount and source of all revenue received pursuant to this chapter and at the same...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4990
  (a) There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs, a Board of Behavioral Sciences that consists of the following members: (1) Two state licensed clinical...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4990.02
  "Board," as used in this chapter, Chapter 13 (commencing with Section 4980), Chapter 13.5 (commencing with Section 4989.10), Chapter 14 (commencing with Section 4991), and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4990.04
  (a) The board shall appoint an executive officer. This position is designated as a confidential position and is exempt from civil service under subdivision (e)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4990.06
  Subject to the State Civil Service Act (Part 2 (commencing with Section 18500) of Division 5 of Title 2 of the Government Code) and except...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4990.08
  The board shall keep an accurate record of all of its proceedings and a record of all applicants for licensure and all individuals to whom...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4990.09
  The board shall not publish on the Internet the final determination of a citation and fine of one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) or less...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4990.10
  The board may conduct research in, and make studies of problems involved in, the maintaining of professional standards among those engaged in the professions it...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4990.12
  The duty of administering and enforcing this chapter, Chapter 13 (commencing with Section 4980), Chapter 13.5 (commencing with Section 4989.10), Chapter 14 (commencing with Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4990.14
  The board shall have and use a seal bearing the words "The Board of Behavioral Sciences," and shall otherwise conform to Section 107.5.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4990.16
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the board in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever the protection of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4990.18
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the board employ its resources for each and all of the following functions: (a) The licensure of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4990.20
  (a) The board may adopt rules and regulations as necessary to administer and enforce the provisions of this chapter and the other chapters it administers...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4990.22
  (a) The Behavioral Sciences Fund shall be used for the purposes of carrying out and enforcing the provisions of this chapter and the chapters listed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4990.24
  The powers and duties of the board, as set forth in this chapter, shall be subject to the review required by Division 1.2 (commencing with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4990.26
  Wherever "Board of Behavioral Science Examiners," "Board of Social Work Examiners of the State of California," or "Social Worker and Marriage Counselor Qualifications Board of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4990.28
  The board may refuse to issue a registration or license under the chapters it administers and enforces whenever it appears that the applicant may be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4990.30
  (a) A licensed marriage and family therapist, marriage and family therapist intern, licensed clinical social worker, associate clinical social worker, licensed professional clinical counselor, professional...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4990.32
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, an accusation filed pursuant to Section 11503 of the Government Code against a licensee or registrant under...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4990.34
  (a) The board may place a license or registration issued under the chapters it administers and enforces on probation under the following circumstances: (1) In...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4990.36
  The board, in its discretion, may require a licensee or registrant whose license or registration has been placed on probation or whose license or registration...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4990.38
  The board may deny an application or may suspend or revoke a license or registration issued under the chapters it administers and enforces for any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4990.40
  The board shall revoke a license or registration issued under the chapters it administers and enforces upon a decision made in accordance with the procedures...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4990.42
  The proceedings under this article shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4991
  This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Clinical Social Worker Practice Act. It shall be liberally construed to effect its objectives.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4991.1
  A person engages in the practice of clinical social work when he or she performs or offers to perform or holds himself or herself out...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4991.2
  "Accredited school of social work," within the meaning of this chapter, is a school that is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of the Council...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4992
  Every applicant for a license under this chapter shall file an application with the board accompanied by the application fee prescribed by this chapter. Every...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4992.05
  (a) Effective January 1, 2013, an applicant for licensure as a clinical social worker shall pass the following two examinations as prescribed by the board:...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4992.07
  (a) An applicant who had previously taken and passed the standard written examination shall also obtain a passing score on the clinical examination in order...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4992.09
  (a) An applicant and registrant shall obtain a passing score on a board-administered California law and ethics examination in order to qualify for licensure. (b)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4992.1
  (a) Only individuals who have the qualifications prescribed by the board under this chapter are eligible to take the examination. (b) Every applicant who is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4992.1
  (a) Only individuals who have the qualifications prescribed by the board under this chapter are eligible to take an examination under this chapter. (b) Every...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4992.2
  "Advertising," as used in this chapter, includes, but is not limited to, any public communication as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 651, the issuance...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4992.3
  The board may deny a license or a registration, or may suspend or revoke the license or registration of a licensee or registrant if he...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4992.33
  The board shall revoke any license issued under this chapter upon a decision made in accordance with the procedures set forth in Chapter 5 (commencing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4992.35
  The board may refuse to issue any registration or license whenever it appears that an applicant may be unable to practice his or her profession...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4992.36
  The board may deny an application, or may suspend or revoke a license or registration issued under this chapter, for any of the following: (a)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4992.4
  The proceedings for the suspension or revocation of licenses under this chapter shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4992.5
  Examinations may be held at those times and places as the board may determine. However, one examination shall be held during each calendar year. The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4992.7
  Every person who willfully makes any false statement or who impersonates any other person or permits or aids any other person to impersonate him or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4992.8
  A licensee or registrant shall give written notice to the board of a name change within 30 days after each change, giving both the old...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4992.10
  A licensed clinical social worker who conducts a private practice under a fictitious business name shall not use a name that is false, misleading, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4996
  (a) Only individuals who have received a license under this article may style themselves as "Licensed Clinical Social Workers." Every individual who styles himself or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4996.1
  (a) The board shall issue a clinical social worker license to each applicant who qualifies pursuant to this article and successfully passes a board-administered written...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4996.1
  (a) Effective January 1, 2013, the board shall issue a clinical social worker license to each applicant who qualifies pursuant to this article and who...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4996.2
  Each applicant shall furnish evidence satisfactory to the board that he or she complies with all of the following requirements: (a) Is at least 21...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4996.3
  (a) The board shall assess the following fees relating to the licensure of clinical social workers: (1) The application fee for registration as an associate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4996.3
  (a) The board shall assess the following fees relating to the licensure of clinical social workers: (1) The application fee for registration as an associate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4996.4
  (a) An applicant who fails a standard or clinical vignette written examination may, within one year from the notification date of failure, retake that examination...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4996.4
  (a) Effective January 1, 2013, an applicant who fails the clinical examination may, within one year from the notification date of failure, retake that examination...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4996.5
  The board shall issue a license to each applicant meeting the requirements of this article, which license, so long as the renewal fees have been...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4996.6
  (a) Licenses issued under this chapter shall expire no more than 24 months after the issue date. The expiration date of the original license shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4996.65
  In addition to the fees charged pursuant to Section 4996.6 for the biennial renewal of a license, the board shall collect an additional fee of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4996.7
  A licensee shall display his or her license in a conspicuous place in the licensee's primary place of practice.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4996.8
  The current renewal receipt shall be displayed near the license.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4996.9
  The practice of clinical social work is defined as a service in which a special knowledge of social resources, human capabilities, and the part that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4996.10
  The provisions of this article shall be construed only as provisions relating to the examination and licensing of clinical social workers.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4996.11
  The board may suspend or revoke the license of any person who is guilty on the grounds set forth in Section 4992.3. The proceedings for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4996.12
  Any person who violates this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding a period of six...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4996.13
  Nothing in this article shall prevent qualified members of other professional groups from doing work of a psychosocial nature consistent with the standards and ethics...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4996.14
  (a) This chapter shall not apply to an employee who is working in any of the following settings if his or her work is performed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4996.15
  Nothing in this article shall restrict or prevent activities of a psychosocial nature on the part of persons employed by accredited academic institutions, public schools,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4996.16
  Nothing in this chapter shall apply to any clinical social worker from outside this state, when in actual consultation with a licensed practitioner of this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4996.17
  (a) Experience gained outside of California shall be accepted toward the licensure requirements if it is substantially the equivalent of the requirements of this chapter....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4996.17
  (a) Experience gained outside of California shall be accepted toward the licensure requirements if it is substantially the equivalent of the requirements of this chapter....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4996.17
  (a) Experience gained outside of California shall be accepted toward the licensure requirements if it is substantially the equivalent of the requirements of this chapter....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4996.18
  (a) A person who wishes to be credited with experience toward licensure requirements shall register with the board as an associate clinical social worker prior...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4996.19
  Nothing in this article shall prohibit the acts or practices of a licensed clinical social workers' corporation duly certificated pursuant to the Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4996.22
  (a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (c), the board shall not renew any license pursuant to this chapter unless the applicant certifies to the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4996.23
  The experience required by subdivision (c) of Section 4996.2 shall meet the following criteria: (a) All persons registered with the board on and after January...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4996.24
  (a) A licensee in private practice who has satisfied the requirements of Section 1870 of Title 16 of the California Code of Regulations may supervise...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4996.25
  (a) Any applicant for licensure as a licensed clinical social worker who began graduate study on or after January 1, 2004, shall complete, as a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4996.26
  (a) A licensee who began graduate study prior to January 1, 2004, shall complete a three-hour continuing education course in aging and long-term care during...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4996.28
  (a) Registration as an associate clinical social worker shall expire one year from the last day of the month during which it was issued. To...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4997
  (a) A licensee may apply to the board to request that his or her license be placed on inactive status. (b) A licensee on inactive...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4997.1
  (a) The board shall issue, upon application and payment of the fee fixed by this chapter, a retired license to a licensed clinical social worker...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4998
  A licensed clinical social worker corporation is a corporation that is authorized to render professional services, as defined in Section 13401 of the Corporations Code,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4998.1
  It shall constitute unprofessional conduct and a violation of this chapter for any person licensed under this chapter to violate, attempt to violate, directly or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4998.2
  Notwithstanding Section 4996, the name of a licensed clinical social worker corporation and any name or names under which it may be rendering professional services...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4998.3
  Except as provided in Section 13403 of the Corporations Code, each director, shareholder, and officer of a licensed clinical social worker corporation shall be a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4998.4
  The income of a licensed clinical social worker corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shareholder is a disqualified person, as defined in the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4998.5
  A licensed clinical social worker corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which or the failure to do which...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999
  (a) Any business entity that employs, or contracts or subcontracts, directly or indirectly, with, the full-time equivalent of five or more persons functioning as health...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.1
  Application for registration as an in-state or out-of-state telephone medical advice service shall be made on a form prescribed by the department, accompanied by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.2
  (a) In order to obtain and maintain a registration, in-state or out-of-state telephone medical advice services shall comply with the requirements established by the department....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.3
  (a) The department may suspend, revoke, or otherwise discipline a registrant or deny an application for registration as an in-state or out-of-state telephone medical advice...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.4
  (a) Every registration issued to a telephone medical advice service shall expire 24 months after the initial date of issuance. (b) To renew an unexpired...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.5
  The department may set fees for registration, as an in-state or out-of-state telephone medical advice service sufficient to pay the costs of administration of this
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.6
  The department may adopt, amend, or repeal any rules and regulations that are reasonably necessary to carry out this chapter. A telephone medical advice services...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.7
  (a) This section does not limit, preclude, or otherwise interfere with the practices of other persons licensed or otherwise authorized to practice, under any other...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.10
  This chapter constitutes, and may be cited as, the Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor Act.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.11
  In enacting this chapter, the Legislature recognizes that licensed professional clinical counselors practice a separate and distinct profession from the professions practiced by licensed marriage...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.12
  For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Board" means the Board of Behavioral Sciences. (b) "Accredited" means a school,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.13
  A person engages in the practice of professional clinical counseling when he or she performs or offers to perform or holds himself or herself out...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.14
  The board shall do all of the following: (a) Communicate information about its activities, the requirements and qualifications for licensure, and the practice of professional...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.20
  (a) (1) "Professional clinical counseling" means the application of counseling interventions and psychotherapeutic techniques to identify and remediate cognitive, mental, and emotional issues, including personal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.22
  (a) Nothing in this chapter shall prevent qualified persons from doing work of a psychosocial nature consistent with the standards and ethics of their respective...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.24
  Nothing in this chapter shall restrict or prevent activities of a psychotherapeutic or counseling nature on the part of persons employed by accredited or state-approved...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.30
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a person shall not practice or advertise the performance of professional clinical counseling services without a license issued...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.32
  (a) This section shall apply to applicants for examination eligibility or registration who begin graduate study before August 1, 2012, and complete that study on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.33
  (a) This section shall apply to the following: (1) Applicants for examination eligibility or registration who begin graduate study before August 1, 2012, and do...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.34
  A clinical counselor trainee may be credited with predegree supervised practicum and field study experience completed in a setting that meets all of the following...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.36
  (a) A clinical counselor trainee may perform activities and services provided that the activities and services constitute part of the clinical counselor trainee's supervised course...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.40
  (a) Each educational institution preparing applicants to qualify for licensure shall notify each of its students by means of its public documents or otherwise in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.42
  (a) To qualify for registration as an intern, an applicant shall have all of the following qualifications: (1) The applicant shall have earned a master's...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.44
  An intern may be credited with supervised experience completed in any setting that meets all of the following requirements: (a) Lawfully and regularly provides mental...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.45
  An intern employed under this chapter shall: (a) Not perform any duties, except for those services provided as a clinical counselor trainee, until registered as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.45
  (a) An intern employed under this chapter shall: (1) Not perform any duties, except for those services provided as a clinical counselor trainee, until registered...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.455
  (a) A licensed professional in private practice who has satisfied the requirements of subdivision (h) of Section 4999.12 may supervise or employ, at any one...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.46
  (a) To qualify for the licensure examinations specified in subdivision (c) of Section 4999.52, applicants shall complete clinical mental health experience under the general supervision...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.46
  (a) To qualify for the licensure examination specified by paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 4999.53, applicants shall complete clinical mental health experience under...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.47
  (a) Clinical counselor trainees, interns, and applicants shall perform services as an employee or as a volunteer. The requirements of this chapter regarding gaining hours...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.48
  The board shall adopt regulations regarding the supervision of interns which may include, but not be limited to, the following: (a) Supervisor qualifications. (b) Continuing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.50
  (a) The board may issue a professional clinical counselor license to any person who meets all of the following requirements: (1) He or she has...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.50
  (a) The board may issue a professional clinical counselor license to any person who meets all of the following requirements: (1) He or she has...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.51
  To qualify for licensure as a professional clinical counselor or registration as an intern, applicants shall meet the board's regulatory requirements for professional clinical counselor...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.52
  (a) Except as provided in Sections 4999.54 and 4999.56, every applicant for a license as a professional clinical counselor shall be examined by the board....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.52
  (a) Except as provided in Sections 4999.54 and 4999.56, every applicant for a license as a professional clinical counselor shall be examined by the board....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.53
  (a) Effective January 1, 2013, a clinical counselor intern applying for licensure as a clinical counselor shall pass the following examinations as prescribed by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.54
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 4999.50, the board may issue a license to any person who submits an application for a license between January 1, 2011, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.55
  (a) Each applicant and registrant shall obtain a passing score on a board-administered California law and ethics examination in order to qualify for licensure. (b)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.57
  (a) This section applies to a person who applies for examination eligibility or registration between January 1, 2011, and December 31, 2013, inclusive, who does...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.58
  (a) This section applies to a person who applies for examination eligibility between January 1, 2011, and December 31, 2013, inclusive, and who meets both...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.59
  (a) This section applies to a person who applies for examination eligibility or registration between January 1, 2011, and December 31, 2013, inclusive, who meets...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.60
  (a) This section applies to persons who are licensed outside of California and apply for examination eligibility on or after January 1, 2014. (b) The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.61
  (a) This section applies to persons who apply for examination eligibility or registration on or after January 1, 2014, and who do not hold a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.62
  (a) This section applies to persons who apply for examination eligibility or registration on or after January 1, 2014. (b) For purposes of Sections 4999.60...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.63
  (a) For applicants who submit an application for a license on or before January 1, 2013, a valid passing score on the examination referenced in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.64
  (a) Effective January 1, 2013, an applicant who fails the examination specified in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 4999.53 may, within one year...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.70
  A licensee shall display his or her license in a conspicuous place in his or her primary place of practice.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.72
  Any licensed professional clinical counselor who conducts a private practice under a fictitious business name shall not use any name that is false, misleading, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.74
  Licensed professional clinical counselors shall provide to each client accurate information about the counseling relationship and the counseling process.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.76
  (a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) and subdivision (c), the board shall not renew any license pursuant to this chapter unless the applicant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.80
  In order to carry out the provisions of this chapter, the board shall do all of the following: (a) Enforce laws designed to protect the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.82
  It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in any of the following acts: (a) Engage in the practice of professional clinical counseling, as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.84
  It is the intent of the Legislature that any communication made by a person to a licensed professional clinical counselor in the course of professional...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.86
  Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.88
  In addition to other proceedings provided in this chapter, whenever any person has engaged, or is about to engage, in any acts or practices that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.90
  The board may refuse to issue any registration or license, or may suspend or revoke the registration or license of any intern or licensed professional...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.91
  The board may deny any application, or may suspend or revoke any license or registration issued under this chapter, for any of the following: (a)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.100
  (a) An intern registration shall expire one year from the last day of the month in which it was issued. (b) To renew a registration,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.100
  (a) An intern registration shall expire one year from the last day of the month in which it was issued. (b) To renew a registration,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.102
  (a) Licenses issued under this chapter shall expire no more than 24 months after the issue date. The expiration date of the original license shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.104
  Licenses issued under this chapter that have expired may be renewed at any time within three years of expiration. To renew an expired license described...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.106
  A license that is not renewed within three years after its expiration may not be renewed, restored, reinstated, or reissued, except that a former licensee...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.108
  A suspended license is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article, but that renewal does not entitle the licensee, while...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.110
  A revoked license is subject to expiration as provided in this article, but it may not be renewed. If it is reinstated after its expiration,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.112
  (a) A licensed professional clinical counselor may apply to the board to request that his or her license be placed on inactive status. A licensee...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.113
  (a) The board shall issue, upon application and payment of the fee fixed by this chapter, a retired license to a professional clinical counselor who...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.114
  The board shall report each month to the Controller the amount and source of all revenue received pursuant to this chapter and at the same...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.116
  (a) The moneys credited to the Behavioral Sciences Fund under Section 4999.114 shall, upon appropriation by the Legislature, be used for the purposes of carrying...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.118
  A licensee or registrant shall give written notice to the board of a name change within 30 days after each change, giving both the old...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.120
  The board shall assess fees for the application for and the issuance and renewal of licenses and for the registration of interns to cover administrative...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.122
  The professional clinical counselor licensing program shall be supported from fees assessed to applicants, interns, and licensees. Startup funds to implement this program shall be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.123
  A professional clinical counselor corporation is a corporation that is authorized to render professional services, as defined in Section 13401 of the Corporations Code, so...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.124
  It shall constitute unprofessional conduct and a violation of this chapter for any person licensed under this chapter to violate, attempt to violate, directly or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.125
  The name of a professional clinical counselor corporation and any name or names under which it may be rendering professional services shall contain the words...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.126
  Except as provided in Section 13403 of the Corporations Code, each director, shareholder, and officer of a professional clinical counselor corporation shall be a licensed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.127
  The income of a professional clinical counselor corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shareholder is a disqualified person, as defined in Section 13401...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.128
  A professional clinical counselor corporation shall not perform or fail to perform any act the performance of which, or for which the failure to perform,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.129
  The board may formulate and enforce any rule or regulation to carry out the purposes and objectives of this article, including as follows: (a) Any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.112
  (a) A licensed professional clinical counselor may apply to the board to request that his or her license be placed on inactive status. A licensee...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.113
  (a) The board shall issue, upon application and payment of the fee fixed by this chapter, a retired license to a professional clinical counselor who...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.114
  The board shall report each month to the Controller the amount and source of all revenue received pursuant to this chapter and at the same...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.116
  (a) The moneys credited to the Behavioral Sciences Fund under Section 4999.114 shall, upon appropriation by the Legislature, be used for the purposes of carrying...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.118
  A licensee or registrant shall give written notice to the board of a name change within 30 days after each change, giving both the old...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.120
  The board shall assess fees for the application for and the issuance and renewal of licenses and for the registration of interns to cover administrative...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.122
  The professional clinical counselor licensing program shall be supported from fees assessed to applicants, interns, and licensees. Startup funds to implement this program shall be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5000
  There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs the California Board of Accountancy, which consists of 15 members, 7 of whom shall be licensees, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5000.1
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the California Board of Accountancy in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5000.5
  No public member shall be a current or former licensee of the board or an immediate family member of a licensee, or be currently or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5001
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), each member of the board, except the public members, shall be actively engaged in the practice of public...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5002
  Each member shall be appointed for a term of four years and shall hold office until the appointment and qualification of his successor or until...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5003
  The officers of the board are a president, vice president and a secretary-treasurer.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5004
  The president, vice president, and secretary-treasurer shall be elected by the board for a term of one year from among its members at the time...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5006
  The officers of the board shall continue in office until their successors are elected and qualify.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5007
  The president shall preside at all meetings of the board, and in the event of his absence or inability to act, the vice president shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5008
  The board shall, from time to time, but not less than twice each year, prepare and distribute to all licensees, a report of the activities...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5009
  The board shall compile and maintain, or may have compiled and maintained on its behalf, a register of licensees that contains information that the board...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5010
  The board may adopt, repeal, or amend such regulations as may be reasonably necessary and expedient for the orderly conduct of its affairs and for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5011
  The board shall designate the location of its principal office and may establish branch offices in other locations.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5012
  The board shall have a seal.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5013
  The board shall keep records of all proceedings and actions by and before the board and before its committees. In any proceeding in court, civil...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5015
  The board may employ clerks, examiners and, except as provided by Section 159.5, other assistants in the performance of its duties, and pay salaries and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5015.6
  The board may appoint a person exempt from civil service who shall be designated as an executive officer and who shall exercise the powers and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5016
  A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business at any meeting of the board. Notice of each meeting...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5017
  All meetings of the board shall be open and public, except that the board may hold executive sessions to deliberate on the decision to be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5017.1
  The board shall post, within 10 days of board approval, the finalized minutes from meetings of the board that are open and public pursuant to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5017.5
  (a) The board shall provide a live audio or video broadcast, on its Internet Web site, of each of its board meetings that are open...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5018
  The board may by regulation, prescribe, amend, or repeal rules of professional conduct appropriate to the establishment and maintenance of a high standard of integrity...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5019
  The rules of professional conduct adopted by the board shall be printed as a part of the application blanks for both certificates and registration and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5020
  The board may, for the purpose of obtaining technical expertise, appoint an enforcement advisory committee of not more than 13 licensees to provide advice and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5021
  The members of the enforcement advisory and qualifications committees shall hold office for two years.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5022
  The qualifications committee shall make recommendations and forward its report to the board for action on any matter on which it is authorized to act....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5023
  The board may establish a qualifications committee of its own certified public accountant members or other certified public accountants of the state in good standing,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5024
  The board may create and appoint advisory committees, consisting solely of board members or consisting of board members and other persons who are not board...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5025.1
  (a) The board may contract with and employ certified public accountants and public accountants as consultants and experts to assist in the investigation and prosecution...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5025.2
  (a) The Legislature finds that there are occasions when the California Board of Accountancy urgently requires additional expenditure authority in order to fund unanticipated enforcement...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5025.3
  (a) Whenever the board enters into a contract for litigation or enforcement purposes, including, but not limited to, contracts pursuant to Section 5025.1, funds may...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5026
  The Legislature has determined it is in the public interest to require that certified public accountants and public accountants licensed under provisions of this chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5027
  The board shall by regulation prescribe, amend, or repeal rules including, but not limited to, all of the following: (a) A definition of basic requirements...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5028
  The board may, in accordance with the intent of this article, make exceptions from continuing education requirements for licensees not engaged in public practice, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5029
  The board may establish an advisory continuing education committee of nine members, six of whom shall be certified public accountants, two of whom shall be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5030
  "Board" means the California Board of Accountancy.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5031
  "Committee" means any committee created under the provisions of Article 1 (commencing at Section 5000).
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5032
  "State" when not specifically referring to this State, means any state, territory or insular possession of the United States, or the District of Columbia.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5033
  "Certified public accountant" means any person who has received from the board a certificate of certified public accountant and who holds a valid permit to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5033.1
  For purposes of this chapter, "license" shall also include "certificate."
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5034
  "Public accountant" means any person who has registered with the board as a public accountant and who holds a valid permit for the practice of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5035
  "Person" includes individual, partnership, firm, association, limited liability company, or corporation, unless otherwise provided.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5035.1
  "Firm" means a sole proprietorship, a corporation, or a partnership.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5035.2
  "Client", as used in any context in this chapter, means any person for whom public accountancy services are performed or to whom financial products, financial...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5035.3
  For purposes of subdivision (b) of Section 5050 and Sections 5054 and 5096.12, "firm" includes any entity that is authorized or permitted to practice public...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5036
  Whenever any statute requires that any reports, financial statements, and other documents for any department, division, board, commission, or agency of this state be prepared...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5037
  (a) All statements, records, schedules, working papers and memoranda made by a licensee or a partner, shareholder, officer, director, or employee of a licensee, incident...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5037.1
  Nothing in subdivision (k) of Section 17406 of the Financial Code or subdivision (a) of Section 17406.1 of the Financial Code shall be construed to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5038
  If any provisions of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of the chapter and the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5040
  The Legislature finds and declares that it is important to inform taxpayers that they may make voluntary contributions to certain funds or programs, as provided...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5050
  (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c) of this section, in subdivision (a) of Section 5054, and in Section 5096.12, no person shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5050.1
  (a) Any person that engages in any act that is the practice of public accountancy in this state consents to the personal, subject matter, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5050.2
  (a) The board may revoke, suspend, issue a fine pursuant to Article 6.5 (commencing with Section 5116), or otherwise restrict or discipline the holder of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5051
  Except as provided in Sections 5052 and 5053, a person shall be deemed to be engaged in the practice of public accountancy within the meaning...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5052
  Nothing in this chapter shall apply to any person who as an employee, independent contractor, or otherwise, contracts with one or more persons, organizations, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5053
  Nothing contained in this chapter precludes a person who is not a certified public accountant or public accountant from serving as an employee of, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5054
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, an individual or firm holding a valid and current license, certificate, or permit to practice public accountancy...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5055
  Any person who has received from the board a certificate of certified public accountant may, subject to Section 5051, be styled and known as a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5056
  Any person who has received from the board a certificate of public accountant may, subject to Section 5051, be styled and known as a "public...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5057
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an individual holding a valid and current license, certificate, or permit to practice public accountancy from another state shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5058
  No person or partnership shall assume or use the title or designation "chartered accountant," "certified accountant," "enrolled accountant," "registered accountant" or "licensed accountant," or any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5058.1
  A person or firm may not use any title or designation in connection with the designation "certified public accountant" or "public accountant" that is false...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5058.2
  The holder of an inactive license issued by the board pursuant to Section 462, when lawfully using the title "certified public accountant," the CPA designation,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5058.3
  The holder of a retired license issued by the board pursuant to Section 5070.1, when lawfully using the title "certified public accountant," the CPA designation,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5060
  (a) No person or firm may practice public accountancy under any name which is false or misleading. (b) No person or firm may practice public...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5061
  (a) Except as expressly permitted by this section, a person engaged in the practice of public accountancy shall not: (1) pay a fee or commission...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5062
  A licensee shall issue a report which conforms to professional standards upon completion of a compilation, review or audit of financial statements.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5062.2
  A licensee shall not accept employment with a publicly traded corporation or its affiliate within 12 months of the date of issuance of a financial...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5063
  (a) A licensee shall report to the board in writing of the occurrence of any of the following events occurring on or after January 1,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5063.1
  Within 10 days of entry of a conviction described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 5063 or a judgment described in subdivision (c)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5063.2
  Within 30 days of payment of all or any portion of any civil action settlement or arbitration award against a licensee of the board in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5063.3
  (a) No confidential information obtained by a licensee, in his or her professional capacity, concerning a client or a prospective client shall be disclosed by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5063.10
  (a) Any restatement of a financial statement that is included in any report filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission shall be exempt...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5070
  Permits to engage in the practice of public accountancy in this state shall be issued by the board only to holders of the certificate of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5070.1
  (a) The board may establish, by regulation, a system for the placement of a license on a retired status, upon application, for certified public accountants...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5070.5
  (a) A permit issued under this chapter to a certified public accountant or a public accountant expires at 12 midnight on the last day of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5070.6
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, an expired permit may be renewed at any time within five years after its expiration upon the filing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5070.7
  (a) A permit that is not renewed within five years following its expiration may not be renewed, restored, or reinstated thereafter, and the certificate of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5070.8
  A permit which has been suspended is subject to expiration, and shall be renewed as provided in this article, but such renewal does not entitle...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5072
  (a) No persons shall engage in the practice of accountancy as a partnership unless the partnership is registered by the board. (b) A partnership, other...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5073
  (a) Application for registration of a partnership shall be made upon a form prescribed by the board. The board shall in each case determine whether...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5076
  (a) In order to renew its registration, a firm, as defined in Section 5035.1, shall have a peer review report of its accounting and auditing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5076.1
  (a) The board shall appoint a peer review oversight committee of certified public accountants of this state who maintain a license in good standing and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5078
  In each office of a certified public accountant or public accountant in this state which is not under the personal management of such an accountant,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5079
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, any firm lawfully engaged in the practice of public accountancy in this state may have owners who...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5080
  The "certified public accountant" license shall be granted by the board to any person who meets the requirements of this article, has not committed acts...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5080.1
  The board may require an applicant for a certified public accountant license to appear in person to determine if the applicant' s qualifications are as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5081
  An applicant for an authorization to be admitted to the examination for a certified public accountant license shall: (a) Not have committed acts or crimes...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5082
  An applicant for a certified public accountant license shall have successfully passed an examination in subjects the board deems appropriate, and in the form and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5082.1
  (a) The examination required by the board for the granting of a license as a certified public accountant may be conducted by the board or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5082.2
  A candidate who fails an examination provided for in this article shall have the right to reexamination pursuant to the provisions of this article and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5082.3
  An applicant for a license as a certified public accountant may be deemed by the board to have met the examination requirements of Section 5082,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5082.4
  A Canadian Chartered Accountant in good standing may be deemed by the board to have met the examination requirements of Section 5082, 5092, or 5093...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5082.5
  The board may give credit to a candidate who has passed all or part of the examination in another state or territory, if the members...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5082.5
  The board may give credit to a candidate who has passed all or part of the examination in another state or territory, if the members...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5086
  Individuals who, at the time of the enactment of this act, hold certified public accountant licenses heretofore issued under the laws of this state shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5087
  (a) The board may issue a certified public accountant license to any applicant who is a holder of a valid and unrevoked certified public accountant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5088
  (a) Any individual who is the holder of a current and valid license as a certified public accountant issued under the laws of any state...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5090
  An applicant for the certified public accountant license shall comply with the education, examination, and experience requirements in either Section 5092 or 5093.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5092
  (a) To qualify for the certified public accountant license, an applicant who is applying under this section shall meet the education, examination, and experience requirements...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5093
  (a) To qualify for the certified public accountant license, an applicant who is applying under this section shall meet the education, examination, and experience requirements...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5094
  (a) In order for education to be qualifying, it shall meet the standards described in subdivision (b) or (c) of this section. (b) At a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5094.3
  (b) (1) Between January 1, 2014, and December 31, 2016, inclusive, an applicant shall complete 10 semester units or 15 quarter units in courses described...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5094.5
  (a) There is hereby created within the jurisdiction of the board the Advisory Committee on Accounting Ethics Curriculum. For purposes of this section, "committee" means...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5094.6
  (a) No later than June 1, 2012, the committee shall recommend to the board ethics study guidelines consisting of no less than 10 semester units...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5094.7
  (a) There is hereby created within the jurisdiction of the board an Accounting Education Advisory Committee for the purposes of subdivision (c) of Section 5094.6....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5095
  (a) To be authorized to sign reports on attest engagements, a licensee shall complete a minimum of 500 hours of experience, satisfactory to the board,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5095
  (a) To be authorized to sign reports on attest engagements, a licensee shall complete a minimum of 500 hours of experience, satisfactory to the board,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5096
  (a) An individual whose principal place of business is not in this state and who has a valid and current license, certificate or permit to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5096.1
  (a) Any individual, not a licensee of this state, who is engaged in any act which is the practice of public accountancy in this state,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5096.2
  (a) Practice privileges may be denied for failure to qualify under or comply with the provisions of this article or implementing regulations, or for any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5096.3
  (a) Practice privileges are subject to revocation, suspension, fines or other disciplinary sanctions for any conduct that would be grounds for discipline against a licensee...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5096.4
  (a) The right of an individual to practice in this state under a practice privilege may be administratively suspended at any time by an order...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5096.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, an individual may not sign any attest report pursuant to a practice privilege unless the individual meets the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5096.6
  In addition to the authority otherwise provided for by this code, the board may delegate to the executive officer the authority to issue any notice...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5096.7
  Except as otherwise provided in this article, the following definitions apply: (a) Anywhere the term "license," "licensee," "permit," or "certificate" is used in this chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5096.8
  In addition to the authority otherwise provided by this code, all investigative powers of the board, including those delegated to the executive officer, shall apply...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5096.9
  The board is authorized to adopt regulations to implement, interpret, or make specific the provisions of this article.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5096.10
  The provisions of this article shall only be operative if commencing July 1, 2005, and continuing during the period provided in Section 5096.11, there is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5096.12
  (a) A certified public accounting firm that is authorized to practice in another state and that does not have an office in this state may...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5096.13
  The notification of intent to practice under a practice privilege pursuant to Section 5096 shall include the name of the firm, its address and telephone...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5096.14
  (a) An individual shall not be deemed to be in violation of this article solely because he or she begins the practice of public accounting...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5096.15
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the board adopt regulations providing for a lower fee or no fee for out-of-state accountants who do...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5097
  (a) Audit documentation shall be a licensee's records of the procedures applied, the tests performed, the information obtained, and the pertinent conclusions reached in an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5098
  The board may adopt regulations to implement, interpret, and make specific provisions relating to the following: (a) Requirements for licensees maintaining an audit documentation retention...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5100
  After notice and hearing the board may revoke, suspend, or refuse to renew any permit or certificate granted under Article 4 (commencing with Section 5070)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5101
  After notice and hearing the board shall revoke the registration and permit to practice of a partnership if at any time it does not have...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5102
  The proceedings under this article shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 5 (commencing at Section 11500) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5103
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board may inquire into any alleged violation of this chapter or any other state or federal law,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5103.5
  (a) The board shall post on its Internet Web site, in an easily marked and identifiable location, notice of all formal accusations. The notice of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5104
  Any certified public accountant or public accountant whose certificate, registration, or permit has been revoked or suspended shall upon request of the board relinquish his...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5105
  Any certified public accountant or public accountant who is delinquent in the payment of his renewal fee shall upon request of the board relinquish his...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5106
  A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere is deemed to be a conviction within the meaning of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5107
  (a) The executive officer of the board may request the administrative law judge, as part of the proposed decision in a disciplinary proceeding, to direct...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5108
  In connection with any investigation or action authorized by this chapter, the board may issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and the production of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5109
  The expiration, cancellation, forfeiture, or suspension of a license, practice privilege, or other authority to practice public accountancy by operation of law or by order...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5110
  (a) After notice and an opportunity for a hearing, the board may deny an application to take the licensing examination, deny admission to current and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5111
  Cheating on, or subverting or attempting to subvert any licensing examination includes, but is not limited to, engaging in, soliciting, or procuring any of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5112
  (a) The board may deny an application to take the licensing examination, deny admittance to current and future licensing examinations, and void examination grades on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5113
  An individual who has been denied admission to the licensing examination under Section 5110 may petition the board for admission to the Certified Public Accountant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5115
  (a) A person whose license has been revoked or surrendered may petition the board for reinstatement or reduction of penalty after a period of not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5116
  (a) The board, after appropriate notice and an opportunity for hearing, may order any licensee or applicant for licensure or examination to pay an administrative...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5116.1
  In accordance with Section 5116 and applicable regulations, except as provided in Section 5116.2, any licensee who violates any provision of this chapter may be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5116.2
  In accordance with Section 5116 and applicable regulations, any licensee who violates subdivision (a), (c), (i), (j) or (k) of Section 5100 may be assessed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5116.3
  In accordance with Section 5116 and applicable regulations, any person who is found to have cheated or subverted or attempted to subvert or cheat on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5116.4
  (a) The board's executive officer may request assessment of an administrative penalty in any disciplinary or other proceeding provided in this chapter or in any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5116.5
  The board may obtain a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction ordering the payment of any final administrative penalty assessed by the board pursuant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5116.6
  Anywhere the term "licensee" is used in the article it shall include certified public accountants, public accountants, partnerships, corporations, holders of practice privileges, other persons...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5120
  Any person who violates Article 3 (commencing with Section 5050) is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than six months, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5121
  The display or uttering by a person of a card, sign, advertisement or other printed, engraved or written instrument or device, bearing a person's name...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5122
  Whenever in the judgment of the board, or with its approval the enforcement advisory committee, any person has engaged, or is about to engage, in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5130
  The board shall charge and collect a fee from each applicant for the certificate of certified public accountant. The fee shall accompany the application which...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5131
  (a) The board may charge and collect an application fee and an examination fee from each applicant. The applicable fees shall accompany the application which...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5132
  All moneys received by the board under this chapter from any source and for any purpose shall be accounted for and reported monthly by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5133
  All money in the Accountancy Fund is hereby appropriated to the California Board of Accountancy to carry out the provisions of this chapter. Each member...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5134
  The amount of fees prescribed by this chapter is as follows: (a) The fee to be charged to each applicant for the certified public accountant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5150
  An accountancy corporation is a corporation which is registered with the California Board of Accountancy and has a currently effective certificate of registration from the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5151
  An applicant for registration as an accountancy corporation shall supply to the board all necessary and pertinent documents and information requested by the board concerning...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5152
  Each accountancy corporation shall file with the board at the times the board may require a report containing information pertaining to qualification and compliance with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5152.1
  Each accountancy corporation shall renew its permit to practice biennially and shall pay the renewal fee fixed by the board in accordance with Section 5134.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5154
  Except as provided in Section 5079 of this code and in Section 13403 of the Corporations Code, each director, shareholder, and officer of an accountancy...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5155
  The income of an accountancy corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shareholder is a disqualified person (as defined in the Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5156
  An accountancy corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which or the failure to do which would constitute unprofessional...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5157
  The board may formulate and enforce rules and regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of this article, including rules and regulations requiring (a)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5158
  Each office of an accountancy corporation engaged in the practice of public accountancy in this state shall be managed by a certified public accountant or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5200
  This chapter of the Business and Professions Code constitutes the chapter on advertisers. It may be cited as the Outdoor Advertising Act.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5201
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the general provisions set forth in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5202
  "Advertising display" refers to advertising structures and to signs.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5203
  "Advertising structure" means a structure of any kind or character erected, used, or maintained for outdoor advertising purposes, upon which any poster, bill, printing, painting...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5204
  "Bonus segment" means any segment of an interstate highway which was covered by the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1958 and the Collier-Z'berg Act, namely,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5205
  "Business area" means an area within 1,000 feet, measured in each direction, from the nearest edge of a commercial or industrial building or activity and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5206
  "Centerline of the highway" means a line equidistant from the edges of the median separating the main traveled way of a divided highway, or the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5208
  "Collier-Z'berg Act" refers to Chapter 128, Statutes of 1964 (First Extraordinary Session).
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5208.6
  "Department" means the Department of Transportation.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5209
  "Director" refers to the Director of Transportation of the State of California.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5210
  "Federal Aid Highway Act of 1958" refers to Section 131 of Title 23 of the United States Code, as in effect before October 22, 1965.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5211
  "Flashing" is a light or message that changes more than once every four seconds.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5212
  "Freeway," for the purposes of this chapter only, means a divided arterial highway for through traffic with full control of access and with grade separations...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5213
  "Highway" includes roads, streets, boulevards, lanes, courts, places, commons, trails, ways or other rights-of-way or easements used for or laid out and intended for the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5214
  "Highway Beautification Act of 1965" refers to Section 131 of Title 23 of the United States Code, as in effect October 22, 1965.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5215
  "Interstate highway" means any highway at any time officially designated as a part of the national system of interstate and defense highways by the director...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5216
  (a) "Landscaped freeway" means a section or sections of a freeway that is now, or hereafter may be, improved by the planting at least on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5216.1
  "Lawfully erected" means, in reference to advertising displays, advertising displays which were erected in compliance with state laws and local ordinances in effect at the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5216.3
  "Main-traveled way" is the traveled way of a highway on which through traffic is carried. In the case of a divided highway, the traveled way...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5216.4
  "Message center" is an advertising display where the message is changed more than once every two minutes, but no more than once every four seconds.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5216.5
  "Nonconforming advertising display" is an advertising display that was lawfully placed, but that does not conform to the provisions of this chapter, or the administrative...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5216.6
  (a) "Officially designated scenic highway or scenic byway" is any state highway that has been officially designated and maintained as a state scenic highway pursuant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5218
  "Penalty segment" means any segment of a highway located in this state which was not covered by the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1958 and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5219
  "Person" includes natural person, firm, cooperative, partnership, association, limited liability company, and corporation.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5220
  "Primary highway" means any highway, other than an interstate highway, designated as a part of the federal-aid primary system in existence on June 1, 1991,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5221
  "Sign" refers to any card, cloth, paper, metal, painted or wooden sign of any character placed for outdoor advertising purposes on or to the ground...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5222
  "660 feet from the edge of the right-of-way" means 660 feet measured from the edge of the right-of-way horizontally along a line normal or perpendicular...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5222.1
  "State highway system" means the state highway system as described in Section 300 of the Streets and Highways Code.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5223
  "Unzoned commercial or industrial area" means an area not zoned under authority of state law in which the land use is characteristic of that generally...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5224
  "Visible" means capable of being seen (whether or not legible) without visual aid by a person of normal visual acuity.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5225
  The verb, "to place" and any of its variants, as applied to advertising displays, includes the maintaining and the erecting, constructing, posting, painting, printing, tacking,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5226
  The regulation of advertising displays adjacent to any interstate highway or primary highway as provided in Section 5405 is hereby declared to be necessary to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5227
  It is the intention of the Legislature to occupy the whole field of regulation by the provisions of this chapter except that nothing in this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5228
  It is declared to be the intent of the Legislature in enacting the provisions of this chapter regulating advertising displays adjacent to highways included in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5229
  The provisions of this chapter shall not be construed to permit a person to place or maintain in existence on or adjacent to any street,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5230
  The governing body of any city, county, or city and county may enact ordinances, including, but not limited to, land use or zoning ordinances, imposing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5231
  The governing body of any city or city and county may enact ordinances requiring licenses or permits, or both, in addition to those imposed by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5250
  The director may make orders and regulations for the enforcement of this chapter and may authorize the Department of Transportation to enforce its provisions.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5251
  Regulations promulgated by the director prior to November 8, 1967, concerning interstate highways constructed upon rights-of-way, the entire width of which was acquired after July...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5252
  The director shall prescribe the form of all applications, licenses, permits and other appurtenant written matter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5253
  The director shall furnish requisite forms for applications, licenses and permits provided for in this chapter and may appoint a representative or agent in each...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5254
  The director may enforce the penalties for failure to comply with the provisions of this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5270
  The regulation of the placing of advertising displays by this chapter, insofar as such regulation may affect the placing of advertising displays within view of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5271
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the provisions of this chapter apply only to the placing of advertising displays within view of highways located...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5272
  With the exception of Article 4 (commencing with Section 5300) and Sections 5400 and 5404, inclusive, nothing contained in this chapter applies to any advertising...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5273
  For the purpose of this chapter, advertising displays advertising those businesses and activities developed within the boundary limits of, and as a part of, an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5273.5
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 5273, for the purposes of this chapter, in the City of Buena Park in Orange County, the Cities of Commerce, Covina, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5274
  (a) None of the provisions of this chapter, except those in Article 4 (commencing with Section 5300), Sections 5400 to 5404, inclusive, and subdivision (d)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5275
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the director may not regulate noncommercial, protected speech contained within any advertising display authorized by, or exempted from,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5300
  (a) A person engages in the business of outdoor advertising whenever, personally or through employees, that person places an advertising display, changes the advertising message...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5301
  No person shall engage in or carry on the business or occupation of outdoor advertising without first having paid the license fee provided by this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5302
  All licenses issued on or after the first day of July shall expire on the 30th day of June following the date of issue. Fees...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5303
  Every application for a license shall be made on a form to be furnished by the director. It shall state the full name of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5350
  No person shall place any advertising display within the areas affected by the provisions of this chapter in this state without first having secured a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5351
  Every person desiring a permit to place any advertising display shall file an application with the director or with his authorized agent.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5353
  The application shall be filed on a blank to be furnished by the director or by his agent. It shall set forth the name and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5354
  (a) The applicant for any permit shall offer written evidence that both the owner or other person in control or possession of the property upon...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5355
  An application for a permit to place a display shall contain a description of the display, including its material, size, and subject and the proposed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5357
  If the applicant for a permit is engaged in the outdoor advertising business, the application shall contain the number of the license issued by the
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5358
  When the application is in full compliance with this chapter and if the advertising display will not be in violation of any other state law,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5359
  (a) The issuance of a permit for the placing of an advertising display includes the right to change the advertising copy without obtaining a new...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5360
  (a) The director shall establish a permit renewal term of five years, which shall be reflected on the face of the permit. (b) The director...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5361
  Each permit provided in this chapter shall carry an identification number and shall entitle the holder to place the advertising display described in the application.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5362
  No person shall place any advertising display unless there is securely fastened upon the front thereof an identification number plate of the character specified in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5363
  Identification number plates shall be furnished by the director. Identification number plates shall bear the identification number of the advertising display to which they are
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5364
  The provisions of this article shall apply to any advertising display which was lawfully placed and which was in existence on November 7, 1967, adjacent...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5365
  When a highway within an incorporated area is designated as an interstate or a primary highway, each advertising display maintained adjacent to such highway shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5366
  The issuance of a permit pursuant to this chapter does not allow any person to erect an advertising display in violation of any ordinance of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5400
  No advertising structure may be maintained unless the name of the person owning or maintaining it, is plainly displayed thereon.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5401
  No advertising structure shall be placed unless it is built to withstand a wind pressure of 20 pounds per square foot of exposed surface. Any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5402
  No person shall display or cause or permit to be displayed upon any advertising structure or sign, any statements or words of an obscene, indecent...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5403
  No advertising display shall be placed or maintained in any of the following locations or positions or under any of the following conditions or if...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5404
  No advertising display shall be placed outside of any business district as defined in the Vehicle Code or outside of any unincorporated city, town or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5405
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, no advertising display shall be placed or maintained within 660 feet from the edge of the right-of-way of,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5405.3
  Nothing in this chapter, including, but not limited to, Section 5405, shall prohibit the placing of temporary political signs, unless a federal agency determines that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5405.5
  In addition to those displays permitted pursuant to Section 5405, displays erected and maintained pursuant to regulations of the director, which will not be in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5405.6
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no outdoor advertising display that exceeds 10 feet in either length or width, shall be built on any land...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5406
  The provisions of Sections 5226 and 5405 shall not apply to bonus segments which traverse and abut on commercial or industrial zones within the boundaries...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5407
  The provisions of Sections 5226 and 5405 shall not apply to penalty segments which are located, or which are to be located, in business areas...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5408
  In addition to the advertising displays permitted by Section 5405 to be placed within 660 feet of the edge of the right-of-way of interstate or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5408.1
  (a) No advertising display shall be placed or maintained beyond 660 feet from the edge of the right-of-way of an interstate or primary highway if...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5408.2
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, an advertising display is a lawfully erected advertising display and, upon application and payment of the application fee,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5408.3
  Notwithstanding Section 5408, a city or a county with land use jurisdiction over the property may adopt an ordinance that establishes standards for the spacing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5408.5
  In addition to the advertising displays permitted by Sections 5405 and 5408, advertising displays located on bus passenger shelters or benches and conforming to the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5408.7
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that this section shall not serve as a precedent for other changes to the law regarding outdoor...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5410
  Any advertising display located within 660 feet of the edge of the right-of-way of, and the copy of which is visible from, any penalty segment,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5412
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, no advertising display which was lawfully erected anywhere within this state shall be compelled to be removed, nor...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5412.1
  A city, county, or city and county, whose ordinances or regulations are otherwise in full compliance with Section 5412, is not in violation of that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5412.2
  A city or city and county, whose ordinances or regulations are otherwise in full compliance with Section 5412, is not in violation of that section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5412.3
  A county whose ordinances or regulations are otherwise in full compliance with Section 5412, is not in violation of that section if the county elects...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5412.4
  Section 5412 shall not be applied in any judicial proceeding which was filed and served by any city, county, or city and county prior to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5412.6
  The requirement by a governmental entity that a lawfully erected display be removed as a condition or prerequisite for the issuance or continued effectiveness of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5413
  Prior to commencing judicial proceedings to compel the removal of an advertising display, the director may elect to negotiate with the person entitled to compensation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5414
  Proceedings to compel the removal of displays and to determine the compensation required by this chapter shall be conducted pursuant to Title 7 (commencing with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5415
  The director shall prescribe and enforce regulations for the erection and maintenance of advertising displays permitted by Sections 5226, 5405, and 5408 consistent with Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5416
  The director shall seek, and may enter into, agreements with the Secretary of Transportation of the United States and shall take such steps as may...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5417
  From state funds appropriated by the Legislature for such purposes and from federal funds made available for such purposes, the California Transportation Commission may allocate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5418
  The California Transportation Commission is authorized to allocate sufficient funds from the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund that are available for capital...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5418.1
  When allocating funds pursuant to Section 5418, the commission shall consider, and may designate for expenditure, all or any part of such funds in accordance...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5419
  (a) The director shall seek agreement with the Secretary of Transportation of the United States, or his successor, under provisions of Section 131 of Title...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5440
  Except as otherwise provided in this article, no advertising display may be placed or maintained on property adjacent to a section of a freeway that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5440.1
  Except as provided in Section 5442.5, no advertising display may be placed or maintained along any highway or segment of any interstate highway or primary...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5441
  Any advertising display which is now, or hereafter becomes, in violation of Section 5440 shall be subject to removal three years from the date the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5442
  Section 5440 does not apply to any advertising structure or sign if the advertising display is used exclusively for any of the following purposes: (a)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5442.5
  Section 5440.1 does not apply to any advertising display if the advertising display is used exclusively for any of the following purposes: (a) Directional and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5442.7
  (a) Section 5440 does not apply to any freestanding identifying structure that is used exclusively to identify development projects, business centers, or associations located within...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5442.8
  Section 5440 does not apply to any advertising structure or sign if the advertising display is used exclusively to identify development projects, business centers, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5442.9
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 5440, a city described in subdivision (b) may erect a nonconforming display if all of the following apply: (1) The display is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5442.10
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, Section 5440 does not apply to any advertising display if all of the following conditions are met:...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5442.11
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, Section 5440 does not apply to any advertising display in the Mid-City Recovery Redevelopment Project Area within the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5442.13
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, Section 5440 shall not prohibit an advertising display in the City of Los Angeles by a not-for-profit...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5443
  Nothing in this article prohibits either of the following: (a) Any county from designating the districts or zones in which advertising displays may be placed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5443.5
  Nothing in this article prohibits the Department of Transportation from allowing any legally permitted display situated on property being acquired for a public use to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5460
  It is unlawful for any person to place or cause to be placed, or to maintain or cause to be maintained any advertising display without...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5461
  All advertising displays which are placed or which exist in violation of the provisions of this chapter are public nuisances and may be removed by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5463
  The director may revoke any license or permit for the failure to comply with this chapter and may remove and destroy any advertising display placed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5464
  Every person as principal, agent or employee, violating any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5465
  The remedies provided in this chapter for the removal of illegal advertising displays are cumulative and not exclusive of any other remedies provided by law.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5466
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, as to an advertising display in place as of August 12, 2004, a cause of action for the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5480
  The fees for licenses and permits prescribed by this chapter are in lieu of all other license and permit fees required by the laws of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5481
  All license, permit, application, and renewal fees, and all fines, collected by the director and his or her authorized agents in accordance with this chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5482
  Any display owner who does not remove an advertising display that is placed or maintained in violation of this chapter and is removed and destroyed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5483
  The expense of administering this chapter is under the control of the director. Money in the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5484
  (a) The license fee is two hundred fifty dollars ($250) for an original license and for each annual renewal thereof for any applicant maintaining six...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5485
  (a) (1) The annual permit fee for each advertising display shall be set by the director. (2) The fee shall not exceed the amount reasonably...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5486
  In addition to the fees set forth in Section 5485, no application for an original permit to place an advertising structure shall be accepted by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5490
  (a) This chapter applies only to lawfully erected on-premises advertising displays. (b) As used in this chapter, "on-premises advertising displays" means any structure, housing, sign,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5490.5
  (a) For purposes of this chapter, "message center" is an advertising display where the message is changed more than once every two minutes, but no...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5491
  Notwithstanding any provision of Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 5200), except as provided in this chapter, no on-premises advertising display which is used for any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5491.1
  (a) Any city or county adopting or amending any ordinance or regulation that regulates or prohibits the use of any on-premises advertising display that is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5491.2
  (a) A city or county may impose reasonable fees upon all owners or lessees of on-premises business advertising displays for the purpose of covering its...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5492
  For purposes of compliance with Section 5491, fair and just compensation is presumed to be paid upon the payment of the fair market value of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5493
  (a) As an alternative to payment of fair and just compensation under Section 5492, a city or county may pay fair and just compensation to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5494
  The ordinances and regulations of any city or county, introduced or adopted prior to March 12, 1983, which have provided for amortization, and which make...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5495
  A city or county whose ordinances or regulations are introduced or adopted after March 12, 1983, and any amendments or modifications to those ordinances and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5495.5
  A city or county with an ordinance or regulation introduced or adopted prior to March 12, 1983, which is applicable to designated areas within the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5496
  A city or county, whose ordinances or regulations are otherwise in full compliance with Section 5491 is not in violation of that section if it...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5497
  A city or county, whose ordinances or regulations were introduced or adopted after March 12, 1983, or any amendments to those ordinances and regulations, is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5498
  (a) Sections 5491 and 5495 do not apply to redevelopment project areas created pursuant to the Community Redevelopment Law (Part 1 (commencing with Section 33000)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5498.1
  A city or county may not deny, refuse to issue, or condition the issuance of a business license or a permit to construct a new...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5498.2
  (a) During the amortization period for a nonconforming legally in place on-premises advertising display's continued use, a city or county may not deny, refuse to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5499
  Regardless of any other provision of this chapter or other law, no city or county shall require the removal of any on-premises advertising display on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5499.1
  For purposes of this chapter only: (a) "Illegal on-premises advertising display" means any of the following: (1) An on-premises advertising display erected without first complying...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5499.2
  (a) The legislative body of a city or county may declare, by resolution, as public nuisances and abate all illegal on-premises advertising displays located within...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5499.3
  After adoption of the resolution, the enforcement officer shall cause notices to be conspicuously posted on or in front of the property on or in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5499.4
  The notice shall be substantially in the following form: NOTICE TO REMOVE ILLEGAL ADVERTISING DISPLAY Notice is hereby given that on the ____ day of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5499.5
  The notices shall be posted at least 10 days prior to the time for hearing objections by the legislative body of the city or county.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5499.6
  In addition to posting notice of the resolution and notice of the meeting when objections will be heard, the legislative body of the city or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5499.7
  At the time stated in the notices, the legislative body of the city or county shall hear and consider all objections to the proposed removal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5499.8
  The enforcement officer may enter private property to abate the nuisance.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5499.9
  Before the enforcement officer arrives, any property owner may remove the illegal on-premises advertising display at the owner's own expense. Nevertheless, in any case in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5499.10
  (a) The enforcement officer shall keep an account of the cost of abatement of an illegal on-premises advertising display in front of or on each...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5499.11
  Abatement of the nuisance may, in the discretion of the legislative body of the city or county, be performed by contract awarded by the legislative...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5499.12
  (a) The cost of abatement in front of or upon each parcel of property, and the cost incurred by the city or county, as the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5499.13
  The enforcement officer may receive the amount due on the abatement cost and issue receipts at any time after the confirmation of the report and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5499.14
  The legislative body of the city or county may order a refund of all or part of an assessment pursuant to this chapter if it...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5499.15
  If the legislative body finds that property damage was caused by the negligence of a city or county officer or employee in connection with the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5499.16
  The proceedings provided by this chapter are an alternative to any procedure established by ordinance pursuant to any other provision of law.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5499.30
  (a) Any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, organization, or association which prints, displays, publishes, distributes, or broadcasts or causes or permits to be advertised, printed, displayed,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5499.2
  (a) The legislative body of a city or county may declare, by resolution, as public nuisances and abate all illegal on-premises advertising displays located within...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5499.3
  After adoption of the resolution, the enforcement officer shall cause notices to be conspicuously posted on or in front of the property on or in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5499.4
  The notice shall be substantially in the following form: NOTICE TO REMOVE ILLEGAL ADVERTISING DISPLAY Notice is hereby given that on the ____ day of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5499.5
  The notices shall be posted at least 10 days prior to the time for hearing objections by the legislative body of the city or county.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5499.6
  In addition to posting notice of the resolution and notice of the meeting when objections will be heard, the legislative body of the city or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5499.7
  At the time stated in the notices, the legislative body of the city or county shall hear and consider all objections to the proposed removal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5499.8
  The enforcement officer may enter private property to abate the nuisance.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5499.9
  Before the enforcement officer arrives, any property owner may remove the illegal on-premises advertising display at the owner's own expense. Nevertheless, in any case in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5499.10
  (a) The enforcement officer shall keep an account of the cost of abatement of an illegal on-premises advertising display in front of or on each...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5499.11
  Abatement of the nuisance may, in the discretion of the legislative body of the city or county, be performed by contract awarded by the legislative...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5499.12
  (a) The cost of abatement in front of or upon each parcel of property, and the cost incurred by the city or county, as the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5499.13
  The enforcement officer may receive the amount due on the abatement cost and issue receipts at any time after the confirmation of the report and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5499.14
  The legislative body of the city or county may order a refund of all or part of an assessment pursuant to this chapter if it...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5499.15
  If the legislative body finds that property damage was caused by the negligence of a city or county officer or employee in connection with the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5499.16
  The proceedings provided by this chapter are an alternative to any procedure established by ordinance pursuant to any other provision of law.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5500
  As used in this chapter, architect means a person who is licensed to practice architecture in this state under the authority of this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5500.1
  (a) The practice of architecture within the meaning and intent of this chapter is defined as offering or performing, or being in responsible control of,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5501
  This chapter constitutes the chapter on professional architects. It shall be known and may be cited as the Architects Practice Act.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5502
  As used in this chapter, board refers to the California Architects Board.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5510
  There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs a California Architects Board which consists of 10 members. Any reference in law to the California Board...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5510.1
  The Legislature finds and declares that it is the mandate of the board to regulate the practice of architecture in the interest and for the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5510.15
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the California Architects Board in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever the protection...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5514
  The membership of the board shall be composed of 10 members, five of whom shall be architects and five of whom shall be public members....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5515
  Every person appointed shall serve for four years and until the appointment and qualification of his or her successor or until one year shall have...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5516
  Each member of the board shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5517
  The board may appoint a person exempt from civil service who shall be designated as an executive officer and who shall exercise the powers and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5518
  The board shall elect from its members a president, a vice president, and a secretary to hold office for one year, or until their successors...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5520
  The board shall adopt a seal for its own use. The seal used shall have the words, "State Board of Architectural Examiners" inscribed thereon. The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5521
  The executive officer shall keep an accurate record of all proceedings of the board.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5522
  The board shall meet at least once each calendar quarter for the purpose of transacting such business as may lawfully come before it. The board...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5523
  Special meetings of the board shall be called by the executive officer upon the written notice of four members by giving each member of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5524
  Six of the members of the board constitute a quorum of the board for the transaction of business. The concurrence of five members of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5525
  The board may prosecute all persons guilty of violating the provisions of this chapter. Except as provided in Section 159.5, the board may employ inspectors,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5526
  (a) The board shall adopt rules and regulations governing the examination of applicants for licenses to practice architecture in this state. (b) The board may,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5527
  Whenever any person has engaged in or is about to engage in any act or practice which constitutes or which will constitute an offense against...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5528
  (a) The board may select and contract with necessary architect consultants who are licensed architects to assist it in its enforcement program on an intermittent...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5535
  As used in this chapter, the word "person" includes any individual, firm, partnership, general corporation, professional corporation, or limited liability partnership, as authorized by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5535.1
  The phrase "responsible control" means that amount of control over the content of all architectural instruments of service during their preparation that is ordinarily exercised...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5535.2
  This chapter does not prevent an architect from forming a business entity or collaborating with persons who are not architects, provided that any architects' professional...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5535.25
  As used in this chapter, the terms "business entity" and "collaboration" include employer and employee relationships, joint ventures, partnerships, general corporations, and consulting relationships formed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5535.3
  This chapter does not prevent a corporation from furnishing or supplying by contract architectural services, as long as any architects' professional services are offered and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5536
  (a) It is a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000), or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5536.1
  (a) All persons preparing or being in responsible control of plans, specifications, and instruments of service for others shall sign those plans, specifications, and instruments...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5536.2
  Each county or city which requires the issuance of any permit as a condition precedent to the construction, alteration, improvement, or repair of any building...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5536.22
  (a) An architect shall use a written contract when contracting to provide professional services to a client pursuant to this chapter. That written contract shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5536.25
  (a) A licensed architect who signs and stamps plans, specifications, reports, or documents shall not be responsible for damage caused by subsequent changes to or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5536.26
  The use of the words "certify" or "certification" by a licensed architect in the practice of architecture constitutes an expression of professional opinion regarding those...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5536.27
  (a) An architect who voluntarily, without compensation or expectation of compensation, provides structural inspection services at the scene of a declared national, state, or local...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5536.3
  (a) In the event of damage to residential real property caused by a natural disaster declared by the Governor, if the damage may be covered...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5536.5
  Any person who violates subdivision (a) of Section 5536 in connection with the offer or performance of architectural services for the repair of damage to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5537
  (a) This chapter does not prohibit any person from preparing plans, drawings, or specifications for any of the following: (1) Single-family dwellings of woodframe construction...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5537.1
  A structural engineer, defined as a registered civil engineer who has been authorized to use the title structural engineer under the provisions of Chapter 7...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5537.2
  This chapter shall not be construed as authorizing a licensed contractor to perform design services beyond those described in Section 5537 or in Chapter 9...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5537.4
  A professional engineer registered to practice engineering under the provisions of Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 6700), insofar as he or she practices the profession...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5537.5
  A civil engineer authorized to use that title under the provisions of Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 6700), insofar as he or she practices the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5537.6
  A landscape architect registered under the provisions of Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 5615), insofar as he or she practices the profession for which he...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5537.7
  A land surveyor licensed under the provisions of Chapter 15 (commencing with Section 8700) of Division 3, insofar as he or she practices the profession...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5538
  This chapter does not prohibit any person from furnishing either alone or with contractors, if required by Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 7000) of Division...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5550
  Subject to the rules and regulations governing examinations, any person who meets the qualifications set forth in this article shall be entitled to an examination...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5550.1
  An applicant for a license to practice architecture shall be required, as part of the examination for licensure, to demonstrate to the board's satisfaction his...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5550.3
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 111, the board may adopt guidelines for the delegation of its authority to grade the examinations of applicants for licensure to any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5551
  If the applicant's examination is satisfactory, and if no charges of having resorted to deception in obtaining the license, or any other violation of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5552
  The applicant for a license to practice architecture shall: (a) Not have committed acts or crimes constituting grounds for denial of a license under Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5552.5
  The board may, by regulation, implement an intern development program.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5553
  Issuance of a license may be denied if evidence is received by the board of the commission or doing by the applicant of any act...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5554
  The certificate shall contain the name of the person to whom issued. Proper index and record of each certificate shall be kept by the board.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5555
  Licenses to practice architecture remain in full force until revoked or suspended for cause, or until they expire, as provided in this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5557
  A duplicate license to practice architecture, replacing one which has been lost, destroyed, or mutilated, may be issued subject to the rules and regulations of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5558
  Each person holding a license to practice architecture under this chapter shall file with the board his or her current mailing address and the proper...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5560
  The board may upon its own motion, and shall upon the verified complaint in writing of any person, investigate the actions of any architect and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5561
  All accusations against licensees charging the holder of a license issued under this chapter with the commission of any act constituting a cause for disciplinary...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5561.5
  The proceedings for the suspension or revocation of licenses under this article shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 5 (commencing with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5565
  The decision may: (a) Provide for the immediate complete suspension by the holder of the license of all operations as an architect during the period...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5570
  In any proceeding for review by a court, the court may, in its discretion, upon the filing of a proper bond by the holder of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5571
  A judgment of suspension or cancellation of a certificate by the superior court shall be subject to appeal or review in accordance with the provisions...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5573
  After suspension of a license upon any of the grounds set forth in this chapter, the board may reinstate the license upon proof of compliance...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5577
  The conviction of a crime substantially related to the qualifications, functions, and duties of an architect by the holder of a license constitutes a ground...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5578
  The fact that the holder of a license is practicing in violation of the provisions of this chapter constitutes a ground for disciplinary action.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5579
  The fact that the holder of a license has obtained the license by fraud or misrepresentation, or that the person named in the license has...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5580
  The fact that the holder of a license is impersonating an architect or former architect of the same or similar name, or is practicing under...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5582
  The fact that the holder of a license has aided or abetted in the practice of architecture any person not authorized to practice architecture under...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5582.1
  (a) The fact that the holder of a license has affixed his or her signature to plans, drawings, specifications, or other instruments of service which...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5583
  The fact that, in the practice of architecture, the holder of a license has been guilty of fraud or deceit constitutes a ground for disciplinary
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5584
  The fact that, in the practice of architecture, the holder of a license has been guilty of negligence or willful misconduct constitutes a ground for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5585
  The fact that in the practice of architecture the holder of a license has been guilty of incompetency or recklessness constitutes a ground for disciplinary
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5586
  The fact that the holder of a license has had disciplinary action taken by any public agency for any act substantially related to the qualifications,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5588
  (a) A licensee shall report to the board in writing within 30 days of the date the licensee has knowledge of any civil action judgment,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5588.1
  (a) Within 30 days of payment of all or any portion of a civil action judgment, settlement, or arbitration award described in Section 5588 against...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5588.2
  The requirements of Section 5588 and 5588.1 shall apply if a party to the civil action, settlement, arbitration award, or administrative action is or was...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5588.3
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a licensee shall not be considered to have violated a confidential settlement agreement or other confidential agreement by providing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5588.4
  The board may adopt regulations to further define the reporting requirements of Sections 5588 and 5588.1.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5590
  Within 10 days after a judgment by a court of this state that a license holder has committed a crime or is liable for any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5600
  (a) All licenses issued or renewed under this chapter shall expire at 12 midnight on the last day of the birth month of the licenseholder...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5600.05
  (a) (1) As a condition of license renewal, a licensee shall have completed coursework regarding disability access requirements pursuant to paragraphs (2) and (3). A...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5600.1
  The board shall give written notice to a licensee 30 days in advance of the regular renewal date and shall give written notice by registered...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5600.2
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a license which has expired may be renewed at any time within five years after its expiration on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5600.3
  A license which is not renewed within five years after its expiration may not be renewed, restored, reissued, or reinstated thereafter. The holder of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5600.4
  (a) The board shall issue, upon application and payment of the fee fixed by this chapter, a retired license to an architect who holds a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5601
  Within 10 days after the beginning of every month, all fees collected by the department for the month preceding, under the provisions of this chapter,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5602
  The money paid into the California Architects Board Fund, which is hereby continued in existence, shall be used in the manner prescribed by law to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5603
  The board shall make available to local building departments, and others upon request, an official roster listing the name, license number, and address of all...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5604
  The fees prescribed by this chapter for architect applicants or architect licenseholders shall be fixed by the board as follows: (a) The application fee for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5610
  A professional architectural corporation is a corporation which is authorized to render professional services, as defined in Section 13401 of the Corporations Code, so long...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5610.2
  It is unprofessional conduct and a violation of this chapter, punishable as specified in Section 5560, for any person licensed under this chapter to violate,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5610.3
  The name of a professional architectural corporation and any name or names under which it may be rendering professional services shall contain and be restricted...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5610.4
  Except as provided in Section 13403 of the Corporations Code, each director, shareholder, and officer of a professional architectural corporation shall be a licensed person...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5610.5
  The income of a professional architectural corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shareholder is a disqualified person (as defined in the Moscone-Knox Professional...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5610.6
  A professional architectural corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which or the failure to do which would constitute...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5610.7
  The board may formulate and enforce rules and regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of this article, including rules and regulations requiring (a)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5615
  As used in this chapter: "Landscape architect" means a person who holds a license to practice landscape architecture in this state under the authority of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5616
  (a) A landscape architect shall use a written contract when contracting to provide professional services to a client pursuant to this chapter. The written contract...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5620
  The duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the California State Board of Landscape Architects that were succeeded to and vested with the Department of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5620.1
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Landscape Architects Technical Committee in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5621
  (a) There is hereby created within the jurisdiction of the board, a Landscape Architects Technical Committee, hereinafter referred to in this chapter as the landscape...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5622
  (a) The landscape architects committee may assist the board in the examination of candidates for a landscape architect's license and, after investigation, evaluate and make...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5624
  Each member of the landscape architects committee shall receive per diem and expenses, as provided in Section 103.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5626
  The executive officer shall keep an accurate record of all proceedings of the landscape architects committee.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5629
  The board shall prosecute all persons guilty of violating the provisions of this chapter. Except as provided in Section 159.5, the board may employ inspectors,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5630
  The board may, in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, adopt, amend, or repeal such rules and regulations as are reasonably necessary...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5640
  It is a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000) or by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5641
  This chapter shall not be deemed to prohibit any person from preparing drawings for the conceptual design and placement of tangible objects and landscape features...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5641.1
  This chapter shall not be deemed to prohibit any person from preparing any plans, drawings, or specifications for any property owned by that person.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5641.2
  Every person who holds a valid license issued by the State of California under the provisions of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 6721) of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5641.3
  An architect, professional engineer or land surveyor licensed or registered under the statutes of this state, insofar as the licensed or registered professional practices the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5641.4
  A landscape contractor licensed under the statutes of this state, insofar as he or she works within the classification for which the license is issued,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5641.5
  (a) Nothing contained in this chapter shall be deemed to prohibit a person from engaging in the practice of, or offering to practice as, a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5641.6
  (a) Nothing contained in this chapter shall be deemed to prohibit a person from engaging in the practice of, or offering to practice as, an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5642
  This chapter shall not be deemed to prevent a landscape architect from forming a partnership, firm, or corporation with, or employing, persons who are not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5644
  Any person who holds a valid state license or other authority that authorizes the person to engage in a business or occupation, insofar as the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5650
  Subject to the rules and regulations governing examinations, any person, over the age of 18 years, who has had six years of training and educational...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5651
  (a) The board shall by means of examination, ascertain the professional qualifications of all applicants for licenses to practice landscape architecture in this state and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5651.1
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 111, the board may adopt guidelines for the delegation of its authority to grade the examinations of applicants for licensure to any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5652
  If the applicant's examination is satisfactory, and upon the payment of the license fee fixed by this chapter, the executive officer shall issue a license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5653
  The board may deny or refuse to issue a license to an applicant upon proof of the commission by the applicant of any act or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5654
  The board shall keep a record of the names and addresses of all licenseholders and such additional personal data as the board may require. A...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5655
  Licenses to practice landscape architecture shall remain in full force until revoked or suspended for cause, or until they expire, as provided in this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5656
  A duplicate license to practice landscape architecture in place of one which has been lost, destroyed, or mutilated shall be issued upon proper application, subject...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5657
  Each licensee shall file his or her current mailing address with the board at its office in Sacramento, California, and shall notify the board of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5659
  Each person licensed under this chapter shall sign, date, and seal or stamp using a seal or stamp described in this section, all plans, specifications,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5660
  The board may upon its own motion, and shall upon the verified complaint in writing of any person, investigate the actions of any landscape architect,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5661
  All accusations against a licensee shall be filed within three years after the board discovers, or through the use of reasonable diligence should have discovered,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5662
  All proceedings for the suspension or revocation of licenses under this chapter shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 5 of Part...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5665
  A suspended license is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article, but such renewal does not entitle the holder of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5666
  The fact that the holder of a license is practicing in violation of the provisions of this chapter constitutes a ground for disciplinary action.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5667
  The fact that the holder of a license has obtained the license by fraud or misrepresentation, or that the person named in the license has...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5668
  The fact that the holder of a license is impersonating a landscape architect or former landscape architect of the same or similar name, or is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5669
  The fact that the holder of a license has aided or abetted in the practice of landscape architecture, any person not authorized to practice landscape...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5670
  The fact that, in the practice of landscape architecture, the holder of a license has been guilty of fraud or deceit constitutes a ground for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5671
  The fact that, in the practice of landscape architecture, the holder of a license has been guilty of negligence or willful misconduct constitutes a ground...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5672
  The fact that the holder of a license has been guilty of gross incompetence constitutes a ground for disciplinary action.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5673
  The fact that the holder of a license has affixed his or her signature, or his or her stamp, or has permitted the use of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5675
  The conviction of a felony in connection with the practice of landscape architecture constitutes a ground for disciplinary action. The record of a conviction shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5675.5
  The fact that the holder of a license has had disciplinary action taken by any public agency for any act substantially related to the qualifications,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5676
  A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge of a felony is deemed to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5678
  (a) A licensee shall report to the board in writing within 30 days of the date the licensee has knowledge of any civil action judgment,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5678.1
  (a) Within 30 days of payment of all or any portion of a civil action judgment, settlement, or arbitration award described in Section 5678 against...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5678.2
  The requirements of Sections 5678 and 5678.1 shall apply if a party to the civil action, settlement, arbitration award, or administrative action is or was...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5678.3
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a licensee shall not be considered to have violated a confidential settlement agreement or other confidential agreement by providing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5678.4
  The board may adopt regulations to further define the reporting requirements of Sections 5678 and 5678.1.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5680
  (a) Licenses issued under this chapter shall expire no more than 24 months after the issue date. The expiration date of the original license shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5680.05
  Within 10 days after a judgment by a court of this state that a licenseholder has committed a crime or is liable for any death,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5680.1
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a license that has expired may be renewed at any time within three years after its expiration on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5680.2
  A license which is not renewed within three years after its expiration may not be renewed, restored, reissued, or reinstated thereafter, but the holder of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5681
  The fees prescribed by this chapter for landscape architect applicants and landscape architect licensees shall be fixed by the board as follows: (a) The application...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5682
  Within 10 days after the beginning of every month, all fees collected by the department for the month preceding, under the provisions of this chapter,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5683
  The money paid into the California Architects Board-Landscape Architects Fund shall be used for expenditure in the manner prescribed by law to defray the expenses...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5800
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Certified interior designer" means a person who prepares and submits nonstructural or nonseismic plans consistent with Sections 5805 and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5801
  A certified interior designer may obtain a stamp from an interior design organization that shall include a number that uniquely identifies and bears the name...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5801.1
  The procedure for the issuance of a stamp by an interior design organization under Section 5801, including the examinations recognized and required by the organization,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5802
  (a) All drawings, specifications, or documents prepared for submission to any government regulatory agency by any certified interior designer, or under his or her supervision...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5803
  A certified interior designer, as defined in this chapter, is exempt from Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 7000) of Division 3 insofar as he or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5804
  It is an unfair business practice for any certified interior designer or any other person to advertise or put out any sign or card or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5805
  Nothing in this chapter shall preclude certified interior designers or any other person from submitting interior design plans to local building officials, except as provided...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5810
  (a) This chapter shall be subject to the review required by Division 1.2 (commencing with Section 473). (b) This chapter shall remain in effect only...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5811
  An interior design organization issuing stamps under Section 5801 shall provide to the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection by September 1, 2008,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5812
  It is an unfair business practice for any person to represent themselves as a "certified interior designer" unless they comply with the requirements of this
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6000
  This chapter of the Business and Professions Code constitutes the chapter on attorneys. It may be cited as the State Bar Act.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6001
  The State Bar of California is a public corporation. It is hereinafter designated as the State Bar. The State Bar has perpetual succession and a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6001.1
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the State Bar of California and the board of trustees in exercising their licensing, regulatory,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6001.2
  (a) On or before February 1, 2013, there shall be created within the State Bar a Governance in the Public Interest Task Force comprised of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6001.4
  Commencing on or before February 1, 2011, the State Bar shall make available, upon request of a member of the public, the classification and total...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6002
  The members of the State Bar are all persons admitted and licensed to practice law in this State except justices and judges of courts of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6002.1
  (a) A member of the State Bar shall maintain all of the following on the official membership records of the State Bar: (1) The member's...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6003
  Members of the State Bar are divided into two classes: (a) Active members. (b) Inactive members.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6004
  Every member of the State Bar is an active member until as in Section 6007 of this code provided or at his request, he is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6005
  Inactive members are those members who have requested that they be enrolled as inactive members or who have been enrolled as inactive members by action...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6006
  Active members who retire from practice shall be enrolled as inactive members at their request. Inactive members are not entitled to hold office or vote...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6007
  (a) When a member requires involuntary treatment pursuant to Article 6 (commencing with Section 5300) of Chapter 2 of Division 5 of, or Part 2...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6008
  All property of the State Bar is hereby declared to be held for essential public and governmental purposes in the judicial branch of the government...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6008.1
  No bond, note, debenture, evidence of indebtedness, mortgage, deed of trust, assignment, pledge, contract, lease, agreement, or other contractual obligation of the State Bar shall:...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6008.2
  Bonds, notes, debentures and other evidences of indebtedness of the State Bar are hereby declared to be issued for essential public and governmental purposes in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6008.3
  The State Bar may vest in any obligee or trustee the right, in the event of default upon any obligation of the State Bar, to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6008.4
  All powers granted to the State Bar by Sections 6001 and 6008.3 may be exercised and carried out by action of its board of trustees....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6008.5
  Whenever the board has pledged, placed a charge upon, or otherwise made available all or any portion of the income or revenue from membership fees...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6008.6
  The State Bar shall award no contract for goods, services, or both, for an aggregate amount in excess of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), or for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6009
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a city, county, or city and county may require attorneys who qualify as lobbyists, as defined by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6009.3
  The Legislature finds and declares that it is important to inform taxpayers that they may make voluntary contributions to certain funds or programs, as provided...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6009.5
  The State Bar shall adopt procedures to facilitate reporting of mandatory and voluntary information by providing members with a centralized mechanism for reporting information online...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6009.7
  (a) (1) The State Bar shall determine the manner by which to reduce the board of trustees from 23 members to 19 members, as described...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6010
  (a) The State Bar is governed by a board known as the board of trustees of the State Bar. The board has the powers and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6011
  (a) The board shall consist of no more than 23 members and no less than 19 members. (b) It is the intent of the Legislature...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6012
  (a) State Bar Districts, as they existed on December 31, 2011, pursuant to Section 6012.5, as added by Chapter 1223 of the Statutes of 1989,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6013.1
  (a) The Supreme Court shall appoint five attorney members of the board pursuant to a process that the Supreme Court may prescribe. These attorney members...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6013.2
  (a) Six members of the board shall be attorneys elected from the State Bar Districts created by the board pursuant to Section 6012. (b) An...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6013.3
  (a) One attorney member of the board shall be appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules and one attorney member shall be appointed by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6013.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, six members of the board shall be members of the public who have never been members of the State...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6013.5.5
  Sections 450 to 450.6, inclusive, shall apply to public members appointed or reappointed on or after January 1, 2012.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6013.6
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), any full-time employee of any public agency who serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6015
  No person is eligible for attorney membership on the board unless both of the following conditions are satisfied: (a) He or she is an active...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6016
  The term of office of each attorney member of the board shall commence at the conclusion of the annual meeting next succeeding his or her...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6018
  Nominations of elected members of the board shall be by petition signed by at least 20 persons entitled to vote for such nominees. Only active...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6019
  Each place upon the board for which a member is to be elected or appointed shall for the purposes of the election or appointment be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6020
  The officers of the State Bar are a president, a vice president, a secretary, and a treasurer.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6021
  (a) (1) Within the period of 90 days next preceding the annual meeting, the board, at a meeting called for that purpose, shall elect the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6022
  The secretary shall be selected annually by the board and need not be a member of the State Bar.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6023
  The officers of the State Bar shall continue in office until their successors are elected and qualify.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6024
  The president shall preside at all meetings of the State Bar and of the board, and in the event of his or her absence or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6025
  Subject to the laws of this State, the board may formulate and declare rules and regulations necessary or expedient for the carrying out of this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6026
  At the annual meeting, reports of the proceedings by the board since the last annual meeting, reports of other officers and committees and recommendations of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6026.5
  Every meeting of the board shall be open to the public except those meetings, or portions thereof, relating to: (a) Consultation with counsel concerning pending...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6026.7
  The board shall ensure that its open meeting requirements, as described in Section 6026.5, are consistent with, and conform to, the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6027
  Special meetings of the State Bar may be held at such times and places as the board provides.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6028
  (a) The board may make appropriations and disbursements from the funds of the State Bar to pay all necessary expenses for effectuating the purposes of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6029
  The board may appoint such committees, officers and employees as it deems necessary or proper, and fix and pay salaries and necessary expenses.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6030
  The board shall be charged with the executive function of the State Bar and the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter. The violation or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6031
  (a) The board may aid in all matters pertaining to the advancement of the science of jurisprudence or to the improvement of the administration of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6031.5
  (a) State Bar sections, as established under and pursuant to Article 13 of the Rules and Regulations of the State Bar, and their activities shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6032
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State Bar is expressly authorized to collect, in conjunction with the State Bar's collection of its annual membership...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6033
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State Bar is expressly authorized to facilitate the professional responsibilities of members by collecting, in conjunction with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6035
  Unless the contrary is stated or clearly appears from the context, the definitions set forth in Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 82000) of Title 9...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6036
  (a) Any member of the board of trustees shall disqualify himself or herself from making, participating in the making of, or attempting to influence any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6037
  No action or decision of the board or committee of the board shall be invalid because of the participation therein by a member or members...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6038
  Attorney members of the Judicial Council, members of the Commission on Judicial Performance who are not judges, and employees designated in the Conflict of Interest...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6040
  The board of trustees may create local administrative committees and delegate to them such of its powers and duties as seems advisable. The board may...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6041
  A local administrative committee shall be composed of active members of the State Bar.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6042
  The members of local administrative committees, except ex officio members of the board of trustees, shall hold office at the pleasure of the board.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6043
  Each local administrative committee shall: (a) Receive and investigate complaints as to the conduct of members. (b) Make findings, whenever ordered by the board. (c)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6043.5
  (a) Every person who reports to the State Bar or causes a complaint to be filed with the State Bar that an attorney has engaged...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6044
  The board or any committee appointed by the board, with or without the filing or presentation of any complaint, may initiate and conduct investigations of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6044.5
  (a) When an investigation or formal proceeding concerns alleged misconduct which may subject a member to criminal prosecution for any felony, or any lesser crime...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6045
  The local administrative committee shall perform such other duties in furtherance of the execution of the provisions of this chapter as the board may direct.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6046
  The board may establish an examining committee having the power: (a) To examine all applicants for admission to practice law. (b) To administer the requirements...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6046.5
  Three of the public members of the examining committee shall be appointed by the Senate Rules Committee, three of the public members shall be appointed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6046.6
  (a) The examining committee shall not alter the bar examination in a manner that requires the substantial modification of the training or preparation required for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6046.7
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Committee of Bar Examiners shall adopt rules that shall be effective on and after January 1,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6047
  Subject to the approval of the board, the examining committee may adopt such reasonable rules and regulations as may be necessary or advisable for the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6048
  The board may also appoint one or more committees to take evidence on behalf of the board and to forward the same to the board...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6049
  (a) In the conduct of investigations and upon the trial and hearing of all matters, the board and any committee having jurisdiction, including the examining...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6049.1
  (a) In any disciplinary proceeding under this chapter, a certified copy of a final order made by any court of record or any body authorized...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6049.2
  In all disciplinary proceedings pursuant to this chapter, the testimony of a witness given in a contested civil action or special proceeding to which the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6050
  Whenever any person subpoenaed to appear and give testimony or to produce books, papers or documents refuses to appear or testify before the subpoenaing body,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6051
  The chairman or presiding officer of the board or the committee having jurisdiction or the chief trial counsel shall report the fact that a person...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6051.1
  A motion to quash a subpoena issued pursuant to Section 6049 shall be brought in the State Bar Court.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6052
  Any member of the board, or of any committee or unit or section thereof, having jurisdiction, or the chief trial counsel or his or her...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6053
  Whenever in an investigation or proceeding provided for or authorized by this chapter, the mental or physical condition of the member of the State Bar...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6054
  State and local law enforcement and licensing bodies and departments, officers and employees thereof, and officials and attaches of the courts of this state shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6060
  To be certified to the Supreme Court for admission and a license to practice law, a person who has not been admitted to practice law...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6060.1
  (a) Any disciplinary action taken against an individual at a university or an accredited law school for violation of university or law school rules of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6060.2
  All investigations or proceedings conducted by the State Bar concerning the moral character of an applicant shall be confidential unless the applicant, in writing, waives...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6060.3
  (a) An application to take the California bar examination administered in February must be filed with the examining committee not later than the first business...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6060.5
  Neither the board, nor any committee authorized by it, shall require that applicants for admission to practice law in California pass different final bar examinations...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6060.6
  Notwithstanding Section 30 of this code and Section 17520 of the Family Code, the Committee of Bar Examiners may accept for registration, and the State...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6060.7
  (a) From January 1, 2007, to December 31, 2007, law schools and law study degree programs shall be subject to the following: (1) The examining...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6060.9
  Approval of any agency or agencies not existing under and by virtue of the laws of this State shall not be made a condition for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6061
  Any law school that is not accredited by the examining committee of the State Bar shall provide every student with a disclosure statement, subsequent to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6061.5
  A law school that is not accredited by the examining committee of the State Bar may refer to itself as a university or part of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6062
  (a) To be certified to the Supreme Court for admission, and a license to practice law, a person who has been admitted to practice law...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6063
  Applicants for admission to practice shall pay such reasonable fees, fixed by the board, as may be necessary to defray the expense of administering the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6064
  Upon certification by the examining committee that the applicant has fulfilled the requirements for admission to practice law, the Supreme Court may admit such applicant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6064.1
  No person who advocates the overthrow of the Government of the United States or of this State by force, violence, or other unconstitutional means, shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6065
  (a) (1) Any unsuccessful applicant for admission to practice, after he or she has taken any examination and within four months after the results thereof...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6066
  Any person refused certification to the Supreme Court for admission to practice may have the action of the board, or of any committee authorized by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6067
  Every person on his admission shall take an oath to support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6068
  It is the duty of an attorney to do all of the following: (a) To support the Constitution and laws of the United States and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6069
  (a) Every member of the State Bar shall be deemed by operation of this law to have irrevocably authorized the disclosure to the State Bar...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6070
  (a) The State Bar shall request the California Supreme Court to adopt a rule of court authorizing the State Bar to establish and administer a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6071
  (a) The State Bar shall request the California Supreme Court to amend Rule 9.31 of the California Rules of Court, relating to the mandatory continuing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6072
  (a) A contract with the state for legal services that exceeds fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) shall include a certification by the contracting law firm that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6073
  It has been the tradition of those learned in the law and licensed to practice law in this state to provide voluntary pro bono legal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6075
  In their relation to the provisions of Article 6, concerning the disciplinary authority of the courts, the provisions of this article provide a complete alternative...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6076
  With the approval of the Supreme Court, the Board of Trustees may formulate and enforce rules of professional conduct for all members of the State
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6076.5
  (a) With the approval of the Supreme Court, the members of the State Bar may formulate by initiative, pursuant to the provisions of this section,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6077
  The rules of professional conduct adopted by the board, when approved by the Supreme Court, are binding upon all members of the State Bar. For...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6077.5
  An attorney and his or her employees who are employed primarily to assist in the collection of a consumer debt owed to another, as defined...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6078
  After a hearing for any of the causes set forth in the laws of the State of California warranting disbarment, suspension or other discipline, the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6079.1
  (a) The Supreme Court shall appoint a presiding judge of the State Bar Court. In addition, five hearing judges shall be appointed, two by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6079.4
  The exercise by an attorney of his or her privilege under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United Sates, or of any other...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6079.5
  (a) The board shall appoint a lawyer admitted to practice in California to serve as chief trial counsel. He or she shall be appointed for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6080
  The board shall keep a record of all disciplinary proceedings. In all disciplinary proceedings resulting in a recommendation to the Supreme Court for disbarment or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6081
  Upon the making of any decision recommending the disbarment or suspension from practice of any member of the State Bar, the board shall immediately file...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6081.1
  Nothing in Sections 6080 and 6081 shall require the State Bar Court to transcribe oral testimony unless ordered by the Supreme Court or requested by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6082
  Any person complained against and any person whose reinstatement the board may refuse to recommend may have the action of the board, or of any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6083
  (a) A petition to review or to reverse or modify any decision recommending the disbarment or suspension from practice of a member of the State...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6084
  (a) When no petition to review or to reverse or modify has been filed by either party within the time allowed therefor, or the petition...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6085
  Any person complained against shall be given fair, adequate, and reasonable notice and have a fair, adequate, and reasonable opportunity and right: (a) To defend...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6085.5
  There are three kinds of pleas to the allegations of a notice of disciplinary charges or other pleading which initiates a disciplinary proceeding against a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6086
  The board of trustees, subject to the provisions of this chapter, may by rule provide the mode of procedure in all cases of complaints against
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6086.1
  (a) (1) Subject to subdivision (b), and except as otherwise provided by law, hearings and records of original disciplinary proceedings in the State Bar Court...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6086.2
  All State Bar records pertaining to admissions, membership, and the administration of the program authorized by Article 14 of this chapter shall be available to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6086.5
  The board of trustees shall establish a State Bar Court, to act in its place and stead in the determination of disciplinary and reinstatement proceedings...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6086.65
  (a) There is a Review Department of the State Bar Court, that consists of the Presiding Judge of the State Bar Court and two Review...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6086.7
  (a) A court shall notify the State Bar of any of the following: (1) A final order of contempt imposed against an attorney that may...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6086.8
  (a) Within 20 days after a judgment by a court of this state that a member of the State Bar of California is liable for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6086.10
  (a) Any order imposing a public reproval on a member of the State Bar shall include a direction that the member shall pay costs. In...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6086.13
  (a) Any order of the Supreme Court imposing suspension or disbarment of a member of the State Bar, or accepting a resignation with a disciplinary...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6086.14
  (a) The Board of Trustees of the State Bar is authorized to formulate and adopt rules and regulations necessary to establish an alternative dispute resolution...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6086.15
  (a) The State Bar shall issue an Annual Discipline Report by April 30 of each year describing the performance and condition of the State Bar...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6086.16
  The State Bar shall report to the Assembly and Senate Committees on Judiciary by January 1, 2005, on the status of its regulatory and disciplinary...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6087
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as limiting or altering the powers of the Supreme Court of this State to disbar or discipline members...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6088
  The board may provide by rule that alleged facts in a proceeding are admitted upon failure to answer, failure to appear at formal hearing, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6090
  As used in this article, "disciplinary agency" means the agency charged with the discipline of attorneys for professional misconduct.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6090.5
  (a) It is cause for suspension, disbarment, or other discipline for any member, whether as a party or as an attorney for a party, to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6090.6
  In a disciplinary proceeding, the State Bar shall have access, on an ex parte basis, to all nonpublic court records relevant to the competence or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6091
  If a client files a complaint with the State Bar alleging that his or her trust fund is being mishandled, the State Bar shall investigate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6091.1
  (a) The Legislature finds that overdrafts and misappropriations from attorney trust accounts are serious problems, and determines that it is in the public interest to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6091.2
  As used in Section 6091.1: (a) "Financial institution" means a bank, savings and loan, or other financial institution serving as a depository for attorney trust...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6092
  The disciplinary agency may engage the services of consultants and an unpaid volunteer peer review committee and undertake any other steps that may be appropriate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6092.5
  In addition to any other duties specified by law, the disciplinary agency shall do all of the following: (a) Promptly notify the complainant of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6093
  (a) Whenever probation is imposed by the State Bar Court or the Office of Trial Counsel with the agreement of the respondent, any conditions may...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6093.5
  Upon request, the disciplinary agency shall notify a complainant of the status of his or her complaint and shall provide him or her with a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6094
  (a) Communications to the disciplinary agency relating to lawyer misconduct or disability or competence, or any communication related to an investigation or proceeding and testimony...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6094.5
  (a) It shall be the goal and policy of the disciplinary agency to dismiss a complaint, admonish the attorney, or forward a completed investigation to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6095
  (a) The disciplinary agency shall annually hold at least two public hearings, one in southern California and one in northern California, to hear proposals on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6095.1
  (a) Beginning on April 1, 2000, and through March 31, 2001, the State Bar shall compile statistics indicating the number of complaints against attorneys, broken...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6100
  For any of the causes provided in this article, arising after an attorney's admission to practice, he or she may be disbarred or suspended by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6101
  (a) Conviction of a felony or misdemeanor, involving moral turpitude, constitutes a cause for disbarment or suspension. In any proceeding, whether under this article or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6102
  (a) Upon the receipt of the certified copy of the record of conviction, if it appears therefrom that the crime of which the attorney was...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6103
  A wilful disobedience or violation of an order of the court requiring him to do or forbear an act connected with or in the course...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6103.5
  (a) A member of the State Bar shall promptly communicate to the member's client all amounts, terms, and conditions of any written offer of settlement...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6103.6
  Violation of Section 15687 of the Probate Code, or of Part 3.5 (commencing with Section 21350) or Part 3.7 (commencing with Section 21360) of Division...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6104
  Corruptly or wilfully and without authority appearing as attorney for a party to an action or proceeding constitutes a cause for disbarment or suspension.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6105
  Lending his name to be used as attorney by another person who is not an attorney constitutes a cause for disbarment or suspension.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6106
  The commission of any act involving moral turpitude, dishonesty or corruption, whether the act is committed in the course of his relations as an attorney...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6106.1
  Advocating the overthrow of the Government of the United States or of this State by force, violence, or other unconstitutional means, constitutes a cause for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6106.2
  It shall constitute cause for the imposition of discipline of an attorney within the meaning of this chapter for an attorney to engage in any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6106.3
  (a) It shall constitute cause for the imposition of discipline of an attorney within the meaning of this chapter for an attorney to engage in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6106.3
  (a) It shall constitute cause for the imposition of discipline of an attorney within the meaning of this chapter for an attorney to engage in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6106.5
  It shall constitute cause for disbarment or suspension for an attorney to engage in any conduct prohibited under Section 1871.4 of the Insurance Code or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6106.6
  The State Bar shall investigate any licensee against whom an information or indictment has been filed that alleges a violation of Section 550 of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6106.7
  It shall constitute cause for the imposition of discipline of an attorney within the meaning of this chapter for an attorney to violate any provision...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6106.8
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that there is no rule that governs propriety of sexual relationships between lawyers and clients. The Legislature further...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6106.9
  (a) It shall constitute cause for the imposition of discipline of an attorney within the meaning of this chapter for an attorney to do any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6107
  The proceedings to disbar or suspend an attorney, on grounds other than the conviction of a felony or misdemeanor, involving moral turpitude, may be taken...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6108
  If the proceedings are upon the information of another, the accusation shall be in writing and shall state the matters charged, and be verified by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6109
  Upon receiving the accusation, the court shall make an order requiring the accused to appear and answer it at a specified time, and shall cause...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6110
  The court or judge may direct the service of a citation to the accused, requiring him to appear and answer the accusation, to be made...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6111
  The accused shall appear at the time appointed in the order, and answer the accusation, unless, for sufficient cause, the court assigns another day for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6112
  The accused may answer to the accusation either by objecting to its sufficiency or by denying it. If he objects to the sufficiency of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6113
  If an objection to the sufficiency of the accusation is not sustained, the accused shall answer within the time designated by the court.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6114
  If the accused pleads guilty, or refuses to answer the accusation, the court shall proceed to judgment of disbarment or suspension. If he denies the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6115
  The court may, in its discretion, order a reference to a committee to take depositions in the matter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6116
  When an attorney has been found guilty of the charges made in proceedings not based upon a record of conviction, judgment shall be rendered disbarring...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6117
  During such disbarment or suspension, the attorney shall be precluded from practicing law. When disbarred, his name shall be stricken from the roll of attorneys.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6125
  No person shall practice law in California unless the person is an active member of the State Bar.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6126
  (a) Any person advertising or holding himself or herself out as practicing or entitled to practice law or otherwise practicing law who is not an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6126.3
  (a) In addition to any criminal penalties pursuant to Section 6126 or to any contempt proceedings pursuant to Section 6127, the courts of the state...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6126.4
  Section 6126.3 shall apply to a person acting in the capacity of an immigration consultant pursuant to Chapter 19.5 (commencing with Section 22440) who advertises...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6126.5
  (a) In addition to any remedies and penalties available in any enforcement action brought in the name of the people of the State of California...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6127
  The following acts or omissions in respect to the practice of law are contempts of the authority of the courts: (a) Assuming to be an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6127.5
  Nothing in Sections 6125, 6126 and 6127 shall be deemed to apply to the acts and practices of a law corporation duly certificated pursuant to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6128
  Every attorney is guilty of a misdemeanor who either: (a) Is guilty of any deceit or collusion, or consents to any deceit or collusion, with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6129
  Every attorney who, either directly or indirectly, buys or is interested in buying any evidence of debt or thing in action, with intent to bring...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6130
  No person, who has been an attorney, shall while a judgment of disbarment or suspension is in force appear on his own behalf as plaintiff...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6131
  Every attorney is guilty of a misdemeanor and, in addition to the punishment prescribed therefor, shall be disbarred: (a) Who directly or indirectly advises in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6132
  Any law firm, partnership, corporation, or association which contains the name of an attorney who is disbarred, or who resigned with charges pending, in its...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6133
  Any attorney or any law firm, partnership, corporation, or association employing an attorney who has resigned, or who is under actual suspension from the practice...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6140
  (a) The board shall fix the annual membership fee for active members for 2012 at a sum not exceeding three hundred fifteen dollars ($315) minus...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6140.01
  (a) (1) Twenty dollars ($20) of the annual membership fee authorized pursuant to Sections 6140 and 6141 shall be allocated for the purposes established pursuant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6140.02
  (a) In the 2012 and 2013 fiscal years, two million dollars ($2,000,000) of nonmandatory dues collected pursuant to Section 6033 shall be allocated in each...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6140.05
  (a) The invoice provided to members for payment of the annual membership fee shall provide each member the option of deducting five dollars ($5) from...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6140.1
  The State Bar annually shall submit its proposed baseline budget for the following fiscal year to the Legislature by November 15, and its proposed final...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6140.12
  The board shall complete and implement a five-year strategic plan to be updated every two years. In conjunction with the submission of the board's proposed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6140.16
  The State Bar shall review its workload standards to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of its disciplinary activities, including, but not limited to, the State...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6140.2
  The State Bar shall set as a goal the improvement of its disciplinary system so that no more than six months will elapse from the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6140.3
  (a) The board may increase the annual membership fee fixed by Section 6140 and the annual membership fee specified in Section 6141 by an additional...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6140.35
  (a) The board may increase the annual membership fee fixed by Section 6140 by an additional amount not exceeding ten dollars ($10). This additional amount...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6140.36
  (a) The board shall report to the Assembly Committee on Judiciary and the Senate Committee on Judiciary on or before April 1, 2011, and on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6140.37
  The State Bar shall have a preference for using in-house employees for information technology projects, whenever possible. Nothing in this section shall be read to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6140.38
  (a) The State Bar shall report to the Senate Committee on Judiciary and the Assembly Committee on Judiciary on or before April 1, 2010, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6140.5
  (a) The board shall establish and administer a Client Security Fund to relieve or mitigate pecuniary losses caused by the dishonest conduct of active members...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6140.55
  The board may increase the annual membership fees fixed by it pursuant to Section 6140 by an additional amount per active member not to exceed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6140.6
  The board may increase the annual membership fees fixed by Sections 6140 and 6141 by an additional amount not to exceed twenty-five dollars ($25) to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6140.7
  Costs assessed against a member publicly reproved or suspended, where suspension is stayed and the member is not actually suspended, shall be added to and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6140.9
  Moneys for the support of the program established pursuant to Article 15 (commencing with Section 6230) and related programs approved by the committee established pursuant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6141
  (a) Until December 31, 2006, the board shall fix the annual membership fee for inactive members at a sum not exceeding sixty-five dollars ($65). On...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6141.1
  (a) The payment by any member of the annual membership fee, any portion thereof, or any penalty thereon, may be waived by the board as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6142
  Upon the payment of the annual membership fees, including any costs imposed pursuant to Section 6140.7, and penalties imposed pursuant to Section 6143, each member...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6143
  Any member, active or inactive, failing to pay any fees, penalties, or costs after they become due, and after two months written notice of his...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6143.5
  Any member, active or inactive, failing to pay any child support after it becomes due shall be subject to Section 17520 of the Family Code.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6144
  All fees shall be paid into the treasury of the State Bar, and, when so paid, shall become part of its funds.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6144.5
  It is the intent of the Legislature to confirm, validate, and declare effective the annual membership fees, and all augmentations, including, but not limited to,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6145
  (a) The board shall engage the services of an independent national or regional public accounting firm with at least five years of experience in governmental...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6146
  (a) An attorney shall not contract for or collect a contingency fee for representing any person seeking damages in connection with an action for injury...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6147
  (a) An attorney who contracts to represent a client on a contingency fee basis shall, at the time the contract is entered into, provide a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6147.5
  (a) Sections 6147 and 6148 shall not apply to contingency fee contracts for the recovery of claims between merchants as defined in Section 2104 of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6148
  (a) In any case not coming within Section 6147 in which it is reasonably foreseeable that total expense to a client, including attorney fees, will...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6149
  A written fee contract shall be deemed to be a confidential communication within the meaning of subdivision (e) of Section 6068 and of Section 952...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6149.5
  (a) Upon the payment of one hundred dollars ($100) or more in settlement of any third-party liability claim the insurer shall provide written notice to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6150
  This article is a part of Chapter 4 of this division of the Business and Professions Code, but the phrase "this chapter" as used in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6151
  As used in this article: (a) A runner or capper is any person, firm, association or corporation acting for consideration in any manner or in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6152
  (a) It is unlawful for: (1) Any person, in an individual capacity or in a capacity as a public or private employee, or for any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6153
  Any person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation violating subdivision (a) of Section 6152 is punishable, upon a first conviction, by imprisonment in a county jail...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6154
  (a) Any contract for professional services secured by any attorney at law or law firm in this state through the services of a runner or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6155
  (a) An individual, partnership, corporation, association, or any other entity shall not operate for the direct or indirect purpose, in whole or in part, of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6156
  (a) Any individual, partnership, association, corporation, or other entity, including, but not limited to, any person or entity having an ownership interest in a lawyer...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6157
  As used in this article, the following definitions apply: (a) "Member" means a member in good standing of the State Bar and includes any agent...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6157.1
  No advertisement shall contain any false, misleading, or deceptive statement or omit to state any fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6157.2
  No advertisement shall contain or refer to any of the following: (a) Any guarantee or warranty regarding the outcome of a legal matter as a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6157.3
  Any advertisement made on behalf of a member, which is not paid for by the member, shall disclose any business relationship, past or present, between...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6157.4
  Any advertisement that is created or disseminated by a lawyer referral service shall disclose whether the attorneys on the organization's referral list, panel, or system,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6157.5
  (a) All advertisements published, distributed, or broadcasted by or on behalf of a member seeking professional employment for the member in providing services relating to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6158
  In advertising by electronic media, to comply with Sections 61571.1 and 6157.2, the message as a whole may not be false, misleading, or deceptive, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6158.1
  There shall be a rebuttable presumption affecting the burden of producing evidence that the following messages are false, misleading, or deceptive within the meaning of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6158.2
  The following information shall be presumed to be in compliance with this article for purposes of advertising by electronic media, provided the message as a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6158.3
  In addition to any disclosure required by Section 6157.2, Section 6157.3, and the Rules of Professional Conduct, the following disclosure shall appear in advertising by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6158.4
  (a) Any person claiming a violation of Section 6158, 6158.1, or 6158.3 may file a complaint with the State Bar that states the name of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6158.5
  This article applies to all lawyers, members, law partnerships, law corporations, entities subject to regulation under Section 6155, advertising collectives, cooperatives, or other individuals, including...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6158.7
  A violation of Section 6158, 6158.1, or 6158.3 by a member shall be cause for discipline by the State Bar. In addition to the existing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6159
  The court shall report the name, address, and professional license number of any person found in violation of this article to the appropriate professional licensing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6159.1
  A true and correct copy of any advertisement made by a person or member shall be retained for one year by the person or member...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6159.2
  (a) Nothing in this article shall be deemed to limit or preclude enforcement of any other provision of law, or of any court rule, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6159.5
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) Legal aid programs provide a valuable service to the public by providing free legal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6159.51
  For purposes of this article, "legal aid organization" means a nonprofit organization that provides civil legal services for the poor without charge.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6159.52
  It is unlawful for any person or organization to use the term "legal aid," "legal aide," or any confusingly similar name in any firm name,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6159.53
  (a) Any consumer injured by a violation of Section 6159.52 may file a complaint and seek injunctive relief, restitution, and damages in the superior court...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6160
  A law corporation is a corporation which is registered with the State Bar of California and has a currently effective certificate of registration from the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6161
  An applicant for registration as a law corporation shall supply to the State Bar all necessary and pertinent documents and information requested by the State...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6161.1
  Each law corporation shall renew its certificate of registration annually at a time to be fixed by the State Bar and shall pay a fee...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6161.2
  All fees for registration and renewal paid pursuant to Sections 6161 and 6161.1 shall be paid into the treasury of the State Bar and shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6162
  Within such time as the State Bar may by rule provide, the law corporation shall report in writing to the State Bar any change in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6163
  (a) Each law corporation shall file with the State Bar annually and at such other times as the State Bar may require a report containing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6165
  Except as provided in Sections 13403 and 13406 of the Corporations Code, each director, shareholder, and each officer of a law corporation shall be a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6166
  The income of a law corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shareholder is a disqualified person (as defined in the Professional Corporation Act)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6167
  A law corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which or the failure to do which would constitute a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6168
  The State Bar may conduct an investigation of the conduct of the business of a law corporation. Upon such investigation, the Board of Trustees, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6169
  (a) When there is reason to believe that a law corporation has violated or is about to violate any of the provisions of this article...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6170
  Any action of the State Bar or the Board of Trustees or a committee of the State Bar, or the chief executive officer of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6171
  With the approval of the Supreme Court, the State Bar may formulate and enforce rules and regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6171.1
  Six months and one day following the death of a sole shareholder of a law corporation, the certificate of registration of the law corporation shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6172
  Nothing in this article shall be construed as affecting or impairing the disciplinary powers and authority of the Supreme Court or of the State Bar...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6174
  Pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 16953 of the Corporations Code, a limited liability partnership providing legal services shall comply with all administrative or filing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6174.5
  At the time of filing an Application for Issuance of a Certificate of Registration as a Limited Liability Partnership pursuant to the Rules of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6175
  As used in this article, the following definitions apply: (a) "Lawyer" means a member of the State Bar or a person who is admitted and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6175.3
  A lawyer, while acting as a fiduciary, may sell financial products to a client who is an elder or dependent adult with whom the lawyer...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6175.4
  (a) A client who suffers any damage as the result of a violation of this article by any lawyer may bring an action against that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6175.5
  A violation of this article by a member shall be cause for discipline by the State Bar.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6175.6
  The court shall report the name, address, and professional license number of any person found in violation of this article to the appropriate professional licensing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6176
  Nothing in this article shall be deemed to limit, reduce, or preclude enforcement of any obligation, statute, State Bar Rule of Professional Conduct, or court...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6177
  The State Bar by December 31 of each year shall report to the Legislature on the number of complaints filed against California attorneys alleging a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6180
  When an attorney engaged in law practice in this state dies, resigns, becomes an inactive member of the State Bar, is disbarred, or is suspended...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6180.1
  The notice shall contain any information that may be required by any order of disbarment, suspension, or of acceptance of the attorneys' resignation, by any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6180.2
  Notwithstanding the giving of notice pursuant to Section 6180.1, the superior court on its own motion, or a client of the attorney, the State Bar,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6180.3
  The application shall be verified, and shall state facts supporting the occurrence of one or more of the events stated in Section 6180 and either...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6180.4
  The application shall be set for hearing and an order to show cause shall be issued, directing the attorney, or his or her personal representative,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6180.5
  If the court finds that one or more of the events stated in Section 6180 has occurred, and that supervision of the courts is warranted...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6180.6
  Nothing in this article shall authorize the court or an attorney appointed by it pursuant to this article to approve or disapprove of the employment...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6180.7
  Unless court approval is first obtained, neither the attorney appointed pursuant to this article nor his corporation nor any partners or associates of the attorney...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6180.8
  Upon a finding by the court that it is more likely than not that the application will be granted and that delay in making the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6180.9
  If there is a pending proceeding in probate, guardianship, or conservatorship relating to the affected attorney, the court having jurisdiction pursuant to this article may...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6180.10
  Persons examining the files and records of the law practice of the affected attorney pursuant to this article shall observe the lawyer-client privilege and shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6180.11
  No person or entity shall incur any liability by reason of the institution or maintenance of the proceeding. No person shall incur any liability for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6180.12
  A member of the State Bar appointed pursuant to Section 6180.5 shall serve without compensation. However, the member may be paid reasonable compensation by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6180.13
  An order made pursuant to this article is nonappealable, and shall not be stayed by petition for a writ except as ordered by the superior...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6180.14
  As used in this article, "attorney" means a member or former member of the State Bar; "law practice" means (a) a law practice conducted by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6185
  (a) Upon appointment by the superior court pursuant to Section 2468, 9764, or paragraph (22) or (23) of subdivision (b) of Section 17200 of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6190
  The courts of the state shall have the jurisdiction as provided in this article when an attorney engaged in the practice of law in this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6190.1
  (a) An application for assumption by the court of jurisdiction under this article shall be made to the superior court for the county where the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6190.2
  The application shall be verified and shall state facts showing each of the following: (a) Probable cause to believe that the facts set forth in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6190.3
  The application shall be set for hearing. A copy of the application and notice of the hearing shall be served upon the attorney by personal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6190.34
  If the court finds that (a) the facts set forth in Section 6190 have occurred and, (b) that the interests of the client, or of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6190.4
  The provisions of Article 11 (commencing with Section 6180) of Chapter 4 of Division 3 of this code shall apply to the proceeding, whenever possible.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6190.5
  The proceeding may be maintained concurrently with a disciplinary investigation or proceeding provided for by this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6190.6
  Upon motion duly made by any interested party, the court may terminate the proceedings.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6200
  (a) The board of trustees shall, by rule, establish, maintain, and administer a system and procedure for the arbitration, and may establish, maintain, and administer...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6201
  (a) The rules adopted by the board of trustees shall provide that an attorney shall forward a written notice to the client prior to or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6202
  The provisions of Article 3 (commencing with Section 950) of Chapter 4 of Division 8 of the Evidence Code shall not prohibit the disclosure of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6203
  (a) The award shall be in writing and signed by the arbitrators concurring therein. It shall include a determination of all the questions submitted to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6204
  (a) The parties may agree in writing to be bound by the award of arbitrators appointed pursuant to this article at any time after the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6204.5
  (a) The State Bar shall provide by rule for an appropriate procedure to disqualify an arbitrator or mediator upon request of either party. (b) The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6206
  The time for filing a civil action seeking judicial resolution of a dispute subject to arbitration under this article shall be tolled from the time...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6210
  The Legislature finds that, due to insufficient funding, existing programs providing free legal services in civil matters to indigent persons, especially underserved client groups, such...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6211
  (a) An attorney or law firm that, in the course of the practice of law, receives or disburses trust funds shall establish and maintain an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6212
  An attorney who, or a law firm that, establishes an IOLTA account pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 6211 shall comply with all of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6213
  As used in this article: (a) "Qualified legal services project" means either of the following: (1) A nonprofit project incorporated and operated exclusively in California...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6214
  (a) Projects meeting the requirements of subdivision (a) of Section 6213 which are funded either in whole or part by the Legal Services Corporation or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6214.5
  A law school program that meets the definition of a "qualified legal services project" as defined in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 6213,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6215
  (a) Support centers satisfying the qualifications specified in subdivision (b) of Section 6213 which were operating an office and providing services in California on December...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6216
  The State Bar shall distribute all moneys received under the program established by this article for the provision of civil legal services to indigent persons....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6217
  With respect to the provision of legal assistance under this article, each recipient shall ensure all of the following: (a) The maintenance of quality service...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6218
  All legal services projects and support centers receiving funds pursuant to this article shall adopt financial eligibility guidelines for indigent persons. (a) Qualified legal services...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6219
  Qualified legal services projects and support centers may use funds provided under this article to provide work opportunities with pay, and where feasible, scholarships for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6220
  Attorneys in private practice who are providing legal services without charge to indigent persons shall not be disqualified from receiving the services of the qualified...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6221
  Qualified legal services projects shall make significant efforts to utilize 20 percent of the funds allocated under this article for increasing the availability of services...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6222
  A recipient of funds allocated pursuant to this article annually shall submit a financial statement to the State Bar, including an audit of the funds...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6223
  No funds allocated by the State Bar pursuant to this article shall be used for any of the following purposes: (a) The provision of legal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6224
  The State Bar shall have the power to determine that an applicant for funding is not qualified to receive funding, to deny future funding, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6225
  The Board of Trustees of the State Bar shall adopt the regulations and procedures necessary to implement this article and to ensure that the funds...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6226
  The program authorized by this article shall become operative only upon the adoption of a resolution by the Board of Trustees of the State Bar...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6227
  Nothing in this article shall create an obligation or pledge of the credit of the State of California or of the State Bar of California....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6228
  If any provision of this article or the application thereof to any group or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the other...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6230
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the State Bar of California seek ways and means to identify and rehabilitate attorneys with impairment due...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6231
  (a) The board shall establish and administer an Attorney Diversion and Assistance Program, and shall establish a committee to oversee the operation of the program....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6232
  (a) The committee shall establish practices and procedures for the acceptance, denial, completion, or termination of attorneys in the Attorney Diversion and Assistance Program, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6233
  An attorney entering the diversion and assistance program pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 6232 may be enrolled as an inactive member of the State...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6234
  Any information provided to or obtained by the Attorney Diversion and Assistance Program, or any subcommittee or agent thereof, shall be as follows: (a) Confidential...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6235
  (a) Participants in the Attorney Diversion and Assistance Program shall be responsible for all expenses relating to treatment and recovery. In addition, the State Bar...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6236
  The State Bar shall actively engage in outreach activities to make members, the legal community, and the general public aware of the existence and availability...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6237
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the authorization of an Attorney Diversion and Assistance Program not be construed as limiting or altering the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6238
  The committee shall report to the Board of Trustees and to the Legislature not later than March 1, 2003, and annually thereafter, on the implementation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6300
  There is in each county of this State a board of law library trustees, which governs the law library established for the county under the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6301
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by statute, a board of law library trustees is constituted as follows: (1) In a county where there are no...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6301.1
  Notwithstanding Section 6301, in San Diego County the board of law library trustees shall be constituted, as follows: (a) Up to five judges of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6301.5
  In any county where there are no more than three judges of the superior court, the board of supervisors, with the concurrence of the majority...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6302
  Appointments of trustees which are to be made by the board of supervisors of the county shall be made at the first meeting of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6302.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in Los Angeles County appointments made by judges of the superior court shall be for a term of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6303
  The office of trustee is honorary, without salary or other compensation.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6304
  Each board of law library trustees shall meet regularly each month on such day as it shall appoint, but if it appoint no day, it...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6305
  A board of law library trustees may remove any trustee, except an ex officio trustee, who is absent from three consecutive meetings of the board,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6306
  Each board shall appoint one of its number as president.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6307
  Each board shall elect a secretary, who shall keep a full statement and account of all property, money, receipts and expenditures, and shall keep a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6320
  All money collected for the law library in each county, must be deposited with the treasurer of the county, who must keep the same separate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6321
  (a) On and after January 1, 2006, as described in Section 68085.1 of the Government Code, the Administrative Office of the Courts shall make monthly...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6322
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the change in the method of distributing funds to law libraries from fees collected by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6322.1
  (a) Until the end of the moratorium described in Section 70601 of the Government Code, the board of supervisors of any county may increase, as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6322.1
  (a) Until the end of the moratorium described in Section 70601 of the Government Code, the board of supervisors of any county may increase, as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6324
  The board of supervisors may appropriate from the county treasury for law library purposes such sums as may in their discretion appear proper. When so...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6325
  The orders and demands of the trustees of the law library, when duly made and authenticated as hereinafter provided, shall be verified and audited by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6326
  A revolving fund of not more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) may be established from money in the law library fund, by resolution of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6340
  Each board of law library trustees shall establish and maintain a law library at the county seat of the county in which it is appointed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6341
  Any board of law library trustees may establish and maintain a branch of the law library in any city in the county, other than the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6342
  A board of law library trustees may order the drawing and payment, upon properly authenticated vouchers, of money from out of the law library fund,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6343
  A board may make and enforce all rules, regulations, and by-laws necessary for the administration, government, and protection of the law library, and of all...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6344
  A board may purchase books, journals, other publications, and other personal property. It may dispose of obsolete or duplicate books, and other unneeded or unusable
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6345
  A board may appoint a law librarian and define the powers and prescribe the duties of any law library employees, determine the number, and elect...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6346
  A board shall fix the salaries of the law librarian and law library employees, and may require a bond of any law librarian or law...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6346.5
  A board of law library trustees may contract with the California Public Employees' Retirement System, to make all or any of the employees of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6346.6
  As an alternative to Section 6346.5, a board of law library trustees may, with the consent of the board of administration of the applicable retirement...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6347
  A board may contract with any other law library board, law library association, superior court, or legal-related entity, including a self-help group or other organization...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6348
  A board may expend surplus funds under its control, not necessary for use to maintain the law library, to acquire or lease real property and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6348.1
  An appropriation to obtain quarters for the law library in a building to be erected by the board of supervisors of the county, may be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6348.2
  When a board of law library trustees in any county determines to erect a library building to house the law library, it may borrow money...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6348.3
  A library building erected to house the law library may include courtrooms with offices in connection therewith, offices for use of a county bar association,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6348.4
  Real property acquired by a board may be sold with the proceeds to be deposited in the law library fund.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6348.5
  A board of law library trustees may invest surplus funds in excess of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) or of the average annual expenditures of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6348.6
  A board of law library trustees may contract with the board of supervisors of the county upon such terms as may be mutually agreeable for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6348.7
  A board of law library trustees may enter into an agreement with a county for the joint exercise of powers pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6349
  Each board of law library trustees, on or before the 15th day of October of each year, shall make an annual report to the board...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6350
  A financial report, showing all receipts and disbursements of money, shall be made by the secretary, duly verified by oath, at the same time that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6360
  A law library established under this chapter shall be free to the judiciary, to state and county officials, to members of the State Bar, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6361
  The board of supervisors of the county in which the law library is established shall provide sufficient quarters for the use of the library upon...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6362.5
  The State Librarian shall periodically supply to each law library established under the provisions of this chapter, and requesting the same, information regarding newly published...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6363
  Whenever a law library, and a board of trustees to govern the same, is in existence under the provisions of any law, other than the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6400
  (a) "Unlawful detainer assistant" means any individual who for compensation renders assistance or advice in the prosecution or defense of an unlawful detainer claim or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6401
  This chapter does not apply to any person engaged in any of the following occupations, provided that the person does not also perform the duties...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6401.5
  This chapter does not sanction, authorize, or encourage the practice of law by nonlawyers. Registration under this chapter, or an exemption from registration, does not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6401.6
  A legal document assistant may not provide service to a client who requires assistance that exceeds the definition of self-help service in subdivision (d) of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6402
  A legal document assistant or unlawful detainer assistant shall be registered pursuant to this chapter by the county clerk in the county in which his...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6402.1
  To be eligible to apply for registration under this chapter as a legal document assistant, the applicant shall possess at least one of the following:...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6403
  (a) The application for registration of a natural person shall contain all of the following statements about the applicant: (1) Name, age, address, and telephone...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6404
  An applicant shall pay a fee of one hundred seventy-five dollars ($175) to the county clerk at the time he or she files an application...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6405
  (a) (1) An application for a certificate of registration by an individual shall be accompanied by a bond of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) executed by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6406
  (a) If granted, a certificate of registration shall be effective for a period of two years, until the date the bond expires, or until the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6407
  (a) The county clerk shall maintain a register of legal document assistants, and a register of unlawful detainer assistants, assign a unique number to each...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6408
  The registrant's name, business address, telephone number, registration number, expiration date of the registration, and county of registration shall appear in any solicitation or advertisement,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6408.5
  (a) All advertisements or solicitations published, distributed, or broadcast offering legal document assistant or unlawful detainer assistant services shall include the following statement: "I am...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6409
  No legal document assistant or unlawful detainer assistant shall retain in his or her possession original documents of a client. A legal document assistant or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6410
  (a) Every legal document assistant or unlawful detainer assistant who enters into a contract or agreement with a client to provide services shall, prior to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6410.5
  (a) It is unlawful for any legal document assistant or unlawful detainer assistant, in the first in-person or telephonic solicitation of a prospective client of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6411
  It is unlawful for any person engaged in the business or acting in the capacity of a legal document assistant or unlawful detainer assistant to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6412
  (a) Any owner or manager of residential or commercial rental property, tenant, or other person who is awarded damages in any action or proceeding for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6412.1
  (a) Any person injured by the unlawful act of a legal document assistant or unlawful detainer assistant shall retain all rights and remedies cognizable under...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6412.5
  A legal document assistant or an unlawful detainer assistant may neither seek nor obtain a client's waiver of any of the provisions of this chapter....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6413
  The county clerk shall revoke the registration of a legal document assistant or unlawful detainer assistant upon receipt of an official document or record stating...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6414
  A registrant whose certificate is revoked shall be entitled to challenge the decision in a court of competent jurisdiction.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6415
  A failure, by a person who engages in acts of a legal document assistant or unlawful detainer assistant, to comply with any of the requirements...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6450
  (a) "Paralegal" means a person who holds himself or herself out to be a paralegal, who is qualified by education, training, or work experience, who...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6451
  It is unlawful for a paralegal to perform any services for a consumer except as performed under the direction and supervision of the attorney, law...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6452
  (a) It is unlawful for a person to identify himself or herself as a paralegal on any advertisement, letterhead, business card or sign, or elsewhere...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6453
  A paralegal is subject to the same duty as an attorney specified in subdivision (e) of Section 6068 to maintain inviolate the confidentiality, and at...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6454
  The terms "paralegal," "legal assistant," "attorney assistant," "freelance paralegal," "independent paralegal," and "contract paralegal" are synonymous for purposes of this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6455
  (a) Any consumer injured by a violation of this chapter may file a complaint and seek redress in superior court for injunctive relief, restitution, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6456
  An individual employed by the state as a paralegal, legal assistant, legal analyst, or similar title, is exempt from the provisions of this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6500
  This chapter shall be known as the Professional Fiduciaries Act.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6501
  As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Act" means this chapter. (b) "Bureau" means the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau within...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6502
  (a) Every person who is required to register with the Statewide Registry maintained by the Department of Justice under Chapter 13 (commencing with Section 2850)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6510
  (a) There is within the jurisdiction of the department the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau. The bureau is under the supervision and control of the director. The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6511
  (a) There is within the bureau a Professional Fiduciaries Advisory Committee. The committee shall consist of seven members; three of whom shall be licensees actively...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6513
  The bureau may employ, subject to civil service and other provisions of law, other employees as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6514
  The bureau shall keep a complete record of all its proceedings and all licenses issued, renewed, or revoked, and a detailed statement of receipts and
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6515
  The duty of administering and enforcing this chapter is vested in the bureau and the chief. In the performance of this duty, the bureau and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6516
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the bureau in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever the protection of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6517
  The bureau may adopt, amend, or repeal, in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6518
  (a) The bureau shall be responsible for administering the licensing and regulatory program established in this chapter. (b) The bureau shall approve classes qualifying for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6520
  The bureau shall adopt, by regulation, a Professional Fiduciaries Code of Ethics. The Professional Fiduciaries Code of Ethics shall be consistent with all statutory requirements,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6530
  (a) On and after January 1, 2009, no person shall act or hold himself or herself out to the public as a professional fiduciary unless...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6531
  No professional fiduciary shall operate with an expired, suspended, or revoked license.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6532
  A person who has been licensed by the bureau may identify himself or herself as a "licensed professional fiduciary."
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6533
  In order to meet the qualifications for licensure as a professional fiduciary a person shall meet all of the following requirements: (a) Be at least...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6533.5
  Criminal offender record information shall be obtained on each applicant as provided in this section. (a) Each applicant shall submit fingerprint images to the Department...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6534
  (a) The bureau shall maintain the following information in each licensee's file, shall make this information available to a court for any purpose, including the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6535
  The bureau shall approve or deny licensure in a timely manner to applicants who apply for licensure. Upon approval of a license, the bureau shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6536
  The bureau shall review all applications for licensure and may investigate an applicant's qualifications for licensure. The bureau shall approve those applications that meet the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6537
  The bureau may deny a license for the reasons specified in Section 480 or 6536. An applicant notified of the denial of his or her...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6538
  (a) To qualify for licensure, an applicant shall have completed 30 hours of prelicensing education courses provided by an educational program approved by the bureau....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6539
  As a requirement for licensure, an applicant shall take and pass the licensing examination administered by the bureau. The bureau shall determine the frequency with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6540
  Individuals, entities, agencies, and associations that propose to offer educational programs qualifying for the prelicensing educational or continuing educational requirements of this chapter shall apply...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6541
  (a) A license shall expire one year after it was issued on the last day of the month in which it was issued. (b) A...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6560
  A licensee shall keep complete and accurate records of client accounts, and shall make those records available for audit by the bureau.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6561
  (a) A licensee shall initially, and annually thereafter, file with the bureau a statement under penalty of perjury containing the following: (1) Her or his...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6562
  The annual statement shall be filed with the bureau 60 days prior to the expiration of the license as provided in subdivision (a) of Section
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6580
  (a) The bureau may upon its own, and shall, upon the receipt of a complaint from any person, investigate the actions of any professional fiduciary....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6582
  All proceedings against a licensee for any violation of this chapter or any regulations adopted by the bureau shall be conducted in accordance with the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6582.2
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 6582 and Section 11415.60 of the Government Code, the bureau may enter into a settlement with a licensee or applicant instead of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6582.5
  Notwithstanding Section 6582, if any violation occurs, in its discretion, the bureau may refer the case to the Attorney General or to the local district...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6583
  The bureau shall establish a system of administrative citations and fines under Section 125.9 for violations of this chapter, the Professional Fiduciaries Code of Ethics,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6584
  A license issued under this chapter may be suspended, revoked, denied, or other disciplinary action may be imposed for one or more of the following...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6590
  All fees collected by the bureau shall be paid into the Professional Fiduciary Fund in the State Treasury, which is hereby created. The money in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6591
  The Professional Fiduciary Fund shall be the successor fund to those funds deposited under the Statewide Registry with the Department of Justice pursuant to Chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6592
  (a) The fee for a professional fiduciary examination and reexamination shall be set by the bureau through regulation at the amount necessary to recover the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6700
  This chapter constitutes the chapter on professional engineers. It may be cited as the Professional Engineers Act.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6701
  "Professional engineer," within the meaning and intent of this act, refers to a person engaged in the professional practice of rendering service or creative work...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6702
  "Civil engineer" as used in this chapter means a professional engineer in the branch of civil engineering and refers to one who practices or offers...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6702.1
  "Electrical engineer" as used in this chapter means a professional engineer in the branch of electrical engineering and refers to one who practices or offers...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6702.2
  "Mechanical engineer" as used in this chapter means a professional engineer in the branch of mechanical engineering and refers to one who practices or offers...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6703
  The phrase "responsible charge of work" means the independent control and direction, by the use of initiative, skill, and independent judgment, of the investigation or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6703.1
  "Supervision of the construction of engineering structures" means the periodic observation of materials and completed work to determine general compliance with plans, specifications, and design...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6704
  (a) In order to safeguard life, health, property, and public welfare, no person shall practice civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering unless appropriately licensed or specifically...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6704.1
  (a) The Department of Consumer Affairs, in conjunction with the board, and the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection shall review the engineering...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6705
  A subordinate is any person who assists a registered professional engineer in the practice of professional engineering without assuming responsible charge of work.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6706
  (a) An engineer who voluntarily, without compensation or expectation of compensation, provides structural inspection services at the scene of a declared national, state, or local...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6706.3
  Any reference in any law or regulation to a registered engineer, or to a registered civil, electrical, or mechanical engineer, is deemed to refer to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6710
  (a) There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs a Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists, which consists of 15 members. (b) Any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6710.1
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6711
  Each member of the board shall be a citizen of the United States. Five members shall be registered under this chapter. One member shall be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6712
  (a) All appointments to the board shall be for a term of four years. Vacancies shall be filled by appointment for the unexpired term. Each...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6713
  The Governor may remove any member of the board for misconduct, incompetency or neglect of duty.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6714
  The board shall appoint an executive officer at a salary to be fixed and determined by the board with the approval of the Director of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6715
  The board shall compile and maintain, or may have compiled and maintained on its behalf, a register of all licensees that contains information showing the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6716
  (a) The board may adopt rules and regulations consistent with law and necessary to govern its action. These rules and regulations shall be adopted in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6717
  The board may, by regulation, define the scope of each branch of professional engineering other than civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering for which registration is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6718
  Any member of the board may administer oaths and may take testimony and proofs concerning all matters within the board's jurisdiction.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6719
  The board shall adopt and have an official seal which shall be affixed to all certificates of registration.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6720
  Each member of the board shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6721
  The board shall establish relations with bodies that regulate the practice of professional engineering, or closely related professions, or that register or license professional engineers...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6726
  The board may establish one or more technical advisory committees to advise and assist the board with respect to the following: (1) Application review and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6726.1
  Each member of each technical advisory committee shall be appointed by the board and shall serve at the pleasure of the board. Each committee shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6726.2
  Each member of each technical advisory committee shall be an expert in the branch of engineering within the committee's jurisdiction and shall be licensed under...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6726.3
  All the members of each technical advisory committee shall serve without compensation but shall receive per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6726.4
  Each member of each technical advisory committee shall be granted the same immunity as is granted to a public employee pursuant to Article 3 (commencing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6728
  The board, when it deems necessary, may establish professional engineers review committees to hear all matters assigned by the board, including, but not limited to,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6728.1
  Each review committee shall consist of no fewer than three registered professional engineers appointed by the board. Each member of a committee shall have the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6728.2
  Each member of a committee shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103 of this code.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6728.3
  Except as otherwise provided in this article, all hearings which are conducted by a committee shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of Chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6728.4
  At the conclusion of any hearing which is conducted by a committee, the committee shall prepare a proposed decision, in such form that it may...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6728.5
  The board may adopt, amend, or repeal, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340), Part 1, Division 3, Title 2...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6728.6
  Each member of a professional engineers review committee or other board-appointed committee and any board-appointed representative of the board shall be granted the same immunity...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6730
  In order to safeguard life, health, property and public welfare, any person, either in a public or private capacity, except as in this chapter specifically...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6730.2
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the registration requirements that are imposed upon private sector professional engineers and engineering partnerships, firms, or corporations...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6731
  Civil engineering embraces the following studies or activities in connection with fixed works for irrigation, drainage, waterpower, water supply, flood control, inland waterways, harbors, municipal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6731.1
  Civil engineering also includes the practice or offer to practice, either in a public or private capacity, all of the following: (a) Locates, relocates, establishes,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6731.2
  Any registered civil engineer may offer to practice, procure, and offer to procure, land surveying work incidental to his or her civil engineering practice, even...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6731.3
  A registered civil engineer may also practice or offer to practice, either in a public or private capacity, construction project management services, including, but not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6731.4
  If a registered civil engineer provides construction management services pursuant to Section 6731.3, Section 6703.1 shall not limit the responsibility of the engineer for the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6731.5
  (a) Electrical engineering is that branch of professional engineering described in Section 6734.1 that embraces studies or activities relating to the generation, transmission, and utilization...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6731.6
  Mechanical engineering is that branch of professional engineering described in Section 6734.2 that deals with engineering problems relating to generation, transmission, and utilization of energy...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6732
  It is unlawful for anyone other than a professional engineer licensed under this chapter to stamp or seal any plans, specifications, plats, reports, or other...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6732.1
  Any person who has been granted permission to use the title "consulting engineer" pursuant to legislation enacted at the 1963, 1965, or 1968 Regular Session...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6732.2
  Any person who possesses a valid certificate to practice photogrammetry issued to him under the provisions of Chapter 15 (commencing with Section 8700) of this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6732.3
  (a) Any person who has received from the board a license in corrosion, manufacturing, quality, or safety engineering, and who holds a valid license under...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6732.4
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person who has applied for registration as a corrosion, quality, or safety engineer, and who has completed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6732.5
  (a) Upon the discontinuance of a national examination for a branch specified in this chapter, the board shall not be required to administer an examination...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6733
  It is unlawful for anyone to stamp or seal any plans, specifications, plats, reports, or other documents with the seal after the certificate of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6734
  Any person practices civil engineering when he professes to be a civil engineer or is in responsible charge of civil engineering work.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6734.1
  Any person practices electrical engineering when he professes to be an electrical engineer or is in responsible charge of electrical engineering work.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6734.2
  Any person practices mechanical engineering when he professes to be a mechanical engineer or is in responsible charge of mechanical engineering work.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6735
  (a) All civil (including structural and geotechnical) engineering plans, calculations, specifications, and reports (hereinafter referred to as "documents") shall be prepared by, or under the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6735.1
  The signing of civil engineering plans, specifications, reports, or documents which relate to the design of fixed works shall not impose a legal duty or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6735.3
  (a) All electrical engineering plans, specifications, calculations, and reports (hereinafter referred to as "documents") prepared by, or under the responsible charge of, a licensed electrical...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6735.4
  (a) All mechanical engineering plans, specifications, calculations, and reports (hereinafter referred to as "documents") prepared by, or under the responsible charge of, a licensed mechanical...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6735.5
  The use of the word "certify" or "certification" by a registered professional engineer in the practice of professional engineering or land surveying constitutes an expression...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6735.6
  If a registered civil engineer is required to provide as built, as constructed, or record plans for improvements or grading, which plans show changes during...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6736
  No person shall use the title, "structural engineer," or any combination of these words or abbreviations thereof, unless he or she is a licensed civil...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6736.1
  (a) No person shall use the title, "soil engineer," "soils engineer," or "geotechnical engineer," or any combination of these words or abbreviations thereof, unless he...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6737
  An architect, who holds a certificate to practice architecture in this State under the provisions of Chapter 3 of Division 3 of this code insofar...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6737.1
  (a) This chapter does not prohibit any person from preparing plans, drawings, or specifications for any of the following: (1) Single-family dwellings of woodframe construction...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6737.2
  Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit a civil engineer, registered under the provisions of this chapter, from practicing or offering to practice any engineering in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6737.3
  A contractor licensed under Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 7000) of Division 3 is exempt from the provisions of this chapter relating to the practice...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6738
  (a) This chapter does not prohibit one or more civil, electrical, or mechanical engineers from practicing or offering to practice, within the scope of their...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6738
  (a) This chapter does not prohibit one or more civil, electrical, or mechanical engineers from practicing or offering to practice within the scope of their...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6739
  Officers and employees of the United States of America practicing solely as such officers or employees are exempt from registration under the provisions of this
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6740
  A subordinate to a civil, electrical or mechanical engineer licensed under this chapter, or a subordinate to a civil, electrical or mechanical engineer exempted from...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6741
  Any person, firm, partnership, or corporation is exempt from registration under the provisions of this chapter who meets all the following: (a) Is a nonresident...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6742
  Any person, firm or corporation holding a license as real estate broker or real estate salesman, when making appraisals and valuations of real estate properties,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6743
  This chapter does not affect Chapter 15 of Division 3 of this code, relating to surveyors, except insofar as this chapter is expressly made applicable.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6744
  This chapter does not require registration for the purpose of practicing civil engineering, by an individual, a member of a firm or partnership, or by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6745
  This chapter does not prohibit any person, firm or corporation from furnishing, either alone or with subcontractors, labor and materials, with or without plans, drawings,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6746
  Plans, specifications, reports and documents relating to communication lines and equipment prepared by employees of communications companies which come under the jurisdiction of the Public...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6746.1
  The provisions of this chapter pertaining to licensure of professional engineers, other than civil engineers, do not apply to employees in the communications industry, nor...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6747
  (a) This chapter, except for those provisions that apply to civil engineers and civil engineering, shall not apply to the performance of engineering work by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6748
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 6747, this chapter applies to engineering work approved by a person employed by a privately or publicly owned utility in the planning,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6749
  (a) A professional engineer shall use a written contract when contracting to provide professional engineering services to a client pursuant to this chapter. The written...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6750
  (a) An application for licensure as a professional engineer or certification as an engineer-in-training shall be made to the board on the prescribed form, with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6751
  (a) The applicant for certification as an engineer-in-training shall comply with all of the following: (1) Not have committed acts or crimes constituting grounds for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6751.2
  The board may consider the professional experience and education acquired by applicants outside the United States which in the opinion of the board is equivalent...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6751.5
  The board shall by rule establish the criteria to be used for approving curricula of schools of engineering.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6752
  An applicant for registration as a civil engineer must have gained his experience under the direction of a civil engineer legally qualified to practice.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6753
  With respect to applicants for licensure as professional engineers, the board: (a) Shall give credit as qualifying experience of four years, for graduation with an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6753.5
  All applicants shall be given equal credit for engineering experience in the armed forces of United States as with any other comparable engineering experience.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6754
  Examination for licensure shall be held at such times and places as the board shall determine. The second division of the examination for all branches...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6755
  (a) Examination duration and composition shall be designed to conform to the following general principle: The first division of the examination shall test the applicant's...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6755.1
  (a) The second division of the examination for registration as a professional engineer shall include questions to test the applicant's knowledge of state laws and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6756
  (a) An applicant for certification as an engineer-in-training shall, upon making a passing grade in that division of the examination prescribed in Section 6755, relating...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6757
  Applicants who profess to be qualified in more than one branch of engineering shall be required to file an application for each branch in which...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6758
  An applicant failing in an examination may be examined again upon filing a new application and the payment of the fee fixed by this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6759
  The board, upon application therefor, on its prescribed form, and the payment of the fee fixed by this chapter, may issue a certificate of registration...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6760
  A temporary authorization to practice engineering in a branch defined by this chapter may be granted for a specific project, upon application and payment of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6762
  Any applicant who has passed the second division examination and has otherwise qualified hereunder as a professional engineer, shall have a certificate of registration issued...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6762.5
  (a) The board shall issue, upon application and payment of the fee established by Section 6799, a retired license (registration), to an engineer who has...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6763
  Application for authority to use the title "structural engineer," "soil engineer," "soils engineer," or "geotechnical engineer" shall be made to the board on forms prescribed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6763.1
  An applicant to use the title "structural engineer" shall have successfully passed a written examination for structural engineering that is administered by a nationally recognized...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6763.5
  If an applicant for registration as a professional engineer or certification as an engineer-in-training, or for authorization to use the title "structural engineer" or "soil...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6764
  Each professional engineer licensed under this chapter shall, upon licensure, obtain a seal or stamp of a design authorized by the board bearing the licensee's...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6765
  A duplicate certificate of registration to replace one lost, destroyed, or mutilated may be issued subject to the rules and regulations of the board. The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6766
  An unsuspended, unrevoked and unexpired certificate and endorsement of registry made under this chapter, is presumptive evidence in all courts and places that the person...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6770
  (a) A licensee shall report to the board in writing the occurrence of any of the following events that occurred on or after January 1,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6770.1
  Within 30 days of entry of a conviction described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 6770 or a judgment described in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6770.2
  (a) Within 30 days of payment of all or any portion of any civil action judgment, settlement, or arbitration award described in Section 6770 against...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6770.3
  The requirements of Sections 6770, 6770.1, and 6770.2 shall apply if a party to the civil action, settlement, or arbitration award is or was a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6770.4
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a licensee shall not be considered to have violated a confidential settlement agreement or other confidential agreement by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6770.5
  The board may adopt regulations to further define the reporting requirements of Sections 6770, 6770.1, and 6770.2.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6770.6
  This article shall become operative on January 1, 2008, only if an appropriation is made from the Professional Engineer's and Land Surveyor's Fund for the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6775
  The board may, upon its own initiative or upon the receipt of a complaint, investigate the actions of any professional engineer licensed under this chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6775.1
  The board may, upon its own initiative or upon the receipt of a complaint, investigate the actions of any engineer-in-training and make findings thereon. By...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6776
  The proceedings under this article shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 11370), Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11400), and Chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6777
  The board may reissue a certificate of registration, certification, or authority, to any person whose certificate has been revoked if a majority of the members...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6779
  A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge substantially related to the qualifications, functions...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6780
  (a) A petitioner may petition the board for reinstatement or modification of penalty, including reduction, modification, or termination of probation, after the following minimum periods...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6785
  The board shall have the power, duty, and authority to investigate violations of the provisions of this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6786
  It is the duty of the respective members of the legal system to prosecute all persons charged with the violation of any of the provisions...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6787
  Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor: (a) Who, unless he or she is exempt from licensure under this chapter, practices or offers to practice...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6788
  Any person who violates any provision of subdivisions (a) to (i), inclusive, of Section 6787 in connection with the offer or performance of engineering services...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6795
  Certificates of registration as a professional engineer, and certificates of authority, shall be valid for a period of two years from the assigned date of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6795.1
  Within 60 to 90 days prior to the expiration of a certificate of registration or certificate of authority, the board shall mail to the registrant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6796
  Except as otherwise provided in this article, certificates of registration as a professional engineer, and certificates of authority may be renewed at any time within...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6796.1
  A suspended certificate is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article, but such renewal does not entitle the holder of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6796.2
  A revoked certificate is subject to expiration as provided in this article, but it may not be renewed. If it is reinstated after its expiration,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6796.3
  Certificates of registration as a professional engineer, and certificates of authority to use the title "structural engineer," "soil engineer," or "consulting engineer" that are not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6796.5
  Once an expired or delinquent certificate of registration or certificate of authority is renewed, restored, reinstated, or reissued pursuant to Section 6796 or 6796.3, all...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6797
  The department shall receive and account for all money derived from the operation of this chapter and, at the end of each month, shall report...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6798
  The board may make refunds of all fees in accordance with Section 158 of this code.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6799
  The amount of the fees prescribed by this chapter shall be fixed by the board in accordance with the following schedule: (a) The fee for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980
  The following terms as used in this chapter have the meaning expressed in this article: (a) "Branch office" means any additional physical location, other than...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.1
  There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services. The bureau is under the supervision and control of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.2
  The Governor shall appoint a chief of the bureau at a salary to be fixed in accordance with Section 12080.3 of the Government Code. The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.3
  The director, in accordance with the State Civil Service Act, and Section 159.5, may appoint and fix the compensation of such clerical, inspection, investigation, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.4
  The chief shall gather evidence of violations of this chapter and of any rule or regulation established under this chapter by unlicensed persons who engage...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.5
  It shall be the duty of the chief to initiate and conduct investigations into the business operations of any locksmith, on his or her own...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.6
  (a) Every power and duty granted to, or imposed upon, the director under this chapter may be delegated to the chief, except that the director...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.7
  (a) The director may adopt and enforce rules and regulations as may be reasonable and necessary for issuing licenses to applicants, for the conduct of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.8
  The chief or his or her designee may inspect, examine, or investigate the relevant records, books, accounts, and files created and maintained by a locksmith....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.10
  (a) No person shall engage within this state in the activities of a locksmith as defined in subdivision (j) of Section 6980, unless the person...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.12
  This chapter does not apply to the following persons: (a) Any person, or his or her agent or employee, who is the manufacturer of a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.13
  (a) Any person who violates any provision of this chapter, or who conspires with another person to violate any provision of this chapter, or who...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.14
  (a) The superior court in and for the county where any person has engaged or is about to engage in any act that constitutes a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.15
  No person engaged in performing any service requiring a license under this chapter may bring or maintain any action in any court of this state...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.17
  (a) An application for a locksmith license shall be made in writing to, and filed with, the chief in the form as may be required...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.18
  (a) Each individual applicant, each partner of a partnership, and designated officers of a corporation shall submit with the application one personal identification form provided...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.19
  If the applicant for a license is an individual, the application shall state the full name of the individual, the full residence address of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.20
  If the applicant for a license is a partnership, the application shall state the true names and addresses of all the general partners and the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.21
  (a) If the applicant for a license is a corporation, the application shall state the true names and complete residence addresses of the chief executive...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.22
  No new or original license shall be issued to any applicant pending final disposition of any disciplinary action previously filed against the person or applicant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.23
  The chief shall issue a pocket identification card to the owner, partners, and officers. The chief shall determine the form and content of the card....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.24
  The director shall issue a license, the form and content of which shall be determined in accordance with Section 164. In addition, the director shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.25
  If an applicant fails to complete his or her application within one year after it has been filed, the application shall be considered to be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.26
  (a) Each locksmith license, together with the current renewal certificate, if any, shall at all times be conspicuously displayed at the place of business, each...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.27
  Every locksmith license shall expire at 12 midnight of the last day of the month two years following the date of issuance unless renewed; provided...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.28
  A locksmith license not renewed within three years following its expiration may not be renewed thereafter. Renewal of the license within three years, or issuance...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.29
  A suspended locksmith license is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article, but renewal of the license does not entitle...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.30
  A locksmith whose license has been canceled pursuant to this article, may obtain a new license only upon compliance with all of the provisions of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.31
  No license issued pursuant to this chapter shall be transferred to another person.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.32
  Every licensee shall notify the bureau, in writing, within 30 days, of any change of residence or business address.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.33
  A licensee, or a partner or officer of a licensee, shall carry a valid pocket identification card, issued by the bureau pursuant to Section 6980.23,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.34
  (a) Every application for a locksmith license in which the person applying desires to have the license issued under a fictitious business name shall include...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.35
  A licensee desiring to operate a locksmith business at a location other than the principal place of business as shown on the license shall apply...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.37
  A licensee who maintains or proposes to maintain a branch office as defined in this article, shall apply and qualify for a branch office registration.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.38
  An application for a branch office registration under this article shall be on a form prescribed by the director and shall be accompanied by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.39
  An application for a branch office registration shall include: (a) The full name and address of, and the telephone number at, the principal licensed location,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.40
  Upon receipt of the application for a branch office registration, the chief shall issue a "Branch Office Registration." The registration shall be posted in a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.41
  Every branch office registration issued under this chapter shall be subject to the same renewal provisions which apply to a license as provided in this
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.42
  (a) Within seven days after commencing employment, any employee of a locksmith who is not currently registered with the bureau and who is performing the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.43
  The application for registration under this article shall be on a form prescribed by the director and shall be accompanied by the fee as prescribed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.44
  The application shall be verified and shall include the following: (a) The full name, residence address, telephone number, and date of birth of the employee....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.45
  The bureau, upon receipt of a criminal offense record or record of a subsequent arrest from the Department of Justice, shall make an immediate determination...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.46
  (a) If the chief determines that an applicant's criminal history contains arrest information for which no disposition appears, the chief shall issue a notice to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.47
  If the director determines that continued employment of an applicant or registrant, in his or her current capacity, may present an undue hazard to public...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.48
  (a) Upon determining that the applicant is qualified for registration pursuant to this chapter, the bureau shall issue a pocket registration card to the employee....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.49
  A licensee shall at all times be responsible for ascertaining that his or her employees subject to registration are currently registered or have made proper...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.50
  (a) All registrations shall be placed on a cyclical renewal and shall expire two years following the date of issuance or assigned renewal date. (b)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.53
  A locksmith licensed by the bureau shall be subject to the provisions of Sections 466.6 and 466.8 of the Penal Code requiring verification of identification...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.54
  (a) A locksmith licensed by the bureau shall be subject to the provisions of Section 466.6 of the Penal Code, and shall be able to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.55
  (a) Any locksmith who knowingly and willfully opens any residence, or commercial establishment for another by any method involving an on-site inspection of a door...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.58
  A licensee shall at all times be responsible for those actions of his or her employees performed in violation of this chapter, when acting within...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.59
  (a) A licensee shall notify the bureau within 30 days of any change of its officers required to be named pursuant to Section 6980.21 and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.60
  No licensee or employee shall conduct business from any location other than the location for which a license or branch office registration was issued.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.61
  No licensee shall conduct a business as an individual, partnership, or corporation, unless the licensee holds a valid license issued to the same individual, partnership,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.62
  (a) Each licensee shall maintain a file or record containing the name, address, commencing date of employment, and position of each employee, and the date...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.63
  Within seven days, each licensee shall verify proof of current and valid registration issued by the bureau for each employee who is subject to registration,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.64
  (a) Every advertisement by a licensee soliciting or advertising business shall contain his or her business name, business address, or business telephone number, and license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.65
  No licensee or person shall aid and abet an unlicensed or nonexempt locksmith in any activity for which a license is required. For purposes of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.68
  No licensee shall willfully or deliberately disregard any building or safety laws of the state or any political subdivision thereof.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.69
  No licensee shall fail in any material respect to complete the installation, repair, opening, or modification of a lock for the price stated in the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.71
  (a) The director may deny a license or registration regulated by this chapter on the grounds that the applicant has done any of the following:...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.72
  (a) When considering the denial, suspension, or revocation of a license or registration for which application has been made under this chapter, the chief, in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.73
  (a) The license or registration of a locksmith shall be automatically suspended if the locksmith is convicted of any crime which is substantially related to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.74
  (a) The bureau may suspend or revoke a license issued pursuant to this chapter for acts including, but not limited to, any of the following...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.75
  A record of conviction, or a certified copy thereof, shall be conclusive evidence of conviction.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.76
  The proceedings of the bureau to deny a license application, or to revoke or suspend a license, shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 5...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.79
  The fees prescribed by this chapter are those fixed in the following schedule: (a) A locksmith license application fee may not exceed thirty dollars ($30)....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.80
  The initial application fee is considered an earned fee at the time an application for a license is received by the bureau. No refund shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.81
  (a) The bureau shall report each month to the Controller the amount and source of all revenue received pursuant to this chapter and shall pay...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.82
  The director shall furnish one copy of the licensing law and rules and regulations to any applicant or licensee without charge. The director shall charge...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.83
  Application or licensee fees shall not be refunded except in accordance with Section 158.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 6980.84
  (a) There shall be a separate budget and expenditure statement, and a separate revenue statement, outlining all moneys derived from, and expended for, the licensing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7000
  This chapter constitutes, and may be cited as, the Contractors' State License Law.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7000.2
  Nothing in this code shall be interpreted to prohibit cities, counties, and cities and counties from requiring contractors to show proof that they are in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7000.5
  (a) There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs a Contractors' State License Board, which consists of 15 members. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7000.6
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Contractors' State License Board in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7000.6
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Contractors' State License Board in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7001
  All members of the board, except the public members, shall be contractors actively engaged in the contracting business, have been so engaged for a period...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7002
  (a) One member of the board shall be a general engineering contractor, two members shall be general building contractors, two members shall be specialty contractors,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7003
  Except as otherwise provided, an appointment to fill a vacancy caused by the expiration of the term of office shall be for a term of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7005
  The Governor may remove any member of the board for misconduct, incompetency or neglect of duty.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7006
  The board shall meet at least once each calendar quarter for the purpose of transacting business as may properly come before it. Special meetings of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7007
  Eight members constitute a quorum at a board meeting. Due notice of each meeting and the time and place thereof shall be given each member...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7008
  The board may appoint such committees and make such rules and regulations as are reasonably necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter. Such...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7009
  Any member or committee of the board may administer oaths and may take testimony and proofs concerning all matters within the jurisdiction of the board.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7010
  The board is vested with all functions and duties relating to the administration of this chapter, except those functions and duties vested in the director...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7011
  (a) The board, by and with the approval of the director, shall appoint a registrar of contractors and fix his or her compensation. (b) The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7011.3
  The registrar shall not assess a civil penalty against a licensed contractor who has been assessed a specified civil penalty by the Labor Commissioner under...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7011.4
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 7011, there is in the Contractors' State License Board, a separate enforcement unit which shall rigorously enforce this chapter prohibiting all forms...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7011.5
  Persons employed as investigators of the Special Investigations Unit of the Contractors' State License Board and designated by the Director of Consumer Affairs have the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7011.7
  (a) The registrar shall review and investigate complaints filed in a manner consistent with this chapter and the Budget Act. It is the intent of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7011.8
  (a) Any person who reports to, or causes a complaint to be filed with, the Contractors' State License Board that a person licensed by that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7012
  The registrar, with the approval of the board and the director, may, when funds are available, cooperate in the enforcement of governmental legislation relating to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7013
  The board may in its discretion review and sustain or reverse by a majority vote any action or decision of the registrar. This section shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7013.5
  In all application, citation, or disciplinary proceedings pursuant to this chapter and conducted in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7014
  The board may procure equipment and records necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7015
  The board shall adopt a seal for its own use. The seal shall have the words "Contractors' State License Board, State of California, Department of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7016
  Each member of the board shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7017.3
  The Contractors' State License Board shall report annually to the Legislature, not later than October 1 of each year, the following statistical information for the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7017.5
  By the close of the first business day of each week, the board shall post the following home improvement salesperson registration information on its Web...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7019
  (a) If funding is made available for that purpose, the board may contract with licensed professionals, as appropriate, for the site investigation of consumer complaints....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7020
  The board shall maintain a computerized enforcement tracking system for consumer complaints.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7025
  (a) "Members of the personnel of record" as used in this chapter means every person listed in the records of the registrar as then associated...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7026
  "Contractor," for the purposes of this chapter, is synonymous with "builder" and, within the meaning of this chapter, a contractor is any person who undertakes...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7026.1
  The term "contractor" includes all of the following: (a) Any person not exempt under Section 7053 who maintains or services air-conditioning, heating, or refrigeration equipment...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7026.2
  (a) For the purposes of this chapter, "contractor" includes any person engaged in the business of the construction, installation, alteration, repair, or preparation for moving...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7026.3
  For the purpose of this chapter, "contractor" includes any person who installs or contracts for the installation of carpet wherein the carpet is attached to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7026.11
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the permissible scope of work for the General Manufactured Housing Contractor (C-47) license classification set forth in Section 832.47...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7026.12
  The installation of a fire protection system, excluding an electrical alarm system, shall be performed only by a contractor holding a fire protection contractor classification...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7027
  Any person who advertises or puts out any sign or card or other device that would indicate to the public that he or she is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7027.1
  (a) It is a misdemeanor for any person to advertise for construction or work of improvement covered by this chapter unless that person holds a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7027.2
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, any person not licensed pursuant to this chapter may advertise for construction work or work of improvement covered...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7027.3
  Any person, licensed or unlicensed, who willfully and intentionally uses, with intent to defraud, a contractor's license number that does not correspond to the number...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7027.4
  (a) It is a cause for discipline for any contractor to advertise that he or she is "insured" or has insurance without identifying in the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7027.5
  (a) A landscape contractor working within the classification for which the license is issued may design systems or facilities for work to be performed and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7028
  (a) It is a misdemeanor for a person to engage in the business or act in the capacity of a contractor within this state without...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7028.1
  It is a misdemeanor for any contractor, whether licensed or unlicensed, to perform or engage in asbestos-related work, as defined in Section 6501.8 of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7028.2
  A criminal complaint pursuant to this chapter may be brought by the Attorney General or by the district attorney or prosecuting attorney of any city,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7028.3
  In addition to all other remedies, when it appears to the registrar, either upon complaint or otherwise, that a licensee has engaged in, or is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7028.4
  In addition to the remedies set forth in Section 7028.3, on proper showing by (1) a licensed contractor, or an association of contractors, (2) a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7028.5
  It is unlawful for a person who is or has been a partner, officer, director, manager, responsible managing employee, responsible managing member, responsible managing manager,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7028.6
  The Registrar of Contractors is hereby empowered to issue citations containing orders of abatement and civil penalties against persons acting in the capacity of or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7028.7
  (a) If upon inspection or investigation, either upon complaint or otherwise, the registrar has probable cause to believe that a person is acting in the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7028.8
  Service of a citation issued under Section 7028.7 may be made by certified mail at the last known business address or residence address of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7028.9
  A citation under Section 7028.7 shall be issued by the registrar within four years after the act or omission that is the basis for the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7028.10
  Any person served with a citation under Section 7028.7 may appeal to the registrar within 15 working days after service of the citation with respect...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7028.11
  If within 15 working days after service of the citation, the person cited fails to notify the registrar that he or she intends to appeal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7028.12
  If the person cited under Section 7028.7 timely notifies the registrar that he or she intends to contest the citation, the registrar shall afford an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7028.13
  (a) After the exhaustion of the review procedures provided for in Sections 7028.10 to 7028.12, inclusive, the registrar may apply to the appropriate superior court...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7028.14
  Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, the registrar may waive part of the civil penalty if the person against whom the civil penalty is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7028.15
  (a) It is a misdemeanor for any person to submit a bid to a public agency in order to engage in the business or act...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7028.16
  A person who engages in the business or acts in the capacity of a contractor, without having a license therefor, in connection with the offer...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7028.17
  (a) The failure of an unlicensed individual to comply with a citation after it is final is a misdemeanor. (b) Notwithstanding Section 1462.5 or 1463...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7029
  A joint venture license is a license issued to any combination of individuals, corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, or other joint ventures, each of which...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7029.1
  (a) Except as provided in this section, it is unlawful for any two or more licensees, each of whom has been issued a license to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7029.5
  Every C-36 plumbing contractor, C-45 sign contractor, and C-57 well-drilling contractor licensed under this chapter shall have displayed on each side of each motor vehicle...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7029.6
  Except for contractors identified in Section 7029.5, every contractor licensed under this chapter shall have displayed, in or on each motor vehicle used in his...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7030
  (a) Except for contractors writing home improvement contracts pursuant to Section 7151.2 and contractors writing service and repair contracts pursuant to Section 7159.10, every person...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7030.1
  (a) A contractor, who has his or her license suspended or revoked two or more times within an eight-year period, shall disclose either in capital...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7030.5
  Every person licensed pursuant to this chapter shall include his license number in: (a) all construction contracts; (b) subcontracts and calls for bid; and (c)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7031
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (e), no person engaged in the business or acting in the capacity of a contractor, may bring or maintain...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7031.5
  Each county or city which requires the issuance of a permit as a condition precedent to the construction, alteration, improvement, demolition or repair of any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7032
  Nothing in this chapter shall limit the power of a city or county to regulate the quality and character of installations made by contractors through...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7033
  Every city or city and county which requires the issuance of a business license as a condition precedent to engaging, within the city or city...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7034
  (a) No contractor who is required to be licensed under this chapter shall insert in any contract, or be a party, with a subcontractor who...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7034
  (a) No contractor that is required to be licensed under this chapter shall insert in any contract, or be a party, with a subcontractor that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7040
  (a) This chapter does not apply to an authorized representative of the United States government, the State of California, or any incorporated town, city, county,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7041
  This chapter does not apply to officers of a court when they are acting within the scope of their office.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7042
  This chapter does not apply to public utilities operating under the regulation of the State Railroad Commission on construction, maintenance and development work incidental to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7042.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, gas, heat, or electrical corporations and their subsidiaries that are regulated as public utilities by the Public...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7042.5
  This chapter does not apply to public utilities operating under the regulation of the Public Utilities Commission on construction, maintenance, and development work incidental to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7043
  This chapter does not apply to any construction, repair or operation incidental to the discovering or producing of petroleum or gas, or the drilling, testing,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7044
  (a) This chapter does not apply to any of the following: (1) An owner who builds or improves a structure on his or her property,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7044.01
  In addition to all other remedies, any licensed contractor or association of contractors, labor organization, consumer affected by the violation, district attorney, or the Attorney...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7044.1
  This chapter does not apply to a real estate licensee acting within the course and scope of his or her license pursuant to the Real...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7044.2
  This chapter does not apply to an admitted surety insurer whenever that surety insurer engages a contractor to undertake the completion of a contract on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7045
  This chapter does not apply to the sale or installation of any finished products, materials, or articles of merchandise that do not become a fixed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7046
  This chapter does not apply to any construction, alteration, improvement, or repair of personal property. The term "personal property" shall not include mobilehomes or mobilehome...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7048
  This chapter does not apply to any work or operation on one undertaking or project by one or more contracts, the aggregate contract price which...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7049
  This chapter does not apply to any construction or operation incidental to the construction and repair of irrigation and drainage ditches of regularly constituted irrigation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7051
  This chapter does not apply to a licensed architect or a registered civil or professional engineer acting solely in his or her professional capacity or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7052
  This chapter does not apply to any person who only furnishes materials or supplies without fabricating them into, or consuming them in the performance of,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7053
  Except as provided in Article 10 (commencing with Section 7150), this chapter does not apply to any person who engages in the activities herein regulated...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7054
  This chapter does not apply to any person who performs work in the installation, maintenance, monitoring, selling, alteration, or servicing of alarm systems, as defined...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7054.5
  The licensing provisions of this chapter do not apply to any person registered under Chapter 20 (commencing with Section 9800) if that person's activities consist...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7055
  For the purpose of classification, the contracting business includes any or all of the following branches: (a) General engineering contracting. (b) General building contracting. (c)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7056
  A general engineering contractor is a contractor whose principal contracting business is in connection with fixed works requiring specialized engineering knowledge and skill, including the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7057
  (a) Except as provided in this section, a general building contractor is a contractor whose principal contracting business is in connection with any structure built,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7058
  (a) A specialty contractor is a contractor whose operations involve the performance of construction work requiring special skill and whose principal contracting business involves the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7058.5
  (a) No contractor shall engage in asbestos-related work, as defined in Section 6501.8 of the Labor Code, that involves 100 square feet or more of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7058.6
  (a) The board shall not issue an asbestos certification, as required by Section 7058.5, unless the contractor is registered with the Division of Occupational Safety...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7058.7
  (a) No contractor may engage in a removal or remedial action, as defined in subdivision (d), unless the qualifier for the license has passed an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7058.8
  The board shall make available to the public upon request information about contracting for the removal or encapsulation of asbestos-containing materials in a building including...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7059
  (a) The board may adopt reasonably necessary rules and regulations to effect the classification of contractors in a manner consistent with established usage and procedure...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7059.1
  (a) A licensee shall not use any business name that indicates the licensee is qualified to perform work in classifications other than those issued for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7065
  (a) Under rules and regulations adopted by the board and approved by the director, the registrar shall investigate, classify, and qualify applicants for contractors' licenses...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7065.01
  Notwithstanding Section 7065, no trade examination shall be required of an applicant for the limited specialty license classification.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7065.05
  The board shall periodically review and, if needed, revise the contents of qualifying examinations to insure that the examination questions are timely and relevant to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7065.1
  Notwithstanding Section 7065, the registrar may waive the examination for a contractor's license under any of the following circumstances: (a) The qualifying individual has, for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7065.2
  Notwithstanding Section 7065, the registrar may waive the examination for a contractor's license if the applicant has previously held a valid contractor's license in this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7065.3
  Notwithstanding Section 7065, upon a conclusive showing by a licensee that he or she possesses experience satisfactory to the registrar in the classification applied for,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7065.4
  The registrar may accept the qualifications of an applicant who is licensed as a contractor in a similar classification in another state if that state...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7065.5
  No license shall be issued to a minor, nor to any partnership a partner of which is a minor, nor to any corporation any officer,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7066
  To obtain an original license, an applicant shall submit to the registrar an application in writing containing the statement that the applicant desires the issuance...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7066.5
  Any person may obtain blank license application forms from the board or may cause to be printed forms used by or approved by the Registrar...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7067.5
  Every applicant for an original license, or for the reactivation of an inactive license, or for the reissuance or reinstatement of a revoked license shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7067.6
  Every application form for an original license, for renewal thereof, for reinstatement or for reissuance, including both active and inactive licenses, shall be signed by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7068
  (a) The board shall require an applicant to show the degree of knowledge and experience in the classification applied for, and the general knowledge of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7068.1
  The person qualifying on behalf of an individual or firm under paragraph (1), (2), (3), or (4) of subdivision (b) of Section 7068 shall be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7068.2
  (a) If the responsible managing officer, responsible managing employee, responsible managing member, or responsible managing manager, disassociates from the licensed entity, the licensee, or the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7068.5
  It is a misdemeanor for any person other than the examinee named in the application to take the qualifying examination on behalf of an applicant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7068.7
  Any person who obtains and provides for another the qualifying examination, or any part thereof, when not authorized to do so, is guilty of a
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7069
  (a) An applicant, and each officer, director, partner, manager, associate, and responsible managing employee thereof, shall not have committed acts or crimes that are grounds...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7069.1
  (a) Upon notification of an arrest of a member of the personnel of a licensee or a home improvement salesperson, the registrar, by first-class mail...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7070
  An applicant shall show that he or she has never been denied a license or had a license revoked for reasons that would preclude the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7071
  No license shall be issued to a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or other combination or organization if a responsible officer or director of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7071.3
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the holder of a current valid license under this chapter who has entered or enters the armed forces...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7071.5
  The contractor's bond required by this article shall be executed by an admitted surety in favor of the State of California, in a form acceptable...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7071.5
  The contractor's bond required by this article shall be executed by an admitted surety in favor of the State of California, in a form acceptable...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7071.6
  (a) The board shall require as a condition precedent to the issuance, reinstatement, reactivation, renewal, or continued maintenance of a license, that the applicant or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7071.7
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the registrar shall accept a bond required by Section 7071.6, 7071.6.5, 7071.8, or 7071.9 as of the effective...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7071.8
  (a) This section applies to an application for a license, for renewal or restoration of a license, an application to change officers or members of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7071.9
  (a) If the qualifying individual, as referred to in Sections 7068 and 7068.1, is neither the proprietor, a general partner, nor a joint licensee, he...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7071.10
  The qualifying individual's bond required by this article shall be executed by an admitted surety insurer in favor of the State of California, in a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7071.10
  The qualifying individual's bond required by this article shall be executed by an admitted surety insurer in favor of the State of California, in a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7071.11
  (a) The aggregate liability of a surety on a claim for wages and fringe benefits brought against a bond required by this article, other than...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7071.12
  (a) Instead of the bond provided by this article a deposit may be given pursuant to Article 7 (commencing with Section 995.710) of Chapter 2...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7071.13
  Any reference by a contractor in his advertising, soliciting, or other presentments to the public to any bond required to be filed pursuant to this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7071.14
  No licensee or applicant for a license under this chapter shall be denied a contractor's license bond solely because of his race, religious creed, color,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7071.15
  If a licensee fails to maintain a sufficient bond required by this article, the license is subject to suspension or revocation pursuant to Section 996.020...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7071.17
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board shall require, as a condition precedent to accepting an application for licensure, renewal, reinstatement, or to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7071.19
  (a) As a condition of the issuance, reinstatement, reactivation, or continued valid use of a license under this chapter, in addition to any bond required...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7071.6.5
  (a) The board shall require, as a condition precedent to the issuance, reissuance, reinstatement, reactivation, renewal, or continued valid use of a limited liability company...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7072
  Following receipt of the application fee and an application furnishing complete information in the manner required by the registrar, and after such examination and investigation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7072.5
  (a) Upon the issuance of a license, a plasticized pocket card of a size, design, and content as may be determined by the registrar shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7073
  (a) The registrar may deny any application for a license or supplemental classification where the applicant has failed to comply with any rule or regulation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7074
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by this section, an application for an original license, for an additional classification or for a change of qualifier shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7075
  The license shall be displayed in the licensee's main office or chief place of business. Satisfactory evidence of the possession of a license and the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7075.1
  (a) No license, regardless of type or classification, shall be transferable to any other person or entity under any circumstances. (b) A license number may...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7076
  (a) An individual license shall be canceled upon the death of a person licensed as an individual. An immediate member of the family of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7076.1
  Upon the voluntary surrender of a license by a licensee, the registrar shall order the license canceled. Cancellation will be effected upon receipt of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7076.2
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the failure of a contractor licensed to do business as a corporation or limited liability company in this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7076.5
  (a) A contractor may inactivate his or her license by submitting a form prescribed by the registrar accompanied by the current active license certificate. When...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7077
  Every original license, except an additional classification issued pursuant to Section 7059, shall be a probationary license until such time as the license is renewed....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7080.5
  When an application has been accepted by the registrar, the name and address of the applicant, every classification for which the applicant has applied, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7081
  Whenever funds are available for the purpose, the registrar shall publish a list of the names and addresses of contractors, registered under this chapter and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7082
  Whenever funds are available for the purpose, the registrar may publish and disseminate to licentiates of the board, and public officials or other persons interested...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7083
  All licensees shall notify the registrar, on a form prescribed by the registrar, in writing within 90 days of any change to information recorded under...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7083.1
  A licensee whose license is expired or suspended, and is renewable under Section 7141, or whose license is canceled, shall notify the registrar in writing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7084
  The registrar, with the approval of the director may adopt and promulgate the rules and regulations he deems necessary to carry out the provisions of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7085
  (a) After investigating any verified complaint alleging a violation of Section 7107, 7109, 7110, 7113, 7119, or 7120, and any complaint arising from a contract...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7085.2
  An arbitrator may render an award and that award shall be deemed to be an order of the registrar.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7085.3
  Once the registrar determines that arbitration pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 7085 would be a suitable means of resolving the dispute, the registrar shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7085.4
  (a) For cases that the registrar determines to refer to arbitration under subdivision (a) of Section 7085, once the complainant and the licensee authorize the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7085.5
  Arbitrations of disputes arising out of cases filed with or by the board shall be conducted in accordance with the following rules: (a) All "agreements...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7085.6
  (a) (1) The failure of a licensee to comply with an arbitration award rendered under this article shall result in the automatic suspension of a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7085.7
  A complainant may enforce an arbitrator's award in accordance with Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 1285) of Title 9 of Part 3 of the Code...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7085.9
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a complaint referred to arbitration pursuant to Section 7085 is not subject to disclosure to the public until such...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7090
  The registrar may upon his or her own motion and shall upon the verified complaint in writing of any person, investigate the actions of any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7090.1
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the failure to pay a civil penalty, or to comply with an order of correction or an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7090.5
  In the event a licensee commits a fraudulent act which is a ground for disciplinary action under Section 7116 of this article, the correction of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7091
  (a) (1) A complaint against a licensee alleging commission of any patent acts or omissions that may be grounds for legal action shall be filed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7095
  The decision may: (a) Provide for the immediate complete suspension by the licensee of all operations as a contractor during the period fixed by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7096
  For the purposes of this chapter, the term "licensee" shall include an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, joint venture, or any combination or organization...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7097
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 7121 and 7122, when any license has been suspended by a decision of the registrar pursuant to an accusation or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7098
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 7121 and 7122, when any license has been revoked under the provisions of this chapter, any additional license issued under...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7099
  If, upon investigation, the registrar has probable cause to believe that a licensee, or an applicant for a license under this chapter, has committed any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7099.1
  The board shall promulgate regulations covering the formulation of an order of correction which gives due consideration to the time required to correct and the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7099.2
  (a) The board shall promulgate regulations covering the assessment of civil penalties under this article that give due consideration to the appropriateness of the penalty...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7099.3
  Any licensee or applicant for licensure served with a citation pursuant to Section 7099, may appeal to the registrar within 15 working days from service...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7099.4
  If within 15 working days from service of the citation issued by the registrar, the licensee or applicant for licensure fails to notify the registrar...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7099.5
  If a licensee or applicant for licensure notifies the registrar that he or she intends to contest a citation issued under Section 7099, the registrar...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7099.6
  (a) The failure of a licensee to comply with a citation after it is final is a ground for suspension or revocation of license. (b)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7099.7
  No order for payment of a civil penalty shall be made against any bond required pursuant to Sections 7071.5 to 7071.8.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7099.10
  (a) If, upon investigation, the registrar has probable cause to believe that a licensee, an applicant for a license, or an unlicensed individual acting in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7099.11
  (a) No person shall advertise, as that term is defined in Section 7027.1, to promote his or her services for the removal of asbestos unless...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7100
  In any proceeding for review by a court, the court may in its discretion, upon the filing of a proper bond by the licensee in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7102
  After suspension of a license upon any of the grounds set forth in this chapter, the registrar may reinstate the license upon proof of compliance...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7103
  The revocation, suspension, or other disciplinary action of a license to act as a contractor by another state shall constitute grounds for disciplinary action in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7104
  When the board resolves a complaint, the board shall notify the complainant in writing of its action and the reasons for taking that action. The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7106
  The suspension or revocation of license as in this chapter provided may also be embraced in any action otherwise proper in any court involving the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7106.5
  The expiration, cancellation, forfeiture, or suspension of a license by operation of law or by order or decision of the registrar or a court of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7107
  Abandonment without legal excuse of any construction project or operation engaged in or undertaken by the licensee as a contractor constitutes a cause for disciplinary
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7108
  Diversion of funds or property received for prosecution or completion of a specific construction project or operation, or for a specified purpose in the prosecution...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7108.5
  (a) A prime contractor or subcontractor shall pay to any subcontractor, not later than seven days after receipt of each progress payment, unless otherwise agreed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7108.6
  A licensed contractor is required to pay all transportation charges submitted by a duly authorized motor carrier of property in dump truck equipment by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7109
  (a) A willful departure in any material respect from accepted trade standards for good and workmanlike construction constitutes a cause for disciplinary action, unless the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7109.5
  Violation of any safety provision in, or authorized by, Division 5 (commencing with Section 6300) of the Labor Code resulting in death or serious injury...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7110
  Willful or deliberate disregard and violation of the building laws of the state, or of any political subdivision thereof, or of Section 8550 or 8556...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7110.1
  The requiring of an execution of release of any claim or the causing of the execution of any such release in violation of Section 206.5...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7110.5
  Upon receipt of a certified copy of the Labor Commissioner' s finding of a willful or deliberate violation of the Labor Code by a licensee,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7111
  (a) Failure to make and keep records showing all contracts, documents, records, receipts, and disbursements by a licensee of all of his or her transactions...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7111.1
  The failure of, or refusal by, a licensee to respond to a written request of the registrar to cooperate in the investigation of a complaint...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7112
  Omission or misrepresentation of a material fact by an applicant or a licensee in obtaining, or renewing a license, or in adding a classification to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7112.1
  Any classification that has been added to an existing license record as a result of an applicant or licensee omitting or misrepresenting a material fact...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7113
  Failure in a material respect on the part of a licensee to complete any construction project or operation for the price stated in the contract...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7113.5
  The avoidance or settlement by a licensee for less than the full amount of the lawful obligations of the licensee incurred as a contractor, whether...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7114
  (a) Aiding or abetting an unlicensed person to evade the provisions of this chapter or combining or conspiring with an unlicensed person, or allowing one's...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7114.1
  Any licensee whose signature appears on a falsified certificate in support of an examinee's experience qualifications, or otherwise certifying to false or misleading experience claims...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7115
  Failure in any material respect to comply with the provisions of this chapter, or any rule or regulation adopted pursuant to this chapter, or to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7116
  The doing of any wilful or fraudulent act by the licensee as a contractor in consequence of which another is substantially injured constitutes a cause...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7116.5
  It is a cause for discipline for a licensee to do any of the following: (a) Engage in any conduct that subverts or attempts to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7117
  Acting in the capacity of a contractor under any license issued hereunder except: (a) in the name of the licensee as set forth upon the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7117.5
  (a) Acting in the capacity of a contractor under any license which has been made inactive, as provided in Section 7076.5, constitutes a cause for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7117.6
  Acting in the capacity of a contractor in a classification other than that currently held by the licensee constitutes a cause for disciplinary action.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7118
  Entering into a contract with a contractor while such contractor is not licensed as provided in this chapter constitutes a cause for disciplinary action.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7118.4
  (a) If a contractor has made an inspection for the purpose of determining the presence of asbestos or the need for related remedial action with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7118.5
  Any contractor, applicant for licensure, or person required to be licensed, who, either knowingly or negligently, or by reason of a failure to inquire, enters...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7118.6
  Any contractor who, either knowingly or negligently, or by reason of a failure to inquire, enters into a contract with another person who is required...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7119
  Wilful failure or refusal without legal excuse on the part of a licensee as a contractor to prosecute a construction project or operation with reasonable...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7120
  Wilful or deliberate failure by any licensee or agent or officer thereof, to pay any moneys, when due for any materials or services rendered in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7121
  A person who has been denied a license for a reason other than failure to document sufficient satisfactory experience for a supplemental classification for an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7121.1
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the disassociation of a partner, officer, director, manager, or associate from the license of a partnership, corporation, limited...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7121.5
  A person who was the qualifying individual on a revoked license, or of a license under suspension, or of a license that was not renewed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7121.6
  (a) An individual who meets all of the following criteria shall not perform any act regulated under this chapter for or on behalf of a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7121.65
  Prior to becoming employed in any capacity by an entity that is subject to licensure under this chapter, an individual who is described in subdivision...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7121.7
  (a) A qualifying individual, officer, partner, or other person named on a license shall not knowingly employ an individual who is described in subdivision (a)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7121.8
  For purposes of this article, "bona fide nonsupervising employee" means a person who is exempt from the provisions of this chapter under Section 7053, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7122
  The performance by an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, firm, or association of an act or omission constituting a cause for disciplinary action, likewise...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7122.1
  Notwithstanding Section 7068.2 or any other provision of this chapter, the disassociation of a qualifying individual from a license after the act or omission has...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7122.2
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 7068.2 or any other provisions of this chapter, the disassociation of a qualifying individual from a license that has been referred to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7122.5
  The performance by an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, firm, or association of an act or omission constituting a cause for disciplinary action, likewise...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7123
  A conviction of a crime substantially related to the qualifications, functions and duties of a contractor constitutes a cause for disciplinary action. The record of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7123.5
  If a contractor is convicted of violating Section 396 of the Penal Code or any substantially similar local ordinance in connection with the sale, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7124
  A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere is deemed to be a conviction within the meaning of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7124.6
  (a) The registrar shall make available to members of the public the date, nature, and status of all complaints on file against a licensee that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7125
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the board shall require as a condition precedent to the issuance, reinstatement, reactivation, renewal, or continued maintenance of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7125
  (a) The board shall require as a condition precedent to the issuance, reinstatement, reactivation, renewal, or continued maintenance of a license, that the applicant or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7125.1
  (a) The registrar shall accept a certificate required by Section 7125 as of the effective date shown on the certificate, if the certificate is received...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7125.2
  The failure of a licensee to obtain or maintain workers' compensation insurance coverage, if required under this chapter, shall result in the automatic suspension of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7125.3
  A contractor shall be considered duly licensed during all periods in which the registrar is required to accept the certificate prescribed by Section 7125, provided...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7125.4
  (a) The filing of the exemption certificate prescribed by this article that is false, or the employment of a person subject to coverage under the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7125.5
  (a) At the time of renewal, all active licensees with an exemption for workers' compensation insurance on file with the board, submitted pursuant to subdivision...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7126
  Any licensee or agent or officer thereof, who violates, or omits to comply with, any of the provisions of this article is guilty of a
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7127
  (a) (1) If an employer subject to licensure under this chapter has failed to secure the payment of compensation as required by Section 3700 of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7135
  (a) The fees and civil penalties received under this chapter shall be deposited in the Contractors' License Fund. All moneys in the fund are hereby...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7135.1
  It is the intent of the Legislature that, each fiscal year the board shall designate, if appropriated in the Budget Act and to the extent...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7136
  The director shall designate a sum not to exceed 10 percent of the total income of the Contractors' State License Board for each fiscal year...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7137
  The board shall set fees by regulation. These fees shall not exceed the following schedule: (a) The application fee for an original license in a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7137.5
  The sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) shall be transferred from the Contractors' License Fund to the Controller for the exclusive use of the California...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7138
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a fee paid in connection with a service or application covered by Section 7137 shall accrue to the Contractors'...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7138.1
  Notwithstanding Section 7137, the board shall fix fees to be collected pursuant to that section in order to generate revenues sufficient to maintain the board's...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7139
  This article shall be known as the Construction Management Education Sponsorship Act of 1991.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7139.1
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) There is a demand and increasing need for construction management education programs and resources...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7139.2
  (a) There is hereby created the Construction Management Education Account (CMEA) as a separate account in the Contractors' License Fund for the purposes of construction...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7139.3
  (a) The board may award grants to qualified public postsecondary educational institutions for the support of courses of study in construction management. (b) Any organization...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7139.4
  Qualified public postsecondary educational institutions shall provide postsecondary construction management programs at the baccalaureate or higher level that either award or provide one of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7139.5
  Grants shall be made pursuant to this article to public postsecondary educational institutions that meet the qualifications specified in Section 7139. 4 in the following...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7139.6
  (a) The grants issued pursuant to Sections 7139.3 and 7139.5 may be used for all of the following: (1) Instructional materials and support, equipment, curriculum...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7139.7
  The board shall report to the Legislature annually on the condition of the grant program and shall include in the report the names of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7139.8
  The president of each public postsecondary educational institution receiving a grant under this article shall submit, with its respective request for a grant each year...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7139.9
  The board may allocate up to fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) per year from the Construction Management Education Account for the administration of this article.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7139.10
  It is the intent of the Legislature that state funding for the grants authorized to be awarded under this section be provided only from the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7140
  All licenses issued under the provisions of this chapter shall expire two years from the last day of the month in which the license is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7141
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a license that has expired may be renewed at any time within five years after its expiration by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7141.5
  The registrar may grant the retroactive renewal of a license if the licensee requests the retroactive renewal in a petition to the registrar, files an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7143
  A license that is suspended for any reason which constitutes a basis for suspension under this chapter, is subject to expiration and shall be renewed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7143.5
  A person who, by reason of the provisions of Section 7141, is not entitled to renew his license, may apply for and obtain a new...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7144
  A revoked license shall be considered as having expired as of the date of revocation and shall not be renewed. To reinstate a revoked license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7145
  The registrar may refuse to renew a license for the failure or refusal by the licensee to complete the renewal application prescribed by the registrar....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7145.5
  (a) The registrar may refuse to issue, reinstate, reactivate, or renew a license or may suspend a license for the failure of a licensee to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7150
  "Person" as used in this article is limited to natural persons, notwithstanding the definition of person in Section 7025.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7150.1
  A home improvement contractor, including a swimming pool contractor, is a contractor as defined and licensed under this chapter who is engaged in the business...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7151
  "Home improvement" means the repairing, remodeling, altering, converting, or modernizing of, or adding to, residential property and shall include, but not be limited to, the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7151.2
  "Home improvement contract" means an agreement, whether oral or written, or contained in one or more documents, between a contractor and an owner or between...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7152
  (a) "Home improvement salesperson" is a person employed by a home improvement contractor licensed under this chapter to solicit, sell, negotiate, or execute contracts for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7153
  (a) It is a misdemeanor for any person to engage in the occupation of salesperson for one or more home improvement contractors within this state...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7153.1
  (a) The home improvement salesperson shall submit to the registrar an application in writing containing the statement that he or she desires the issuance of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7153.2
  All registrations issued under the provisions of this article shall expire on a date established pursuant to Section 152.6.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7153.3
  (a) To renew a registration, the registrant shall before the time at which the registration would otherwise expire, apply for renewal on a form prescribed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7154
  A home improvement contractor who employs a person to sell home improvement contracts while such person is not registered by the registrar as a home...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7155
  Violation of any provision of this chapter by a home improvement salesperson constitutes cause for disciplinary action. The registrar may suspend or revoke the registration...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7155.5
  Violations of any provisions of this chapter by a home improvement salesperson, likewise constitutes a cause for disciplinary action against the contractor, whether or not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7156
  It shall be a misdemeanor and a cause for disciplinary action to commit any of the following acts: (a) For any salesperson to fail to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7157
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), as a part of or in connection with the inducement to enter into any home improvement contract...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7158
  (a) Any person who shall accept or receive a completion certificate or other evidence that performance of a contract for a work of improvement, including...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7159
  (a) (1) This section identifies the projects for which a home improvement contract is required, outlines the contract requirements, and lists the items that shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7159
  (a) (1) This section identifies the projects for which a home improvement contract is required, outlines the contract requirements, and lists the items that shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7159.1
  In any contract for the sale of home improvement goods or services offered by door-to-door sale that contains or is secured by a lien on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7159.1
  (a) In any contract for the sale of home improvement goods or services offered by door-to-door sale that contains or is secured by a lien...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7159.2
  (a) No home improvement goods or services contract of a value of five thousand dollars ($5,000) or less shall provide for a security interest in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7159.5
  This section applies to all home improvement contracts, as defined in Section 7151.2, between an owner or tenant and a contractor, whether a general contractor...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7159.5
  This section applies to all home improvement contracts, as defined in Section 7151.2, between an owner or tenant and a contractor, whether a general contractor...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7159.6
  (a) An extra work or change order is not enforceable against a buyer unless the change order sets forth all of the following: (1) The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7159.9
  (a) Section 7159 does not apply to the sale, installation, and servicing of a fire alarm sold in conjunction with an alarm system, as defined...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7159.10
  (a) (1) "Service and repair contract" means an agreement between a contractor or salesperson for a contractor, whether a general contractor or a specialty contractor,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7159.11
  A violation of any provision of Section 7159.10 by a licensee, or a person subject to be licensed under this chapter, or by his or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7159.14
  (a) This section applies to a service and repair contract as defined in Section 7159.10. A violation of this section by a licensee or a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7159.14
  (a) This section applies to a service and repair contract as defined in Section 7159.10. A violation of this section by a licensee or a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7160
  Any person who is induced to contract for a work of improvement, including but not limited to a home improvement, in reliance on false or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7161
  It is a misdemeanor for any person to engage in any of the following acts, the commission of which shall be cause for disciplinary action...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7162
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any representation by a person licensed pursuant to this chapter with respect to a trademark or brand name,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7163
  (a) No contract for home improvement shall be enforceable against the buyer if the obtaining of a loan for all or a portion of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7164
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 7044, every contract and any changes in a contract, between an owner and a contractor, for the construction of a single-family dwelling...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7164
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 7044, every contract and any changes in a contract, between an owner and a contractor, for the construction of a single-family dwelling...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7165
  The requirements of this section may be substituted for the requirements of paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 7163 if a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7166
  The provisions of Article 10 shall not apply to contracts for the construction of swimming pools to be built for the use and enjoyment of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7167
  (a) Any contract, the primary purpose of which is the construction of a swimming pool, that does not substantially comply with paragraph (4) or (5)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7168
  In any action between a person contracting for construction of a swimming pool and a swimming pool contractor arising out of a contract for swimming...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7180
  (a) No person shall, on or after July 1, 1992, engage in the practice of an asbestos consultant as defined in Section 7181, or as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7180.5
  When a building owner or operator engages the services of a person to perform asbestos consulting or site surveillance technician activities as defined in Sections...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7181
  An "asbestos consultant," as used in this chapter, means any person who contracts to provide professional health and safety services relating to asbestos-containing material, as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7182
  A "site surveillance technician" means any person who acts as an independent onsite representative of an asbestos consultant who monitors the asbestos abatement activities of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7183
  (a) Within 15 days of receipt of an application for certification pursuant to this article, the division shall inform the applicant in writing either (1)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7183.5
  The division shall enforce this article. In the event the division determines that a certified asbestos consultant or site surveillance technician obtained certification under false...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7184
  A person shall qualify as a certified asbestos consultant by meeting all of the following requirements: (a) Having any one of the following: (1) One...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7185
  A person shall qualify as a certified site surveillance technician by meeting all of the following requirements: (a) Having six months of asbestos-related experience under...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7187
  When a building owner or operator contracts with an asbestos consultant or site surveillance technician for performance of the activities described in Sections 7181 and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7189
  Any person who engages in the practices of an asbestos consultant or a site surveillance technician, who is not certified pursuant to this article, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7189.5
  This article shall apply to asbestos abatement projects within the meaning of asbestos-related work as defined in Section 6501.8 of the Labor Code, and which...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7189.7
  (a) Nothing in this article shall be construed to require agencies of the state to contract with asbestos consultants or site surveillance technicians who are...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7190
  (a) The name or position of a public official may not be used in an advertisement or any promotional material by a person licensed under...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7191
  (a) If a contract for work on residential property with four or fewer units contains a provision for arbitration of a dispute between the principals...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7195
  For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) (1) "Home inspection" is a noninvasive, physical examination, performed for a fee in connection with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7196
  It is the duty of a home inspector who is not licensed as a general contractor, structural pest control operator, or architect, or registered as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7196.1
  (a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to allow home inspectors who are not registered engineers to perform any analysis of the systems, components,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7197
  (a) It is an unfair business practice for a home inspector, a company that employs the inspector, or a company that is controlled by a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7198
  Contractual provisions that purport to waive the duty owed pursuant to Section 7196, or limit the liability of the home inspector to the cost of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7199
  The time for commencement of a legal action for breach of duty arising from a home inspection report shall not exceed four years from the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7199.5
  (a) All home inspections, including those defined in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 7195, may, if requested by the client, be accompanied by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7199.7
  It is the intent of the Legislature that a Home Energy Rating System (HERS) California home energy audit may, at the request of the client,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7200
  (a) There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs a State Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind in whom enforcement of this chapter is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7200.1
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the State Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7200.5
  The board shall have exclusive authority in this state to issue licenses for the instruction of blind persons in the use of guide dogs and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7200.7
  A fee equal to no more than 0.005 of all school expenses incurred in the most recently concluded school calendar year, as specified in the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7201
  No person shall be eligible to membership in the board who is a stockholder in, or an owner of, or financially interested directly or indirectly,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7202
  Each of the appointed members of the board shall hold office for a term of four years and until his successor is appointed and qualified...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7203
  The board shall organize and elect from its membership a president and vice president and secretary who shall hold office for one year or until...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7204
  The executive officer shall keep all the records of the board and discharge such other duties as the board shall, from time to time, prescribe.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7205
  Each member of the board, except the Director of Rehabilitation or his or her designated representative, shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7206
  The board shall hold regular meetings at least once a year at which an examination of applicants for certificates of registration shall be given. Special...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7207
  The board shall keep an accurate record of all its proceedings and of all its meetings.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7208
  Pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act the board may make such rules and regulations as are reasonably necessary to: (a) Govern the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7209
  A person to be eligible for examination as an instructor must (1) have a knowledge of the special problems of the blind and how to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7209.5
  Except as the context otherwise requires, as used in this chapter the term "instructor" means a person who instructs blind persons in the use of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7210
  It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, offer for sale, give, hire or furnish under any other arrangement, any guide dog or seeing-eye...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7210.5
  It is unlawful to solicit funds for any person purporting to provide guide dogs for the blind in this state unless the person for whose...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7210.6
  A person desiring to establish a licensed guide dog school in this state, whose plan of operation has been approved by the State Board of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7210.7
  Schools and instructors licensed by the board may provide home training in the use of guide dogs. Schools and instructors providing home training in the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7211
  (a) Each applicant for an instructor's license shall file an application with the board at least 10 days before the date fixed for examination, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7211.1
  (a) As a condition of renewal of an instructor's license, the instructor shall provide proof of completion of not less than 8 hours of continuing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7211.2
  A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere is deemed to be a conviction within the meaning of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7211.9
  The board may suspend or revoke a license issued under this chapter if it determines that the licensee or its manager or responsible directing officer...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7212
  The proceedings for the revocation or suspension of a license shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 5 of Part 1 of Division 3 of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7213
  Violation of any provision of this chapter is a misdemeanor.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7214
  The license of a school shall be automatically suspended if there is no licensed instructor in charge of the training of guide dogs and in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7215
  No person shall sell, give, or furnish any guide dog to a blind person unless the following requirements have been met: (a) The dog has...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7215.5
  During the first year following the successful training of each person-dog unit, and release from a guide dog training school of the trained person supplied...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7215.6
  (a) In order to provide a procedure for the resolution of disputes between guide dog users and guide dog schools relating to the continued physical...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7216
  The board may refuse to issue a license to a school or instructor if the applicant, if an individual, or any officer or partner, if...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7217
  (a) Within 60 days after the end of a calendar year or after the termination of the fiscal year of a school, there shall be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7301
  This chapter constitutes the chapter on hair, skin, nail care, and electrolysis and may be known and cited as the Barbering and Cosmetology Act.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7302
  The following definitions shall apply for purposes of this chapter: (a) "Department" means the Department of Consumer Affairs. (b) "Director" means the Director of Consumer...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7303
  (a) Notwithstanding Article 8 (commencing with Section 9148) of Chapter 1.5 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 2 of the Government Code, there...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7303.1
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Board of Barbering and Cosmetology in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7303.2
  The board shall conduct the following studies and reviews, and shall report its findings and recommendations to the department and the Joint Committee on Boards,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7304
  The board shall be subject to review pursuant to Division 1.2 (commencing with Section 473).
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7305
  The board shall elect officers annually from among its members, each of whom shall hold office for a term of one year. An officer shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7308
  (a) The board shall study the effects of current law, regulations, and policy related to the licensing functions of the board that may create unnecessary...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7309
  The board shall establish a principal office, and may establish branch offices and examination facilities in the state as may be deemed necessary for the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7311
  The board shall adopt and use a common seal for the authentication of the board's records.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7312
  The board shall do all of the following: (a) Make rules and regulations in aid or furtherance of this chapter in accordance with the Administrative...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7313
  (a) (1) To ensure compliance with the laws and regulations of this chapter, the board's executive officer and authorized representatives shall, except as provided by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7314
  The board shall keep a record of its proceedings relating to its public meetings, meetings of committees, and records relating to the issuance, refusal, renewal,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7315
  A majority of the board may, in any meeting properly noticed in accordance with the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, exercise all the duties and powers...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7316
  (a) The practice of barbering is all or any combination of the following practices: (1) Shaving or trimming the beard or cutting the hair. (2)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7317
  Except as provided in this article, it is unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to engage in barbering, cosmetology, or electrolysis for compensation without...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7318
  This chapter does not prohibit the administration of any practice subject to this chapter outside of a licensed establishment, when necessary due to the illness...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7319
  The following persons are exempt from this chapter: (a) All persons authorized by the laws of this state to practice medicine, surgery, dentistry, pharmacy, osteopathic...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7319.5
  Students engaged in performing services on the public while enrolled in a school approved by the board shall not be required to be licensed under...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7320
  This chapter confers no authority to practice medicine or surgery.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7320.1
  When providing a manicure or pedicure, no metal instruments shall be used except those metal instruments necessary for the cutting, trimming, manicuring, or pedicuring of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7320.2
  Any licensee who uses an X-ray appliance, apparatus or machine in the treatment of any human being or for the purpose of or with the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7320.3
  Persons who are not licensed to perform all of the practices of a cosmetologist may not represent themselves as a cosmetologist.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7320.4
  Persons who are not licensed as barbers in this state may not represent themselves as barbers.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7320.5
  Any licensee who uses a laser in the treatment of any human being is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7321
  The board shall admit to examination for a license as a cosmetologist to practice cosmetology any person who has made application to the board in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7321.5
  The board shall admit to examination for a license as a barber to practice barbering, any person who has made application to the board in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7324
  The board shall admit to examination for a license as an esthetician to practice skin care, any person who has made application to the board...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7326
  The board shall admit to examination for a license as a manicurist to practice nail care, any person who has made application to the board...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7330
  The board shall admit to examination for a license as an electrologist to practice electrolysis, any person who has made application to the board in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7331
  The board shall grant a license to practice to an applicant if the applicant submits all of the following to the board: (a) A completed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7332
  An apprentice is any person who is licensed by the board to engage in learning or acquiring a knowledge of barbering, cosmetology, skin care, nail...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7333
  The apprentice training program shall be conducted in compliance with the Shelley-Maloney Apprentice Labor Standards Act of 1939, Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 3070) of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7334
  (a) The board may license as an apprentice in barbering, cosmetology, skin care, or nail care any person who has made application to the board...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7335
  (a) The license of an apprentice shall expire two years from the date the license was issued, or on the date the apprentice is issued...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7336
  An apprentice may do any or all of the acts for which he or she is licensed only in the licensed establishment and under the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7337
  Every application for admission to examination and licensure shall be in writing, on forms prepared and furnished by the board. Each application shall be accompanied...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7337.5
  (a) The board shall adopt regulations providing for the submittal of applications for admission to examination of students of approved cosmetology, electrology, or barbering schools...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7338
  The examination of applicants for a license shall include both a practical demonstration and a written test and shall embrace the subjects typically taught in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7340
  All examinations shall be prepared by or under the direction of the board. The board shall establish standards and procedures governing administration and grading and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7341
  The board shall mail or deliver to every person failing any examination provided for in this chapter the total grade received on the examination. An...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7342
  Licenses in the practice of the occupation for which the license was sought shall be issued by the board to any applicant who satisfactorily passes...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7344
  The board may contract or otherwise arrange for reasonably required physical accommodations and facilities to conduct examinations.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7345
  If an applicant fails to complete his or her application within one year after it has been filed, or fails to take the examination within...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7346
  (a) For purposes of this chapter, "establishment" means any premises, building or part of a building where any activity licensed under this chapter is practiced....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7347
  Any person, firm, or corporation desiring to operate an establishment shall make an application to the bureau for a license accompanied by the fee prescribed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7348
  An establishment shall at all times be in the charge of a person licensed pursuant to this chapter except an apprentice.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7349
  It is unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to hire, employ, or allow to be employed, or permit to work, in or about an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7349.1
  It is an unfair business practice for any person, firm, or corporation who engages in a practice regulated under this chapter to use the traditional...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7350
  No person having charge of an establishment, whether as an owner or an employee, shall permit any room or part thereof in which any occupation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7351
  Every establishment shall provide at least one public toilet room located on or near the premises for its patrons. Any toilet room installed on or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7352
  Every establishment shall provide adequate and convenient handwashing facilities, including running water, soap, and towels or air hand dryers.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7353
  (a) (1) Within 90 days after issuance of the establishment license, the board or its agents or assistants shall inspect the establishment for compliance with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7354
  For purposes of this article, "mobile unit" means any self-contained, self-supporting, enclosed mobile unit which is at least 24 feet in length which is licensed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7355
  (a) Any person, firm, or corporation desiring to operate a mobile unit shall make an application to the board for a license containing the information...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7356
  An application to transfer ownership or control of an existing licensed mobile unit shall be filed by the purchaser or lessor with the board within...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7357
  (a) Mobile units shall comply with regulations adopted by the board that assure that the unit shall be kept clean, in good repair, and in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7358
  A mobile unit shall at all times be in the charge of a person licensed pursuant to this chapter except an apprentice.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7359
  It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to hire, employ, allow to be employed, or permit to work, in or about a mobile...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7360
  No person having charge of a mobile unit, whether as an owner or an employee, shall permit any room, or part thereof, in which any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7361
  All laws governing establishments under this chapter, except Article 6 (commencing with Section 7346), apply to mobile units, unless otherwise provided.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7362
  (a) A school approved by the board is one which is licensed by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education, or a public school...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7362.1
  A school of cosmetology approved by the board shall also meet all of the following: (a) Possess the equipment and floor space necessary for comprehensive...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7362.2
  A school of barbering approved by the board shall also do all of the following: (a) Possess the equipment and floor space necessary for comprehensive...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7362.3
  A school of electrology approved by the board shall also do all of the following: (a) Possess the equipment and floor space necessary for comprehensive...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7362.5
  (a) A course in barbering established by a school shall consist of not less than 1,500 hours of practical training and technical instruction in the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7364
  A skin care course established by a school shall consist of not less than 600 hours of practical training and technical instruction in accordance with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7365
  A nail care course established by a school shall consist of not less than 350 hours of practical training and technical instruction in accordance with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7366
  An electrolysis course established by a school shall consist of not less than 600 hours of practical training and technical instruction in accordance with a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7367
  For students who change from one program of instruction to another, the board shall grant credit for training obtained in one course that is identical...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7368
  No school shall advertise barbering, cosmetology or electrolysis services to the public through any medium unless those services are expressly designated as student work.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7389
  The board shall develop or adopt a health and safety course on hazardous substances which shall be taught in schools approved by the board. Course...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7389.5
  A course of training in barbering or cosmetology established by federal or state correctional institutions in California may qualify a person thereby trained to take...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7395.1
  (a) A student who is enrolled in a school of cosmetology approved by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education in a course approved...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7396
  The form and content of a license issued by the board shall be determined in accordance with Section 164. The license shall prominently state that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7396.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board may, in its sole discretion, issue a probationary license to an applicant subject to terms and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7397
  Every licensee shall display the license in a conspicuous place in his or her place of business or place of employment.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7398
  A duplicate license shall be issued upon the filing of a statement explaining the loss, verified by the oath of the applicant, and accompanied by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7399
  Under no circumstances shall a temporary license be issued.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7400
  Every licensee of the board, except establishments shall, within 30 days after a change of address, notify the board of the new address, and, upon...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7401
  (a) An individual licensed pursuant to Section 7396 shall report to the board at the time of license renewal, his or her practice status, designated...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7402
  Any person, firm, association or corporation violating this chapter, for which violation there is no specific penalty otherwise provided, is guilty of a misdemeanor and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7403
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board may revoke, suspend, or deny at any time any license required by this chapter on any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7403.2
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the executive officer or his or her designee, pursuant to an inspection of an establishment where health and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7403.5
  (a) In addition to the authority provided by Sections 494 and 7403, the executive officer, in his or her discretion, may upon written notice immediately...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7404
  The grounds for disciplinary action are as follows: (a) Unprofessional conduct which includes, but is not limited to, any of the following: (1) Incompetence or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7404.1
  Any person, firm, association, or corporation violating this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor unless a specific penalty is otherwise provided.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7405
  A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere is deemed to be a conviction within the meaning of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7406
  In addition to the authority to conduct disciplinary proceedings under this chapter, the board, through its duly authorized representatives, shall have authority to assess administrative...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7407
  The board shall establish by regulation a schedule of administrative fines for violations of this chapter. All moneys collected under this section shall be deposited...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7408
  The board, through its duly authorized representatives, shall issue a citation with respect to any violation for which an administrative fine may be assessed. Each...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7409
  Any licensee served with a citation may avoid the payment of the associated administrative fine by presentation of written proof satisfactory to the board, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7410
  Persons to whom a notice of violation or a citation is issued and an administrative fine assessed may appeal the citation to a disciplinary review...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7411
  Persons receiving a decision from a disciplinary review committee may appeal the decision by filing a written request, within 30 days after receipt of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7413
  Appeals of citations not filed in a timely manner or failure of the appellant or the appellant's representative to appear before the disciplinary review committee...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7414
  Persons who fail to pay administrative fines that were not contested or were contested but the appeal has been adjudicated, shall not be issued a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7414.1
  All records required by law to be kept by tanning facilities subject to the Filante Tanning Facility Act of 1988 (Chapter 23 (commencing with Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7414.2
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a violation of the Filante Tanning Facility Act of 1988 (Chapter 23 (commencing with Section 22700) of Division...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7414.3
  (a) Any representative of the board designated by the director shall have the authority to issue a written notice to appear in court pursuant to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7414.4
  The board, and its authorized representatives, may disseminate information to tanning facilities regarding compliance with the Filante Tanning Facility Act of 1988.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7414.5
  This article shall be applicable only to those tanning facilities operated in conjunction with, or at the same location as, an establishment licensed under this
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7414.6
  The board may adopt regulations concerning the operation of tanning facilities in licensed establishments.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7415
  Licenses issued under this chapter, unless specifically excepted, shall be issued for a two-year period and shall expire at midnight on the last day of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7417
  Except as otherwise provided in this article, a license that has expired for failure of the licensee to renew within the time fixed by this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7418
  Except as otherwise provided in this article, a license which has not been renewed within five years following its expiration shall be deemed canceled and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7419
  A suspended license is subject to expiration and shall be renewed by the licensee as provided in this article, but that renewal does not entitle...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7420
  A revoked license is subject to expiration as provided in this article, but may not be renewed. If it is reinstated pursuant to the Administrative...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7421
  The fees shall be set by the board, within the limits set forth in this article, in amounts necessary to cover the expenses of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7422
  All fees collected on behalf of the board and all receipts of every kind and nature, shall be reported to the Controller at the beginning...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7423
  The amounts of the fees required by this chapter relating to licenses for individual practitioners are as follows: (a) (1) Cosmetologist application and examination fee...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7424
  The amounts of the fees payable under this chapter relating to licenses to operate an establishment are as follows: (a) The application and initial license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7425
  The amounts of the fees payable under this chapter relating to licenses to operate a mobile unit are as follows: (a) The application fee shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7426
  The fee for a duplicate license as provided for in Section 7398 shall be ten dollars ($10).
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7426.5
  The board may, by regulation, divide the fees payable under this chapter relating to licenses into separate categories based upon processing functions, such as application...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7500
  This chapter of the Business and Professions Code constitutes the chapter on repossessors. It may be cited as the "Collateral Recovery Act."
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7500.1
  The following terms as used in this chapter have the meaning expressed in this section: (a) "Advertisement" means any written or printed communication, including a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7500.2
  A repossession agency means and includes any person who, for any consideration whatsoever, engages in business or accepts employment to locate or recover collateral, whether...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7500.3
  A repossession agency shall not include any of the following: (a) Any bank subject to the jurisdiction of the Commissioner of Financial Institutions of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7501
  There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs a Bureau of Security and Investigative Services. The bureau is under the supervision and control of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7501.05
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7501.1
  The Governor shall appoint a chief of the bureau at a salary to be fixed in accordance with Section 12080.3 of the Government Code. The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7501.2
  Every power and duty granted to or imposed upon the director under this chapter may be delegated to the chief, except that the director may...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7501.3
  The director, in accordance with the State Civil Service Act, and Section 159.5, may appoint and fix the compensation of such clerical, inspection, investigation, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7501.4
  The chief shall gather evidence of violations of this chapter and of any rule or regulation established pursuant to this chapter by persons engaged in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7501.5
  It shall be the duty of the chief to initiate and conduct investigations into the business and affairs of licensees on the chief's own motion.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7501.6
  The director may establish and enforce such rules and regulations as may be reasonable and necessary for the examination and licensing of applicants, for the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7501.7
  If, upon investigation, the director determines that a licensee, a qualified certificate holder, or a registrant is in violation of Section 7508.1, 7508.2, 7508.3, 7508.4,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7501.8
  (a) When considering the denial of a license, registration, or certificate under Section 7503.5, for which application has been made under this chapter, the director,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7502
  No person shall engage within this state in the activities of a repossession agency as defined in Section 7500.2 unless the person holds a valid...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7502.1
  (a) Any person who violates any provision of this chapter, or who conspires with another person to violate any provision of this chapter, or who...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7502.2
  (a) Any financial institution that knowingly engages a nonexempt unlicensed person to repossess collateral on its behalf is guilty of a misdemeanor, and is punishable...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7502.3
  Any person who knowingly falsifies the fingerprints or photographs required by any provision of this chapter is guilty of a felony.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7502.4
  In addition to the remedy provided for in Section 125.5, the superior court for the county in which any licensee licensed under this chapter has...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7502.5
  The provisions of this chapter do not prevent the local authorities in any city, county, or city and county, by ordinance and within the exercise...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7502.6
  (a) The superior court in and for the county wherein any person carries on, or attempts to carry on, business as a repossession agency without...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7503
  An application for a repossession agency license shall be made in writing to, and filed with, the bureau in the form that may be required...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7503.1
  (a) Each individual applicant for examination and each manager, partner of a partnership, and officer of a corporation shall submit with the application, one personal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7503.2
  If the applicant for license is an individual, the application shall state the full residence address of the applicant and that the applicant is to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7503.3
  If the applicants for license are copartners, the application shall state the true names and addresses of all partners and the name of the partner...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7503.4
  (a) If the applicant for a license is a corporation, the application shall state the true names and complete residence addresses of all officers. The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7503.5
  If the director determines that the applicant, if an individual, or if the applicant is a person other than an individual, that its manager and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7503.6
  No license may be issued to any applicant pending final disposition of any disciplinary action by the director previously filed against the person or applicant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7503.7
  The form and content of the license shall be determined by the director in accordance with Section 164.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7503.8
  Each repossession agency license or duplicate license, together with current renewal license, if any, shall at all times be conspicuously displayed at the place of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7503.9
  (a) Except as provided in this section, a repossession agency license issued under this chapter is not assignable. (b) A repossession agency may apply to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7503.10
  (a) An original repossession agency license shall expire one year following the date of issuance, unless renewed as provided in this chapter. (b) A renewal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7503.11
  An expired license may be reinstated within one year of the date of expiration upon compliance with the provisions of this chapter, application by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7503.12
  A suspended repossession agency license is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article, but renewal of the license does not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7503.13
  A revoked repossession agency license is subject to expiration as provided in this article, but it may not be renewed. If it is reinstated after...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7503.14
  A repossession agency license which is not renewed within three years after its expiration may not be renewed, restored, reinstated, or reissued thereafter. The holder...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7504
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, an applicant for a qualification certificate shall comply with all of the following: (1) Be at least...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7504.1
  The director may refuse to issue a qualification certificate, or may suspend or revoke a previously issued qualification certificate, if the individual has committed any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7504.2
  Examinations and reexaminations shall be given at least once every other month at such places and on such specific dates as the chief may from...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7504.3
  In order to be eligible for an initial examination, an applicant shall have completed and filed his or her application together with the application fee...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7504.4
  If an applicant fails to pass an initial examination, he or she shall not be eligible for any subsequent examination except upon payment of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7504.5
  All applicants shall be examined concerning their competency, experience, and qualifications by the chief and the chief may take testimony of anyone in regard thereto...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7504.6
  If an applicant fails to complete his or her application within one year after it has been filed, or fails to take the examination within...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7504.7
  (a) Except as provided in this section, every qualification certificate issued or renewed under this chapter on or after July 1, 1998, is subject to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7504.8
  A person may work as a qualified certificate holder pending receipt of the qualification certificate if he or she has been approved by the bureau...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7505
  A licensee desiring to operate a repossession business at a location other than the address shown on his or her license shall apply and qualify...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7505.1
  Every office licensed as a repossession agency shall be under the active charge of a qualified certificate holder. Nothing in this chapter prohibits a licensee...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7505.2
  Nothing in this chapter prohibits the using or taking of personal effects that are connected, adjoined, or affixed to the collateral through an unbroken sequence,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7505.3
  (a) Whenever a qualified certificate holder actively in charge of an office ceases to be in charge, the licensee shall file with the bureau notice,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7505.4
  Except as herein otherwise provided, no person shall be in charge of any licensed office if the person has ever had a license revoked or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7505.5
  The person deemed to be actively in charge of an office shall be the holder of a qualification certificate and the certificate, together with the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7506.3
  Except as otherwise provided in this article, every person entering the employ of, or contracting with, a licensee or multiple licensee after the effective date...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7506.4
  The application for an initial registration or a reregistration under this article shall be on a form prescribed by the director and shall be accompanied...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7506.5
  All information obtained on the application shall be confidential pursuant to the Information Practices Act (Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 1798) of Title 1.8 of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7506.6
  Qualified certificate holders who comply with other provisions of this chapter are not required to register under this article.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7506.7
  Employees of a licensee who are engaged exclusively in stenographic, typing, filing, clerical, in-office skip tracing, or other office activities are not required to register...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7506.8
  (a) The director may refuse to register any applicant if the individual has failed to pay any or all fines assessed pursuant to Section 7501.7...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7506.9
  (a) Upon the issuance of the initial registration, reregistration or renewal, the chief shall issue to the registrant a suitable pocket identification card. At the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7506.10
  (a) Every initial registration shall expire one year following the date of issuance, unless renewed as provided in this section, except for those registrations issued...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7506.11
  (a) Each registration is valid until the registrant ceases performing services for the licensee indicated on the registration card or until the registration expires. (b)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7506.12
  The proceedings under this article shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7506.13
  (a) The licensee shall at all times be responsible for ascertaining that his or her registrants are currently registered or have made proper application for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7506.14
  If the chief determines that continued services by an applicant for registration in his or her current capacity may present undue hazard to public safety,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7507
  A licensee shall notify the bureau within 30 days of any change of its corporate officers or of the addition of any partners. Applications, on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7507.1
  A licensee or a qualified certificate holder shall, within 30 days after such change, notify the bureau of any change of his or her address....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7507.2
  (a) A licensee is responsible for those actions that are performed in violation of this chapter by his or her registrants, including his or her...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7507.3
  A repossession agency shall be required to keep and maintain adequate records of all transactions, including, but not limited to, assignment forms; vehicle report of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7507.4
  A licensed repossession agency or its registrants may make demand for payment in lieu of repossession, if the demand is made pursuant to an assignment...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7507.5
  No charge shall be made for services incurred in connection with the recovery, transportation, and storage of collateral except under terms agreed to by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7507.6
  (a) Within seven days after a violent act has occurred involving a licensee, or any officer, partner, qualified certificate holder, registrant or employee of a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7507.7
  Within seven days after receiving a final civil court judgment filed against the licensee or any officer, partner, qualified certificate holder, or registrant of a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7507.8
  Every advertisement by a licensee, soliciting or advertising business, shall contain the licensee's name, address, and license number as they appear in the records of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7507.9
  Personal effects shall be removed from the collateral, including any personal effect that is mounted but detachable from the collateral by a release mechanism. A...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7507.10
  A licensee shall serve a debtor with a notice of seizure as soon as possible after the recovery of collateral and not later than 48...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7507.11
  Any written report to a client shall be submitted by the licensee, the qualified certificate holder, or a person authorized by one or either of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7507.115
  A licensee shall not appraise the value of any collateral.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7507.12
  With regard to collateral subject to registration under the Vehicle Code, a repossession is complete when the repossessor gains entry to the collateral or when...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7507.13
  (a) A licensed repossession agency is not liable for the act or omission of a legal owner, debtor, lienholder, lessor or lessee, or an agent...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7508
  The director may assess administrative fines against any repossession agency licensee, qualified certificate holder, or registrant for any of the prohibited acts outlined in this
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7508.1
  The director may assess administrative fines for the following prohibited acts: (a) Knowingly making any false report to his or her employer or client for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7508.2
  The director may assess administrative fines for any of the following prohibited acts: (a) Recovering collateral or making any money demand in lieu thereof, including,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7508.3
  A licensee, or any of his or her registrants or employees, or a qualified certificate holder, shall be prohibited from using any false or misleading...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7508.4
  The director may assess administrative fines for any of the following prohibited acts: (a) Conducting business from any location other than that location to which...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7508.5
  The director may assess administrative fines against a repossession agency registrant for the following acts, in addition to fines imposed pursuant to any other section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7508.6
  The director may assess administrative fines against any repossession agency licensee, qualified certificate holder, or registrant for failure to notify the bureau within 30 days...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7510
  Except as otherwise required to comply with the provisions of this chapter, the proceedings under this article shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 5...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7510.1
  In addition to any other remedies authorized by this chapter, the director may suspend or revoke a repossession agency license, a qualification certificate, or registration...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7510.2
  (a) Any licensee, or any officer, partner, registrant, employee, or manager of a licensee, who is found by the director to have committed any acts...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7510.4
  The record of conviction, or a certified copy thereof, shall be conclusive evidence of such conviction. A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7511
  Effective July 1, 1998, the bureau shall establish and assess fees and penalties for licensure and registration as displayed in this section. The fees prescribed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7512
  This chapter may be cited as the Private Investigator Act.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7512.1
  As used in this chapter, "director" means the Director of Consumer Affairs, unless the context indicates otherwise.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7512.2
  The director shall administer and enforce the provisions of this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7512.3
  As used in this chapter, "person" includes any individual, firm, company, association, organization, partnership, and corporation.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7512.4
  As used in this chapter, "bureau" means the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7512.5
  As used in this chapter, "chief" means the Chief of the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7512.6
  As used in this chapter, "licensee" means a person licensed under this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7512.7
  As used in this chapter, "manager" means the individual under whose direction, control, charge, or management the business of a licensee is operated.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7512.10
  As used in this chapter, "employer" means a person who employs an individual for wages or salary, lists the individual on the employer's payroll records,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7512.11
  As used in this chapter, "employee" means an individual who works for an employer, is listed on the employer's payroll records, and is under the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7512.12
  As used in this chapter, "employer-employee" relationship means a relationship in which an individual works for another, the individual's name appears on the payroll records...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7512.13
  As used in this chapter, "firearm permit" includes "firearms permit," "firearms qualification card," "firearms qualification," and "firearms qualification permit."
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7513
  Every power and duty granted to or imposed upon the director may be exercised by any other officer or employee of the Department of Consumer...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7513.5
  The director may, in accordance with the State Civil Service Act and subject to the provisions of Section 159.5, appoint and fix the compensation of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7514
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as entitling any person to practice law in this state unless he or she is an active member...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7515
  The director may adopt and enforce reasonable rules, as follows: (a) Fixing the qualifications of licensees and managers, in addition to those prescribed in this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7518
  Where a hearing is held under this chapter to determine whether an application for a license should be granted or to determine the qualifications of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7519
  The director shall furnish, at least once every two years, one copy of the current licensing law, rules, and regulations to every licensed business governed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7520
  No person shall engage in a business regulated by this chapter; act or assume to act as, or represent himself or herself to be, a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7520.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person engaging in a business as a private investigator who violates Section 7520 is guilty of an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7520.5
  The director may authorize a licensed private investigator from another state to continue in this state for 60 days an investigation that originated in the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7521
  A private investigator within the meaning of this chapter is a person, other than an insurance adjuster subject to the provisions of Chapter 1 (commencing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7521.5
  (a) A private investigator may provide services to protect a person, but not property, which is incidental to an investigation for which the private investigator...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7522
  This chapter does not apply to: (a) A person employed exclusively and regularly by any employer who does not provide contract security services for other...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7523
  (a) Unless specifically exempted by Section 7522, no person shall engage in the business of private investigator, as defined in Section 7521, unless that person...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7523.5
  (a) The superior court in and for the county wherein any person has engaged or is about to engage in any act which constitutes a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7525
  An application for a license under this chapter shall be on a form prescribed by the director and accompanied by the application fee provided by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7525.1
  An application shall be verified and shall include: (a) The full name and business address of the applicant. (b) The name under which the applicant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7526
  Before an application for a license is granted, the applicant for a license or his or her manager shall meet all of the following: (a)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7526.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director may, in his or her sole discretion, grant a probationary license to an applicant subject to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7527
  The director may require an applicant or his or her manager, to demonstrate his or her qualifications by a written or oral examination, or a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7527.1
  (a) When creating or updating the licensing examination required pursuant to Section 7527, the bureau shall consider all of the following: (1) Including in the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7527.5
  Payment of the application fee prescribed by this chapter entitles an applicant or his or her manager to one examination without further charge. If the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7528
  The chief shall issue a license, the form and content of which shall be determined by the chief in accordance with Section 164. In addition,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7528.5
  The license shall at all times be posted in a conspicuous place in the principal place of business of the licensee.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7529
  Upon the issuance of a license, a pocket card of the size, design, and content as may be determined by the director shall be issued...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7530
  A license issued under this chapter is not assignable.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7531
  A licensee shall at all times be legally responsible for the good conduct in the business of each of his or her employees or agents,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7531.5
  Each licensee shall maintain a record containing information relative to his or her employees as may be prescribed by the director.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7532
  No licensee shall conduct a business under a fictitious or other business name unless and until he or she has obtained the written authorization of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7533
  Each licensee shall file with the bureau the complete address of his or her principal place of business including the name and number of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7533.5
  (a) A licensee shall notify the bureau within 30 days of any change in its corporate officers or of any addition of a new partner....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7534
  Every advertisement by a licensee soliciting or advertising business shall contain his or her business name, business address or telephone number, and license number as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7535
  A licensee shall not advertise or conduct business from any location other than that shown on the records of the bureau as his or her...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7536
  (a) The business of each licensee shall be operated under the active direction, control, charge, or management, in this state, of the licensee, if he...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7537
  (a) In case of the death of a person licensed as an individual, a member of the immediate family of the deceased licensee shall be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7538
  After a hearing the director may deny a license unless the applicant makes a showing satisfactory to the director that the applicant, if an individual,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7538.5
  The director may refuse to issue any license provided for in this chapter to any person: (a) Who has had any license revoked, or whose...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7539
  (a) Any licensee or officer, director, partner, or manager of a licensee may divulge to any law enforcement officer or district attorney, or his or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7540
  For purposes of this article, "licensee" means a licensed private investigator.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7541
  Except as otherwise provided by this section, an applicant, or his or her manager, for a license as a private investigator shall have had at...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7541.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, experience for purposes of taking the examination for licensure as a private investigator shall be limited to those...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7541.2
  The bureau shall consider requiring, and may require, an applicant for licensure to submit proof of satisfactory completion of a course in professional ethics. If...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7542
  Every licensee and qualified manager who in the course of his or her employment or business carries a deadly weapon shall complete a course of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7542.1
  Every licensee and any person employed and compensated by a licensee who in the course of that employment or business carries tear gas or any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7558
  A private investigator license, branch office certificate, and pocket card issued under this chapter expires two years following the date of issuance or on the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7558.1
  (a) To renew an unexpired license or certificate, the licensee shall, on or before the date on which it would otherwise expire, apply for renewal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7558.5
  Except as otherwise provided in this article, an expired license or branch office certificate may be renewed at any time within three years after its...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7559
  A suspended license or branch office certificate is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article, but renewal of the license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7559.5
  A revoked license or branch office certificate is subject to expiration as provided in this article, but it may not be renewed. If it is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7560
  A license or branch office certificate which is not renewed within three years after its expiration may not be renewed, restored, reinstated, or reissued thereafter....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7561
  Except as otherwise required to comply with the provisions of Article 5 (commencing with Section 7558), the proceedings under this article shall be conducted in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7561.1
  The director may deny, suspend, or revoke a license issued under this chapter if he or she determines that the licensee or his or her...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7561.3
  The director may suspend or revoke a license issued under this chapter if he or she determines that the licensee or his or her manager,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7561.4
  The director may suspend or revoke a license issued under this chapter if he or she determines that the licensee or his or her manager,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7562
  The record of conviction, or a certified copy thereof, shall be conclusive evidence of the conviction as that term is used in this article, Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7563
  The director, in lieu of suspending or revoking a license issued under this chapter for violations of Sections 7561.1, 7561.3, and 7561.4, may impose a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7564
  If, upon investigation, the director determines a licensee, including a corporation, or registrant is in violation of Section 7566, the director may issue a citation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7564.1
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 7561.1 and 7561.4 or any other provision of law, the director may revoke, suspend, or deny at any time a license under...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7565
  Any person who knowingly falsifies the fingerprints or photographs submitted pursuant to any provision of this chapter is guilty of a felony. Any person who...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7566
  The director may assess administrative fines against any licensee, registrant, or firearms qualification cardholder for failure to notify the bureau within 30 days of any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7567
  The bureau may require a licensee who violates any provision of this chapter to do either of the following: (a) Satisfactorily complete relevant coursework as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7570
  The fees prescribed by this chapter are as follows: (a) The application and examination fee for an original license may not exceed fifty dollars ($50)....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7570.1
  The fee for processing fingerprints for all registrations and licenses is that amount charged the bureau by the Department of Justice.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7571
  The Department of Consumer Affairs shall receive and account for all money derived from the operation of this chapter and, at the end of each...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7572
  All money derived from the licensing and regulation of private investigators shall be expended exclusively on the licensing and regulation of private investigators. If, at...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7573
  Application or license fees shall not be refunded except in accordance with Section 158.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7574
  This chapter may be cited as the Proprietary Security Services Act.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7574.01
  For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Bureau" means the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services. (b)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7574.02
  The director shall administer and enforce the provisions of this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7574.03
  Every power granted or duty imposed upon the director under this chapter may be exercised or performed by any other officer or employee of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7574.04
  The director may, in accordance with the State Civil Service Act (Part 2 (commencing with Section 18500) of Division 5 of Title 2 of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7574.05
  The director may adopt regulations as necessary for the administration and enforcement of this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7574.06
  (a) All fees and fines collected pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited in the Private Security Services Fund. (b) All money derived from the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7574.08
  This article shall become operative on January 1, 2011.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7574.10
  No person shall engage in the business of a proprietary private security officer unless registered with the department pursuant to this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7574.11
  (a) An applicant seeking registration as a proprietary private security officer shall apply to the department on forms provided by the department. (b) An application...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7574.12
  No person shall engage in the business of a proprietary private security employer unless registered with the department pursuant to this chapter. However, a proprietary...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7574.13
  (a) An applicant seeking registration as a proprietary private security employer shall apply to the department on forms provided by the department. (b) An application...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7574.14
  This chapter shall not apply to the following: (a) An officer or employee of the United States of America, or of this state or a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7574.15
  (a) The director may refuse to approve a proprietary private security officer or proprietary private security employer registration pursuant to this chapter to a person...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7574.16
  This article shall become operative on January 1, 2011.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7574.18
  (a) Except for a person who has completed the course of training required by Section 7583.45, a person registered and hired as a proprietary private...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7574.19
  This article shall become operative on July 1, 2011.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7574.20
  No proprietary private security employer shall sublet proprietary private security officers employed by them to any other person, business, or entity. Nothing in this section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7574.21
  A person registered as a proprietary private security employer shall do the following with respect to proprietary private security officers in his or her employment:...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7574.22
  A person registered as a proprietary private security officer shall carry on his or her person, while on duty, a valid and current proprietary private...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7574.23
  This article shall become operative on January 1, 2011.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7574.30
  (a) Pursuant to Section 125.9, the director may issue a citation, which may include an order of abatement or an order to pay an administrative...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7574.31
  The director may suspend or revoke a proprietary private security officer registration issued pursuant to Section 7574.11 if the registrant has committed any act or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7574.32
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a violation of Section 7574.10 is an infraction subject to the procedures described in Sections 19.6 and 19.7...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7574.33
  (a) A person registered with the department under this chapter may request a review by a private security disciplinary review committee, as established in Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7574.34
  This article shall become operative on January 1, 2011.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7580
  This chapter may be cited as the Private Security Services Act.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7580.1
  As used in this chapter, "director" means the Director of Consumer Affairs, unless the context indicates otherwise.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7580.2
  The director shall administer and enforce the provisions of this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7580.3
  As used in this chapter, "person" includes any individual, firm, company, association, organization, partnership, and corporation.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7580.4
  As used in this chapter, "bureau" means the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7580.5
  As used in this chapter, "chief" means the Chief of the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7580.6
  As used in this chapter, "licensee" means a person licensed under this chapter and includes, but is not limited to, private patrol operator and armored...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7580.7
  As used in this chapter, "manager" means the individual under whose direction, control, charge, or management the business of a licensee is operated.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7580.8
  As used in this chapter, "employer" means a person who employs an individual for wages or salary, lists the individual on the employer's payroll records,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7580.9
  As used in this chapter, "employee" means an individual who works for an employer, is listed on the employer's payroll records, and is under the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7580.10
  As used in this chapter, "employer-employee" relationship means a relationship in which an individual works for another, the individual's name appears on the payroll records...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7580.11
  As used in this chapter, "firearm permit" includes "firearms permit," "firearms qualification card," "firearms qualification," and "firearms qualification permit."
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7580.12
  Every power and duty granted to or imposed upon the director may be exercised by any other officer or employee of the Department of Consumer...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7580.13
  The director may, in accordance with the State Civil Service Act and subject to the provisions of Section 159.5, appoint and fix the compensation of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7580.14
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as entitling any person to practice law in this state unless he or she is an active member...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7581
  The director may adopt and enforce reasonable rules, as follows: (a) Classifying licensees according to the type of business regulated by this chapter in which...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7581.1
  The Governor shall appoint two private security disciplinary review committees, and may remove any member of a disciplinary review committee for misconduct, incompetency, or neglect...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7581.2
  Each disciplinary review committee shall perform the following functions as they pertain to private patrol operators, security guards, firearm qualification cardholders, firearm training facilities, firearm...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7581.3
  A private patrol operator, qualified manager of a private patrol operator, security guard, firearm qualification cardholder, firearm training facility, firearm training instructor, baton training facility,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7581.4
  Except in cases where licensees are required to comply with the provisions of Section 7581.3, where a hearing is held under this chapter to determine...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7581.5
  The director shall furnish, at least once every two years, one copy of the current licensing law, rules, and regulations to every licensed business governed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7582
  No person shall engage in a business regulated by this chapter; act or assume to act as, or represent himself or herself to be, a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7582.05
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person engaging in a business as a private patrol operator who violates Section 7582 is guilty of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7582.1
  (a) A private patrol operator, or operator of a private patrol service, within the meaning of this chapter is a person, other than an armored...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7582.2
  This chapter does not apply to the following: (a) A person who does not meet the requirements to be a proprietary private security officer, as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7582.3
  (a) Unless specifically exempted by Section 7582.2, no person shall engage in the business of private patrol operator, as defined in Section 7582.1, unless that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7582.4
  (a) The superior court in and for the county in which any person has engaged or is about to engage in any act which constitutes...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7582.5
  (a) The provisions of this chapter shall not prevent the local authorities of any city, county, or city and county, by ordinance and within the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7582.6
  An application for a license under this chapter shall be on a form prescribed by the director and accompanied by the application fee provided by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7582.7
  An application shall be verified and shall include: (a) The full name and business address of the applicant. (b) The name under which the applicant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7582.8
  Before an application for a license or registration is granted, the applicant for a license or his or her manager or the applicant for a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7582.9
  The director may require an applicant or his or her manager, to demonstrate his or her qualifications by a written or oral examination, or a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7582.10
  Payment of the application fee prescribed by this chapter entitles an applicant or his or her manager to one examination without further charge. If the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7582.11
  The chief shall issue a license, the form and content of which shall be determined by the chief in accordance with Section 164. In addition,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7582.12
  (a) The license shall at all times be posted in a conspicuous place in the principal place of business of the licensee. (b) The director...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7582.13
  Upon the issuance of a license, a pocket card of the size, design, and content determined by the director shall be issued to each licensee,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7582.14
  A license issued under this chapter is not assignable.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7582.15
  A licensee shall at all times be legally responsible for the good conduct in the business of each of his or her employees or agents,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7582.16
  Each licensee shall maintain a record containing information relative to his or her employees as may be prescribed by the director.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7582.17
  No licensee shall conduct a business under a fictitious or other business name unless and until he or she has obtained the written authorization of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7582.18
  Each licensee shall file with the bureau the complete address of his or her principal place of business including the name and number of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7582.19
  (a) A licensee shall notify the bureau within 30 days of any change in its corporate officers or of any addition of a new partner....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7582.20
  (a) Every advertisement by a licensee soliciting or advertising business shall contain his or her name, address, and license number as they appear in the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7582.21
  (a) A licensee shall not advertise or conduct business from any location other than that shown on the records of the bureau as his or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7582.22
  (a) The business of each licensee shall be operated under the active direction, control, charge, or management, in this state, of the licensee, if he...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7582.23
  (a) In case of the death of a person licensed as an individual, a member of the immediate family of the deceased licensee shall be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7582.24
  After a hearing the director may deny a license unless the applicant makes a showing satisfactory to the director that the applicant, if an individual,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7582.25
  The director may refuse to issue any license provided for in this chapter to any person: (a) Who has had any license revoked, or whose...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7582.26
  (a) Any licensee or officer, director, partner, or manager of a licensee may divulge to any law enforcement officer or district attorney, or his or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7582.27
  (a) Any person referred to in subdivision (i) of Section 7582.26 who uses or wears a baton or exposed firearm as authorized pursuant to this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7582.28
  (a) Any badge or cap insignia worn by a person who is a licensee, officer, director, partner, manager, or employee of a licensee shall be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583
  For purposes of this article, "licensee" means a licensed private patrol operator.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.1
  (a) An applicant, or his or her manager, for a license as a private patrol operator shall have had at least one year of experience...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.2
  No person licensed as a private patrol operator shall do any of the following: (a) Fail to properly maintain an accurate and current record of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.3
  No person required to be registered as a security guard pursuant to this chapter shall do any of the following: (a) Fail to carry on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.4
  Any person registered as a security guard or patrolperson shall deliver to the director a written report describing fully the circumstances surrounding any incident involving...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.5
  (a) Every licensee and any person employed and compensated by a licensee, other lawful business or public agency as a security guard or patrolperson, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.6
  (a) A person entering the employ of a licensee to perform the functions of a security guard or a security patrolperson shall complete a course...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.7
  (a) The course of training in the exercise of the power to arrest may be administered, tested, and certified by any licensee or by any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.8
  No employee of a licensee who performs the function of a security guard or security patrolperson shall be issued a registration card until there is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.9
  (a) Upon accepting employment by a private patrol operator, any employee who performs the function of a security guard or security patrolperson who is not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.10
  The application shall be verified and shall include all of the following: (a) The full name, residence address, telephone number, and date of birth of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.12
  (a) No employee of a licensee shall carry or use a firearm unless the employee has in his or her possession both of the following:...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.13
  (a) The bureau, upon receipt of a criminal offense record or record of a subsequent arrest from the Department of Justice, shall make an immediate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.14
  (a) If the chief determines that an applicant's criminal history contains open arrest information, the chief shall issue a notice to the applicant allowing 45...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.15
  If the director determines that continued employment of an applicant, firearms qualification cardholder, or registrant, in his or her current capacity, may present an undue...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.16
  (a) The director may refuse to register any employee, or may suspend or revoke a previously issued registration, if the individual has committed any action...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.17
  (a) Upon approval of an application for registration, the chief shall cause to be issued to the applicant at his or her last known residential...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.18
  A qualified manager who complies with Section 7582.22 is not required to register under this article.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.19
  A licensee shall at all times be responsible for ascertaining that those of his or her employees who are subject to registration are currently registered...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.20
  (a) A registration issued under this chapter expires two years following the date of issuance or on the assigned renewal date. Every security guard issued...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.21
  The registration of a security guard shall be automatically suspended if the guard is convicted of any crime which is substantially related to the functions,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.22
  (a) A licensee, qualified manager of a licensee, or security guard who, in the course of his or her employment, may be required to carry...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.23
  The bureau shall issue a firearms permit when all of the following conditions are satisfied: (a) The applicant is a licensee, a qualified manager of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.24
  (a) The bureau shall not issue a firearm permit if the applicant is prohibited from possessing, receiving, owning, or purchasing a firearm pursuant to state...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.25
  (a) The bureau shall not renew a firearm permit if the applicant is prohibited from possessing, receiving, purchasing, or owning a firearm pursuant to state...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.26
  (a) The Department of Justice may charge the bureau a fee sufficient to reimburse the department's costs for furnishing firearm eligibility information upon submission of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.27
  A firearm permit shall be automatically revoked if at any time the Department of Justice notifies the bureau that the holder of the firearm permit...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.28
  If an applicant fails to complete his or her application within one year after it has been filed, the application shall be considered to be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.29
  If a firearms permit is denied, the denial of the permit shall be in writing and shall describe the basis for the denial. The denial...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.30
  The firearms qualification card, if issued, shall be mailed to the applicant at the address which appears on the application. In the event of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.31
  A firearms qualification card does not authorize the holder thereof to carry a pistol, revolver, or other firearm capable of being concealed upon the person...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.32
  (a) A firearms qualification card expires two years from the date of issuance, if not renewed. A person who wishes to renew a firearms qualification...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.33
  (a) Any licensee, qualified manager, or a registered uniformed security guard who wishes to carry a baton in the performance of his or her duties,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.34
  A licensee shall not permit any employee to carry a baton prior to ascertaining that the employee is proficient in the use of the weapon....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.35
  Every licensee, qualified manager, or a registered uniformed security guard, who in the course of his or her employment carries tear gas or any other...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.36
  A licensee shall not permit any employee to carry tear gas or any other nonlethal chemical agent prior to ascertaining that the employee is proficient...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.37
  The director may assess fines as enumerated in Article 7 (commencing with Section 7587). Assessment of administrative fines shall be independent of any other action...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.38
  A city, county, or city and county may regulate the uniforms and insignias worn by uniformed employees of a private patrol operator and vehicles used...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.39
  No private patrol operator who employs a security guard who carries a firearm as part of his or her duties shall engage in any of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.40
  "Insurance policy," as used in this article, means a contract of liability insurance issued by an insurance company authorized to transact business in this state...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.41
  Proof that a licensee maintains an insurance policy as required by this article shall be provided by the licensee to the bureau upon demand.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.42
  The failure of a private patrol operator to maintain an insurance policy as required by this article shall constitute grounds for the suspension of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.45
  (a) After July 1, 2000, every security guard working on the property of a public K-12 school district or community college district pursuant to a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7583.46
  (a) (1) It shall be a violation of Section 1102.5 of the Labor Code for a private patrol operator to discharge, demote, threaten, or in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7585
  The course of training in the carrying and usage of firearms, the satisfactory completion of which shall be required of applicants who wish to obtain...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7585.1
  For purposes of this article, "firearms course" means the firearms training course as outlined in Section 7585.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7585.2
  The firearms requalification course shall consist of the successful completion of a firearms requalification course approved by the bureau.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7585.3
  (a) Any institution, firm, or individual wishing the approval of the bureau to offer the firearms course shall complete an application for certification as a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7585.4
  Upon approval by the bureau of a firearms training facility, the chief shall issue to the facility a "Firearms Training Facility Certificate." The certificate is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7585.5
  (a) Any individual who desires certification by the bureau to instruct a firearms course shall complete an application for a firearms training instructor certificate. An...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7585.6
  (a) All firearms course material provided to the certificate holder in the "Firearms Training Manual" issued by the bureau shall be covered in each class...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7585.7
  (a) Each firearms training facility shall be required to retain for two years the following information regarding each student: (1) The student's name. (2) The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7585.8
  (a) Each firearm training facility shall, prior to allowing any person to participate in the course of training in the carrying and usage of firearms,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7585.9
  (a) The course of training in the carrying and usage of the baton, the satisfactory completion of which shall be required of applicants who wish...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7585.10
  For purposes of this article "a baton course" means the baton training course as outlined in Section 7585.9.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7585.11
  (a) Any institution, firm, or individual wishing approval of the bureau to offer the baton course shall complete an application for certification as a baton...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7585.12
  Any individual who desires certification by the bureau to instruct the baton course shall complete an application for a baton training instructor certificate. An application...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7585.13
  All baton course material provided to the certificate holder in the "Baton Training Manual" issued by the bureau shall be covered in each class session....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7585.14
  (a) A baton training facility shall issue a bureau-developed baton permit to any person who successfully completes a baton training course as described in Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7585.15
  (a) Each baton training facility shall be required to retain for two years the following information regarding each student: (1) The student's name. (2) The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7585.16
  In the event of the loss, theft, or destruction of a baton permit, a permitholder may request the bureau to issue a replacement permit. The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7585.17
  Each firearms training facility or baton training facility shall notify the bureau within five working days whenever any training instructor certified by the bureau is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7585.18
  Each firearms training facility, firearms training instructor, baton training facility, or baton training instructor shall report to the bureau the name of any person who,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7585.19
  (a) The chief may refuse to issue or may cancel a previously issued firearms training facility certificate, firearms training instructor certificate, baton training facility certificate,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7585.20
  (a) A firearms training facility certificate, a firearms training instructor certificate, a baton training facility certificate, or a baton training instructor certificate which expires on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7586
  A private patrol operator license, branch office certificate, and pocket card issued under this chapter expires two years following the date of issuance or on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7586.1
  (a) To renew an unexpired license or certificate, the licensee shall, on or before the date on which it would otherwise expire, apply for renewal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7586.2
  Except as otherwise provided in this article, an expired license or branch office certificate may be renewed at any time within three years after its...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7586.3
  A suspended license or branch office certificate is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article, but renewal of the license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7586.4
  A revoked license or branch office certificate is subject to expiration as provided in this article, but it may not be renewed. If it is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7586.5
  A license or branch office certificate which is not renewed within three years after its expiration may not be renewed, restored, reinstated, or reissued thereafter....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7587
  Except as otherwise required to comply with the provisions of Section 7581.3 or Article 6 (commencing with Section 7586), the proceedings under this article shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7587.1
  Notwithstanding Section 477, a firearm qualification card and a baton permit shall be considered a license subject to the terms of this section. Notwithstanding the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7587.15
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director may assess a fine of up to five thousand dollars ($5,000) per violation against any licensee for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7587.2
  Any person who knowingly makes a false statement in his or her application for a license or registration as a security guard is guilty of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7587.3
  The director may suspend or revoke a license issued under this chapter if he or she determines that the licensee or his or her manager,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7587.4
  The director may suspend or revoke a license issued under this chapter if he or she determines that the licensee or his or her manager,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7587.5
  The record of conviction, or a certified copy thereof, shall be conclusive evidence of the conviction as that term is used in this article, Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7587.6
  The director, in lieu of suspending or revoking a license issued under this chapter for violations of Sections 7587.1, 7587.3, and 7587.4, may impose a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7587.7
  If, upon investigation, the director determines a licensee, including a corporation, or registrant is in violation of Section 7583.2, 7583.3, 7583.37, 7585.19, 7587.2, or 7587.14,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7587.8
  The director may assess fines for the following acts pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 7583) only as follows: (a) Violation of subdivisions (a),...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7587.9
  The director may assess fines for the following acts pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 7583) only as follows: (a) Violation of subdivisions (a)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7587.10
  The director may assess fines for the following acts pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 7583) only as follows: (a) Violation of subdivisions (c)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7587.12
  The director may assess fines for the following acts only as follows: (a) Violations of paragraph (1), (2), (11), or (12) of subdivision (a) of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7587.13
  Any person who knowingly falsifies the fingerprints or photographs submitted pursuant to any provision of this chapter is guilty of a felony. Any person who...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7587.14
  The director may assess administrative fines against any licensee, registrant, or firearms qualification cardholder for failure to notify the bureau within 30 days of any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7588
  The fees prescribed by this chapter are as follows: (a) The application and examination fee for an original license for a private patrol operator may...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7588.1
  The fee for processing fingerprints for all registrations and licenses is that amount charged the bureau by the Department of Justice.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7588.2
  The Department of Consumer Affairs shall receive and account for all money derived from the operation of this chapter and, at the end of each...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7588.2
  (a) A peace officer of this state or a political subdivision thereof who engages in off-duty employment solely and exclusively as a security guard or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7588.3
  All money derived from the licensing and regulation of persons licensed under this chapter shall be expended exclusively on the licensing and regulation of these...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7588.4
  Application or license fees shall not be refunded except in accordance with Section 158.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7588.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of Consumer Affairs is authorized to temporarily reduce fees required by either paragraph (1) or (2) of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7590
  This chapter constitutes the chapter on alarm company operators and alarm agents. It may be cited as the Alarm Company Act.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7590.1
  The following terms as used in this chapter have the meaning expressed in this article: (a) "Person" means any individual, firm, company, association, organization, partnership,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7590.2
  An "alarm company operator" means any person who, for any consideration whatsoever, engages in business or accepts employment to install, maintain, alter, sell on premises,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7590.3
  This chapter does not apply to: (a) A person employed exclusively and regularly by any employer who does not provide contract alarm services for other...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7590.5
  Notwithstanding any other requirements for licensure as an alarm company operator or for registration as an alarm agent pursuant to this chapter, an applicant for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7591
  There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs a Bureau of Security and Investigative Services. The bureau is under the supervision and control of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7591.1
  The Governor shall appoint a chief of the bureau at a salary to be fixed in accordance with Section 12080.3 of the Government Code. The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7591.2
  Every power and duty granted to or imposed upon the director under this chapter may be delegated to the chief, except that the director may...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7591.3
  The director, in accordance with the State Civil Service Act, and Section 159.5, may appoint and fix the compensation of such clerical, inspection, investigation, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7591.4
  The chief shall gather evidence of violations of this chapter and of any rule or regulation established under this chapter by unlicensed persons who engage...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7591.5
  It shall be the duty of the chief to initiate and conduct investigations into the business operations of alarm company operators on his or her...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7591.6
  The director, taking into consideration the recommendations of the advisory board, may establish and enforce such rules and regulations as may be reasonable and necessary...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7591.7
  The chief or his or her designee may inspect, examine, or investigate the relevant records, books, accounts, and files created and maintained by the alarm...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7591.8
  The director may automatically suspend a license, registration, or firearm qualification card if it is determined that the continued possession of such a license, registration,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7591.9
  If, upon investigation, the chief determines that an alarm company operator, a qualified manager, or an alarm agent is in violation of Sections 7597.1, 7597.2,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7591.10
  (a) The director may deny a license, certificate, or registration regulated by this chapter on the grounds that the applicant has done any of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7591.11
  The bureau shall deny a firearms permit, pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 29800) of Division 9 of Title 4 of Part 6 of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7591.12
  (a) When considering the denial, suspension, or revocation of a license, certificate, or registration, for which application has been made under this chapter, the chief,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7591.17
  The Governor shall appoint an Alarm Company Operator Disciplinary Review Committee. The disciplinary review committee shall consist of three members who are actively engaged in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7591.18
  The Alarm Company Operator Disciplinary Review Committee shall perform the following functions: (a) Affirm, rescind, or modify all appealed decisions concerning administrative fines assessed by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7591.19
  (a) (1) An alarm company operator, qualified manager, or alarm agent may request a review by the Alarm Company Operator Disciplinary Review Committee to contest...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7591.20
  The disciplinary review committee shall be provided all evidence used by the bureau in reaching its decision prior to hearing an appeal.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7592
  No person shall engage within this state in the activities of an alarm company operator as defined in Section 7590.2, unless the person holds a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7592.2
  Any person who violates any provision of this chapter, or who conspires with another person to violate any provision of this chapter, or who knowingly...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7592.3
  Any person who engages in any business regulated by this chapter, who acts as or represents himself or herself to be a licensee under this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7592.5
  No person engaged in performing any service requiring a license under this chapter may bring or maintain any action in any court of this state...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7592.6
  Any person who knowingly falsifies fingerprints or photographs as required for any provisions of this chapter is guilty of a felony.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7592.8
  The provisions of this chapter shall not prevent the local authorities of any city, county, or city and county, by ordinance and within the exercise...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7593
  An application for an alarm company operator license shall be made in writing to, and filed with, the chief in the form that may be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7593.1
  (a) Each individual applicant and each qualified manager, partner of a partnership, and designated officers of a corporation shall submit with the application, one personal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7593.2
  If the applicant for license is an individual, the application shall state the full name of the individual, the full residence address of the applicant,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7593.3
  If the applicants for license are copartners, the application shall state the true names and addresses of all the general partners and the name of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7593.4
  If the applicant for license is a corporation, the application shall state the true names and complete residence addresses of the chief executive officer, secretary,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7593.6
  The director may refuse to issue a license to any applicant pending final disposition of any investigation of criminal activity or of any disciplinary action...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7593.7
  The chief shall issue a pocket identification card to the owner, partners, officers, and qualified manager. The chief shall determine the form and content of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7593.8
  The director shall issue a license, the form and content of which shall be determined in accordance with Section 164. In addition, the director shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7593.9
  Each alarm company operator license, together with the current renewal certificate, if any, shall at all times be conspicuously displayed at the place of business...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7593.11
  An alarm company operator license issued under this chapter expires two years following the date of issuance or on the assigned renewal date. Every alarm...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7593.12
  An alarm company operator's license not renewed within three years following its expiration may not be renewed thereafter. Renewal of the license within one year,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7593.13
  A suspended alarm company operator license is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article, but renewal of the license does...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7593.14
  An alarm company operator whose license has been canceled pursuant to this article, may obtain a new license only upon compliance with all of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7594
  A licensee desiring to operate an alarm company operator business under one or more fictitious trade names shall apply and qualify for an initial license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7594.1
  A licensee desiring to operate an alarm company operator business at a location other than the principal place of business as shown on the license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7594.2
  Every licensed business, including registered branch offices, shall be under the active charge of a qualified manager. Every licensed registered branch office shall be managed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7594.3
  (a) Whenever a qualified manager ceases to be in active charge of the business, the license shall be automatically suspended within 30 days unless the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7594.4
  Except as herein otherwise provided, no individual shall be in active charge of the business if the individual has ever had a license revoked for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7594.5
  (a) The business of each licensee shall be operated under the active direction, control, charge, or management, in this state, of the licensee, if he...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7594.6
  The designated branch office manager shall spend an average of 51 percent of the usual business hours in the conduct of the business at the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7596
  Every person licensed, registered, or designated under this chapter, who in the course of his or her employment carries a firearm, shall complete a course...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7596.3
  The director shall issue a firearms permit when all of the following conditions exist: (a) The applicant is a licensee, a qualified manager of a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7596.4
  If a firearms permit is denied, the denial of the permit shall be in writing and shall describe the basis for the denial. The denial...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7596.5
  The firearms qualification card shall be mailed to the applicant at the address which appears on the application. In the event of the loss or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7596.6
  A firearms qualification card does not authorize the holder thereof to carry a pistol, revolver, or other firearm capable of being concealed upon the person...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7596.7
  A firearms qualification card expires two years from the date of issuance, if not renewed. A person who wishes to renew a firearms qualification card...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7596.8
  (a) Effective October 1, 1993, the bureau shall not issue a firearm permit if the applicant is prohibited from possessing, receiving, owning, or purchasing a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7596.81
  (a) Effective October 1, 1993, the bureau shall not renew a firearm permit if the applicant is prohibited from possessing, receiving, purchasing, or owning a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7596.82
  (a) The Department of Justice may charge the bureau a fee sufficient to reimburse the department's costs for furnishing firearm eligibility information upon submission of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7596.83
  A firearm permit shall be automatically revoked if at any time the Department of Justice notifies the bureau that the holder of the firearm permit...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7596.12
  Every person licensed, registered, or designated under this chapter, who in the course of his or her employment carries tear gas, or any other nonlethal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7596.13
  A licensee shall not permit any employee to carry tear gas, or any other nonlethal chemical agent, prior to ascertaining that the employee is proficient...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7597
  The director may assess fines as enumerated in this article pursuant to Section 7591.9. Assessment of administrative fines shall be independent of any other action...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7597.1
  (a) No licensee, qualified manager, branch office manager, or alarm agent shall carry, use, or possess a loaded or unloaded firearm in the course and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7597.2
  No licensee, qualified manager, branch office manager, or alarm agent shall carry any inoperable, replica, or other simulated firearm. A violation of this section shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7597.3
  No licensee, qualified manager, branch office manager, or alarm agent shall use a firearm which is in violation of law, or in knowing violation of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7597.5
  No licensee, qualified manager, branch office manager, or alarm agent shall carry or use tear gas or any other nonlethal chemical agent in the performance...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7597.6
  (a) No licensee, qualified manager, branch office manager, or alarm agent shall carry a pistol, revolver, or other firearm capable of being concealed upon the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7598.1
  Every person entering the employ of a licensee, performing the function of an alarm agent who responds to alarm systems shall complete a course in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7598.2
  The course of training in the exercise of the power to arrest may be administered, tested, and certified by any licensee. The department may approve...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7598.3
  No employee of a licensee performing the function of an alarm agent who responds to alarm systems shall be issued a firearms qualification card until...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7598.4
  (a) Within three working days after commencing employment, any employee performing the function of alarm agent, who is not currently registered with the bureau, shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7598.5
  The application for registration under this article shall be on a form prescribed by the director and shall be accompanied by the fee as prescribed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7598.6
  The application shall be verified and shall include the following: (a) The full name, residence address, telephone number, and date of birth of the employee....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7598.7
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), an employee of a licensee may be assigned to work with a temporary application for registration until the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7598.8
  No employee of a licensee shall carry or use a firearm unless the employee has in his or her possession a valid alarm agent registration...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7598.9
  The bureau, upon receipt of a criminal offense record or record of a subsequent arrest from the California Department of Justice, shall make an immediate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7598.11
  If the chief determines that an applicant's criminal history contains arrest information for which there appears no disposition, the chief shall issue a notice to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7598.12
  If the director determines that continued employment of an applicant or registrant, in his or her current capacity, may present an undue hazard to public...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7598.14
  Upon approval of an application for registration, the chief shall cause to be issued to the applicant, at his or her last known address, a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7598.16
  A licensee shall at all times be responsible for ascertaining that his or her employees subject to registration are currently registered or have made proper...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7598.17
  A registration issued under this chapter expires two years following the date of issuance or on the assigned renewal date. Every alarm agent issued a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7598.50
  The director may assess fines as enumerated in this article pursuant to Section 7591.9. Assessment of administrative fines shall be independent of any other action...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7598.51
  An alarm agent shall carry on his or her person, while on duty, either a valid and current registration card or a temporary application for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7598.53
  An alarm agent who responds to an alarm system shall wear a prominently displayed patch or other designation which clearly identifies the name of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, an applicant for a qualified manager certificate for an alarm company operator license shall: (a) Have had at...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.4
  The director shall issue a qualified manager certificate to any person meeting the requirements of Section 7599. The certificate shall be posted, along with the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.5
  Examinations shall be given at least once every other month at such places and on such specific dates as the director may from time to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.6
  In order to be eligible for an initial examination, an applicant shall have completed and filed his or her application together with the application fee...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.7
  If an applicant fails to pass an initial examination or fails to appear as scheduled for an examination, he or she shall not be eligible...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.8
  All applicants shall be examined concerning their competency, experience, and qualifications by the chief. The chief may take testimony of anyone in regard thereto under
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.9
  If an applicant fails to complete his or her application within one year after it has been filed, or fails to take the examination within...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.10
  Every qualified manager certificate issued under this chapter shall be subject to the same renewal provisions which apply to an alarm company operator license as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.20
  For purposes of this article, "branch office" means any additional location, other than the alarm company operator's principal place of business, where the selling, monitoring,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.21
  Any licensed alarm company operator, who maintains or proposes to maintain a branch office as defined in this article, shall apply and qualify for a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.22
  The application for a branch office registration under this article shall be on a form prescribed by the director and shall be accompanied by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.23
  The application shall include: (a) The full name, address of the licensed location, telephone number at the licensed location, the name of the qualified manager,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.24
  Upon receipt of the application for a branch office registration, the chief shall issue a "Branch Office Registration." The registration shall be posted in a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.25
  Each branch office registration shall be managed and supervised by a designated branch office manager. However, each registered branch office and designated branch office manager...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.29
  Every branch office registration issued under this chapter shall be subject to the same renewal provisions which apply to a license as set forth in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.30
  The director may assess fines for any violation as enumerated in this article, pursuant to Section 7591.9. Assessment of administrative fines shall be independent of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.31
  For purposes of this article, "licensee" means an alarm company operator. A licensee shall at all times be responsible for those actions of his or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.32
  (a) A licensee shall notify the bureau within 30 days of any change of its officers required to be named pursuant to Section 7593.4 and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.33
  No licensee shall conduct business as defined in Section 7599.20 from any location other than that location for which a license or branch office registration...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.34
  No licensee shall conduct a business as an individual, partnership, or corporation unless the licensee holds a valid license issued to that exact same individual,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.36
  Each licensee shall maintain a file or record containing the name, address, commencing date of employment, and position of each employee, and the date of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.37
  Each licensee shall maintain an accurate and current record of proof of completion of the course of training in the exercise of the power to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.38
  Each licensee shall certify an employee's completion of the course of training in the exercise of power to arrest, or obtain proof that the training...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.39
  Within three working days, each licensee shall verify proof of current and valid registration issued by the bureau for each employee who is subject to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.40
  No licensee shall allow any employee to carry a firearm or other deadly weapon without first ascertaining that the employee is proficient in the use...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.41
  A licensee shall maintain an accurate and current record of all firearms or other deadly weapons that are in the possession of the licensee, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.42
  Within seven days after any violent incident, involving a dangerous weapon, which has been caused by or occurred upon a licensee or any officer, partner,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.43
  Within seven days after receiving a final civil court judgment filed against the licensee or any officer, partner, qualified manager, or employee of a licensee...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.44
  Every advertisement by a licensee soliciting or advertising business shall contain his or her name and license number as they appear in the records of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.45
  No licensee or employee of a licensee shall enter any private building or portion thereof, excepting premises open to the public, without the consent of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.46
  No licensee shall aid and abet an unlicensed alarm company operator in any activity for which a license is required. A violation of this section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.47
  No licensee shall transfer his or her license. This means that no licensee shall permit an employee or agent, in his or her own name,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.48
  No licensee, or officer, partner, manager, or employee of a licensee, shall knowingly make any false report to his or her employer or client for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.49
  No licensee shall abandon the completion of any installation of an alarm system without legal excuse. A violation of this section may result in a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.50
  No licensee shall willfully depart from or disregard any plans or specifications, or in the absence of specific requirements, within the plans or specifications of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.51
  No licensee shall willfully or deliberately disregard any building laws, safety law, or labor laws of the state or any political subdivision thereof. A violation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.52
  No licensee shall fail in any material respect to complete any alarm system installation for the price stated in the contract for the alarm system....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.53
  No licensee shall willfully refuse, without legal excuse, to pursue the installation of an alarm system with reasonable diligence, causing material injury to another. A...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.54
  Every agreement, including, but not limited to, lease agreements, monitoring agreements, and service agreements, including all labor, services, and materials to be provided for the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.55
  No licensee shall make any untrue or misleading statements in connection with the business of the licensee. "Untrue or misleading statements" include, but are not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.58
  No alarm company operator shall: (a) Knowingly install a defective alarm system. (b) Willfully fail to service the alarm system pursuant to the terms of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.59
  The director may assess administrative fines against any licensee, qualified certificate holder, firearms qualification card holder, or registrant for failure to notify the bureau within...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.60
  Except as otherwise required to comply with the provisions of this chapter, the proceedings under this article shall be conducted in accordance with Section 7591.19.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.61
  The director may suspend or revoke an alarm company operator license, a qualified manager certificate, an alarm agent registration, or a firearms permit, issued under...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.63
  The record of conviction, or a certified copy thereof, shall be conclusive evidence of conviction as that term is used in Section 7591.10.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.70
  Effective July 1, 1998, the bureau shall establish and assess fees and penalties for licensure and registration as follows: (a) A company license application fee...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.71
  The director shall furnish one copy of any issue or edition of the licensing law, rules and regulations, manuals, or guides to any applicant or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.72
  The department shall receive and account for all money derived from the operation of this chapter and, at the end of each month, shall report...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.73
  Application or licensee fees shall not be refunded except in accordance with Section 158.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.74
  All money derived from Section 7591.9 shall be used to support the bureau's enforcement program.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7599.75
  There shall be a separate budget and expenditure statement and a separate revenue statement outlining all moneys derived from and expended for the licensing and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7600
  This chapter of the Business and Professions Code constitutes the chapter on funeral directors and embalmers. It may be cited as the Funeral Directors and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7601
  The following terms as used in this chapter shall have meanings expressed in this section: (a) "Department" means the Department of Consumer Affairs. (b) "Director"...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7601.1
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7602
  There is in the department the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau, under the supervision and control of the director. The director may appoint a chief at...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7606
  The bureau may, pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, adopt and enforce reasonably necessary rules and regulations relating to: (a) The practice...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7607
  The bureau may inspect the premises in which the business of a funeral director is conducted, where embalming is practiced, or where human remains are
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7608
  The Director of Consumer Affairs may employ and appoint all employees necessary to properly administer the work of the bureau, in accordance with civil service...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7609
  This chapter does not apply to, or in any way interfere with, the duties of any officer of any public institution or of any duly...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7610
  All suits or actions commenced in the superior court against the bureau shall be filed and tried either in the County of Sacramento, or in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7615
  A funeral director is a person engaged in or conducting, or holding himself or herself out as engaged in any of the following: (a) Preparing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7616
  (a) A licensed funeral establishment is a place of business conducted in a building or separate portion of a building having a specific street address...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7616.2
  A licensed funeral establishment shall at all times employ a licensed funeral director to manage, direct, or control its business or profession. Notwithstanding any other...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7617
  The business of a licensed funeral establishment shall be conducted and engaged in at a fixed place or facility. No person, partnership, association, corporation, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7617.1
  The applicant for a funeral establishment license, or in the case the applicant is an association, partnership, or corporation, all officers of the corporation or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7618
  An application for a funeral director's license shall be written on a form provided by the bureau, verified by the applicant, accompanied by the fee...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7619
  The applicant for a funeral director's license shall be at least 18 years of age, possess an associate of arts or science degree, or the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7619.2
  The bureau shall grant a funeral director's license to any applicant who complies with this article, notwithstanding Section 7619, if the applicant can demonstrate that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7619.3
  No licensed funeral director shall engage in or conduct, or hold himself or herself out as engaging in or conducting, the activities of a funeral...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7620
  The application shall specify the address at which the applicant proposes to engage in or conduct a place of business as a funeral director.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7621
  The applicant shall also furnish the bureau with satisfactory proof that the facility in which he or she intends to conduct business as a funeral...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7622
  Before an individual is granted a funeral director's license, he or she shall successfully pass an examination upon the following subjects: (a) The signs of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7622.2
  No person, partnership, association, corporation, or other organization shall open or maintain a place or establishment at which to engage in or conduct, or hold...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7622.5
  An applicant for examination under Section 7622 shall pay the funeral director's examination fee fixed by this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7623
  If an applicant for a funeral establishment license proposes to engage in or conduct more than one funeral establishment, the applicant shall make a separate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7624
  Not more than one person, partnership, association, corporation, or other organization engaged in business as a funeral establishment shall transact business in one specific funeral
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7625
  Upon receipt of an application for a license, the bureau shall cause an investigation to be made of the physical status or plans and specifications...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7626
  The bureau shall examine and pass upon the qualifications of the applicant as to ability and experience before passing upon the physical status or plans...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7626.5
  Where a hearing is held to determine whether an application for a license should be granted, the proceeding shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7627
  Every application for a funeral director's license under this article shall be granted or refused within ninety days from the date of the filing of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7628
  Any person, partnership, association, corporation, or other organization desiring to change the location of a licensed funeral establishment shall apply therefor on forms furnished by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7629
  No funeral establishment shall be conducted or held forth as being conducted or advertised as being conducted under any name which might tend to mislead...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7630
  A funeral establishment's license may be assigned upon payment of the fee fixed by this chapter and upon submission of an audit report prepared and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7631
  In case of the death of a licensed funeral director who leaves a funeral establishment as part or all of the assets of his or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7632
  A funeral director shall cause all human remains embalmed in or at the direction of his or her funeral establishment to be embalmed by a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7633
  No funeral director shall charge a fee for filing a certificate of death or for providing copies thereof in excess of fees set by statute...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7634
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a licensed embalmer, at the request of a licensed physician, may remove tissue from human remains for transplant, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7635
  (a) Any person employed by, or an agent of, a licensed funeral establishment, who consults with the family or representatives of a family of a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7636
  (a) (1) Any person who holds or has held, or was named on, any license or registration under the jurisdiction of the bureau that has...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7640
  An embalmer is one who is duly qualified to disinfect or preserve human remains by the injection or external application of antiseptics, disinfectants or preservative...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7641
  It is unlawful for any person to embalm a body, or engage in, or hold himself or herself out as engaged in practice as an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7642
  An application for an embalmer's license shall be written on a form provided by the bureau, verified by the applicant, and accompanied by the fee...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7643
  In order to qualify for a license as an embalmer, the applicant shall comply with all of the following requirements: (a) Be over 18 years...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7646
  (a) The bureau shall require the applicant to pass both of the following: (1) The sciences section of the national examination administered by the International...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7647
  Examinations shall be administered at times and places determined by the bureau and the International Conference of Funeral Service Examining Boards. The bureau shall give...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7647.5
  Where a hearing is held to determine whether an application for a license should be granted, the proceeding shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7648
  No embalmer's license is assignable, and only the licensee may engage in the practice of embalming under the license.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7649
  Except as provided in Section 102805 of the Health and Safety Code, whenever the name of any licensed embalmer is subscribed to any certificate, the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7650
  From time to time, the bureau may examine the requirements for the issuance of licenses to embalmers in other states of the United States and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7660
  An apprentice embalmer is a person engaged in the study of embalming under the instruction and supervision of a licensed embalmer who has had at...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7661
  An application for registration as an embalmer's apprentice shall be made upon a form provided by the bureau, verified by the applicant and accompanied by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7662
  In order to qualify as an apprentice embalmer, an applicant shall comply with all of the following requirements: (a) Be over 18 years of age....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7664
  Certificates of apprenticeship issued pursuant to this article shall expire when the holder has been issued a license as an embalmer, or six years from...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7665
  All registered apprentice embalmers shall comply with the following requirements during their period of apprenticeship: (a) Shall file a report of apprenticeship as follows: (1)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7666
  (a) The term of apprenticeship shall be two years. However, if an apprentice after having served his or her apprenticeship fails to pass the examinations...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7667
  (a) The bureau shall have the power to grant leaves of absence and extensions of leaves of absence and approve absences during the term of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7668
  The bureau may suspend or revoke a certificate of apprenticeship, after notice and upon complaint and hearing in accordance with the provisions of Article 6,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7669
  An apprentice who has had his or her certificate of apprenticeship suspended or revoked may, within one year after the suspension or revocation apply for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7670
  (a) The apprenticeship required by this article shall be served in a licensed funeral establishment that shall have been previously approved for apprenticeship training by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7671
  No person who is a duly registered apprentice or a student at an approved mortuary science program in California at the time of any amendment...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7680
  Every license issued shall be displayed conspicuously in the place of business or employment of the licensee. The form and content of every license issued...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7685
  (a) (1) Every funeral director shall provide to any person, upon beginning discussion of prices or of the funeral goods and services offered, a written...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7685.1
  (a) The funeral director shall in a conspicuous manner place the price on each casket. Individual price tags on caskets shall include the thickness of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7685.2
  (a) No funeral director shall enter into a contract for furnishing services or property in connection with the burial or other disposal of human remains...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7685.3
  The current address, telephone number, and name of the Department of Consumer Affairs, Cemetery and Funeral Bureau shall appear on the first page of any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7685.5
  (a) The bureau shall make available to funeral establishments and cemetery authorities a copy of a consumer guide for funeral and cemetery purchases for purposes...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7685.6
  (a) Every funeral establishment, prior to drafting any contract for funeral goods or services, shall present to the survivor of the deceased who is handling...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7686
  The bureau may suspend or revoke licenses, after proper notice and hearing to the licensee, if the licensee has been found guilty by the bureau...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7686.5
  All accusations against licensees shall be filed with the bureau within two years after the performance of the act or omission alleged as the ground...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7687
  Upon receipt of a complaint, the bureau may make or cause to be made such investigation as it deems necessary.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7690
  The bureau may discipline every accused licensee whose default has been entered or who has been tried and found guilty, after formal hearing, of any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7691
  Conviction of a crime substantially related to the qualifications, functions and duties of the license holder in question constitutes a ground for disciplinary action. The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7692
  Misrepresentation or fraud in the conduct of the business or the profession of a funeral director or embalmer constitutes a ground for disciplinary action.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7692.5
  Any false or misleading statement regarding any law or regulation pertaining to the preparation for burial, transportation for burial, or burial of the dead, made...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7693
  False or misleading advertising as a funeral establishment, funeral director, or embalmer constitutes a ground for disciplinary action.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7694
  Solicitation, after a death or while a death is impending, of funeral directing or embalming business by the licensee, or by the agents, assistants or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7695
  Employment by the licensee of persons known as "cappers" or "steerers" or "solicitors," or other such persons to solicit, after a death or while a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7696
  Employment, directly or indirectly, of any apprentice, agent, assistant, embalmer, employee or other person, on part or full time, or on commission, for the purpose...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7697
  The buying, after a death or while a death is impending, of funeral directing and embalming business by the licensee, the licensee's agents, assistants or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7699
  Aiding or abetting an unlicensed person to practice funeral directing or embalming constitutes a ground for disciplinary action.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7700
  Using profane, indecent, or obscene language in the course of the preparation for burial, removal, or other disposition of, or during the funeral service for,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7701
  Solicitation or acceptance by a licensee of any commission or bonus or rebate in consideration of recommending or causing human remains to be disposed of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7701.5
  Solicitation or acceptance by a licensee of any commission or bonus or rebate in consideration of recommending or causing the purchase of flowers from any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7702
  Using any casket or part of a casket which has previously been used as a receptacle for, or in connection with the burial or other...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7703
  Violation of any of the provisions of this chapter or of the rules and regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter constitutes a ground for disciplinary
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7704
  Violation of any state law or municipal or county ordinance or regulation affecting the handling, custody, care or transportation of human remains constitutes a ground...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7705
  Fraud or misrepresentation in obtaining a license constitutes a ground for disciplinary action.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7706
  Refusing to surrender promptly the custody of human remains, the personal effects, and any certificate or permit required under Division 102 (commencing with Section 102100)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7707
  Gross negligence, gross incompetence or unprofessional conduct in the practice of funeral directing or embalming constitutes a ground for disciplinary action.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7708
  The bureau, after a hearing, may deny the application of a funeral establishment, funeral director, embalmer, or apprentice embalmer on proof that the applicant has...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7709
  A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere is deemed to be a conviction within the meaning of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7711
  When a funeral establishment, funeral director or embalmer has had his, or her, or its license suspended, canceled, or revoked by the bureau, the bureau,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7715
  Any person, partnership, association, corporation, or other form of organization, or any agent or representative thereof, who violates any of the provisions of this chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7716
  Every funeral establishment, funeral director or embalmer, or the agents or representatives thereof, who, after a death or while a death is impending, pays, offers...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7717
  Every person, who pays or causes to be paid or offers to pay to any funeral establishment, funeral director or embalmer, or to the agent,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7717.5
  Every person who pays or causes to be paid or offers to pay to any funeral establishment, funeral director or embalmer, or to the agent,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7718
  Every person who, after a death or while a death is impending, solicits or accepts any sum of money or other valuable consideration, directly or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7718.5
  Every person as an individual, as a partner in a partnership or as an officer or employee of a corporation, association or other organization, who,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7719
  Every person guilty of a misdemeanor under the provisions of this chapter, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7725
  A license issued under this chapter shall expire each year on the last day of the month in which the license was originally issued. To...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7725.2
  Except as otherwise provided in this article, a license that has expired may be renewed at any time within five years after its expiration on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7725.3
  A suspended license is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article, but such renewal does not entitle the holder of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7725.4
  A revoked license is subject to expiration as provided in this article, but it may not be renewed. If it is reinstated after its expiration,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7725.5
  A license that is not renewed within five years after its expiration may not be renewed, restored, reissued, or reinstated thereafter. The holder of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7727
  On or before the 10th day of each month, the department shall pay into the State Treasury and report to the State Controller all the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7729
  The amount of the fees prescribed by this chapter shall be fixed according to the following schedule with the minimum amount specified being the amount...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7735
  No funeral establishment licensed under the laws of the State of California, or the agents or employees of a funeral establishment, shall enter into or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7735.5
  The preneed funeral arrangement contract shall clearly state if benefits are unavailable or limited for any reason.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7736
  For the purposes of this article the term "trustee" shall mean any banking institution or trust company legally authorized and empowered by the State of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7737
  All securities purchased by the trustor for deposit in trust and all money received from the trustor for deposit in trust shall be placed in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7737.3
  All commingled preneed trust funds held by a funeral establishment shall be subject to an annual, independent certified financial audit with a copy of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7737.5
  A trustee may deposit the corpus of the trust in any financial institution insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7737.7
  A trustee may deposit the corpus of the trust in any credit union which is insured by the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7738
  A licensed funeral establishment that is also a licensed cemetery authority shall not deposit any money or securities received in connection with preneed funeral arrangements...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7739
  Any person willfully violating the provisions of this article or any of them shall be punishable either by imprisonment in a county jail for a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7740
  The bureau is authorized to enforce of its own initiative the provisions of this article and may adopt such rules and regulations as in its...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7740.5
  A funeral establishment shall pay to the bureau the fee fixed by this chapter for filing with the bureau any report on preneed trust funds...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7741
  Nothing in this article shall apply to cemetery property; cemetery commodities; cemetery service; or merchandise that is delivered as soon as paid for.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7742
  Nothing in this article shall apply to any arrangement, contract or plan for the issuance of securities now or hereafter authorized under a permit of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7745
  Every funeral establishment shall present to the survivor of the deceased who is handling the funeral arrangements or the responsible party a copy of any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7746
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a funeral establishment that is otherwise exempt from the requirement of filing an annual preneed trust report or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7800
  This chapter of the Business and Professions Code constitutes the chapter on geologists and geophysicists. It may be cited as the Geologist and Geophysicist Act.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7801
  (a) "Board," as used in this chapter, means the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists established under Section 6710. Any reference in any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7802
  "Geology," as used in this chapter, refers to that science which treats of the earth in general; investigation of the earth's crust and the rocks...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7802.1
  "Geophysics," as used in this chapter, refers to that science which involves study of the physical earth by means of measuring its natural and induced...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7803
  "Geologist," as used in this chapter, refers to a person engaged in the practice of geology.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7803.1
  "Geophysicist," as used in this chapter, refers to a person engaged in the practice of geophysics.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7804
  Only a person registered as a geologist under the provisions of this chapter shall be entitled to take and use the title "professional geologist." Only...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7804.1
  Only a person registered as a geophysicist under the provisions of this chapter shall be entitled to take and use the title "professional geophysicist." Only...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7805
  The term "responsible charge of work" means the independent control and direction by the use of initiative, skill and independent judgment of geological or geophysical...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7806
  A subordinate is any person who assists a professional geologist or professional geophysicist in the practice of geology or geophysics without assuming the responsible charge...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7807
  A qualified geologist is a person who possesses all the qualifications specified in Section 7841 for registration except that he is not registered.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7807.1
  A qualified geophysicist is a person who possesses all the qualifications specified in Section 7841.1 for registration except that he is not registered.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7810.1
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the board in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions pursuant to this chapter. Whenever...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7818
  The board, pursuant to the provisions contained in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11371) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7819
  Except as otherwise provided by law, all records of the board shall be open to inspection by the public during regular office hours.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7820
  The board shall have and use a seal bearing the name "Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists."
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7821
  The board shall compile and maintain, or may have compiled and maintained on its behalf, a register of all licensees that contains the licensee's name,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7822
  The board may, by regulation, provide for the division of the certification of registration into different specialties, including, but not limited to, petroleum, mining, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7825
  The board shall establish relations with bodies which regulate the practice of geology and geophysics, or closely related geologic and geophysical disciplines, or which register...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7826
  The board may establish one or more technical advisory committees to advise and assist the board with respect to the following: (a) Application review and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7826.1
  Each member of each technical advisory committee shall be appointed by the board and shall serve at the pleasure of the board. Each committee shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7826.2
  Each member of each technical advisory committee shall be an expert in the area of geology or geophysics within the committee's jurisdiction and shall be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7826.3
  All the members of each technical advisory committee shall serve without compensation but shall receive per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7826.4
  Each member of each technical advisory committee shall be granted the same immunity as is granted to a public employee pursuant to Article 3 (commencing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7830
  It is unlawful for anyone other than a geologist registered under this chapter to stamp or seal any plans, specifications, plats, reports, or other documents...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7830.1
  It is unlawful for anyone other than a geophysicist registered under this chapter to stamp or seal any plans, specifications, plats, reports, or other documents...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7831
  It is unlawful for anyone to stamp or seal any plans, specifications, plats, reports, or other documents with the seal after the certificate of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7832
  Any person, except as in this chapter specifically exempted, who shall practice or offer to practice geology or geophysics for others in this state is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7833
  This chapter does not prohibit one or more geologists or geophysicists from practicing through the entity of a sole proprietorship, partnership, or corporation. In a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7834
  This chapter does not prevent or prohibit an individual, firm, company, association or corporation whose principal business is other than the practice of geology or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7835
  All geologic plans, specifications, reports, or documents shall be prepared by a professional geologist or registered certified specialty geologist, or by a subordinate employee under...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7835.1
  All geophysical plans, specifications, reports, or documents shall be prepared by a professional geophysicist, registered certified specialty geophysicist, professional geologist, registered certified specialty geologist, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7836
  Officers and employees of the United States of America practicing solely as such officers or employees are exempt from registration under the provisions of this
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7837
  A subordinate to a geologist or geophysicist registered under this chapter, insofar as he or she acts solely in that capacity, is exempt from registration...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7838
  A civil engineer empowered to practice civil engineering in this state, and a petroleum engineer registered in this state, under provisions of Chapter 7 (commencing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7839
  This chapter shall not empower a geologist or geophysicist registered under this chapter to practice or offer to practice civil engineering and any of its...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7839.1
  This chapter shall not empower a geologist registered under this chapter to practice or offer to practice geophysics for others in this state except as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7840
  An application for registration as a geologist or for registration as a geophysicist shall be made to the board on a form prescribed by it...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7841
  An applicant for registration as a geologist shall have all the following qualifications: (a) Not have committed any acts or crimes constituting grounds for denial...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7841.1
  An applicant for registration as a geophysicist shall have all of the following qualifications. This section shall not apply to applicants for registration as geologists....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7841.2
  An applicant for certification as a geologist-in-training shall comply with all of the following: (a) Not have committed acts or crimes constituting grounds for denial...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7842
  An applicant for certification in a specialty in geology shall meet all of the requirements of Section 7841 and, in addition, his seven years of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7842.1
  An applicant for certification in a specialty in geophysics shall meet all of the requirements of Section 7841.1 and in addition, his seven years of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7843
  (a) An applicant for certification as a geologist-in-training shall, upon making a passing grade in the National Association of State Boards of Geology's Fundamentals of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7844
  Examination for registration shall be held at the times and places within the state as the board shall determine. The scope of examinations and the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7845
  Examinations for registration as a geologist or registered certified specialty geologist shall test the applicant's knowledge of geology and of any established specialty for which...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7845.1
  Examinations for registration as a geophysicist or registered certified specialty geophysicist shall test the applicant' s knowledge basic to geophysics and his ability to apply...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7846
  An applicant failing in an examination may be examined again upon filing a new application and the payment of the application fee fixed by this
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7847
  The board, upon application therefor, on its prescribed form, and upon the payment of the application and registration fees fixed by this chapter, which fees...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7848
  A temporary authorization for the practice of geology or a certified specialty geology, or both geology and a certified specialty geology, may be granted, for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7848.1
  A temporary authorization for the practice of geophysics or a certified specialty geophysics, or both geophysics and a certified specialty geophysics, may be granted, for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7850
  Any applicant who has passed the examination and has otherwise qualified hereunder as a geologist, upon payment of the registration fee fixed by this chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7850.1
  Any applicant who has passed the examination and has otherwise qualified hereunder as a geophysicist, upon payment of the registration fee fixed by this chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7850.5
  An applicant who has passed the examination for a certified specialty geologist and has otherwise qualified under this chapter in the specialty, upon payment of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7850.6
  An applicant who has passed the examination for a certified specialty geophysicist and has otherwise qualified under this chapter in the specialty, upon payment of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7852
  (a) Each geologist registered under this chapter may, upon registration, obtain a seal of the design authorized by the board bearing the registrant's name, number...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7852.1
  (a) Each geophysicist registered under this chapter may, upon registration, obtain a seal of the design authorized by the board bearing the registrant's name, number...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7853
  A duplicate certificate of registration to replace one lost, destroyed, or mutilated may be issued subject to the rules and regulations of the board. The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7854
  An unsuspended, unrevoked and unexpired certificate and endorsement of registry made under this chapter is presumptive evidence in all courts and places that the person...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7855
  Any applicant who is denied registration or authorization shall, in writing, be so notified and informed of the reason therefor. Within 30 days after receipt...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7860
  (a) The board may, upon its own initiative or upon the receipt of a complaint, investigate the actions of any professional geologist, geophysicist, or person...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7861
  The proceedings under this article shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7862
  The board may reissue a certificate of registration, certification, or authority, to any person whose certificate has been revoked if a majority of the members...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7863
  A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge substantially related to the qualifications, functions...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7870
  The board shall have the power, duty and authority to investigate violations of the provisions of this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7871
  It shall be the duty of the respective officers charged with the enforcement of laws and ordinances to prosecute all persons charged with the violation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7872
  Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor and for each offense of which he or she is convicted is punishable by a fine of not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7873
  Whenever any person has engaged in or is about to engage in any act or practice which constitutes or which, in the opinion of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7880
  A certificate of registration as a geologist or as a specialty geologist or as a geophysicist or as a specialty geophysicist shall expire at 12...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7881
  Except as otherwise provided in this article, certificates of registration as a geologist or as a geophysicist, or certified specialty certificates, may be renewed at...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7882
  A suspended certificate is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article, but such renewal does not entitle the holder of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7883
  A revoked certificate is subject to expiration as provided in this article, but it may not be renewed. If it is reinstated after its expiration,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7884
  Certificates of registration as a geologist or as a geophysicist or certified specialty certificates which are not renewed within five years after expiration may not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7885
  (a) The board shall report each month to the State Controller the amount and source of all revenue received by it pursuant to this chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7886
  The moneys paid into the Geology and Geophysics Account of the Professional Engineer's and Land Surveyor's Fund pursuant to this chapter are hereby appropriated to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 7887
  The amount of the fees prescribed by this chapter shall be fixed by the board in accordance with the following schedule: (a) The fee for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8000
  There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs a Court Reporters Board of California, which consists of five members, three of whom shall be public...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8001
  Appointment as a member of the board shall be for a term of four years. Members of the board shall hold office until the appointment...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8002
  Each member of the board shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8003
  At each yearly meeting a chairman and vice chairman shall be elected from the membership of the board. Three members shall constitute a quorum for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8004
  The expenses of the members of the board and the expenses of the board that are necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8005
  The Court Reporters Board of California is charged with the executive functions necessary for effectuating the purposes of this chapter. It may appoint committees as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8005.1
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Court Reporters Board of California in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8007
  The board shall: (a) Determine the qualifications of persons applying for certificates under this chapter. (b) Make rules for the examination of applicants and the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8008
  The board has the following powers and duties: (a) To adopt a seal. (b) By affirmative vote of at least three members of the board,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8009
  Disciplinary proceedings under this chapter shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 5 of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8010
  Information regarding a complaint against a specific licensee may not be disclosed to the public until an accusation has been filed by the board and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8011
  The board shall promulgate, by regulation, a definition of a "full-time student" for the purposes of this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8015
  This chapter is designed to establish and maintain a standard of competency for those engaged in the practice of shorthand reporting, for the protection of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8016
  No person shall engage in the practice of shorthand reporting as defined in this chapter, unless that person is the holder of a certificate in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8017
  The practice of shorthand reporting is defined as the making, by means of written symbols or abbreviations in shorthand or machine shorthand writing, of a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8018
  Any natural person holding a valid certificate as a shorthand reporter, as provided in this chapter, shall be known as a "certified shorthand reporter." Except...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8019
  A violation of any provision of this chapter is a misdemeanor. Any person who directly or indirectly assists in or abets the violation of, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8020
  Any person over the age of 18 years, who has not committed any acts or crimes constituting grounds for the denial of licensure under Sections...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8021
  Examinations shall be held at least semiannually, and at such times and places as the board may designate.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8022
  (a) Each applicant for a certificate under this chapter shall file an application with the executive officer, on a form as prescribed by the board....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8023
  No certificate shall be issued until the applicant has passed the examination prescribed by the board.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8023.5
  If an applicant for a certificate is from a country where the principal language spoken is one other than English, the board may, in addition...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8024
  All certificates issued under this chapter shall be valid for a period of one year, except for the initial period of licensure as prescribed by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8024.1
  Every person to whom a certificate is issued shall, as a condition precedent to its issuance, and in addition to any other fee which may...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8024.2
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this article, a certificate that has expired may be renewed at any time within the period set forth in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8024.3
  A suspended certificate is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article, but such renewal does not entitle the holder of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8024.4
  A revoked certificate is subject to expiration as provided in this article, but it may not be renewed. If it is reinstated after its expiration,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8024.5
  A certificate that is not renewed within three years after its expiration may not be renewed, restored, reinstated, or reissued thereafter. The holder of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8024.6
  (a) A certificate holder shall give written notice to the board at its office in Sacramento of a name change within 30 days after each...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8024.7
  The board shall establish an inactive category of licensure for persons who are not actively engaged in the practice of shorthand reporting. (a) The holder...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8025
  A certificate issued under this chapter may be suspended, revoked, denied, or other disciplinary action may be imposed for one or more of the following...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8025.1
  (a) In addition to the causes for discipline or denial of certification set forth in Section 8025, the board may suspend or revoke any certificate,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8026
  A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge substantially related to the qualifications, functions...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8027
  (a) As used in this section, "school" means a court reporter training program or an institution that provides a course of instruction approved by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8027.5
  In addition to the authority to conduct disciplinary proceedings under this chapter, the board, through its duly authorized representatives, shall have authority to issue administrative...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8030
  All fees and other revenues received by the board shall be reported promptly to the State Controller and shall be deposited with the State Treasurer...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8030.2
  (a) To provide shorthand reporting services to low-income litigants in civil cases, who are unable to otherwise afford those services, funds generated by fees received...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8030.4
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Qualified legal services project" means a nonprofit project incorporated and operated exclusively in California that provides as its primary...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8030.5
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (e) of Section 8030.4, as used in this chapter the term "applicant" also means an indigent person, as defined in subdivision (f)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8030.6
  The board shall disburse funds from the Transcript Reimbursement Fund for the costs, exclusive of per diem charges by official reporters, of preparing either an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8030.8
  (a) For purposes of this chapter, documentation accompanying an invoice is sufficient to establish entitlement for reimbursement from the Transcript Reimbursement Fund if it is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8031
  The amount of the fees required by this chapter is that fixed by the board in accordance with the following schedule: (a) The fee for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8040
  A shorthand reporting corporation is a corporation which is authorized to render professional services, as defined in Section 13401 of the Corporations Code, as long...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8042
  It shall constitute unprofessional conduct and a violation of this chapter for any person licensed under this chapter to violate, attempt to violate, directly or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8043
  The name of a shorthand reporting corporation and any name or names under which it may be rendering professional services shall contain and be restricted...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8044
  Except as provided in Section 13403 of the Corporations Code, each director, shareholder, and officer of a shorthand reporting corporation shall be a licensed person...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8045
  The income of a shorthand reporting corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shareholder is a disqualified person, as defined by Section 13401 of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8046
  A shorthand reporting corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which or the failure to do which would constitute...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8047
  The board may formulate and enforce rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this article, including rules and regulations requiring (a) that the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8500
  Unless the text otherwise requires, the general provisions hereinafter set forth govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8501
  "Director" refers to the Director of Pesticide Regulation.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8502
  "Board" refers to the Structural Pest Control Board within the Department of Pesticide Regulation.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8503
  "Registrar" refers to the registrar of the Structural Pest Control Board.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8503.5
  "Committee" means the Disciplinary Review Committee established pursuant to Section 8660.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8504
  "Person" includes an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, association or other organization or any combination thereof.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8505
  "Structural pest control" and "pest control" as used in this chapter are synonymous. Except as provided in Section 8555 and elsewhere in this chapter, it...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8505.1
  (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), for the purpose of this act, "fumigation" shall be defined as the use within an enclosed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8505.2
  Fumigation shall be performed only under the direct and personal supervision of an individual who is licensed by the board as an operator or field...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8505.3
  "Direct and personal supervision" as used in Section 8505.2 means that the Branch 1 licensee exercising that supervision shall be present at the site of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8505.4
  Fumigation shall be performed in compliance with all applicable state, county, and city laws and ordinances and all applicable laws and regulations of the United
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8505.5
  Notice of the date and place of fumigation, and chemicals to be used, shall be given by the fumigator to the fire department serving the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8505.6
  During the process of fumigation the room or apartment being fumigated, together with all rooms and apartments, including rooms or apartments on the same floor...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8505.7
  The space to be fumigated shall be vacated by all occupants prior to the commencement of fumigation, and all entrances thereto shall be locked, barricaded,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8505.8
  Prior to the commencement of fumigation, the space to be fumigated shall be sealed in such manner that tests taken before ventilation is begun will...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8505.9
  Prior to the commencement of fumigation, warning signs shall be posted in plainly visible locations on or in the immediate vicinity of all entrances to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8505.10
  Warning signs shall be printed in red on white background and shall contain the following statement in letters not less than two inches in height:...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8505.11
  If the structure which has been fumigated has an attic or if the area underneath such structure is accessible to inspection for purposes of structural...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8505.12
  A registered company performing fumigation shall use an adequate warning agent with all fumigants which lack such properties. When conditions involving abnormal hazards exist, the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8505.13
  A registered company shall maintain a log of each fumigation job performed by it in this state. The log shall be in the form required...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8505.14
  "Fumigator" means any individual licensed by the board as a structural pest control operator or as a structural pest control field representative in the branch...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8505.16
  All fumigators shall be familiar with and able to administer artificial respiration by the best method or methods recommended currently by the Red Cross in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8505.17
  (a) There is hereby continued in existence in the State Treasury a special fund to be known as the Structural Pest Control Education and Enforcement...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8506
  (a) "Structural pest control operator" is any individual licensed by the board to practice structural pest control. (b) As used in this chapter, "operator" refers...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8506.1
  A "registered company" is any sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, or other organization or any combination thereof that is registered with the Structural Pest Control Board...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8506.2
  A "qualifying manager" is the licensed operator or operators designated by a registered company to supervise the daily business of the company and to be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8507
  (a) "Structural pest control field representative" is any individual who is licensed by the board to secure structural pest control work, identify infestations or infections,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8507.1
  (a) "Structural pest control applicator" is any individual who is licensed by the board to apply a pesticide, rodenticide, or allied chemicals or substances for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8508
  "Household" means any structure and its contents which are used for man and his convenience.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8509
  "Branch office" is any fixed place of business in addition to the location of the principal office for which the company registration is issued, where...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8510
  For purposes of this chapter, "wood preservative" means any coating formulated to protect wood surfaces from deterioration caused by insects, fungus, rot, and decay and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8511
  "Manufacturer" is a person engaged in the processing of materials used in the practice of pest control, but who does not himself engage in such
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8512
  "Employer" refers to a registered company that employs operators, field representatives, applicators, and other individuals, the latter not being required to be licensed under this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8513
  (a) The board shall prescribe a form entitled "Notice to Owner" that shall describe, in nontechnical language and in a clear and coherent manner using...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8513
  (a) The board shall prescribe a form entitled "Notice to Owner" that shall describe, in nontechnical language and in a clear and coherent manner using...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8514
  No registered company shall commence work on a contract, or sign, issue, or deliver any documents expressing an opinion or statement relating to the control...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8514.5
  It is unlawful for any registered company under this chapter when billing for any subcontracted work authorized under Section 8514, to charge, bill, or otherwise...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8515
  Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit a company registered hereunder from authorizing an officer, partner, or employee to submit bids, after an inspection by an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8516
  (a) This section, and Section 8519, apply only to wood destroying pests or organisms. (b) No registered company or licensee shall commence work on a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8516.5
  Any registered company that makes an inspection of any property relating to the absence or presence of wood destroying pests or organisms on such property...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8517
  Any work contract, billing, agreement, letter of work completed, or other correspondence or document expressing an opinion or making a statement relating to the presence...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8518
  When a registered company completes work under a contract, it shall prepare, on a form prescribed by the board, a notice of work completed and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8519
  Certification as used in this section means a written statement by the registered company attesting to the statement contained therein relating to the absence or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8519.5
  (a) After an inspection report has been prepared by a Branch 3 registered company pursuant to Section 8516, which discloses a wood destroying pest that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8520
  (a) There is in the Department of Pesticide Regulation a Structural Pest Control Board, which consists of seven members. (b) Subject to the jurisdiction conferred...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8520.1
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Structural Pest Control Board in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8520.2
  (a) The Structural Pest Control Board is hereby transferred from the jurisdiction of the Department of Consumer Affairs and placed under the jurisdiction of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8521
  The board is composed of seven members, three of whom shall be, and shall have been for a period of not less than five years...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8522
  (a) Members of the board shall be appointed for a term of four years, subject to removal by the appointing power at his or her...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8523
  The board shall organize and elect a president who shall serve for one year. The board shall meet annually during the month of October. Special...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8524
  Four members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, for the performance of any duty, or the exercise of any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8525
  The board, subject to the approval of the director, may, in accordance with Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8526
  Each member of the board shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8527
  The board shall adopt and use a seal. The seal shall have the words "Structural Pest Control Board, State of California," and such other devices...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8528
  With the approval of the director, the board shall appoint a registrar, fix his or her compensation, and prescribe his or her duties. The registrar...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8529
  The registrar, with the approval of the board and of the director, and subject to the State Civil Service Act, may appoint and fix the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8530
  The board, with the approval of the director, may establish the main office of the board, and branch offices of the board in any city...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8531
  The registrar shall keep a complete record of the board's actions, and shall maintain at the office of the board a complete index record of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8531.5
  The board shall prepare minutes of its annual meeting and any special meetings, which shall be permanently maintained at the office of the registrar.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8532
  Copies of all records and papers in the office of the board, certified by the registrar under the seal of the board shall be received...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8533
  Whenever funds are available for the purpose, the registrar, at the discretion of the board, may publish, or cause to be published, a roster of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8534
  Whenever funds are available for the purpose, the registrar, at the direction of the board, may publish and disseminate to individuals licensed and companies registered...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8535
  The registrar, and any member of the board, may administer oaths for the purpose of administering this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8536
  No manufacturer, his or her agents or employees, nor any person who is a consultant of or connected with any manufacturer, shall be appointed to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8538
  (a) A registered structural pest control company shall provide the owner, or owner's agent, and tenant of the premises for which the work is to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8550
  (a) It is unlawful for any individual to engage or offer to engage in the business or practice of structural pest control, as defined in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8551
  It is unlawful for any unlicensed person to perform fumigation with dangerous or lethal fumigating chemicals in any public structure, including rooming houses, or households...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8551.5
  No unlicensed individual in the employ of a registered company shall apply any pesticide, rodenticide, or allied chemicals or substances for the purpose of eliminating,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8552
  It is unlawful for any person to advertise or represent in any manner that any pest control work, in whole or in part, has been...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8553
  Any person who violates any provision of this chapter, or who conspires with another person to violate any provision of this chapter, is guilty of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8554
  No individual engaged in the business or acting in the capacity of an operator may bring or maintain an action in any court of this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8555
  This chapter does not apply to: (a) Public utilities operating under the regulations of the Public Utilities Commission, except to work performed upon property of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8556
  (a) Licensed contractors acting in their capacity as such, may remove and replace any structure or portions of a structure damaged by wood destroying pests...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8557
  No city, county, or city and county shall prohibit a person or group of persons, authorized by the board by a license, certificate, or other...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8560
  (a) Licenses issued to operators, field representatives, or applicators shall be limited to the branch or branches of pest control for which the applicant has...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8561
  Any individual 18 years of age or over may apply for a license as an operator. The applicant shall possess the qualifications and be examined...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8562
  To obtain an original operator's license, an applicant shall submit to the registrar an application in writing containing the statement that the applicant desires the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8563
  Any individual 18 years of age or over may apply for a license as field representative. The applicant shall possess the qualifications and be examined...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8564
  To obtain an original field representative's license, an applicant shall submit to the registrar an application in writing containing a statement that the applicant desires...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8564.5
  (a) Any individual 18 years of age or older may apply for a license as applicator. (b) The board shall ascertain by written examination that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8564.6
  To obtain an original applicator's license, an applicant shall submit to the registrar an application in writing containing a statement that the applicant requests the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8565
  The board shall ascertain by written examination that an applicant for a license as operator is qualified in the use and understanding of all of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8565.5
  (a) An applicant for a Branch 1 operator's license shall demonstrate to the board that he or she has passed satisfactorily board-approved courses in the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8565.6
  An applicant for a Branch 2 license may elect to be certified in the handling, control, and techniques of removal of Africanized honey bees. The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8566
  The board shall ascertain by written examination that an applicant for a license as field representative is qualified in the use and understanding of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8566.5
  An individual shall be permitted to hold only one license in the same branch at the same time. If an individual who holds an operator's...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8567
  Should a field representative or applicator change his or her employment, or should an operator enter the employ of a registered company, or being already...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8568
  After a hearing the board may deny a license or a company registration unless the applicant makes a showing satisfactory to the board that the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8569
  In addition to the partner or other individual designated as the qualifying manager for a registered company which is organized as a partnership, if any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8570
  In addition to the officer or other individual designated as the qualifying manager for a registered company which is organized as an association or corporation,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8571
  If the licensed operator who is designated as the qualifying manager for a registered company ceases for any reason whatsoever to be connected with the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8572
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board may, in its sole discretion, issue a probationary license to an applicant subject to terms and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8590
  Except as otherwise provided herein, all operator's and field representative's licenses shall expire at 12 midnight on June 30 of every third year and all...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8590.1
  All applicator's licenses shall expire at 12 midnight three years from the date of issue. Every applicator shall pay a fee for the renewal of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8591
  If delinquency in the payment of the fee for renewal of any license extends beyond three months, the license shall not be reinstated and the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8592
  Any licensee whose license is under suspension may make application for renewal of his or her license as provided in this article, but the board...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8593
  The board shall require as a condition to the renewal of each operator's and field representative's license that the holder submit proof satisfactory to the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8593.1
  The board shall require as a condition to the renewal of each applicator's license that the holder thereof submit proof satisfactory to the board that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8610
  (a) Every company that engages in the practice of structural pest control, as a sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, or other organization or any combination thereof,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8611
  Each branch office shall have a branch supervisor designated by the registered company to supervise and assist the company's employees who are located at that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8612
  The licenses of qualifying managers and company registrations shall be prominently displayed in the registered company's office, and no registration issued hereunder shall authorize the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8613
  A registered company which changes the location of its principal office or any branch office or which changes its qualifying manager, branch supervisor, officers, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8616
  The Director of Pesticide Regulation shall be designated by the board as its agent for the purposes of carrying out Section 8616.4. The board and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8616.4
  The Director of Pesticide Regulation shall designate county agricultural commissioners as his or her representatives to carry out the provisions of Sections 8616.5, 8616.7, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8616.5
  (a) The county agricultural commissioner shall be the lead agency for inspections and routine investigations of pesticide use by the board licensees and registered companies,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8616.6
  The Director of Pesticide Regulation shall be notified by the board when it determines that persons acting pursuant to Sections 8616 and 8616.4 have not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8616.7
  When a county agricultural commissioner is acting, pursuant to Section 8616.4, only the commissioner may conduct inspections and routine investigations pursuant to Section 8616.5 and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8616.9
  If an employee is found during an inspection or investigation not wearing personal protective equipment required by regulation, the commissioner shall have the option to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8617
  (a) The board or county agricultural commissioners, when acting pursuant to Section 8616.4, may suspend the right of a structural pest control licensee or registered...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8617.5
  Regulations adopted pursuant to Section 11503 of the Food and Agricultural Code are not applicable to this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8618
  Documents as specified by regulation must be maintained by all registered companies for three years.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8619
  (a) An inspection tag shall be posted whenever an inspection for wood destroying pests or organisms is made. (b) If the registered company completes any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8620
  The board may upon its own motion, and shall upon verified complaint in writing of any person, investigate the actions of any individual acting as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8621
  All complaints against licensees or registered companies shall be filed with the board within two years after the act or omission alleged as the ground...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8622
  When a complaint is accepted for investigation of a registered company, the board, through an authorized representative, may inspect any or all properties on which...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8623
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 8620 or any other provision of law, the board may revoke, suspend, or deny at any time a license under this chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8624
  If the board suspends or revokes an operator's license and one or more branch offices are registered under the name of the operator, the suspension...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8625
  The lapsing or suspension of a license or company registration by operation of law or by order or decision of the board or a court...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8632
  The suspension or revocation of a license or a company registration as in this chapter provided may also be ordered in any action otherwise proper...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8635
  Departure from, or disregard of, plans or specifications in the performance of structural pest control work in any material respect, without consent of the owner...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8636
  Disregard and violation of the buildings laws of the state, or of any of its political subdivisions, or of the safety laws, labor laws, health...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8637
  Misrepresentation of a material fact by the applicant in obtaining a license or company registration is a ground for disciplinary action.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8638
  Failure on the part of a registered company to complete any operation or construction repairs for the price stated in the contract for such operation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8639
  Aiding or abetting an unlicensed individual or unregistered company to evade the provisions of this chapter or knowingly combining or conspiring with an unlicensed individual...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8640
  Payment, or the offer to pay, by any licensee or registered company to any party to a real estate transaction of any commission, bonus, rebate,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8641
  Failure to comply with the provisions of this chapter, or any rule or regulation adopted by the board, or the furnishing of a report of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8642
  The commission of any grossly negligent or fraudulent act by the licensee as a pest control operator, field representative, or applicator or by a registered...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8643
  The negligent handling or use of any poisonous exterminating agent is a ground for disciplinary action.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8644
  Fraud or misrepresentation, after inspection, by any licensee or registered company engaged in pest control work of any infestation or infection of wood-destroying pests or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8645
  Impersonation of any state, county or city inspector or official is a ground for disciplinary action.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8646
  Disregard and violation of pesticide use and application, structural pest control device, fumigation, or extermination laws of the state or of any of its political...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8646.5
  A notice of noncompliance shall be issued to a licensee or registered company whenever an authorized representative of the board finds that a pesticide application,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8647
  Failure to comply in the sale or use of insecticides with the provisions of Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 12751) of Division 7 of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8648
  Authorizing, directing, conniving at or aiding in the publication, advertisement, distribution or circulation of any material by false statement or representation concerning a registered company's...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8649
  Conviction of a crime substantially related to the qualifications, functions, and duties of a structural pest control operator, field representative, applicator, or registered company is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8650
  Acting in the capacity of a licensee or registered company under any of the licenses or registrations issued hereunder except: (a) In the name of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8651
  The performing or soliciting of structural pest control work, the inspecting for structural or household pests, or the applying of any pesticide, chemical, or allied...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8652
  Failure of a registered company to make and keep all inspection reports, field notes, contracts, documents, notices of work completed, and records, other than financial...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8653
  The failure of any registered company or agent or officer thereof, to pay any moneys due for any materials or services rendered in connection with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8654
  Any individual who has been denied a license for any of the reasons specified in Section 8568, or who has had his or her license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8655
  A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge substantially related to the qualifications, functions,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8656
  In addition to the remedies provided for in Section 125.9, when the licensee who is a registered company has failed to pay the fine assessed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8657
  The appointment of a receiver of the property of a licensee or registered company as provided in Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 564) of Title...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8658
  The board may bring an action to enjoin the violation of any provision of this chapter in any superior court in and for the county...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8660
  A disciplinary review committee consisting of three members shall be established for the purposes of reviewing appeals of orders issued pursuant to Section 8617. The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8662
  (a) Whenever the right of a structural pest control licensee or registered company to make pesticide applications is to be suspended or the licensee, registered...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8663
  (a) This section only applies to work conducted under a Branch 1 license. (b) The board or county agricultural commissioners, when acting pursuant to Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8664
  (a) This section only applies to work conducted under a Branch 1 license. (b) Before a fine can be levied pursuant to Section 8663, the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8665
  The fact that an applicator is licensed shall not affect any liability or responsibility for disciplinary action of any operator, field representative, or registered company...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8666
  It shall be unlawful for any licensee under this chapter to recommend or to perform any pest control corrective work under any contract or agreement...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8670
  As used in this chapter, "original operator's license" means an operator's license that is not a renewal license.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8671
  As used in this chapter, "renewal operator's license" means a license issued to an individual who had an operator's license unrevoked and unsuspended on June...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8672
  As used in this chapter, "original field representative's license" means a field representative's license issued to an individual who did not have a license on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8673
  License fees shall not be prorated unless an individual licensed as an operator and a field representative requests an earlier expiration date of one of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8674
  The fees prescribed by this chapter are the following: (a) A duplicate license fee of not more than two dollars ($2). (b) A fee for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8675
  The delinquent penalty for a renewal of any license issued under this chapter applied for after the expiration date of the license shall be 50...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8676
  The Department of Pesticide Regulation shall receive and account for all moneys collected under this chapter at the end of each month, and shall pay...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8690
  The board shall not issue any company registration under this chapter unless the applicant shall have filed with the board on a form prescribed by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8691
  No registered company shall engage in any of the practices for which it is required to be registered by this chapter unless it maintains such...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8692
  An "insurance policy" as used in this article means a contract of liability insurance issued by an insurance company authorized to transact business in this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8693
  In lieu of the insurance policy specified in this article an applicant for a company registration may file with the board a bond executed by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8695
  The violation of any provision of this article is a misdemeanor and shall be grounds for the suspension or revocation by the board of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8697
  Each company registered under the provisions of this chapter shall maintain a bond executed by an admitted surety insurer in the amount of four thousand...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8697.2
  The bonds required by this article shall be in favor of the State of California for the benefit of any person who, after entering into...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8697.3
  If, after a hearing conducted in accordance with Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8697.4
  Upon failure of a licensee or registered company to maintain in full force and effect any bond required by this article the registrar shall issue...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8697.5
  Such bonds as are required by this article shall be in addition to any bond which may be maintained pursuant to the provisions of Article...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8698
  The Director of the Department of Pesticide Regulation shall provide oversight for the purposes of carrying out Section 8698.1. The Los Angeles County Agricultural Commissioner,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8698.1
  (a) Any person who performs a structural fumigation in Los Angeles County, Orange County, Santa Clara County, or San Diego County shall pay to the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8698.2
  The Director of the Department of Pesticide Regulation may adopt regulations to carry out the provisions of this chapter. In adopting regulations the director shall,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8698.3
  (a) The Director of the Department of Pesticide Regulation may levy a civil penalty against a person violating this chapter, including any regulation adopted pursuant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8698.5
  Funds collected pursuant to this chapter shall be paid to the county and used for the sole purpose of funding enforcement and training activities directly...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8698.6
  This chapter shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2014, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, which is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8700
  This chapter may be cited as the Professional Land Surveyors' Act. Whenever reference is made to the Land Surveyors' Act by any statute, it shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8701
  "Professional land surveyor" refers to one who practices or offers to practice land surveying. Whenever reference is made to a land surveyor by any statute,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8702
  "Director" refers to the Director of Consumer Affairs.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8703
  The phrase "responsible charge of work" means the independent control and direction, by the use of initiative, skill, and independent judgment, of the observations, measurements,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8704
  Any person practices land surveying when he professes to be a land surveyor or is in responsible charge of land surveying work.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8705
  A subordinate is any person directly supervised by a licensed land surveyor or registered civil engineer and who assists a licensed land surveyor or registered...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8706
  "Board" refers to the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8707
  "Executive officer" refers to the executive officer of the board.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8708
  In order to safeguard property and public welfare, no person shall practice land surveying unless appropriately licensed or specifically exempted from licensure under this chapter,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8710
  (a) The Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists is vested with power to administer the provisions and requirements of this chapter, and may...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8710.1
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8711
  The executive officer of the board shall keep a complete record of all applications for license and the board's action thereon.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8712
  The board shall compile and maintain, or may have compiled and maintained on its behalf, a register of all licensed land surveyors that includes the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8713
  The department may employ such clerical assistance under civil service regulations as may be necessary properly to carry out and enforce the provisions of this
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8714
  The board shall establish relations with bodies that regulate the practice of professional land surveying, or closely related professions, or that register or license professional...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8715
  The board may establish licensed land surveyor technical advisory committees to advise and assist the board with respect to the following: (1) The review and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8715.1
  Each member of each technical advisory committee shall be appointed by the board and shall serve at the pleasure of the board. Each committee shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8715.2
  Each member of each technical advisory committee shall be licensed under this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8715.3
  All members of each technical advisory committee shall serve without compensation but shall receive per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8715.4
  Each member of each technical advisory committee shall be granted the same immunity as is granted to a public employee pursuant to Article 3 (commencing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8720
  The board, when it deems necessary, may establish land surveyors review committees to hear all matters assigned by the board, including, but not limited to,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8720.1
  Each review committee shall consist of no fewer than three licensed land surveyors appointed by the board. Each member of a committee shall have the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8720.2
  Each member of a committee shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8720.3
  Except as otherwise provided in this article, all hearings which are conducted by a committee shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of Chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8720.4
  At the conclusion of any hearing which is conducted by a committee, the committee shall prepare a proposed decision, in such form that it may...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8720.5
  The board may adopt, amend, or repeal, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340), Part 1, Division 3, Title 2...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8720.6
  Each member of a land surveyors review committee or other board-appointed committee and any board-appointed representative of the board shall be granted the same immunity...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8725
  Any person practicing, or offering to practice, land surveying in this state shall submit evidence that he or she is qualified to practice and shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8726
  A person, including any person employed by the state or by a city, county, or city and county within the state, practices land surveying within...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8726.1
  Any licensed land surveyor may offer to practice, procure, and offer to procure civil engineering work incidental to his or her land surveying practice, even...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8726.2
  A licensed land surveyor may also perform land planning in connection with the land surveying activities authorized by this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8727
  Surveys made exclusively for geological or landscaping purposes, which do not involve the determination of any property line do not constitute surveying within the meaning...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8728
  Surveys authorized under this chapter do not include the design, either in whole or in part, of any structure or fixed works embraced within the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8729
  (a) This chapter does not prohibit one or more licensed land surveyors or civil engineers licensed in this state prior to 1982 (hereinafter called civil...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8729
  (a) This chapter does not prohibit one or more licensed land surveyors or civil engineers licensed in this state prior to 1982 (hereinafter called civil...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8730
  The following persons are not required to be licensed under this chapter: (a) Officers and employees of the United States of America, practicing solely as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8731
  A registered civil engineer and a civil engineer exempt from registration under Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 6700) of Division 3 are exempt from licensing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8740
  (a) An application for each division of the examination for a license as a land surveyor shall be made to the board on the form...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8741
  (a) The first division of the examination shall test the applicant's fundamental knowledge of surveying, mathematics, and basic science. The board may prescribe by regulation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8741.1
  The second division of the examination for licensure as a land surveyor shall include an examination that incorporates a national examination for land surveying by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8742
  (a) The educational qualifications and experience in land surveying, which an applicant for the second division examination shall possess, shall not be less than one...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8743
  The names and addresses of at least four land surveyors or civil engineers, duly qualified to practice in the place in which such practice has...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8744
  The applicant for the second division of the examination shall state in his application that, should he be licensed, he will support the Constitution of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8745
  Examinations for license shall be held at such times and at such places within the state as determined by board rule. The scope of examinations...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8746
  An applicant failing an examination may be examined again upon filing a new application and the payment of the fee fixed by the board.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8747
  Any applicant who has passed the examinations prescribed by the board shall have a suitable license issued to him or her. (a) An applicant who...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8747.5
  (a) The board shall issue, upon application and payment of the fee established by Section 8805, a retired license to a land surveyor who has...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8748
  The board, upon application therefor, and the payment of the fee fixed by this chapter, may issue a land surveyor's license, without written examination, to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8748.5
  If an applicant for license as a land surveyor or certification as a land surveyor-in-training is found by the board to lack the qualifications required...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8749
  A duplicate certificate of license to replace one lost, destroyed or mutilated may be issued subject to the rules and regulations of the board. The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8750
  Upon being licensed, each licensee shall obtain a stamp or seal of the design authorized by the board bearing the licensee's name, number of certificate,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8751
  No person shall represent himself or herself as, or use the title of, or any abbreviation or combination of the words in the title of,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8752
  An unrevoked, unsuspended and unexpired license, or renewal certificate, issued by the board is presumptive evidence in all courts and places that the person named...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8759
  (a) A licensed land surveyor or registered civil engineer authorized to practice land surveying shall use a written contract when contracting to provide professional services...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8760
  Every licensed land surveyor or registered civil engineer may administer and certify oaths: (a) When it becomes necessary to take testimony for the identification or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8761
  (a) Any licensed land surveyor or civil engineer authorized to practice land surveying may practice land surveying and prepare maps, plats, reports, descriptions, or other...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8761.1
  The authority of a licensed land surveyor or registered civil engineer to prepare, sign, issue, stamp, seal, or approve any map, plat, report, description, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8761.2
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 8761, a registered civil engineer or licensed land surveyor who signs land surveying maps, plats, reports, descriptions, or other surveying...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8762
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), after making a field survey in conformity with the practice of land surveying, the licensed surveyor or licensed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8762.5
  No record of survey of land shown on the latest adopted county assessment roll as a unit or as contiguous units, which shows a division...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8763
  The record of survey shall be a map, legibly drawn, printed, or reproduced by a process guaranteeing a permanent record in black on tracing cloth,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8764
  The record of survey shall show the applicable provisions of the following consistent with the purpose of the survey: (a) All monuments found, set, reset,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8764.5
  Statements shall appear on the map as follows: Surveyor's Statement This map correctly represents a survey made by me or under my direction in conformance...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8765
  A record of survey is not required of any survey: (a) When it has been made by a public officer in his or her official...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8766
  (a) Within 20 working days after receiving the record of survey, or within the additional time as may be mutually agreed upon by the land...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8766.5
  The county surveyor may charge a reasonable fee for examining a record of survey pursuant to Section 8766 which shall not exceed the cost of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8767
  If the county surveyor finds that the record of survey complies with the examination in Section 8766, the county surveyor shall endorse a statement on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8768
  If the matters appearing on the record of survey cannot be agreed upon by the licensed land surveyor or the registered civil engineer and the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8768.5
  If the county surveyor fails to timely file the record of survey with the county recorder in accordance with Section 8768, the licensed land surveyor...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8769
  The charge for filing any record of survey, and for indexing the same, shall be the same as provided for subdivided land under Section 27372...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8770
  The record of survey filed with the county recorder of any county shall be securely fastened by him into a suitable book provided for that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8770.5
  Any record of survey filed under the provisions of this chapter may be amended to show any course or distance that was omitted therefrom, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8770.6
  The use of the word "certify" or "certification" by a licensed land surveyor or registered civil engineer in the practice of professional engineering or land...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8771
  (a) Monuments set shall be sufficient in number and durability and efficiently placed so as not to be readily disturbed, to assure, together with monuments...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8771.5
  When coordinates in the California Coordinate System are shown for points on a record of survey map the map may not be recorded unless it...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8772
  Any monument set by a licensed land surveyor or registered civil engineer to mark or reference a point on a property or land line shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8773
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 8773.4, a person authorized to practice land surveying in this state shall complete, sign, stamp with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8773.1
  The board shall by regulation provide and prescribe the information which shall be necessary to be included in the corner record and the board shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8773.2
  (a) A "corner record" submitted to the county surveyor or engineer shall be examined by him or her for compliance with subdivision (d) of Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8773.3
  In every case where a corner record is filed pursuant to Section 8773, the licensed land surveyor or registered civil engineer shall reconstruct or rehabilitate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8773.4
  (a) A corner record shall be signed by a licensed land surveyor or licensed civil engineer and stamped with his or her seal, or in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8774
  (a) The right of entry upon or to real property to investigate and utilize boundary evidence, and to perform surveys, is a right of persons...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8774.5
  (a) Upon the filing of a record of survey, amended record of survey, or certificate of correction for recordation pursuant to this chapter, the surveyor...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8775
  No person shall use the title or any abbreviation of the title photogrammetrist or photogrammetric surveyor unless he or she holds registration as a civil...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8775.1
  Persons meeting the requirements of this article may engage in and perform all photogrammetric services germane to this chapter, either as individuals, employees, or as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8775.2
  Maps, documents, or reports prepared by, or under the direction of, a licensed photogrammetric surveyor shall carry his signature and certificate number which will indicate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8775.3
  Photogrammetric surveyor licenses shall be renewable upon payment of the fee fixed by the board for which a renewal certificate shall be issued. Photogrammetric surveyor...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8776
  (a) A licensee shall report to the board in writing the occurrence of any of the following events that occurred on or after January 1,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8776.1
  Within 30 days of entry of a conviction described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 8776 or a judgment described in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8776.2
  (a) Within 30 days of payment of all or any portion of any civil action judgment, settlement, or arbitration award described in Section 8776 against...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8776.3
  The requirements of Sections 8776, 8776.1, and 8776.2 shall apply if a party to the civil action, settlement, or arbitration award is or was a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8776.4
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a licensee shall not be considered to have violated a confidential settlement agreement or other confidential agreement by providing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8776.5
  The provisions of this article apply to a civil engineer licensed under Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 6700) prior to January 1, 1982, if the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8776.6
  The board may adopt regulations to further define the reporting requirements of Sections 8776, 8776.1, and 8776.2.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8776.7
  This article shall become operative on January 1, 2008, only if an appropriation is made from the Professional Engineer's and Land Surveyor's Fund for the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8780
  The board may, upon its own initiative or upon the receipt of a complaint, investigate the actions of any land surveyor licensed under this chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8780.1
  The board may, upon its own initiative or upon the receipt of a complaint, investigate the actions of any land surveyor-in-training and make findings thereon....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8781
  The proceedings under this article shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 11370), Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11400), and Chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8783
  A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge substantially related to the qualifications, functions...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8784
  The board may reissue a license to any person, whose license has been revoked, if a majority of the members of the board vote in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8785
  (a) A petitioner may petition the board for reinstatement or modification of penalty, including reduction, modification, or termination of probation, after the following minimum periods...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8790
  The board shall enforce all of the provisions of this chapter and cause the prosecution of all violations coming to its notice.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8791
  It is the duty of the respective officers charged with the enforcement of laws to prosecute all persons charged with the violation of any of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8792
  Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor: (a) Who, unless he or she is exempt from licensing under this chapter, practices, or offers to practice,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8800
  The department shall receive and account for all money derived under the operation of this chapter and, at the end of each month, shall report...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8801
  Licenses issued under this chapter expire every two years, if not renewed. Biennial renewals shall be staggered on a quarterly basis. To renew an unexpired...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8802
  Except as otherwise provided in this article, licenses issued under this chapter may be renewed at any time within three years after expiration on filing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8802.1
  A suspended license is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article, but such renewal does not entitle the licensee, while...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8802.2
  A revoked license is subject to expiration as provided in this article, but it may not be renewed. If it is reinstated after its expiration,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8803
  A license which is not renewed within three years after its expiration may not be renewed, restored, reissued, or reinstated thereafter, unless all of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8803.1
  Once an expired or delinquent license is renewed, restored, reinstated, or reissued pursuant to Section 8803, all of the following apply: (a) The board shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8804
  The renewal or reinstatement of any certificate of registration of a civil engineer under Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 6700) of Division 3, who is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8804.5
  The board may make refunds of all fees in accordance with Section 158 of this code.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 8805
  The amount of the fees prescribed by this chapter shall be fixed by the board in accordance with the following schedule: (a) The fee for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9600
  This chapter of the Business and Professions Code constitutes the chapter on cemetery regulation. It may be cited as the "Cemetery Act."
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9601
  The definitions in this article govern the meaning of terms used in the act except as otherwise provided expressly or by necessary implication.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9602
  "Act" means Cemetery Act.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9603
  The following terms as used in this chapter shall have the meanings expressed in this section: (a) "Department" means the Department of Consumer Affairs. (b)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9604
  A cemetery broker is a person who, other than in reference to an occasional sale, sells or offers for sale, buys, or offers to buy,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9605
  A cemetery salesperson is a natural person who, other than in reference to an occasional sale, is employed by a cemetery broker to sell, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9605.1
  (a) A cemetery manager is a person engaged in or conducting, or holding himself or herself out as engaged in those activities involved in, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9605.2
  A crematory manager is a person engaged in or conducting, or holding himself or herself out as engaged in those activities involved in, or incidental...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9606
  The definitions in Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 7 of the Health and Safety Code are applicable to this act.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9607
  "Cemetery licensee" means any cemetery broker, cemetery salesperson, or cemetery manager.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9607.5
  "Crematory licensee" shall mean a corporation, partnership, or natural person licensed pursuant to Article 8 (commencing with Section 9780) and shall mean a cemetery licensee...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9607.6
  A cremated remains disposer is a person who, for his or her own account or for another, disposes of, or offers to dispose of, cremated...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9608
  "Endowment care" or "endowed care" shall include both general and special care funds.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9608.5
  An "occasional sale" is a sale of cemetery property not acquired or held for purposes of resale or speculation, provided such sale is not one...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9608.6
  "Public cemetery" means a cemetery owned and operated by a city, county, city and county, or public cemetery district.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9609
  This act does not apply to any of the following: (a) A religious corporation, church, religious society or denomination, a corporation sole administering temporalities of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9611
  The bureau shall disclose on its Web site information about each cemetery subject to the jurisdiction of the bureau. In addition to the information required...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9612
  Notwithstanding Section 8115 of the Health and Safety Code, in order to protect consumers, the bureau shall adopt regulations that establish minimum standards of maintenance...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9613
  (a) The bureau shall survey each of its licensees to obtain information to determine if the endowment care fund levels of the licensee's cemetery are...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9615
  (a) (1) Any person who holds or has held, or was named on, any license or registration under the jurisdiction of the bureau that has...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9625
  There is in the department, the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau, under the supervision and control of the director. The director may appoint a chief at...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9630
  The bureau may establish necessary rules and regulations for the administration and enforcement of this act and the laws subject to its jurisdiction and prescribe...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9631
  In the enforcement of this act and the laws subject to its jurisdiction, the bureau has all the powers and is subject to all the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9650
  (a) Each cemetery authority shall file with the bureau annually, on or before June 1, or within five months after close of their fiscal year...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9650.1
  Each cemetery authority requesting a change of filing date of the endowment care fund report from a calendar year to a fiscal year or a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9650.2
  The report shall state the name of the trustee or trustees of the endowment care fund. Any change of trustee shall be reported to the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9650.3
  A copy of each annual audit report shall be transmitted to the bureau and shall be a public record. It shall also be open for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9650.4
  (a) Any cemetery authority that does not file its report within the time prescribed by Section 9650 may be assessed a fine by the bureau...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9651
  The bureau shall examine the reports filed with it as to their compliance with the requirements of the Health and Safety Code as to the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9652
  The bureau shall examine the endowment care funds of a cemetery authority: (a) Whenever it deems necessary and at least once every five years; (b)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9652.1
  If any cemetery authority refuses to pay such expenses, the bureau shall refuse it a certificate of authority and shall revoke any existing certificate of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9653
  (a) In making the examination the bureau: (1) Shall have free access to the books and records relating to the trust funds, their collection and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9653.5
  (a) Subject to subdivision (b), a limited liability company certificated as a cemetery authority pursuant to Section 7018 of the Health and Safety Code may...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9653.6
  (a) No person licensed under this code as a cemetery broker, cemetery salesperson, cemetery manager, funeral director, embalmer, crematorium licensee, or other person licensed to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9654
  The bureau may administer oaths and examine under oath any person relative to the endowment care fund. Such examination shall be conducted in the principal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9655
  If any examination made by the bureau, or any report filed with it, shows that there has not been collected and deposited in the endowment...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9656
  Whenever the bureau finds, after notice and hearing, that any endowment care funds have been invested in violation of the Health and Safety Code, it...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9656.1
  The superior court of the county in which the principal office of the cemetery authority in charge of endowment care funds is located shall, upon...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9656.2
  When it has been alleged by verified petition pursuant to Section 9652 or when the bureau on its own investigation determines that there is probable...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9656.25
  If any city, county, or city and county exercises its authority to address public health, safety, or welfare issues in connection with a cemetery within...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9656.3
  Whenever the bureau makes any seizure as provided in Section 9656.2, it shall, on demand of the bureau, be the duty of the sheriff of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9656.4
  Immediately after effecting a seizure pursuant to Section 9656.2, the bureau shall institute a proceeding as provided for in Section 9656.1.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9656.45
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the bureau shall be the custodian of all moneys collected or surrendered pursuant to Sections 9656.1 and 9656.2. As...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9656.5
  The bureau shall maintain, regulate, operate, and control the property situated in Amador County, referred to as the Elkin Property in Judicial Council Coordination Proceedings...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9657
  The bureau is authorized to bring action to enforce the provisions of the law subject to its jurisdiction, in which actions it shall be represented...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9658
  The bureau shall enforce and administer Part 1 (commencing with Section 8100), Part 3 (commencing with Section 8250), and Part 5 (commencing with Section 9501)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9659
  In any report to the bureau all bonds, debentures or other evidences of debt held by a cemetery corporation if amply secured and if not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9660
  Any security or other evidence of debt if in default as to principal or interest or if not amply secured shall not be valued as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9661
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, every cemetery authority shall present to the survivor of the deceased who is handling the burial or cremation arrangements...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9662
  The current address, telephone number, and name of the bureau shall appear on the first page of any contract for goods and services offered by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9663
  (a) The bureau shall make available to funeral establishments and cemetery authorities a copy of a consumer guide for funeral and cemetery purchases for purposes...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9675
  This article does not apply to the following cases or to the following persons: (a) A person acting with reference to an occasional sale of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9676
  No person shall engage in the business of, act in the capacity of, advertise or assume to act as, a cemetery broker or cemetery salesperson...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9677
  Any act other than an occasional sale of buying or selling, leasing or exchanging cemetery property or interment services of or for another or on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9678
  No person engaged in the business or acting in the capacity of a broker or a salesperson within this state shall bring or maintain any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9679
  No cemetery broker shall employ or compensate, directly or indirectly, any person for performing any of the acts within the scope of this article who...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9680
  It is a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) for each offense, for any person, whether obligor, escrowholder or otherwise,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9681
  Any person acting as a cemetery broker or cemetery salesperson without a license, or who advertises so as to indicate he or she is a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9682
  Any cemetery salesperson or cemetery broker who sells, causes to be sold, or offers for sale any cemetery property upon the promise, guarantee or representation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9683
  Every officer, agent or employee of any company, and every other person who knowingly authorizes, directs or aids in the publication, advertisement, distribution, or circularization...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9684
  Each cemetery broker, other than a cemetery corporation holding a certificate of authority, and each cemetery salesperson must include in any advertising a statement that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9685
  For violation of any of the provisions of Section 9684 the bureau may temporarily suspend or permanently revoke the license of the cemetery licensee in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9686
  Any person, other than a person making an occasional sale, who advertises cemetery property for sale or exchange, without being duly licensed as a cemetery...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9700
  Application for license as a cemetery broker shall be made in writing on the form prescribed by the bureau and filed at the principal office...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9700.5
  The bureau shall not grant an original cemetery broker's license to any person who is not a resident of this state. Change of residence to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9700.6
  The bureau shall not grant an original cemetery broker's license to any person who has not held a cemetery salesperson's license for at least two...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9701
  Application for license as a cemetery salesperson shall be made in writing on the form prescribed by the bureau and filed at the principal office...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9701.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, Section 9702.5 does not apply to an applicant for a cemetery salesperson's license.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9702.1
  The bureau shall investigate the qualifications of the applicants. Except as otherwise prescribed in this article, it may issue the license applied for to an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9702.2
  All cemetery brokers who do not possess a certificate of authority shall in addition to the requirements of this chapter file with the bureau a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9702.5
  The bureau shall ascertain by written examination that the applicant, and, in case of a copartnership or corporation applicant for a cemetery broker's license, that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9703
  The bureau may, in its discretion, waive the examination of any applicant for a cemetery broker's license who held an unrevoked or unsuspended cemetery license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9704
  An application on the form prescribed by the bureau for the renewal of any unrevoked and unsuspended license filed before midnight of June 30th of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9706
  No cemetery license gives authority to do any act specified in this act to any person other than the person to whom the license is
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9707
  When a cemetery brokerage license is issued to a cemetery brokerage corporation, if it desires any of its officers other than the officer through whom...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9708
  Each officer of a corporation through whom it is licensed to act as a cemetery broker, and each member of a copartnership through whom it...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9709
  The cemetery licenses of both broker and salesperson shall be prominently displayed in the office of the broker. The cemetery salesperson's license shall remain in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9710
  Immediately upon the salesperson's withdrawal from the employ of the broker, the broker shall return the salesperson's license to the bureau for cancellation. A license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9711
  Every licensed cemetery broker shall have and maintain a definite place of business in this state which shall serve as his or her office for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9712
  If the applicant for a cemetery broker's license maintains more than one place of business within the state he or she shall apply for and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9713
  Each cemetery broker shall erect and maintain a sign in a conspicuous place on the premises to indicate that he or she is a licensed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9714
  For a violation of any of the provisions of Sections 9709, 9710, 9711 and 9713, the bureau may temporarily suspend or permanently revoke the license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9715
  Application for a certificate of authority shall be made in writing on the form prescribed by the bureau and filed at the principal office of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9715.1
  (a) Each cemetery for which a certificate of authority is required shall be operated under the supervision of a manager who is qualified in accordance...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9716
  The bureau may require such proof as it deems advisable concerning the compliance by such applicant to all the laws, rules, regulations, ordinances and orders
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9717
  (a) The bureau shall adopt, and may from time to time amend, rules and regulations prescribing standards of knowledge and experience and financial responsibility for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9718
  The bureau may, in accordance with its rules and regulations, authorize interments in cemeteries for which there is no currently valid certificate of authority outstanding...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9719
  The bureau shall inspect the books, records, and premises of any crematory licensed under this chapter. In making those inspections, the bureau shall have access...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9720
  The bureau shall annually conduct a minimum of one unannounced inspection of each licensed crematory.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9721
  (a) The bureau shall inspect the books, records, and premises of any cemetery where a certificate of authority is required under this chapter. In making...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9722
  (a) The bureau shall annually conduct a minimum of one unannounced inspection of each cemetery for which a certificate of authority is required. (b) This...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9723
  A cemetery licensed under this chapter shall at all times employ a licensed cemetery manager to manage, supervise, and direct its operations. Notwithstanding any other...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9723.1
  (a) Application for a cemetery manager license shall be made in writing on the form provided by the bureau, verified by the applicant, and filed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9723.2
  (a) No person shall engage in or conduct, or hold himself or herself out as engaging in or conducting, the activities of a cemetery manager...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9723.3
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, based upon a finding by a court of competent jurisdiction that a cemetery manager of a private cemetery...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9725
  Upon grounds provided in this article and the other articles of this act, the license of any cemetery licensee and the certificate of authority of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9725.1
  Unprofessional conduct by any licensee or registrant or by any agent or employee of a licensee or registrant constitutes grounds for disciplinary action. Unprofessional conduct...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9726
  The bureau may, upon its own motion, and shall, upon the verified complaint in writing of any person, investigate the actions of any person engaged...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9727
  The bureau may suspend or revoke the license of any cemetery licensee who, within the immediately preceding three years, has done any of the following:...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9727.1
  The bureau may suspend or revoke the license of any cemetery licensee who procures a cemetery license, for himself or herself or any salesperson, by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9727.2
  A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere is deemed to be a conviction within the meaning of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9728
  When any salesperson is discharged by his or her employer for a violation of any of the provisions of this article prescribing a ground for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9729
  The bureau may deny, suspend or revoke the cemetery license of a corporation as to any officer or agent acting under its cemetery license, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9730
  The fees for cemetery licenses at all periods of the fiscal year is the same as provided in this article. All cemetery license fees are...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9731
  If a person fails to apply for a license renewal, no renewal license shall be issued except upon payment of the delinquent renewal fee required...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9732
  The definitions contained in this article are solely for the purposes of this article.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9733
  An original cemetery broker's license is a cemetery license issued to a person who did not have a cemetery broker's license on June 30th of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9734
  A renewal cemetery broker's license is a cemetery license issued to a person who had a cemetery broker's license unrevoked and unsuspended on June 30th...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9735
  An original cemetery salesperson's license is a cemetery license issued to a person who did not have a cemetery salesperson's or a broker's license either...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9736
  A renewal cemetery salesperson's license is a cemetery license issued to a person who had a cemetery salesperson's or a broker's license either individually or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9737
  The proceedings under this article shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9740
  No person shall dispose of or offer to dispose of any cremated human remains unless registered as a cremated remains disposer by the bureau. This...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9741
  (a) Registration shall be on the form prescribed by the bureau and shall include, but not be limited to, the full name of the registrant,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9741.1
  The bureau shall prepare and deliver to each registered cremated remains disposer a booklet that includes, but is not limited to, the following information: details...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9742
  All aircraft used for the scattering of cremated human remains shall be validly certified by the Federal Aviation Administration. All boats or vessels used for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9743
  A cremated remains disposer who scatters any cremated human remains without specific written instructions from the person having the right to control the disposition of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9744
  Each cremated remains disposer shall provide the person with the right to control the disposition of the remains under Section 7100 of the Health and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9744.5
  (a) Every cremated remains disposer shall do both of the following: (1) Dispose of cremated remains within 60 days of the receipt of those remains,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9745
  (a) Each cremated remains disposer shall file, and thereafter maintain an updated copy of, an annual report on a form prescribed by the bureau. The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9746
  All cremated remains disposer registrations shall expire at 12 midnight on September 30th of each year. A person desiring to renew his or her registration...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9747
  If a person fails to apply for renewal of his or her cremated remains disposer registration prior to midnight of September 30th of the year...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9748
  Any person who scatters cremated human remains without a valid registration and who is not otherwise exempt from this article shall be guilty of a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9749
  Any person who scatters any cremated human remains without specific written instructions from the person having the right to control the disposition of the remains...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9749.3
  Any cremated remains disposer who stores cremated remains in a reckless manner that results in either of the following is guilty of a public offense...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9749.5
  A cremated remains disposer shall be subject to and shall be disciplined by the bureau in accordance with Article 6 (commencing with Section 9725). Any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9750
  The amount of fees prescribed for a license or certificate of authority under this act is that fixed by the following provisions of this article....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9750.5
  The delinquent renewal fee for a license, registration, or certificate of authority under this chapter shall be 150 percent of the timely fee, but not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9751
  The original cemetery broker's license fee shall be fixed by the bureau at not more than four hundred dollars ($400).
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9752
  The original cemetery broker's license fee is payable at the time of the filing of an application for an original cemetery broker' s license. If...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9753
  The annual renewal fee for a cemetery broker's license shall be fixed by the bureau at not more than three hundred dollars ($300).
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9754
  If the licensee is a cemetery brokerage corporation, the license issued to it entitles one officer only, on behalf of the corporation, to engage in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9755
  If the licensee is a cemetery brokerage copartnership, the license issued to it entitles one member only of the copartnership to engage on behalf of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9756
  The cemetery salesperson's license fee shall be fixed by the bureau at not more than thirty dollars ($30).
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9757
  A cemetery salesperson's license fee is payable on each filing of an application for a cemetery salesperson's license.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9759
  The annual renewal fee for a cemetery salesperson's license shall be fixed by the bureau at not more than twenty-five dollars ($25).
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9760
  For a branch office broker's license, the fee shall be fixed by the bureau at not more than one hundred dollars ($100).
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9760.5
  The cremated remains disposer registration fee shall be one hundred dollars ($100).
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9760.6
  The renewal fee for a cremated remains disposer registration shall be fifty dollars ($50).
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9761
  For change of name or of address of licensee on the records of the bureau, the fee shall be fixed by the bureau at not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9762
  For transfer of a salesperson's license on change of employer, the fee shall be fixed by the bureau at not more than twenty-five dollars ($25).
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9763
  For a duplicate license the fee shall be fixed by the bureau at not more than twenty-five dollars ($25).
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9764
  For reinstatement of a license within the fiscal year, the fee shall be fixed by the bureau at not more than twenty-five dollars ($25). As...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9764.1
  (a) The fee for a crematory manager examination and reexamination may not exceed five hundred dollars ($500). (b) The license fee to obtain a crematory...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9764.2
  (a) The fee for a cemetery manager examination and reexamination may not exceed nine hundred dollars ($900). (b) The license fee to obtain a cemetery...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9764.3
  The fee for filing a report of a change of designated manager or a request for approval to share a designated cemetery manager shall not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9765
  Every cemetery authority operating a cemetery shall pay an annual regulatory charge for each cemetery to be fixed by the bureau at not more than...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9766
  Upon payment of the charges set forth, the bureau shall issue a renewal of the certificate of authority to the cemetery authority.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9767
  Failure to pay the charges set forth by Section 9765 of this code prior to February 1st for each year shall be cause for suspension...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9768
  It is a misdemeanor for any cemetery corporation to make any interments without a valid certificate of authority. Each interment shall be a separate violation.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9769
  All moneys received by the bureau under the provisions of this chapter shall be accounted for and reported by detailed statements furnished by the bureau...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9770
  All money paid into the State Treasury and credited to the Cemetery Fund shall be expended in accordance with law for the payment of all...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9780
  A crematory established, operated, or maintained, may be operated by a corporation, partnership, or natural person, provided that a valid crematory license shall have been...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9780.5
  Any change in the ownership of a crematory shall be reported to the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau. Any transfer in a single transaction or a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9781
  Application for a crematory license shall be made in writing on the form prescribed by the bureau and filed at the principal office of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9781.5
  The provisions of Article 5 (commencing with Section 8340) of Chapter 2 of Part 3 of Division 8 of the Health and Safety Code shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9782
  The bureau may require such proof as it deems advisable concerning the compliance by such applicant with all the laws, rules, regulations, ordinances, and orders...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9783
  (a) The bureau shall adopt, and may from time to time amend, rules and regulations prescribing standards of knowledge and experience and financial responsibility for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9784
  No crematory licensee under this article shall conduct any cremations: (a) Unless the licensee has a written contract with the person or persons entitled to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9784.5
  Every crematory licensee, who prohibits relatives or the responsible party from viewing the cremation process, shall disclose this fact in writing to the person or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9785
  Each crematory licensee shall keep such records as may be required by the bureau to assure compliance with all laws relating to the disposition of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9786
  Every crematory licensee operating a crematory pursuant to a license issued in compliance with this article shall pay an annual regulatory charge for each crematory,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9787
  (a) Each crematory for which a crematory license is required shall be operated under the supervision of a manager qualified in accordance with rules adopted...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9787.2
  A crematory shall at all times employ a licensed crematory manager to manage, supervise, and direct its operations. (a) Every crematory shall designate a licensed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9787.3
  (a) Application for a crematory manager license shall be made in writing on the form provided by the bureau, verified by the applicant and filed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9787.4
  (a) No person shall engage in or conduct, or hold himself or herself out as engaging in or conducting, the activities of a crematory manager...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9788
  It is a misdemeanor for any person, firm, or corporation to cremate human remains or to engage in the disposition thereof without a valid, unexpired...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9789
  A crematory licensee shall be subject to and shall be disciplined by the bureau in accordance with Article 6 (commencing with Section 9725).
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9790
  As used in this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) To the extent applicable, the definitions which are now or may hereafter be set forth...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9791
  This chapter applies only to work done on a general aviation aircraft with either an estimated cost or an actual cost of one hundred dollars...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9792
  (a) It is the public policy of this state that parties to all business transactions, including those transactions which are the subject of this chapter,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9793
  No repairperson shall commence work for compensation without specific authorization from the customer or his or her agent, in accordance with all of the following...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9794
  Any repairperson who gives an original estimate in good faith, shall not be obligated to complete a job within the quoted or written estimated price...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9795
  All work done by a repairperson, including all warranty work, shall be recorded on an invoice and shall describe all work done and parts supplied....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9796
  The invoice shall show the repairperson's business name and address. If the repairperson's telephone number is on the invoice, it shall be the telephone number...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9797
  Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, upon authorization from the customer as to a specific job, a repairperson may work on an aircraft on a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9798
  (a) Sections 9793, 9794, 9795, and 9796 of this chapter shall not apply to services provided to a general aviation aircraft in distress which is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9798.1
  (a) Subject to the provisions set forth in this chapter, each repairperson shall have a special lien pursuant to Sections 2872 and 2875 of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9798.2
  (a) The statutory lien created pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 9798.1 is not valid unless and until it is recorded with the FAA Aircraft...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9798.3
  (a) Any repairperson having perfected his or her statutory lien pursuant to Section 9798.2 shall be entitled to the ex parte issuance of an order...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9798.4
  (a) The priority of liens set forth in this section supersedes the priority otherwise set forth in Section 2897 of the Civil Code. (b) The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9800
  This chapter of the Business and Professions Code constitutes the chapter on electronic and appliance repair dealers. It may be cited as the Electronic and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9801
  The following terms as used in this chapter have the meaning expressed in this section: (a) "Person" includes a firm, partnership, association, limited liability company,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9802
  This chapter does not apply to: (a) Any employee of a service dealer while the employee is engaged in activities within the normal scope of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9804
  No person who is licensed pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 7000) of Division 3 of this code shall be required to register under...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9805
  No person registered under this chapter shall be required to apply for a license pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 7000) if that person's...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9806
  (a) An automobile dealer or manufacturer, licensed pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 11700) of Division 5 of the Vehicle Code shall not be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9810
  There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs a Bureau of Electronic and Appliance Repair, Home Furnishings, and Thermal Insulation, under the supervision and control...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9810.1
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Bureau of Electronic and Appliance Repair, Home Furnishings, and Thermal Insulation in exercising its...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9811
  The director, in accordance with the State Civil Service Act and Section 159.5, may appoint and fix the compensation of such clerical, inspection, investigation, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9812
  The director shall gather evidence of violations of this chapter and of any regulation established hereunder, by any service dealer, whether registered or not, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9812.5
  The director shall gather evidence of violations of this chapter and of any regulation established hereunder by any service contractor, whether registered or not, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9813
  The director shall have the powers granted to the head of a department by, and shall conform to the provisions of Article 2 (commencing with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9814
  The director may establish and enforce regulations as may be reasonable for the conduct of service dealers and for the general enforcement of the various...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9814.5
  The director may establish and enforce reasonable regulations for the conduct of service contractors, and for the general enforcement of the various provisions of this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9830
  Each service dealer shall pay the fee required by this chapter for each place of business and each drop-off location, as defined by bureau regulations,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9830.5
  Each service contractor shall pay the fee required by this chapter for each place of business operated by him or her in this state and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9831
  Upon receipt of the form properly filled out and receipt of the required fee, the director shall, provided the applicant has not committed acts or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9832
  (a) Registrations issued under this chapter shall expire no more than 12 months after the issue date. The expiration date of registrations shall be set...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9832.5
  (a) Registrations issued under this chapter shall expire no more than 12 months after the issue date. The expiration date of registrations shall be set...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9833
  A registrant shall notify the bureau in writing, within 30 days, of any change to the information provided by the form specified in Section 9830....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9840
  It shall be unlawful to act as a service dealer without first having registered in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and unless such...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9841
  (a) The director may deny, suspend, revoke, or place on probation the registration of a service dealer for any of the following acts or omissions...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9842
  All work done by a service dealer shall be recorded on an invoice in such detail as is required by regulations issued by the director...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9843
  The service dealer shall return replaced parts to the customer excepting such parts as may be exempted from this requirement by regulations of the director...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9844
  An initial written estimate for the cost of repair shall be given to the customer before performing any repairs. The written estimate shall include all...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9844.1
  The charge for the installation of any equipment subject to the requirements of this chapter shall be given to the customer in writing prior to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9844.5
  No lien or other right to maintain possession of the equipment pending payment of charges for repair or installation, including those arising from Chapter 6...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9845
  A service dealer may not make the compensation of any employee, partner, officer, or member dependent upon the value of parts replaced in any equipment...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9846
  The use of "guarantee" and words of like import shall conform to the regulations adopted by the director.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9847
  Each service dealer shall maintain all records that are required by the regulations adopted to carry out the provisions of this chapter for a period...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9847.5
  Each service contractor shall maintain those records as are required by the regulations adopted to carry out the provisions of this chapter for a period...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9848
  All proceedings to deny registration or suspend, revoke, or place on probation a registration shall be conducted pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9849
  The expiration of a valid registration shall not deprive the director of jurisdiction to proceed with any investigation or hearing on a cease and desist...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9849
  The expiration of a valid registration shall not deprive the director of jurisdiction to proceed with any investigation or hearing on a cease and desist...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9850
  Any person who fails to comply with the provisions of this chapter or of the regulations made pursuant to this chapter is guilty of a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9851
  The superior court in and for the county wherein any person carries on, or attempts to carry on, business as a service dealer or service...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9851
  The superior court in and for the county wherein any person carries on, or attempts to carry on, business as a service dealer in violation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9852
  No person required to have a valid registration under the provisions of this chapter shall have the benefit of any lien for labor or materials...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9853
  A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge substantially related to the qualifications, functions,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9853
  A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge substantially related to the qualifications, functions,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9855
  The definitions used in this section shall govern the construction and terms as used in this chapter: (a) "Service contract" means a contract in writing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9855.05
  On and after January 1, 2000, for the purposes of this chapter, "service contract" also includes a service contract as described in subdivision (e) of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9855.1
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to act as a service contractor in this state unless that person first registers with the bureau...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9855.15
  A service contract administrator who is an obligor on a service contract and is registered as a service contract administrator may perform all the functions...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9855.2
  (a) A service contract seller shall not issue, sell, or offer for sale a service contract unless the obligor under the service contract has complied...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9855.3
  (a) The service contract form to be issued by the service contractor shall be filed with the director by the service contractor prior to its...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9855.4
  (a) The service contract reimbursement insurance policy shall cover the obligations of the service contract seller under the service contracts sold during the period of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9855.5
  A service contractor shall comply with the provisions of Sections 1794.4 and 1794.41 of the Civil Code.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9855.6
  Where a service contractholder cancels a service contract in accordance with Section 1794.41 of the Civil Code and the refund due is not paid to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9855.7
  The director may deny, or may suspend, revoke, or place on probation the registration of a service contractor for any act, omission, or crime that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9855.8
  (a) The director may issue a citation to the service contractor for any of the following reasons: (1) Violation of subdivision (a) of Section 9855.3...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9855.85
  Unless otherwise lawfully transacting the business of insurance pursuant to a certificate of authority issued pursuant to Section 700 of the Insurance Code for the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9855.9
  This article shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2018, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9860
  The director shall establish procedures for accepting complaints from the public against any service dealer or service contractor. This section shall remain in effect only...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9860
  The director shall establish procedures for accepting complaints from the public against any service dealer. This section shall become operative on January 1, 2013.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9861
  If the complaint does not appear to state any violations of this chapter or of the regulations made pursuant to this chapter, the director shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9862
  If a complaint indicates a possible violation of this chapter or of the regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter, the director may advise the service...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9862.5
  If a complaint indicates a possible violation of this chapter or of the regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter, the director may advise the service...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9863
  If, upon summary investigation, it appears probable to the director that a violation of this chapter, or the regulations thereunder, has occurred, the director, in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9863
  If, upon summary investigation, it appears probable to the director that a violation of this chapter, or the regulations thereunder, has occurred, the director, in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9870
  All fees collected pursuant to this chapter shall be paid into the State Treasury to the credit of the Electronic and Appliance Repair Fund, which...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9871
  The director shall report to the State Controller at the beginning of each month, for the month preceding, the amount and source of all revenue...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9872
  The money in the Electronic and Appliance Repair Fund necessary for the administration of the bureau and the administration of this chapter shall be used...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9873
  The fees prescribed by this chapter shall be set by the director by regulation, according to the following schedule: (a) (1) The initial registration fee...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9873
  The fees prescribed by this chapter shall be set by the director by regulation, according to the following schedule: (a) The initial registration fee for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9874
  All salaries, expenses, or costs incurred or sustained pursuant to this chapter shall be payable only out of the Electronic and Appliance Repair Fund.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9875
  As used in this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Insurer" includes an insurance company and any person authorized to represent the insurer with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9875.1
  No insurer shall require the use of nonoriginal equipment manufacturer aftermarket crash parts in the repair of an insured's motor vehicle, unless the consumer is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9875.2
  Any violation of this chapter shall be enforced by the penalties provided in Section 790.06 of the Insurance Code.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9880
  This chapter constitutes the chapter on automotive repair dealers. It may be cited as the Automotive Repair Act.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9880.1
  The following definitions apply for the purposes of this chapter: (a) "Automotive repair dealer" means a person who, for compensation, engages in the business of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9880.2
  The following persons are exempt from the requirement of registration: (a) An employee of an automotive repair dealer if the employee repairs motor vehicles only...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9880.3
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Bureau of Automotive Repair in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9882
  (a) There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs a Bureau of Automotive Repair under the supervision and control of the director. The duty of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9882.1
  The director in accordance with the State Civil Service Act, Part 2 (commencing with Section 18500) of Division 5 of Title 2 of the Government...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9882.2
  The Governor shall appoint, subject to confirmation by the Senate, a chief of the bureau at a salary to be fixed and determined by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9882.3
  Every power granted to or duty imposed upon the director under this chapter may be exercised or performed in the name of the director by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9882.4
  The director shall keep a complete record of all registered automotive repair dealers showing the names and addresses of all such dealers. A copy of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9882.5
  The director shall on his or her own initiative or in response to complaints, investigate on a continuous basis and gather evidence of violations of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9882.14
  (a) The bureau shall cooperate with the Office of Traffic Safety and adopt standards for the installation of and designate stations for the installation of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9884
  (a) An automotive repair dealer shall pay the fee required by this chapter for each place of business operated by the dealer in this state...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9884.1
  Any business maintaining more than one automotive repair facility shall be permitted to file a single application annually, which along with the other information required...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9884.2
  Upon receipt of the form properly filled out and receipt of the required fee, the director shall issue the registration and send a proof of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9884.3
  Every registration shall cease to be valid one year from the last day of the month in which registration was issued unless the automotive repair...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9884.4
  A registration shall cease to be valid when the director finds that any of the information provided by the form specified in Section 9884, which...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9884.5
  A registration that is not renewed within three years following its expiration shall not be renewed, restored, or reinstated thereafter, and the delinquent registration shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9884.6
  (a) It is unlawful for any person to be an automotive repair dealer unless that person has registered in accordance with this chapter and unless...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9884.7
  (a) The director, where the automotive repair dealer cannot show there was a bona fide error, may deny, suspend, revoke, or place on probation the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9884.76
  Notwithstanding Section 9889.20, an automotive repair dealer who prepares a written estimate for repairs pursuant to Section 9884.9 that includes replacement of a deployed airbag...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9884.8
  All work done by an automotive repair dealer, including all warranty work, shall be recorded on an invoice and shall describe all service work done...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9884.9
  (a) The automotive repair dealer shall give to the customer a written estimated price for labor and parts necessary for a specific job. No work...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9884.10
  Upon request of the customer at the time the work order is taken, the automotive repair dealer shall return replaced parts to the customer at...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9884.11
  Each automotive repair dealer shall maintain any records that are required by regulations adopted to carry out this chapter. Those records shall be open for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9884.12
  All proceedings to deny, suspend, revoke, or place on probation a registration shall be conducted pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) of Part...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9884.13
  The expiration of a valid registration shall not deprive the director or chief of jurisdiction to proceed with any investigation or disciplinary proceeding against an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9884.14
  The superior court in and for the county wherein any person carries on, or attempts to carry on, a business as an automotive repair dealer...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9884.15
  The director may file charges with the district attorney or city attorney against any automotive repair dealer who violates the provisions of this chapter or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9884.16
  No person required to have a valid registration under the provisions of this chapter shall have the benefit of any lien for labor or materials...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9884.17
  The bureau shall design and approve of a sign which shall be placed in all automotive repair dealer locations in a place and manner conspicuous...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9884.18
  Nothing in the provisions of this chapter shall prohibit the bringing of a civil action against an automotive repair dealer by an individual.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9884.19
  The bureau may adopt, amend or repeal in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11371), Part 1, Division 3, Title 2...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9884.20
  All accusations against automotive repair dealers shall be filed within three years after the performance of the act or omission alleged as the ground for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9884.21
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director may, in his or her sole discretion, issue a probationary registration to an applicant subject to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9884.22
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director may revoke, suspend, or deny at any time any registration required by this article on any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9886
  All fees and revenues collected pursuant to this chapter and Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 44000) of Part 5 of Division 26 of the Health...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9886.1
  The director shall report to the Controller at the beginning of each month, for the month preceding, the amount and source of all fees and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9886.2
  The money in the Vehicle Inspection and Repair Fund necessary for the administration of this chapter and Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 44000) of Part...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9886.3
  The fees prescribed by this chapter shall be set by the director in an amount estimated to provide for the administration of this chapter within...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9886.4
  All salaries, expenses, or costs incurred or sustained pursuant to this chapter and Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 44000) of Part 5 of Division 26...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9887.1
  The director shall have the authority to issue licenses for official lamp and brake adjusting stations and shall license lamp and brake adjusters. The licenses...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9887.2
  Each application for a new or renewal license shall be accompanied by a fee of ten dollars ($10) for a new license or five dollars...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9887.3
  (a) Licenses issued by the director shall not be transferable. (b) In the event of a change of name of a licensee, not involving a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9887.4
  It is unlawful to violate any regulation adopted by the director pursuant to Articles 5, 6, and 7 of this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9888.1
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Station" means a lamp adjusting station or a brake adjusting station. (b) "Licensed station" means a station licensed by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9888.2
  The director shall adopt regulations which prescribe the equipment and other qualifications of any station as a condition to licensing the station as an official...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9888.3
  No person shall operate an "official" lamp or brake adjusting station unless a license therefor has been issued by the director. No person shall issue,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9888.4
  An owner of a fleet of three or more vehicles who is not an interstate carrier may be licensed by the director as a licensed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9889.1
  Any license issued pursuant to Articles 5 and 6, may be suspended or revoked by the director. The director may refuse to issue a license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9889.2
  The director may deny a license if the applicant or any partner, officer, or director thereof: (a) Fails to meet the qualifications established by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9889.3
  The director may suspend, revoke, or take other disciplinary action against a license as provided in this article if the licensee or any partner, officer,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9889.4
  A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo eontendere is deemed to be a conviction within the meaning of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9889.5
  The director may take disciplinary action against any licensee after a hearing as provided in this article by any of the following: (a) Imposing probation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9889.6
  Upon the effective date of any order of suspension or revocation of any license governed by this chapter, the licensee shall surrender the license to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9889.7
  The expiration or suspension of a license by operation of law or by order or decision of the director or a court of law, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9889.8
  All accusations against licensees shall be filed within three years after the act or omission alleged as the ground for disciplinary action, except that with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9889.9
  When any license has been revoked or suspended following a hearing under the provisions of this article, any additional license issued under Articles 5 and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9889.10
  After suspension of the license upon any of the grounds set forth in this article, the director may reinstate the license upon proof of compliance...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9889.15
  As used in this article, "station," "licensed station," and "licensed adjuster" have the same meaning as defined in Article 6 (commencing with Section 9888.1).
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9889.16
  Whenever a licensed adjuster in a licensed station upon an inspection or after an adjustment, made in comformity with the instructions of the bureau, determines...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9889.19
  The director may charge a fee for lamp and brake adjustment certificates furnished to licensed stations. The fee charged shall be established by regulation and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9889.20
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 9889.21, any person who fails to comply in any respect with the provisions of this chapter is guilty of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9889.21
  Any person who violates any provision of Articles 5, 6, and 7 of this chapter is guilty of an infraction and punishable as specified in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9889.22
  The willful making of any false statement or entry with regard to a material matter in any oath, affidavit, certificate of compliance or noncompliance, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9889.50
  The Legislature finds the following: (1) Thousands of California automobile owners each year require repair of their vehicles as a result of collision or other...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9889.51
  "Auto body repair shop" means a place of business operated by an automotive repair dealer where automotive collision repair or reconstruction of automobile or truck...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9889.52
  An application for registration pursuant to Section 9884 shall designate that the applicant is registering as an auto body repair shop if the applicant intends...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9889.53
  A check or draft issued to a repairer pursuant to Section 560 of the Insurance Code shall include the repairer's registration number or taxpayer identification
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9889.66
  The form for registration pursuant to Section 9884 shall contain sufficient information to enable the Bureau of Automotive Repair to identify all registrants performing automotive...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9889.68
  Any auto insurance company check or draft issued to a repairer pursuant to Insurance Code Section 560 shall include the repairer's registration number or Tax...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9998
  This chapter shall apply only to "nonagricultural workers" as defined by Section 1101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(b) of Title 8 of the federal Immigration and Nationality Act. It shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9998.1
  The following definitions are applicable to this chapter: (a) "Person" includes any natural person, company, firm, partnership, or joint venture, association, corporation, limited liability company,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9998.2
  Every contract for the provision of employment services to foreign workers shall be written in the primary language of the foreign worker and shall include...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9998.3
  No foreign labor contractor shall make, publish, or circulate or cause to be made, published, or circulated, to any person any false, fraudulent, or misleading...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9998.4
  No foreign labor contractor shall recruit for employment or cause any minor who is a foreign worker to be employed.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9998.5
  Any foreign labor contractor who recruits or solicits without a bona fide job order and who induces a foreign worker to be transported to a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9998.6
  No person shall take any action against a foreign worker in retaliation for the foreign worker's exercise of any right under this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9998.7
  No foreign labor contractor shall make promises or otherwise induce a foreign worker to travel or accept promises of employment by promising or providing assurances...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 9998.8
  (a) Any person who violates this chapter or who causes or induces another to violate this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10000
  This part may be cited as the Real Estate Law.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10001
  The definitions in this chapter apply to the provisions of this part only and do not affect any other provisions of this code.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10003
  "Commissioner" refers to the Real Estate Commissioner.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10004
  "Department" means the Department of Real Estate in the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10005
  Whenever the terms "division," "State Real Estate Division," or "Real Estate Division" are used in this division, they mean the Department of Real Estate. Whenever...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10006
  "Person" includes corporation, company and firm.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10007
  "Provisions of this part relating to real estate" refers to the provisions of Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 6 of Part 1.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10008
  "Provisions of this part relating to business opportunity regulation" refers to the provisions of Chapters 1, 2, and 6 of Part 1.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10008.5
  Solely with regard to any transaction involving the sale, lease, or exchange of a business opportunity occurring before, on, or after the effective date of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10009.5
  "Provisions of this part relating to mineral, oil and gas brokerage" refers to the provisions of Chapters 1, 2, 6 and 7, of Part 1.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10010
  "Provisions of this part relating to hearings" refers to the provisions of Article 3 of Chapter 2 of Part 1.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10011
  "Licensee," when used without modification, refers to a person, whether broker or salesman, licensed under any of the provisions of this part.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10012
  "Broker," when used without modification, refers to a person licensed as a broker under any of the provisions of this part.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10013
  "Salesman," when used without modification, refers to a person licensed as a saleman under any of the provisions of this part.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10014
  "Real estate licensee" refers to a person, whether broker or salesman, licensed under Chapter 3 of this part.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10015
  "Real estate broker" refers to a person licensed as a broker under Chapter 3 of this part.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10016
  "Real estate salesman" refers to a person licensed as a salesman under Chapter 3 of this part.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10017
  Whenever the word salesman is used in this division, or in the rules and regulations of the commissioner, it means salesperson. A licensee, however, may...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10023
  "Mineral, oil and gas licensee" refers to a person licensed under Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 10500) of this part.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10024
  "Mineral, oil and gas broker" refers to a person licensed as a broker under Chapter 7 of this part.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10026
  (a) The term "advance fee," as used in this part, is a fee, regardless of the form, that is claimed, demanded, charged, received, or collected...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10027
  The term "listing" as used in this part includes, but is not limited to: (a) The name or a list of the names, of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10028
  "Trust deed" or "deed of trust" as used in this part includes "mortgage."
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10029
  "Real property sales contract" as used in this part is an agreement wherein one party agrees to convey title to real property to another party...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10030
  As used in this part, the words "business opportunity" shall include the sale or lease of the business and goodwill of an existing business enterprise...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10032
  (a) All obligations created under Section 10000, and following, all regulations issued by the commissioner relating to real estate salespersons, and all other obligations of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10035
  Neither Section 10185 nor any other provision of this part which makes violation of this part a crime shall be construed to preclude application of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10050
  There is in the Business and Transportation Agency a Department of Real Estate, the chief officer of which department is named the Real Estate Commissioner....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10050.1
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Department of Real Estate in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10051
  The commissioner shall be appointed by the Governor.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10052
  The commissioner shall have been for five years a real estate broker actively engaged in business as such in California, or shall possess related experience...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10053
  The commissioner shall receive an annual salary as provided in Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 11550) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10071
  The commissioner shall enforce the provisions of this part and of Chapter 1 of Part 2. He has full power to regulate and control the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10073
  The commissioner shall employ such deputies, clerks and employees as he may need to discharge in proper manner the duties imposed upon him by law.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10074
  After qualifying as such neither the commissioner nor any of the deputies, clerks or employees of the department shall be interested in any mineral, oil...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10075
  Deputies, clerks and employees shall perform such duties as the commissioner shall assign to them. Subject to the powers of the State Personnel Board and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10076
  Each deputy shall, after his appointment, take and subscribe to the constitutional oath of office and file the same in the office of the Secretary...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10077
  The commissioner shall have his principal office in the City of Sacramento, and may establish branch offices in the City and County of San Francisco,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10078
  The commissioner shall adopt a seal with the words "Real Estate Commissioner State of California" and such other device as the commissioner may desire engraved...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10079
  (a) The Attorney General shall render to the commissioner opinions upon all questions of law relating to the construction or interpretation of this part or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10080
  The commissioner may adopt, amend, or repeal rules and regulations that are reasonably necessary for the enforcement of the provisions of this part and of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10080.5
  In the event the commissioner employs the services of an agency engaged in the business of furnishing credit reports, such agency shall have been engaged...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10080.9
  (a) If, upon inspection, examination, or investigation, the commissioner has cause to believe that a person who does not possess a real estate license is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10081
  (a) Whenever the commissioner believes from evidence satisfactory to him that any person has violated or is about to violate any of the provisions of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10081.5
  Whenever the commissioner believes from evidence satisfactory to him or her that any real estate licensee has violated or is about to violate, the provisions...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10082
  The commissioner may publish or cause to be published at appropriate intervals a directory or list of licensed brokers and salesmen and may publish therewith...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10083
  The commissioner may periodically issue a bulletin containing matter relating to the department, and to the provisions of this part and of Chapter 1 (commencing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10083.2
  (a) The commissioner shall provide on the Internet information regarding the status of every license issued by the department in accordance with the California Public...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10084
  The commissioner may prepare a pamphlet or brochure dealing with disclosures of information in residential real estate transactions. The costs of preparation and distribution may...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10084.1
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 10450.6, on or before January 1, 1991, the department, using funds appropriated from the Education and Research Account in the Real Estate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10085
  The commissioner may require that any or all materials used in obtaining advance fee agreements, including but not limited to the contract forms, letters or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10085.5
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to claim, demand, charge, receive, collect, or contract for an advance fee (1) for soliciting lenders on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10085.6
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, it shall be unlawful for any licensee who negotiates, attempts to negotiate, arranges, attempts to arrange, or otherwise...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10086
  (a) If the commissioner determines through an investigation that (1) a person has engaged or is engaging in an activity which is a violation of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10087
  (a) In addition to acting pursuant to the authority provided under Sections 10086, 10176, and 10177, the commissioner may, after appropriate notice and opportunity for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10088
  After the filing of a desist and refrain order or a bar order, or the commencement of a formal disciplinary action by the commissioner, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10100
  Before denying, suspending or revoking any license or license endorsement issuable or issued under the provisions of this part, the department shall proceed as prescribed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10100.2
  A licensee against whom an investigation is pending or an accusation has been filed pursuant to Section 11503 of the Government Code may petition the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10100.4
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 11415.60 of the Government Code, the department may enter into a settlement with a licensee or applicant instead of the issuance of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10101
  The accusation provided for by Section 11503 of the Government Code shall be filed not later than three years from the occurrence of the alleged...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10103
  The lapsing or suspension of a license by operation of law or by order or decision of the department or a court of law, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10106
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by law, in any order issued in resolution of a disciplinary proceeding before the department, the commissioner may request the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10130
  It is unlawful for any person to engage in the business, act in the capacity of, advertise or assume to act as a real estate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10131
  A real estate broker within the meaning of this part is a person who, for a compensation or in expectation of a compensation, regardless of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10131.01
  (a) Subdivision (b) of Section 10131 does not apply to (1) the manager of a hotel, motel, auto and trailer park, to the resident manager...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10131.1
  (a) A real estate broker within the meaning of this part is also a person who engages as a principal in the business of making...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10131.2
  A real estate broker within the meaning of this part is also a person who engages in the business of claiming, demanding, charging, receiving, collecting...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10131.3
  A real estate broker within the meaning of this part is also a person who, for another or others, for compensation or in expectation of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10131.4
  A real estate broker within the meaning of this part is also a person who acts for another or others for compensation or in expectation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10131.45
  A real estate broker within the meaning of this part is also a person who engages in the following businesses as a principal: (a) Except...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10131.5
  A nonresident of California may become a real estate broker by conforming to all of the provisions of this part.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10131.6
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person licensed as a real estate broker may sell or offer to sell, buy or offer to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10131.7
  It is unlawful for any real estate licensee acting under authority of Section 10131.6 to do any of the following: (a) To advertise or offer...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10132
  A real estate salesman within the meaning of this part is a natural person who, for a compensation or in expectation of a compensation, is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10133
  (a) The acts described in Section 10131 are not acts for which a real estate license is required if performed by: (1) A regular officer...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10133.1
  (a) Subdivisions (d) and (e) of Section 10131, Section 10131.1, Article 5 (commencing with Section 10230), and Article 7 (commencing with Section 10240) of this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10133.15
  The provisions of Article 5 (commencing with Section 10230) and Article 7 (commencing with Section 10240) do not apply to any person whose business is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10133.2
  The provisions of Sections 10131, 10131.1, 10131.2, and 10132 do not apply to any stenographer, bookkeeper, receptionist, telephone operator, or other clerical help in carrying...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10133.3
  The provisions of Sections 10131 and 10131.2 relating to business opportunities do not apply to any person, partnership, corporation, or other legal entity which for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10133.35
  A real estate broker's license shall not be required to engage in any of the following activities with respect to a mineral, oil, or gas...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10133.4
  (a) The provisions of subdivision (b) of Section 10131 do not apply to persons acting in the capacity of a film location representative in connection...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10133.5
  The provisions of Article 5 (commencing with Section 10230) do not apply to any person who is an approved lender, mortgagee, seller, or servicer for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10135
  When a lease or leasing is referred to in this article, it includes any lease, whether such lease is the sole transaction involved, or the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10136
  No person engaged in the business or acting in the capacity of a real estate broker or a real estate salesman within this State shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10137
  It is unlawful for any licensed real estate broker to employ or compensate, directly or indirectly, any person for performing any of the acts within...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10137.1
  Nothing contained in this division shall preclude a partnership from performing acts for which a real estate broker license is required, provided every partner through...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10138
  It is a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) for each offense, for any person, whether obligor, escrowholder or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10139
  Any person acting as a real estate broker, real estate salesperson, or mortgage loan originator without a license or license endorsement, or who advertises using...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10140
  Every officer, agent or employee of any company, and every other person who knowingly authorizes, directs or aids in the publication, advertisement, distribution or circularization...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10140.5
  Each advertisement or other statement which is published by a real estate broker or salesman offering to assist persons to file applications for the purchase...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10140.6
  (a) A real estate licensee shall not publish, circulate, distribute, or cause to be published, circulated, or distributed in any newspaper or periodical, or by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10141
  Within one month after the closing of a transaction in which title to real property or in the sale of a business when real or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10141.5
  Within one week after the closing of a transaction negotiated by a real estate broker in which title to real property is conveyed from a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10141.6
  (a) A real estate broker who engages in escrow activities for five or more transactions in a calendar year pursuant to the exemption from the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10142
  When a licensee prepares or has prepared an agreement authorizing or employing such licensee to perform any of the acts for which he is required...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10143.5
  Any real estate broker who assists another or others, or whose real estate salesmen assist another or others, for a compensation, in filing an application...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10144
  The commissioner may prescribe by regulation the information which shall be contained in contracts or other agreements by a real estate broker, or a real...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10145
  (a) (1) A real estate broker who accepts funds belonging to others in connection with a transaction subject to this part shall deposit all those...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10146
  Any real estate broker who contracts for or collects an advance fee from any other person, hereinafter referred to as the "principal," shall deposit any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10147
  (a) On or before January 1, 1993, the Seismic Safety Commission shall develop, adopt, and publish a Commercial Property Owner's Guide to Earthquake Safety for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10147.5
  (a) Any printed or form agreement which initially establishes, or is intended to establish, or alters the terms of any agreement which previously established a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10147.6
  (a) Any licensee who negotiates, attempts to negotiate, arranges, attempts to arrange, or otherwise offers to perform a mortgage loan modification or other form of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10148
  (a) A licensed real estate broker shall retain for three years copies of all listings, deposit receipts, canceled checks, trust records, and other documents executed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10149
  (a) On or before July 1, 1992, the Seismic Safety Commission shall develop, adopt, and publish a Homeowner's Guide to Earthquake Safety for distribution to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10150
  (a) Application for the real estate broker license examination shall be made in writing to the commissioner. The commissioner may prescribe the format and content...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10150.6
  The Real Estate Commissioner shall not grant an original real estate broker's license to any person who has not held a real estate salesman's license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10151
  (a) Application for the real estate salesperson license examination shall be made in writing to the commissioner. The commissioner may prescribe the format and content...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10151.5
  (a) An applicant who is not a resident of this state shall be eligible for a real estate license provided (1) the applicant qualifies for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10152
  (a) The commissioner may require any other proof he or she may deem advisable concerning the honesty and truthfulness of any applicant for a real...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10153
  In addition to the proof of honesty and truthfulness required of any applicant for a real estate license, the commissioner shall ascertain by written examination...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10153.1
  It is unlawful for any person with respect to any examination under this part to practice any deception or fraud with regard to his or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10153.2
  (a) An applicant to take the examination for an original real estate broker license shall also submit evidence, satisfactory to the commissioner, of successful completion,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10153.3
  (a) This section shall apply to an application for the real estate salesperson license examination, the real estate salesperson license, and for both the examination...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10153.4
  (a) This section shall apply to an application for the real estate salesperson license examination, the real estate salesperson license, and for both the examination...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10153.5
  As used in Sections 10151, 10153.2, 10153.3, and 10153.4, "an equivalent course of study" consists of courses at a private vocational school that have been...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10153.6
  All real estate broker licenses issued by the commissioner shall be for a period of four years. Applicants shall qualify in the appropriate examination and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10153.7
  All real estate salesperson licenses issued by the commissioner shall be for a period of four years. Applicants must qualify in the appropriate examination and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10153.8
  When an applicant for real estate license fails the qualifying examination, he may apply for reexamination by filing the appropriate application and fee. The application...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10154
  A person who has obtained a conditional license pursuant to Section 10153.4, but has not satisfied the requirements for an unqualified license under Section 10153.4,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10156.2
  An application on the form prescribed by the commissioner for the renewal of a license, filed before midnight of the last day of the period...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10156.2
  An application on the form prescribed by the commissioner for the renewal of a license, filed before midnight of the last day of the period...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10156.5
  The commissioner may issue a restricted license to a person: (a) Who is or has been licensed under this chapter and who has been found...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10156.6
  A restricted license issued pursuant to Section 10156.5 as the commissioner in his or her discretion finds advisable in the public interest may be restricted:...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10156.7
  (a) A restricted license issued pursuant to Section 10156.5 does not confer any property right in the privileges to be exercised thereunder, and the holder...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10156.8
  As one of the conditions to the issuance of a restricted license authorized by Section 10156.5 the commissioner may require the filing of surety bonds...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10157
  No real estate license gives authority to do any act specified in this chapter to any person, other than the person to whom the license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10158
  When a real estate license is issued to a corporation, if it desires any of its officers other than the officer designated by it pursuant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10159
  Each officer of a corporation through whom it is licensed to act as a real estate broker is, while so employed under such license, a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10159.2
  (a) The officer designated by a corporate broker licensee pursuant to Section 10211 shall be responsible for the supervision and control of the activities conducted...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10159.5
  Every person applying for a license under this chapter who desires to have such license issued under a fictitious business name shall file with his...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10160
  The real estate salesman's license shall remain in the possession of the licensed real estate broker employer until canceled or until the salesman leaves the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10161.5
  When the holder of a real estate broker's or salesman's license is required to relinquish his license to assume an office in local, state, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10161.8
  (a) Whenever a real estate salesman enters the employ of a real estate broker, the broker shall immediately notify the commissioner thereof in writing. (b)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10162
  Every licensed real estate broker shall have and maintain a definite place of business in the State of California which shall serve as his office...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10163
  If the applicant for a real estate broker's license maintains more than one place of business within the State he shall apply for and procure...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10164
  (a) An employing broker or corporate designated broker officer may appoint a licensee as a manager of a branch office or division of the employing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10165
  For a violation of any of the provisions of Section 10160, 10161.8, 10162, 10163, or subdivision (b) of Section 10164, the commissioner may temporarily suspend...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10166.01
  For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "SAFE Act" means the federal Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10166.02
  (a) A real estate broker who acts pursuant to Section 10131.1 or subdivision (d) or (e) of Section 10131, and who makes, arranges, or services...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10166.03
  (a) A loan processor or underwriter who does not represent to the public, through advertising or other means of communicating or providing information, including the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10166.04
  (a) In connection with an application to the commissioner for a license endorsement as a mortgage loan originator, every applicant shall furnish to the Nationwide...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10166.05
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commissioner shall not issue a license endorsement to act as a mortgage loan originator to an applicant unless...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10166.051
  In addition to any penalties authorized by regulations adopted pursuant to Section 10166.15, the commissioner may do one or more of the following, after appropriate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10166.06
  (a) In addition to the requirements of Section 10153, an applicant for a license endorsement as a mortgage loan originator shall complete at least 20...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10166.07
  (a) A real estate broker who acts pursuant to Section 10131.1 or subdivision (d) or (e) of Section 10131, and who makes, arranges, or services...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10166.08
  Each mortgage loan originator shall submit reports of condition to the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry reports of condition, and those reports shall be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10166.09
  The minimum standards for renewal of an endorsement as a mortgage loan originator shall include the following: (a) The mortgage loan originator continues to meet...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10166.10
  (a) A mortgage loan originator shall complete at least eight hours of continuing education annually, which shall include at least three hours relating to federal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10166.11
  (a) A real estate broker who acts pursuant to Section 10131.1 or subdivision (d) or (e) of Section 10131 and who makes, arranges, or services...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10166.12
  (a) As often as the commissioner deems necessary and appropriate, the commissioner shall examine the affairs of each real estate broker who is required to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10166.13
  A real estate broker who acts pursuant to Section 10131.1 or subdivision (d) or (e) of Section 10131 and who makes, arranges, or services loans...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10166.14
  A real estate broker shall notify the department when he or she is no longer subject to this part. If a broker has already made...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10166.15
  (a) The commissioner shall regularly report violations of this article, as well as enforcement actions taken against any mortgage loan originator to whom an endorsement...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10166.16
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 1512 of the SAFE Act, the requirements under any federal or state law regarding the privacy or confidentiality...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10166.17
  In addition to any other duties imposed upon the commissioner by law, the commissioner shall require mortgage loan originators to be licensed and registered through...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10167
  The definitions used in this section shall govern the construction and terms as used in this article: (a) "Prepaid rental listing service" means the business...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10167.1
  This article shall not apply to a newspaper of general circulation.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10167.2
  (a) It is unlawful for any person to engage in the business of a prepaid rental listing service unless licensed in that capacity or unless...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10167.3
  (a) A separate application for a license as a prepaid rental listing service shall be made in writing for each location to be operated by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10167.4
  The commissioner may require such proof as he or she may deem advisable concerning the honesty and truthfulness of (a) any applicant for a license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10167.5
  The business at a location licensed pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 10167.3 shall be conducted under the immediate supervision of the licensee or a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10167.6
  Every applicant for a prepaid rental listing service license who is not a resident of this state shall file with the application for a license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10167.7
  Except as provided in Section 10167.8, each licensee shall provide to the department, and at all times maintain in force, a bond in the amount...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10167.8
  The requirement of Section 10167.7 shall not apply to any prepaid rental listing service operated by: (a) a person exempt from the payment of federal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10167.9
  (a) Prior to the acceptance of a fee, a licensee shall offer the prospective tenant a written contract, either on paper or in electronic form,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10167.10
  (a) (1) A licensee shall refund in full the fee paid by a prospective tenant if the licensee does not, within five days after execution...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10167.11
  It shall be a violation of this article for any licensee or any employee or agent of a licensee to do the following: (a) Make,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10167.12
  (a) The commissioner may suspend, deny, or revoke the license of a licensee or the license of the licensee to operate at one or more...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10167.13
  A prepaid rental listing service license issued by the department shall be for a period of two years. An application and fee for renewal filed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10167.14
  Whenever any person has engaged or threatens to engage in any acts or practices which constitute, or will constitute a violation of a provision of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10167.15
  Any person, including an officer, director, or employee of a corporation who willfully violates any provision of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10167.16
  A person or corporation licensed pursuant to this article and not engaging in acts for which a real estate license is required under Article 1...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10167.17
  The commissioner shall, by regulation, make prepaid rental listing service licensees and applicants for prepaid rental listing service licenses subject to the same provisions respecting...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10170
  The Legislature has determined that it is in the public interest of consumer protection and consumer service that all real estate licensees licensed under the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10170.2
  The commissioner may appoint a committee comprised of licensees under this part and persons with expertise in real estate education to advise him with respect...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10170.4
  The commissioner shall adopt regulations pursuant to Section 10080, to prescribe all of the following: (a) A definition of basic requirements for continuing education of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10170.5
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in Sections 10153.4 and 10170.8, no real estate license shall be renewed unless the commissioner finds that the applicant for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10170.6
  The commissioner may amend or repeal any regulation adopted pursuant to this article in the same manner as provided for adoption of such regulations, except...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10170.8
  The provisions of this article shall not apply to any real estate licensee who submits proof satisfactory to the commissioner that he or she has...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10171.2
  If an applicant for a license has submitted, in good faith, evidence of completion of continuing education which he had reason to believe would qualify...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10171.3
  On and after January 1, 1981, a real estate license, which has been revoked as the result of disciplinary action by the commissioner, shall not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10171.4
  Any licensee who applies for renewal of his or her license under Section 10461, or for reinstatement of his or her license under Section 10161.5...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10171.5
  A person who is licensed as a real estate broker only as an officer of a corporate broker pursuant to Section 10158 or 10211 shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10175
  Upon grounds provided in this article and the other articles of this chapter, the license of any real estate licensee may be revoked or suspended...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10175.2
  (a) If the Real Estate Commissioner determines that the public interest and public welfare will be adequately served by permitting a real estate licensee to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10176
  The commissioner may, upon his or her own motion, and shall, upon the verified complaint in writing of any person, investigate the actions of any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10176.1
  (a) (1) Whenever the commissioner takes any enforcement or disciplinary action against a licensee, and the enforcement or disciplinary action is related to escrow services...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10176.5
  (a) The commissioner may, upon his or her own motion, and shall upon receiving a verified complaint in writing from any person, investigate an alleged...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10177
  The commissioner may suspend or revoke the license of a real estate licensee, or may deny the issuance of a license to an applicant, who...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10177
  The commissioner may suspend or revoke the license of a real estate licensee, delay the renewal of a license of a real estate licensee, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10177.1
  The commissioner may, without a hearing, suspend the license of any person who procured the issuance of the license to himself by fraud, misrepresentation, deceit,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10177.2
  The commissioner may, upon his or her own motion, and shall, upon the verified complaint in writing of any person, investigate the actions of any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10177.3
  (a) No licensee shall knowingly or intentionally misrepresent the value of real property. (b) No licensee that offers or provides an opinion of value of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10177.4
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commissioner may, after hearing in accordance with this part relating to hearings, suspend or revoke the license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10177.5
  When a final judgment is obtained in a civil action against any real estate licensee upon grounds of fraud, misrepresentation, or deceit with reference to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10177.6
  When an agent undertakes to arrange financing in connection with a sale, lease, or exchange of real property, or when a person or entity arranging...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10178
  When any real estate salesman is discharged by his employer for a violation of any of the provisions of this article prescribing a ground for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10179
  No violation of any of the provisions of this part relating to real estate or of Chapter 1 of Part 2 by any real estate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10180
  The commissioner may deny, suspend or revoke the real estate license of a corporation as to any officer or agent acting under its license without...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10182
  As a condition to the reinstatement of a revoked or suspended license, the commissioner may require the applicant to take and pass a qualifying examination.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10185
  Any person, including officers, directors, agents or employees of corporations, who willfully violates or knowingly participates in the violation of this division shall be guilty...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10186
  (a) Following an administrative proceeding, or in connection with a stipulation, when the commissioner grants the right to a license applicant or a licensee to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10186.1
  (a) A license or an endorsement of the department shall be suspended automatically during any time that the licensee is incarcerated after conviction of a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10186.2
  (a) (1) A licensee shall report any of the following to the department: (A) The bringing of an indictment or information charging a felony against...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10186.9
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, on and after January 1, 2015, the department shall be subject to review by the appropriate policy committees of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10200
  All real estate license fees shall be payable in advance of issuing the licenses and at the time of filing the application. Unless otherwise provided,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10201
  The holder of a license who fails to renew it prior to the expiration of the period for which it was issued and who has...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10201.6
  Any person who has qualified in an examination for a real estate license shall file the required application and fee for the license within one...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10202
  The definitions contained in this article are solely for the purposes of this article.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10207
  The amount of the real estate fees prescribed for an examination or for a license under this chapter is that fixed by the following provisions...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10208.5
  The real estate broker license examination fee is ninety-five dollars ($95). The real estate broker license reexamination fee is ninety-five dollars ($95). If an applicant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10209
  (a) The commissioner shall, by regulation, establish fees for applications for approval of equivalent courses of study as defined in Section 10153.5 in an amount...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10209.2
  The commissioner shall, by regulation, establish fees for applications for approval of educational courses, seminars, workshops, conference, or their equivalent, or for the evaluation of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10209.5
  The fee for a restricted broker license shall be the same as that for an unrestricted license as provided in Section 10210.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10210
  (a) The fee for a real estate broker license shall not exceed three hundred dollars ($300). In the case of an original applicant, the fee...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10211
  If the licensee is a corporation, the license issued to it entitles one officer thereof, on behalf of the corporation, to engage in the business...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10213.5
  The real estate salesperson license examination fee is sixty dollars ($60). The real estate salesperson license reexamination fee is sixty dollars ($60). If an applicant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10213.6
  If an applicant for any examination fails to take the examination on the date scheduled, he or she may make application in writing to the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10214.5
  The fee for a restricted salesperson license shall be the same as that for an unrestricted license as provided in Section 10215.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10215
  (a) The fee for a real estate salesperson license shall not exceed two hundred forty-five dollars ($245), except that for an applicant qualifying pursuant to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10222
  For any examination required under any order issued pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, the fee shall be the same as for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10225
  An application for a permit to sell real property securities secured by liens on real property situated outside the State of California shall be accompanied...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10226
  (a) The commissioner may periodically by regulation prescribe fees lower than the maximum fees provided in Sections 10209.5, 10210, 10214.5, 10215, and 10250.3 whenever he...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10226.5
  (a) If at any time funds are transferred or loaned from the Real Estate Fund to the General Fund by the Budget Act, then 30...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10230
  (a) The provisions of this article do not apply to the negotiation of a loan by or on behalf of a real estate broker in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10231
  Except as authorized by permit issued pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Corporate Securities Law of 1968 (Section 25000 et seq. of the Corporations...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10231.1
  No person in doing any of the acts set forth in subdivision (d) of Section 10131, subdivision (e) of Section 10131, and Section 10131.1 shall,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10231.2
  (a) A real estate broker who, through express or implied representations that the broker or any salesperson acting on the broker's behalf is engaging in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10232
  (a) Except as otherwise expressly provided, Sections 10232.2, 10232.25, 10233, and 10236.6 are applicable to every real estate broker who intends or reasonably expects in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10232.1
  (a) A real estate broker, prior to the use of any proposed advertisement in connection with the conduct of activities described in subdivisions (d) and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10232.2
  A real estate broker who meets the criteria of subdivision (a) of Section 10232 shall annually file the reports referred to in subdivisions (a) and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10232.25
  (a) A real estate broker who meets the criteria of subdivision (a) of Section 10232 shall, within 30 days after the end of each of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10232.4
  (a) In making a solicitation to a particular person and in negotiating with that person to make a loan secured by real property or to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10232.5
  (a) If the real estate broker is performing acts described in subdivision (d) of Section 10131 in negotiating a loan to be secured by a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10232.6
  (a) A real estate broker, acting within the course and scope of his or her license, who arranges for or engages the services of an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10233
  A real estate licensee who undertakes to service a promissory note secured directly or collaterally by a lien on real property or a real property...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10233.1
  If a real estate broker in servicing a real property sales contract or a promissory note secured directly or collaterally by a lien on real...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10233.2
  For the purposes of Division 3 (commencing with Section 3101) and Division 9 (commencing with Section 9101) of the Commercial Code, when a broker, acting...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10234
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (d), every real estate licensee who negotiates a loan secured by a trust deed on real property shall cause...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10234.5
  In addition to the requirements of Section 10234, in the placing of any loan, a broker shall deliver or cause to be delivered conformed copies...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10235
  No real estate licensee shall knowingly advertise, print, display, publish, distribute, telecast or broadcast, or cause or permit to be advertised, printed, displayed, published, distributed,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10235.5
  (a) No real estate licensee or mortgage loan originator shall place an advertisement disseminated primarily in this state for a loan unless there is disclosed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10236
  The commissioner in his or her discretion may honor requests from interested persons for interpretive opinions with respect to any provision of this article or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10236.1
  No real estate licensee shall advertise to give or to offer to give to a prospective purchaser or lender any premium, gift or any other...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10236.2
  (a) A real estate broker who satisfies the criteria of subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 10232 and who fails to notify the Department of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10236.4
  (a) In compliance with Section 10235.5, every licensed real estate broker shall also display his or her license number on all advertisements where there is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10236.5
  A real estate broker shall notify the department when he or she is no longer servicing or arranging loans subject to the reporting requirements of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10236.6
  (a) The commissioner, in his or her discretion, may audit any broker who conducts transactions subject to the provisions of this article. The audit shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10236.7
  (a) A real estate broker, when engaging in acts for which a license is required, who arranges a transaction pursuant to Article 6 (commencing with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10237
  This article applies only to the exemption from securities qualification claimed under Section 25102.5 of the Corporations Code. This article does not apply to any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10238
  (a) A notice in the following form and containing the following information shall be filed with the commissioner within 30 days after the first transaction...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10239
  The jurisdiction of the Commissioner of Corporations under the Corporate Securities Law of 1968 shall be neither limited nor expanded by this article. Nothing in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10239.1
  Nothing in this article shall be construed to change the agency relationships between the parties where they exist or limit in any manner the fiduciary...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10239.2
  For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Broker" means a person licensed as a broker under this part. (b) "Affiliate"...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10239.3
  (a) If any person other than a real estate broker makes or keeps any of the books, accounts, or other records maintained in connection with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10240
  (a) Every real estate broker, upon acting within the meaning of subdivision (d) of Section 10131, who negotiates a loan to be secured directly or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10240.1
  The provisions of this article, exclusive of the provisions of Section 10240, apply only to loans secured by a dwelling.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10240.2
  As used in this article, " dwelling" means any of the following units which are owned by a signatory to the mortgage or deed of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10240.3
  (a) The commissioner shall apply the guidance on nontraditional mortgage product risks published on November 14, 2006, by the Conference of State Bank Supervisors and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10241
  The statement required by Section 10240, the form of which shall be approved by the commissioner, shall set forth separately the following items: (a) The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10241.1
  (a) The purchase of credit life insurance on the life of the borrower or credit disability insurance to provide indemnity for payments becoming due on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10241.2
  If the broker elects to make a loan subject to Section 10240 which consists wholly or in part of broker-controlled funds as defined in subdivision...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10241.3
  In any loan transaction in which a fee is charged to a borrower for an appraisal of the real property that will serve as security...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10241.4
  (a) Prior to a borrower becoming obligated on any loan secured by a dwelling that provides for a balloon payment and is otherwise subject to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10242
  The maximum amount of expenses, charges and interest to be paid by a borrower with respect to any loan subject to this article shall be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10242.5
  (a) A charge imposed for late payment of an installment due on a loan secured by a mortgage or deed of trust on real property...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10242.6
  (a) The principal and accrued interest on any loan secured by a mortgage or deed of trust on real property containing only a single-family, owner-occupied...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10243
  If the loan is not consummated due to the failure of the borrower to disclose the outstanding liens of record or the correct current vested...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10244
  Any loan made by any person and secured directly by a lien on real property, other than a note given back to the seller by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10244.1
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 10244, on a loan secured directly or collaterally by a lien on real property comprising an owner-occupied dwelling, for a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10245
  The provisions of this article, exclusive of the provisions of Sections 10240, 10240.3, 10242.5, and 10242.6, do not apply to any bona fide loan secured...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10246
  If any amount: (a) In excess of the charges referred to in Section 10241 and limited by Section 10242, (b) In excess of the charges...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10247
  The provisions of this article pertaining to maximum costs and expenses, charges and interest, together with the penalties stated in this article, shall apply to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10248
  Every person who, for compensation to be received directly or indirectly, sells, offers to sell, purchases for resale or offers to purchase for resale, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10248.1
  No real estate licensee shall charge, receive, or negotiate for the payment by the borrower of any service charge or fee other than charges and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10248.2
  (a) A borrower may not waive any right or remedy under this article. This subdivision shall not be deemed to prohibit a bona fide settlement,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10248.3
  The provisions of this article shall apply only to those loans otherwise subject to this article which are made or negotiated by real estate brokers...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10249
  (a) A person acting as a principal or agent who intends, in this state, to sell or lease or offer for sale or lease lots,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10249.1
  "Subdivision," as used in Section 10249, includes all of the following: (a) Improved or unimproved land or lands divided or proposed to be divided for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10249.3
  (a) The commissioner may by regulation prescribe filing fees in connection with registrations with the department pursuant to the provisions of this article that are...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10249.8
  (a) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in Section 10249 or 11000, it is unlawful for a person, in this state, to sell or lease...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10249.9
  (a) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in Section 10249 or 11000, it is unlawful for a person, in this state, to sell or lease...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10249.91
  The term of a registration issued pursuant to this article shall be one year, unless the commissioner by regulation prescribes a longer term.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10249.92
  A registration application pursuant to the provisions of this article shall be accompanied by an irrevocable consent stating that if in any action commenced against...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10249.93
  (a) If the commissioner finds, based on available evidence, that a person is violating any provision of this article or a regulation of the commissioner...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10450
  All fees charged and collected under this part and under Chapter 1 of Part 2, except as provided in this chapter, shall be paid by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10450.6
  There shall be separate accounts in the Real Estate Fund for purposes of real estate education and research and for purposes of recovery which shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10451
  All money paid into the State Treasury and credited to the Real Estate Fund is hereby appropriated to be used by the commissioner in carrying...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10451.5
  (a) All money paid into the State Treasury and credited to the Education and Research Account in the Real Estate Fund pursuant to Section 10450.6...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10452
  The Controller shall draw his warrant on the respective funds from time to time in favor of the commissioner for the amounts expended under his...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10453
  All of the expenditures of the commissioner, including his salary, shall be paid only from the Real Estate Fund except as otherwise provided in this
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10454
  The commissioner may, with the consent of the Department of Finance, withdraw from the Real Estate Fund moneys to be used as a revolving fund...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10460
  As used in this article: (a) "Military licensee" refers to any person who, while licensed under the Real Estate Law, or any of the statutes...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10461
  A military licensee shall not be required to renew his license under this part or Chapter 19 of Division 3 until the beginning of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10462
  A military licensee shall not be entitled to the privileges of this article if he receives a dishonorable discharge from the military service of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10463
  Any person who would qualify as a military licensee except for the failure to notify the commissioner of his entry into the military service of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10464
  Section 114 of this code does not apply to this part.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10470
  If, on June 30 of any year, the balance remaining in the Consumer Recovery Account in the Real Estate Fund is less than two hundred...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10470.1
  (a) In addition to the amount paid into the Consumer Recovery Account as set forth in Section 10450.6, the Real Estate Commissioner may authorize the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10471
  (a) When an aggrieved person obtains (1) a final judgment in a court of competent jurisdiction, including, but not limited to, a criminal restitution order...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10471.1
  (a) The claimant shall serve a copy of the notice prescribed in subdivision (e) together with a copy of the application upon the judgment debtor...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10471.2
  (a) If the commissioner determines that the application as submitted by the claimant fails to comply substantially with the requirements of Section 10471 or with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10471.3
  (a) The commissioner shall render a final written decision on the application within 90 days after a completed application has been received unless the claimant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10471.4
  In its consideration and investigation of an application, the department shall have recourse to all appropriate means of investigation and discovery available to it under...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10471.5
  (a) The commissioner shall give notice of a decision rendered with respect to the application to the claimant and to a judgment debtor who has...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10471.6
  If, at any time prior to the rendering of a decision on an application, the commissioner makes a preliminary determination that the aggregate valid applications...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10472
  (a) A claimant against whom the commissioner has rendered a decision denying an application pursuant to Section 10471 may, within six months after the mailing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10472.1
  (a) The commissioner and the judgment debtor shall each have 30 days after being served with the application in which to file a written response....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10473
  Whenever the court proceeds upon an application under Section 10472, it shall order payment out of the Consumer Recovery Account only upon a determination that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10473.1
  The judgment debtor may defend an action against the Consumer Recovery Account on his or her own behalf and shall have recourse to all appropriate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10474
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter and regardless of the number of persons aggrieved or parcels of real estate involved in a transaction or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10474.5
  If the amount of liability of the Consumer Recovery Account as provided for in Section 10474 is insufficient to pay in full the valid claims...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10475
  Should the commissioner pay from the Consumer Recovery Account any amount in settlement of a claim or toward satisfaction of a judgment against a licensed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10476
  If, at any time, the money deposited in the Consumer Recovery Account is insufficient to satisfy any duly authorized claim or portion thereof, the commissioner...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10477
  Any sums received by the commissioner pursuant to any provisions of this chapter shall be deposited in the State Treasury and credited to the Consumer...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10478
  It shall be unlawful for any person or the agent of any person to file with the commissioner any notice, statement, or other document required...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10479
  When, the commissioner has paid from the Consumer Recovery Account any sum to the judgment creditor, the commissioner shall be subrogated to all of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10480
  The failure of an aggrieved person to comply with all of the provisions of this chapter shall constitute a waiver of any rights hereunder.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10481
  Nothing in this chapter limits the authority of the commissioner to take disciplinary action against any licensee for a violation of the Real Estate Law,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10500
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 10131.4 and this chapter, it is unlawful for any person to engage in any of the following acts for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10500.5
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 10131.45 and in this chapter, it is unlawful for any person to engage in the following businesses as a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10501
  (a) The Real Estate Commissioner may file a complaint for any violation of Section 10500 or 10500.5 before any court of competent jurisdiction, and the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10502
  A mineral, oil and gas broker license shall not be required to engage in any of the following activities with respect to a mineral, oil...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10503
  Mineral, oil or gas property refers to land used for, intended to be used for, or concerning which representations are made with respect to, the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10508
  No person engaged in the business or acting in the capacity of a mineral, oil and gas broker within this state shall bring or maintain...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10509
  (a) It is unlawful for a mineral, oil, and gas broker or a real estate broker to employ or compensate, directly or indirectly, any person...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10512
  Every officer, agent or employee of any company, and every other person who knowingly authorizes, directs or aids in the publication, advertisement, distribution or circularization...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10513
  In performing acts within the scope and under the authority of this chapter, mineral, oil and gas brokers are subject to the provisions applicable to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10515
  (a) Mineral, oil, and gas brokers in performing acts within the scope and under the authority of this chapter are subject to the provisions applicable...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10519
  (a) The commissioner may issue a restricted mineral, oil, and gas broker license to a person whose mineral, oil, and gas broker license has been...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10519.1
  There is no property right and no right to the renewal of a restricted license issued pursuant to Section 10519. The commissioner may suspend a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10560
  Upon grounds provided in this article and the other articles of this chapter, the license of any mineral, oil and gas licensee may be revoked...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10561
  The commissioner may, upon his own motion, and shall, upon the verified complaint in writing of any person, investigate the actions of any person engaged...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10562
  The commissioner may suspend or revoke the license of a mineral, oil, and gas licensee who has done any of the following: (a) Entered a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10562.5
  When a final judgment is obtained in a civil action against any mineral, oil and gas license, upon grounds of fraud, misrepresentation, or deceit with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10564
  The commissioner may suspend or revoke the mineral, oil, and gas license of a corporation as to any officer or agent acting under its mineral,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 10580
  Mineral, oil, and gas brokers are subject to the provisions applicable to real estate brokers contained in Sections 10200, 10207, 10209.5, 10210, 10211, and 10222.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11000
  (a) "Subdivided lands" and "subdivision" refer to improved or unimproved land or lands, wherever situated within California, divided or proposed to be divided for the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11000.1
  (a) "Subdivided lands" and "subdivision," as defined by Sections 11000 and 11004.5, also include improved or unimproved land or lands, a lot or lots, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11000.2
  (a) A person who has made an offer to purchase an interest in an undivided-interest subdivision specified in subdivision (a) of, and not exempted by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11001
  The Real Estate Commissioner (hereafter referred to in this chapter as the commissioner) may adopt, amend, or repeal such rules and regulations as are reasonably...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11003
  "Planned development" has the same meaning as specified in subdivision (k) of Section 1351 of the Civil Code.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11003.2
  "Stock cooperative" has the same meaning as specified in subdivision (m) of Section 1351 of the Civil Code, except that, as used in this chapter,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11003.4
  (a) A "limited-equity housing cooperative" or a "workforce housing cooperative trust" is a corporation that meets the criteria of Section 11003.2 and that also meets...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11004
  "Community apartment project" has the same meaning as specified in subdivision (d) of Section 1351 of the Civil Code.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11004.5
  In addition to any provisions of Section 11000, the reference in this code to "subdivided lands" and "subdivision" shall include all of the following: (a)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11007
  Every nonresident subdivider shall file with the questionnaire an irrevocable consent that if, in any action commenced against him in this State, personal service of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11008
  No provision of this part which makes a violation of this part a crime shall be construed to preclude application of any other criminal provision...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11010
  (a) Except as otherwise provided pursuant to subdivision (c) or elsewhere in this chapter, any person who intends to offer subdivided lands within this state...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11010.05
  A person who proposes to create a senior citizen housing development, as defined in Section 51.3 or 51.11 of the Civil Code, shall include in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11010.1
  Prior to the issuance of promissory notes secured by individual lots in an unrecorded subdivision, the owner, his agent or subdivider shall notify the commissioner...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11010.2
  (a) As used in this section: (1) "Quantitative" means the number and type of documents required to make the filing substantially complete, as defined in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11010.3
  The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to the proposed sale or lease of lots or other interests in a subdivision in which lots...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11010.35
  (a) The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to the proposed sale or lease of five or more lots, parcels, or other interests in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11010.4
  The notice of intention specified in Section 11010 is not required for a proposed offering of subdivided land that satisfies all of the following criteria:...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11010.5
  The filing of a second notice of intention to sell and a second report of the commissioner under this article shall not be required when...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11010.6
  The provisions of this chapter shall not be applicable to subdivided land which is offered or proposed to be offered for sale, lease, or financing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11010.7
  The notice of intention specified in Section 11010 shall not apply to nonbinding expressions of intent to purchase or lease which an owner, agent, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11010.8
  (a) The requirement that a notice of intention be filed pursuant to Section 11010 is not applicable to the purchase of a mobilehome park by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11010.9
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the subdivider of a mobilehome park that is proposed to be converted to resident ownership, prior to filing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11010.10
  A person who plans to offer for sale or lease lots or other interests in a subdivision which sale or lease (a) is not subject...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11010.11
  Notwithstanding any provision in the purchase contract to the contrary, if the subdivision is to be used for residential purposes, the subdivision public report shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11011
  (a) The commissioner may by regulation prescribe filing fees in connection with applications to the Department of Real Estate pursuant to this chapter that are...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11012
  It is unlawful for the owner, his agent, or subdivider, of the project, after it is submitted to the Department of Real Estate, to materially...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11013
  For the purposes of this part, a blanket encumbrance shall be considered to mean a trust deed or mortgage or any other lien or encumbrance,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11013.1
  It shall be unlawful, except as provided in Section 11013.2, for the owner, subdivider, or agent to sell or lease lots or parcels within a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11013.2
  Should there not exist in the blanket encumbrance or supplementary agreement a release clause as set forth in Section 11013.1, then it shall be unlawful...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11013.3
  Taxes and assessments levied by public authority shall not be considered a blanket encumbrance within the meaning of Section 11013.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11013.4
  If a subdivision is not subject to a blanket encumbrance, as defined in Section 11013, it is unlawful for the owner, subdivider, or agent to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11013.5
  The public report of the commissioner, when issued, shall indicate the method or procedure selected by the owner or subdivider to comply with the provisions...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11014
  The commissioner may investigate any subdivision being offered for sale or lease in this State. For the purposes of such investigations the commissioner may use...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11018
  The Real Estate Commissioner shall make an examination of any subdivision, and shall, unless there are grounds for denial, issue to the subdivider a public...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11018.1
  (a) A copy of the public report of the commissioner, when issued, shall be given to the prospective purchaser by the owner, subdivider or agent...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11018.2
  No person shall sell or lease, or offer for sale or lease in this state any lots or parcels in a subdivision without first obtaining...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11018.3
  Any subdivider objecting to the denial of a public report may, within 30 days after receipt of the order of denial, file a written request...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11018.5
  With respect to the subdivisions and interests of the type described in Section 11004.5, and in addition to the other grounds for denial of a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11018.6
  Any person offering to sell or lease any interest subject to the requirements of subdivision (a) of Section 11018.1 in a subdivision described in Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11018.7
  (a) No amendment or modification of provisions in the declaration of restrictions, bylaws, articles of incorporation or other instruments controlling or otherwise affecting rights to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11018.12
  (a) The commissioner may issue a conditional public report for a subdivision specified in Section 11004.5 if the requirements of subdivision (e) are met, all...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11018.13
  (a) After written notice to the subdivider, or the subdivider's representative, the commissioner may abandon any application for a subdivision public report if the data...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11018.14
  The commissioner shall not be a responsible agency for purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act (Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000), Public Resources Code)....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11019
  (a) Whenever the commissioner determines from available evidence that a person has done any of the following, the commissioner may order the person to desist...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11020
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to make, issue, publish, deliver, or transfer as true and genuine any public report which is forged,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11021
  For the purpose of calculating the period of any applicable statute of limitations in any action or proceeding, either civil or criminal involving any violation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11022
  (a) It is unlawful for an owner, subdivider, agent or employee of a subdivision or other person, with intent directly or indirectly to sell or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11023
  Any person who violates Section 11010, 11010.1, 11010.8, 11013.1, 11013.2, 11013.4, 11018.2, 11018.7, 11018.9, 11018.10, 11018.11, 11019, or 11022 is guilty of a public offense...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11200
  Every sales contract relating to the purchase of real property in a subdivision as defined in this chapter shall clearly set forth the legal description...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11210
  This chapter may be cited as the Vacation Ownership and Time-share Act of 2004.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11211
  The purposes of this chapter are to do all of the following: (a) Provide full and fair disclosure to the purchasers and prospective purchasers of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11211.5
  (a) This chapter applies to all of the following: (1) Time-share plans with an accommodation or component site in this state. (2) Time-share plans without...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11211.7
  (a) Any time-share plan registered pursuant to this chapter to which the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act (Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 1350) of Part...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11212
  As used in this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) "Accommodation" means any apartment, condominium or cooperative unit, cabin, lodge, hotel or motel room, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11213
  Each time-share estate, as specified in paragraph (1) of subdivision (x) of Section 11212, constitutes, for purposes of title, a separate estate or interest in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11214
  (a) The developer shall supervise, manage, and control all aspects of the offering of the time-share plan by or on behalf of the developer, including,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11215
  (a) The time-share instrument shall prohibit a person from seeking or obtaining, through any legal procedures, judicial partition of the time-share interest or sale of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11216
  (a) An exchange program is not a part of a time-share plan offering and, except as provided in this section and Section 11238, shall not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11217
  (a) The following communications shall not be deemed an advertisement or promotion and are exempt from this chapter so long as the communications are in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11218
  A time-share interest in a time-share plan shall be deemed an interest in subdivided lands or a subdivision for purposes of subdivision (f) of Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11219
  (a) Time-share plans registered as Qualified Resort Vacation Club Projects under prior law shall continue to operate under that prior law notwithstanding anything in this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11225
  A person shall not be required to register a time-share plan with the commissioner pursuant to this chapter if any of the following applies: (a)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11226
  (a) Any person who, to any individual located in the state, sells, offers to sell, or attempts to solicit prospective purchasers to purchase a time-share...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11226.1
  Any person offering to sell or lease any interest subject to the requirements of Section 11226 shall make a copy of each of the following...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11227
  (a) Subject to subdivision (h), the commissioner shall issue a final public report if all registration requirements have been met as set forth in this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11228
  The term of a final public report shall be limited to five years. A renewal shall be issued if the developer, owner, or agent makes...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11229
  (a) In connection with its review of the registration application of a time-share plan, the commissioner may make an examination of any time-share property submitted...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11230
  If the time-share plan, including any accommodations, or amenities within the common area are not completed prior to the issuance of a final public report...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11231
  Every registration required to be filed with the commissioner under this chapter shall be reviewed and issued the specified public report in accordance with the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11232
  (a) The commissioner may by regulation prescribe filing fees in connection with applications to the Department of Real Estate for a public report pursuant to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11233
  An applicant for a public report for a time-share plan in which the use and occupancy of the time-share interest purchased in the time-share plan...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11234
  A developer shall prepare, for issuance by the commissioner, a public report that shall fully and accurately disclose those facts concerning the time-share developer and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11235
  (a) A person who has entered into a contract to purchase a short-term product shall have the right to rescind the contract until midnight of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11236
  (a) A receipt on the form specified herein shall be taken by or on behalf of the developer from each person executing a reservation agreement...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11237
  (a) If a purchaser of a time-share interest in a time-share plan is offered the opportunity to acquire an incidental benefit in connection with the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11238
  (a) The purchase contract entered into by any person who has made an offer to purchase a time-share interest or interests, any incidental benefit, made...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11239
  (a) To inform a purchaser of his or her right of cancellation under Section 11238, the developer shall attach to the face page of every...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11240
  An estimated operating budget for the time-share plan shall be filed with the commissioner along with the other information required to be registered pursuant to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11241
  (a) The developer is obligated for the expenses associated with unsold inventory held by the developer. The obligation can be fulfilled in either of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11242
  (a) In any time-share plan , the developer may undertake to pay a portion of the assessments otherwise payable by each purchaser ("buy down subsidy")....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11242.1
  (a) The assurance specified in Section 11241 and, if applicable, the assurance specified in Section 11242, shall be delivered to the trustee or an escrow...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11243
  The developer shall comply with the following escrow requirements: (a) A developer of a time-share plan shall deposit into an escrow account in an acceptable...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11244
  (a) Excluding any encumbrance placed against the purchaser's time-share interest securing the purchaser's payment of purchase money financing for the purchase, the developer shall not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11245
  (a) No person subject to this chapter shall do any of the following: (1) Make any material misrepresentation that is false or misleading in connection...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11246
  With each application for an amendment or renewal of a public report, and with the initial submittal of an application for a time-share plan in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11250
  A time-share plan may be created in any accommodation unless otherwise prohibited. All time-share plans shall maintain a one-to-one purchaser to accommodation ratio, which means...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11251
  (a) The developer of a single site time-share plan and for the component sites of a multisite time-share plan located in the state, shall cause...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11252
  In a time-share plan offering time-share use interests, the developer shall not encumber the accommodations of the time-share plan in a manner that could materially...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11253
  For single site time-share plans and component sites of multisite time-share plans located in this state, the time-share instrument shall require that the following insurance...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11254
  (a) In a time-share plan in which the fee or a long-term leasehold interest in all or some of the accommodations and in appurtenant real...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11255
  (a) The department shall require that each of the accommodations in a time-share plan offering time-share use interests be conveyed to a trustee or an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11256
  (a) The contract proposed to be used by a developer applying for a public report for the sale or lease of time-share interests shall provide...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11265
  (a) For single site time-share plans and component sites of a specific time-share interest multisite time-share plan, the following requirements apply: (1) Except as provided...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11265.1
  (a) Regular and special assessments levied pursuant to the time-share instrument are delinquent 30 days after they become due, unless the time-share instrument provides a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11266
  (a) An amendment of a provision of the declaration or other document establishing the time-share plan may not be adopted without the vote or written...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11267
  (a) The time-share instruments shall require the employment of a managing entity for the time-share plan or component site pursuant to a written management agreement...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11268
  (a) Unless impracticable because of the number of members of the association, their places of residence in relation to each other, the international nature of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11269
  (a) A member of an association including associations that provide for unequal assessments against members, shall be entitled to one vote for each time-share interest...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11270
  (a) The governing body shall consist of three directors for an association that does not contemplate more than 100 members and either five or seven...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11271
  (a) Regular meetings of the governing body of the association shall be held as prescribed in the bylaws, but not less frequently than annually. (b)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11272
  (a) The following information concerning the time-share plan shall be made available to all time-share interest owners in the time-share plan: (1) A proposed budget...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11273
  (a) The books of account, minutes of members and governing body meetings, and all other records of the time-share plan maintained by the association or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11274
  (a) The association shall not be authorized to cause the absolute forfeiture of a time-share interest owner's right, title, or interest in the time-share plan...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11275
  (a) Any contractual provision or other provision in the time-share instruments implemented after July 1, 2005, setting forth terms, conditions, and procedures for resolution of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11280
  (a) Except as specifically provided in this section, the regulation of time-share plans and exchange programs is an exclusive power and function of the state....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11281
  The commissioner may adopt, repeal, or amend forms and regulations that are necessary to effectuate the intent of the Legislature in carrying out this chapter....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11282
  The commissioner may investigate the actions or qualifications of any person or persons holding or claiming to hold a public report under this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11283
  (a) Whenever the commissioner determines from available evidence that a person has done any of the following, the commissioner may order the person to desist...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11284
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter or of the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11285
  An action for damages or for injunctive or declaratory relief for a violation of this chapter may be brought by any time-share interest owner or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11286
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to make, issue, publish, deliver, or transfer as true and genuine any public report that is forged,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11287
  Any person who violates Section 11226, 11227, 11234, 11244, 11245, or 11283, is guilty of a public offense punishable by a fine not to exceed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11288
  This chapter shall take effect on July 1, 2005.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11300
  This part may be cited as the Real Estate Appraisers' Licensing and Certification Law.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11301
  There is hereby created within the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency an Office of Real Estate Appraisers to administer and enforce this part.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11282
  The commissioner may investigate the actions or qualifications of any person or persons holding or claiming to hold a public report under this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11283
  (a) Whenever the commissioner determines from available evidence that a person has done any of the following, the commissioner may order the person to desist...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11284
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter or of the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11285
  An action for damages or for injunctive or declaratory relief for a violation of this chapter may be brought by any time-share interest owner or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11286
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to make, issue, publish, deliver, or transfer as true and genuine any public report that is forged,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11287
  Any person who violates Section 11226, 11227, 11234, 11244, 11245, or 11283, is guilty of a public offense punishable by a fine not to exceed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11288
  This chapter shall take effect on July 1, 2005.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11302
  For the purpose of applying this part, the following terms, unless otherwise expressly indicated, shall mean and have the following definitions: (a) "Agency" means the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11310
  The Governor shall appoint, subject to confirmation by the Senate, the Director of the Office of Real Estate Appraisers who shall, in consultation with the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11310.1
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Office of Real Estate Appraisers in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11313
  The office is under the supervision and control of the secretary. The duty of enforcing and administering this part is vested in the director and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11313.2
  (a) The secretary shall review and evaluate the office, and make recommendations to the Legislature by October 1, 2014, regarding whether the office should be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11314
  The office is required to include in its regulations requirements for licensure and discipline of real estate appraisers that ensure protection of the public interest...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11315
  (a) The director may issue to a licensee, applicant for licensure, person who acts in a capacity that requires a license under this part, course...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11315.1
  (a) The director may issue to a registrant or person who acts in a capacity that requires a certificate of registration under this part, a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11315.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the office may, at any time the director deems it to be in the public interest, enter into a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11316
  (a) The director may assess a fine against a licensee, applicant for licensure, person who acts in a capacity that requires a license under this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11317
  The office shall publish a summary of public disciplinary actions taken by the office, including resignations while under investigation and the violations upon which these...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11317.2
  (a) In addition to publishing the summary required by Section 11317, the office shall provide on the Internet information regarding the status of every license...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11318
  (a) A licensee, applicant for licensure, course provider, or applicant for course provider accreditation shall report to the office, in writing, the occurrence of any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11319
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice constitute the minimum standard of conduct and performance for a licensee...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11319.2
  (a) A license of a licensee or a certificate of a registrant shall be suspended automatically during any time that the licensee or registrant is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11320
  No person shall engage in federally related real estate appraisal activity governed by this part or assume or use the title of or any title...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11320.5
  No person or entity shall act in the capacity of an appraisal management company without first obtaining a certificate of registration from the office.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11321
  (a) No person other than a state licensed real estate appraiser may assume or use that title or any title, designation, or abbreviation likely to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11323
  No licensee shall engage in any appraisal activity in connection with the purchase, sale, transfer, financing, or development of real property if his or her...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11324
  An individual who is not a licensee may assist in the preparation of an appraisal under the following conditions: (a) The assistance is under the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11325
  (a) The director shall adopt regulations which determine the parameters of appraisal work which may be performed by licensed appraisers. (b) Regulations adopted by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11326
  (a) The county assessor shall, upon request, disclose information, furnish abstracts, copies of maps, construction permits, notices of completion, sales confirmation, and permit access to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11327
  The director shall adopt regulations governing the process and procedure of applying for a trainee license, which shall meet, at a minimum, the requirements of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11328
  To substantiate documentation of appraisal experience, or to facilitate the investigation of illegal or unethical activities by a licensee, applicant, or other person acting in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11328.1
  If the director has a reasonable belief that a registrant, or person or entity acting in a capacity that requires a certificate of registration, has...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11340
  The director shall adopt regulations governing the process and the procedure of applying for a license which shall include, but not be limited to, necessary...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11341
  A license issued with an effective date of January 1, 2000, or later shall be valid for two years unless otherwise extended or limited by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11343
  (a) The office shall submit to the Department of Justice fingerprint images and related information required by the Department of Justice of all real estate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11344
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 11341, a temporary license may be issued pending the outcome of the fingerprint and background check or as otherwise prescribed by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11345
  The director shall adopt regulations governing the process and procedure of applying for registration as an appraisal management company. Applications for a certificate of registration...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11345.05
  (a) A registrant shall notify the office within 10 business days, on a form developed by the office, of any additions, deletions, or changes in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11345.1
  A certificate of registration as an appraisal management company shall be valid for a period of two years, unless otherwise extended or limited by the
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11345.2
  (a) No individual may act as a controlling person for a registrant if any of the following apply: (1) The individual has entered a plea...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11345.3
  The director may not issue a certificate of registration to an appraisal management company unless the appraisal management company confirms in its application for registration...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11345.4
  No person or entity acting in the capacity of an appraisal management company shall improperly influence or attempt to improperly influence the development, reporting, result,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11345.45
  A person or entity may not structure an appraisal assignment or a contract with an independent appraiser for the purpose of evading the provisions of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11345.6
  (a) No registered appraisal management company may alter, modify, or otherwise change a completed appraisal report submitted by an independent appraiser, including, without limitation, by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11345.7
  No person or entity preparing an appraisal or performing appraisal management functions in connection with the origination, modification, or refinancing of a mortgage loan shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11346
  The provisions of this part relating to appraisal management companies shall cease to be operative 60 days after the effective date of a federal law...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11350
  The director shall adopt regulations governing the process and procedure of applying for reciprocity, which shall meet, at a minimum, the requirements of the Appraisal
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11351
  Temporary practice is not required under this chapter if the appraiser from another state assists in the performance of the appraisal as provided by Section
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11352
  The director shall adopt regulations governing the process and procedure of applying for temporary practice, which shall meet, at a minimum, the requirements of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11360
  (a) The director shall adopt regulations governing the process and procedures for renewal of a license which shall include, but not be limited to, continuing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11360
  (a) The director shall adopt regulations governing the process and procedures for renewal of a license which shall include, but not be limited to, continuing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11361
  The director shall adopt regulations for implementation of this chapter to ensure that persons engaged in appraisal activity have current knowledge of real estate appraisal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11400
  (a) Initial application fees shall be paid to the office at the time of application. (b) All issuance-related fees shall be paid to the office...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11401
  (a) The fee to take an examination or reexamination for a license shall be set at an amount not to exceed the cost to the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11404
  The fee for an original or renewal real estate appraiser license or appraiser trainee license shall not exceed four hundred fifty dollars ($450), which includes...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11405
  The fee for an original or renewal certification as a state certified real estate appraiser shall not exceed five hundred twenty-five dollars ($525), which includes...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11406
  (a) The director shall by regulation establish fees for approval of basic education and continuing education courses or their equivalent, or for the evaluation of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11406.5
  The director shall, by regulation, establish the fees to be imposed on appraisal management companies. The fees shall be sufficient to cover the costs incurred...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11407
  The director may by regulation prescribe fees lower than the maximum fees established by this chapter if he or she determines that lower fees will...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11408
  (a) Application for issuance of a license must be submitted to the office within one year of the successful completion of the examination. (b) Every...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11409
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by law, any order issued in resolution of a disciplinary proceeding may direct a licensee, applicant for licensure, person who...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11410
  The Real Estate Appraisers Regulation Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury to consist of moneys raised by fees and assessments imposed pursuant to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11411
  There shall be separate accounts in the Real Estate Appraisers Regulation Fund for purposes of administration and for purposes of recovery. These accounts shall be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11412
  (a) On or before January 1, 2002, the director shall determine the number of complaint cases containing judicial findings of fraud that may be eligible...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11422
  The office shall, on or before February 1, 1994, and at least annually thereafter, transmit to the appraisal subcommittee specified in subdivision (e) of Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11423
  (a) For purposes of this section: (1) "Applicant" means a person who has made a written request for an extension of credit which is proposed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11500
  For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) "Common interest development" means a residential development identified in subdivision (c) of Section 1351 of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11501
  (a) "Common interest development manager" means an individual who for compensation, or in expectation of compensation, provides or contracts to provide management or financial services,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11502
  In order to be called a "certified common interest development manager," a person shall meet one of the following requirements: (a) Prior to July 1,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11502.5
  The course related competency examination or examinations and education provided to a certified common interest development manager pursuant to Section 11502 by any professional association...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11503
  A "certified common interest development manager" does not include a common interest development management firm.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11504
  On or before September 1, 2003, and annually thereafter, a person who either provides or contemplates providing the services of a common interest development manager...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11505
  It is an unfair business practice for a common interest development manager, a company that employs the common interest development manager, or a company that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 11506
  This part shall be subject to the review required by Division 1.2 (commencing with Section 473). This part shall remain in effect only until January...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12001
  The definitions in this chapter apply to this division only and do not affect the provisions of any other division.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12002
  "Department" means the Department of Food and Agriculture.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12003
  "Director" or "Secretary" means the Secretary of Food and Agriculture.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12004
  "State Sealer" means the chief of the division of the department charged with the enforcement of the provisions of this division.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12005
  Whenever any provision of this division makes reference to the National Bureau of Standards, that reference shall be construed to include the National Institute of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12006
  "County Sealer" means any sealer appointed by a county. A county may in its discretion refer to its sealer as the county director of weights...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12008
  "Sealer," when used without qualification, includes the State Sealer, county sealers and their deputies and inspectors.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12009
  "Sell," in any of its variant forms, includes barter, exchange, trade, rent, lease, keep for sale, offer for sale, or expose for sale, in any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12009.5
  "Distribute," in any of its variant forms, includes keep for distribution, offer for distribution, or expose for distribution, in any of their variant forms.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12010
  "Use," in any of its variant forms includes keep for use in any of its variant forms.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12011
  "Person" includes person, firm, corporation or association.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12011.5
  Wherever in this division the terms "copies" or "standards" or "copies of the standard weights and measures" are used, such terms shall refer to the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12011.6
  "Container" means any receptacle or carton, whether lidded or unlidded, into which a commodity is packed or placed, or any wrappings with or into which...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12011.7
  "Pallet" means any portable platform upon which containers or material is placed to facilitate handling.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12012
  The director may exercise any power conferred upon the department or upon the State Sealer by this division through the State Sealer or otherwise.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12012.1
  The director may bring an action to enjoin the violation, or the threatened violation, of any provision of this division, or of any regulation adopted...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12013
  (a) Any sealer shall have the authority, as a public officer, to arrest, without a warrant, any person whenever such officer has reasonable cause to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12014
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), any sealer who seals any weight, measure, balance or weighing or measuring instrument or apparatus before first testing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12015
  Any sealer having knowledge of a violation of any of the provisions of any law relating to weights and measures shall cause the violator to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12015.3
  (a) The sealer may levy a civil penalty against a person violating any provision of this division or a regulation adopted pursuant to any of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12015.5
  Any person convicted of violating any of the provisions of this division, or, except as provided in Section 12015.3, any person who is determined to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12016
  Any person who hinders or obstructs in any way any sealer, in the performance of his official duties, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12017
  All officers, directors and managers of corporations, whose respective corporations use or sell any weights, measures, or weighing or measuring instruments which are subject to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12018
  Any person neglecting or refusing to exhibit any weight, measure, weighing or measuring instrument, or appliances and accessories connected therewith in his possession or under...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12019
  A false weight or measure is one which does not conform to the standard established or recognized by this division.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12020
  It shall be unlawful for any person, by himself or through or for another, to use for commercial purposes any weight or measure or weighing,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12021
  Every person who knowingly marks or stamps false or short weight or measure, or knowingly takes false tare, on any container, or knowingly sells any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12022
  Every person who, in putting up in any container, goods usually sold by weight, puts in or conceals therein any other substance including moisture, except...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12022.5
  Fresh meat or roasts of any kind or cut shall be exposed, advertised, offered for sale or sold on the basis of net weight of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12023
  Except as provided elsewhere in this code any person who by himself or his employee or agent, or as the employee or agent of another,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12023.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code or any other law, jute cordage, hard fiber cordage, and hard fiber twine (whether covered or uncovered) may...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12024
  Every person, who by himself or herself, or through or for another, sells any commodity in less quantity than he or she represents it to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12024.1
  Every person, by himself, or through or for another, who willfully misrepresents a charge for service rendered on the basis of weight, time, measure, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12024.2
  (a) It is unlawful for any person, at the time of sale of a commodity, to do any of the following: (1) Charge an amount...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12024.3
  (a) For commodities prepackaged and sold or offered for sale on the same premises, a violation of Section 12024 is a misdemeanor punishable by a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12024.5
  It is unlawful for any person to sell or advertise for sale any dressed poultry or any other fowl or rabbit in dressed form, either...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12024.55
  Packages of meat, fish, or poultry offered for sale by door-to-door salespersons shall display the price per pound for each type and cut in the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12024.6
  No person, firm, corporation, or association shall advertise, solicit, or represent by any means, a product for sale or purchase if it is intended to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12024.7
  Any person who sells meat directly to the consumer on the basis of primal cuts or carcass weight shall supply the buyer with an accurate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12024.8
  The provisions of Section 12024.5 shall not apply to fish not used for human consumption.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12024.9
  (a) All terms contained in this section which are defined by the United States Department of Agriculture shall have the same meaning as defined by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12024.10
  A true and legible copy of each document issued pursuant to Section 12024.7 or 12024.9 shall be retained by the person, company, or corporation issuing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12024.11
  The director shall adopt necessary rules and regulations pertaining to the sale or advertisement of wood for fuel purposes in order to standardize quantities of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12025
  Any person, who by himself, or his employee or agent, or as a proprietor or manager, refuses to exhibit any commodity being sold at a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12025.5
  Whenever any commodity or any container is ordered off sale under the provisions of Section 12211 or Section 12607 of this division, the sealer shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12026
  (a) Except as otherwise specifically provided, any person violating any of the provisions of this division is guilty of a misdemeanor. (b) It is unlawful...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12026.5
  Except as otherwise specifically provided, the remedies or penalties provided by this division are cumulative to each other and to the remedies or penalties available...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12027
  The director may make such rules and regulations as are reasonably necessary for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this division.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12100
  Where not otherwise provided by law, the Department of Food and Agriculture has general supervision of the weights and measures and weighing and measuring devices...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12101
  The department shall investigate conditions in the various counties and cities in respect to weights and measures, and to the sale of goods, wares and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12102
  The department shall annually report to the Governor, and shall prior to each regular session report to the Legislature the work under this division, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12103
  The department shall keep a complete record of all of its acts, a record of prosecutions, and the reports of the various sealers. These records...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12103.5
  The duty of enforcing this division and carrying out its provisions and requirements is vested in the director and in each sealer acting under the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12104
  (a) The department shall issue instructions and make recommendations to the county sealers, and the instructions and recommendations shall govern the procedure to be followed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12104.5
  The director may allocate annually to each county an amount determined by the director not to exceed one-third of the amount expended by the county...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12105
  The department shall, at a frequency determined by the director, inspect the work of the local sealers and may inspect the weights, measures, balances or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12106
  The department shall, at least once annually and as often as requested by the Department of General Services or the executive officer of a state...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12106.5
  The director may accept the testing and sealing of weighing and measuring devices by another state upon a finding that the requirements of California for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12107
  The director shall establish tolerances and specifications and other technical requirements for commercial weighing and measuring. In doing so, the director shall adopt, by reference,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12107.1
  The director, by regulation, may establish a standard or standards of net weight or net measure, or net count of any commodity, except any manufactured...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12108
  The director may arrange for the services of a sealer employed in a county on a collaborative basis and allow reasonable compensation and expenses for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12200
  There is in each county the office of county sealer of weights and measures. The county sealer shall be appointed by the board of supervisors,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12201
  If from any cause a vacancy occurs in the office of county sealer, the director upon learning of the vacancy shall immediately transmit to the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12201.1
  The salary and other compensation provided for the county sealer, deputy county sealers and inspectors and clerks shall be paid out of the county treasury...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12201.2
  If the position of sealer cannot be filled by the board of supervisors or other appointing power or by the director as provided in Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12202
  (a) The director shall cause to be examined persons desiring to become county sealers, deputy county sealers, or inspectors and shall adopt rules and regulations...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12203
  Except as provided in this section, no person shall hereafter be appointed to the office of county sealer, deputy county sealer or inspector unless he...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12204
  In chartered counties providing for the civil service examination of sealers, deputy sealers, or inspectors the director shall issue a license without further examination upon...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12205
  For the purpose of advising himself on the best and most efficacious methods of performing his duties and conducting his office, every county sealer serving...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12206
  The jurisdiction of a county sealer appointed by a county or the director extends over the entire territorial limits of the county.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12207
  The department shall furnish an identification card to each sealer. The identification card shall be a form as prescribed by the department and shall be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12209
  Every sealer shall: (a) Carefully preserve all copies of the standards of weights and measures in his possession; (b) Keep the copies in a safe...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12209.5
  Each sealer may, when so directed by the board of supervisors, issue and cause to be distributed to such persons as he may deem proper...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12209.6
  (a) A county sealer may test and certify the accuracy of all parking meters located in the county in which the sealer has jurisdiction, including,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12210
  (a) Each sealer shall, within his or her county inspect, try and test all weights, scales, beams, measures of any kind, instruments or mechanical devices...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12210.5
  Any county which inspects or tests any weighing or measuring device or instrument used commercially, at the request of the owner or user of such...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12211
  Each sealer shall, from time to time, weigh or measure packages, containers, or amounts of commodities sold, or in the process of delivery, in order...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12212
  (a) The secretary shall adopt necessary regulations governing the inspection frequency of all commercially used weights, measures and weighing and measuring apparatus in the state....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12213
  Each sealer may, in the general performance of his duty, without formal warrant, enter or go into or upon, any stand, place, building or premises...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12214
  (a) Upon satisfactory evidence presented to the director that the county sealer of any county is guilty of neglect of duty, incompetence, or misconduct in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12240
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the board of supervisors, by ordinance, may charge an annual registration fee, not to exceed the county's...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12241
  On or before January 1, 2012, the secretary shall establish by regulation an annual administrative fee to recover reasonable administrative and enforcement costs incurred by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12242
  The revenue from any fee charged pursuant to Section 12240 shall be deposited in the general fund of the county and used solely for the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12243
  In addition to providing notice as otherwise required, before adopting an ordinance charging fees pursuant to Section 12240, the board of supervisors shall hold at...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12244
  Any costs incurred by the board of supervisors in conducting the required meeting may be recovered from fees charged for the services which were the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12246
  This article shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2013, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute that is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12300
  Contracts made within this State for work to be done or for anything to be sold or delivered by weight or measure shall be construed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12301
  No contract or pleading is invalid or subject to objection because the weights or measures expressed or referred to therein are weights or measures of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12303
  The state standards of weights and measures by which all state and county standards of weights and measures shall be tried, proved, and sealed include...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12304
  The standards of the state shall be kept in a suitable laboratory location or, if transportable, shall be maintained under environmental conditions appropriate for maintaining...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12305
  The standards of the state shall be used to certify similar standards and any dissimilar standards which are dependent on the values represented by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12308
  The legislative body of each county shall, upon the appointment of a sealer provide copies of the State's standards of weights and measures at county...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12309
  The department shall, at the request of the legislative body of any county, furnish copies of the standard weights and measures of the State at...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12310
  The department, or a laboratory designated by the department which has been certified pursuant to Section 12500.7, shall certify the standards of the county sealers...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12310.5
  The department shall, upon request, certify and verify the various types of standards of weights and measures used by industry in accordance with the standards...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12311
  Every sealer having knowledge that a county standard may be incorrect, regardless of the cause, shall notify the department of the condition, and shall, if...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12312
  In any prosecution for a violation of any of the provisions of this division any copy of the standards of weights and measures of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12313
  The definitions of basic units of weight and measure, and the tables of weight and measure and weights and measures equivalents, as published by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12314
  The department, by regulation, may establish criteria and procedures for certification of laboratories to perform measurement services which are determined by the director to be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12500
  As used in this chapter the following terms mean: (a) "Weighing instrument" means any device, contrivance, apparatus, or instrument used, or designed to be used,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12500.5
  The director by rules and regulations shall provide for submission for approval of types or designs of weights, measures, or weighing, measuring, or counting instruments...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12500.6
  Notwithstanding Section 12500.5, the director may prohibit the sale or installation of any previously approved type or design of weight or measure or weighing, measuring,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12500.8
  The director may enter into an agreement with the Office of Weights and Measures of the National Bureau of Standards of the Department of Commerce,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12500.9
  The secretary shall charge and collect an application fee and reasonable deposit from persons submitting devices for approval as required by Section 12500.5. Costs incurred...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12500.10
  (a) A sealer shall cause to be removed from commercial usage any weighing, measuring, or counting instrument or device sold or used in violation of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12501
  Except as provided in Section 12502 and, with respect to odometers, as is provided in Section 12501.1, every person who, for commercial purposes, sells weights...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12501.1
  Every person who uses, or intends to use, any weight or measure, or weighing or measuring instrument for commercial purposes shall, before using the same,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12501.2
  Notwithstanding other provisions of this division, a sealer shall not be required to inspect, test or seal any scales or other weighing or measuring instruments...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12501.3
  Notwithstanding any other requirements or provisions of this division, a sealer may permit the use of an unsealed device pending repairs if the device is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12502
  Any weighing or measuring instrument, which, after being sold and before being used for weighing or measuring, it is necessary to assemble or set up,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12503
  Upon a written request of any resident of a county, there appearing reasonable ground therefor, the sealer shall test or cause to be tested, as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12504
  Upon the written request of any person who intends to use or sell for commercial purposes any weight or measure, or weighing or measuring instrument...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12505
  Whenever a sealer examines any weight or measure or weighing, measuring, or counting instrument used for commercial purposes, and finds it to be correct, he...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12506
  A sealer shall condemn and seize and may destroy incorrect weights and measures and weighing and measuring instruments used for commercial purposes, which in his...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12507
  The owners or users of any weights and measures or weighing or measuring instruments which have been marked "Out of Order," shall have them repaired...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12508
  Except as provided in Section 12509, any person who removes or oblitereates any tag or device placed upon any weight, measure, or weighing or measuring...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12509
  When any weight, measure, or weighing or measuring instrument has been repaired and corrected, and has been reinspected and found correct the sealer shall remove...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12510
  (a) Any person, who by himself or herself, or through or for another, does any of the following is guilty of a misdemeanor: (1) Uses,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12511
  Any weight, measure, or weighing or measuring instrument tested and found correct by any sealer may be used within this state without any further test...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12511.1
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this division, any weight or measure, or weighing or measuring instrument, found correct or corrected by a repairman, authorized pursuant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12512
  When the sale of any commodity is based upon a quantity representation either furnished by the purchaser or obtained through the use of equipment supplied...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12513
  Any sealing or testing of any weight, measure, weighing or measuring instrument by any employee of the department authorized for the purpose shall have the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12514
  No sealer shall sell or be interested directly or indirectly in the sale of any weighing or measuring instrument, nor shall he accept a fee,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12515
  (a) Any person having made repairs or adjustments to any weighing instrument or to any measuring instrument, or any person having sold, rented, leased, loaned,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12516
  It shall be unlawful for any person to locate or position any scale used in connection with the auctioning of livestock so that its indications...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12517
  Every owner of a coin-operated person weigher shall place on such weigher, in a prominent position, in letters at least three-sixteenths inches in height and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12531
  As used in this chapter, the following definitions are applicable: (a) "Service agency" means any person, as defined in Section 12011, that for hire, award,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12532
  (a) No person shall engage in business as a service agency unless registered by the Secretary of Food and Agriculture pursuant to this chapter and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12533
  Prior to the issuance of its registration or in order to maintain its current registration, a service agency shall do all of the following: (a)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12534
  Commencing January 1, 2001, a service agency shall use suitable and sufficient standards that are permanently and uniquely identified, and have a current certificate of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12535
  (a) An application for service agency registration shall be accompanied by an annual fee of two hundred dollars ($200) for a primary maintenance location, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12536
  Fees received by the department pursuant to this chapter shall be paid into the State Treasury to the credit of the Food and Agriculture Fund...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12537
  Sixty percent of the funds derived pursuant to this chapter shall be allocated by the secretary to counties that employ a sealer or director of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12540
  (a) Commencing on January 1, 2001, no person shall be employed by a service agency as a service agent unless he or she possesses a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12541
  (a) The department shall establish a seven-member advisory committee consisting of the following members: (1) Two members representing registered service agencies. (2) Two members representing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12542
  A service agency registration may be suspended for the actions of its service agents in violation of this division. A service agency's registration may be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12543
  A service agency's authorization to place devices into service, or to remove out-of-order notices may be suspended by a county sealer, within his or her...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12544
  (a) A county sealer intending to suspend the authorization of a service agency shall notify the service agency in writing of all of the following:...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12601
  This chapter is designed to protect purchasers of any commodity within its provisions against deception or misrepresentation. Packages and their labels should enable consumers to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12602
  (a) It is unlawful for any person engaged in the packaging or labeling of any commodity for distribution or sale, or for any person (other...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12603
  No person subject to the prohibition in Section 12602 shall distribute any packaged commodity unless it is in conformity with regulations that shall be established...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12605
  No person subject to the prohibition contained in Section 12602 shall distribute or cause to be distributed in commerce any packaged commodity if any qualifying...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12606
  (a) No container wherein commodities are packed shall have a false bottom, false sidewalls, false lid or covering, or be otherwise so constructed or filled,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12606.2
  (a) This section applies to food containers subject to Section 403 (d) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. Sec. 343 (d)),...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12607
  Whenever a packaged commodity is offered for sale, exposed for sale or sold without a statement of net quantity appearing thereon as required by this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12609
  The director shall adopt necessary regulations to carry out the purpose of this division and for the testing of packages to verify the net quantity...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12610
  The director may promulgate regulations similar to those promulgated by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare or the Federal Trade Commission pursuant to the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12611
  It is unlawful to pack, ship, or sell any commodity in a container which does not conform to all the specifications of this chapter; or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12612
  The sale of any commodity packaged in a container, wherein both the container and the contents thereof comply with any act of Congress or rules...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12613
  If any provision of this chapter is less stringent or requires information different from any requirement of Section 4 of the act of Congress entitled...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12615.5
  The violation of any provision of this chapter, except the provisions of Section 12604.5, is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12655
  It is the intent of the Legislature to encourage the unit pricing of all canned, bottled, and packaged foods, packaged produce, and bakery goods; paper,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12656
  The department, in cooperation with the retail food industry, shall adopt a standardized format for unit pricing that shall be available to a retailer upon...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12700
  A weighmaster is any person who, for hire or otherwise, weighs, measures, or counts any commodity and issues a statement or memorandum of the weight,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12700.5
  (a) A weighmaster is not required to provide weighing services to the general public. (b) Weighing for hire is at the discretion of the weighmaster.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12701
  The following persons are not weighmasters: (a) Retailers weighing, measuring, or counting commodities for sale by them in retail stores in the presence of, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12702
  "Weighmaster," when used without qualification, includes a deputy weighmaster.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12703
  Except as provided in Section 12701, no person shall perform any acts described in Section 12700, unless licensed as a weighmaster pursuant to this chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12704
  (a) A weighmaster shall pay to the department the following license fee for each license year as applicable to the operation: (1) Seventy-five dollars ($75)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12705
  Any change in the legal entity of a licensed weighmaster requires the new legal entity to obtain a weighmaster license before operating as a weighmaster.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12706
  (a) The director may assign or reassign dates for the expiration of licenses for any weighmaster. (b) The director may establish a license year for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12707
  Each license required by this chapter shall be renewed annually, on or before the first day of the first month of the licensee's license year,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12708
  The director may refuse to grant any license provided for by this chapter, or may refuse to renew any license, and may revoke or suspend...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12709
  All license fees collected pursant to this chapter shall be deposited in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund to be expended by the department...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12710
  A weighmaster may employ or designate any person to act for the weighmaster as a deputy weighmaster and shall be responsible for all acts performed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12710.5
  (a) At any time during the license year, any weighmaster may replace deputies without payment of additional fees by forwarding to the department the name...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12711
  A weighmaster shall issue a weighmaster certificate whenever payment for the commodity or service represented is dependent on a written or printed weight, measure, or
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12712
  (a) A weighmaster certificate may be signed and issued by a weighmaster other than the weighmaster actually determining the weight, measure, or count of any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12713
  (a) A weighmaster is responsible for ensuring that the weighmaster certificates issued by him or her, or a deputy acting for him or her, are...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12714
  (a) There shall appear in an appropriate and conspicuous place on each certificate, and all copies thereof, the following legend: WEIGHMASTER CERTIFICATE THIS IS TO...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12714.5
  All information contained on the certificate shall be clear and legible. Each certificate shall be numbered consecutively.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12715
  Each certificate shall provide for the following information as applicable to the transaction: (a) The date on which the weight, measure, or count was determined....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12716
  All weighmasters shall keep and preserve, as records, for a period of four years, all copies of voided certificates, records, and worksheets required by this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12716.5
  A certificate on which a weight, measure, or count error is discovered after issuance shall be corrected by issuing a correction certificate to all parties...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12717
  Any weighing, measuring, or counting instrument or device, as defined in Section 12500, which is used by a weighmaster and for which specifications and tolerances...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12718
  Any person who does any of the following acts is guilty of a misdemeanor: (a) Requests any person to weigh, measure, or count any commodity...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12718.5
  Subdivision (g) of Section 12718 does not apply to any of the following: (a) Persons engaged in the business of printing, distributing, or selling weighmaster...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12719
  When the weight or measure of a vehicle, container, or pallet and its net contents has been recorded on a weighmaster certificate, it is unlawful...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12720
  When the tare weight of a vehicle or the weight of the vehicle and its contents have been recorded on a weighmaster certificate, it is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12721
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the vehicle, container, pallet, or commodity for which the weight, measure, or count is being certified shall actually...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12722
  (a) In accordance with this chapter and regulations adopted by the director, any weighmaster may use a tare weight for a vehicle, container, or pallet...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12723
  The director shall adopt regulations for the establishment of vehicle, container, and pallet tares, including, but not limited to, the adoption of conditions of use,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12724
  (a) Except as provided in this section, a weighmaster weighing a vehicle for certification shall determine both gross and tare weights with all persons off...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12725
  A weighmaster shall not certify to the gross weight of a vehicle whenever all of the following conditions prevail: (a) The scale is located at...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12726
  (a) If doubt or differences arise as to the accuracy of the weight, measure, or count of any amount or part of any commodity, unladen...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12727
  The director may, at any time, require a vehicle to proceed to the nearest vehicle scale for the purpose of weight verification.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12728
  (a) No weighmaster shall weigh a vehicle, or combination of vehicles, for certification, when part of the vehicle, or connected combination, is not resting on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12729
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, any person who violates any provision of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor. (b) Violations of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12730
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 12701 or this section, farm products sold by bulk weight or delivered to a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12731
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this code, where livestock is sold on the basis of weight at a public sales yard, or by or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12732
  In addition to the certificate requirements of Sections 12714, 12714.5, and 12715, all of the following information shall appear on weighmaster certificates issued when adjustments...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12733
  In all cases where scrap metal and salvage materials are purchased or sold by dealers, brokers, or commission merchants on the basis of weight or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12734
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, the weight of squid, Pacific whiting, or anchovy, certified pursuant to this chapter, may be determined by computation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12735
  The director may adopt any rules and regulations that are reasonably necessary for the purpose of carrying out this chapter. Adoption of these rules and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12736
  The director may adopt necessary rules and regulations regarding the accuracy of automated systems for retail commodity price charging referred to as "scanners."
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12925
  No person purchasing wool from a producer shall make a specific deduction for tags, fribs, crutchings or other off-wools, either on a basis of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 12930
  As used in this article "cotton" includes raw cotton, cotton linters, and cotton batting. Notwithstanding any other provision of this code or any other law,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13300
  (a) The operator of a business establishment that uses a point-of-sale system to sell goods or services to consumers shall ensure that the price of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13301
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, the Attorney General, the district attorney, or city attorney may enforce the provisions of this chapter in accordance...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13302
  (a) The sealer may levy a civil penalty against a person violating any provision of this chapter or a regulation adopted pursuant to any of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13350
  (a) The board of supervisors of any county or city and county that has adopted or that adopts an ordinance for the purposes of determining...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13351
  For purposes of this chapter, "random sample" of items means that the selection process shall be modeled after the National Institute of Standards and Technology...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13352
  For purposes of this chapter, "point-of-sale" system means any computer or electronic system used by a retail establishment such as, but not limited to, Universal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13353
  For the purposes of this chapter, "sale items" include any item that is represented or advertised to be lower in price from that which the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13354
  For purposes of this chapter, "area" means an "entire store," a "department," "grouping of shelves or displays," or other "section" of a store as defined...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13355
  For the purposes of this chapter, "initial standard inspection" means an inspection made at the customary time interval used by an enforcement agency.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13356
  All other inspections of the point-of-sale system are considered "special inspections," including, but not limited to, inspections pertaining to investigations, consumer complaints, complaints from competing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13357
  This article shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2014, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute that is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13400
  "Advertising medium," as used in this chapter, includes banner, sign, placard, poster, streamer, and card.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13401
  (a) "Sell" or any of its variants means attempt to sell, offer for sale or assist in the sale of, permit to be sold or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13402
  "Standard test," as used in this chapter, means test conducted in accordance with the latest published standard adopted by the American Society for Testing and
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13403
  "Octane number" or "antiknock index number," when used in this chapter, means that number assigned to a spark ignition engine fuel which designates the antiknock...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13404
  The sale of compressed natural gas by persons who sell compressed natural gas at retail to the public for use only as a motor vehicle...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13405
  (a) The Department of Food and Agriculture may grant a variance from the specifications of this chapter for developmental engine fuels if all of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13410
  (a) No person who is engaged in the business of extracting oil or gas from lands within the state, or of refining gasoline for sale...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13411
  (a) Except as specified in subdivision (b), it is unlawful for any person to sell or offer to sell petroleum products for use in any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13413
  It is unlawful for any person or other legal entity to make any deceptive, false, or misleading statement by any means whatever regarding quality, quantity,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13420
  Every person, firm, partnership, association, trustee, or corporation which owns, leases, or rents and operates a gasoline service station or other facility which offers gasoline...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13421
  Every person, firm, partnership, association, trustee, or corporation which owns, leases, or rents and operates a gasoline service station or other facility which offers gasoline...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13422
  A violation of this article is an infraction punishable by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100).
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13430
  As used in this article, "motor oil dealer" means any person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of producing, packaging, or otherwise preparing motor...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13431
  The following persons shall pay to the secretary a maximum fee of five cents ($0.05) for each gallon of motor oil sold or purchased on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13432
  The fees provided in Section 13431 are maximum fees and may be established at a lower rate by the director at any time the funds...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13433
  The director may, by regulation, prescribe the frequency of payments of such assessments, the procedures for such payment, the procedures for refunds of payment, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13434
  The moneys which are received by the director pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund and shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13440
  (a) The department shall establish specifications for automotive spark-ignition engine fuels. The department shall adopt by reference the latest standards established by a recognized consensus...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13440.5
  For purposes of determining the percentage of a motor fuel (including gasohol) which consists of alcohol, the volume of alcohol includes the volume of any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13441
  It is unlawful for any person to sell any product as, or purporting to be, gasoline or automotive spark-ignition engine fuel, unless the product conforms...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13442
  It is unlawful for any person to sell, offer for sale, or cause or permit to be sold or offered for sale, or deliver or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13443
  The sign or label required by this article to be attached to the inlet end of the fill-pipe of an underground storage tank shall consist...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13446
  On or before January 1, 2008, the department, with the concurrence of the State Air Resources Board, shall establish specifications for hydrogen fuels for use...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13450
  The department shall establish specifications for compression-ignition engine fuel, kerosene, and fuel oil. The department shall adopt by reference the latest standards established by a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13451
  It is unlawful for any person to sell or deliver to any premises for the purpose of sale, any product as or purported to be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13460
  Engine oil shall not be sold or distributed for use in an internal combustion engine unless the product conforms to the following specifications: (a) It...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13461
  Lubricating oil shall not be sold or distributed for use in lubricating manual transmissions, gears, or axles unless the product conforms to the following specifications:...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13462
  Any manufacturer or packager of any product subject to this article and sold in this state shall provide, upon request to duly authorized representatives of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13470
  No person shall sell at retail to the general public, any motor fuel from any place of business in this state unless there is displayed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13470.1
  (a) No person shall sell at retail to the general public any motor vehicle fuel from any place of business in this state unless such...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13470.5
  Any person selling, offering for sale, or advertising for sale, at retail to the general public, any gasoline or other motor fuel from any place...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13471
  Each sign required by this article shall be placed in a conspicuous place on the dispensing apparatus and if service of gasoline or other motor...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13472
  When a sign is used in addition to a price indicator as defined in Section 13470, and if the same grade of motor fuel is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13473
  Unless otherwise provided, all letters, figures, or numerals on each sign required by this article, however affixed, marked, imprinted, placed, or embossed, shall be at...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13474
  All letters, figures, or numerals which are part of any sign or price indicator required by this article shall be plainly legible. The color or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13475
  For the purpose of this article, a fraction is considered one numeral.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13477
  The provisions of this article do not apply to the sale of motor fuel for aircraft through or from any portable dispensing device.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13480
  (a) It is unlawful for any person to sell any petroleum product referred to in this chapter at any place where petroleum products are kept...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13481
  If any petroleum product is offered for sale, but not under any brand, trademark, or tradename, the words "no brand" shall be used as the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13482
  It is unlawful for any person to sell or distribute engine oil or axle and manual transmission lubricant unless the SAE/API service classification is conspicuously...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13483
  The provisions of this article as to size of letters shall not apply to signs or labels at the inlet end of any underground storage...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13484
  Whenever any pump, receptacle, or other container is maintained or used to serve more than one driveway, the signs or labels required by this chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13485
  Small hand measures used for delivery of petroleum products, and filled in the presence of the customer, need not be labeled in accordance with this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13486
  (a) It is unlawful, at any place of business where petroleum products are sold, for any person to do either of the following: (1) Deliver...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13489
  The use of pumps or other devices which are capable of withdrawing gasoline from each of two tanks containing different qualities of the same petroleum...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13490
  The use of pumps or other devices which are capable of withdrawing gasoline from one tank and motor oil, or a premixture of gasoline and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13500
  (a) It is unlawful for any person to transport in any tank vehicle, for the purpose of sale or for delivery to any place where...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13501
  It is unlawful for any person, when delivering for the purpose of sale, or delivering to any place where petroleum products are kept for sale,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13502
  It is unlawful for any person to deliver into a storage tank or container at any place where petroleum products are stored for sale, any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13503
  It is unlawful to deliver aviation gasolines to the fuel tank of any aircraft through the same meter used for deliveries of gasolines not specifically...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13520
  It is unlawful for any distributor or for any broker to sell any product to a retailer or to any person, when the quantity distributed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13530
  (a) Nothing in this article applies to price indicators and signs referred to in Article 8 (commencing with Section 13470). However, any numerals designating the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13531
  (a) Every person offering for sale or selling any motor vehicle fuel to the public from any place of business shall display on the premises...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13532
  (a) It is unlawful for any person to display any advertising medium which indicates the price of motor fuel unless the advertising medium displays all...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13533
  It shall be unlawful for any person to display on or near the premises of any place of business in this state any advertising medium...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13534
  (a) Except as provided by subdivision (b), and subdivisions (b), (c), and (d) of Section 13532, it is unlawful for any person to place any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13535
  If any motor fuel or motor oil is advertised for sale, but not under any brand designation, the words "no brand" shall be used on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13536
  All letters, words, figures, or numerals which are part of the advertising media referred to in this article shall have a heavy type face or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13540
  Nothing in this article shall be construed to prohibit the governing body of any city, county, or city and county from enacting ordinances, including, but...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13550
  No petroleum corporation or distributor shall compel or unduly or unreasonably influence any retail gasoline dealer to participate in the giveaway or offer to give...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13561
  This article does not prohibit any person from selling under his or her own trademarks, trade names, brands, or the words "no brand," the product...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13562
  No person other than the true manufacturer who purchases any petroleum product shall change the designation under which the product is purchased by him or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13568
  Copies of the written authorizations required by this article shall be furnished the department upon request.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13570
  (a) A manufacturer, blender, agent, jobber, consignment agent, or distributor who distributes motor fuel products that contain at least 1 percent alcohol by volume, shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13571
  Copies of the documentation specified in Section 13570 shall be available for inspection during business hours by duly authorized representatives of the department.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13590
  It is the duty of the department acting through the Division of Measurement Standards to enforce the provisions of this chapter, and to appoint and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13591
  The department, its inspectors, and each sealer, are hereby authorized and empowered to inspect the petroleum products referred to in this chapter and to enter,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13592
  The department, each sealer, and any person now or hereafter authorized or empowered by law to inspect the petroleum products referred to in this chapter,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13593
  It is unlawful for any person, or any member, officer, agent, or employee of a firm, association, or corporation, to refuse to permit any person...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13594
  If the owner or person in possession of the product of which a sample is taken under this article shall at the time of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13595
  (a) It is unlawful for any person to sell or deliver any petroleum product referred to in this chapter which fails to meet the specifications...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13596
  Upon at least 24 hours' written notice from the owner, manager, or operator of the container, receptacle, pump, or storage tank which has been sealed,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13597
  If for any reason at the time specified in the written notice the contents are not removed, or the container, receptacle, pump, storage tank, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13598
  Upon removal of the contents or proper labeling as provided in this article, the notice previously posted shall be removed and the container, receptacle, pump,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13599
  No container, receptacle, pump, or storage tank connected thereto, or the inlet end of the fill-pipe of such storage tank, shall, however, be relabeled by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13600
  It is unlawful for any person, or any member, officer, agent, or employee of a firm, association, or corporation, other than the department or any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13610
  Each person is guilty of a separate offense for each day during any portion of which any violation of this chapter is committed, continued, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13611
  The department or any sealer may bring an action to enjoin the violation or the threatened violation of any provision of this chapter or of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13620
  Any moneys in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund derived under Chapters 14 (commencing with Section 13400) and 15 (commencing with Section 13700) may...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13630
  (a) The California Energy Commission in partnership with the Department of Food and Agriculture and the State Air Resources Board shall conduct a comprehensive survey...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13650
  "Service station," as used in this chapter, means any establishment which offers for sale or sells gasoline or other motor vehicle fuel to the public.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13651
  (a) (1) On and after January 1, 2000, every service station in this state shall provide, during operating hours, and make available at no cost...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13652
  (a) Any person who intentionally violates any provision of this chapter or any regulation promulgated pursuant thereto is guilty of an infraction, and, upon conviction,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13653
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, this chapter may be enforced by the city attorney, district attorney, or Attorney General.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13660
  (a) Every person, firm, partnership, association, trustee, or corporation that operates a service station shall provide, upon request, refueling service to a disabled driver of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13700
  (a) "Automotive product" means engine coolant or antifreeze, prediluted engine coolant or prediluted antifreeze, brake fluid, and automatic transmission fluid. (b) "Automatic transmission fluid" means...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13701
  Any material offered for sale or sold as an additive to automatic transmission fluids shall be compatible with the automatic transmission fluid to which it...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13702
  Any words and letters required to be displayed on a container by this chapter shall be in legible type.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13710
  (a) (1) The department shall establish specifications for engine coolants and antifreeze, and prediluted engine coolants and prediluted antifreeze that promote the public safety in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13711
  (a) An engine coolant or antifreeze is mislabeled if any of the following occurs: (1) The container does not bear a label on which is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13712
  A brake fluid receptacle or dispensing device, including "bleeders," pressurized containers, or any container used to fill a brake system or to expel air from...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13713
  Any product referred to in this chapter is adulterated if its characteristics fall below the specifications for that product established by the department as minimum
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13720
  Each brake fluid container with a capacity of six fluid ounces or more shall be provided with a resealable closure that has an inner seal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13730
  The department and each county sealer shall enforce the provisions of this chapter, and may sample, inspect, analyze, and test any product referred to in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13731
  The department and each county sealer is authorized to order off-sale any product referred to in this chapter which is adulterated or mislabeled. The off-sale...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13740
  It is unlawful to sell or distribute any product referred to in this chapter which is adulterated or mislabeled.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13741
  It is unlawful for any person or other legal entity to make any deceptive, false, or misleading statement by any means whatever regarding quality, quantity,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 13800
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, a rental vehicle's fuel gauge installed by the vehicle's manufacturer may be used in a rental transaction...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14000
  Definitions in this division shall not affect the construction of the same terms in any other division of this code.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14001
  As used in this division, "person" means any person, association, organization, partnership, business trust, limited liability company, or corporation.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14002
  Every act which, according to this division, may be done by or to any person, may be done by or to the agent of such...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14003
  As used in this division, "trade union" means any trade union, labor organization, or labor association, organized and existing in this State, whether incorporated or
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14004
  The provisions of this code for the registration and use of trade-marks by trade unions are cumulative to, and are not a limitation upon, the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14100
  The "good will" of a business is the expectation of continued public patronage.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14101
  The good will of a business does not include a right to use the name of any person from whom the business was acquired.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14102
  The good will of a business is property and is transferable.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14103
  The person transferring the good will of a business may transfer with it the right of using the name under which the business is conducted.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14200
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Model State Trademark Law.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14202
  For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Trademark" means any word, name, symbol, or device, or any combination...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14205
  A mark by which the goods or services of any applicant for registration may be distinguished from the goods or services of others shall not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14207
  (a) Subject to the limitations set forth in this chapter, a person who uses a mark may file with the secretary, on a form prescribed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14209
  (a) Upon the filing of an application for registration and payment of the application fee, the secretary may cause the application to be examined for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14215
  (a) Upon compliance by the applicant with the requirements of this chapter, the secretary shall cause a certificate of registration to be issued and delivered...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14217
  (a) A registration of mark pursuant to this chapter shall be effective for a term of five years from the date of registration and, upon...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14220
  (a) Any mark and its registration hereunder shall be assignable with the good will of the business in which the mark is used, or with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14225
  The secretary shall keep for public examination a record of all marks registered or renewed under this chapter, as well as a record of all...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14230
  The secretary shall cancel from the register, in whole or in part, any of the following: (a) Any registration concerning which the secretary receives a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14235
  The classification of goods and services shall conform to the classifications adopted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. A single application for registration...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14240
  Any person who, either for himself or herself or on behalf of another person, procures the filing or registration of any mark pursuant to this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14245
  (a) A person who does any of the following shall be subject to a civil action by the owner of the registered mark, and the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14247
  (a) Subject to the principles of equity, an owner of a mark that is famous and distinctive, whether inherently or through acquired distinctiveness, shall be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14250
  (a) Any owner of a mark registered under this chapter may proceed by suit to enjoin the manufacture, use, display, or sale of any counterfeits...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14252
  The enumeration of any right or remedy herein shall not affect a registrant's right to prosecute under any penal law of this state, including, but...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14254
  (a) Actions to require cancellation of a mark registered pursuant to this chapter or in mandamus to compel registration of a mark pursuant to this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14259
  Nothing herein shall adversely affect the rights or the enforcement of rights in marks acquired in good faith at any time within common law.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14260
  Unless specified by the secretary, the fees payable herein are not refundable.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14265
  If any provision of this chapter, or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of this chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14270
  This chapter shall not affect any suit, proceeding, or appeal pending on January 1, 2008.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14272
  The intent of this chapter is to provide a system of state trademark registration and protection substantially consistent with the federal system of trademark registration...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14401
  Any trade name may be transferred in the same manner as personal property in connection with the good will of the business in which it...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14402
  Any court of competent jurisdiction may restrain, by injunction, any use of trade names in violation of the rights defined in this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14403
  Every person who has in his possession, or who uses any cask, bottle, vessel, case, cover, label, brand, or other thing bearing, or having in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14404
  Every person who wilfully defaces, obliterates, or otherwise removes, destroys, or conceals the trade name of another, printed, branded, stamped, engraved, etched, blown, impressed, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14405
  Every person who wilfully sells, or traffics in any cask, keg, bottle, vessel, siphon, can, case or other package bearing the trade name of another,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14411
  The filing of any fictitious business name statement by a person required to file such statement pursuant to Section 17910 shall establish a rebuttable presumption...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14412
  The rebuttable presumption created by Section 14411 shall be applicable until the fictitious business name statement is abandoned pursuant to Section 17922, or otherwise expires...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14413
  For purposes of Section 14411 a fictitious business name statement filed after January 1, 1971, and deemed filed on July 1, 1971, under Section 8...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14414
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require or prohibit the filing in any county of any fictitious business name statement if such filing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14415
  The filing of articles of incorporation pursuant to Section 200 of the Corporations Code, in the case of a domestic corporation, or the obtaining of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14416
  If, as to the same or a confusingly similar trade name, in a county, there are both a corporation entitled to the rebuttable presumption created...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14417
  The filing of articles of incorporation pursuant to Section 200 of the Corporations Code shall not of itself authorize the use in this state of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14418
  The filing of any fictitious business name statement pursuant to Section 17910 does not, of itself, authorize the use in this state of a fictitious...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14425
  As used in this article: (a) "Containers," "equipment" and "supplies" means containers, equipment or supplies bearing a brand. (b) "Brand" means any mark, name or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14426
  Any corporation or association whose members might register a brand under this article, may itself register a brand under this article. As used in this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14427
  Any person, who is engaged in the manufacture, packing, canning, bottling, or selling of any substance in containers with his or her name, or other...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14429
  There shall be included as a part of each brand the words, "Registered in California," or the abbreviation, "Reg. Cal."
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14430
  It is unlawful for any person except a person named in subdivision (a) to do any of the acts named in subdivision (b). (a) Persons...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14431
  The use by any person other than the registrant, or owner of the brand and other than the members of the registrant of any container,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14432
  Any person acquiring containers, supplies or equipment, by purchase or other lawful means, and having the written consent provided for in this article is not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14433
  The acceptance by the owner, or any person lawfully entitled to their use, of any money as a deposit to secure the safekeeping and return...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14434
  It is the duty of every person who finds or receives in the regular course of business or in any other manner, any containers, supplies...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14435
  (a) Whenever any registrant or any member of the registrant takes an oath before any magistrate that he has reason to believe, and does believe,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14436
  The violation of any of the provisions of this article is a misdemeanor, punishable: (a) For the first offense by imprisonment for not less than...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14437
  Every brand registered and published under Chapter 431 of the Statutes of 1921, as amended, prior to the effective date of Chapter 1162 of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14438
  Any registrant whose containers, equipment or supplies are involved in any violation of the provisions of this article may sue the person or persons who...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14460
  "Farm," as used in this article, includes ranch, estate and villa.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14461
  Any farm owner or lessee in this state may register the name of his or her farm with the Secretary of State, and the Secretary...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14462
  Any person selling or marketing the products grown on a farm may use the name of the farm as a trade-mark on the products of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14463
  Registration under this article shall have the same effect as the registration of a trade-mark.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14464
  When any name has been registered as the name of any farm, that name shall not be registered as the name of any other farm...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14465
  Any person who registers as his own, any name already in use in this State, knowing that the name is already adopted as the name...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14480
  As used in this article: (a) "Registrant" means any person who files and publishes a name, mark or device under this article. (b) "Supplies" means...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14481
  Any person engaged in the business of supplying clean laundered garments, towels, table linen or other articles, the property of the supplier, in a regular...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14482
  In order to register a name, mark or device under this article, the supplier shall do all of the following: (a) File in the office...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14483
  The registrant shall pay to the Secretary of State for filing each laundry supply designation described and for issuing a certificate of filing a fee...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14484
  It is unlawful for any persons except a person named in subdivision (a) to do any of the acts named in subdivision (b): (a) Persons...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14485
  The acceptance by the registrant of any sum of money as a deposit to secure the safekeeping and return of the supplies does not constitute...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14486
  The use by any person, other than the registrant of any supplies without the written consent provided in this article or the possession of supplies...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14487
  Any person or any member of any firm, corporation or association acquiring supplies by purchase or other lawful means and having the written consent provided...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14488
  It is the duty of every person who finds or receives in the regular course of business or in any other manner, any supplies to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14489
  Whenever the registrant or any member of any corporation or association which is the registrant takes an oath before any magistrate that he has reason...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14490
  If the magistrate finds that any person brought before him has been guilty of a violation of this article he shall impose the punishment prescribed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14491
  The violation of any of the provisions of this article is a misdemeanor, except that if the violation consists of unlawfully using, selling, or secreting...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14492
  As used in this article, the following terms have the meanings set forth in this section unless the context otherwise requires: (a) "Organization" includes any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14493
  Any court of competent jurisdiction may restrain by injunction: the use of the name of any organization in a commercial venture, trade or business, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14494
  In any action under Section 14493 it is not necessary to allege or prove actual damages or the threat thereof or actual injury or the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14495
  The use of the name of any organization by any person, firm, or corporation not entitled to use the same under the constitution, by-laws, rules...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14700
  (a) "Lender" as used in this chapter means a bank, savings and loan association, savings bank, credit union, industrial bank, or other lender licensed to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14701
  (a) No person shall include the name, trade name, logo, or tagline of a lender in a written solicitation for financial services directed to a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14702
  No person shall include a consumer's loan number or loan amount, whether or not publicly available, in a solicitation for services or products without the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14703
  It is not a violation of this chapter for a person in an advertisement or solicitation for services or products to use the name, trade...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 14704
  (a) A person who violates Section 14701 or 14702 shall be subject to an injunction against that use. In an action to enjoin a violation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16000
  (a) The legislative body of an incorporated city may, in the exercise of its police power, and for the purpose of regulation, as herein provided,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16000.5
  Notwithstanding Section 16000, no incorporated city shall require a regulatory license or impose a regulatory license fee with respect to cafe musicians. "Cafe musician," for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16000.7
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the prohibition on the imposition of regulatory licenses and license fees on federally chartered veterans' organizations that...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16001
  Every honorably discharged or honorably relieved soldier, sailor, or marine of the United States or Confederate States who served in the Civil War, any Indian...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16001.5
  Every person who was honorably discharged or honorably relieved from the military, naval or air service of the United States who served on or after...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16001.7
  Every person who is honorably discharged or honorably relieved from the military, naval, or air service of the United States and who is a resident...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16002
  No license fee may be collected from, nor any penalty for the nonpayment thereof enforced against, any commercial traveler whose business is limited to goods,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16002.1
  No license fee for the privilege of auctioning real estate may be collected from any real estate auctioneer, whose business is limited exclusively to auctioning...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16002.2
  No city shall impose a license fee or tax, other than a fee or tax based on gross receipts, for the privilege of renting, leasing,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16002.5
  No city shall impose a license fee or tax, other than a fee or tax based on gross receipts, for the privilege of renting, leasing,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16003
  This article does not repeal any act vesting municipal corporations with power to license for revenue purposes.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16004
  Any license issued to a business pursuant to this chapter shall be revoked for a violation of Section 24185 of the Health and Safety Code,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16100
  (a) The board of supervisors may in the exercise of its police powers, and for the purpose of regulation, as herein provided, and not otherwise,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16100.5
  Notwithstanding Section 16100, no county or city and county shall require a regulatory license or impose a regulatory license fee with respect to cafe musicians....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16100.7
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 37101 of the Government Code, Section 7284 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, or Section 16000 of this code, no county or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16101
  The boards of supervisors in their respective counties may for the purpose of revenue license individuals acting as hawkers, itinerant peddlers or itinerant vendors, other...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16102
  Every soldier, sailor or marine of the United States who has received an honorable discharge or a release from active duty under honorable conditions from...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16103
  No license fee may be collected from, nor any penalty for the nonpayment thereof enforced against, any commercial traveler whose business is limited to goods,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16104
  No license requiring a fee greater than 3 cents ($0.03) per head shall be imposed by the board of supervisors of any county on the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16105
  Any license issued to a business pursuant to this chapter shall be revoked for violation of Section 24185 of the Health and Safety Code, relating...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16110
  No city, county, or city and county which levies a business license tax calculated on a basis of gross receipts pursuant to Section 16000 or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16111
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Business license tax receipt" means the receipt or certificate required to be posted or displayed as evidence of a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16112
  The Legislature finds and declares that protecting the privacy of a business's tax payments and gross receipts is a matter of statewide interest and concern.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16200
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this chapter govern the construction of the terms they define in the subsequent sections of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16201
  "Fee" includes every tax, fee, penalty and other monetary exaction, and interest and costs in connection therewith, imposed or collected in connection with or as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16202
  "Tax" includes every tax, fee, penalty and other monetary exaction, and interest and costs in connection therewith, imposed or collected for revenue for public purposes
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16203
  "Charge" includes every tax, fee, penalty and other monetary exaction, and interest and costs in connection therewith, imposed or collected for regulatory purposes or for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16204
  "Officer" includes director, chief, commissioner, chairman, department, division, bureau, commission, board and any other person, officer or employee, and any agency, of or in the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16205
  "Taxpayer" includes every individual, person, firm, partnership, joint adventure, association, corporation, estate, trust, business trust, receiver, syndicate and artificial legal entity subject to or liable...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16220
  The remedy provided by this chapter for the collection of any fee, tax and charge is cumulative. No action taken under this chapter constitutes an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16221
  Every officer by or for whom any fee, tax or charge imposed by the statutes of this State is collected may bring a suit in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16222
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure relating to the service of summons, pleadings, proofs, trials and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16223
  Upon application and without bond or affidavit, every officer suing under this chapter is entitled to all or any of provisional remedies provided in the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16224
  All sums collected in suits under this chapter shall be reported to the Controller and deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16240
  Every person who practices, offers to practice, or advertises any business, trade, profession, occupation, or calling, or who uses any title, sign, initials, card, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16300
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, Chapter 1.5 (commencing with Section 7284) of Part 1.7 of Division 2 of the Revenue and Taxation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16545
  Every state agency which licenses any kind of business transacted or carried on within their respective jurisdictions shall require applications filed to designate the name...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16600
  Except as provided in this chapter, every contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16601
  Any person who sells the goodwill of a business, or any owner of a business entity selling or otherwise disposing of all of his or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16602
  (a) Any partner may, upon or in anticipation of any of the circumstances described in subdivision (b), agree that he or she will not carry...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16602.5
  Any member may, upon or in anticipation of a dissolution of, or the termination of his or her interest in, a limited liability company (including...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16603
  Every person who, as a condition to a sale or consignment of any magazine, book, or other publication requires that the purchaser or consignee purchase...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16604
  Every person who, as a condition to a sale or consignment of any magazine, book, or other publication, requires that the purchaser or consignee purchase...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16605
  Every person engaged in the business of distribution of books, magazines or publications of any kind to retail dealers shall remove from the possession of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16606
  The customer list, including the names, addresses, and identity of customers, of a telephone answering service shall constitute a trade secret and confidential information of,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16607
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the customer list, including the names, addresses and identity of all employer customers who have listed job orders...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16700
  The provisions of this chapter are cumulative of each other and of any other provision of law relating to the same subject in effect May...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16701
  Section 24 of this code shall not determine the separability of the provisions of this chapter, one from another. Such separability shall be determined by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16702
  As used in this chapter "person" or "persons" includes corporations, firms, partnerships and associations existing under or authorized by the laws of this State or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16703
  Within the meaning of this chapter, labor, whether skilled or unskilled, is not a commodity.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16720
  A trust is a combination of capital, skill or acts by two or more persons for any of the following purposes: (a) To create or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16721
  Recognizing that the California Constitution prohibits a person from being disqualified from entering or pursuing a business, profession, vocation, or employment because of sex, race,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16721.5
  (a) It is an unlawful trust and an unlawful restraint of trade for a person to do the following: (1) Grant or accept a letter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16721.6
  It is the intent of the Legislature that Sections 16721 and 16721.5 be interpreted and applied so as not to conflict with federal law with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16722
  Any contract or agreement in violation of this chapter is absolutely void and is not enforceable at law or in equity.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16725
  It is not unlawful to enter into agreements or form associations or combinations, the purpose and effect of which is to promote, encourage or increase...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16726
  Except as provided in this chapter, every trust is unlawful, against public policy and void.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16727
  It shall be unlawful for any person to lease or make a sale or contract for the sale of goods, merchandise, machinery, supplies, commodities for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16728
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, motor carriers of property, as defined in Section 34601 of the Vehicle Code, may voluntarily elect to participate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16750
  (a) Any person who is injured in his or her business or property by reason of anything forbidden or declared unlawful by this chapter, may...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16750.1
  Any civil action to enforce any cause of action for a violation of this chapter shall be commenced within four years after the cause of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16750.2
  Any person, other than the Attorney General or a district attorney, who commences, by writ or appeal, any proceeding in the Supreme Court of California...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16751
  Whenever it appears to the court before which any proceedings under this chapter are pending that the ends of justice require that other parties shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16752
  Upon a violation of this chapter by any corporation or association the Attorney General or the district attorney of the proper county may institute proper...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16753
  Every foreign corporation or association, exercising any of the powers, franchises or functions of a corporation in this state, which violates this chapter, is subject...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16754
  The Attorney General, or the district attorney of any county, subject to the notice requirements of subdivision (g) of Section 16750, shall initiate civil actions...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16754.5
  In any civil action brought by the Attorney General or a district attorney under this chapter, the court may, in addition to granting such prohibitory...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16755
  (a) Any violation of this chapter is a conspiracy against trade, and any person who engages in any such conspiracy or takes part therein, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16756
  In any indictment, information or complaint for any offense named in this chapter, it is sufficient to state the purpose or effects of the trust...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16757
  (a) In prosecutions under this chapter, it is sufficient to prove that a trust or combination exists, and that the defendant belonged to it, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16758
  In any action or proceeding brought by the Attorney General or any district attorney for the violation of this chapter no person shall be excused...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16759
  All those powers granted to the Attorney General as a head of a department under Article 2 (commencing with Section 11180) of Chapter 2 of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16760
  (a) (1) The Attorney General may bring a civil action in the name of the people of the State of California, as parens patriae on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16761
  The court may award, pursuant to a motion by a person who has recovered damages pursuant to Section 16750, or by the Attorney General who...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16770
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure that the citizens of this state receive high-quality health care coverage in the most efficient...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16800
  It is unlawful for any two or more persons, or corporations, to combine or agree together to do any act which will, in any respect,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16801
  It is unlawful for any corporation organized under the laws of this State, or the board of directors, trustees, stockholders, agents, or officers of any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16802
  No trust, combination, or conspiracy shall be organized or exist in this State to prevent any person or corporation from selling livestock on commission at...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16803
  Any person who, directly or indirectly, is a party to any combination, conspiracy, or association, which attempts, directly or indirectly, to prevent any other person...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 16804
  A violation of any provision of this chapter is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars ($500) and not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17000
  This chapter may be cited as the Unfair Practices Act.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17001
  The Legislature declares that the purpose of this chapter is to safeguard the public against the creation or perpetuation of monopolies and to foster and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17002
  This chapter shall be liberally construed that its beneficial purposes may be subserved.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17020
  The definitions in this article shall be used in construing this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17021
  "Person" includes any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, company, corporation or municipal or other public corporation.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17022
  "Sell" includes selling, offering for sale or advertising for sale.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17023
  "Give" includes giving, offering to give or advertising the intent to give.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17024
  "Article or product" includes any article, product, commodity, thing of value, service or output of a service trade. Motion picture films when licensed for exhibition...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17025
  "Vendor" includes any person who performs work upon, renovates, alters or improves any personal property belonging to another person.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17026
  "Cost" as applied to production includes the cost of raw materials, labor, and all overhead expenses of the producer. "Cost" as applied to distribution means...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17026.1
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 17026, commissions or rebates regularly earned by the retailers of cellular telephones may be used to reduce cost,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17026.5
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 17026, regular term discounts granted to distributors by manufacturers of cigarettes for cash payment customarily offered to distributors without discrimination...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17027
  In establishing the cost of a given article or product to the distributor and vendor, the invoice cost of the article or product purchased at...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17028
  "Ordinary channels of trade" means those ordinary, regular and daily transactions in the mercantile trade whereby title to an article or product, in no way...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17029
  "Cost of doing business" or "overhead expense" means all costs of doing business incurred in the conduct of the business and shall include without limitation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17030
  "Loss leader" means any article or product sold at less than cost: (a) Where the purpose is to induce, promote or encourage the purchase of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17031
  Locality discrimination means a discrimination between different sections, communities or cities or portions thereof, or between different locations in such sections, communities, cities or portions...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17040
  It is unlawful for any person engaged in the production, manufacture, distribution or sale of any article or product of general use or consumption, with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17041
  Nothing in this chapter prohibits locality discriminations which make allowances for differences, if any, in the grade, quality or quantity when based and justified in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17042
  Nothing in this chapter prohibits any of the following: (a) A selection of customers. (b) A functional classification by any person of any customer as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17043
  It is unlawful for any person engaged in business within this State to sell any article or product at less than the cost thereof to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17044
  It is unlawful for any person engaged in business within this State to sell or use any article or product as a "loss leader" as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17045
  The secret payment or allowance of rebates, refunds, commissions, or unearned discounts, whether in the form of money or otherwise, or secretly extending to certain...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17046
  It is unlawful for any person to use any threat, intimidation, or boycott, to effectuate any violation of this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17047
  It is unlawful for any manufacturer, wholesaler, distributor, jobber, contractor, broker, retailer, or other vendor, or any agent of any such person, to solicit any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17048
  It is unlawful for any manufacturer, wholesaler, distributor, jobber, contractor, broker, retailer, or other vendor, or any agent of any such person, jointly to participate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17048.5
  It is unlawful for any manufacturer, wholesaler, distributor, jobber, contractor, broker, retailer, or other vendor, or any agent of any such person, to enter into...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17049
  The prohibitions of this chapter against locality discrimination and sales below cost embrace any scheme of special rebates, collateral contracts or any device of any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17050
  The prohibitions of this chapter against locality discriminations, sales below cost, and loss leaders do not apply to any sale made: (a) In closing out...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17051
  Any contract, express or implied, made by any person, firm, or corporation in violation of this chapter is an illegal contract and no recovery thereon...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17070
  Any person or trade association may bring an action to enjoin and restrain any violation of this chapter and, in addition thereto, for the recovery...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17071
  In all actions brought under this chapter proof of one or more acts of selling or giving away any article or product below cost or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17071.5
  In all actions brought under this chapter proof of limitation of the quantity of any article or product sold or offered for sale to any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17072
  Where a particular trade or industry, of which a person complained against is a member, has an established cost survey for the locality and vicinity...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17073
  Proof of average overall cost of doing business for any particular inventory period when added to the cost of production of each article or product,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17074
  Proof of transportation tariffs when fixed and approved by the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California is presumptive evidence of delivery cost.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17075
  In any action where it is alleged and shown that the person complained against is selling below his cost of doing business, and such person...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17076
  In any action brought under this chapter, where persons are employed or performing services for any person or in the conduct of the business wherein...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17077
  In any action or prosecution for sales below cost in violation of this chapter, if the defendant acquires his raw materials for a consideration not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17078
  If it appears to the court upon any application for a temporary restraining order, or upon the hearing of any order to show cause why...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17079
  The court may, in its discretion, include in any injunction against a violation of this chapter such other restraint as it may deem expedient in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17080
  Any injunction against a violation of this chapter, whether interim or final, shall cover every article or product and not merely the particular article or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17081
  It is not necessary for the plaintiff, in any action under this chapter, to provide or file any undertaking or bond for the issuance of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17082
  In any action under this chapter, it is not necessary to allege or prove actual damages or the threat thereof, or actual injury or the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17083
  The testimony of any witness in any action brought under this chapter may be taken by deposition. The provisions of Chapter 3 (commencing with Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17084
  Any party to any action brought under this chapter may, upon notice, apply to the court in which the action is pending, or to any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17085
  If, at any time while any action for a violation of this chapter is pending, it appears to the court that an extensive examination of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17086
  No information obtained under this article, or under Title 4 (commencing with Section 2016.010) of Part 4 of the Code of Civil Procedure, may be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17087
  In any action or proceeding, civil or criminal, brought by the Attorney General or any district attorney for the violation of this chapter, no person...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17095
  Any person, who, either as director, officer or agent of any firm or corporation or as agent of any person, violating the provisions of this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17096
  In any injunction proceeding against any person as officer, director or agent, it is sufficient to allege and prove the unlawful intent of the person,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17100
  Any person, whether as principal, agent, officer or director, for himself, or for another person, or for any firm or corporation, or any corporation, who...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17101
  In the prosecution of any person as officer, director or agent, it is sufficient to allege and prove the unlawful intent of the person, firm...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17200
  As used in this chapter, unfair competition shall mean and include any unlawful, unfair or fraudulent business act or practice and unfair, deceptive, untrue or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17201
  As used in this chapter, the term person shall mean and include natural persons, corporations, firms, partnerships, joint stock companies, associations and other organizations of
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17201.5
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Board within the Department of Consumer Affairs" includes any commission, bureau, division, or other similarly constituted agency within the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17202
  Notwithstanding Section 3369 of the Civil Code, specific or preventive relief may be granted to enforce a penalty, forfeiture, or penal law in a case...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17203
  Injunctive Relief--Court Orders Any person who engages, has engaged, or proposes to engage in unfair competition may be enjoined in any court of competent jurisdiction....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17204
  Actions for Injunctions by Attorney General, District Attorney, County Counsel, and City Attorneys Actions for relief pursuant to this chapter shall be prosecuted exclusively in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17205
  Unless otherwise expressly provided, the remedies or penalties provided by this chapter are cumulative to each other and to the remedies or penalties available under...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17206
  Civil Penalty for Violation of Chapter (a) Any person who engages, has engaged, or proposes to engage in unfair competition shall be liable for a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17206.1
  (a) (1) In addition to any liability for a civil penalty pursuant to Section 17206, any person who violates this chapter, and the act or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17207
  (a) Any person who intentionally violates any injunction prohibiting unfair competition issued pursuant to Section 17203 shall be liable for a civil penalty not to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17208
  Any action to enforce any cause of action pursuant to this chapter shall be commenced within four years after the cause of action accrued. No...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17209
  If a violation of this chapter is alleged or the application or construction of this chapter is in issue in any proceeding in the Supreme...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17210
  (a) For purposes of this section, "hotel" means any hotel, motel, bed and breakfast inn, or other similar transient lodging establishment, but it does not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17350
  With respect to contracts entered into on or after the effective date of this chapter, no financial institution shall enter into a contract which provides...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17351
  For the purposes of this chapter: (a) "Financial institution" means a bank, savings and loan association, or credit union chartered under the laws of this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17360
  As used in this chapter, "person" includes an individual, partnership, firm, association, or corporation.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17361
  Any person offering for sale or selling telephone handsets or keysets or private branch exchanges or private automatic branch exchanges of not more than 20-station...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17362
  A retailer of telephone equipment shall give clear and conspicuous notice, both on the sale premises and in advertising and catalogs for telephone equipment, except...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17363
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, Sections 17361 and 17362 do not apply to any of the following: (a) Institutional advertising directed to a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17363.5
  Any person advertising or offering for sale automatic dialing-announcing devices, as defined in Section 2871 of the Public Utilities Code, shall specify on all advertising...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17364
  Every failure to comply with any provision of this chapter constitutes unfair competition and shall be enforced under Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 17200).
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17365
  This chapter shall become operative on November 1, 1983.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17500
  It is unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association, or any employee thereof with intent directly or indirectly to dispose of real or personal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17500.1
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no trade or professional association, or state agency, state board, or state commission within the Department of Consumer Affairs...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17500.3
  (a) It is unlawful for any person to solicit a sale or order for sale of goods or services at the residence of a prospective...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17500.5
  (a) It is unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association to falsely represent by advertisement the quantity of any article so advertised that will...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17501
  For the purpose of this article the worth or value of any thing advertised is the prevailing market price, wholesale if the offer is at...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17502
  This article does not apply to any visual or sound radio broadcasting station, to any internet service provider or commercial online service, or to any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17504
  (a) Any person, partnership, corporation, firm, joint stock company, association, or organization engaged in business in this state as a retail seller who sells any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17505
  No person shall state, in an advertisement of his goods, that he is a producer, manufacturer, processor, wholesaler, or importer, or that he owns or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17505.2
  (a) It is unlawful for a person to represent himself or herself as a recreation therapist, to represent the services he or she performs as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17506
  As used in this chapter, "person" includes any individual, partnership, firm, association, or corporation.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17506.5
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Board within the Department of Consumer Affairs" includes any commission, bureau, division, or other similarly constituted agency within the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17507
  It is unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association to make an advertising claim or representation pertaining to more than one article of merchandise...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17508
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any person doing business in California and advertising to consumers in California to make any false or misleading advertising...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17509
  (a) Any advertisement, including any advertisement over the Internet, soliciting the purchase or lease of a product or service, or any combination thereof, that requires,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17510
  (a) The Legislature finds that there exists in the area of solicitations and sales solicitations for charitable purposes a condition which has worked fraud, deceit...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17510.1
  As used in this article, "sale" shall include a gift made with the hope or expectation of monetary compensation.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17510.2
  (a) As used in this article, "solicitation for charitable purposes," means any request, plea, entreaty, demand, or invitation, or attempt thereof, to give money or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17510.25
  (a) A charity, as defined in subdivision (e), may engage in a solicitation for charitable purposes that involves persons standing in a public roadway soliciting...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17510.3
  (a) Prior to any solicitation or sales solicitation for charitable purposes, the solicitor or seller shall exhibit to the prospective donor or purchaser a card...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17510.4
  If the initial solicitation or sales solicitation is made by radio, television, letter, telephone, or any other means not involving direct personal contact with the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17510.5
  (a) The financial records of a soliciting organization shall be maintained on the basis of generally accepted accounting principles as defined by the American Institute...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17510.6
  The provisions of this article shall not apply to solicitations, sales, offers, or attempts to sell within the membership of a charitable organization or upon...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17510.7
  Compliance with any city or county ordinance which provides for disclosure of information relating to solicitations or sales solicitations for charitable purposes substantially similar to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17510.8
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, there exists a fiduciary relationship between a charity or any person soliciting on behalf of a charity, and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17510.85
  Any individual, corporation, or other legal entity who for compensation solicits funds or other property in this state for charitable purposes shall disclose prior to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17510.87
  Any individual, corporation, or other legal entity who, for compensation, solicits funds or other property in this state for charitable purposes is prohibited from retaining...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17510.9
  (a) A charity engaged in any solicitation or sales solicitation for charitable purposes, that collected more than 50 percent of its annual income and more...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17510.95
  The Attorney General shall annually publish a report that includes information provided to the Registry of Charitable Trusts pursuant to Section 17510.9 for all charities...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17511
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the widespread use of telephone solicitors to initiate sales of goods, real property, and investment opportunities has created...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17511.1
  As used in this article, "telephonic seller" or "seller" means a person who, on his or her own behalf or through salespersons or through the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17511.2
  As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Department" means the Department of Justice. (b) "Item" means any goods and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17511.3
  (a) Not less than 10 days prior to doing business in this state, a telephonic seller shall register with the department by filing with the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17511.4
  Each filing pursuant to Section 17511.3 shall contain the following information: (a) The name or names of the seller, including the name under which the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17511.5
  In addition to complying with the requirements of Section 17500.3, as applicable, a telephonic seller, shall, at the time the solicitation is made and prior...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17511.6
  Every telephonic seller shall file with the Attorney General, in the form prescribed by the Attorney General, an irrevocable consent appointing the Attorney General to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17511.7
  No seller shall make or authorize the making of any references to its compliance with this article to any prospective or actual purchaser.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17511.8
  No salesperson shall solicit prospective purchasers on behalf of a telephonic seller who is not currently registered with the department pursuant to this article. Any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17511.9
  Except as provided in Section 17511.8, any person, including, but not limited to, the seller, a salesperson, agent or representative of the seller, or an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17511.10
  The provisions of this article are not exclusive. The remedies specified in this article for violation of any section of this article or for conduct...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17511.12
  (a) Every telephonic seller shall maintain a bond issued by a surety company admitted to do business in this state. The bond shall be in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17512
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to request or receive payment of any fee or consideration from a person for goods or services...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17513
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any telephonic seller to procure, either directly or through an agent, the services of any third-party delivery, courier, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17514
  (a) A person who sends a solicitation by mail that solicits a recipient to consent to receive information via telephone, where that recipient's telephone number...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17520
  Any misrepresentation that goods offered for sale are the products of blind workers is hereby directed to be a special matter of state-wide concern.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17521
  As used in this article: (a) "Blind" means a person having central visual acuity not to exceed 20-200 in the better eye, with corrected lenses,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17522
  No goods or articles which are determined by label, symbol, trade name, or name of the manufacturer to indicate that they are made by blind...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17523
  Any blind workman, who is a citizen or resident of this State, or any institution, public or private, corporation, partnership, and association engaged within this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17525
  (a) It is unlawful for a person, with a bad faith intent to register, traffic in, or use a domain name, that is identical or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17526
  In determining whether there is a bad faith intent pursuant to Section 17525, a court may consider factors, including, but not limited to, the following:...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17527
  As used in this article: (a) "Deceased personality" shall have the same meaning as defined in Section 3344.1 of the Civil Code. (b) "Domain name"...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17528
  Jurisdiction for actions brought pursuant to this article shall be in accordance with Section 410.10 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17528.5
  In addition to any other remedies available under law, a court may order the transfer of a domain name as part of the relief awarded...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17529
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) Roughly 40 percent of all e-mail traffic in the United States is comprised of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17529.1
  For the purpose of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) "Advertiser" means a person or entity that advertises through the use of commercial e-mail...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17529.2
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person or entity may not do any of the following: (a) Initiate or advertise in an unsolicited commercial...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17529.3
  Nothing in this article shall be construed to limit or restrict the adoption, implementation, or enforcement by a provider of Internet access service of a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17529.4
  (a) It is unlawful for any person or entity to collect electronic mail addresses posted on the Internet if the purpose of the collection is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17529.5
  (a) It is unlawful for any person or entity to advertise in a commercial e-mail advertisement either sent from California or sent to a California...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17529.8
  (a) (1) In addition to any other remedies provided by this article or by any other provisions of law, a recipient of an unsolicited commercial...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17529.9
  The provisions of this article are severable. If any provision of this article or its application is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17530
  It is unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, or association, or any employee or agent therefor, to make or disseminate any statement or assertion of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17530.1
  (a) It shall be unlawful for a person to recommend to a prospective trustor any person to serve as trustee with knowledge or having reason...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17530.5
  (a) It is a misdemeanor for any person, including an individual, firm, corporation, association, partnership, or joint venture, or any employee or agent thereof, to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17530.6
  (a) Any person, including an individual, firm, corporation, association, partnership, or joint venture, or any employee or agent thereof, shall dispose of any of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17530.7
  It is unlawful for any person, other than a funeral director as defined in Section 7615, to sell, or offer to sell, on a retail...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17531
  It is unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, in any newspaper, magazine, circular, form letter or any open publication, published, distributed, or circulated in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17531.1
  Every manufacturer, wholesaler, jobber, distributor, or other person, who packages children's toys for sale to any retailer, shall clearly state on the outside of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17531.5
  It is unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, in any newspaper, magazine, circular, form letter, or any open publication, published, distributed, or circulated in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17531.6
  As used in Sections 17531.7 and 17531.8, the term: (a) "Picture tube" means cathode ray tube, otherwise known as kinescope or CRT. (b) "Rejuvenate," or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17531.7
  (a) No manufacturer, processor, or distributor of television picture tubes shall sell, offer for sale, or expose for sale any such tube unless the television...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17531.8
  No person other than a purchaser at retail for his own use and consumption shall remove, deface, cover, obliterate, mutilate, alter, or cause to be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17531.9
  Any person violating any of the provisions of Section 17531.7 or 17531.8 may be enjoined by any superior court of competent jurisdiction upon action for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17532
  It is unlawful wilfully or knowingly, with intent to defraud, to sell or exchange, or offer or expose for sale or exchange, coal of a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17533
  It is unlawful for any proprietor or publisher of any newspaper or periodical, including any newspaper or periodical published over the Internet, willfully and knowingly...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17533.5
  It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association to sell or offer for sale any surplus materials as defined in the Federal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17533.6
  (a) It is unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, or association that is a nongovernmental entity to solicit information, or to solicit the purchase of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17533.7
  It is unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association to sell or offer for sale in this State any merchandise on which merchandise or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17533.8
  (a) It is unlawful for any person to offer, by mail, by telephone, in person, or by any other means or in any other form,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17533.9
  It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, or association, in any newspaper, magazine, circular, form letter, or open publication, published, distributed, or circulated...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17533.10
  It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, or association, in any newspaper, magazine, circular, form letter, or open publication, published, distributed, or circulated...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17534
  Any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association or any employee or agent thereof who violates this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17534.5
  Unless otherwise expressly provided, the remedies or penalties provided by this chapter are cumulative to each other and to the remedies or penalties available under...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17535
  Obtaining Injunctive Relief Any person, corporation, firm, partnership, joint stock company, or any other association or organization which violates or proposes to violate this chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17535.5
  (a) Any person who intentionally violates any injunction issued pursuant to Section 17535 shall be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed six thousand...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17536
  Penalty for Violations of Chapter; Proceedings; Disposition of Proceeds (a) Any person who violates any provision of this chapter shall be liable for a civil...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17536.5
  If a violation of this chapter is alleged or the application or construction of this chapter is in issue in any proceeding in the Supreme...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17537
  (a) It is unlawful for any person to use the term "prize" or "gift" or other similar term in any manner that would be untrue...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17537.1
  (a) It is unlawful for any person, or an employee, agent or independent contractor employed or authorized by that person, by any means, as part...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17537.10
  (a) It is unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, association, or any other business entity to make any untrue or misleading statements in any manner...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17537.2
  The following, when used as part of an advertising plan or program defined in Section 17537.1, are deceptive and constitute unfair trade practices: (a) When,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17537.3
  The following acts are prohibited: (a) For any person to offer as part of an advertising plan or program, promotional offers of smokeless tobacco products...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17537.4
  If the person making an offer subject to Section 17537 or to subdivision (a) of Section 17537.1, or any employee, agent, or independent contractor employed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17537.5
  (a) It is unlawful for any person soliciting a sale or order for energy conservation products or services, including over the Internet, to do any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17537.6
  (a) It is unlawful for any person to make any untrue or misleading statements in any manner in connection with the offering or performance of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17537.7
  Except as to communications described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (n) of Section 11713.1 of the Vehicle Code, it is unlawful for any person to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17537.8
  (a) It is unlawful for any person to make any untrue or misleading statements in any manner in connection with the offering or performance of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17537.9
  (a) It is unlawful for any person to make any untrue or misleading statements in any manner in connection with the offering or performance of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17537.11
  (a) It is unlawful for any person to offer a coupon that is in any manner untrue or misleading. (b) It is unlawful for any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17537.12
  (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Truth in Music Advertising Act. (b) As used in this section, the following...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17538
  (a) It is unlawful in the sale or lease or offering for sale or lease of goods or services, for any person conducting sales or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17538.3
  The provisions of Section 17538 do not apply to any of the following, except that subdivisions (d) and (e) of Section 17538 shall apply to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17538.35
  (a) Unless otherwise permitted by law or contract, any provider of electronic mail service shall provide each customer with notice at least 30 days before...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17538.41
  (a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (b), (c), (d), or (e), no person, entity conducting business, candidate, or political committee in this state shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17538.43
  (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) "Telephone facsimile machine" means equipment that has the capacity to do...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17538.45
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following words have the following meanings: (1) "Electronic mail advertisement" means any electronic mail message, the principal purpose...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17538.5
  (a) It is unlawful in the sale or offering for sale of consumer goods or services for any person conducting, any business in this state...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17538.6
  (a) It is unlawful for any person conducting business in this state to require or request a consumer to issue a postdated check unless (1)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17538.7
  (a) It is unlawful for a seller to advertise any payment, number of payments, or period of repayment for any goods, property, or services purchased...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17538.8
  Any advertisement that offers free or discounted transportation or certificates to obtain transportation and that requires the consumer to purchase accommodations through or from a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17538.9
  (a) For the purposes of this section: (1) "Ancillary charges" means all surcharges, taxes, fees, connection charges, maintenance fees, monthly or other periodic fees, per-call...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17539
  The Legislature finds that there is a compelling need for more complete disclosure of rules and operation of contests in which money or other valuable...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17539.1
  (a) The following unfair acts or practices undertaken by, or omissions of, any person in the operation of any contest are prohibited: (1) Failing to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17539.15
  (a) Solicitation materials containing sweepstakes entry materials or solicitation materials selling information regarding sweepstakes shall not represent, taking into account the context in which the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17539.2
  Every person who conducts any contest shall: (a) Clearly and conspicuously disclose on each entry blank the deadline for submission of that entry. (b) Refund...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17539.3
  (a) Sections 17539.1 and 17539.2 do not apply to a game conducted to promote the sale of an employer's product or service by his or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17539.35
  No person shall advertise, offer, or operate any contest, as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 17539.3, in which any prize, including any money, property,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17539.4
  No person shall place an advertisement disseminated primarily in this state for a loan which utilizes real property as collateral unless there is disclosed within...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17539.5
  (a) For purposes of this section and Sections 17539.55 and 17539.6: (1) "Broadcast" means the utilization of radio, television, home videos, movie screens, telephones, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17539.55
  (a) It shall be unlawful to operate a sweepstakes in this state through the use of a 900 number, unless the information provider registers with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17539.6
  Any broadcast or print advertisement or notice that contains a 900 number shall be written or spoken in the same language as the language used...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550
  The Legislature finds and declares that certain advertising, sales, and business practices of sellers of travel have worked financial hardship upon the people of this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.1
  (a) "Seller of travel" means a person who sells, provides, furnishes, contracts for, arranges, or advertises that he or she can or may arrange, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.2
  "Advertise" means to make any representation in the solicitation of air or sea transportation, and includes communication with other members of the same partnership, corporation,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.3
  "Passenger" is a person on whose behalf money or other consideration has been given or is to be given to another, including another member of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.4
  An air carrier is a transporter by air of persons that operates under a certificate of convenience and necessity issued by the United States Department...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.5
  "Ticket or voucher" means a writing that is itself good and sufficient to obtain the entire air or ocean transportation, or travel services, which the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.6
  "Officially appointed agent" means an agent expressly appointed as such, without reservation, for a specified time period, in a written instrument executed by the principal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.7
  "Participant in the Travel Consumer Restitution Fund" is a registered seller of travel with its principal place of business in California, who does business with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.8
  "Provider" means the person or entity who actually provides any transportation or travel services.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.9
  "Travel services" includes, but is not limited to, lodging, surface transportation, transfers, tours, meals, guides, baggage transfer, sightseeing, recreational activities, vehicle rental, or other travel-related...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.10
  "Travel certificate" means a writing that represents the holder is entitled to air or sea transportation or travel services, to a discount or reduced price...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.11
  (a) "Adequate bond" means a bond executed by an admitted surety insurer in an amount at all times no less than at least equal to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.13
  (a) (1) A seller of travel shall not receive any money or other valuable consideration in payment for air or sea transportation or other travel...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.14
  (a) The seller of travel has an obligation either to provide the air or sea transportation or travel services purchased by the passenger or to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.15
  (a) This section applies to a seller of travel as defined in Section 17550.1. (b) The seller of travel shall deposit directly into a trust...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.16
  (a) A seller of travel is exempt from the requirements of subdivisions (a) to (f), inclusive, of Section 17550.15 for all transactions in which the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.17
  (a) This section does not apply to sellers of travel who are exempt from the requirements of Section 17550.15 pursuant to Section 17550.16. (b) Upon...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.18
  (a) If any provision of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.19
  In addition to any civil penalties provided in this division, violation of this article is punishable as follows: (a) As a misdemeanor by a fine...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.195
  (a) The Attorney General shall immediately suspend the registration of a seller of travel who has been convicted of a felony offense pursuant to Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.20
  (a) Not less than 10 days prior to doing business in this state, a seller of travel shall apply for registration with the office of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.21
  Each filing pursuant to Section 17550.20 shall contain the following information: (a) The name or names of the seller of travel, including the name under...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.22
  No registration application shall be accepted for filing if it is incomplete or contains false information.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.23
  (a) The Travel Consumer Restitution Corporation shall notify the office of the Attorney General whenever a seller of travel with its principal place of business...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.24
  (a) The Attorney General or his or her delegate shall issue a separate registration number to each registrant whose registration is accepted. That registration number...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.25
  (a) All sellers of travel who are participants shall comply with Article 2.7 (commencing with Section 17550.35) prior to engaging in those sales. (b) Any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.26
  (a) For the purposes of this section, "travel business discount program" means a membership, benefit program, identification card, identifying number, or other arrangement that identifies...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.27
  (a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) "Seller of travel discount program" means a membership, benefit...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.30
  (a) The Travel Seller Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. All fines, penalties, and fees, including late fees, collected pursuant to this article,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.35
  "Restitution corporation" means the Travel Consumer Restitution Corporation.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.36
  "Participant," as used in this article, means a seller of travel, as defined in Section 17550.7, who is registered pursuant to Section 17550.20.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.37
  (a) "Person aggrieved," as used in this article, means a passenger, as defined in Section 17550.3, located in California at the time of sale, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.38
  (a) It is the purpose of the Travel Consumer Restitution Corporation to provide restitution to a person aggrieved, subject to the limitations set forth in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.39
  (a) Participants shall maintain a corporation under the Nonprofit Mutual Benefit Corporation Law (Part 3 (commencing with Section 7110) of Division 2 of Title 1...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.40
  Each participant is required to comply with the provisions of this article and shall abide by the rules and decisions of the Travel Consumer Restitution...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.41
  (a) The Board of Directors of the Travel Consumer Restitution Corporation shall be composed of six directors, as follows: (1) One public consumer representative member...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.42
  The fiscal year of the Travel Consumer Restitution Corporation shall commence on July 1 of each year.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.42
  (a) Within 30 days of the close of the fiscal year or other reasonable period established by the board of directors, the Travel Consumer Restitution...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.43
  (a) The Travel Consumer Restitution Corporation shall establish and maintain an operations fund for the payment of costs of operations and administration. The corporation shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.44
  (a) In addition to the assessments required by Section 17550.43, the Travel Consumer Restitution Corporation shall bill and collect from each participant an annual assessment...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.45
  (a) If any assessment is not paid within 60 days of the due date, then the corporation shall notify the office of the Attorney General,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.46
  (a) The Attorney General or his or her delegate shall approve any claim form which shall be provided to a person aggrieved by the Travel...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.47
  (a) (1) Any person aggrieved who suffers a loss of more than fifty dollars ($50) of amounts paid for air or sea transportation or travel...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.48
  Any person aggrieved who recovers from the fund shall assign to the Travel Consumer Restitution Corporation all rights of recovery, to a maximum of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.49
  If the Travel Consumer Restitution Corporation directs that payment be made from the restitution fund in any amount in response to a claim against a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.50
  There shall be no personal liability on the part of and no cause of action of any nature shall arise against the Travel Consumer Restitution...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.51
  The Travel Consumer Restitution Corporation shall not be liable for any consequential damages, or for any punitive damages, in connection with the performance of its...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.52
  The Attorney General or his or her delegate may determine that the Travel Consumer Restitution Corporation has failed or ceased to operate upon a finding...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.53
  (a) The Travel Consumer Restitution Corporation shall have independent authority to investigate claims filed by persons aggrieved pursuant to Section 17550.47. (b) The corporation, upon...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.54
  (a) The Secretary of State shall not file articles for the incorporation of the Travel Consumer Restitution Corporation or an amendment to the articles unless...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.55
  No provision of the Insurance Code shall apply to the Travel Consumer Restitution Corporation.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.56
  The operation of the Travel Consumer Restitution Corporation shall at all times be subject to the examination and review of the office of the Attorney...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.57
  If the Travel Consumer Restitution Corporation is dissolved or ceases to exist, or if the Attorney General or his or her delegate makes a determination...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17550.58
  All costs and expenses incurred by the Department of Justice in the administration of this article, including those incurred pursuant to Section 17550.38, shall be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17552
  (a) "Educational travel organization" or "organization" means a person, partnership, corporation, or other entity who offers educational travel programs for students residing, in the State...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17553
  Nothing in this article shall be construed as exempting an educational travel organization from compliance with Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 17540), Article 2.6 (commencing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17554
  An educational travel organization may not arrange an educational travel program before the organization involved has first entered into a written contract with the educational...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17555
  In addition to other requirements and prohibitions of this article, it is a violation of this article for an educational travel organization to place or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17556
  (a) Where any school or student, or that student's parent or guardian, is injured by a violation of this article, the school, the student, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17556.5
  Except as otherwise provided, a person who violates a provision of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor, which offense is punishable by a fine...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17560
  "Outdoor sign" or "outside sign" as used in this article means any sign visible to passers-by whether the same shall be located within or without
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17561
  "Room rates" as used in this article means the rates at which rooms or other accommodations are rented to occupants.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17562
  "Operator" as used in this article includes a manager or any person in charge of the operation of motels and like establishments. "Operator" or "owner"...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17563
  This article shall apply to operators and owners of motels, motor courts, and like establishments, and to such establishments.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17564
  It shall be unlawful for any owner or operator of any establishment within the scope of this article, located within the State of California, to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17565
  It shall be unlawful for any owner or operator of any establishment within the scope of this article to post or maintain posted on outdoor...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17566
  It shall be unlawful for any owner or operator of any establishment within the scope of this article to post or maintain outdoor or outside...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17567
  Nothing contained in this article shall be construed so as to require establishments within the scope of this article to have outdoor or outside signs....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17567.5
  The governing body of any city, county, or city and county may, pursuant to reasonable exercise of the police power, enact ordinances imposing regulations equal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17568
  Any person violating the provisions of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17568.5
  Upon the proclamation of a state of emergency resulting from an earthquake, flood, fire, riot, storm, or other natural disaster declared by the President of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17569
  It is unlawful to barter, trade, sell, or offer for sale or trade, any article represented as made by authentic American Indian labor or workmanship,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17569.9
  "Indian," as used in this article, means a person who is enrolled or who is a lineal descendant of one enrolled upon an enrollment listing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17570
  On and after July 1, 1969, every person who owns a vending machine shall have his name and address affixed thereto in a place where...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17571
  "Vending machine" means any mechanical device the operation of which depends upon the insertion of a coin or other thing representative of value in the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17572
  Any person who violates this article is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed six months, or a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17577
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that there have been situations where homeowners have been subjected to fraud, deception, and unfair dealing by certain promoters...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17577.1
  For the purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Contaminant" or "contamination" means any health-related physical, chemical, biological, or radiological...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17577.2
  It is unlawful for any person to do any of the following in connection with the sale, lease, rental, offer to sell, lease, rent, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17577.3
  (a) A contract or offer which is subject to approval, for the sale, lease, or rental of a water treatment device shall be deemed a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17577.4
  Any violation of this article is a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by a fine not exceeding...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17577.5
  (a) No contract or offer for the sale, lease, or rental of a home water treatment device and no purchase money loan, as defined in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17577.5
  (a) No contract or offer for the sale, lease, or rental of a home water treatment device and no purchase money loan, as defined in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17577.6
  (a) A buyer, lessee, or renter of a water treatment device may bring an action against any person who violates this article for the recovery...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17580
  (a) Any person who represents in advertising or on the label or container of a consumer good that the consumer good that it manufactures or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17580.5
  (a) It is unlawful for any person to make any untruthful, deceptive, or misleading environmental marketing claim, whether explicit or implied. For the purpose of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17581
  Any violation of this article is a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed six months, or by a fine not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17582
  (a) Any engine coolant or antifreeze sold in this state after January 1, 2004, that is manufactured after July 1, 2003, and that contains more...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17590
  (a) There is a compelling state interest to protect the privacy of residential or wireless telephone subscribers who wish to avoid unsolicited and unwanted telephone...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17591
  It is unlawful for any person to do any of the following: using the "do not call" list for any purpose other than to comply...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17592
  (a) For purposes of this article: (1) A "telephone solicitor" means any person or entity who, on his or her own behalf or through salespersons...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17593
  (a) The Attorney General, a district attorney, or a city attorney may bring a civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction against a telephone...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17594
  Any information regarding any California telephone number which appears on the "do not call" list in the possession of the Attorney General, whether obtained from...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17600
  It is the intent of the Legislature to end the practice of ongoing charging of consumer credit or debit cards or third party payment accounts...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17601
  For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Automatic renewal" means a plan or arrangement in which a paid subscription or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17602
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any business making an automatic renewal or continuous service offer to a consumer in this state to do any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17603
  In any case in which a business sends any goods, wares, merchandise, or products to a consumer, under a continuous service agreement or automatic renewal...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17604
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 17534, a violation of this article shall not be a crime. However, all available civil remedies that apply to a violation of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17605
  The following are exempt from the requirements of this article: (a) Any service provided by a business or its affiliate where either the business or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17606
  This article shall become operative on December 1, 2010.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17700
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Coupon" includes certificates, cards, package labels, wrappers, can covers, bottle caps or other and similar devices, which entitle the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17701
  It is unlawful for any person to issue coupons unless there shall be specified in or upon such coupons, specifically or by class, the person...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17701.5
  It is unlawful for any person to advertise a price that requires the buyer to send in a coupon to the manufacturer for a cash...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17702
  Any person violating this chapter is for each offense guilty of a misdemeanor.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17750
  "Trading stamp" means any stamp or similar device issued in connection with the retail sale of merchandise or service, as a cash discount, or for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17751
  "Trading stamp" also means any stamp or similar device issued as a gift or as a consideration in any transaction other than in connection with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17752
  "Trading stamp" does not include any redeemable device used by the manufacturer or packer of an article, in advertising or selling the article, or any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17753
  "Trading stamp" does not include any coupon, ticket, certificate, card, or other similar device prepared by a merchant using that device and distributed by the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17754
  The Legislature finds and declares that the devices described in Sections 17752, 17753, and 17760 are not employed in connection with improper activities of irresponsible...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17755
  "Trading stamp company" means any person engaged in any manner in distributing trading stamps for retail issuance by others or in redeeming trading stamps for
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17756
  "Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, association, or other organization.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17757
  "Organization" means any partnership, corporation, limited liability company, or association.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17758
  "Issue" includes use, distribute, give away, sell, furnish, and licensing that use, distribution, gift, sale or furnishing.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17759
  "Merchant" includes retailer, person dealing in services, or person in a similar capacity.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17760
  The provisions of this chapter do not apply to nonprofit merchant organizations that guarantee redemption of trading stamps that are exclusively issued and redeemed by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17761
  It is unlawful for any person to issue any trading stamp unless the stamp has imprinted on it both of the following: (a) The name...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17762
  Any trading stamp company shall redeem upon presentation any trading stamp that it has issued, either in merchandise, service, or cash, at the option of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17763
  It is unlawful for any person to willfully issue or redeem any trading stamp without the consent of the trading stamp company that issued the
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17764
  Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit any person from redeeming, pursuant to contract, any trading stamps issued on or before December 31, 1997.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17765
  Any person who advertises the giving of trading stamps, or who gives trading stamps, with the sale of any merchandise or service, shall give those...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17766
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as requiring the giving of trading stamps with any sale of merchandise or service when the giving of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17767
  If a trading stamp company fails to redeem any of its trading stamps, any rightful holder of those stamps may bring a civil action for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17768
  Any merchant who has issued to his or her customers or other persons the trading stamps of any trading stamp company subject to this chapter,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17769
  No trading stamp company shall cease issuing trading stamps unless it gives written notice at least 90 days prior to that cessation to each merchant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17770
  Any person violating any provision of this chapter shall be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each violation,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17771
  Any person who willfully violates any provision of this chapter shall upon conviction be fined not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000).
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17772
  Trading stamps issued by a trading stamp company subject to this chapter are exempt from the Corporate Securities Law of 1968 (Division 1 (commencing with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17773
  Nothing in this chapter, nor in this code, shall be construed to require that the cash or merchandise value of trading stamps be stated or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17800
  (a) If there is a conviction for a violation of Section 653w or paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 350 of the Penal Code...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17801
  A district attorney, county counsel, city attorney, or city prosecutor that maintains an action or actions to enjoin, abate, or prevent a nuisance pursuant to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17802
  This chapter shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2015, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17900
  (a) (1) The purpose of this section is to protect those dealing with individuals or partnerships doing business under fictitious names, and it is not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17901
  As used in this chapter, "general partner" means: (a) In the case of a partnership, a general partner. (b) In the case of an unincorporated...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17901.5
  As used in this chapter, "manager" means a manager of a limited liability company.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17902
  As used in this chapter, "person" includes individuals, limited liability companies, partnerships and other associations, and corporations.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17903
  As used in this chapter, "registrant" means a person or entity who is filing or has filed a fictitious business name statement, and who is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17910
  Every person who regularly transacts business in this state for profit under a fictitious business name shall do all of the following: (a) File a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17910.5
  (a) No person shall adopt any fictitious business name which includes "Corporation," "Corp.," "Incorporated," or "Inc." unless that person is a corporation organized pursuant to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17911
  This chapter does not apply to a nonprofit corporation or association, including, but not limited to, organizations such as churches, labor unions, fraternal and charitable...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17912
  This chapter does not apply to a real estate investment trust as defined in Section 23000 of the Corporations Code that has a statement on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17913
  (a) The fictitious business name statement shall contain all of the information required by this subdivision and shall be substantially in the following form: FICTITIOUS...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17914
  The statement shall be signed as follows: (a) If the registrant is an individual, by the individual. (b) If the registrants are husband and wife,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17915
  A fictitious business name statement shall be filed with the clerk of the county in which the registrant has his or her principal place of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17916
  Presentation for filing of a fictitious business name statement and one copy, tender of the filing fee, and acceptance of the statement by the county...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17917
  (a) Within 30 days after a fictitious business name statement has been filed pursuant to this chapter, the registrant shall cause a statement in the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17918
  No person transacting business under a fictitious business name contrary to the provisions of this chapter, or his assignee, may maintain any action upon or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17919
  (a) A fictitious business name statement may be executed, filed, and published by the trustee in bankruptcy at any time after bankruptcy where a failure...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17920
  (a) Unless the statement expires earlier under subdivision (b) or (c), a fictitious business name statement expires five years from the date it was filed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17921
  Notice of the date of expiration shall be on the fictitious business name statement form.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17922
  (a) Upon ceasing to transact business in this state under a fictitious business name that was filed in the previous five years, a person who...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17923
  (a) Any person who is a general partner in a partnership that is or has been regularly transacting business under a fictitious business name may,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17924
  (a) The county clerk shall furnish without charge a form satisfying the requirements of subdivision (a) of Section 17913. The form prepared by the county...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17925
  (a) The county clerk shall maintain one or more indices which permit the determination of at least the following information: (1) Whether any business using...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17926
  (a) As used in this section, "statement" means a fictitious business name statement, a statement of abandonment of use of fictitious business name, or a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17927
  (a) The county clerk shall mark each fictitious business name statement with a file number and the date of filing and shall retain the original...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17928
  (a) Upon prepayment of the fee established pursuant to subdivision (b), the county clerk may furnish to any person who so requests daily or less...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17929
  (a) The fee for filing a fictitious business name statement is ten dollars ($10) for the first fictitious business name and owner and two dollars...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 17930
  Any person who executes, files, or publishes any statement under this chapter, knowing that such statement is false, in whole or in part, shall be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18000
  (a) (1) For purposes of this part, "microenterprise" means a sole proprietorship, partnership, or corporation that meets all of the following requirements: (A) Has fewer...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18001
  (a) Every city, county, and city and county is encouraged to access microenterprise development in order to create new jobs and income opportunities for individuals...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18400
  This chapter may be cited as the Automobile Dealers Anti-coercion Act.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18401
  The provisions of this chapter are cumulative of each other and of any other provision of law relating to the same subject in effect September...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18402
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Person" means any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, association, trustee, receiver or assignee for the benefit of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18403
  It is unlawful for a manufacturer to sell or contract to sell motor vehicles to a retailer on the condition or with an agreement or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18404
  Any threat, express or implied, made to a retailer by a manufacturer that the manufacturer will cease to sell, or refuse to contract to sell,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18405
  Any threat, express or implied, made to a retailer by any person, or any agent of any such person, who is engaged in the business...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18406
  It is unlawful for any manufacturer to pay or give or to contract to pay or give any subsidy to any lender or to discriminate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18407
  It is unlawful for any lender to accept or contract or agree to accept either directly or indirectly any subsidy or the benefit resulting from...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18408
  It is unlawful for any person other than an automobile dealer or automobile distributor who accepts either directly or indirectly any subsidy or the benefit...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18409
  Any contract or agreement in violation of the provisions of this chapter is void and is not enforceable at law or in equity.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18410
  Upon a violation of this chapter by any corporation or association the Attorney General or the district attorney of the proper county shall institute proceedings...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18411
  Every foreign corporation or association, exercising any of the powers, franchises or functions of a corporation in this State which violates this chapter, is hereby...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18412
  (a) Any person who violates this chapter, any person who is a party to any agreement or understanding, or to any contract prescribing any condition...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18413
  (a) In addition to the criminal and civil penalties herein provided, any person who is injured in his business or property by reason of anything...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18450
  It is a misdemeanor, in connection with the sale of a motor vehicle by a person engaged in the business of selling motor vehicles at...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18451
  The purchaser of a motor vehicle may recover from the seller in a civil action three times the amount realized on any insurance policy, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18600
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Boxing Act or the State Athletic Commission Act. Whenever a reference is made to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18601
  The Legislature may amend, revise, or supplement any part of this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18602
  (a) Except as provided in this section, there is in the Department of Consumer Affairs the State Athletic Commission, which consists of seven members. Five...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18602.1
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the State Athletic Commission in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever the protection...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18602.5
  (a) The commission shall adopt and submit a strategic plan to the Governor and the Legislature on or before September 30, 2008. The commission shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18604
  The appointing authority may remove any member of the commission for causes specified in Section 106.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18605
  A majority of the appointed members of the commission constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The affirmative vote of a majority of those...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18606
  The members of the commission shall elect one of their number as the chair and another member as the vice-chair. The chair and vice-chair shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18607
  Each member of the commission shall receive a per diem and necessary travel expenses as provided in Section 103.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18608
  The commission is subject to all of the provisions of Division 1 (commencing with Section 100) and for the purposes of that division shall be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18610
  The commission shall adopt a seal.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18611
  The commission shall adopt, amend, or repeal, in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act, rules and regulations as may be necessary to enable it to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18613
  (a) (1) The commission shall appoint a person exempt from civil service who shall be designated as an executive officer and who shall exercise the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18615
  No inspector shall be assigned to regulate an event under the authority or jurisdiction of the commission, who, within the preceding six months, has not...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18618
  The commission shall furnish to the Governor and the Legislature a report, on or before July 30, 2012, on the following: (a) The condition of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18620
  The definitions contained in this article shall be for terms used in this chapter and shall be applicable unless otherwise specifically provided.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18621
  "Commission" means the State Athletic Commission.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18622
  The words "club" and "promoter" are synonomous, may be used interchangeably, and mean a corporation, partnership, association, individual, or other organization which conducts, holds, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18623
  A professional or amateur boxer or martial arts fighter is one who engages in a boxing or martial arts contest and who possesses fundamental skills...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18624
  "Committee" means an advisory committee on medical and safety standards created by this article.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18625
  "Contest" and "match" are synonymous, may be used interchangeably, include boxing, kickboxing, and martial arts exhibitions, and mean a fight, prizefight, boxing contest, pugilistic contest,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18627
  (a) "Martial arts" means any form of karate, kung fu, tae kwon-do, kickboxing or any combination of full contact martial arts, including mixed martial arts,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18628
  "Manager" means any person who does any of the following: (a) By contract, agreement, or other arrangement with any person, undertakes or has undertaken to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18629
  "School, college, or university" means a secondary school, the University of California, a California State University, public community college, or any other private, postsecondary educational...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18630
  "Proprietary interest" means any membership, coownership, stock ownership, legal or beneficial interest, profit-sharing arrangement, or other proprietary interest, designated arranged or held, directly or indirectly...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18631
  "License" as used in this chapter also includes a "permit".
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18640
  The commission has the sole direction, management, control of, and jurisdiction over all professional and amateur boxing, professional and amateur kickboxing, all forms and combinations...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18640.5
  (a) The commission, at its regularly scheduled meetings, shall invite testimony from boxing stakeholders to identify actions that may lead to greater opportunities for its...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18641
  The commission may license clubs to conduct, hold, or give, and shall license referees, judges, matchmakers, and timekeepers, and may license assistant matchmakers and corporation...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18642
  The commission may license professional and amateur boxers, professional and amateur martial arts fighters, and booking agents, managers of professional boxers and professional martial arts...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18642.5
  A professional boxer or martial arts fighter shall, prior to licensure by the commission, demonstrate his or her ability to perform. If at any time...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18643
  (a) No professional boxer shall spar for training purposes with any person not licensed as a professional boxer or who does not have a sparring...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18645
  There is hereby created within the jurisdiction of the State Athletic Commission an Advisory Committee on Medical and Safety Standards. The committee shall consist of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18646
  (a) This chapter applies to all amateur boxing, wrestling, and full contact martial arts contests. (b) The commission may, however, authorize a nonprofit boxing, wrestling,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18648
  The commission shall prescribe standards as necessary, for the licensure of any persons required to be licensed by this chapter or by the commission's regulations.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18653
  (a) No person shall conduct or operate a professional boxers' training gymnasium unless he or she has a license issued by the commission under this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18654
  Failure of a licensed training gymnasium owner or operator, fighter, boxer, trainer, second, or manager to report to the commission an injury or knockout of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18655
  This chapter does not apply to any contest conducted under the supervision or control of an entity of the United States Government.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18656
  This chapter does not apply to any contest conducted by, or participated in exclusively by, any school, college, or university, or by any association or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18660
  Any person desiring a license issued under this chapter shall submit an application to the commission on an application form provided by the commission. The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18661
  The executive officer or his or her designee shall review and investigate all applications filed with the commission. The executive officer or designee shall file...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18662
  Any applicant for a license may be required to appear before the commission as it or the executive officer may deem necessary.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18665
  (a) All applications for a promoter's license shall contain a true statement of all persons connected with or having a proprietary interest in the promoter....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18666
  All promoters shall submit in writing for prior approval by the commission, any change at any time in the persons connected with or having a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18667
  The commission shall not issue any promoter's license to an applicant unless the commission is satisfied that the applicant is the real party in interest,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18668
  Licensed promoters may engage in promotions with other licensed promoters, so long as each promoter holds a valid, unexpired license, and receives the written approval...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18673
  (a) All applications for a manager's license shall contain a true statement of all persons connected with, or having a proprietary interest in, the management...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18674
  All managers shall submit in writing, for prior approval by the commission, any change at any time in the persons connected with or having a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18679
  The commission may issue temporary permits prior to licensure, as provided by regulations of the commission.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18680
  Before any license is issued to any club to conduct, hold, or give a contest or match, other than an amateur contest or match, the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18681
  Before any license is issued to any club to conduct, hold, or give an amateur contest or match, the applicant shall file a bond with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18684
  The bonds required under this article shall guarantee, in order of priority, the payment of all taxes and fines due and payable to the state,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18685
  For the purposes of this article, a ceritifcate of deposit payable to the commission, or a savings account assigned to the commission, shall be considered...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18700
  All buildings or structures used or intended to be used to conduct, hold, give a contest or match, or exhibition shall be safe and shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18701
  There shall be posted in public view at every place that a contest is held a notice in English and Spanish which states that it...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18702
  No person under the age of 18 years shall participate as a contestant in any contest or match or exhibition, except that any person 16...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18703
  All admission tickets to any contest or exhibition shall have printed clearly upon the face thereof the purchase price of the ticket, and no ticket...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18705
  Every promoter shall have at its own expense in attendance at every contest, a licensed physician approved by the commission who has had not less...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18705.5
  The commission shall adopt regulations detailing the criteria for approval of a licensed physician pursuant to Section 18705.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18706
  (a) Not later than at the weigh-in time, which shall be not more than 30 hours prior to the beginning of the first event, the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18707
  A physician in attendance at any contest or match pursuant to Section 18705 shall have the authority to stop any contest or match that is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18710
  In its discretion, the commission may order a special medical examination to be undertaken by any licensee, the report of which shall be made to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18711
  (a) (1) (A) The commission shall require, as a condition of licensure and as a part of the application process, the examination by a licensed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18712
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person applying for a license or the renewal of a license as a professional boxer or as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18714
  For the purpose of studying and recommending medical and safety standards for the conduct of boxing and martial arts, the commission may call meetings of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18720
  (a) No boxing contest or match shall be more than 12 rounds of not more than three minutes each in length, except that championship contests...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18721
  The commission may by rule specify the frequency with which boxers may participate in a contest.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18723
  All gloves used by contestants in professional and amateur boxing contests or matches shall be approved by the commission and constructed so that: (a) The...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18724
  All professional and amateur boxing contests or matches shall be performed on a ring floor and padding which meet at least the following specifications: (a)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18725
  In addition to the requirements of this act, the commission may establish glove weights, equipment standards, safety standards, and the length of rounds in order...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18728
  The commission shall establish by rule the weight spreads and classes of contestants.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18730
  A referee shall be in attendance and direct and control at every boxing contest. Referees shall enforce the rules of the commission at every boxing
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18731
  No referee or physician shall be assigned to a boxing contest who has not participated in a clinic sponsored by the commission in accordance with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18732
  Before starting a contest, the referee shall ascertain from each contestant, the name of his or her chief second, and shall hold such chief second...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18733
  The referee shall stop a contest when a contestant shows a marked superiority, or is apparently outclassed.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18734
  (a) The commission shall designate the scoring officials for each contest. (b) The referee may render a decision at the end of a boxing contest...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18735
  Referees and other boxing officials appointed by the commission while performing duties required under this chapter by the commission shall be entitled to the same...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18738
  (a) A boxer who intentionally hits a contestant with a rabbit punch or with a punch on that part of the body over the kidneys...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18748
  Recognizing the need for uniformity in championship contests, the commission may exempt championship contests from any provision of this chapter and authorize alternate provisions as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18750
  No person shall appear as a contestant in any amateur boxing contest who has received any compensation or reward, except for actual expenses or trophies,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18751
  Except as provided in Section 18752, only an award may be given to each contestant in any amateur boxing contest which does not exceed the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18752
  Unless the written permission of the commission is first obtained, it is a misdemeanor for any promoter to pay or cause to be paid to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18755
  No contestant in an amateur boxing contest shall use any bandage on his or her hand or arm except soft surgical bandages not over two...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18756
  No amateur boxing contest shall be more than four rounds of not more than two minutes each, or three rounds of three minutes each, in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18757
  At every amateur boxing contest, any representative of the commission shall stop the contest whenever it appears that the contestants are unevenly matched, either of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18758
  No amateur boxing contest shall be held in conjunction with vaudeville shows, dances, or entertainments of any sort.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18760
  Except as otherwise provided by this article, "boxing" as used in this chapter includes "kickboxing" and "martial arts." Sections 18720, 18721, 18723, 18725, 18728, 18755,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18761
  Rules and regulations of the commission relating to professional boxing shall apply to kickboxing and martial arts, except where specifically excluded by the commission's regulations.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18763
  The commission shall by rule and regulation, regulate kickboxing and martial arts in accordance with Section 18640.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18765
  The commission shall, by rule and regulation, prescribe the length and duration of professional and amateur kickboxing and martial arts contests, the weight classifications, the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18766
  Every contestant in an amateur kickboxing or martial arts contest under the age of 18 years shall wear protective headgear approved by the commission.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18767
  This chapter shall not apply to light and noncontact kickboxing and martial arts, and kickboxing and martial arts instruction and schools.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18768
  The commission shall not function as a sanctioning body, nor shall it grant titles to fighters or to individual events. This function shall be retained...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18769
  (a) The commission may appoint an advisory committee to advise the commission on the provisions of this article. (b) The advisory committee shall be composed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18800
  As of July 1, 2004, all moneys received by the commission under this chapter shall be accounted for and reported by detailed statements furnished by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18801
  The salaries and expenses of the members and employees, and the operating expenses of the commission shall be paid by the Treasurer on the warrant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18802
  The commission is, with respect to accounting, auditing, budget, financial and personal matters, subject to all laws and requirements now or hereafter imposed by law...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18804
  The application and renewal fee for a license to promote or conduct a professional contest or exhibition shall be one thousand dollars ($1,000).
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18805
  The application and renewal fee for a license to promote or conduct amateur boxing contests shall be two hundred fifty dollars ($250).
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18806
  The application and renewal fee for a boxing, kickboxing, or martial arts matchmaker's license shall be two hundred dollars ($200).
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18807
  The application and renewal fee for a boxing, kickboxing, or martial arts assistant matchmaker's license shall be two hundred dollars ($200).
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18808
  The application and renewal fee for a booking agent's license shall be two hundred dollars ($200).
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18809
  The application and renewal fee for a professional boxer, kickboxer, or martial arts fighter license shall be sixty dollars ($60).
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18810
  The application and renewal fee for a boxing, kickboxing, and martial arts manager's license shall be one hundred fifty dollars ($150).
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18811
  The application and renewal fee for a boxing, kickboxing, and martial arts trainer's license, chief second's and second's license shall be fifty dollars ($50).
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18812
  The application and renewal fee for a professional boxing, kickboxing, and martial arts referee's or judge's license shall be one hundred fifty dollars ($150).
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18813
  The application and renewal fee for an amateur boxing, kickboxing, and martial arts referee's and judge's license shall be seventy-five dollars ($75).
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18814
  The application and renewal fee for a timekeeper's license shall be fifty dollars ($50) unless the commission establishes a lower fee by regulation.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18815
  The application and renewal fee for a sparring permit shall be twenty-five dollars ($25).
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18817
  The application and renewal fee for professional boxers' training gymnasium shall not exceed two hundred dollars ($200).
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18819
  The fee for a simultaneous telecast permit under Section 18831 shall be fifty dollars ($50) per event.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18822
  (a) For licenses issued before January 1, 2007, a license may be renewed at any time prior to midnight on December 31 of the year...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18824
  (a) Except as provided in Sections 18646 and 18832, every person who conducts a contest or wrestling exhibition shall, within five working days after the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18825
  An inspector or other representative of the commission duly authorized by the executive officer shall be admitted to the box office, and is authorized to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18826
  Whenever any promoter fails to make a report of any contest or wrestling exhibition within the period prescribed by this chapter, or whenever such report...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18827
  If a promoter fails to pay any tax ascertained to be due under this chapter, in addition to the costs of the examination under Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18828
  (a) The commission may enter into a contract to sanction, supervise, or provide other services for contests under this chapter for which the fees under...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18830
  As used in this article: (a) "Person" includes a promoter, club, individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, association, or other organization. (b) "Closed circuit telecast"...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18831
  No person shall charge or receive an admission fee for exhibiting a simultaneous telecast of any live, current, or spontaneous contest or wrestling exhibition on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18832
  Every person who charges and receives a fee for exhibiting a simultaneous telecast of any live, current, or spontaneous contest or wrestling exhibition on a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18833
  The commission may designate a representative to be present at, and observe the computation of the number of tickets issued or sold, and the determination...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18834
  Whenever any person fails to make a report of a closed-circuit television showing of any contest or wrestling exhibition within the period prescribed by Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18835
  If a permitholder fails to pay any tax ascertained to be due under this chapter, in addition to the costs of the examination under Section...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18836
  In case of default in the payment of any tax due under this chapter, the commission may refuse to issue a permit to any person...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18837
  This article does not apply to a cable television's system franchised under Section 53066 of the Government Code.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18840
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, if in the judgment of the commission the financial responsibility, experience, character and general fitness of an applicant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18841
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, licenses issued under this chapter may be revoked, suspended, or placed on probation under terms and conditions including,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18842
  The commission, the executive officer and other employees duly authorized by the executive officer, shall have the power to suspend temporarily, any license until final...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18843
  In addition to its authority under other provisions of this chapter to take action against a licensee, the commission, its executive officer, or his or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18844
  If a licensee fails to pay any fine assessed under this chapter within 30 days after receipt of notice by the executive officer, after time...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18845
  (a) The commission, its executive officer, or any other employee duly authorized by the executive officer may issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses, giving...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18846
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commission, its executive officer, or his or her duly authorized representative may issue subpoenas for the attendance of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18847
  The disobedience of a subpoena issued under Section 18846 shall be attended by the same consequences and subject to the same penalties as if such...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18848
  The license of any promoter or matchmaker found guilty of managing a boxer or martial arts fighter, either directly or indirectly, without written approval from...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18849
  No promoter, nor any person having a proprietary interest in the promoter, shall have, either directly or indirectly, any proprietary interest in a boxer or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18850
  (a) Any boxer or martial arts fighter who participates in a contest or match while under suspension by the commission, or any other recognized commission,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18852
  A manager of a boxer or martial arts fighter shall maintain an accurate annual record showing all of the following with respect to each contest...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18853
  No fighter shall be paid before a contest, except that a promoter may, with the written approval of the commission, advance to the fighter before...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18854
  No fighter, nor his or her manager, shall be paid for the services of the fighter except in the presence of an authorized commission representative....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18855
  Any official who fails to enforce the provisions of this act or the commission's rules and regulations shall be subject to disciplinary action.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18860
  (a) The commission, the executive officer, or authorized representative shall have power to order a promoter to withhold any purse, any part thereof, any receipts...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18861
  The commission, the executive officer, or authorized representative shall have the power to order a promoter to withhold 10 percent of the total purse payable...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18865
  Any licensee who directly or indirectly holds, participates in, aids or abets any sham or fake contest or match shall be subject to disciplinary action....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18868
  (a) The commission shall have the authority to obtain and review criminal history information to determine whether an applicant or licensee has been convicted of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18869
  Nothing in this chapter shall prevent any county, city, or city and county from prohibiting the holding or participating in any contest, match, or exhibition.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18870
  Any person or promoter to whom this chapter applies who directly or indirectly holds, aids or abets, or attempts to hold, aid or abet the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18871
  Any contestant who continues to participate in a professional or amateur contest or match after an order to stop the contest is given by an...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18872
  Any promoter who directly or indirectly destroys, or aids and abets in the destruction of, any ticket or ticket stub to a contest, match, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18873
  Any person who throws any object at the ring during a contest, match, or exhibition is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18878
  Any person who otherwise violates any provision of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18880
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) That professional athletes licensed under this chapter, as a group, for many reasons, do...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18881
  (a) The commission shall, consistent with the purposes of this article, establish a pension plan for professional boxers who engage in boxing contests in this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18882
  (a) At the time of payment of the fee required by Section 18824, a promoter shall pay to the commission all amounts scheduled for contribution...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18884
  (a) A promoter may, but is not required to, add to the price of each ticket sold for a professional boxing contest, an amount specifically...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18887
  In addition to any other form in which retirement benefits may be distributed under the pension plan, the commission may, in its discretion, award to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18895
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Miller-Ayala Athlete Agents Act.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18895.2
  The following definitions govern the construction of this chapter: (a) "Agent contract" means any contract or agreement pursuant to which a person authorizes or empowers...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18896
  To assist enforcement of this chapter, each athlete agent, prior to engaging in or carrying on the business of athlete agent, shall file the following...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18896.2
  (a) Within seven days of the time any information in the filing required by Section 18896 changes, the athlete agent shall file revised information in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18896.3
  The forms prescribed by the Secretary of State pursuant to Sections 18896 and 18896.2 shall include the following statement: "Filing of false, misleading, or incomplete...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18896.4
  Sections 18896 and 18896.2 do not require the disclosure of information related solely and exclusively to other businesses of the athlete agent.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18896.6
  Upon making first contact, direct or indirect, with a professional athlete, a student athlete, a student athlete's spouse, parent, foster parent, guardian, sibling, aunt, uncle,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18896.8
  (a) An athlete agent shall pay filing fees in an amount established pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 12195 of the Government Code upon making...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18897
  Every agent contract shall be in writing and shall include a description of the types of services to be performed and a schedule of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18897.1
  The following shall be printed on the first page of every agent contract in boldface type at least two points larger than any other type...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18897.2
  A trust fund shall be established when an athlete agent is the recipient of the athlete's salary. An athlete agent who receives any payment on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18897.23
  (a) Every athlete agent shall maintain records which include the following information: (1) The name and address of each person employing the athlete agent. (2)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18897.27
  No athlete agent shall have an ownership or financial interest in any entity that directly employs athletes in the same sport as a person with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18897.3
  If an athlete agent or athlete agent's representative or employee provides financial services to a professional athlete or student athlete or advises the athlete concerning...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18897.33
  No athlete agent shall knowingly enter into a contract containing any term or condition that, if complied with, would be in violation of law, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18897.37
  No athlete agent or athlete agent's representative or employee shall publish or cause to be published any false, fraudulent, or misleading information, representation, notice, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18897.4
  All forms of advertising used by an athlete agent shall include the name and business address of the athlete agent.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18897.43
  No athlete agent shall knowingly secure employment for persons in any place where a strike, lockout, or other labor trouble exists, without notifying the person...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18897.47
  No athlete agent shall divide fees with or receive compensation from a professional sports league, team, or other organization or its representatives or employees, if...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18897.5
  No athlete agent shall negotiate or enter into any postdated agent contract, endorsement contract or professional sports services contract or any agent contract, endorsement contract...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18897.6
  No athlete agent or athlete agent's representative or employee shall, directly or indirectly, offer or provide money or any other thing of benefit or value...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18897.63
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, no athlete agent or athlete agent's representative or employee may make or continue any contact, whether in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18897.67
  No athlete agent or athlete agent's representative or employee shall offer or provide money or anything of benefit or value, including, but not limited to,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18897.7
  An athlete agent and a student athlete who enter into an agent contract, endorsement contract or professional sports services contract shall provide written notice of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18897.73
  Every agent contract, endorsement contract, or professional sports services contract entered into by a student athlete shall contain, in close proximity to the signature of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18897.77
  Within 15 days after the date a student athlete enters into an agent contract, endorsement contract or professional sports services contract, the student athlete may...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18897.33
  No athlete agent shall knowingly enter into a contract containing any term or condition that, if complied with, would be in violation of law, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18897.37
  No athlete agent or athlete agent's representative or employee shall publish or cause to be published any false, fraudulent, or misleading information, representation, notice, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18897.4
  All forms of advertising used by an athlete agent shall include the name and business address of the athlete agent.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18897.43
  No athlete agent shall knowingly secure employment for persons in any place where a strike, lockout, or other labor trouble exists, without notifying the person...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18897.47
  No athlete agent shall divide fees with or receive compensation from a professional sports league, team, or other organization or its representatives or employees, if...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18897.5
  No athlete agent shall negotiate or enter into any postdated agent contract, endorsement contract or professional sports services contract or any agent contract, endorsement contract...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18897.8
  (a) Any professional athlete, or any student athlete, or any elementary or secondary school, college, university, or other educational institution, or any league, conference, association,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18897.8
  (a) Any professional athlete, or any student athlete, or any elementary or secondary school, college, university, or other educational institution, or any league, conference, association,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18897.83
  Every athlete agent shall maintain an agent for service of process in California.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18897.87
  Every athlete agent shall provide security for claims against the athlete agent or the athlete agent's representatives or employees based upon acts, errors, or omissions...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18897.9
  Any agent contract that is negotiated by an athlete agent who fails to comply with this chapter, or, prior to July 1, 1997, Chapter 1...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18897.9
  (a) Any agent contract that is negotiated by an athlete agent who fails to comply with this chapter, or has failed to comply with Chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18897.93
  (a) An athlete agent or athlete agent's representative or employee who violates any provision of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 18897.97
  The Secretary of State may, in accordance with Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11430) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19000
  This chapter may be cited as the Home Furnishings and Thermal Insulation Act.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19001
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the general provisions hereinafter set forth govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19002
  "Person" includes individual, copartnership, association, firm, auctioneer, trust, and corporation, and the agents, servants and employees of any of them.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19003
  "Sell," or any of its variants, includes any of, or any combination of, the following: Sell, offer or expose for sale, barter, trade, deliver, give...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19004
  (a) "Bureau" refers to the Bureau of Electronic and Appliance Repair, Home Furnishings, and Thermal Insulation, as established in Section 9810. (b) "Chief" refers to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19004.1
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Bureau of Electronic and Appliance Repair, Home Furnishings, and Thermal Insulation in exercising its...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19006
  "Upholstered furniture" means any furniture, including children's furniture, movable or stationary, which is made or sold with cushions or pillows, loose or attached, or is...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19006.1
  "Seating furniture," including children's furniture, movable or stationary, means any furniture, which is made or sold with or without filling material, together with the structural...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19007
  "Bedding" means any quilted pad, packing pad, mattress pad, hammock pad, mattress, comforter, quilt, sleeping bag, box spring, studio couch, pillow or cushion made of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19007.5
  "Filling material" means cotton, wool, kapok, feathers, downs, hair, liquid, or any other material, substance, or any combination thereof, loose or in batting, pads, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19008
  "Secondhand" means any materials or articles used in the construction of bedding or upholstered furniture that have been previously used for any purpose, and shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19008.1
  "Used" means furniture or bedding that has been previously owned or used by another individual.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19008.2
  "Antique" means furniture having special value because of its age, especially a work of art or handicraft that is over 100 years old.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19008.5
  Any article of upholstered furniture or bedding is secondhand if it contains any secondhand material in whole or in part.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19008.6
  Any article of upholstered furniture or bedding on sales floors in a private residence or room, which is not separated from living quarters, is secondhand.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19009
  "Retailer" means a person who sells any article of upholstered furniture or bedding or filling materials to a consumer or user of the article as
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19010
  "Bedding renovator" means a person who rebuilds, repairs, makes over, re-covers, restores, renovates or renews bedding.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19010.1
  "Custom upholsterer" means a person who, either by himself or herself or through employees or agents, repairs, reupholsters, re-covers, restores, or renews upholstered furniture, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19010.5
  "Wholesaler" means a person who, on his or her own account, sells any article of upholstered furniture or bedding or filling materials to another for...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19011
  "Manufacturer" means a person who, either by himself or herself or through employees or agents, makes any article of upholstered furniture or bedding in whole...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19011.1
  "Importer" means a person who manufactures or wholesales, through employees or agents, any article of upholstered furniture, bedding, or filling material manufactured outside of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19012
  "Supply dealer" means a person who manufactures, processes or sells any felt, batting, pads, woven or plastic fabrics, or loose material in bags or containers,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19012.5
  "Sanitizer" means a person who sanitizes articles of bedding or filling materials.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19014
  "Branch" means any subordinate establishment situated apart from the parent house, maintaining a separate service to the trade.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19015
  "Slip seat" means the separate padded seat unit consisting of a plywood or similar base with its filling material and attached cover, which is used...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19016
  "Slip cover" means any casing or cover without filling material which is to be placed, on or over any completely manufactured article of upholstered furniture...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19016.5
  A person engaged exclusively in the manufacture of slip covers shall not be required to have a license under the provisions of this chapter.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19017
  "Owner's material" means any article or material belonging to a person for his or her own, or tenant's use, that is sent to any manufacturer,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19018
  "Approved testing laboratory" means any testing facility which is determined by rule and regulation of the bureau to have adequate personnel, facilities, equipment, and expertise...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19019
  "Insulation material" means any material or combination of materials applied or installed within or contiguous to a roof, wall, ceiling, or floor of a building...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19020
  "R-value" means a measure of thermal resistance of material or composite materials. "R-value" is equal to the reciprocal of the conductance of a given material,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19021
  "Quality assurance program" means a system of procedures employed at the place of manufacture of insulation material designed to assure that insulation material produced at...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19022
  (a) An "insulation manufacturer" is any person who produces insulation materials or a combination of materials which, when properly applied or installed without any alteration,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19030
  Any reference in California law to the Bureau of Home Furnishings or to the Bureau of Home Furnishings and Thermal Insulation shall be deemed to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19031
  The duty of enforcing and administering this chapter and Chapter 20 (commencing with Section 9800) of Division 3 is vested in the chief and he...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19032
  In accordance with the State Civil Service Act, the director may appoint and fix the compensation of such inspectors and other personnel as may be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19033
  Except as qualified by this chapter the chief has all the powers and duties of a head of a department under Chapter 2 of Part...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19034
  With the approval of the director, the chief may adopt rules and regulations necessary for the administration of this chapter and declaring the policy of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19034.5
  All rules and regulations shall become effective not earlier than 30 days after approval by the director, and upon compliance with the procedure provided in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19049
  It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in a business regulated by this chapter unless, at the time of so doing, he or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19050
  To obtain a license authorized by this chapter, an applicant shall submit to the chief an application in writing. The application shall be made on...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19051
  Every upholstered-furniture retailer, unless he or she holds an importer's license, a furniture and bedding manufacturer's license, a wholesale furniture and bedding dealer's license, a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19052
  Every custom upholsterer, unless he or she holds a furniture and bedding manufacturer's license, shall hold a custom upholsterer' s license.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19053
  Every upholstered-furniture wholesaler, bedding wholesaler, and upholstered-furniture and bedding wholesaler, unless he or she holds an importer's license, shall hold a wholesale furniture and bedding...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19053.1
  Every importer shall hold an importer's license.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19054
  Every upholstered-furniture manufacturer, bedding manufacturer, upholstered-furniture and bedding manufacturer, or bedding renovator, unless he or she holds an importer's license, shall hold a furniture and...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19055
  Every bedding retailer, unless he or she holds an importer's license, an upholstered-furniture and bedding manufacturer's license, a wholesale upholstered-furniture and bedding dealer's license, or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19056
  Every bedding renovator shall hold an upholstered-furniture and bedding manufacturer's license.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19059
  Every supply dealer, unless he or she holds an upholstered-furniture and bedding manufacturer's license or an importer's license, shall hold a supply dealer's license.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19059.5
  Every sanitizer shall hold a sanitizer's license unless he or she is licensed as a home medical device retail facility by the State Department of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19059.7
  Every insulation manufacturer who sells insulation material in California shall hold an insulation manufacturing license issued by the bureau. Manufacturers having more than one manufacturing...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19060
  Every person in any class shall obtain a separate license for each branch house; but one whose manufacturing plant is located in another state or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19060.5
  Every person who, on his or her own account, sells either directly or indirectly to any person either at wholesale or retail any merchandise subject...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19060.6
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), every person who, on his or her own account, advertises, solicits or contracts to manufacture, repair or renovate...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19061
  Every person doing business at the same address under more than one firm name is subject to the license provisions for each firm name.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19061.5
  The chief shall prescribe the procedure relative to: (a) Assignment or reassignment of serial or registry numbers. (b) Transfer of licenses between persons, where such...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19062
  A license issued by the bureau shall be posted in a conspicuous place in the main office or principal place of business of the licensee.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19063
  The bureau may refuse to issue any license provided for in this chapter to any individual: (a) Who has had any license issued to him...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19064
  The bureau may refuse to issue any license provided for in this chapter to any partnership, corporation, firm, or association: (a) Who has had any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19070
  This chapter applies to upholstered furniture, bedding and filling materials, and insulation sold in California regardless of its point of origin.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19071
  Secondhand bedding, or secondhand filling materials to be used or that could be used in bedding received from outside of this state shall comply with...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19072
  Responsibility for compliance with this chapter rests not only with the manufacturer but also with the importer, wholesaler, retailer, or any person having in his...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19072.5
  Importers, wholesalers, and retailers shall not sell or resell in California unlabeled upholstered furniture or bedding. Importers, wholesalers, and retailers shall obtain labels from the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19072.6
  The manufacturer of chairs and benches and similar articles, using slip seats that are manufactured by himself or herself or purchased from another, is responsible...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19072.7
  Aiding, abetting, or knowingly combining or conspiring with an unlicensed person engaged in a business regulated by this chapter, to evade the provisions of this...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19073
  This chapter does not apply to upholstered furniture, bedding, or insulation manufactured and sold at wholesale in California for delivery outside the borders of this
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19074
  This chapter does not apply to the manufacturer of insulating window or door glass or products containing insulating window or door glass.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19080
  A person shall not, at wholesale, retail, or otherwise, directly or indirectly, make, rebuild, repair, renovate, process, prepare, sell, offer for sale, display, or deliver...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19081
  The form and size of labels, the fabric of which they are made and the wording and statements thereon necessary to carry out the provisions...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19082
  A rubber stamp may be used in lieu of a label, on articles with slip seats having a smooth backing on which the imprint can...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19083
  Labels shall be securely attached to the article or filling material at the factory, in a position where they can be conveniently examined.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19084
  The information required by this chapter shall be printed on one side of the label only.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19085
  Labels shall contain no advertising matter nor anything that detracts, or is likely to detract from the required statements.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19086
  No mark, tag, sticker or any other device shall be placed upon labels by any dealer or any other person in such a way as...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19087
  It is unlawful for any person, except the purchaser for his own use, to attempt to, or to remove, deface, alter or cause to be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19088
  It is unlawful to use, in the description of filling material, or in the statement on any label, any misleading term or designation or any...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19089
  The bureau may establish grades, specifications and tolerances for the kinds and qualities of materials which are used or intended to be used in the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19089.3
  All bedding with liquid filling material and each component part of such bedding shall be clearly labeled in a manner approved by the chief.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19089.5
  Any upholstered furniture or mattress that is made from or contains nonflame retardant cellular foam shall be labeled in a manner approved by the chief....
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19092
  The repairer or renovator of any secondhand upholstered furniture or bedding which is subsequently sold, shall affix the "Secondhand Material" label.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19093
  Any person who repairs or renovates upholstered furniture or bedding for the owner for his or her own or a tenant's use, shall affix the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19120
  The enforcement of all sanitization regulations pertaining to any article subject to this chapter is vested in the bureau. The bureau shall consult with the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19121
  Filthy or soiled articles of new or used bedding cannot be sold, offered or exposed for sale unless the fabric covering them is either properly...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 19122
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