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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  All persons who, at the time this code goes into effect, hold office under any of the acts repealed by this code, which offices are...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  No rights given by any license or certificate under any act repealed by this code are affected by the enactment of this code or by...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  All persons who, at the time this code goes into effect, are entitled to a certificate under any act repealed by this code, are thereby...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  Any conviction for a crime under any act repealed by this code, which crime is continued as a public offense by this code, constitutes a...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
  Whenever any reference is made to any portion of this code or of any other law of this State, such reference shall apply to all...
• 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 114.3
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, every board, as defined in Section 22, within the department shall waive the renewal fees, continuing education requirements,...
• 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 115.5
  (a) A board within the department shall expedite the licensure process for an applicant who meets both of the following requirements: (1) Supplies evidence satisfactory...
• 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 125.5
  (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), any board, bureau, or commission within the department, the board created...
• 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 143.5
  (a) No licensee who is regulated by a board, bureau, or program within the Department of Consumer Affairs, nor an entity or person acting as...
• 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 686
  A health care practitioner licensed under Division 2 (commencing with Section 500) providing services via telehealth shall be subject to the requirements and definitions set...
• 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 719
  (a) A person who is licensed as a health care practitioner in any other state and is employed by a tribal health program, as defined...
• 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, a doctor of podiatric medicine, and a physician assistant shall report either of the following...
• 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, the California Board of Podiatric Medicine, and...
• 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 865
  For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Mental health provider" means a physician and surgeon specializing in...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 865.1
  Under no circumstances shall a mental health provider engage in sexual orientation change efforts with a patient under 18 years of age.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 865.2
  Any sexual orientation change efforts attempted on a patient under 18 years of age by a mental health provider shall be considered unprofessional conduct and...
• 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) "Analyte" means the substance or constituent being measured including, but not limited...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1206.5
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 1206 and except as otherwise provided in Sections 1206.6 and 1241, no person shall perform a clinical laboratory test...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1206.6
  Subdivision (a) of Section 1206.5 shall not apply to a pharmacist at a community pharmacy who, upon customer request, performs only blood glucose, hemoglobin A1c,...
• 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
  (a) The department may approve any of the following seeking to provide clinical laboratory scientist programs for instruction in clinical laboratory technique that, in the...
• 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 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 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 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 1902.2
  (a) A licensee shall report, upon his or her initial licensure and any subsequent application for renewal or inactive license, the practice or employment status...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1902.3
  A registered dental hygienist licensed in another state may teach in a dental hygiene college without being licensed in this state if he or she...
• 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 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 1917.3
  Notwithstanding Section 135, an examinee for a registered dental hygienist license who either fails to pass the clinical examination required by Section 1917 after three...
• 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 1926.1
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a registered dental hygienist in alternative practice may operate a mobile dental hygiene clinic provided by his or her...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1926.2
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a registered dental hygienist in alternative practice may operate one mobile dental hygiene clinic registered as a dental...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1926.3
  Every person who is now or hereafter licensed as a registered dental hygienist in alternative practice in this state shall register with the executive officer,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1926.4
  When a registered dental hygienist in alternative practice desires to have more than one place of practice, he or she shall, prior to the opening...
• 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 physical address of record or email address shall notify the committee within 30 days of the change. A...
• 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
  (a) The committee shall grant or renew approval of only those educational programs for a registered dental hygienist, a registered dental hygienist in alternative practice,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 1942
  (a) As used in this article "extramural dental facility" means any clinical facility that has contracted with an approved dental hygiene educational program for instruction...
• 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 1958.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, with regard to an individual who is required to register as a sex offender pursuant to Section 290 of the...
• 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 2023.5
  (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 2028.5
  (a) The board may establish a pilot program to expand the practice of telehealth 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 2066.5
  (a) The pilot program authorized by this section shall be known and may be cited as the University of California at Los Angeles David Geffen...
• 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 2135.7
  (a) Upon review and recommendation, the board may determine that an applicant for a physician and surgeon's certificate who acquired his or her medical education...
• 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 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 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 2417.5
  (a) A business organization that offers to provide, or provides, outpatient elective cosmetic medical procedures or treatments, that is owned or operated in violation of...
• 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 board or the California Board of Podiatric Medicine, as the case may be, shall notify in writing either by certified mail, return receipt...
• 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 (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part...
• 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
  An applicant for a certificate to practice podiatric medicine shall pass an examination in the subjects required by Section 2483 in order to ensure a...
• 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 requiring continuing education of...
• 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 remain in effect only...
• 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
  (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 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 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 2701
  (a) There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs the Board of Registered Nursing consisting of nine members. (b) For purposes of this chapter, "board,"...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2702
  (a) Each member of the board shall be a citizen of the United States and a resident of the State of California. (b) Four members...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2703
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), all appointments shall be for a term of four years and vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired...
• 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
  (a) The board shall appoint an executive officer who shall perform the duties delegated by the board and who shall be responsible to it for...
• 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
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a registered nurse may dispense drugs or devices upon an order by a licensed physician and surgeon or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2725.2
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a registered nurse may dispense self-administered hormonal contraceptives approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and...
• 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, or an approved nursing program, is one that has been approved by the board, gives the course of instruction...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2786.2
  A private postsecondary school of nursing approved by the board pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 2786 shall comply with Chapter 8 of Part 59...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 2786.5
  (a) An institution of higher education or a private postsecondary school of nursing approved by the board pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 2786 shall...
• 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
  (a) It is unlawful for anyone to conduct a school of nursing unless the school has been approved by the board. (b) If the board...
• 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
  (a) The Board of Psychology shall enforce and administer this chapter. The board shall consist of nine members, four of whom shall be public members....
• 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 graduate of a foreign university who meets all of the following requirements to...
• 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, and a retired...
• 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, and a retired...
• 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 3151
  (a) The board shall issue, upon application and payment of the fee described in Section 3152, a retired license to an optometrist who holds a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3151.1
  (a) The board shall issue, upon application and payment of the fee described in Section 3152, a license with retired volunteer service designation to an...
• 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 Physician Assistant Board. (2) "Approved program" means a program for the education of physician assistants...
• 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 adopted under this chapter...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3502.1
  (a) In addition to the services authorized in the regulations adopted by the Medical Board of California, and except as prohibited by Section 3502, while...
• 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 Board within the jurisdiction of the Medical Board of California. The board consists of nine members. This section shall...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3504.1
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Physician Assistant Board in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever the protection...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3505
  The members of the board shall include four physician assistants, one physician and surgeon who is also a member of the Medical Board of California,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3506
  Each member of the board 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 board, as provided in Section 106.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3508
  (a) The board may convene from time to time as deemed necessary by the board. (b) Notice of each meeting of the board shall be...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3509
  It shall be the duty of the board 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 board shall elect annually a chairperson and a vice chairperson from among its members.
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3510
  The board 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 board...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3512
  (a) Except as provided in Sections 159.5 and 2020, the board shall employ within the limits of the Physician Assistant Fund all personnel necessary to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3513
  The board 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 board shall formulate by regulation guidelines for the consideration of applications for licensure as a physician assistant. (b) The board shall formulate by...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3516
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a physician assistant licensed by the board 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 Medical Board of California, the director of emergency care services...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3517
  The board 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 board shall keep current, two separate registers, one for approved supervising physicians and one for licensed physician assistants, by specialty if applicable. These registers...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3519
  The board 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 board may issue under the name of the Medical Board of California a probationary license to an applicant subject to terms and conditions,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3520
  Within 10 days after the beginning of each calendar month the Medical Board of California shall report to the Controller the amount and source of...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3521
  The fees to be paid for approval to supervise physician assistants are to be set by the board 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 board 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 board as follows: (a) An application fee not to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3521.3
  (a) The board may establish, by regulation, a system for the placement of a license on a retired status, upon application, for a physician assistant...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3521.5
  The board shall report to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of each house of the Legislature whenever the Medical Board of California approves a...
• 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 board may require a licensee to complete continuing education as a condition of license renewal under Section 3523 or 3524. The board 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 board 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 board may hear any matters filed pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 3527, or may assign the matter to a hearing officer....
• 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 board 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
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the board shall seek ways and means to identify and rehabilitate physician assistants whose competency is impaired...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3534.1
  The board shall establish and administer a diversion program for the rehabilitation of physician assistants whose competency is impaired due to the abuse of drugs...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3534.2
  (a) Any committee established by the board shall have at least three members. In making appointments to a committee the board shall consider the appointments...
• 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 board may set forth in its regulations additional criteria for admission to...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3534.7
  All board and committee records and records of proceedings and participation of a physician assistant in a program shall be confidential and are not subject...
• 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 board contracts with any other entity to carry out this section, the executive officer of the board or the program manager shall review...
• 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 board. This section does not...
• 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 board 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 Medical Board of California may adopt and enforce regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of this article, including regulations requiring (a) that...
• 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 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 3640.2
  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 and administer the following: (a) Epinephrine...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 3640.8
  (a) To qualify to administer intravenous (IV) therapy in his or her practice pursuant to Section 3640.7, a naturopathic doctor shall demonstrate that he or...
• 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, current,...
• 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 4064.5
  (a) A pharmacist may dispense not more than a 90-day supply of a dangerous drug other than a controlled substance pursuant to a valid prescription...
• 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 4128
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 4029, a centralized hospital packaging pharmacy may prepare medications, by performing the following specialized functions, for administration only to inpatients within its...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4128.2
  (a) In addition to the pharmacy license requirement described in Section 4110, a centralized hospital packaging pharmacy shall obtain a specialty license from the board...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4128.3
  A centralized hospital packaging pharmacy may prepare and store a limited quantity of the unit dose drugs authorized by Section 4128 in advance of receipt...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4128.4
  Any unit dose medication produced by a centralized hospital packaging pharmacy shall be barcoded to be readable at the inpatient' s bedside. Upon reading the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4128.5
  The label for each unit dose medication produced by a centralized hospital packaging pharmacy shall contain all of the following: (a) The expiration date. (b)...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4128.6
  All compounding and packaging functions specified in Section 4128 shall be performed only in the licensed centralized hospital packaging pharmacy and that pharmacy shall comply...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4128.7
  A centralized hospital packaging pharmacy and the pharmacists working in the pharmacy shall be responsible for the integrity, potency, quality, and labeled strength of any...
• 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 4163.2
  (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) For the purposes of this article, "clinic" means a surgical clinic licensed pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 1204 of the...
• 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 that is licensed pursuant to this article at any time in order to determine whether...
• 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 4300.1
  The expiration, cancellation, forfeiture, or suspension of a board-issued license by operation of law or by order or decision of the board or a court...
• 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 4430
  For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Carrier" means a health care service plan, as defined in Section 1345 of the...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4431
  (a) Nothing in this chapter shall apply to an audit conducted because a pharmacy benefit manager, carrier, health benefit plan sponsor, or other third-party payer...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4432
  Notwithstanding any other law, a contract that is issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2013, between a pharmacy and a carrier or...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4433
  (a) An entity conducting a pharmacy audit shall not receive payment or any other consideration on any basis that is tied to the amount claimed...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4434
  (a) Except as otherwise prohibited by state or federal law, an entity conducting a pharmacy audit shall keep confidential any information collected during the course...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4435
  (a) An entity conducting an onsite pharmacy audit shall not initiate or schedule a pharmacy audit during the first five business days of any calendar...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4436
  (a) A pharmacy audit that involves clinical judgment shall be conducted by, or in consultation with, a licensed pharmacist. (b) An entity conducting a pharmacy...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4437
  The time period covered by a pharmacy audit shall not exceed 24 months from the date that the claim was submitted to, or adjudicated by,...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4438
  (a) (1) An entity conducting a pharmacy audit shall deliver a preliminary audit report to the pharmacy before issuing a final audit report. This preliminary...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4439
  This chapter shall not be construed to suggest or imply that the Department of Consumer Affairs or the California State Board of Pharmacy has any...
• 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 that 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 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 4603.8
  A certificate holder shall, upon request at the location where he or she is providing massage services, provide his or her full name and certificate...
• 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) "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 a veterinary 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 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 a veterinary 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 veterinary 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 veterinary 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 veterinary 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, 2015,...
• 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 4936
  (a) It is unprofessional conduct for an acupuncturist to use the title "Doctor" or the abbreviation "Dr." in connection with the practice of acupuncture unless...
• 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) The board shall establish standards for the approval of schools and colleges offering education and training in the practice of an acupuncturist, including standards...
• 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 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 Licensed 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, 2014, 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 but had not passed the clinical vignette examination shall also obtain a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4980.399
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (a) of Section 4980.398, each applicant and registrant shall obtain a passing score on a board-administered California law and...
• 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 4980.54
  (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 4984.1
  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 former licensee may...
• 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 4984.72
  (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 4984.75
  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 former licensee may...
• 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, 2014, 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 but had not passed the clinical vignette examination shall also obtain a...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4992.09
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (a) of Section 4992.07, an applicant and registrant shall obtain a passing score on a board-administered California law and...
• 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 4992.2
  "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 4996.2
  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 4996.4
  (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 4996.5
  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) (1) Experience gained outside of California shall be accepted toward the licensure requirements if it is substantially the equivalent of the requirements of this...
• 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 4999.455
  (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 4999.47
  (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 4999.51
  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 Section 4999.54, every applicant for a license as a professional clinical counselor shall be examined by the board. The board...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 4999.53
  (a) Effective January 1, 2014, 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 4999.64
  (a) Effective January 1, 2014, 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) Except as provided in subdivision (c), the board shall not renew any license pursuant to this chapter unless the applicant certifies to the board,...
• 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 4999.102
  (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 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
  Every applicant, when subscribing to an application for certificate or registration, shall acknowledge the fact that the applicant has read and understands the rules of...
• 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 5058.4
  The holder of a permit in a military inactive status issued by the board pursuant to Section 5070.2, when lawfully using the title "certified public...
• 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 into a retired status, upon application, for certified public accountants...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5070.2
  (a) (1) Beginning January 1, 2014, a holder of a permit may apply to have his or her permit placed in a military inactive status...
• 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 in an active status or convert to an active status, a firm, as defined in Section 5035.1, shall...
• 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 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
  (a) An applicant for licensure as a certified public accountant shall, to the satisfaction of the board, provide documentation of the completion of 10 semester...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5094.6
  (a) The board shall, by regulation, adopt guidelines for accounting study to be included as part of the education required under Section 5093. (b) For...
• 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 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
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, an individual may not sign any attest report pursuant to a practice privilege unless the individual meets...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5096.6
  (a) In addition to the authority otherwise provided for by this code, the board may delegate to the executive officer the authority to issue any...
• 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
  (a) The board is authorized to adopt regulations to implement, interpret, or make specific the provisions of this article. (b) The board shall adopt emergency...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5096.10
  (a) The provisions of this article shall only be operative if there is an appropriation from the Accountancy Fund in the annual Budget Act to...
• 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
  (a) The notification of intent to practice under a practice privilege pursuant to Section 5096 shall include the name of the firm, its address and...
• 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
  (a) 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...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5096.20
  (a) To ensure that Californians are protected from out-of-state licensees with disqualifying conditions who may unlawfully attempt to practice in this state under a practice...
• California Business and Professions Code Section 5096.21
  (a) On and after January 1, 2016, if the board determines, through a majority vote of the board at a regularly scheduled meeting, that allowing...
• 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 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 5515.5
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 130 or 5515, the following provisions shall apply: (1) Of the three licensed members appointed by the Governor whose terms commence on...
• 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 5550.5
  Notwithstanding Section 30 of this code or Section 17520 of the Family Code, the board may accept for processing an application from an individual for...
• 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
  (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 2013 at a sum not exceeding three hundred fifteen dollars ($315). (b)...
• 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...
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