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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  All persons who, at the time this code goes into effect, hold office under any of the acts repealed by this code, which offices are...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  No rights given by any license or certificate under any act repealed by this code are affected by the enactment of this code or by...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  All persons who, at the time this code goes into effect, are entitled to a certificate under any act repealed by this code, are thereby...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  Any conviction for a crime under any act repealed by this code, which crime is continued as a public offense by this code, constitutes a...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
  (a) "Board," as used in any provision of this code, refers to the board in which the administration of the provision is vested, and unless...
• 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) Every entity specified in subdivision (b), on or after July 1, 2001, shall provide on the Internet information regarding the status of every license...
• 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 child abuse victims, potential...
• 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 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 101.1
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that all existing and proposed consumer-related boards or categories of licensed professionals be subject to a review...
• 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, who permitted his license...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 114.5
  As used in Section 114 of this code, "war" means: (a) Whenever Congress has declared war and peace has not formally been restored. (b) Whenever...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 115
  The provisions of Section 114 of this code are also applicable to a licensee or registrant whose license or registration was obtained while in the...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 116
  (a) The director may audit and review, upon his or her own initiative, or upon the request of a consumer or licensee, inquiries and complaints...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 118
  (a) The withdrawal of an application for a license after it has been filed with a board in the department shall not, unless the board...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 119
  Any person who does any of the following is guilty of a misdemeanor: (a) Displays or causes or permits to be displayed or has in...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 120
  (a) Subdivision (a) of Section 119 shall not apply to a surviving spouse having in his or her possession or displaying a deceased spouse's canceled...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 121
  No licensee who has complied with the provisions of this code relating to the renewal of his or her license prior to expiration of such...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 121.5
  Except as otherwise provided in this code, the application of delinquency fees or accrued and unpaid renewal fees for the renewal of expired licenses or...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 122
  Except as otherwise provided by law, the department and each of the boards, bureaus, committees, and commissions within the department may charge a fee for...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 123
  It is a misdemeanor for any person to engage in any conduct which subverts or attempts to subvert any licensing examination or the administration of...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 123.5
  Whenever any person has engaged, or is about to engage, in any acts or practices which constitute, or will constitute, a violation of Section 123,...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 124
  Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 11505 of the Government Code, whenever written notice, including a notice, order, or document served pursuant to Chapter 3.5 (commencing...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 125
  Any person, licensed under Division 1 (commencing with Section 100), Division 2 (commencing with Section 500), or Division 3 (commencing with Section 5000) is guilty...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 125.3
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by law, in any order issued in resolution of a disciplinary proceeding before any board within the department or before...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 125.3
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by law, in any order issued in resolution of a disciplinary proceeding before any board within the department or before...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 125.5
  (a) The superior court for the county in which any person has engaged or is about to engage in any act which constitutes a violation...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 125.6
  (a) (1) With regard to an applicant, every person who holds a license under the provisions of this code is subject to disciplinary action under...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 125.7
  In addition to the remedy provided for in Section 125.5, the superior court for the county in which any licensee licensed under Division 2 (commencing...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 125.8
  In addition to the remedy provided for in Section 125.5, the superior court for the county in which any licensee licensed under Division 3 (commencing...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 125.9
  (a) Except with respect to persons regulated under Chapter 11 (commencing with Section 7500), and Chapter 11.6 (commencing with Section 7590) of Division 3, any...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 126
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, any board, commission, examining committee, or other similarly constituted agency within the department required prior to the effective...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 127
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the director may require such reports from any board, commission, examining committee, or other similarly constituted agency within...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 128
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, it is a misdemeanor to sell equipment, supplies, or services to any person with knowledge that the equipment, supplies,...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 128.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if at the end of any fiscal year, an agency within the Department of Consumer Affairs, except the...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 129
  (a) As used in this section, "board" means every board, bureau, commission, committee and similarly constituted agency in the department which issues licenses. (b) Each...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 130
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the term of office of any member of an agency designated in subdivision (b) shall be for a...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 131
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no member of an agency designated in subdivision (b) of Section 130 or member of a board, commission, committee,...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 132
  No board, commission, examining committee, or any other agency within the department may institute or join any legal action against any other agency within the...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 134
  When the term of any license issued by any agency in the department exceeds one year, initial license fees for licenses which are issued during...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 135
  No agency in the department shall, on the basis of an applicant's failure to successfully complete prior examinations, impose any additional limitations, restrictions, prerequisites, or...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 136
  (a) Each person holding a license, certificate, registration, permit, or other authority to engage in a profession or occupation issued by a board within the...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 137
  Any agency within the department may promulgate regulations requiring licensees to include their license numbers in any advertising, soliciting, or other presentments to the public....
• California Business And Professions Code Section 138
  Every board in the department, as defined in Section 22, shall initiate the process of adopting regulations on or before June 30, 1999, to require...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 139
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that occupational analyses and examination validation studies are fundamental components of licensure programs. It is the intent of the...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 140
  Any board, as defined in Section 22, which is authorized under this code to take disciplinary action against a person who holds a license may...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 141
  (a) For any licensee holding a license issued by a board under the jurisdiction of the department, a disciplinary action taken by another state, by...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 142
  This section shall apply to the bureaus and programs under the direct authority of the director, and to any board that, with the prior approval...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 143
  (a) No person engaged in any business or profession for which a license is required under this code governing the department or any board, bureau,...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 144
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an agency designated in subdivision (b) shall require an applicant to furnish to the agency a full set...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 145
  The Legislature finds and declares that: (a) Unlicensed activity in the professions and vocations regulated by the Department of Consumer Affairs is a threat to...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 146
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a violation of any code section listed in subdivision (c) or (d) is an infraction subject to the...
• 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 154.5
  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 charge of a person with the title of chief of the division....
• California Business And Professions Code Section 160
  The Chief and all investigators of the Division of Investigation of the department and all investigators of the Medical Board of California and the Board...
• 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 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 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
  No city or county shall prohibit a person, authorized by one of the agencies in the Department of Consumer Affairs by a license, certificate, or...
• 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 473
  (a) There is hereby established the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection. (b) The Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection shall...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 473.1
  This chapter shall apply to all of the following: (a) Every board, as defined in Section 22, that is scheduled to become inoperative and to...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 473.15
  (a) The Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection established pursuant to Section 473 shall review the following boards established by initiative measures, as...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 473.16
  The Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection shall examine the composition of the Medical Board of California and its initial and biennial fees...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 473.2
  All boards to which this chapter applies shall, with the assistance of the Department of Consumer Affairs, prepare an analysis and submit a report to...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 473.3
  (a) Prior to the termination, continuation, or reestablishment of any board or any of the board's functions, the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 473.4
  (a) The Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection shall evaluate and determine whether a board or regulatory program has demonstrated a public need...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 473.5
  The Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection shall report its findings and preliminary recommendations to the department for its review, and, within 90...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 473.6
  The chairpersons of the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature may refer to the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection for review of...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 474
  The Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection established pursuant to Section 473 shall review all state boards as defined in Section 9148.2 of...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 474.1
  Prior to recommending the termination, continuation, or reestablishment of any board or any of the state board's functions, the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 474.2
  All state boards to which this chapter applies shall prepare an analysis and submit a report to the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 474.3
  (a) The Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection shall evaluate and determine whether a state board as defined in Section 9148.2 of the...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 474.4
  The Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection shall meet to vote on final recommendations. A final report shall be completed by the committee...
• 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
  Nothing in this division shall apply to the licensure or registration of persons pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 6000) of Division 3, or...
• 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 board may suspend or revoke a license on the ground that the licensee has been convicted of a crime, if the crime is substantially...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 490.5
  A board may suspend a license pursuant to Section 11350.6 of the Welfare and Institutions Code if a licensee is not in compliance with a...
• 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 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 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 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 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 Services the name and license number of a person whose...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 685
  (a) (1) A board may cite and fine a currently licensed health care practitioner if he or she is in default on a United States...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 690
  (a) Except as provided in Section 4601 of the Labor Code and Section 2627 of the Unemployment Insurance Code, neither the administrators, agents, or employees...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 700
  It is the intent of the Legislature to establish in this article an inactive category of health professionals' licensure. Such inactive licenses or certificates are...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 701
  Each healing arts board referred to in this division shall issue, upon application and payment of the normal renewal fee, an inactive license or certificate...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 702
  The holder of an inactive healing arts license or certificate issued pursuant to this article shall not engage in any activity for which an active...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 703
  An inactive healing arts license or certificate issued pursuant to this article shall be renewed during the same time period at which an active license...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 704
  In order for the holder of an inactive license or certificate issued pursuant to this article to restore his or her license or certificate to...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 710
  It is the policy of the State of California that, consistent with high quality health care services, persons with skills, knowledge and experience obtained in...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 715
  Unless otherwise required by federal law or regulation, no board under this division which licenses dentists, physicians and surgeons, podiatrists, or nurses may require a...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 716
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a board under this division may deny issuance of a license to an applicant or take disciplinary action against...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 717
  This article is not intended to address the scope of practice of a dentist, physician and surgeon, or nurse licensed under this division, and nothing...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 718
  A physician and surgeon who is not licensed in this state but who is a commissioned officer on active duty in the medical corps of...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 725
  (a) Repeated acts of clearly excessive prescribing, furnishing, dispensing, or administering of drugs or treatment, repeated acts of clearly excessive use of diagnostic procedures, or...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 726
  The commission of any act of sexual abuse, misconduct, or relations with a patient, client, or customer constitutes unprofessional conduct and grounds for disciplinary action...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 727
  The provisions of subdivision (2) of Section 1103 of the Evidence Code shall apply in disciplinary proceedings brought against a licensee for acts in violation...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 728
  (a) Any psychotherapist or employer of a psychotherapist who becomes aware through a patient that the patient had alleged sexual intercourse or alleged sexual contact...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 729
  (a) Any physician and surgeon, psychotherapist, alcohol and drug abuse counselor or any person holding himself or herself out to be a physician and surgeon,...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 730
  Any person licensed under this division or under any initiative act referred to in this division shall not perform any medical evaluation for which the...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 730.5
  (a) It is unprofessional conduct and a crime, as provided in Section 4935, for a physician and surgeon, osteopathic physician, dentist, or podiatrist to direct...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 731
  (a) Any person licensed, certified, registered, or otherwise subject to regulation pursuant to this division who engages in, or who aids or abets in, a...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 732
  (a) A physician and surgeon and a dentist shall refund any amount that a patient has paid for services rendered that has subsequently been paid...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 733
  (a) No licentiate shall obstruct a patient in obtaining a prescription drug or device that has been legally prescribed or ordered for that patient. A...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 800
  (a) The Medical Board of California, the Board of Psychology, the Dental Board of California, the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, the State Board of...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 801
  (a) Except as provided in Section 801.01 and subdivisions (b), (c), and (d) of this section, every insurer providing professional liability insurance to a person...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 801.01
  (a) A complete report shall be sent to the Medical Board of California, the Osteopathic Medical Board, or the California Board of Podiatric Medicine, with...
• 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...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 802
  (a) Every settlement, judgment, or arbitration award over three thousand dollars ($3,000) of a claim or action for damages for death or personal injury caused...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 802.1
  (a) (1) A physician and surgeon, osteopathic physician and surgeon, and a doctor of podiatric medicine shall report either of the following to the entity...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 802.5
  (a) When a coroner receives information that is based on findings that were reached by, or documented and approved by a board-certified or board-eligible pathologist...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 803
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), within 10 days after a judgment by a court of this state that a person who holds a...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 803.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Medical Board of California, the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, and the California Board of Podiatric Medicine...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 803.5
  (a) The district attorney, city attorney, or other prosecuting agency shall notify the Medical Board of California, the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, the California...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 803.6
  (a) The clerk of the court shall transmit any felony preliminary hearing transcript concerning a defendant licensee to the Medical Board of California, the Osteopathic...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 804
  (a) Any agency to whom reports are to be sent under Section 801, 801.1, 802, or 803, may develop a prescribed form for the making...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 805
  (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following definitions: (1) "Peer review body" includes: (A) A medical or professional staff of...
• 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 Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (Chapter 117 (commencing...
• 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 809.1
  (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 821.5
  (a) A peer review body, as defined in Section 805, that reviews physicians and surgeons, shall, within 15 days of initiating a formal investigation of...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 821.6
  The board shall adopt regulations to implement the monitoring responsibility of the diversion program administrator described in subdivision (b) of Section 821.5, and the short...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 822
  If a licensing agency determines that its licentiate's ability to practice his or her profession safely is impaired because the licentiate is mentally ill, or...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 823
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, reinstatement of a licentiate against whom action has been taken pursuant to Section 822 shall be governed by the...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 824
  The licensing agency may proceed against a licentiate under either Section 820, or 822, or under both sections.
• California Business And Professions Code Section 825
  As used in this article with reference to persons holding licenses as physicians and surgeons, "licensing agency" means a panel of the Division of Medical
• California Business And Professions Code Section 826
  The proceedings under Sections 821 and 822 shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) of Part 1 of Division 3...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 827
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 828
  If the licensing agency determines, pursuant to proceedings conducted under Section 820, that there is insufficient evidence to bring an action against the licentiate pursuant...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 850
  No healing arts licensing board or examining committee under the Department of Consumer Affairs shall by regulation require an applicant for licensure or certification to...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 851
  A healing arts licensure board or examining committee may by regulation require an applicant for licensure or certification to meet the standards of a specified...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 852
  (a) The Task Force on Culturally and Linguistically Competent Physicians and Dentists is hereby created and shall consist of the following members: (1) The State...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 853
  (a) The Licensed Physicians and Dentists from Mexico Pilot Program is hereby created. This program shall allow up to 30 licensed physicians specializing in family...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 854
  Criteria for issuing three-year nonrenewable medical licenses and dental permits under this article shall not be utilized at any time as the standard for issuing...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 855
  (a) Up to 70 international medical graduates who have passed their United States medical license examination on the first attempt and who have been working...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 860
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares both of the following: (1) California's system of care suffers from a severe shortage of professionals and paraprofessionals in...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 900
  (a) Nothing in this division applies to a health care practitioner licensed in another state or territory of the United States who offers or provides...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 920
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Health Care Professional Disaster Response Act.
• California Business And Professions Code Section 921
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1) In times of national or state disasters, a shortage of qualified health care practitioners may exist...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 922
  (a) A physician and surgeon who satisfies the requirements of Section 2439 but whose license has been expired for less than five years may be...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1000
  The law governing practitioners of chiropractic is found in an initiative act entitled "An act prescribing the terms upon which licenses may be issued to...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1001
  In each year, the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners shall compile and may thereafter publish and sell a complete directory of all persons within the...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1002
  Whenever any person has engaged in or is about to engage in any acts or practices which constitute or will constitute an offense against the...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1003
  (a) Except as otherwise allowed by law, the employment of runners, cappers, steerers, or other persons to procure patients constitutes unprofessional conduct. (b) A licensee...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1004
  The State Board of Chiropractic Examiners shall investigate any licensee against whom an information or indictment has been filed that alleges a violation of Section...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1005
  The provisions of Sections 12.5, 23.9, 29.5, 30, 31, 35, 104, 114, 115, 119, 121, 121.5, 125, 125.6, 136, 137, 140, 141, 143, 163.5, 461,...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1050
  A chiropractic corporation is a corporation which is registered with the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners with reference to corporations rendering professional services as chiropractors...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1051
  An applicant for registration as a chiropractic corporation shall supply to the board all necessary and pertinent documents and information requested by the board concerning...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1053
  Each chiropractic corporation shall file with the board a report containing such information relating to professional corporations as may be required by board regulations as...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1054
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the name of a chiropractic corporation and any name or names under which it may be rendering professional services,...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1055
  Except as provided in Section 13403 of the Corporations Code, relating to the Professional Corporation Act, each director and each officer of a chiropractic corporation,...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1056
  The income of a chiropractic corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shareholder is a disqualified person (as defined in the Professional Corporation Act)...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1057
  A chiropractic corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which or the failure to do which would constitute unprofessional...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1058
  Moneys received by the board pursuant to this article shall be used to carry out the purposes of this article.
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1200
  Every provision of this chapter shall be liberally construed to protect the interests of all persons affected.
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1201
  As used in this chapter, "person" includes firm, association, partnership, individual, limited liability company, and corporation.
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1202
  As used in this chapter, "department" means the State Department of Health Services.
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1202.5
  (a) For purposes of this chapter "CLIA" means the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (42 U.S.C. Sec. 263a; P.L. 100-578) and the regulations...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1203
  As used in this chapter, "clinical laboratory bioanalyst" or "bioanalyst" means a person licensed under Section 1260 to engage in clinical laboratory practice and direction...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1204
  As used in this chapter, "clinical laboratory scientist" means any person other than a licensed clinical laboratory bioanalyst or trainee who is licensed under Sections...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1205
  As used in this chapter, "trainee" means any person licensed under this chapter for the purpose of receiving comprehensive practical experience and instruction in clinical...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1206
  (a) For the purposes of this chapter the following definitions are applicable: (1) "Biological specimen" means any material that is derived from the human body....
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1206.5
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 1206 and except as otherwise provided in Section 1241, no person shall perform a clinical laboratory test or examination...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1207
  (a) As used in this chapter, "clinical chemist," or "clinical microbiologist," or "clinical toxicologist," or "clinical genetic molecular biologist," or "clinical cytogeneticist," or "oral and...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1208
  (a) For the purposes of this chapter whenever the department determines that a new category of license is necessary, either to direct a laboratory, or...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1209
  (a) As used in this chapter, "laboratory director" means any person who is a duly licensed physician and surgeon, or is licensed to direct a...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1209.1
  (a) As used in this chapter, "histocompatibility laboratory director" means a physician and surgeon licensed to practice medicine pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1209.5
  (a) "Autoverification" means the use of a computer algorithm in conjunction with automated clinical laboratory instrumentation to review and verify the results of a clinical...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1210
  (a) As used in this chapter, "clinical chemist scientist," "clinical microbiologist scientist," "clinical toxicologist scientist," "clinical immunohematologist scientist," "clinical genetic molecular biologist scientist," "clinical cytogeneticist...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1211
  (a) As used in this chapter, "owner" means any person with an ownership or control interest in a clinical laboratory. (b) "Person with an ownership...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1211.5
  For the purposes of this chapter, "cytological slides" shall refer to cellular materials submitted for preliminary cytologic examination.
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1212
  (a) As used in this chapter, "unlicensed laboratory personnel" means a laboratory aide, histocompatibility technician, cardiopulmonary technician, or other person performing the activities authorized by...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1213
  As used in this chapter, "school" means any place, establishment, or institution organized and operated to offer training for one or more of the personnel...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1214
  As used in this chapter, "health fair" means a program of health assessment procedures offered to the general public that may include screening, self-ordered, or...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1220
  (a) (1) Each clinical laboratory shall maintain records, equipment, and facilities that are adequate and appropriate for the services rendered. (2) (A) Except for tests...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1220.5
  (a) The Department of Health Services shall develop, and provide to all licensed clinical laboratories, a form in triplicate to be used by employees, agents,...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1221
  The department may employ special examiners, and may make regulations for the conduct of examinations under this chapter.
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1222
  The department may approve schools that are accredited by the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences.
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1222.5
  The department may approve schools seeking to provide instruction in clinical laboratory technic which in the judgment of the department will provide instruction adequate to...
• California Business And Professions Code Section 1223
  (a) The department shall employ, or contract for, inspectors, special agents, and investigators, and provide any clerical and technical assistance as necessary to administer this...
• 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 shall adopt rules and regulations, by July 1, 2001, prescribing minimum training standards for hemodialysis technicians who are certified pursuant to paragraphs (2),...
• 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, no person shall provide services as a hemodialysis technician without meeting one or more of the following requirements:...
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