California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 1 - Administration

• Section 1600.
  This chapter constitutes the chapter on dentistry of the Business and Professions Code. It may be known and cited as the Dental Practice Act.Whenever a...
• Section 1601.1.
  (a) There shall be in the Department of Consumer Affairs the Dental Board of California in which the administration of this chapter is vested. The board...
• Section 1601.2.
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Dental Board of California in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever the...
• Section 1601.3.
  (a) All committees of the board have the authority to evaluate all suggestions or requests for regulatory changes related to their committee. Committees shall have the...
• Section 1601.4.
  (a) On or before January 1, 2017, the board shall provide to the Legislature a report on whether current statutes and regulations for the administration and...
• Section 1601.5.
  For purposes of Section 1601, “practicing dentist” includes a member of a faculty of any dental college or dental department of any medical college in...
• Section 1601.6.
  (a) Consistent with and in addition to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations for water quality, the board shall amend the regulations on...
• Section 1602.
  All of the members of the board, except the public members, shall have been actively and legally engaged in the practice of dentistry in the...
• Section 1603.
  Except for the initial appointments, members of the board shall be appointed for a term of four years, and each member shall hold office until...
• Section 1603a.
  A member of the Dental Board of California who has served two terms shall not be eligible for reappointment to the board. In computing two...
• Section 1604.
  Each member of the board, upon his or her qualification, shall file with the executive officer his or her post office address, and thereafter any...
• Section 1605.
  The Governor has power to remove from office at any time any member of the board for continued neglect of duty required by this chapter...
• Section 1606.
  The board shall elect a president, a vice president and a secretary from its membership. This section controls over the provisions of section 107 of...
• Section 1607.
  The board shall meet regularly once each year in San Francisco and once each year in Los Angeles after the commencement of the dental schools...
• Section 1608.
  Special meetings may be held at such times as the board may elect, or on the call of the president of the board, or of...
• Section 1609.
  Meetings may be held at any time and place by unanimous consent evidenced either by writing or by the presence of any member whose consent...
• Section 1610.
  Eight members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting.(Amended by Stats. 1986, Ch. 1092, Sec. 4.)
• Section 1611.
  The board shall carry out the purposes and enforce the provisions of this chapter. It shall examine all applicants for a license to practice dentistry...
• Section 1611.3.
  The board shall comply with the requirements of Section 138 by January 1, 2013. The board shall require that the notice under that section include...
• Section 1611.5.
  The board may inspect the books, records, and premises of any dentist licensed under this chapter in response to a complaint that a licensee has...
• Section 1612.
  The board shall keep a record of the names of all persons to whom licenses have been granted by it to practice dentistry, and such...
• Section 1613.
  The board shall have and use a seal bearing the name “Dental Board of California.”(Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 473, Sec. 1. (SB 821) Effective...
• Section 1614.
  The board may adopt reasonably necessary rules not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter concerning:(a) The holding of meetings.(b) The holding of examinations.(c) The manner of issuance...
• Section 1615.
  Each member of the board shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.The secretary shall be entitled to traveling and other...
• Section 1616.
  The board shall have full power to employ all necessary investigators, clerical and other assistants and appoint its own attorney, prescribe his duties and fix...
• Section 1616.5.
  (a) The board, by and with the approval of the director, may appoint a person exempt from civil service who shall be designated as an executive...
• Section 1616.6.
  There is hereby established within the board a full-time management level staff position, under the direction of the executive officer, whose sole responsibilities shall be...
• Section 1617.
  A copy of any part or all of the books of the board duly certified by the executive officer shall be primary evidence in any...
• Section 1618.
  The original books, records, and papers of the board shall be kept at the office of the executive officer, which shall be at such place...
• Section 1618.5.
  (a) The board shall provide to the Director of the Department of Managed Health Care a copy of any accusation filed with the Office of Administrative...
• Section 1619.
  The examination papers of any applicant shall be kept for the period of one year and may then be destroyed, but they shall be open...
• Section 1619.1.
  Notwithstanding Section 1619, the board need not retain the National Board of Dental Examiners’ examination papers.(Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 872.)
• Section 1620.1.
  The Department of Consumer Affairs, in conjunction with the board and the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection, shall review the scope of...
• Section 1621.
  The board shall utilize in the administration of its licensure examinations only examiners whom it has appointed and who meet the following criteria:(a) Possession of a...

Last modified: October 22, 2018