California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 1 - Administration

• Section 2000.
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Medical Practice Act. Whenever a reference is made to the Medical Practice Act by...
• Section 2001.
  (a) There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs a Medical Board of California that consists of 15 members, 7 of whom shall be public members.(b) The...
• Section 2001.1.
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Medical Board of California in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever the...
• Section 2002.
  Unless otherwise expressly provided, the term “board” as used in this chapter means the Medical Board of California. As used in this chapter or any...
• Section 2004.
  The board shall have the responsibility for the following:(a) The enforcement of the disciplinary and criminal provisions of the Medical Practice Act.(b) The administration and hearing of...
• Section 2006.
  (a) Any reference in this chapter to an investigation by the board shall be deemed to refer to a joint investigation conducted by employees of the...
• Section 2007.
  Members of the board shall only be appointed from persons who have been citizens of this state for at least five years next preceding their...
• Section 2008.
  The board may appoint panels from its members for the purpose of fulfilling the obligations established in subdivision (c) of Section 2004. Any panel appointed...
• Section 2010.
  Each member of the board shall be appointed for a term of four years.Vacancies occuring on the board shall be filled by appointment of the...
• Section 2011.
  The appointing power may remove any member of the board for neglect of duty required by this chapter, incompetency, or unprofessional conduct.(Amended by Stats. 1982,...
• Section 2012.
  The board shall elect a president, a vice president, and a secretary from its members.(Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 678, Sec. 9. Effective January 1,
• Section 2013.
  (a) The board and a panel appointed under this chapter may convene from time to time as deemed necessary by the board.(b) Four members of a panel...
• Section 2014.
  Notice of each meeting of the board shall be given in accordance with the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of...
• Section 2015.
  The president of the board may call meetings of any duly appointed and created committee or panel of the board at a specified time and...
• Section 2015.5.
  The board may establish advisory committees consisting of persons who have a physician’s and surgeon’s certificate issued by the board that is in good standing...
• Section 2016.
  Each member of the board and its committees shall receive per diem and travel expenses as provided in Section 103.(Added by Stats. 1980, Ch. 1313,...
• Section 2017.
  The board and each committee or panel shall keep an official record of all their proceedings.(Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 678, Sec. 13. Effective January...
• Section 2018.
  The board may adopt, amend, or repeal, in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, those regulations as may be necessary to enable...
• Section 2019.
  The office of the board shall be in the City of Sacramento. Suboffices may be established in the Cities of Los Angeles, San Diego, and...
• Section 2020.
  (a) The board, by and with the approval of the director, may employ an executive director exempt from the provisions of the Civil Service Act and...
• Section 2021.
  (a) If the board publishes a directory pursuant to Section 112, it may require persons licensed pursuant to this chapter to furnish any information as it...
• Section 2022.
  The directory shall be prima facie evidence of the authority of the persons named therein to practice under this act, unless such authority has been...
• Section 2023.5.
  (a) The board, in conjunction with the Board of Registered Nursing, and in consultation with the Physician Assistant Committee and professionals in the field, shall review...
• Section 2024.
  (a) The board may select and contract with necessary medical consultants who are licensed physicians and surgeons to assist it in its programs. Subject to Section...
• Section 2025.
  The board through its regular mailing shall notify all licensees of the existence of pain management guidelines published by the Agency for Health Care Policy...
• Section 2026.
  The board shall initiate the process of adopting regulations on or before January 1, 2019, to require its licentiates and registrants to provide notice to...
• Section 2027.
  (a) The board shall post on its Internet Web site the following information on the current status of the license for all current and former licensees:(1) Whether...
• Section 2028.5.
  (a) The board may establish a pilot program to expand the practice of telehealth in this state.(b) To implement this pilot program, the board may convene a...

Last modified: October 22, 2018