California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 18 - Corporations

• Section 2400.
  Corporations and other artificial legal entities shall have no professional rights, privileges, or powers. However, the Division of Licensing may in its discretion, after such...
• Section 2401.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 2400, a clinic operated primarily for the purpose of medical education by a public or private nonprofit university medical school, which is approved...
• Section 2402.
  The provisions of Section 2400 do not apply to a medical or podiatry corporation practicing pursuant to the Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation Act (Part 4 (commencing...
• Section 2403.
  The provisions of Section 2400 do not apply to physicians and surgeons or doctors of podiatric medicine enrolled in approved residency postgraduate training programs or...
• Section 2406.
  A medical corporation or podiatry corporation is a corporation that is authorized to render professional services, as defined in Section 13401 of the Corporations Code,...
• Section 2406.5.
  (a) When a physician and surgeon, podiatrist, or other referring practitioner refers a patient to receive services by a physical therapist employed by a professional corporation...
• Section 2407.
  A medical or podiatry corporation shall be subject to the provisions of Sections 2285 and 2415.(Added by Stats. 1980, Ch. 1314, Sec. 4.2.)
• Section 2408.
  Except as provided in Sections 13401.5 and 13403 of the Corporations Code, each shareholder, director and officer of a medical or podiatry corporation, except an...
• Section 2409.
  The income of a medical and podiatry corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shareholder is a disqualified person, as defined in Section 13401...
• Section 2410.
  A medical or podiatry corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which or the failure to do which would...
• Section 2411.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the offering and operation by a medical corporation of a health care service plan licensed pursuant to the provisions...
• Section 2412.
  The Division of Licensing may adopt and enforce regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of this article and the Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation Act...
• Section 2413.
  This article shall apply to medical corporations which have physicians and surgeons licensed by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California as shareholders, officers, and directors...
• Section 2415.
  (a) Any physician and surgeon or any doctor of podiatric medicine, as the case may be, who as a sole proprietor, or in a partnership, group,...
• Section 2416.
  Physicians and surgeons and doctors of podiatric medicine may conduct their professional practices in a partnership or group of physician and surgeons or a partnership...
• Section 2417.
  (a) If the Department of Insurance has evidence that a business is being operated in violation of this chapter, Part 4 (commencing with Section 13400) of...
• Section 2417.5.
  (a) A business organization that offers to provide, or provides, outpatient elective cosmetic medical procedures or treatments, that is owned or operated in violation of Section...

Last modified: October 22, 2018