California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 21 - Provisions Applicable to Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons

• Section 2450.
  There is a Board of Osteopathic Examiners of the State of California, established by the Osteopathic Act, which shall be known as the Osteopathic Medical...
• Section 2450.1.
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Osteopathic Medical Board of California in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever...
• Section 2450.3.
  There is within the jurisdiction of the Osteopathic Medical Board of California a Naturopathic Medicine Committee authorized under the Naturopathic Doctors Act (Chapter 8.2 (commencing...
• Section 2451.
  The words “Medical Board of California,” the term “board,” or any reference to a division of the Medical Board of California as used in this...
• Section 2452.
  This chapter applies to the Osteopathic Medical Board of California so far as consistent with the Osteopathic Act. Unless otherwise provided, this article is administered...
• Section 2453.
  (a) It is the policy of this state that holders of M.D. degrees and D.O. degrees shall be accorded equal professional status and privileges as licensed...
• Section 2453.5.
  Individuals possessing physician’s and surgeon’s certificates issued by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California shall not hold themselves out to be board certified unless the...
• Section 2454.5.
  In order to ensure the continuing competence of licensed osteopathic physicians and surgeons, the board shall adopt and administer standards for the continuing education of...
• Section 2455.
  The amount of fees and refunds is that established by the following schedule for any certificate issued by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California. All...
• Section 2455.1.
  (a) In addition to the fees charged pursuant to Section 2455, and at the time those fees are charged, the board shall charge each applicant for...
• Section 2455.2.
  (a) A licensed osteopathic physician and surgeon shall report to the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, at the time of initial licensure, any specialty board certification...
• Section 2456.
  (a) Each person holding a certificate issued by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California residing in or out of California shall pay the board a biennial...
• Section 2456.1.
  All osteopathic physician’s and surgeon’s certificates shall expire at 12 midnight on the last day of the birth month of the licensee during the second...
• Section 2456.2.
  (a) The board shall notify in writing by certified mail, return receipt requested, any physician and surgeon who does not renew his or her license within...
• Section 2456.3.
  Except as provided in Section 2429, a license which has expired may be renewed at any time within five years after its expiration by filing...
• Section 2457.
  The failure of any person holding a certificate issued by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California to pay the biennial license fee during the time...
• Section 2457.5.
  (a) In addition to Article 12 (commencing with Section 2220), the charging, or obtaining of an unconscionable fee for professional services rendered to a patient by...
• Section 2458.
  When the prosecution for a violation of this chapter is initiated by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, 75 percent of all fines and forfeitures...
• Section 2459.
  The Osteopathic Medical Board of California shall not issue any drugless practitioner’s certificates under this chapter or any other law.All persons holding drugless practitioner’s certificates...
• Section 2459.5.
  An osteopathic physician and surgeon licensed pursuant to the Osteopathic Initiative Act may utilize the services of an aide to assist the osteopathic physician and...
• Section 2459.6.
  (a) For the purposes of Section 2459.5 and this section:(1) “Osteopathic physician and surgeon” means a person defined in the Osteopathic Initiative Act.(2) “Osteopathic manipulative treatment” means the...
• Section 2459.7.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no osteopathic physician and surgeon shall utilize an osteopathic aide to perform services other than those specified in Sections...

Last modified: October 22, 2018