California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 3 - License Required and Exemptions

  • Section 2050.
    The Division of Licensing shall issue one form of certificate to all physicians and surgeons licensed by the board which shall be designated as a...
  • Section 2051.
    The physician’s and surgeon’s certificate authorizes the holder to use drugs or devices in or upon human beings and to sever or penetrate the tissues...
  • Section 2052.
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 146, any person who practices or attempts to practice, or who advertises or holds himself or herself out as practicing, any system or...
  • Section 2053.5.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person who complies with the requirements of Section 2053.6 shall not be in violation of Section 2051 or...
  • Section 2053.6.
    (a) A person who provides services pursuant to Section 2053.5 that are not unlawful under Section 2051 or 2052 shall, prior to providing those services, do...
  • Section 2054.
    (a) Any person who uses in any sign, business card, or letterhead, or, in an advertisement, the words “doctor” or “physician,” the letters or prefix “Dr.,”...
  • Section 2055.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person issued a physician’s and surgeon’s certificate by the Medical Board of California pursuant to the provisions of...
  • Section 2056.
    (a) The purpose of this section is to provide protection against retaliation for physicians who advocate for medically appropriate health care for their patients pursuant to...
  • Section 2056.1.
    (a) The purpose of this section is to ensure that health care service plans and their contracting entities do not enter into contracts with physicians and...
  • Section 2058.
    (a) Nothing in this chapter prohibits service in the case of emergency, or the domestic administration of family remedies.(b) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to...
  • Section 2060.
    Nothing in this chapter applies to any practitioner located outside this state, when in actual consultation, whether within this state or across state lines, with...
  • Section 2061.
    Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as limiting the practice of other persons licensed, certified, or registered under any other provision of law relating...
  • Section 2062.
    Testing and guidance programs in schools, colleges, and universities and physical fitness tests given by public and private agencies in connection with employment or issuance...
  • Section 2063.
    Nothing in this chapter shall be construed so as to discriminate against any particular school of medicine or surgery, school or college of podiatric medicine,...
  • Section 2064.
    (a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent a regularly matriculated student undertaking a course of professional instruction in an approved medical school, or...
  • Section 2064.a.
    (a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent a regularly matriculated student undertaking a course of professional instruction in an approved medical school, or...
  • Section 2064.1.
    Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2064 or any other provisions of this chapter, a regularly matriculated student undertaking a course of professional instruction in a...
  • Section 2064.2.
    No medical school or clinical training program shall deny access to elective clerkships or preceptorships in any medical school or clinical training program in this...
  • Section 2064.3.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other law, except as specified in subdivision (b), no student, including a person without lawful immigration status, a person who is exempt from...
  • Section 2064.4.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other law, except as specified in subdivision (b), no student, including a person without lawful immigration status, a person who is exempt from...
  • Section 2064.5.
    (a) Within 180 days after enrollment in a board-approved postgraduate training program pursuant to Section 2065, medical school graduates shall obtain a physician’s and surgeon’s postgraduate...
  • Section 2064.7.
    (a) The board may deny a postgraduate training license to an applicant guilty of unprofessional conduct or of any cause that would subject a licensee to...
  • Section 2064.8.
    (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 2064.7, the board may issue a postgraduate training license to an applicant who has committed minor violations that the board...
  • Section 2065.
    (a) Unless otherwise provided by law, no postgraduate trainee, intern, resident, postdoctoral fellow, or instructor may engage in the practice of medicine, or receive compensation therefor,...
  • Section 2065.a.
    (a) Unless otherwise provided by law, no postgraduate trainee, intern, resident, postdoctoral fellow, or instructor may engage in the practice of medicine, or receive compensation therefor,...
  • Section 2066.
    (a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit a foreign medical graduate from engaging in the practice of medicine whenever and wherever required as...
  • Section 2066.5.
    (a) The pilot program authorized by this section shall be known and may be cited as the University of California at Los Angeles David Geffen School...
  • Section 2067.
    (a) An applicant for a physician’s and surgeon’s certificate who is found by the Division of Licensing to be deficient in the education and clinical instruction...
  • Section 2068.
    This chapter shall not be construed to prohibit any person from providing nutritional advice or giving advice concerning proper nutrition. However, this section confers no...
  • Section 2069.
    (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, a medical assistant may administer medication only by intradermal, subcutaneous, or intramuscular injections and perform skin tests and additional technical supportive...
  • Section 2070.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a medical assistant may perform venipuncture or skin puncture for the purposes of withdrawing blood upon specific authorization and...
  • Section 2071.
    The board shall adopt and administer regulations that establish standards for technical supportive services that may be performed by a medical assistant. Nothing in this...
  • Section 2072.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law and subject to the provisions of the State Civil Service Act, any person who is licensed to practice medicine...
  • Section 2073.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person who is licensed to practice medicine in any other state who meets the requirements for application set...
  • Section 2074.
    Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit the employment of a licensed physician and surgeon practicing in the specialty of ophthalmology by an optometrist licensed under...
  • Section 2075.
    The performance of acupuncture by a certified acupuncturist or other licentiate legally authorized to practice acupuncture within his or her scope of practice or a...
  • Section 2076.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a physician and surgeon who is licensed to practice medicine in another state or country shall be exempt from...
  • Section 2076.5.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a physician and surgeon lawfully practicing medicine in another state or country may be exempted from licensure while practicing...
  • Section 2077.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a physician and surgeon may delegate various orthopaedic medical tasks to individuals who have completed training as orthopaedic physician...
  • Section 2078.
    (a) As used in this section, “DMSO” means dimethyl sulfoxide.(b) A licensed physician and surgeon shall, prior to treating a patient with a DMSO preparation, inform the...
  • Section 2079.
    (a) A physician and surgeon who desires to administer general anesthesia in the office of a dentist pursuant to Section 1646.9, shall provide the Medical Board...

Last modified: October 22, 2018