California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 1 - Administration

• Section 2840.
  This chapter of the Business and Professions Code constitutes the chapter on vocational nursing and may be cited as the Vocational Nursing Practice Act.(Added by...
• Section 2840.5.
  (a) The Legislature hereby declares the practice of licensed vocational nursing to be a profession.(b) This section shall not be construed to affect the laws relating to...
• Section 2841.
  (a) There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs a Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians of the State of California, which consists of 11...
• Section 2841.1.
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians of the State of California in exercising...
• Section 2841.2.
  Notwithstanding any other law, the repeal of Section 2841 renders the successor entity to the board in Section 2841 subject to review by the appropriate...
• Section 2841.3.
  If the board becomes inoperative or is repealed, the director may, until December 31, 2024, assume the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the...
• Section 2842.
  (a) Each member of the board shall be a citizen of the United States and a resident of the State of California. The board shall have...
• Section 2843.
  Members of the board shall be appointed for a term of four years. Vacancies occurring shall be filled by appointment for the unexpired term.Appointments to...
• Section 2845.
  The Governor has the power to remove any member of the board from office for neglect of any duty required by law, or for incompetency,...
• Section 2846.
  The board at its first meeting after appointment, and annually thereafter at its first meeting in each year, shall elect from its members a president,...
• Section 2847.1.
  (a) The board shall select an executive officer who shall perform duties as are delegated by the board and who shall be responsible to it for...
• Section 2847.3.
  (a) Commencing January 1, 2018, the executive officer position established pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 2847.1 is temporarily abolished. Commencing January 1, 2018, the Governor...
• Section 2847.5.
  (a) (1) The director shall appoint an administrative and enforcement program monitor no later than March 1, 2016. The director may retain a person for this position...
• Section 2847.6.
  The board shall submit written reports to the director and the Legislature no later than April 1, 2018, July 1, 2018, October 1, 2018, January...
• Section 2847.7.
  (a) The director may direct department staff, including staff of the Strategic Organization, Leadership, and Individual Development (SOLID) Training and Planning Office, to review and evaluate...
• Section 2847.8.
  (a) Staff of the board shall meet with staff from the department’s Division of Investigation no later than March 1, 2018, June 1, 2018, September 1,...
• Section 2848.
  The board for the purpose of transacting its business shall meet at least twice each year, at times and places it designates by resolution.(Amended by...
• Section 2849.
  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 2850.
  Meetings may be held at any time and place by the written consent of all members of the board.(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 1689.)
• Section 2851.
  Six members of the board constitute a quorum for transaction of business at any meeting.(Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 810, Sec. 24. Effective January 1,
• Section 2852.
  The board shall keep a record of all its proceedings, including a register of all applicants for licenses under this chapter and the action of...
• Section 2852.5.
  (a) The board shall collect, at least biennially, at the times of both issuing an initial license and issuing a renewal license, all of the following...
• Section 2853.
  The office of the board shall be in the City of Sacramento. Suboffices may be established in Los Angeles and San Francisco and such records...
• Section 2854.
  The board shall prosecute all persons guilty of violating the provisions of this chapter.It may employ such clerical assistance as it may deem necessary to...
• Section 2855.
  Each member of the board shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 1645.)
• Section 2857.
  The board shall issue a license designated as licensed vocational nurse license.(Amended by Stats. 1971, Ch. 716.)
• Section 2858.
  The board shall accept in payment of any fee required by this chapter cash or any customary or generally accepted medium of exchange, including check,...

Last modified: October 22, 2018