California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions

• Section 3700.
  This chapter may be cited as the “Respiratory Care Practice Act.”(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 1344, Sec. 1. Operative July 1, 1983, by Sec. 3...
• Section 3701.
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the practice of respiratory care in California affects the public health, safety, and welfare and is to be subject...
• Section 3702.
  (a) Respiratory care as a practice means a health care profession employed under the supervision of a medical director in the therapy, management, rehabilitation, diagnostic evaluation,...
• Section 3702.7.
  The respiratory care practice is further defined and includes, but is not limited to, the following:(a) Mechanical or physiological ventilatory support as used in paragraph (4)...
• Section 3703.
  (a) The settings in which respiratory care may be practiced include licensed health care facilities, hospitals, clinics, ambulatory or home health care, physicians’ offices, and public...
• Section 3704.
  As used in this chapter, these terms shall be defined as follows:(a) “Board” means the Respiratory Care Board of California.(b) “Department” means the Department of Consumer Affairs.(c) “Medical...
• Section 3705.
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as authorizing a respiratory care practitioner to practice medicine, surgery, or any other form of healing, except as...
• Section 3706.
  A person licensed under this chapter who in good faith renders emergency care at the scene of an emergency which occurs outside both the place...

Last modified: October 22, 2018