California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 1 - Administration

• Section 5000.
  (a) There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs the California Board of Accountancy, which consists of 15 members, 7 of whom shall be licensees, and...
• Section 5000.1.
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the California Board of Accountancy in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever the...
• Section 5000.5.
  No public member shall be a current or former licensee of the board or an immediate family member of a licensee, or be currently or...
• Section 5001.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), each member of the board, except the public members, shall be actively engaged in the practice of public accountancy...
• Section 5002.
  Each member shall be appointed for a term of four years and shall hold office until the appointment and qualification of his successor or until...
• Section 5003.
  The officers of the board are a president, vice president and a secretary-treasurer.(Amended by Stats. 1959, Ch. 310.)
• Section 5004.
  The president, vice president, and secretary-treasurer shall be elected by the board for a term of one year from among its members at the time...
• Section 5006.
  The officers of the board shall continue in office until their successors are elected and qualify.(Added by Stats. 1945, Ch. 1353.)
• Section 5007.
  The president shall preside at all meetings of the board, and in the event of his absence or inability to act, the vice president shall...
• Section 5008.
  The board shall, from time to time, but not less than twice each year, prepare and distribute to all licensees, a report of the activities...
• Section 5009.
  The board shall compile and maintain, or may have compiled and maintained on its behalf, a register of licensees that contains information that the board...
• Section 5010.
  The board may adopt, repeal, or amend such regulations as may be reasonably necessary and expedient for the orderly conduct of its affairs and for...
• Section 5011.
  The board shall designate the location of its principal office and may establish branch offices in other locations.(Added by renumbering Section 5016 by Stats. 1959,...
• Section 5012.
  The board shall have a seal.(Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)
• Section 5013.
  The board shall keep records of all proceedings and actions by and before the board and before its committees. In any proceeding in court, civil...
• Section 5015.
  The board may employ clerks, examiners and, except as provided by Section 159.5, other assistants in the performance of its duties, and pay salaries and...
• Section 5015.6.
  The board may appoint a person exempt from civil service who shall be designated as an executive officer and who shall exercise the powers and...
• Section 5016.
  A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business at any meeting of the board. Notice of each meeting...
• Section 5017.
  All meetings of the board shall be open and public, except that the board may hold executive sessions to deliberate on the decision to be...
• Section 5017.1.
  The board shall post, within 10 days of board approval, the finalized minutes from meetings of the board that are open and public pursuant to...
• Section 5017.5.
  (a) The board shall provide a live audio or video broadcast, on its Internet Web site, of each of its board meetings that are open and...
• Section 5018.
  The board may by regulation, prescribe, amend, or repeal rules of professional conduct appropriate to the establishment and maintenance of a high standard of integrity...
• Section 5019.
  Every applicant, when subscribing to an application for certificate or registration, shall acknowledge the fact that the applicant has read and understands the rules of...
• Section 5020.
  The board may, for the purpose of obtaining technical expertise, appoint an enforcement advisory committee of not more than 13 licensees to provide advice and...
• Section 5021.
  The members of the enforcement advisory and qualifications committees shall hold office for two years.(Amended by Stats. 2010, Ch. 415, Sec. 2. (SB 1491) Effective...
• Section 5022.
  The qualifications committee shall make recommendations and forward its report to the board for action on any matter on which it is authorized to act....
• Section 5023.
  The board may establish a qualifications committee of its own certified public accountant members or other certified public accountants of the state in good standing,...
• Section 5024.
  The board may create and appoint advisory committees, consisting solely of board members or consisting of board members and other persons who are not board...
• Section 5025.1.
  (a) The board may contract with and employ certified public accountants and public accountants as consultants and experts to assist in the investigation and prosecution of...
• Section 5025.2.
  (a) The Legislature finds that there are occasions when the California Board of Accountancy urgently requires additional expenditure authority in order to fund unanticipated enforcement and...
• Section 5025.3.
  (a) Whenever the board enters into a contract for litigation or enforcement purposes, including, but not limited to, contracts pursuant to Section 5025.1, funds may be...

Last modified: October 22, 2018