California Business and Professions Code CHAPTER 3.9 - Interior Designers

• Section 5800.
  As used in this chapter:(a) “Certified interior designer” means a person who prepares and submits nonstructural or nonseismic plans consistent with Sections 5805 and 5538 to...
• Section 5801.
  A certified interior designer may obtain a stamp from an interior design organization that shall include a number that uniquely identifies and bears the name...
• Section 5801.1.
  The procedure for the issuance of a stamp by an interior design organization under Section 5801, including the examinations recognized and required by the organization,...
• Section 5802.
  (a) All drawings, specifications, or documents prepared for submission to any government regulatory agency by any certified interior designer, or under his or her supervision shall...
• Section 5803.
  A certified interior designer, as defined in this chapter, is exempt from Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 7000) of Division 3 insofar as he or...
• Section 5804.
  It is an unfair business practice for any certified interior designer or any other person to advertise or put out any sign or card or...
• Section 5805.
  Nothing in this chapter shall preclude certified interior designers or any other person from submitting interior design plans to local building officials, except as provided...
• Section 5806.
  Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit interior design or interior decorator services by any person or retail activity.(Added by Stats. 2013, Ch. 333, Sec. 1....
• Section 5807.
  (a) A certified interior designer shall use a written contract when contracting to provide interior design services to a client pursuant to this chapter. The written...
• Section 5810.
  (a) This chapter shall be subject to review by the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature.(b) This chapter shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2022,...
• Section 5811.
  An interior design organization issuing stamps under Section 5801 shall provide to the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection by September 1, 2008,...
• Section 5811.1.
  The meetings of an interior design organization issuing stamps under Section 5801 shall be subject to the rules of the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (Article...
• Section 5812.
  It is an unfair business practice for any person to represent or hold himself or herself out as, or to use the title “certified interior...

Last modified: October 22, 2018