California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 3 - Committees of the State Bar

• Section 6040.
  The board of trustees may create local administrative committees and delegate to them such of its powers and duties as seems advisable. The board may...
• Section 6041.
  A local administrative committee shall be composed of active members of the State Bar.(Amended by Stats. 1981, Ch. 836, Sec. 2.)
• Section 6042.
  The members of local administrative committees, except ex officio members of the board of trustees, shall hold office at the pleasure of the board.(Amended by...
• Section 6043.
  Each local administrative committee shall:(a) Receive and investigate complaints as to the conduct of members.(b) Make findings, whenever ordered by the board.(c) Make recommendations and forward its report...
• Section 6043.5.
  (a) Every person who reports to the State Bar or causes a complaint to be filed with the State Bar that an attorney has engaged in...
• Section 6044.
  The board or any committee appointed by the board, with or without the filing or presentation of any complaint, may initiate and conduct investigations of...
• Section 6044.5.
  (a) When an investigation or formal proceeding concerns alleged misconduct which may subject a member to criminal prosecution for any felony, or any lesser crime committed...
• Section 6045.
  The local administrative committee shall perform such other duties in furtherance of the execution of the provisions of this chapter as the board may direct.(Added...
• Section 6046.
  The board may establish an examining committee having the power:(a) To examine all applicants for admission to practice law.(b) To administer the requirements for admission to practice...
• Section 6046.5.
  Three of the public members of the examining committee shall be appointed by the Senate Rules Committee, three of the public members shall be appointed...
• Section 6046.6.
  (a) The examining committee shall not alter the bar examination in a manner that requires the substantial modification of the training or preparation required for passage...
• Section 6046.7.
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Committee of Bar Examiners shall adopt rules that shall be effective on and after January 1, 2008, for...
• Section 6046.8.
  At least once every seven years, or more frequently if directed by the Supreme Court, the board of trustees shall oversee an evaluation of the...
• Section 6047.
  Subject to the approval of the board, the examining committee may adopt such reasonable rules and regulations as may be necessary or advisable for the...
• Section 6048.
  The board may also appoint one or more committees to take evidence on behalf of the board and to forward the same to the board...
• Section 6049.
  (a) In the conduct of investigations and upon the trial and hearing of all matters, the board and any committee having jurisdiction, including the examining committee,...
• Section 6049.1.
  (a) In any disciplinary proceeding under this chapter, a certified copy of a final order made by any court of record or any body authorized by...
• Section 6049.2.
  In all disciplinary proceedings pursuant to this chapter, the testimony of a witness given in a contested civil action or special proceeding to which the...
• Section 6050.
  Whenever any person subpoenaed to appear and give testimony or to produce books, papers or documents refuses to appear or testify before the subpoenaing body,...
• Section 6051.
  The chairman or presiding officer of the board or the committee having jurisdiction or the chief trial counsel shall report the fact that a person...
• Section 6051.1.
  A motion to quash a subpoena issued pursuant to Section 6049 shall be brought in the State Bar Court.(Added by Stats. 1985, Ch. 453, Sec.
• Section 6052.
  Any member of the board, or of any committee or unit or section thereof, having jurisdiction, or the chief trial counsel or his or her...
• Section 6053.
  Whenever in an investigation or proceeding provided for or authorized by this chapter, the mental or physical condition of the member of the State Bar...
• Section 6054.
  (a) State and local law enforcement and licensing bodies and departments, officers and employees thereof, and officials and attachés of the courts of this state shall...

Last modified: October 22, 2018