California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 1 - The Real Estate Commissioner

• Section 10050.
  (a) (1) There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs a Bureau of Real Estate, the chief officer of which bureau is named the Real Estate Commissioner.(2) Notwithstanding...
• Section 10050.a.
  (a) (1) There is in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency a Department of Real Estate, the chief officer of which department is named the Real...
• Section 10050.1.
  Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Department of Real Estate in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever the...
• Section 10051.
  The commissioner shall be appointed by the Governor.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 375.)
• Section 10052.
  The commissioner shall have been for five years a real estate broker actively engaged in business as such in California, or shall possess related experience...
• Section 10053.
  The commissioner shall receive an annual salary as provided in Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 11550) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2...
• Section 10071.
  The commissioner shall enforce the provisions of this part and of Chapter 1 of Part 2. He has full power to regulate and control the...
• Section 10073.
  The commissioner shall employ such deputies, clerks and employees as he may need to discharge in proper manner the duties imposed upon him by law.(Added...
• Section 10074.
  After qualifying as such neither the commissioner nor any of the deputies, clerks, or employees of the department shall be interested in any mineral, oil,...
• Section 10075.
  Deputies, clerks and employees shall perform such duties as the commissioner shall assign to them.Subject to the powers of the State Personnel Board and the...
• Section 10076.
  Each deputy shall, after his appointment, take and subscribe to the constitutional oath of office and file the same in the office of the Secretary...
• Section 10077.
  The commissioner shall have his principal office in the City of Sacramento, and may establish branch offices in the City and County of San Francisco,...
• Section 10078.
  The commissioner shall adopt a seal with the words “Real Estate Commissioner State of California” and such other device as the commissioner may desire engraved...
• Section 10079.
  (a) The Attorney General shall render to the commissioner opinions upon all questions of law relating to the construction or interpretation of this part or Chapter...
• Section 10080.
  The commissioner may adopt, amend, or repeal rules and regulations that are reasonably necessary for the enforcement of the provisions of this part and of...
• Section 10080.5.
  In the event the commissioner employs the services of an agency engaged in the business of furnishing credit reports, such agency shall have been engaged...
• Section 10080.9.
  (a) If, upon inspection, examination, or investigation, the commissioner has cause to believe that a person who does not possess a real estate license is engaged...
• Section 10081.
  (a) Whenever the commissioner believes from evidence satisfactory to him that any person has violated or is about to violate any of the provisions of this...
• Section 10081.5.
  Whenever the commissioner believes from evidence satisfactory to him or her that any real estate licensee has violated or is about to violate, the provisions...
• Section 10082.
  The commissioner may publish or cause to be published at appropriate intervals a directory or list of licensed brokers and salespersons and may publish therewith...
• Section 10083.
  The commissioner may periodically issue a bulletin containing matter relating to the department, and to the provisions of this part and of Chapter 1 (commencing...
• Section 10083.2.
  (a) (1) The commissioner shall provide on the Internet information regarding the status of every license issued by the department in accordance with the California Public Records...
• Section 10084.
  The commissioner may prepare a pamphlet or brochure dealing with disclosures of information in residential real estate transactions. The costs of preparation and distribution may...
• Section 10084.1.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 10450.6, on or before January 1, 1991, the department, using funds appropriated from the Education and Research Account in the Real Estate Fund,...
• Section 10085.
  The commissioner may require that any or all materials used in obtaining advance fee agreements, including but not limited to the contract forms, letters or...
• Section 10085.5.
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to claim, demand, charge, receive, collect, or contract for an advance fee (1) for soliciting lenders on behalf...
• Section 10085.6.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, it shall be unlawful for any licensee who negotiates, attempts to negotiate, arranges, attempts to arrange, or otherwise offers...
• Section 10086.
  (a) If the commissioner determines through an investigation that (1) a person has engaged or is engaging in an activity which is a violation of a...
• Section 10087.
  (a) In addition to acting pursuant to the authority provided under Sections 10086, 10176, and 10177, the commissioner may, after appropriate notice and opportunity for a...
• Section 10088.
  After the filing of a desist and refrain order or a bar order, or the commencement of a formal disciplinary action by the commissioner, and...

Last modified: October 22, 2018