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Laws and Regulations › California Codes › Business and Professions Code › Title 0 › Division 2
- 1000: The law governing practitioners of chiropractic is found in an initiative act entitled "An act presc...
- 1001: In each year, the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners shall compile and may thereafter publish and...
- 1002: Whenever any person has engaged in or is about to engage in any acts or practices which constitute o...
- 1003: (a) Except as otherwise allowed by law, the employment of runners, cappers, steerers, or other perso...
- 1004: The State Board of Chiropractic Examiners shall investigate any licensee against whom an information...
- 1005: The provisions of Sections 12.5, 23.9, 29.5, 30, 31, 35, 104, 114, 115, 119, 121, 121.5, 125, 125.6,...
- 500: Whenever the register or book of registration of the Medical Board of California, the Board of Denta...
- 501: For the reproduction of the destroyed register or book the board shall make use of such existing off...
- 510: (a) The purpose of this section is to provide protection against retaliation for health care practit...
- 511: (a) No subcontract between a physician and surgeon, physician and surgeon group, or other licensed h...
- 511.1: (a) In order to prevent the improper selling, leasing, or transferring of a health care provider's c...
- 511.3: (a) When a contracting agent sells, leases, or transfers a health provider's contract to a payor, th...
- 511.4: (a) A contracting agent, as defined in paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of Section 511.1, shall begi...
- 512: (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), no contract that is issued, amended, renewed, or...
- 525: No dispensing optician, optometrist, or physician and surgeon shall dispense, prescribe, or sell any...
- 526: A dispensing optician, optometrist, or physician and surgeon shall not be subject to disciplinary ac...
- 527: Any dispensing optician, optometrist, or physician and surgeon who violates this article is subject ...
- 550: As used in this article, "ophthalmia neonatorum," independent of the nature of the infection, means ...
- 551: It is the duty of any physician, surgeon, obstetrician, midwife, nurse, maternity home or hospital o...
- 552: Any case of ophthalmia neonatorum or of blindness resulting from it upon which one accused of a viol...
- 553: All maternity homes, hospitals, and similar institutions wherein childbirths occur shall keep a reco...
- 554: The local health officer shall:
(a) Investigate each case filed with him in pursuance of this articl...
- 555: The State Department of Health Services shall:
(a) Enforce the provisions of this article.
(b) Promu...
- 556: The failure of any person mentioned in Section 551 to report, or the failure of any maternity home, ...
- 557: If the person is a physician, midwife, or is a person who is professionally employed, the third conv...
- 558: One-half of all fines collected hereunder shall go to the county wherein the prosecution was had, an...
- 580: No person, company, or association shall sell or barter or offer to sell or barter any medical degre...
- 581: No person, company, or association shall purchase or procure by barter or by any unlawful means or m...
- 582: No person, company, or association shall use or attempt to use any diploma, certificate, transcript,...
- 583: No person shall in any document or writing required of an applicant for examination, license, certif...
- 584: No person shall violate the security of any examination, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 12...
- 585: Any person, company, or association violating the provisions of this article is guilty of a felony a...
- 601: Every person who willfully writes, composes or publishes any notice or advertisement of any medicine...
- 650: (a) Except as provided in Chapter 2.3 (commencing with Section 1400) of Division 2 of the Health and...
- 650.01: (a) Notwithstanding Section 650, or any other provision of law, it is unlawful for a licensee to ref...
- 650.02: The prohibition of Section 650.01 shall not apply to or restrict any of the following:
(a) A license...
- 650.1: (a) Any amount payable to any hospital, as defined in Section 4028, or any person or corporation pro...
- 650.2: Notwithstanding Section 650 or any other provision of law, it shall not be unlawful for a person lic...
- 650.3: (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 650 or any other provision of law, it shall not be unl...
- 650.4: (a) Notwithstanding Section 650, subdivision (o) of Section 4982, or any other provision of law, it ...
- 651: (a) It is unlawful for any person licensed under this division or under any initiative act referred ...
- 651.3: (a) Any labor organization, bona fide employee group or bona fide employee association having contra...
- 652: Violation of this article in the case of a licensed person constitutes unprofessional conduct and gr...
- 652.5: Except as otherwise provided in this article, any violation of this article constitutes a misdemeano...
- 653: The word "person" as used in this article includes an individual, firm, partnership, association, co...
- 654: No person licensed under Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 2000) of this division may have any memb...
- 654.1: Persons licensed under Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 1600) of this division or licensed under C...
- 654.2: (a) It is unlawful for any person licensed under this division or under any initiative act referred ...
- 654.3: (a) A dentist, or an employee or agent of a dentist, shall not charge treatment or costs to an open-...
- 655: (a) No person licensed under Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 3000) of this division may have any ...
- 655.2: No physician and surgeon or medical corporation licensed under Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 20...
- 655.5: (a) It is unlawful for any person licensed under this division or under any initiative act referred ...
- 655.7: (a) (1) A person licensed under this division or under an initiative act referred to in this divisio...
- 655.8: (a) It is unlawful for any person licensed under this division or under any initiative act referred ...
- 656: Whenever any person has engaged, or is about to engage, in any acts or practices that constitute, or...
- 657: (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(1) Californians spend more than one hu...
- 675: Every person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation offering a course of instruction in any...
- 676: The provisions contained in this article shall not apply to inservice training programs given in ins...
- 677: Every person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation subject to the provisions of this artic...
- 678: The failure to give the notice required by this article shall make any contract entered into between...
- 679: Any person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation who violates this article is guilty of a ...
- 680: (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a health care practitioner shall disclose, while w...
- 680.5: (a) (1) A health care practitioner licensed under Division 2 (commencing with Section 500) shall com...
- 681: (a) Commencing July 1, 2000, every person licensed pursuant to this division who collects human biol...
- 682: An individual authorized to prescribe emergency contraception who issues a prescription or order for...
- 683: (a) A board shall report, within 10 working days, to the State Department of Health Care Services th...
- 685: (a) (1) A board may cite and fine a currently licensed health care practitioner if he or she is in d...
- 690: (a) Except as provided in Section 4601 of the Labor Code and Section 2627 of the Unemployment Insura...
- 700: It is the intent of the Legislature to establish in this article an inactive category of health prof...
- 701: Each healing arts board referred to in this division shall issue, upon application and payment of th...
- 702: The holder of an inactive healing arts license or certificate issued pursuant to this article shall ...
- 703: An inactive healing arts license or certificate issued pursuant to this article shall be renewed dur...
- 704: In order for the holder of an inactive license or certificate issued pursuant to this article to res...
- 710: It is the policy of the State of California that, consistent with high quality health care services,...
- 714: (a) A hospital may enter into an agreement with the Armed Forces of the United States to authorize a...
- 715: Unless otherwise required by federal law or regulation, no board under this division which licenses ...
- 716: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a board under this division may deny issuance of a licen...
- 717: This article is not intended to address the scope of practice of a dentist, physician and surgeon, o...
- 718: A physician and surgeon who is not licensed in this state but who is a commissioned officer on activ...
- 725: (a) Repeated acts of clearly excessive prescribing, furnishing, dispensing, or administering of drug...
- 726: The commission of any act of sexual abuse, misconduct, or relations with a patient, client, or custo...
- 727: The provisions of subdivision (2) of Section 1103 of the Evidence Code shall apply in disciplinary p...
- 728: (a) Any psychotherapist or employer of a psychotherapist who becomes aware through a patient that th...
- 729: (a) Any physician and surgeon, psychotherapist, alcohol and drug abuse counselor or any person holdi...
- 730: Any person licensed under this division or under any initiative act referred to in this division sha...
- 730.5: (a) It is unprofessional conduct and a crime, as provided in Section 4935, for a physician and surge...
- 731: (a) Any person licensed, certified, registered, or otherwise subject to regulation pursuant to this ...
- 732: (a) A physician and surgeon and a dentist shall refund any amount that a patient has paid for servic...
- 733: (a) No licentiate shall obstruct a patient in obtaining a prescription drug or device that has been ...
- 800: (a) The Medical Board of California, the Board of Psychology, the Dental Board of California, the Os...
- 801: (a) Except as provided in Section 801.01 and subdivisions (b), (c), and (d) of this section, every i...
- 801.01: The Legislature finds and declares that the filing of reports with the applicable state agencies req...
- 801.1: (a) Every state or local governmental agency that self-insures a person who holds a license, certifi...
- 802: (a) Every settlement, judgment, or arbitration award over three thousand dollars ($3,000) of a claim...
- 802.1: (a) (1) A physician and surgeon, osteopathic physician and surgeon, and a doctor of podiatric medici...
- 802.5: (a) When a coroner receives information that is based on findings that were reached by, or documente...
- 803: (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), within 10 days after a judgment by a court of this state ...
- 803.1: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Medical Board of California, the Osteopathic Med...
- 803.5: (a) The district attorney, city attorney, or other prosecuting agency shall notify the Medical Board...
- 803.6: (a) The clerk of the court shall transmit any felony preliminary hearing transcript concerning a def...
- 804: (a) Any agency to whom reports are to be sent under Section 801, 801.1, 802, or 803, may develop a p...
- 804.5: The Legislature recognizes that various types of entities are creating, implementing, and maintainin...
- 805: (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following definitions:
(1) (A) "Peer revie...
- 805.01: (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following definitions:
(1) "Agency" has th...
- 805.1: (a) The Medical Board of California, the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, and the Dental Boa...
- 805.2: (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to provide for a comprehensive study of the peer review proc...
- 805.5: (a) Prior to granting or renewing staff privileges for any physician and surgeon, psychologist, podi...
- 805.6: (a) The Medical Board of California, the Osteopathic Medical Board, and the Dental Board of Californ...
- 805.7: (a) The Medical Board of California shall work with interested parties in the pursuit and establishm...
- 806: Each agency in the department receiving reports pursuant to the preceding sections shall prepare a s...
- 807: Each agency in the department shall notify every person licensed, certified or holding similar autho...
- 808: For purposes of this article, reports affecting respiratory care practitioners required to be filed ...
- 808.5: For purposes of this article, reports affecting psychologists required to be filed under Sections 80...
- 809: (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares the following:
(1) In 1986, Congress enacted the feder...
- 809.05: It is the policy of this state that peer review be performed by licentiates. This policy is subject ...
- 809.08: (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the sharing of information between peer review bo...
- 809.1: (a) A licentiate who is the subject of a final proposed action of a peer review body for which a rep...
- 809.2: If a licentiate timely requests a hearing concerning a final proposed action for which a report is r...
- 809.3: (a) During a hearing concerning a final proposed action for which reporting is required to be filed ...
- 809.4: (a) Upon the completion of a hearing concerning a final proposed action for which a report is requir...
- 809.5: (a) Notwithstanding Sections 809 to 809.4, inclusive, a peer review body may immediately suspend or ...
- 809.6: (a) The parties are bound by any additional notice and hearing provisions contained in any applicabl...
- 809.7: Sections 809.1 to 809.4, inclusive, shall not apply to peer review proceedings conducted in state or...
- 809.8: Nothing in Sections 809 to 809.7, inclusive, shall affect the availability of judicial review under ...
- 809.9: In any suit brought to challenge an action taken or a restriction imposed which is required to be re...
- 810: (a) It shall constitute unprofessional conduct and grounds for disciplinary action, including suspen...
- 820: Whenever it appears that any person holding a license, certificate or permit under this division or ...
- 821: The licentiate's failure to comply with an order issued under Section 820 shall constitute grounds f...
- 822: If a licensing agency determines that its licentiate's ability to practice his or her profession saf...
- 823: Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, reinstatement of a licentiate against whom action has b...
- 824: The licensing agency may proceed against a licentiate under either Section 820, or 822, or under bot...
- 825: As used in this article with reference to persons holding licenses as physicians and surgeons, "lice...
- 826: The proceedings under Sections 821 and 822 shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 5 (commenci...
- 827: Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 o...
- 828: If the licensing agency determines, pursuant to proceedings conducted under Section 820, that there ...
- 850: No healing arts licensing board or examining committee under the Department of Consumer Affairs shal...
- 851: A healing arts licensure board or examining committee may by regulation require an applicant for lic...
- 852: (a) The Task Force on Culturally and Linguistically Competent Physicians and Dentists is hereby crea...
- 853: (a) The Licensed Physicians and Dentists from Mexico Pilot Program is hereby created. This program s...
- 854: Criteria for issuing three-year nonrenewable medical licenses and dental permits under this article ...
- 855: (a) Up to 70 international medical graduates who have passed their United States medical license exa...
- 860: (a) The Legislature finds and declares both of the following:
(1) California's system of care suffer...
- 900: (a) Nothing in this division applies to a health care practitioner licensed in another state or terr...
- 901: (a) For purposes of this section, the following provisions apply:
(1) "Board" means the applicable h...
- 920: This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Health Care Professional Disaster Response Act.
- 921: (a) The Legislature finds and declares the following:
(1) In times of national or state disasters, a...
- 922: (a) A physician and surgeon who satisfies the requirements of Section 2439 but whose license has bee...
- 1050: A chiropractic corporation is a corporation which is registered with the State Board of Chiropractic...
- 1051: An applicant for registration as a chiropractic corporation shall supply to the board all necessary ...
- 1053: Each chiropractic corporation shall file with the board a report containing such information relatin...
- 1054: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the name of a chiropractic corporation and any name or n...
- 1055: Except as provided in Section 13403 of the Corporations Code, relating to the Professional Corporati...
- 1056: The income of a chiropractic corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shar...
- 1057: A chiropractic corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which or the failure to d...
- 1058: Moneys received by the board pursuant to this article shall be used to carry out the purposes of thi...
- 1200: Every provision of this chapter shall be liberally construed to protect the interests of all persons...
- 1201: As used in this chapter, "person" includes firm, association, partnership, individual, limited liabi...
- 1202: As used in this chapter, "department" means the State Department of Health Services.
- 1202.5: (a) For purposes of this chapter "CLIA" means the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments...
- 1203: As used in this chapter, "clinical laboratory bioanalyst" or "bioanalyst" means a person licensed un...
- 1204: As used in this chapter, "clinical laboratory scientist" means any person other than a licensed clin...
- 1205: As used in this chapter, "trainee" means any person licensed under this chapter for the purpose of r...
- 1206: (a) For the purposes of this chapter the following definitions are applicable:
(1) "Biological speci...
- 1206.5: (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 1206 and except as otherwise provided in Section 1241...
- 1207: (a) As used in this chapter, "clinical chemist," or "clinical microbiologist," or "clinical toxicolo...
- 1208: (a) For the purposes of this chapter whenever the department determines that a new category of licen...
- 1209: (a) As used in this chapter, "laboratory director" means any person who is a duly licensed physician...
- 1209.1: (a) As used in this chapter, "histocompatibility laboratory director" means a physician and surgeon ...
- 1209.5: (a) "Autoverification" means the use of a computer algorithm in conjunction with automated clinical ...
- 1210: (a) As used in this chapter, "clinical chemist scientist," "clinical microbiologist scientist," "cli...
- 1211: (a) As used in this chapter, "owner" means any person with an ownership or control interest in a cli...
- 1211.5: For the purposes of this chapter, "cytological slides" shall refer to cellular materials submitted f...
- 1212: (a) As used in this chapter, "unlicensed laboratory personnel" means a laboratory aide, histocompati...
- 1213: As used in this chapter, "school" means any place, establishment, or institution organized and opera...
- 1214: As used in this chapter, "health fair" means a program of health assessment procedures offered to th...
- 1220: (a) (1) Each clinical laboratory shall maintain records, equipment, and facilities that are adequate...
- 1220.5: (a) The Department of Health Services shall develop, and provide to all licensed clinical laboratori...
- 1221: The department may employ special examiners, and may make regulations for the conduct of examination...
- 1222: The department may approve schools that are accredited by the National Accrediting Agency for Clinic...
- 1222.5: The department may approve schools seeking to provide instruction in clinical laboratory technic whi...
- 1223: (a) The Legislature finds and declares that it is the public policy of the state to ensure that Cali...
- 1224: The department may, pursuant to Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Division 3 of Title 2...
- 1224.5: The department shall conduct a study to determine whether the persons conducting tests in physician ...
- 1225: (a) In order to carry out this chapter, any duly authorized representative of the department may do ...
- 1226: Annually the department may compile and may thereafter publish and sell a directory of persons withi...
- 1227: Every person or clinical laboratory licensed or registered under this chapter shall report to the de...
- 1228: The department shall appoint a multidisciplinary committee to assist, advise, and make recommendatio...
- 1240: This chapter does not authorize any person to practice medicine and surgery or to furnish the servic...
- 1241: (a) This chapter applies to all clinical laboratories in California or receiving biological specimen...
- 1241.1: (a) A primary care clinic, licensed pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1204 of the Health and Sa...
- 1242: Any person duly licensed under the provisions of this chapter to perform tests called for in a clini...
- 1242.5: Notwithstanding paragraphs (2) and (3) of subdivision (b) of Section 1241, the department may by reg...
- 1242.6: (a) Any registered nurse licensed under the provisions of Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 2700) o...
- 1243: A student regularly matriculated in any college or university accredited by an accrediting agency ac...
- 1244: (a) Nothing in this chapter shall restrict, limit, or prevent a program of nondiagnostic general hea...
- 1244.1: Thirty days prior to operating a program of nondiagnostic general health assessment, the entity or p...
- 1244.3: Responsibility for enforcement of Sections 1244 and 1244.1 shall be with the local health officer or...
- 1244.4: Any fee for the filing of documentation and related enforcement activities pursuant to Section 1244,...
- 1245: (a) Any individual may perform a blood gas analysis if all the following conditions exist:
(1) He or...
- 1246: (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), and in Section 23158 of the Vehicle Code, an unl...
- 1246.5: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person may request, and any licensed clinical labora...
- 1247: This article shall be known and may be cited as the Hemodialysis Technician Training Act.
- 1247.2: For the purpose of this article, the following terms have the following meaning:
(a) "Immediate supe...
- 1247.3: The treatment of patients by a hemodialysis technician includes performing venipuncture and arterial...
- 1247.4: The department may adopt regulations it deems necessary to implement this article.
- 1247.5: A hemodialysis clinic or unit within a licensed clinic or hospital, as defined respectively in Secti...
- 1247.6: (a) Except during training under immediate supervision, and except as provided in Section 1247.62, n...
- 1247.61: To be certified by the department as a Certified Hemodialysis Technician (CHT), a person shall meet ...
- 1247.63: (a) Certification of a hemodialysis technician issued by the department pursuant to subdivision (a) ...
- 1247.64: A hemodialysis technician may obtain the in-service training or continuing education required by sub...
- 1247.66: (a) The department may deny, suspend, or revoke the certification of a hemodialysis technician if it...
- 1247.7: An employee in training shall be classified as a hemodialysis technician trainee and shall be under ...
- 1247.8: Each hemodialysis unit or clinic shall have information available for inspection by the department s...
- 1247.9: No person or entity shall provide chronic dialysis services to patients in this state unless the ser...
- 1260: The department shall issue a clinical laboratory bioanalyst's license to each person who is a lawful...
- 1260.1: The department shall issue a histocompatibility laboratory director's license to each person who mee...
- 1260.3: (a) The department shall issue a medical laboratory technician license to each person who meets the ...
- 1261: The department shall issue a clinical laboratory scientist's or a limited clinical laboratory scient...
- 1261.5: The department may issue limited clinical laboratory scientist's licenses in chemistry, microbiology...
- 1261.6: The department may issue a limited clinical laboratory scientist's license in cytogenetics to any pe...
- 1262: No clinical laboratory scientist's or limited clinical laboratory scientist's license shall be issue...
- 1262.5: Notwithstanding Section 135, an applicant for a clinical laboratory or limited technologist license ...
- 1263: The department shall license as trainees those individuals desiring to train for either a clinical l...
- 1264: The department shall issue a clinical chemist, clinical microbiologist, clinical toxicologist, clini...
- 1265: (a) (1) A clinical laboratory performing clinical laboratory tests or examinations classified as of ...
- 1265.1: (a) A primary care clinic that submits an application to the State Department of Public Health for c...
- 1266: The clinical laboratory license and the license or current renewal permit of each person performing ...
- 1267: Any denial, suspension, or revocation of a license under this chapter shall be conducted in complian...
- 1268: Upon filing application therefor, containing such information as the department may require, and the...
- 1269: (a) Unlicensed laboratory personnel may perform any of the activities identified in subdivision (b),...
- 1269.3: (a) Notwithstanding Sections 1206.5 and 1269, within the specialty of pathology, a person certified ...
- 1269.5: The department may deny, suspend, or revoke any license, registration, or certificate issued under t...
- 1270: (a) On and after January 1, 1991, no person may perform examinations of cytological slides without f...
- 1270.5: (a) Notwithstanding Section 1301, an application for the renewal of, and payment of the renewal fees...
- 1271: (a) A cytotechnologist shall not examine more than 80 gynecologic slides in a 24-hour period when pe...
- 1271.1: (a) Clinical laboratories which are licensed pursuant to this chapter and provide cytology services ...
- 1272: A clinical laboratory shall participate in a state-approved proficiency testing program and demonstr...
- 1272.4: The department shall establish standards for the evaluation of cytologic slides, for reporting the a...
- 1272.6: The department shall, on or before January 1, 1992, develop or adopt a proficiency testing program f...
- 1274: (a) A laboratory shall document to persons submitting cytologic samples for evaluation, on a quarter...
- 1275: The department shall develop and implement regulations for continuing education for persons licensed...
- 1280: It is unlawful for any person to represent himself or act as a licensed individual under this chapte...
- 1281: It is unlawful for any person to own, operate, maintain, direct, or engage in the business of operat...
- 1281.1: It is unlawful for any person, including a person who owns, operates, or directs a clinical laborato...
- 1282: It is unlawful for any person to engage in clinical laboratory practice in a clinical laboratory unl...
- 1282.2: It is unlawful for any person to perform venipuncture, skin puncture, or arterial puncture to collec...
- 1282.3: (a) It is unlawful for any person to act with willful or wanton disregard for a person's safety that...
- 1283: It is unlawful for any person to conduct, maintain, or operate a clinical laboratory unless he is a ...
- 1284: It is unlawful for a duly licensed physician and surgeon, or any person authorized to serve as direc...
- 1285: It is unlawful for any person conducting, maintaining, or operating a clinical laboratory to employ ...
- 1286: It is unlawful for any person to operate a school or conduct any course for the purpose of training ...
- 1287: (a) Any person who violates any provision of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable upon...
- 1288: Any person conducting or operating a clinical laboratory may accept assignments for tests only from ...
- 1288.3: (a) If a clinical laboratory employee, agent, or courier retrieves biological specimens located in a...
- 1288.5: No person may solicit or accept any biological specimen for clinical laboratory testing or examinati...
- 1289: The violating or attempting to violate, directly or indirectly, or assisting in or abetting the viol...
- 1290: With the exception of narcotics and dangerous drugs stored on the licensed clinical laboratory premi...
- 1291: Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit a licensed physician and surgeon from instructing or training...
- 1300: The amount of application, registration, and license fees under this chapter shall be as follows:
(a...
- 1300.1: The application and renewal fees for clinical laboratory licenses specified in Section 1300 shall be...
- 1300.2: Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the total fees collected under this chapter sha...
- 1301: (a) The annual renewal fee for a clinical laboratory license or registration set under this chapter ...
- 1301.1: Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the department may establish such license perio...
- 1302: (a) There is hereby established in the State Treasury, the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Fund.
(b)...
- 1310: If the department determines that a laboratory that has been issued a license or registration under ...
- 1311: The department shall have three years from the date of a violation of this chapter or of a regulatio...
- 1320: The department may deny, suspend, or revoke any license or registration issued under this chapter fo...
- 1321: For purposes of this chapter, a conviction means a plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction followi...
- 1322: The proceedings under this chapter for the suspension or revocation of a license or registration sha...
- 1323: The department may temporarily suspend a license or registration prior to any hearing, when it has d...
- 1324: Except for a person or entity whose license was revoked automatically under Section 1265, no person ...
- 1325: Notwithstanding Sections 1267 and 1322, the license or registration of a clinical laboratory that ha...
- 1326: The department may bring an action to enjoin the violation or threatened violation of this chapter o...
- 1327: The department may enter into agreements with the Secretary of Health and Human Services for the use...
- 1600: This chapter constitutes the chapter on dentistry of the Business and Professions Code. It may be kn...
- 1601.1: (a) There shall be in the Department of Consumer Affairs the Dental Board of California in which the...
- 1601.2: Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Dental Board of California in exercis...
- 1601.3: (a) All committees of the board have the authority to evaluate all suggestions or requests for regul...
- 1601.5: For purposes of Section 1601, "practicing dentist" includes a member of a faculty of any dental coll...
- 1602: All of the members of the board, except the public members, shall have been actively and legally eng...
- 1603: Except for the initial appointments, members of the board shall be appointed for a term of four year...
- 1603: A member of the Board of Dental Examiners who has served two terms shall not be eligible for reappoi...
- 1604: Each member of the board, upon his or her qualification, shall file with the executive officer his o...
- 1605: The Governor has power to remove from office at any time any member of the board for continued negle...
- 1606: The board shall elect a president, a vice president and a secretary from its membership. This sectio...
- 1607: The board shall meet regularly once each year in San Francisco and once each year in Los Angeles aft...
- 1608: Special meetings may be held at such times as the board may elect, or on the call of the president o...
- 1609: Meetings may be held at any time and place by unanimous consent evidenced either by writing or by th...
- 1610: Eight members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting.
- 1611: The board shall carry out the purposes and enforce the provisions of this chapter. It shall examine ...
- 1611.3: The board shall comply with the requirements of Section 138 by January 1, 2013. The board shall requ...
- 1611.5: The board may inspect the books, records, and premises of any dentist licensed under this chapter in...
- 1612: The board shall keep a record of the names of all persons to whom licenses have been granted by it t...
- 1613: The board shall have and use a seal bearing the name "Board of Dental Examiners of California."
- 1614: The board may adopt reasonably necessary rules not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter ...
- 1615: Each member of the board shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
The secre...
- 1616: The board shall have full power to employ all necessary investigators, clerical and other assistants...
- 1616.5: (a) The board, by and with the approval of the director, may appoint a person exempt from civil serv...
- 1616.6: There is hereby established within the board a full-time management level staff position, under the ...
- 1617: A copy of any part or all of the books of the board duly certified by the executive officer shall be...
- 1618: The original books, records, and papers of the board shall be kept at the office of the executive of...
- 1618.5: (a) The board shall provide to the Director of the Department of Managed Health Care a copy of any a...
- 1619: The examination papers of any applicant shall be kept for the period of one year and may then be des...
- 1619.1: Notwithstanding Section 1619, the board need not retain the National Board of Dental Examiners' exam...
- 1620.1: The Department of Consumer Affairs, in conjunction with the board and the Joint Committee on Boards,...
- 1621: The board shall utilize in the administration of its licensure examinations only examiners whom it h...
- 1625: Dentistry is the diagnosis or treatment, by surgery or other method, of diseases and lesions and the...
- 1625.1: (a) Any of the following entities may employ licensees and dental assistants and charge for the prof...
- 1625.2: (a) For purposes of subdivision (e) of Section 1625, the ownership or management, by a tax-exempt no...
- 1625.3: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon the incapacity or death of a dentist, if the re...
- 1625.4: (a) Where the dental practice of an incapacitated or deceased dentist is a sole proprietorship or wh...
- 1625.5: The following written notification shall be included with, or as part of, all application forms requ...
- 1626: It is unlawful for any person to engage in the practice of dentistry in the state, either privately ...
- 1626.2: A dentist licensed under this chapter is a licentiate for purposes of paragraph (2) of subdivision (...
- 1626.5: (a) A licensed dentist, or group of dentists, or dental corporation shall not share in any fee charg...
- 1626.5: In addition to the exemptions set forth in Section 1626, the operations by bona fide students of reg...
- 1627: The license of any dentist, existing at the time of the passage of this chapter, shall continue in f...
- 1627.5: (a) No person licensed under this chapter, who in good faith renders emergency care at the scene of ...
- 1627.7: (a) A dentist shall not be liable for damages for injury or death caused in an emergency situation o...
- 1628: Any person over 18 years of age is eligible to take an examination before the board upon making appl...
- 1628.5: The board may deny an application to take an examination for licensure as a dentist or dental auxili...
- 1628.7: (a) The board may, upon an applicant's successful completion of the board examination, in its sole d...
- 1629: (a) Any member of the board may inquire of any applicant for examination concerning his or her quali...
- 1630: The examination of applicants for a license to practice dentistry in this state, as described in Sec...
- 1632: (a) The board shall require each applicant to successfully complete the Part I and Part II written e...
- 1632.1: (a) With regard to the portfolio examination specified in paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) of Sectio...
- 1632.5: (a) Prior to implementation of paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) of Section 1632, the department's Of...
- 1632.6: (a) As part of the ongoing implementation of paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) of Section 1632, the b...
- 1633: (a) When an applicant for a license has received a grading of 85 percent or above in any given subje...
- 1634: A person successfully passing the examination shall be registered as a licensed dentist on the board...
- 1634.1: Notwithstanding Section 1634, the board may grant a license to practice dentistry to an applicant wh...
- 1634.2: (a) An advanced education program's compliance with subdivision (c) of Section 1634.1 shall be regul...
- 1635.5: (a) Notwithstanding Section 1634, the board may grant a license to practice dentistry to an applican...
- 1635.7: Any person licensed pursuant to Section 1635.5 shall be required to fulfill continuing education req...
- 1636.4: (a) The Legislature recognizes the need to ensure that graduates of foreign dental schools who have ...
- 1636.6: The Legislature hereby finds and declares that in order to assure that the people of California rece...
- 1638: (a) For purposes of this article, "oral and maxillofacial surgery" means the diagnosis and surgical ...
- 1638.1: (a) (1) A person licensed pursuant to Section 1634 who wishes to perform elective facial cosmetic su...
- 1638.2: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person licensed pursuant to Section 1634 who holds...
- 1638.3: (a) The fee to renew an oral and maxillofacial surgery permit shall be the same as that for renewal ...
- 1638.5: An oral and maxillofacial surgery permit shall be automatically suspended for any period of time dur...
- 1638.7: The next occupational analysis of dental licensees and oral and maxillofacial facial surgeons pursua...
- 1640: Any person meeting all the following eligibility requirements may apply for a special permit:
(a) Fu...
- 1640.1: As used in this article, the following definitions shall apply:
(a) "Specialty" means an area of den...
- 1640.2: (a) The board shall limit the number of special permits to practice in a discipline at a college to ...
- 1640.3: The board may issue a special permit to a dentist who does not meet the eligibility requirements pur...
- 1642: Every person to whom a special permit is issued shall be entitled to practice in their recognized sp...
- 1645: (a) Effective with the 1974 license renewal period, if the board determines that the public health a...
- 1645.1: (a) By January 1, 2006, a person who holds a registered dental assistant license shall provide evide...
- 1646: "General anesthesia," as used in this article, means a controlled state of depressed consciousness o...
- 1646.1: (a) No dentist shall administer or order the administration of general anesthesia on an outpatient b...
- 1646.2: (a) A dentist who desires to administer or order the administration of general anesthesia shall appl...
- 1646.3: Any dentist holding a permit shall maintain medical history, physical evaluation, and general anesth...
- 1646.4: (a) Prior to the issuance or renewal of a permit for the use of general anesthesia, the board may, a...
- 1646.5: A permittee shall be required to complete 24 hours of approved courses of study related to general a...
- 1646.6: (a) The application fee for a permit or renewal under this article shall not exceed two hundred fift...
- 1646.7: (a) A violation of this article constitutes unprofessional conduct and is grounds for the revocation...
- 1646.8: Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to authorize a dentist to administer or directly supervis...
- 1646.9: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including, but not limited to, Section 1646.1, a phy...
- 1647: (a) The Legislature finds and declares that a commendable patient safety record has been maintained ...
- 1647.1: (a) As used in this article, "conscious sedation" means a minimally depressed level of consciousness...
- 1647.2: (a) No dentist shall administer or order the administration of, conscious sedation on an outpatient ...
- 1647.3: (a) A dentist who desires to administer or order the administration of conscious sedation, shall app...
- 1647.5: A permittee shall be required to complete 15 hours of approved courses of study related to conscious...
- 1647.6: A physical evaluation and medical history shall be taken before the administration of conscious seda...
- 1647.7: (a) Prior to the issuance or renewal of a permit to administer conscious sedation, the board may, at...
- 1647.8: (a) The application fee for a permit or renewal under this article shall not exceed two hundred fift...
- 1647.9: A violation of any provision of this article constitutes unprofessional conduct and is grounds for t...
- 1647.10: As used in this article:
(a) "Oral conscious sedation" means a minimally depressed level of consciou...
- 1647.11: (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 1647.2, a dentist may not administer oral conscious s...
- 1647.12: A dentist who desires to administer, or order the administration of, oral conscious sedation for min...
- 1647.13: A certificate holder shall be required to complete a minimum of 7 hours of approved courses of study...
- 1647.14: (a) A physical evaluation and medical history shall be taken before the administration of, oral cons...
- 1647.15: The fee for an application for initial certification or renewal under this article shall not exceed ...
- 1647.16: Any office in which oral conscious sedation of minor patients is conducted pursuant to this article ...
- 1647.17: A violation of any provision of this article constitutes unprofessional conduct and is grounds for t...
- 1647.18: As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings:
(a) "Adult patient" means ...
- 1647.19: (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 1647.2, a dentist may not administer oral conscious s...
- 1647.20: A dentist who desires to administer, or order the administration of, oral conscious sedation for adu...
- 1647.21: A certificate holder shall be required to complete a minimum of seven hours of approved courses of s...
- 1647.22: (a) A physical evaluation and medical history shall be taken before the administration of oral consc...
- 1647.23: The fee for an application for initial certification or renewal under this article shall not exceed ...
- 1647.24: Any office in which oral conscious sedation of adult patients is conducted pursuant to this article ...
- 1647.25: A violation of any provision of this article constitutes unprofessional conduct and is grounds for t...
- 1647.26: The sum of forty-seven thousand dollars ($47,000) is hereby appropriated for the 2005-06 fiscal year...
- 1648.10: (a) The Board of Dental Examiners of California shall develop and distribute a fact sheet describing...
- 1648.15: The fact sheet set forth by Section 1648.10 shall be provided by a dentist to every new patient and ...
- 1648.20: (a) This article shall not apply to any surgical, endodontic, periodontic, or orthodontic dental pro...
- 1650: Every person who is now or hereafter licensed to practice dentistry in this state shall register on ...
- 1651: Any dentist who removes his place of practice shall register each change made by him within one mont...
- 1653: The secretary shall issue a certificate of registration for each licentiate hereunder and for each o...
- 1654: Any licensed person who shall change his or her name according to law shall, within 10 days after th...
- 1655: Any failure on the part of any person holding such license to register it as directed for a period o...
- 1656: On and after January 1, 1985, every dentist licensed to practice dentistry in the state and any pers...
- 1657: (a) A licensed dentist may operate one mobile dental clinic or unit registered as a dental office or...
- 1658: (a) When a licensee desires to have more than one place of practice, he or she shall, prior to the o...
- 1658.1: Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit a licensed dentist from maintaining more than...
- 1658.2: (a) "Additional place of practice," as used in this article, means any place of practice that increa...
- 1658.3: Nothing in this article shall limit or authorize the board to limit the number of additional places ...
- 1658.4: The transfer after October 1, 1961, of any additional office from one licentiate to another, other t...
- 1658.5: The transfer of the location of one additional office to a new location within the same county shall...
- 1658.6: Failure to comply with the provisions of this article relating to the operation of additional office...
- 1658.7: The board shall have the power to carry out the provisions of this article by uniform rules and regu...
- 1658.8: Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a licensed dentist may operate a mobile dental ...
- 1670: Any licentiate may have his license revoked or suspended or be reprimanded or be placed on probation...
- 1670.1: (a) Any licentiate under this chapter may have his or her license revoked or suspended or be reprima...
- 1670.2: (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, any proceeding initiated by the board against a li...
- 1671: The board may discipline a licentiate by placing him or her on probation under various terms and con...
- 1672: (a) When the board disciplines a licensee by placing him or her on probation, the board may, in addi...
- 1678: Upon the revocation of any license, the fact shall be noted upon the records of the board and the li...
- 1680: Unprofessional conduct by a person licensed under this chapter is defined as, but is not limited to,...
- 1681: In addition to other acts constituting unprofessional conduct within the meaning of this chapter, it...
- 1682: In addition to other acts constituting unprofessional conduct under this chapter, it is unprofession...
- 1683: (a) Every dentist, dental health professional, or other licensed health professional who performs a ...
- 1684: In addition to other acts constituting unprofessional conduct under this chapter, it is unprofession...
- 1684.1: (a) (1) A licensee who fails or refuses to comply with a request for the dental records of a patient...
- 1684.5: (a) In addition to other acts constituting unprofessional conduct under this chapter, it is unprofes...
- 1685: In addition to other acts constituting unprofessional conduct under this chapter, it is unprofession...
- 1686: A person whose license, certificate, or permit has been revoked or suspended, who has been placed on...
- 1687: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, with regard to an individual who is required to regi...
- 1695: It is the intent of the Legislature that the Board of Dental Examiners of California seek ways and m...
- 1695.1: As used in this article:
(a) "Board" means the Board of Dental Examiners of California.
(b) "Committ...
- 1695.2: One or more diversion evaluation committees is hereby created in the state to be established by the ...
- 1695.3: Each member of a committee shall receive per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
- 1695.4: The board shall administer the provisions of this article.
- 1695.5: (a) The board shall establish criteria for the acceptance, denial, or termination of licentiates in ...
- 1695.6: A committee created under this article operates under the direction of the program manager. The prog...
- 1696: Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 o...
- 1697: Each licentiate who requests participation in a diversion program shall agree to cooperate with the ...
- 1698: (a) After the committee and the program manager in their discretion have determined that a licentiat...
- 1699: The board shall provide for the representation of any person making reports to a committee or the bo...
- 1700: Any person, company, or association is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be...
- 1700.5: Notwithstanding Section 1700, any person who holds a valid, unrevoked, and unsuspended certificate a...
- 1701: Any person is for the first offense guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punishable by a fine of not...
- 1701.1: (a) Notwithstanding Sections 1700 and 1701, a person who willfully, under circumstances or condition...
- 1701.5: Any association or partnership or corporation or group of three or more dentists, engaging in practi...
- 1702: Nothing in this article shall prohibit the conferring of degrees and the bestowing of diplomas by re...
- 1703: The board, or any member or officer thereof, may prefer a complaint for violation of this chapter, o...
- 1705: In addition to the other proceedings provided for in this chapter, the superior court of any county,...
- 1705.5: Whenever any person has engaged or is about to engage in any acts or practices which constitute or w...
- 1706: (a) Every complete upper or lower denture fabricated by a licensed dentist, or fabricated pursuant t...
- 1715: Licenses issued under the provisions of this chapter, unless specifically excepted, expire at 12 mid...
- 1715.1: The provisions of Sections 1715, 1716, 1717, 1718, 1718.1, 1718.2, and 1718.3 shall also apply to an...
- 1715.5: (a) A licensee shall, upon his or her initial licensure and any subsequent application for renewal, ...
- 1716: Nothing contained in this chapter shall exempt from the payment of the renewal fee any person author...
- 1716.1: (a) Notwithstanding Section 1716, the board may, by regulation, reduce the renewal fee for a license...
- 1717: To renew an unexpired license, the licensee shall, before the time at which the license would otherw...
- 1718: Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, an expired license may be renewed at any time within f...
- 1718.1: A suspended license is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article, but s...
- 1718.2: A revoked license is subject to expiration as provided in this article, but it may not be renewed. I...
- 1718.3: (a) A license which is not renewed within five years after its expiration may not be renewed, restor...
- 1719: Upon collection by the proper officer of the court, 75 percent of the fines or forfeitures of bail i...
- 1720: The executive officer shall on or before the 10th day of each month pay to the State Treasury and re...
- 1721: Except as provided in Sections 1721.5, 1944, and 1945, all funds received by the Treasurer under the...
- 1721.5: (a) All funds received by the Treasurer pursuant to Section 1725 shall be placed in the State Dental...
- 1722: The amount of seven hundred dollars ($700) of the fund shall constitute a revolving fund and may be ...
- 1723: All fines, penalties, and forfeitures, including the examination fee, imposed or collected by the bo...
- 1724: The amount of charges and fees for dentists licensed pursuant to this chapter shall be established b...
- 1724.5: The amount of fees payable in connection with permits issued under Section 1701.5 is as follows:
(a)...
- 1725: The amount of the fees prescribed by this chapter that relate to the licensing and permitting of den...
- 1740: It is the intention of the Legislature by enactment of this article to permit the full utilization o...
- 1741: As used in this article:
(a) "Board" means the Dental Board of California.
(b) "Direct supervision" ...
- 1742: (a) There is hereby created a Dental Assisting Council of the Dental Board of California, which shal...
- 1743: (a) The board shall have the following duties and authority related to applications:
(1) Shall revie...
- 1747: The procedure on all matters relating to the denial, suspension, or revocation of licenses granted u...
- 1749.1: In addition to any other examination required by this article, the board may require applicants for ...
- 1750: (a) A dental assistant is an individual who, without a license, may perform basic supportive dental ...
- 1750.1: (a) A dental assistant may perform the following duties under the general supervision of a supervisi...
- 1750.2: (a) On and after January 1, 2010, the board may issue an orthodontic assistant permit to a person wh...
- 1750.3: A person holding an orthodontic assistant permit pursuant to Section 1750.2 may perform the followin...
- 1750.4: (a) On and after January 1, 2010, the board may issue a dental sedation assistant permit to a person...
- 1750.5: A person holding a dental sedation assistant permit pursuant to Section 1750.4 may perform the follo...
- 1751: (a) At least once every seven years, the board shall review the allowable duties for dental assistan...
- 1752.1: (a) The board may license as a registered dental assistant a person who files an application and sub...
- 1752.3: (a) On and after January 1, 2010, the written examination for registered dental assistant licensure ...
- 1752.4: (a) A registered dental assistant may perform all of the following duties:
(1) All duties that a den...
- 1752.6: A registered dental assistant licensed on and after January 1, 2010, shall provide evidence of succe...
- 1753: (a) On and after January 1, 2010, the board may license as a registered dental assistant in extended...
- 1753.4: On and after January 1, 2010, each applicant for licensure as a registered dental assistant in exten...
- 1753.5: (a) A registered dental assistant in extended functions licensed on or after January 1, 2010, is aut...
- 1753.6: (a) Each person who holds a license as a registered dental assistant in extended functions on the op...
- 1753.7: (a) A licensed dentist may simultaneously utilize in his or her practice no more than three register...
- 1765: No person other than a licensed dental hygienist or a licensed dentist may engage in the practice of...
- 1767: The board shall adopt regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this article.
- 1771: Any person, other than a person who has been issued a license or permit by the board, who holds hims...
- 1773: The provisions of Sections 1715, 1718, 1718.1, 1718.2, and 1718.3 shall govern the renewal, restorat...
- 1777: While employed by or practicing in a primary care clinic or specialty clinic licensed pursuant to Se...
- 1800: A dental corporation is a corporation that is authorized to render professional services, as defined...
- 1804: Notwithstanding subdivision (i) of Section 1680 and subdivision (g) of Section 1701, the name of a d...
- 1805: Except as provided in Sections 13401.5 and 13403 of the Corporations Code, each director, shareholde...
- 1806: The income of a dental corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shareholde...
- 1807: A dental corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which or the failure to do whic...
- 1808: The board may formulate and enforce rules and regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives o...
- 1900: It is the intent of the Legislature by enactment of this article to permit the full utilization of r...
- 1901: (a) There is hereby created within the jurisdiction of the Dental Board of California a Dental Hygie...
- 1902: For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply:
(a) "Committee" means the Dental Hygi...
- 1902.1: Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the committee in exercising its licensing...
- 1903: (a) (1) The committee shall consist of nine members appointed by the Governor. Four shall be public ...
- 1904: The committee shall meet at least two times each calendar year and shall conduct additional meetings...
- 1905: (a) The committee shall perform the following functions:
(1) Evaluate all registered dental hygienis...
- 1905.1: Until January 1, 2010, the committee may contract with the dental board to carry out any of the prov...
- 1905.2: Recommendations by the committee regarding scope of practice issues, as specified in paragraph (8) o...
- 1906: (a) The committee shall adopt, amend, and revoke regulations to implement the requirements of this a...
- 1907: The following functions may be performed by a registered dental hygienist, in addition to those auth...
- 1908: (a) The practice of dental hygiene includes dental hygiene assessment and development, planning, and...
- 1909: A registered dental hygienist is authorized to perform the following procedures under direct supervi...
- 1909.5: Courses of instruction for direct supervision duties added to the scope of practice of dental hygien...
- 1910: A registered dental hygienist is authorized to perform the following procedures under general superv...
- 1911: (a) A registered dental hygienist may provide, without supervision, educational services, oral healt...
- 1912: Any procedure performed or service provided by a registered dental hygienist that does not specifica...
- 1913: Unless otherwise specified in this chapter, a registered dental hygienist may perform any procedure ...
- 1914: A registered dental hygienist may use any material or device approved for use in the performance of ...
- 1915: No person other than a registered dental hygienist, registered dental hygienist in alternative funct...
- 1916: (a) An applicant for licensure under this article shall furnish electronic fingerprint images for su...
- 1917: The committee shall grant initial licensure as a registered dental hygienist to a person who satisfi...
- 1917.1: (a) The committee may grant a license as a registered dental hygienist to an applicant who has not t...
- 1917.2: (a) The committee shall license as a registered dental hygienist a third- or fourth-year dental stud...
- 1918: The committee shall license as a registered dental hygienist in extended functions a person who meet...
- 1920: (a) A person who holds a current and active license as a registered dental hygienist in extended fun...
- 1921: In addition to any other duties or functions authorized by law, a registered dental hygienist in ext...
- 1922: The committee shall license as a registered dental hygienist in alternative practice a person who de...
- 1924: A person licensed as a registered dental hygienist who has completed the prescribed classes through ...
- 1925: A registered dental hygienist in alternative practice may practice, pursuant to subdivision (a) of S...
- 1926: A registered dental hygienist in alternative practice may perform the duties authorized pursuant to ...
- 1927: A registered dental hygienist in alternative practice shall not do any of the following:
(a) Infer, ...
- 1928: A registered dental hygienist in alternative practice may submit or allow to be submitted any insura...
- 1929: (a) A registered dental hygienist in alternative practice may hire other registered dental hygienist...
- 1930: A registered dental hygienist in alternative practice shall provide to the committee documentation o...
- 1931: (a) (1) A dental hygienist in alternative practice may provide services to a patient without obtaini...
- 1932: (a) The committee may, in its sole discretion, issue a probationary license to an applicant who has ...
- 1933: A licensee shall be issued a substitute license upon request and payment of the required fee. The re...
- 1934: A licensee who changes his or her address of record shall notify the committee within 30 days of the...
- 1935: If not renewed, a license issued under the provisions of this article, unless specifically excepted,...
- 1936: Except as otherwise provided in this article, an expired license may be renewed at any time within f...
- 1936.1: (a) If the committee determines that the public health and safety would be served by requiring all h...
- 1937: A suspended license is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article. The r...
- 1938: A revoked license is subject to expiration as provided in this article. A revoked license may not be...
- 1939: A license that is not renewed within five years after its expiration may not be renewed, restored, r...
- 1940: (a) A licensee who desires an inactive license shall submit an application to the committee on a for...
- 1941: It is the intent of this article that the committee grant or renew approval of only those educationa...
- 1943: (a) The committee may deny an application to take an examination for licensure as a registered denta...
- 1944: (a) The committee shall establish by resolution the amount of the fees that relate to the licensing ...
- 1947: A license issued under this article and a license issued under this chapter to a registered dental h...
- 1949: A licensee may have his or her license revoked or suspended, or may be reprimanded or placed on prob...
- 1950: (a) A licensee may have his or her license revoked or suspended, or may be reprimanded or placed on ...
- 1950.5: Unprofessional conduct by a person licensed under this article is defined as, but is not limited to,...
- 1951: The committee may discipline a licensee by placing him or her on probation under various terms and c...
- 1952: It is unprofessional conduct for a person licensed under this article to do any of the following:
(a...
- 1953: (a) A registered dental hygienist, registered dental hygienist in alternative practice, or registere...
- 1954: (a) It is unprofessional conduct for a person licensed under this article to perform, or hold himsel...
- 1955: (a) (1) A licensee who fails or refuses to comply with a request for a patient's dental or dental hy...
- 1956: It is unprofessional conduct for a person licensed under this article to require, either directly or...
- 1957: (a) A person whose license has been revoked or suspended, who has been placed on probation, or whose...
- 1958: A person, company, or association is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be punished...
- 1959: A person who holds a valid, unrevoked, and unsuspended license as a registered dental hygienist, reg...
- 1960: For the first offense, a person is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punishable by a fine of not ...
- 1961: A person who willfully, under circumstances that cause risk of bodily harm, serious physical or ment...
- 1962: (a) An association, partnership, corporation, or group of three or more registered dental hygienists...
- 1963: The committee may file a complaint for violation of any part of this article with any court of compe...
- 1964: In addition to the other proceedings provided for in this article, on application of the committee, ...
- 1965: If a person has engaged in or is about to engage in an act that constitutes an offense against this ...
- 1966: (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the committee seek ways and means to identify and rehab...
- 1966.1: (a) The committee shall establish criteria for the acceptance, denial, or termination of licensees i...
- 1966.2: Each diversion evaluation committee shall have the following duties and responsibilities:
(a) To eva...
- 1966.3: Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 o...
- 1966.4: Each licensee who requests participation in a diversion program shall agree to cooperate with the tr...
- 1966.5: (a) After a diversion evaluation committee, in its discretion, has determined that a licensee has be...
- 1966.6: The committee shall provide for the representation of any person making reports to a diversion evalu...
- 1970: There is hereby established in the Dental Board of California the Dental Corps Loan Repayment Progra...
- 1970.5: It is the intent of the this article that the Dental Board of California, in consultation with the O...
- 1971: For the purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings:
(a) "Board" means...
- 1972: (a) Program applicants shall possess a current valid license to practice dentistry in this state iss...
- 1973: (a) The Dentally Underserved Account is hereby created in the State Dentistry Fund.
(b) The sum of t...
- 1975: The terms of loan repayment granted under this article shall be as follows:
(a) After a program part...
- 1976: (a) On January 1, 2003, applications from dentists for program participation may be submitted.
(b) T...
- 2000: This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Medical Practice Act. Whenever a reference is ma...
- 2001: (a) There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs a Medical Board of California that consists of 15...
- 2001.1: Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Medical Board of California in exerci...
- 2002: Unless otherwise expressly provided, the term "board" as used in this chapter means the Medical Boar...
- 2004: The board shall have the responsibility for the following:
(a) The enforcement of the disciplinary a...
- 2006: (a) Any reference in this chapter to an investigation by the board shall be deemed to refer to a joi...
- 2007: Members of the board shall only be appointed from persons who have been citizens of this state for a...
- 2008: The board may appoint panels from its members for the purpose of fulfilling the obligations establis...
- 2010: Each member of the board shall be appointed for a term of four years.
Vacancies occuring on the boar...
- 2011: The appointing power may remove any member of the board for neglect of duty required by this chapter...
- 2012: The board shall elect a president, a vice president, and a secretary from its members.
- 2013: (a) The board and a panel appointed under this chapter may convene from time to time as deemed neces...
- 2014: Notice of each meeting of the board shall be given in accordance with the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting ...
- 2015: The president of the board may call meetings of any duly appointed and created committee or panel of...
- 2015.5: The board may establish advisory committees consisting of persons who have a physician's and surgeon...
- 2016: Each member of the board and its committees shall receive per diem and travel expenses as provided i...
- 2017: The board and each committee or panel shall keep an official record of all their proceedings.
- 2018: The board may adopt, amend, or repeal, in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Proce...
- 2019: The office of the board shall be in the City of Sacramento. Suboffices may be established in the Cit...
- 2020: (a) The board may employ an executive director exempt from the provisions of the Civil Service Act a...
- 2021: (a) If the board publishes a directory pursuant to Section 112, it may require persons licensed purs...
- 2022: The directory shall be prima facie evidence of the authority of the persons named therein to practic...
- 2023: (a) The board, in conjunction with the Health Professions Education Foundation, shall study the issu...
- 2023.5: (a) The board, in conjunction with the Board of Registered Nursing, and in consultation with the Phy...
- 2024: (a) The board may select and contract with necessary medical consultants who are licensed physicians...
- 2025: The board through its regular mailing shall notify all licensees of the existence of pain management...
- 2027: (a) The board shall post on the Internet the following information in its possession, custody, or co...
- 2028: (a) The Medical Board of California shall consult with the California State Board of Pharmacy and co...
- 2028.5: (a) The board may establish a pilot program to expand the practice of telemedicine in this state.
(b...
- 2029: The board shall keep a copy of a complaint it receives regarding the poor quality of care rendered b...
- 2030: The provisions of this chapter insofar as they are substantially the same as provisions relating to ...
- 2031: The rights given by any certificate issued under any preceding medical practice act are not affected...
- 2032: "Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, or other organiz...
- 2033: "Professional" relates to the art and science of medicine and surgery and to such other arts and sci...
- 2034: "Medical licensing authority" refers to any officer, board, commission, or department of another sta...
- 2036: Whenever a course of instruction is required for any certificate, it shall be satisfied by a residen...
- 2037: Whenever any requirement is provided for any certificate relating to a medical school or hospital, o...
- 2038: Whenever the words "diagnose" or "diagnosis" are used in this chapter, they include any undertaking ...
- 2039: All certificates issued by the board shall state the extent and character of the practice which is p...
- 2040: The terms "license" and "certificate" as used in this chapter are deemed to be synonomous.
- 2041: The term "licensee" as used in this chapter means the holder of a physician's and surgeon's certific...
- 2050: The Division of Licensing shall issue one form of certificate to all physicians and surgeons license...
- 2051: The physician's and surgeon's certificate authorizes the holder to use drugs or devices in or upon h...
- 2052: (a) Notwithstanding Section 146, any person who practices or attempts to practice, or who advertises...
- 2052.5: (a) The proposed registration program developed pursuant to subdivision (b) shall provide that, for ...
- 2053.5: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person who complies with the requirements of Secti...
- 2053.6: (a) A person who provides services pursuant to Section 2053.5 that are not unlawful under Section 20...
- 2054: (a) Any person who uses in any sign, business card, or letterhead, or, in an advertisement, the word...
- 2055: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person issued a physician's and surgeon's certificate ...
- 2056: (a) The purpose of this section is to provide protection against retaliation for physicians who advo...
- 2056.1: (a) The purpose of this section is to ensure that health care service plans and their contracting en...
- 2058: (a) Nothing in this chapter prohibits service in the case of emergency, or the domestic administrati...
- 2060: Nothing in this chapter applies to any practitioner located outside this state, when in actual consu...
- 2061: Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as limiting the practice of other persons licensed, certi...
- 2062: Testing and guidance programs in schools, colleges, and universities and physical fitness tests give...
- 2063: Nothing in this chapter shall be construed so as to discriminate against any particular school of me...
- 2064: Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent a regularly matriculated student undertaking a...
- 2064.1: Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2064 or any other provisions of this chapter, a regularly ...
- 2064.2: No medical school or clinical training program shall deny access to elective clerkships or preceptor...
- 2065: Unless otherwise provided by law, no postgraduate trainee, intern, resident, postdoctoral fellow, or...
- 2066: (a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit a foreign medical graduate from engaging ...
- 2067: An applicant for a physician's and surgeon's certificate who is found by the Division of Licensing t...
- 2068: This chapter shall not be construed to prohibit any person from providing nutritional advice or givi...
- 2069: (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a medical assistant may administer medication on...
- 2070: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a medical assistant may perform venipuncture or skin pun...
- 2071: The Division of Licensing shall adopt and administer regulations that establish standards for techni...
- 2072: Notwithstanding any other provision of law and subject to the provisions of the State Civil Service ...
- 2073: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person who is licensed to practice medicine in any o...
- 2074: Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit the employment of a licensed physician and surgeon practicing...
- 2075: The performance of acupuncture by a certified acupuncturist or other licentiate legally authorized t...
- 2076: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a physician and surgeon who is licensed to practice ...
- 2076.5: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a physician and surgeon lawfully practicing medicine...
- 2077: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a physician and surgeon may delegate various orthopa...
- 2078: (a) As used in this section, "DMSO" means dimethyl sulfoxide.
(b) A licensed physician and surgeon s...
- 2079: (a) A physician and surgeon who desires to administer general anesthesia in the office of a dentist ...
- 2080: (a) Except as otherwise provided, the provisions of this article applicable to applications generall...
- 2081: Each application shall be made upon a form provided by the Division of Licensing, and each applicati...
- 2082: Each application shall include the following:
(a) A diploma issued by an approved medical school. Th...
- 2083: (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), each application for a certificate shall be accompanied b...
- 2084: The Division of Licensing may approve every school which substantially complies with the requirement...
- 2085: (a) Notwithstanding Section 2084, a graduate of an approved medical school located in the United Sta...
- 2086: The Division of Licensing may utilize medical consultants and investigators employed by the board pu...
- 2087: If any medical school is not approved by the Division of Licensing or any applicant for licensure is...
- 2088: (a) An applicant for a physician's and surgeon's license who is otherwise eligible for that license ...
- 2089: (a) Each applicant for a physician's and surgeon's certificate shall show by official transcript or ...
- 2089.5: (a) Clinical instruction in the subjects listed in subdivision (b) of Section 2089 shall meet the re...
- 2089.7: (a) The requirement of four weeks of clinical course instruction in family medicine shall apply only...
- 2090: "Human sexuality" as used in Sections 2089 and 2191 means the study of a human being as a sexual bei...
- 2091: The requirement that instruction in child abuse detection and treatment be provided shall apply only...
- 2091.1: The requirement that instruction in alcoholism and other chemical substance dependency be provided a...
- 2091.2: The requirements that instruction in spousal or partner abuse detection and treatment be provided sh...
- 2096: (a) In addition to other requirements of this chapter, before a physician's and surgeon's license ma...
- 2099: Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the Division of Licensing may delegate to any m...
- 2099.5: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an originating license for an osteopathic physician's an...
- 2100: The provisions of this article shall apply to all applications of graduates of medical schools locat...
- 2102: An applicant whose professional instruction was acquired in a country other than the United States o...
- 2103: An applicant who is a citizen of the United States shall be eligible for a physician's and surgeon's...
- 2104: The Division of Licensing shall approve programs of supervised clinical training in hospitals for th...
- 2104.5: The board, in consultation with various medical schools located in California, the Office of Statewi...
- 2105: No hospital licensed by this state, or operated by the state or a political subdivision thereof, or ...
- 2107: (a) The Legislature intends that the board shall have the authority to substitute postgraduate educa...
- 2111: (a) Physicians who are not citizens but who meet the requirements of subdivision (b), are legally ad...
- 2112: (a) Physicians who are not citizens but are legally admitted to the United States and who seek postg...
- 2113: (a) Any person who does not immediately qualify for a physician's and surgeon's certificate under th...
- 2115: (a) Physicians who are not citizens but are legally admitted to the United States and who seek postg...
- 2135: The board shall issue a physician and surgeon's certificate to an applicant who meets all of the fol...
- 2135.5: Upon review and recommendation, the Division of Licensing may determine that an applicant for a phys...
- 2141: (a) An applicant under this article shall file a verified application on a form furnished by the Div...
- 2143: An applicant for a reciprocity certificate need not have completed the first year of postgraduate tr...
- 2144: The Division of Licensing may make an independent investigation of the educational qualifications an...
- 2151: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Division of Licensing may issue a physician and surg...
- 2153: In addition to the requirements of Section 164, a certificate issued under this article shall includ...
- 2153.5: Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the Osteopathic Medical Board of California shall issue...
- 2155: For the purposes of this article:
(a) "Division" means the Division of Licensing.
(b) "The practice ...
- 2160: The interest to be paid shall be two percentage points less than the authorized interest rate on Cal...
- 2163: The loan shall be repayable to the Contingent Fund of the Medical Board of California in equal or gr...
- 2164: Where any borrower who has obtained one or more loans under this article engages in the practice of ...
- 2166: The liability to repay the unpaid balance of the loan and accrued interest thereon shall be cancelle...
- 2167: The division may assess a charge with respect to a loan made under this article for failure of the b...
- 2168: (a) A special faculty permit authorizes the holder to practice medicine only within the medical scho...
- 2168.1: (a) Any person who meets all of the following eligibility requirements may apply for a special facul...
- 2168.2: An application for a special faculty permit shall be made on a form prescribed by the Division of Li...
- 2168.3: A special faculty permit may be denied, suspended, or revoked for any violation that would be ground...
- 2168.4: (a) A special faculty permit expires and becomes invalid at midnight on the last day of the permitho...
- 2168.5: The Medical Board of California shall report to the Legislature by December 31, 2011, on the status ...
- 2169: A person who holds a special faculty permit shall meet the continuing medical education requirements...
- 2170: (a) All applicants for a physician's and surgeon's certificate shall take the examination provided f...
- 2171: All examinations shall be designed to ascertain the applicant' s fitness to practice medicine. Unles...
- 2175: State examination records shall be kept on file by the board until June 1, 2070. Examinees shall be ...
- 2176: Examinations for a physician's and surgeon's certificate may be conducted by the Division of Licensi...
- 2177: (a) A passing score is required for an entire examination or for each part of an examination, as est...
- 2179: The Division of Licensing shall insure that nutrition is included on the examination for a certifica...
- 2183: An applicant for a physician's and surgeon's certificate shall pass the national examination for med...
- 2184: (a) Each applicant shall obtain on the written examination a passing score, established by the board...
- 2186: An applicant who is a diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners shall not be required to ...
- 2190: In order to ensure the continuing competence of licensed physicians and surgeons, the board shall ad...
- 2190.1: (a) The continuing medical education standards of Section 2190 may be met by educational activities ...
- 2190.2: The Division of Licensing shall establish criteria that providers of continuing medical education sh...
- 2190.3: All general internists and family physicians who have a patient population of which over 25 percent ...
- 2190.5: (a) All physicians and surgeons shall complete a mandatory continuing education course in the subje...
- 2191: (a) In determining its continuing education requirements, the Division of Licensing shall consider i...
- 2191.1: The Division of Licensing shall encourage every physician and surgeon to take a course in pharmacolo...
- 2191.2: The division shall encourage every physician and surgeon to take a course in geriatric medicine, inc...
- 2196: The board shall periodically develop and disseminate information and educational material regarding ...
- 2196.1: The board shall periodically develop and disseminate information and educational material regarding ...
- 2196.2: The board shall periodically develop and disseminate information and educational material regarding ...
- 2196.5: The board shall periodically disseminate information and educational material regarding the detectio...
- 2196.6: The board shall periodically disseminate information and educational material regarding the preventi...
- 2196.7: The board shall convene a working group of interested parties to discuss nutrition and lifestyle beh...
- 2198: (a) This article shall be known and may be cited as the Cultural and Linguistic Competency of Physic...
- 2198.1: For purposes of this article, "cultural and linguistic competency" means cultural and linguistic abi...
- 2200: California is currently experiencing a geographical and specialty maldistribution of physicians and ...
- 2201: For the purposes of this article:
(a) "Commission" means the California Healthcare Workforce Policy ...
- 2202: The division shall administer the loan program to licensed physicians and surgeons.
- 2204: No licensed physician and surgeon shall be awarded a loan under this article unless he or she meets ...
- 2205: Applications for loans shall be made to the division, upon forms provided by it, at the times and in...
- 2206: The division shall award loans on the basis of local need and those areas of the state which are def...
- 2208: Loans made pursuant to this article shall be repayable to the Contingent Fund of the Medical Board o...
- 2209: The liability to repay the loan shall be cancelled upon the death of the borrower, or if the divisio...
- 2210: (a) In addition to the principal of the loan, interest shall accrue on the principal of all loans ma...
- 2212: The division may assess a charge with respect to a loan made under this article for failure of the b...
- 2213: The commission shall, under the provisions of this article, make a determination in priority as to w...
- 2215: The Legislature finds and declares that in this state, significant surgeries are being performed in ...
- 2216: On or after July 1, 1996, no physician and surgeon shall perform procedures in an outpatient setting...
- 2216.1: On and after July 1, 2000, it is unprofessional conduct for a physician and surgeon to perform proce...
- 2216.2: (a) It is unprofessional conduct for a physician and surgeon to fail to provide adequate security by...
- 2217: The Division of Licensing of the Medical Board of California may adopt regulations to implement this...
- 2220: Except as otherwise provided by law, the board may take action against all persons guilty of violati...
- 2220.05: (a) In order to ensure that its resources are maximized for the protection of the public, the Medica...
- 2220.08: (a) Except for reports received by the board pursuant to Section 805 that may be treated as complain...
- 2220.5: (a) The Medical Board of California is the only licensing board that is authorized to investigate or...
- 2220.6: The board shall investigate any licensee against whom an information or indictment has been filed th...
- 2220.7: (a) A physician and surgeon shall not include or permit to be included any of the following provisio...
- 2221: (a) The board may deny a physician's and surgeon's certificate to an applicant guilty of unprofessio...
- 2221.05: (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 2221, the board may issue a physician's and surgeon's...
- 2221.1: (a) The board and the Board of Podiatric Medicine shall investigate and may take disciplinary action...
- 2222: The California Board of Podiatric Medicine shall enforce and administer this article as to doctors o...
- 2224: (a) The board may delegate the authority under this chapter to conduct investigations and inspection...
- 2225: (a) Notwithstanding Section 2263 and any other provision of law making a communication between a phy...
- 2225.3: The board, the California Board of Podiatric Medicine, and the Attorney General, shall return any or...
- 2225.5: (a) (1) A licensee who fails or refuses to comply with a request for the certified medical records o...
- 2226: The Division of Medical Quality or the Senior Assistant Attorney General of the Health Quality Enfor...
- 2227: (a) A licensee whose matter has been heard by an administrative law judge of the Medical Quality Hea...
- 2227.5: The board shall keep a copy of a complaint it receives concerning the unprofessional conduct of a li...
- 2228: The authority of the board or the California Board of Podiatric Medicine to discipline a licensee by...
- 2229: (a) Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Division of Medical Quality, the ...
- 2230: (a) All proceedings against a licensee for unprofessional conduct, or against an applicant for licen...
- 2230.5: (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b), (c), and (e), any accusation filed against a licensee pu...
- 2231: An administrative law judge as designated in Section 11371 of the Government Code may utilize the pr...
- 2232: (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b), (c), and (d), the board shall promptly revoke the licens...
- 2233: The board may, by stipulation or settlement with the affected physician and surgeon, issue a public ...
- 2234: The board shall take action against any licensee who is charged with unprofessional conduct. In addi...
- 2234.1: (a) A physician and surgeon shall not be subject to discipline pursuant to subdivision (b), (c), or ...
- 2235: Upon referral from the division, the Senior Assistant Attorney General of the Health Quality Enforce...
- 2236: (a) The conviction of any offense substantially related to the qualifications, functions, or duties ...
- 2236.1: (a) A physician and surgeon's certificate shall be suspended automatically during any time that the ...
- 2236.2: (a) Notwithstanding Article 9 (commencing with Section 700) of Chapter 1 of Division 2 or any other ...
- 2237: (a) The conviction of a charge of violating any federal statutes or regulations or any statute or re...
- 2238: A violation of any federal statute or federal regulation or any of the statutes or regulations of th...
- 2239: (a) The use or prescribing for or administering to himself or herself, of any controlled substance; ...
- 2240: (a) Any physician and surgeon who performs a scheduled medical procedure outside of a general acute ...
- 2241: (a) A physician and surgeon may prescribe, dispense, or administer prescription drugs, including pre...
- 2241.3: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, nothing shall preclude a physician and surgeon from pres...
- 2241.5: (a) A physician and surgeon may prescribe for, or dispense or administer to, a person under his or h...
- 2241.6: The Division of Medical Quality shall develop standards before June 1, 2002, to assure the competent...
- 2242: (a) Prescribing, dispensing, or furnishing dangerous drugs as defined in Section 4022 without an app...
- 2242.1: (a) No person or entity may prescribe, dispense, or furnish, or cause to be prescribed, dispensed, o...
- 2243: Upon referral by the National Health Services Corps to the Attorney General of the United States of ...
- 2244: A physician and surgeon who collects biological specimens for clinical testing or examination shall ...
- 2246: Any proposed decision or decision issued under this article that contains any finding of fact that t...
- 2247: (a) A licensee shall meet the requirements set forth in subdivision (f) of Section 1031 of the Gove...
- 2248: This section shall be known as, and may be cited as, the Grant H. Kenyon Prostate Cancer Detection A...
- 2248.5: (a) A standardized written summary in layman's language and in a language understood by patients sha...
- 2249: (a) A physician and surgeon primarily responsible for providing a patient an annual gynecological ex...
- 2250: The willful failure to comply with the requirements of Article 6 (commencing with Section 14191) of ...
- 2251: The prescribing, dispensing, administering, or furnishing of liquid silicone for the purpose of inje...
- 2252: The violation of Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 109250) of Part 4 of Division 104 of the Health ...
- 2253: (a) Failure to comply with the Reproductive Privacy Act (Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 123460...
- 2254: The violation of Section 123440 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to research on aborted produ...
- 2255: The violation of any provision of Chapter 2.3 (commencing with Section 1400) of Division 2 of the He...
- 2256: Any intentional violation of Sections 5326.2 to 5326.8, inclusive, of the Welfare and Institutions C...
- 2257: The violation of Section 109275 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to informed consent for the ...
- 2258: The violation of Section 1708.5 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to the use of laetrile or am...
- 2259: (a) A physician and surgeon shall give each patient a copy of the standardized written summary, as d...
- 2259.5: (a) A physician and surgeon shall give each patient a copy of the standardized written summary, as d...
- 2259.7: The Medical Board of California shall adopt extraction and postoperative care standards in regard to...
- 2259.8: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an elective cosmetic surgery procedure may not be pe...
- 2260: (a) A physician and surgeon who removes sperm or ova from a patient shall, before the sperm or ova a...
- 2260.5: A violation of Section 24185 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to human cloning, constitutes u...
- 2261: Knowingly making or signing any certificate or other document directly or indirectly related to the ...
- 2262: Altering or modifying the medical record of any person, with fraudulent intent, or creating any fals...
- 2263: The willful, unauthorized violation of professional confidence constitutes unprofessional conduct.
- 2264: The employing, directly or indirectly, the aiding, or the abetting of any unlicensed person or any s...
- 2266: The failure of a physician and surgeon to maintain adequate and accurate records relating to the pro...
- 2271: Any advertising in violation of Section 17500, relating to false or misleading advertising, constitu...
- 2272: Any advertising of the practice of medicine in which the licensee fails to use his or her own name o...
- 2273: (a) Except as otherwise allowed by law, the employment of runners, cappers, steerers, or other perso...
- 2274: (a) The use by any licensee of any certificate, of any letter, letters, word, words, term, or terms ...
- 2275: Any person who held a physician's and surgeon's certificate under the jurisdiction of the Osteopathi...
- 2276: Unless the holder of any certificate provided for in this chapter has been granted the degree of doc...
- 2277: Unless the holder of any certificate provided for in this chapter has been granted the degree of doc...
- 2278: Unless a person authorized under this chapter to use the title "doctor" or the letters or prefix "Dr...
- 2280: No licensee shall practice medicine while under the influence of any narcotic drug or alcohol to suc...
- 2281: A physician and surgeon or a student undertaking a course of professional instruction or a clinical ...
- 2282: The regular practice of medicine in a licensed general or specialized hospital having five or more p...
- 2282.5: (a) The medical staff's right of self-governance shall include, but not be limited to, all of the fo...
- 2282.5: (a) The medical staff's right of self-governance shall include, but not be limited to, all of the fo...
- 2283: The regular practice of medicine in a licensed general or specialized hospital having less than five...
- 2284: (a) A licensed physician and surgeon or a licensed podiatrist, or a group of physicians and surgeons...
- 2285: The use of any fictitious, false, or assumed name, or any name other than his or her own by a licens...
- 2286: It shall constitute unprofessional conduct for any licensee to violate, to attempt to violate, direc...
- 2287: The purchase, sale, or barter, or offering to purchase, sell, or barter any medical or podiatric deg...
- 2288: The impersonation of any applicant or acting as proxy for any applicant in any examination required ...
- 2289: The impersonation of another licensed practitioner or permitting or allowing another person to use h...
- 2290: The provisions of Article 4 (commencing with Section 580) of Chapter 1, relating to frauds of medica...
- 2290.5: (a) For purposes of this division, the following definitions shall apply:
(1) "Asynchronous store an...
- 2291: It is unprofessional conduct for any licensee not a member or authorized official of the board, or o...
- 2292: (a) A licensee may be ordered to undergo a professional competency examination if, after investigati...
- 2293: (a) The professional competency examination shall be in the form of an oral clinical examination to ...
- 2294: (a) If the division proceeds pursuant to the provisions of Sections 2292 and 2293 and the physician ...
- 2305: The revocation, suspension, or other discipline, restriction, or limitation imposed by another state...
- 2306: If a licensee's right to practice medicine is suspended, he or she shall not engage in the practice ...
- 2307: (a) A person whose certificate has been surrendered while under investigation or while charges are p...
- 2310: (a) If a physician and surgeon possesses a license or is otherwise authorized to practice medicine (...
- 2311: Whenever any person has engaged in or is about to engage in any acts or practices that constitute or...
- 2312: The Division of Medical Quality shall seek to obtain an injunction against any physician and surgeon...
- 2313: The board shall report annually to the Legislature, no later than October 1 of each year, the follow...
- 2314: (a) Unless it is otherwise expressly provided, any person, whether licensed under this chapter or no...
- 2315: (a) Except as otherwise provided by law, any person found guilty of a misdemeanor for a violation of...
- 2316: If a licensed physician and surgeon who provides expertise to the board in the evaluation of an appl...
- 2317: If a person, not a regular employee of the board, is hired, under contract, or retained under any ot...
- 2318: In addition to any immunity afforded by Sections 43.8 and 47 of the Civil Code, if applicable, any p...
- 2319: (a) The board shall set as a goal the improvement of its disciplinary system by January 1, 1992, so ...
- 2330: Complainants against licensees of the board, including licensees of allied health boards within the ...
- 2332: (a) The Division of Medical Quality or the Health Quality Enforcement Section of the office of the A...
- 2334: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, with respect to the use of expert testimony in matte...
- 2335: (a) All proposed decisions and interim orders of the Medical Quality Hearing Panel designated in Sec...
- 2336: The Division of Medical Quality and the California Board of Podiatric Medicine shall adopt rules, pu...
- 2337: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, superior court review of a decision revoking, suspending...
- 2360: It is the intent of the Legislature that the Osteopathic Medical Board of California seek ways and m...
- 2361: As used in this article:
(a) "Board" means the Osteopathic Medical Board of California.
(b) "Diversi...
- 2362: One or more diversion evaluation committees are hereby created in the state to be established by the...
- 2363: Each member of the committee shall receive per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
- 2364: The board shall administer this article.
- 2365: (a) The board shall establish criteria for the acceptance, denial, or termination of participants in...
- 2366: A committee created under this article operates under the direction of the diversion program manager...
- 2367: (a) Each licensee who requests participation in a treatment program shall agree to cooperate with th...
- 2368: An administrative fee to be established by the board, may be charged for participation in the progra...
- 2369: (a) After the committee and the program manager, in their discretion, have determined that a partici...
- 2370: The board shall provide for the representation of any persons making reports to the diversion evalua...
- 2380: There is created within the board a Bureau of Medical Statistics. The purpose of the bureau is to pr...
- 2381: As used in this article, "bureau" means the Bureau of Medical Statistics.
- 2382: The bureau shall conduct such research, including the gathering of appropriate statistics, as deemed...
- 2383: The bureau may prepare and issue the information questionnaire and report therefrom as required in C...
- 2386: The bureau shall be the repository for all reports filed with the board pursuant to Article 11 (comm...
- 2392: The board shall report at least annually to the Legislature on the data collected by the bureau purs...
- 2395: No licensee, who in good faith renders emergency care at the scene of an emergency, shall be liable ...
- 2395.5: (a) A licensee who serves on an on-call basis to a hospital emergency room, who in good faith render...
- 2396: No licensee, who in good faith upon the request of another person so licensed, renders emergency med...
- 2397: (a) A licensee shall not be liable for civil damages for injury or death caused in an emergency situ...
- 2398: No licensee, who in good faith and without compensation renders voluntary emergency medical assistan...
- 2400: Corporations and other artificial legal entities shall have no professional rights, privileges, or p...
- 2401: (a) Notwithstanding Section 2400, a clinic operated primarily for the purpose of medical education b...
- 2402: The provisions of Section 2400 do not apply to a medical or podiatry corporation practicing pursuant...
- 2406: A medical corporation or podiatry corporation is a corporation which is authorized to render profess...
- 2407: A medical or podiatry corporation shall be subject to the provisions of Sections 2285 and 2415.
- 2408: Except as provided in Sections 13401.5 and 13403 of the Corporations Code, each shareholder, directo...
- 2409: The income of a medical and podiatry corporation attributable to professional services rendered whil...
- 2410: A medical or podiatry corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which or the failu...
- 2411: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the offering and operation by a medical corporation of a...
- 2412: The Division of Licensing may adopt and enforce regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives...
- 2413: This article shall apply to medical corporations which have physicians and surgeons licensed by the ...
- 2415: (a) Any physician and surgeon or any doctor of podiatric medicine, as the case may be, who as a sole...
- 2416: Physicians and surgeons and doctors of podiatric medicine may conduct their professional practices i...
- 2417: (a) If the Department of Insurance has evidence that a business is being operated in violation of th...
- 2418: (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following:
(1) The State of California is f...
- 2420: The provisions of this article apply to, determine the expiration of, and govern the renewal of, eac...
- 2421: As used in this article, the terms:
(a) "License" includes "certificate," "permit," and "registratio...
- 2422: All licenses expire and become invalid at 12 midnight on the last day of February of each even-numbe...
- 2423: (a) Notwithstanding Section 2422:
(1) All physician and surgeon's certificates, certificates to prac...
- 2424: (a) The Division of Licensing or the California Board of Podiatric Medicine, as the case may be, sha...
- 2425: (a) The Division of Licensing may prepare and mail to every licensed physician at the time of licens...
- 2425.1: The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(a) Currently, California is experiencing a...
- 2425.3: (a) A licensed physician and surgeon shall report to the board, immediately upon issuance of an init...
- 2426: (a) A licensee shall report to the board at the time of renewal of a license any financial interest ...
- 2427: (a) Except as provided in Section 2429, a license which has expired may be renewed at any time withi...
- 2428: (a) A person who fails to renew his or her license within five years after its expiration may not re...
- 2429: (a) A license which is suspended for unprofessional conduct is subject to expiration and shall be re...
- 2432: Upon filing an application therefor, containing such information as the licensing authority may requ...
- 2433: Upon filing an application therefor, containing such information as the licensing authority may requ...
- 2435: The following fees apply to the licensure of physicians and surgeons:
(a) Each applicant for a certi...
- 2435.1: (a) In addition to the fees charged for the initial issuance or biennial renewal of a physician and ...
- 2435.2: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if Article 14 (commencing with Section 2340) becomes...
- 2435.3: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if Section 12529.6 of the Government Code remains operat...
- 2436: The fees in this article fixed by the board shall be set forth as emergency regulations duly adopted...
- 2436.5: (a) In addition to the fees charged for the initial issuance or biennial renewal of a physician and ...
- 2437: The board may fix a fee for the approval of postgraduate training for clinical service programs appr...
- 2439: (a) Every licensee is exempt from the payment of the renewal fee and requirement for continuing medi...
- 2440: (a) Every licensee is exempt from the payment of the renewal fee while engaged in full-time training...
- 2441: Any licensee who demonstrates to the satisfaction of the board that he or she is unable to practice ...
- 2442: The renewal fee shall be waived for a physician and surgeon residing in California who certifies to ...
- 2443: The following fees apply to fictitious-name permits issued under Section 2415:
(a) The initial permi...
- 2445: All moneys paid to and received by the board shall be paid into the State Treasury and shall be cred...
- 2446: Unless otherwise expressly provided in this chapter, all fines imposed or forfeitures of bail collec...
- 2447: The board shall refund any fees, fines, or forfeitures in accordance with the provisions of Section ...
- 2448: Notwithstanding the possession by a licensee of a renewal receipt or other acknowledgement of renewa...
- 2450: There is a Board of Osteopathic Examiners of the State of California, established by the Osteopathic...
- 2450.1: Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Osteopathic Medical Board of Californ...
- 2450.3: There is within the jurisdiction of the Osteopathic Medical Board of California a Naturopathic Medic...
- 2451: The words "Medical Board of California," the term "board," or any reference to a division of the Med...
- 2452: This chapter applies to the Osteopathic Medical Board of California so far as consistent with the Os...
- 2453: (a) It is the policy of this state that holders of M.D. degrees and D.O. degrees shall be accorded e...
- 2453.5: Individuals possessing physician's and surgeon's certificates issued by the Osteopathic Medical Boar...
- 2454.5: In order to ensure the continuing competence of licensed osteopathic physicians and surgeons, the bo...
- 2455: The amount of fees and refunds is that established by the following schedule for any certificate iss...
- 2455.1: (a) In addition to the fees charged pursuant to Section 2455, and at the time those fees are charged...
- 2455.2: (a) A licensed osteopathic physician and surgeon shall report to the Osteopathic Medical Board of Ca...
- 2456: (a) Each person holding a certificate issued by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California residing...
- 2456.1: All osteopathic physician's and surgeon's certificates shall expire at 12 midnight on the last day o...
- 2456.2: (a) The board shall notify in writing by certified mail, return receipt requested, any physician and...
- 2456.3: Except as provided in Section 2429, a license which has expired may be renewed at any time within fi...
- 2457: The failure of any person holding a certificate issued by the Osteopathic Medical Board of Californi...
- 2457.5: (a) In addition to Article 12 (commencing with Section 2220), the charging, or obtaining of an uncon...
- 2458: When the prosecution for a violation of this chapter is initiated by the Osteopathic Medical Board o...
- 2459: The Osteopathic Medical Board of California shall not issue any drugless practitioner's certificates...
- 2459.5: An osteopathic physician and surgeon licensed pursuant to the Osteopathic Initiative Act may utilize...
- 2459.6: (a) For the purposes of Section 2459.5 and this section:
(1) "Osteopathic physician and surgeon" mea...
- 2459.7: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no osteopathic physician and surgeon shall utilize an os...
- 2460: (a) There is created within the jurisdiction of the Medical Board of California the California Board...
- 2460.1: Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the California Board of Podiatric Medicin...
- 2461: As used in this article:
(a) "Division" means the Division of Licensing of the Medical Board of Cali...
- 2462: The board shall consist of seven members, three of whom shall be public members. Not more than one m...
- 2463: Each member of the board, except the public members, shall be appointed from persons having all of t...
- 2464: The public members shall be appointed from persons having all of the following qualifications:
(a) B...
- 2465: No person who directly or indirectly owns any interest in any college, school, or other institution ...
- 2466: All members of the board shall be appointed for terms of four years. Vacancies shall immediately be ...
- 2467: (a) The board may convene from time to time as it deems necessary.
(b) Four members of the board con...
- 2468: Notice of each meeting of the board shall be given in accordance with the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting ...
- 2469: Each member of the board shall receive per diem and expenses as provided in Section 2016.
- 2470: The board may adopt, amend, or repeal, in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Proce...
- 2471: Except as provided by Section 159.5, the board may employ, within the limits of the funds received b...
- 2472: (a) The certificate to practice podiatric medicine authorizes the holder to practice podiatric medic...
- 2474: Any person who uses in any sign or in any advertisement or otherwise, the word or words "doctor of p...
- 2475: Unless otherwise provided by law, no postgraduate trainee, intern, resident postdoctoral fellow, or ...
- 2475.1: Before a resident's license may be issued, each applicant shall show by evidence satisfactory to the...
- 2475.2: As used in this article, "podiatric residency" means a program of supervised postgraduate clinical t...
- 2475.3: (a) The board shall approve podiatric residency programs, as defined in Section 2475.2, in the field...
- 2476: Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent a regularly matriculated student undertaking a...
- 2477: Nothing in this chapter prohibits the manufacture, the recommendation, or the sale of either correct...
- 2479: The division shall issue, upon the recommendation of the board, a certificate to practice podiatric ...
- 2480: The board shall have full authority to investigate and to evaluate each applicant applying for a cer...
- 2481: Each applicant who commenced professional instruction in podiatric medicine after September 1, 1959,...
- 2483: (a) Each applicant for a certificate to practice podiatric medicine shall show by an official transc...
- 2484: In addition to any other requirements of this chapter, before a certificate to practice podiatric me...
- 2486: The Medical Board of California shall issue, upon the recommendation of the board, a certificate to ...
- 2488: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Medical Board of California shall issue, upon the re...
- 2492: (a) The board shall examine every applicant for a certificate to practice podiatric medicine to ensu...
- 2493: (a) An applicant for a certificate to practice podiatric medicine shall pass an examination in the s...
- 2495: Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the board may delegate to officials of the boar...
- 2496: In order to ensure the continuing competence of persons licensed to practice podiatric medicine, the...
- 2497: (a) The board may order the denial of an application for, or the suspension of, or the revocation of...
- 2497.5: (a) The board may request the administrative law judge, under his or her proposed decision in resolu...
- 2498: (a) The board shall have the responsibility for reviewing the quality of podiatric medical practice ...
- 2499: There is in the State Treasury the Board of Podiatric Medicine Fund. Notwithstanding Section 2445, t...
- 2499.5: The following fees apply to certificates to practice podiatric medicine. The amount of fees prescri...
- 2499.6: The fees in this article shall be fixed by the board in accordance with Section 313.1.
- 2499.8: Any licensee who demonstrates to the satisfaction of the board that he or she is unable to practice ...
- 2500: The boards acknowledge the significant interest of physicians and patients alike in integrating prev...
- 2501: In fulfilling their responsibilities under this article, the boards shall , on or before July 1, 200...
- 2505: This article shall be known and may be cited as the Licensed Midwifery Practice Act of 1993.
- 2506: As used in this article the following definitions shall apply:
(a) "Board" means the Medical Board o...
- 2507: (a) The license to practice midwifery authorizes the holder, under the supervision of a licensed phy...
- 2508: (a) A licensed midwife shall disclose in oral and written form to a prospective client all of the fo...
- 2509: The board shall create and appoint a Midwifery Advisory Council consisting of licensees of the board...
- 2511: (a) No person, other than one who has been licensed to practice midwifery by the board, shall hold h...
- 2512: The board shall issue a license to practice midwifery to all applicants who meet the requirements of...
- 2512.5: A person is qualified for a license to practice midwifery when he or she satisfies one of the follow...
- 2513: (a) An approved midwifery education program shall offer the opportunity for students to obtain credi...
- 2514: Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent a bona fide student who is enrolled or partici...
- 2514.5: (a) Within 60 days following January 1, 1998, the board shall adopt regulations setting forth educat...
- 2515: The board shall approve specific educational programs intended to meet the requirements of subdivisi...
- 2515.5: Each applicant shall show by evidence satisfactory to the board that he or she has met the education...
- 2516: (a) Each licensed midwife who assists, or supervises a student midwife in assisting, in childbirth t...
- 2517: A person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor violation of Section 2052, prior to the effective d...
- 2518: (a) Licenses issued pursuant to this article shall be renewable every two years upon payment of the ...
- 2519: The board may suspend or revoke the license of a midwife for any of the following:
(a) Unprofessiona...
- 2520: (a) (1) The fee to be paid upon the filing of a license application shall be fixed by the board at n...
- 2521: Any person who violates this article is guilty of a misdemeanor.
- 2529: Graduates of the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Societ...
- 2529.5: Each person to whom registration is granted under the provisions of this chapter shall pay into the ...
- 2530: This act may be cited as the "Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists and Hearing Aid Dispense...
- 2530.1: The Legislature finds and declares that the practice of speech-language pathology and audiology and ...
- 2530.2: As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) "Board" means the Speech-Languag...
- 2530.3: (a) A person represents himself or herself to be a speech-language pathologist when he or she holds ...
- 2530.4: Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as authorizing a speech-language pathologist or audiologi...
- 2530.5: (a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as restricting hearing testing conducted by licensed ...
- 2530.6: Speech-language pathologists and audiologists supervising speech-language pathology or audiology aid...
- 2531: (a) There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs a Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Hea...
- 2531.02: Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiolo...
- 2531.05: (a) The Hearing Aid Dispensing Committee is hereby created within the jurisdiction of the board.
(b)...
- 2531.06: (a) The board is vested with the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction over t...
- 2531.1: (a) Each member of the board shall hold office for a term of four years, and shall serve until the a...
- 2531.2: The membership of the board shall include two licensed speech-language pathologists, two licensed au...
- 2531.3: The board shall examine every applicant for a speech-language pathology license or an audiology lice...
- 2531.4: The board shall have full authority to investigate and to evaluate each and every applicant applying...
- 2531.5: The board shall issue, suspend, and revoke licenses and approvals to practice speech-language pathol...
- 2531.6: The Governor has power to remove from office any member of the board for neglect of any duty require...
- 2531.7: The board shall elect annually a chairperson and vice chairperson from among its members. The board ...
- 2531.75: (a) The board may appoint a person exempt from civil service who shall be designated as an executive...
- 2531.8: Five members of the board shall at all times constitute a quorum.
- 2531.9: Each member of the board shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
- 2531.95: The board shall from time to time adopt the regulations that may be necessary to effectuate this cha...
- 2532: No person shall engage in the practice of speech-language pathology or audiology or represent himsel...
- 2532.1: (a) Each person desiring to obtain a license shall make application to the board, upon a form as pre...
- 2532.2: Except as required by Section 2532.25, to be eligible for licensure by the board as a speech-languag...
- 2532.25: (a) An applicant seeking licensure as an audiologist shall possess a doctorate in audiology earned f...
- 2532.3: (a) Upon approval of an application filed pursuant to Section 2532.1, and upon the payment of the fe...
- 2532.4: (a) The board may direct applicants to be examined for knowledge in whatever theoretical or applied ...
- 2532.5: Every person holding a license under this chapter shall display it conspicuously in his or her prima...
- 2532.6: (a) The Legislature recognizes that the education and experience requirements of this chapter consti...
- 2532.7: (a) Upon approval of an application filed pursuant to Section 2532.1, and upon payment of the fee pr...
- 2532.8: (a) The board shall deem a person who holds a valid certificate of clinical competence in speech-lan...
- 2533: The board may refuse to issue, or issue subject to terms and conditions, a license on the grounds sp...
- 2533.1: A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge sub...
- 2533.2: Proceedings under this article shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 5 (commencing with Sect...
- 2533.3: Except as provided in Section 2538.42, any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter...
- 2533.4: Whenever any person other than a licensed speech-language pathologist or audiologist has engaged in ...
- 2534: The board shall report to the Controller at the beginning of each month for the month preceding the ...
- 2534.1: The board shall keep records that will reasonably ensure that funds expended in the administration o...
- 2534.2: The amount of the fees prescribed by this chapter is that established by the following schedule:
(a)...
- 2535: (a) All licenses issued as of January 1, 1992, shall expire at 12 a.m. of the last date of the birth...
- 2535.2: Except as provided in Section 2535.3, a license that has expired may be renewed at any time within f...
- 2535.4: A person who fails to renew his or her license within the five years after its expiration may not re...
- 2536: A speech-language pathology corporation or an audiology corporation is a corporation which is author...
- 2537: It shall constitute unprofessional conduct and a violation of this chapter for any person licensed u...
- 2537.1: A speech-language pathology corporation or an audiology corporation shall not do or fail to do any a...
- 2537.2: Except as provided in Sections 13401.5 and 13403 of the Corporations Code, each shareholder, directo...
- 2537.3: The income of a speech-language pathology corporation or an audiology corporation attributable to pr...
- 2537.4: (a) The name of a speech-language pathology corporation under which it may render professional servi...
- 2537.5: The board may adopt and enforce regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of this article...
- 2538: A person seeking approval as a speech-language pathology assistant shall make application to the boa...
- 2538.1: (a) The board shall adopt regulations, in collaboration with the State Department of Education, the ...
- 2538.3: (a) A person applying for approval as a speech-language pathology assistant shall have graduated fro...
- 2538.5: This article shall not be construed to limit the utilization of a speech aide or other personnel emp...
- 2538.7: (a) No person who is not registered as a speech-language pathology assistant shall utilize the title...
- 2538.10: For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply:
(a) "Advertise" and its var...
- 2538.11: (a) "Practice of fitting or selling hearing aids," as used in this article, means those practices us...
- 2538.12: A licensee may conduct hearing screenings at a health fair or similar event by the application of a ...
- 2538.13: In fitting hearing aids, a hearing aid dispenser shall not take facial measurements or fit, adjust, ...
- 2538.14: "Hearing aid dispenser," as used in this article, means a person engaged in the practice of fitting ...
- 2538.15: "Sell" or "sale" means any transfer of title or of the right to use by lease, bailment, or any other...
- 2538.16: The board shall keep a record of all prosecutions for violations of this article and of all examinat...
- 2538.17: The board may recommend the preparation of and administration of a course of instruction concerned w...
- 2538.18: All holders of licenses to sell or fit hearing aids shall continue their education after receiving t...
- 2538.19: (a) The board may prosecute any and all persons for any violation of this article.
(b) The board sha...
- 2538.20: It is unlawful for an individual to engage in the practice of fitting or selling hearing aids, or to...
- 2538.21: This article does not apply to a person engaged in the practice of fitting hearing aids if his pract...
- 2538.22: This article does not apply to nor affect any physician and surgeon licensed under Chapter 5 (commen...
- 2538.23: (a) Hearing aids may be sold by catalog or direct mail provided that:
(1) The seller is licensed as ...
- 2538.24: Each person desiring to obtain a license to engage in the practice of fitting or selling hearing aid...
- 2538.25: (a) The board shall prepare, approve, grade, and conduct examinations of applicants for a hearing ai...
- 2538.26: The board shall issue a license to all applicants who have satisfied this chapter, who are at least ...
- 2538.27: (a) An applicant who has fulfilled the requirements of Section 2538.24 and has made application ther...
- 2538.28: (a) An applicant who has fulfilled the requirements of Section 2538.24, and has made application the...
- 2538.29: A temporary licensee under Section 2538.28 shall take the license examination within the first 10 mo...
- 2538.30: (a) A temporary licensee shall not be the sole proprietor of, manage, or independently operate a bus...
- 2538.31: Practical examinations shall be held by the board at least twice a year. The time and place of any p...
- 2538.32: Every applicant who obtains a passing score determined by the Angoff criterion-referenced method of ...
- 2538.33: (a) Before engaging in the practice of fitting or selling hearing aids, each licensee shall notify t...
- 2538.34: (a) Every licensee who engages in the practice of fitting or selling hearing aids shall have and mai...
- 2538.35: A licensee shall, upon the consummation of a sale of a hearing aid, deliver to the purchaser a writt...
- 2538.36: (a) Whenever any of the following conditions are found to exist either from observations by the lice...
- 2538.37: No hearing aid shall be sold by an individual licensed under this chapter, to a person 16 years of a...
- 2538.38: A licensee shall, upon the consummation of a sale of a hearing aid, keep and maintain records in his...
- 2538.39: A hearing aid dispenser who is the owner, manager, or franchisee at a location where hearing aids ar...
- 2538.40: Upon denial of an application for license, the board shall notify the applicant in writing, stating ...
- 2538.41: Before setting aside the revocation or suspension of any license or modifying the probation of any l...
- 2538.42: Any person who violates any of the provisions of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon c...
- 2538.43: It is unlawful to sell or barter, or offer to sell or barter, any license issued by the board.
- 2538.44: It is unlawful to purchase or procure by barter any license issued by the board with intent to use t...
- 2538.45: It is unlawful to alter with fraudulent intent in any material regard a license issued by the board.
- 2538.46: It is unlawful to use or attempt to use any license issued by the board that has been purchased, fra...
- 2538.47: It is unlawful to willfully make any false statement in a material regard in an application for an e...
- 2538.48: It is unlawful to engage in the practice of fitting or selling hearing aids in this state without ha...
- 2538.49: It is unlawful for a licensed hearing aid dispenser to fit or sell a hearing aid unless he or she fi...
- 2538.50: It is unlawful to advertise by displaying a sign or otherwise or hold himself or herself out to be a...
- 2538.51: It is unlawful to engage in the practice of fitting or selling hearing aids without the licensee hav...
- 2538.52: When tests are conducted by persons licensed under this article in connection with the fitting and s...
- 2538.53: (a) A license issued under this article expires at midnight on its assigned renewal date.
(b) To ren...
- 2538.54: Except as otherwise provided in this article, an expired license may be renewed at any time within t...
- 2538.55: A license which has been suspended is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this...
- 2538.56: A license that is not renewed within three years after its expiration may not be renewed, restored, ...
- 2538.57: The amount of fees and penalties prescribed by this article shall be those set forth in this section...
- 2539.1: (a) (1) On and after January 1, 2010, in addition to satisfying the licensure and examination requir...
- 2539.2: (a) Hearing aids may be sold by catalog or direct mail provided that:
(1) The seller is licensed as ...
- 2539.4: A licensed audiologist shall, upon the consummation of a sale of a hearing aid, deliver to the purch...
- 2539.6: (a) Whenever any of the following conditions are found to exist either from observations by the lice...
- 2539.8: No hearing aid shall be sold by an individual licensed as an audiologist under this chapter to a per...
- 2539.10: A licensed audiologist shall, upon the consummation of a sale of a hearing aid, keep and maintain re...
- 2539.12: A licensed audiologist who is the owner, manager, or franchisee at a location where hearing aids are...
- 2539.14: The provisions of subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 2538.11 and the provisions of Section 2538.12 ...
- 2540: No person other than a physician and surgeon or optometrist may measure the powers or range of human...
- 2540.1: Any reference to the "Division of Medical Quality" or to the "Division of Licensing" in this chapter...
- 2541: A prescription ophthalmic device includes each of the following:
(a) Any spectacle or contact lens o...
- 2541.1: (a) A spectacle lens prescription shall include all of the following:
(1) The dioptric power of the ...
- 2541.2: (a) (1) The expiration date of a contact lens prescription shall not be less than one to two years f...
- 2541.3: (a) The State Department of Public Health, the State Board of Optometry and the Division of Licensin...
- 2541.6: No prescription ophthalmic device that does not meet the standards adopted by the State Department o...
- 2542: A registered dispensing optician shall fit, adjust, or dispense contact lenses, including plano cont...
- 2543: (a) Except as provided in the Nonresident Contact Lens Seller Registration Act (Chapter 5.45 (commen...
- 2544: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an assistant in any setting where optometry or ophth...
- 2545: (a) Whenever any person has engaged, or is about to engage, in any acts or practices which constitut...
- 2546: This act may be cited as the "Nonresident Contact Lens Seller Registration Act."
- 2546.1: (a) On and after January 1, 1997, no person located outside California shall ship, mail, or deliver ...
- 2546.2: All references in this chapter to the division shall mean the Medical Board of California.
- 2546.3: The division may adopt, amend, or repeal any rules and regulations that are reasonably necessary to ...
- 2546.4: Application for registration as a nonresident contact lens seller shall be made on forms prescribed ...
- 2546.5: In order to obtain and maintain registration, a nonresident contact lens seller shall:
(a) Be in goo...
- 2546.6: (a) Contact lenses may be sold only upon receipt of a written prescription or a copy of a written pr...
- 2546.7: (a) A certificate may be denied, suspended, revoked, or otherwise subjected to discipline for any of...
- 2546.8: Every registration issued to a nonresident contact lens seller shall expire 24 months after the init...
- 2546.9: The amount of fees prescribed in connection with the registration of nonresident contact lens seller...
- 2546.10: (a) Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter shall be subject to a fine of not ...
- 2550: Individuals, corporations, and firms engaged in the business of filling prescriptions of physicians ...
- 2550.1: All references in this chapter to the board or the Board of Medical Examiners or division shall mean...
- 2551: Individuals, corporations, and firms shall make application for registration and shall not engage in...
- 2552: Each application shall be verified under oath by the person required to sign the application and sha...
- 2553: If the board, after investigation, approves the application, it shall register the applicant and iss...
- 2553.1: (a) If a registered dispensing optician sells or transfers ownership of his or her place of business...
- 2553.5: (a) A registered dispensing optician may fit and adjust spectacle lenses and frames or take facial m...
- 2553.6: The board shall deny any application for registration under this chapter if any person licensed unde...
- 2554: Each registrant shall conspicuously and prominently display at each registered location the name of ...
- 2555: Certificates issued hereunder may in the discretion of the division be suspended or revoked or subje...
- 2555.1: In the discretion of the Division of Licensing, a certificate issued hereunder may be suspended or r...
- 2556: It is unlawful to do any of the following: to advertise the furnishing of, or to furnish, the servic...
- 2556.5: Any person who holds himself out as a "dispensing optician" or "registered dispensing optician" or w...
- 2557: This chapter shall not affect any person licensed as an optometrist under Chapter 7 of Division II o...
- 2558: Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon c...
- 2559: Whenever any person has engaged, or is about to engage, in any acts or practices which constitute, o...
- 2559.1: On and after January 1, 1988, no individual may fit and adjust spectacle lenses unless the registrat...
- 2559.2: (a) An individual shall apply for registration as a registered spectacle lens dispenser on forms pre...
- 2559.3: A certificate issued to a registered spectacle lens dispenser may, in the discretion of the division...
- 2559.4: This article shall not apply to an assistant fitting spectacle lenses pursuant to Section 2544 if th...
- 2559.5: This article shall become operative on January 1, 1988. However, the division may, prior to that dat...
- 2559.6: No spectacle lens prescription that is issued on or after January 1, 1999, shall be dispensed unless...
- 2560: No individual may fit and adjust contact lenses, including plano contact lenses, unless the registra...
- 2561: An individual shall apply for registration as a registered contact lens dispenser on forms prescribe...
- 2562: Upon satisfactory completion of the fitting of contact lenses, but in no event more than 60 days aft...
- 2563: A certificate issued to a registered contact lens dispenser may in the discretion of the division be...
- 2564: The provisions of this article shall not apply to an assistant fitting contact lenses while acting u...
- 2564.5: A registered dispensing optician fitting contact lenses shall maintain accessible handwashing facili...
- 2564.6: A registered dispensing optician shall comply with the applicable provisions of Section 2541.2.
- 2565: The amount of fees prescribed in connection with the registration of dispensing opticians shall be a...
- 2566: The amount of fees prescribed in connection with certificates for contact lens dispensers, unless a ...
- 2566.1: The amount of fees prescribed in connection with certificates for spectacle lens dispensers shall be...
- 2567: (a) The provisions of Article 19 (commencing with Section 2420) and Article 20 (commencing with Sect...
- 2568: The board shall report to the Controller at the beginning of each month for the month preceding the ...
- 2569: The powers and duties of the board, as set forth in this chapter, shall be subject to the review req...
- 2570: This chapter may be cited as the Occupational Therapy Practice Act.
- 2570.1: The Legislature finds and declares that the practice of occupational therapy in California affects t...
- 2570.2: As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:
(a) "Appropriate supervision of an a...
- 2570.3: (a) No person shall practice occupational therapy or hold himself or herself out as an occupational ...
- 2570.4: Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as preventing or restricting the practice, services, or a...
- 2570.5: (a) A limited permit may be granted to any person who has completed the education and experience req...
- 2570.6: An applicant applying for a license as an occupational therapist as an occupational therapy assistan...
- 2570.7: (a) An applicant who has satisfied the requirements of Section 2570.6 may apply for examination for ...
- 2570.8: For the purposes of verifying a license issued under this chapter, a person may rely on the licensur...
- 2570.9: The board shall issue a license to any applicant who meets the requirements of this chapter, includi...
- 2570.10: (a) Any license issued under this chapter shall be subject to renewal as prescribed by the board and...
- 2570.11: Upon a written request, the board may grant inactive status to an occupational therapist or occupati...
- 2570.13: (a) Consistent with this section, subdivisions (a), (b), and (c) of Section 2570.2, and accepted pro...
- 2570.14: An initial applicant who has not been actively engaged in the practice of occupational therapy withi...
- 2570.15: Occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants trained outside of the United States and...
- 2570.16: Initial license and renewal fees shall be established by the board in an amount that does not exceed...
- 2570.17: (a) The board shall issue, upon application and payment of a twenty-five dollar ($25) fee, a retired...
- 2570.18: (a) A person shall not represent to the public by title, by description of services, methods, or pro...
- 2570.185: (a) An occupational therapist shall document his or her evaluation, goals, treatment plan, and summa...
- 2570.19: (a) There is hereby created a California Board of Occupational Therapy, hereafter referred to as the...
- 2570.20: (a) The board shall administer, coordinate, and enforce the provisions of this chapter, evaluate the...
- 2570.21: Subject to Sections 107 and 154, the board may employ an executive officer and other officers and em...
- 2570.22: All fees collected by the board shall be paid into the State Treasury and shall be credited to the O...
- 2570.23: Any person who violates Section 2570.3 is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall...
- 2570.24: If any provision of this chapter, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held ...
- 2570.25: Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the California Board of Occupational Ther...
- 2570.26: (a) The board may, after a hearing, deny, suspend, revoke, or place on probation a license, inactive...
- 2570.27: (a) The board may discipline a licensee by any or a combination of the following methods:
(1) Placin...
- 2570.28: The board may deny or discipline a licensee for any of the following:
(a) Unprofessional conduct, in...
- 2570.29: In addition to other acts constituting unprofessional conduct within the meaning of this chapter, it...
- 2570.30: The board shall retain jurisdiction to proceed with any investigation, action or disciplinary procee...
- 2570.31: If a license is suspended, the holder may not practice occupational therapy during the term of suspe...
- 2570.32: (a) A holder of a license that has been revoked, suspended, or placed on probation, may petition the...
- 2570.36: If a licensee has knowledge that an applicant or licensee may be in violation of, or has violated, a...
- 2571: (a) An occupational therapist licensed pursuant to this chapter and approved by the board in the use...
- 2585: (a) Any person representing himself or herself as a registered dietitian shall meet one of the follo...
- 2586: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a registered dietitian, or other nutritional profess...
- 2586.2: A person may engage in the activities set forth in subdivision (a) of Section 2586 if the person mee...
- 2586.4: A person may engage in the activities set forth in subdivision (d) of Section 2586 if the person mee...
- 2586.6: A person may engage in the activities set forth in subdivision (a) of Section 2586 for six months fr...
- 2586.8: A person may engage in the activities set forth in subdivision (d) of Section 2586 for six months fr...
- 2590: (a) For purposes of this section, "perfusion" means those functions necessary for the support, treat...
- 2591: (a) After completion of an approved perfusion training program, as defined in Section 2592, and unti...
- 2592: (a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 2590, all persons calling themselves perfusionists shall...
- 2593: (a) During the period of any clinical training provided by an approved perfusion training program, p...
- 2595: Nothing in this chapter shall limit, preclude, or otherwise interfere with the practices of other pe...
- 2596: It is the intent of the Legislature that authority be reserved to the Division of Licensing of the M...
- 2600: This chapter may be cited as the Physical Therapy Practice Act.
- 2601: "Board" as used in this chapter means the Physical Therapy Board of California.
- 2602: The Physical Therapy Board of California, hereafter referred to as the board, shall enforce and admi...
- 2602.1: Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Physical Therapy Board of California ...
- 2603: The members of the board consist of the following: one physical therapist involved in the education ...
- 2604: The members of the board shall be appointed for a term of four years, expiring on the first day of J...
- 2604.5: The public members shall be appointed from persons having all of the following qualifications:
(a) B...
- 2606: Each member of the board shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
- 2607: The board may employ, subject to law, such clerical assistants and, except as provided in Section 15...
- 2607.5: The board may appoint a person exempt from civil service who shall be designated as an executive off...
- 2608: The procedure in all matters and proceedings relating to the denial, suspension, or revocation of li...
- 2608.5: Each member of the board, or any licensed physical therapist appointed by the board, may inspect, or...
- 2609: The board shall issue, suspend, and revoke licenses and approvals to practice physical therapy as pr...
- 2611: The board shall hold at least one regular meeting annually in the Cities of Sacramento, Los Angeles ...
- 2612: Notice of each meeting of the board shall be given in accordance with the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting ...
- 2613: The board may appoint qualified persons to give the whole or any portion of any examination as provi...
- 2614: (a) The board shall hear all matters, including but not limited to, any contested case or any petiti...
- 2615: The board shall from time to time adopt regulations that may be necessary to effectuate this chapter...
- 2620: (a) Physical therapy means the art and science of physical or corrective rehabilitation or of physic...
- 2620.3: A physical therapist licensed pursuant to this chapter may apply topical medications as part of the ...
- 2620.5: A physical therapist may, upon specified authorization of a physician and surgeon, perform tissue pe...
- 2620.7: (a) A physical therapist shall document his or her evaluation, goals, treatment plan, and summary of...
- 2621: Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as authorizing a physical therapist to practice medicine,...
- 2622: "Physical therapist" and "physical therapist technician" mean a person who is licensed pursuant to t...
- 2630: It is unlawful for any person or persons to practice, or offer to practice, physical therapy in this...
- 2632: All licenses for the practice of physical therapy in this state shall be issued by the board, and al...
- 2633: (a) A person holding a license as a physical therapist issued by the board may use the title "physic...
- 2634: The board may investigate each and every applicant for a license, before a license is issued, in ord...
- 2635: Every applicant for a license under this chapter shall, at the time of application, be a person over...
- 2636: (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, no person shall receive a license under this chapt...
- 2636.5: (a) An applicant may be issued a license without a written examination if he or she meets all of the...
- 2638: Any applicant for licensure as a physical therapist who fails to pass the examination required by th...
- 2639: Every graduate of an approved physical therapist education program who has filed a complete applicat...
- 2640: (a) If the board uses computer administered testing for the administration of the licensing examinat...
- 2650: (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, each applicant for a license as a physical therapi...
- 2650.1: During the period of clinical practice referred to in Section 2650 or in any similar period of obser...
- 2650.2: Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent a regularly matriculated student undertaking a...
- 2651: The board may approve only those physical therapist education programs that prove to the satisfactio...
- 2652: All physical therapist education programs, whether situated in this state or not, furnishing courses...
- 2653: (a) An applicant for a license as a physical therapist who was issued a diploma by a physical therap...
- 2655: As used in this article:
(a) "Physical therapist" means a physical therapist licensed by the board.
...
- 2655.1: The board shall adopt regulations that set forth standards and requirements for the adequate supervi...
- 2655.11: A person holding an approval as a physical therapist assistant issued by the board may use the title...
- 2655.2: A physical therapist shall not supervise more physical therapist assistants at any one time than in ...
- 2655.3: A person seeking approval as a physical therapist assistant shall make application to the board for ...
- 2655.6: Any applicant for approval as a physical therapist assistant who fails to pass the examination given...
- 2655.7: Notwithstanding Section 2630, a physical therapist assistant may assist in the provision of physical...
- 2655.71: (a) An applicant may be issued an approval as a physical therapist assistant without written examina...
- 2655.75: Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent a regularly matriculated student undertaking a...
- 2655.8: Any person, other than one who has been approved by the board, who holds himself or herself out as a...
- 2655.9: (a) The board shall approve each physical therapist assistant education program that proves to the s...
- 2655.91: Every graduate of an approved physical therapist assistant education program who has filed a complet...
- 2655.92: The board may adopt regulations as reasonably necessary to carry out the purposes of this article. T...
- 2655.93: (a) If the committee uses computer administered testing for the administration of the examination, t...
- 2660: The board may, after the conduct of appropriate proceedings under the Administrative Procedure Act, ...
- 2660.1: A patient, client, or customer of a licentiate under this chapter is conclusively presumed to be inc...
- 2660.2: (a) The board may refuse a license to any applicant guilty of unprofessional conduct or sexual activ...
- 2660.3: In lieu of filing or prosecuting a formal accusation against a licensee, the board may, upon stipula...
- 2660.5: The board shall deny a physical therapist license or physical therapist assistant approval to an app...
- 2660.7: In addition to the penalties prescribed by Section 123, if the board determines that an applicant fo...
- 2661: A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge of ...
- 2661.5: (a) In any order issued in resolution of a disciplinary proceeding before the board, the board may r...
- 2661.6: (a) The board shall establish a probation monitoring program to monitor probationary licenses.
(b) T...
- 2661.7: (a) A person whose license or approval has been revoked or suspended, or who has been placed on prob...
- 2662: It is the intent of the Legislature that the board shall seek ways and means to identify and rehabil...
- 2663: The board shall establish and administer a diversion program for the rehabilitation of physical ther...
- 2664: (a) Any diversion evaluation committee established by the board shall have at least three members. I...
- 2665: Each diversion evaluation committee has the following duties and responsibilities:
(a) To evaluate p...
- 2666: (a) Criteria for acceptance into the diversion program shall include all of the following:
(1) The a...
- 2667: All board and diversion evaluation committee records and records of proceedings and participation of...
- 2668: (a) A fee to cover the actual cost of administering the program shall be charged for participation i...
- 2669: Participation in a diversion program shall not be a defense to any disciplinary action which may be ...
- 2670: Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, puni...
- 2672: Whenever any person has engaged or is about to engage in any acts or practices which constitute or w...
- 2674: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no physical therapist shall be subject to discipline...
- 2676: (a) A person renewing his or her license or approval shall submit proof satisfactory to the board th...
- 2680: The board shall keep a record of its proceedings under this chapter, and a register of all persons l...
- 2681: Within 10 days after the beginning of each calendar month the board shall report to the State Contro...
- 2682: There is in the State Treasury the Physical Therapy Fund. All collections from persons licensed or a...
- 2683: Except as provided in Section 2684, the provisions of Article 19 (commencing with Section 2420) of C...
- 2684: (a) Notwithstanding Section 2422, any license or approval for the practice of physical therapy shall...
- 2685: At least 60 days before the expiration of any license or approval, the board shall mail to each lice...
- 2687: All fees earned by the board and all fines and forfeitures of bail to which the board is entitled sh...
- 2688: The amount of fees assessed in connection with licenses issued under this chapter is as follows:
(a)...
- 2688.5: The board shall submit a report to the fiscal and appropriate policy committees of the legislature w...
- 2689: (a) The board may establish by regulation suitable application and renewal fees of not more than two...
- 2690: A physical therapy corporation is a corporation that is authorized to render professional services, ...
- 2691: It shall constitute unprofessional conduct and a violation of this chapter for any person licensed u...
- 2692: A physical therapy corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which or the failure ...
- 2693: The name of a physical therapy corporation and any name or names under which it may render professio...
- 2694: Except as provided in Section 13403 of the Corporations Code, each shareholder, director and officer...
- 2695: The income of a physical therapy corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a ...
- 2696: The board may adopt and enforce regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of this article...
- 2700: This chapter of the Business and Professions Code constitutes the chapter on professional nursing an...
- 2701: (a) There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs the Board of Registered Nursing consisting of nin...
- 2702: (a) Each member of the board shall be a citizen of the United States and a resident of the State of ...
- 2703: (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), all appointments shall be for a term of four years and va...
- 2706: The Governor has the power to remove any member of the board from office for neglect of any duty req...
- 2707: The board shall annually elect from its members a president, vice president, and any other officers ...
- 2708: (a) The board shall appoint an executive officer who shall perform the duties delegated by the board...
- 2708.1: Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Board of Registered Nursing in exerci...
- 2709: The board for the purpose of transacting its business shall meet at least once every three months, a...
- 2709.5: The board shall accept in payment of any fee required by this chapter cash or any customary or gener...
- 2710: Special meetings may be held at such times as the board may elect, or on the call of the president o...
- 2710.5: The board, with permission of the Director of the Department of Consumer Affairs, may form advisory ...
- 2712: Five members of the board constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting.
- 2713: The board shall keep a record of all its proceedings, including a register of all applicants for lic...
- 2714: The office of the board shall be in the city of Sacramento. Suboffices may be established in Los Ang...
- 2715: The board shall prosecute all persons guilty of violating the provisions of this chapter.
Except as ...
- 2716: Each member of the board shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
- 2717: (a) The board shall collect and analyze workforce data from its licensees for future workforce plann...
- 2725: (a) In amending this section at the 1973-74 session, the Legislature recognizes that nursing is a dy...
- 2725.1: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a registered nurse may dispense drugs or devices upon an...
- 2725.3: (a) A health facility licensed pursuant to subdivision (a), (b), or (f), of Section 1250 of the Heal...
- 2725.5: "Advanced practice registered nurse" means those licensed registered nurses who have met the require...
- 2726: Except as otherwise provided herein, this chapter confers no authority to practice medicine or surge...
- 2727: This chapter does not prohibit:
(a) Gratuitous nursing of the sick by friends or members of the fami...
- 2727.5: A person licensed under this chapter who in good faith renders emergency care at the scene of an eme...
- 2728: If adequate medical and nursing supervision by a professional nurse or nurses is provided, nursing s...
- 2728.5: Except for those provisions of law relating to directors of nursing services, nothing in this chapte...
- 2729: Nursing services may be rendered by a student when these services are incidental to the course of st...
- 2730: If he does not represent or hold himself out as a professional nurse licensed to practice in this St...
- 2731: This chapter does not prohibit nursing or the care of the sick, with or without compensation or pers...
- 2732: No person shall engage in the practice of nursing, as defined in Section 2725, without holding a lic...
- 2732.05: (a) Every employer of a registered nurse, every employer of a registered nurse required to hold any ...
- 2732.1: (a) An applicant for license by examination shall submit a written application in the form prescribe...
- 2733: (a) Upon approval of an application filed pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 2732.1, and upon th...
- 2734: Upon application in writing to the board and payment of the biennial renewal fee, a licensee may hav...
- 2736: (a) An applicant for licensure as a registered nurse shall comply with each of the following:
(1) Ha...
- 2736.1: (a) The course of instruction for an applicant who matriculates on or after September 1, 1985, shall...
- 2736.5: (a) Any person who has served on active duty in the medical corps of any of the Armed Forces of the ...
- 2736.6: The board shall determine by regulation the additional preparation in nursing, in a school approved ...
- 2737: An applicant for a license authorizing him to practice nursing in this State under this chapter, upo...
- 2738: The board shall hold not less than two examinations each year at such times and places as the board ...
- 2740: Examinations shall be written, but in the discretion of the board may be supplemented by an oral or ...
- 2741: An application for reexamination shall be accompanied by the fees prescribed by this chapter.
- 2742: The board shall issue a license to each applicant who passes the examination and meets all other lic...
- 2746: The board shall issue a certificate to practice nurse-midwifery to any person who qualifies under th...
- 2746.1: Every applicant for a certificate to practice nurse-midwifery shall comply with all the provisions o...
- 2746.2: Each applicant shall show by evidence satisfactory to the board that he has met the educational stan...
- 2746.3: Midwife's certificates issued by the Medical Board of California prior to the effective date of this...
- 2746.4: Nothing in this article shall be construed to prevent the practice of midwifery by a person possessi...
- 2746.5: (a) The certificate to practice nurse-midwifery authorizes the holder, under the supervision of a li...
- 2746.51: (a) Neither this chapter nor any other provision of law shall be construed to prohibit a certified n...
- 2746.52: Notwithstanding Section 2746.5, the certificate to practice nurse-midwifery authorizes the holder to...
- 2746.7: An applicant for certification pursuant to this article shall submit a written application in the fo...
- 2746.8: Each certificate issued pursuant to this article shall be renewable biennially, and each person hold...
- 2750: Every certificate holder or licensee, including licensees holding temporary licenses, or licensees h...
- 2751: (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the board may, in its discretion, accept the surrender of a licen...
- 2759: The board shall discipline the holder of any license, whose default has been entered or who has been...
- 2760: If the holder of a license is suspended, he or she shall not be entitled to practice nursing during ...
- 2760.1: (a) A registered nurse whose license has been revoked or suspended or who has been placed on probati...
- 2761: The board may take disciplinary action against a certified or licensed nurse or deny an application ...
- 2762: In addition to other acts constituting unprofessional conduct within the meaning of this chapter it ...
- 2764: The lapsing or suspension of a license by operation of law or by order or decision of the board or a...
- 2765: A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge sub...
- 2770: It is the intent of the Legislature that the Board of Registered Nursing seek ways and means to iden...
- 2770.1: As used in this article:
(a) "Board" means the Board of Registered Nursing.
(b) "Committee" means a ...
- 2770.2: One or more diversion evaluation committees is hereby created in the state to be established by the ...
- 2770.3: Each member of a committee shall receive per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
- 2770.4: Three members of a committee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meetin...
- 2770.5: Each committee shall elect from its membership a chairperson and a vice chairperson.
- 2770.6: The board shall administer the provisions of this article.
- 2770.7: (a) The board shall establish criteria for the acceptance, denial, or termination of registered nurs...
- 2770.8: A committee created under this article operates under the direction of the diversion program manager...
- 2770.9: The committee shall inform each registered nurse who requests participation in a program of the proc...
- 2770.10: Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 o...
- 2770.11: (a) Each registered nurse who requests participation in a diversion program shall agree to cooperate...
- 2770.12: (a) After the committee and the program manager in their discretion have determined that a registere...
- 2770.13: The board shall provide for the legal representation of any person making reports under this article...
- 2770.14: (a) The board shall produce reports which include, but are not limited to, information concerning th...
- 2775: A nursing corporation is a corporation which is authorized to render professional services, as defin...
- 2776: It shall constitute unprofessional conduct and a violation of this chapter for any person licensed u...
- 2777: A nursing corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which or the failure to do whi...
- 2778: The name of a nursing corporation and any name or names under which it may render professional servi...
- 2779: Except as provided in Sections 13401.5 and 13403 of the Corporations Code, each shareholder, directo...
- 2780: The income of a nursing corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a sharehold...
- 2781: The board may adopt and enforce regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of this article...
- 2785: The board shall prepare and maintain a list of approved schools of nursing in this state whose gradu...
- 2785.5: The board shall establish a workgroup, or use an existing committee, to encourage and facilitate eff...
- 2786: (a) An approved school of nursing is one that has been approved by the board, gives the course of in...
- 2786.6: The board shall deny the application for approval made by, and shall revoke the approval given to, a...
- 2788: It shall be the duty of the board, through its executive officer, to inspect all schools of nursing ...
- 2789: None of the provisions of this chapter shall be applicable to any school or schools conducted by any...
- 2795: Except as provided in this chapter, it is unlawful for any person to do any of the following:
(a) To...
- 2796: It is unlawful for any person or persons not licensed or certified as provided in this chapter to us...
- 2797: It is unlawful for a person to wilfully make any false representation or to impersonate any other pe...
- 2798: It is unlawful for anyone to conduct a school of nursing unless the school has been approved as an a...
- 2799: Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon a ...
- 2800: None of the sections in this article, except Sections 2796 and 2797, shall be applicable to any pers...
- 2810: There is established in the State Treasury a Board of Registered Nursing Fund. The California Board ...
- 2811: (a) Each person holding a regular renewable license under this chapter, whether in an active or inac...
- 2811.5: (a) Each person renewing his or her license under Section 2811 shall submit proof satisfactory to th...
- 2811.6: Providers of continuing education programs approved by the board pursuant to Section 2811.5 shall ma...
- 2812: Within 10 days after the beginning of each month, the board shall report to the State Controller the...
- 2814: All money in the Board of Registered Nursing Fund is hereby appropriated to carry out the provisions...
- 2815: Subject to the provisions of Section 128.5, the amount of the fees prescribed by this chapter in con...
- 2815.1: As provided in subdivision (d) of Section 2815, the Board of Registered Nursing shall collect an add...
- 2815.5: The amount of the fees prescribed by this chapter in connection with the issuance of certificates as...
- 2815.7: The board shall report to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of each house of the Legislat...
- 2816: The nonrefundable fee to be paid by a registered nurse for an evaluation of his or her qualification...
- 2817: The qualifications prescribed by the board under this article shall include a requirement that an ap...
- 2818: (a) The Legislature recognizes that public health nursing is a service of crucial importance for the...
- 2819: In order to effect a speedy and efficient transfer of public health nurse certification from the Sta...
- 2820: Nothing in this article shall be construed as expanding the scope of practice of a registered nurse ...
- 2825: This article may be cited as the Nurse Anesthetists Act.
- 2826: As used in this article:
(a) "Nurse anesthetist" means a person who is a registered nurse, licensed ...
- 2827: The utilization of a nurse anesthetist to provide anesthesia services in an acute care facility shal...
- 2828: In an acute care facility, a nurse anesthetist who is not an employee of the facility shall, nonethe...
- 2829: It is unlawful for any person or persons to advertise, use any title, sign, card, or device, or to o...
- 2830: The board shall issue a certificate to practice nurse anesthesia to any person who qualifies under t...
- 2830.5: Every applicant shall show by evidence satisfactory to the board that he or she has met the requirem...
- 2830.6: Notwithstanding Section 2830, the board shall certify all applicants who can show certification by t...
- 2830.7: The amount of the fees prescribed by this chapter in connection with the issuance of certificates as...
- 2831: An applicant for certification pursuant to this article shall submit a written application in the fo...
- 2832: Every applicant for a certificate to practice nurse anesthesia shall comply with all the provisions ...
- 2833: Each certificate issued pursuant to this article shall be renewable biennially, and each person hold...
- 2833.3: Nothing in this article shall be construed to limit a certified nurse anesthetist's ability to pract...
- 2833.5: Except as provided in Section 2725 and in this section, the practice of nurse anesthetist does not c...
- 2833.6: This chapter is not intended to address the scope of practice of, and nothing in this chapter shall ...
- 2834: The Legislature finds that various and conflicting definitions of the nurse practitioner are being c...
- 2835: No person shall advertise or hold himself out as a "nurse practitioner" who is not a nurse licensed ...
- 2835.5: (a) A registered nurse who is holding himself or herself out as a nurse practitioner or who desires ...
- 2835.7: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in addition to any other practices that meet the gen...
- 2836: (a) The board shall establish categories of nurse practitioners and standards for nurses to hold the...
- 2836.1: Neither this chapter nor any other provision of law shall be construed to prohibit a nurse practitio...
- 2836.2: Furnishing or ordering of drugs or devices by nurse practitioners is defined to mean the act of maki...
- 2836.3: (a) The furnishing of drugs or devices by nurse practitioners is conditional on issuance by the boar...
- 2837: Nothing in this article shall be construed to limit the current scope of practice of a registered nu...
- 2838: No person shall advertise or hold himself or herself out as a "clinical nurse specialist" unless he ...
- 2838.1: (a) On and after July 1, 1998, any registered nurse who holds himself or herself out as a clinical n...
- 2838.2: (a) A clinical nurse specialist is a registered nurse with advanced education, who participates in e...
- 2838.3: This article shall become operative on July 1, 1998.
- 2838.4: Nothing in this article shall be construed to limit, revise, or expand the current scope of practice...
- 2840: This chapter of the Business and Professions Code constitutes the chapter on vocational nursing and ...
- 2840.5: (a) The Legislature hereby declares the practice of licensed vocational nursing to be a profession.
...
- 2841: (a) There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs a Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Tec...
- 2841.1: Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psych...
- 2842: (a) Each member of the board shall be a citizen of the United States and a resident of the State of ...
- 2843: Members of the board shall be appointed for a term of four years. Vacancies occurring shall be fille...
- 2845: The Governor has the power to remove any member of the board from office for neglect of any duty req...
- 2846: The board at its first meeting after appointment, and annually thereafter at its first meeting in ea...
- 2847: (a) The board shall select an executive officer who shall perform duties as are delegated by the boa...
- 2848: The board for the purpose of transacting its business shall meet at least twice each year, at times ...
- 2849: Special meetings may be held at such times as the board may elect, or on the call of the president o...
- 2850: Meetings may be held at any time and place by the written consent of all members of the board.
- 2851: Six members of the board constitute a quorum for transaction of business at any meeting.
- 2852: The board shall keep a record of all its proceedings, including a register of all applicants for lic...
- 2853: The office of the board shall be in the City of Sacramento. Suboffices may be established in Los Ang...
- 2854: The board shall prosecute all persons guilty of violating the provisions of this chapter.
It may emp...
- 2855: Each member of the board shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
- 2857: The board shall issue a license designated as licensed vocational nurse license.
- 2858: The board shall accept in payment of any fee required by this chapter cash or any customary or gener...
- 2859: The practice of vocational nursing within the meaning of this chapter is the performance of services...
- 2860: This chapter confers no authority to practice medicine or surgery or to undertake the prevention, tr...
- 2860.5: A licensed vocational nurse when directed by a physician and surgeon may do all of the following:
(a...
- 2860.7: (a) A licensed vocational nurse, acting under the direction of a physician may perform: (1) tubercul...
- 2861: This chapter does not prohibit the performance of nursing services by any person not licensed under ...
- 2861.5: A person licensed under this chapter who in good faith renders emergency care at the scene of an eme...
- 2862: Vocational nursing services may be rendered by a student enrolled in an approved school of vocationa...
- 2863: This chapter does not prohibit vocational nursing or the care of the sick, with or without compensat...
- 2864: Every licensee under this chapter may be known as a licensed vocational nurse and may place the lett...
- 2866: An applicant for a licensed vocational nurse license shall comply with each of the following:
(a) Be...
- 2867: An applicant for a license authorizing him to practice vocational nursing in this State under this c...
- 2867.5: Every person to whom a license is issued after August 30, 1962, shall, as a condition precedent to i...
- 2867.6: After receiving the results of having passed the examination and upon receipt of the initial license...
- 2868: The board shall hold not less than two examinations each year for applicants desirous of practicing ...
- 2870: Examinations shall be written, but in the discretion of the board may be supplemented by an oral or ...
- 2871: Any applicant who fails to pass his first examination may take a second examination upon payment of ...
- 2872: The board shall issue a license to each applicant who passes the examination. The form of the licens...
- 2872.1: The board upon written application and receipt of the required application fee may issue a license w...
- 2872.2: An applicant for license by examination shall submit a written application in the form prescribed by...
- 2873: Any person possessing either the education or the experience, or any combination of both the educati...
- 2873.5: Any person who has served on active duty in the medical corps of any of the armed forces, in which n...
- 2873.6: (a) Any person who on the effective date of this section is employed as a medical technical assistan...
- 2875: Every licensee may be disciplined as provided in this article. The proceedings under this article sh...
- 2876: The board shall discipline the holder of any license, whose default has been entered or who has been...
- 2877: If the holder of a license is suspended, he shall not be entitled to practice vocational nursing dur...
- 2878: The board may suspend or revoke a license issued under this chapter for any of the following:
(a) Un...
- 2878.1: (a) If a licensed vocational nurse has knowledge that another person has committed any act prohibite...
- 2878.5: In addition to other acts constituting unprofessional conduct within the meaning of this chapter, it...
- 2878.6: A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge sub...
- 2878.7: (a) A person whose license has been revoked, suspended, surrendered, or placed on probation, may pet...
- 2878.8: The board may deny any application or may suspend or revoke any license issued under this chapter ba...
- 2878.9: (a) The board may issue an initial license on probation, with specific terms and conditions, to any ...
- 2879: (a) Notwithstanding Section 2878 or any other provision of law, the board may revoke, suspend, or de...
- 2880: The board shall prepare and maintain a list of approved schools of vocational nursing in this state ...
- 2881: An approved school of vocational nursing is one which has been approved by the Board of Vocational N...
- 2881.1: The board shall deny the application for approval made by, and shall revoke the approval given to, a...
- 2882: The course of instruction of an approved school of vocational nursing shall consist of not less than...
- 2883: It shall be the duty of the board, through an official representative, to inspect or review all scho...
- 2884: None of the provisions of this chapter shall be applicable to any school or schools conducted by any...
- 2885: It is unlawful for any person or persons not licensed as provided in this chapter to impersonate in ...
- 2886: It is unlawful for a person to wilfully make any false representation or to impersonate any other pe...
- 2887: Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon a ...
- 2890: The Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury.
- 2892: Licenses issued under this chapter prior to January 1, 1974, shall, unless renewed, expire on the la...
- 2892.1: Except as provided in Sections 2892.3 and 2892.5, an expired license may be renewed at any time with...
- 2892.2: A suspended license is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article, but s...
- 2892.3: A revoked license is subject to expiration as provided in this article, but it may not be renewed. I...
- 2892.4: A license which is not renewed within four years after its expiration may not be renewed, restored, ...
- 2892.5: (a) Each person renewing his or her license under the provisions of this chapter shall submit proof ...
- 2892.6: The board shall collect a biennial fee, not to exceed two hundred dollars ($200), from any provider ...
- 2893: At least once in every calendar month, the board shall furnish the Controller a detailed statement o...
- 2894: All money in the Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians Fund shall be used to carry out the ...
- 2895: The amount of the fees prescribed by this chapter in connection with the issuance of licenses under ...
- 2895.1: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an applicant for license renewal who receives his or her...
- 2895.5: As provided in subdivision (d) of Section 2895, the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Tech...
- 2900: The Legislature finds and declares that practice of psychology in California affects the public heal...
- 2901: This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Psychology Licensing Law."
- 2902: As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise and except as in this chapter...
- 2903: No person may engage in the practice of psychology, or represent himself or herself to be a psycholo...
- 2903.1: A psychologist licensed under this chapter may use biofeedback instruments which do not pierce or cu...
- 2904: The practice of psychology shall not include prescribing drugs, performing surgery or administering ...
- 2904.5: A psychologist licensed under this chapter is a licentiate for purposes of paragraph (2) of subdivis...
- 2905: The practice of psychology shall be as defined as in Section 2903, any existing statute in the State...
- 2907: Corporations shall have no professional rights, privileges, or powers, and shall not be permitted to...
- 2907.5: Nothing in Section 2907 shall be deemed to apply to the acts of a psychological corporation practici...
- 2908: Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent qualified members of other recognized professi...
- 2909: Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as restricting or preventing activities of a psychologica...
- 2910: Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to restrict or prevent activities of a psychological natu...
- 2911: Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as restricting the activities and services of a graduate ...
- 2912: Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to restrict or prevent a person who is licensed as a psyc...
- 2913: A person other than a licensed psychologist may be employed by a licensed psychologist, by a license...
- 2914: Each applicant for licensure shall comply with all of the following requirements:
(a) Is not subject...
- 2914.1: The board shall encourage every licensed psychologist to take a continuing education course in geria...
- 2914.2: The board shall encourage licensed psychologists to take continuing education courses in psychopharm...
- 2914.3: (a) The board shall encourage institutions that offer a doctorate degree program in psychology to in...
- 2915: (a) Except as provided in this section, on or after January 1, 1996, the board shall not issue any r...
- 2915.5: (a) Any applicant for licensure as a psychologist who began graduate study on or after January 1, 20...
- 2915.7: (a) A licensee who began graduate study prior to January 1, 2004, shall complete a three-hour contin...
- 2916: If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held i...
- 2918: The confidential relations and communications between psychologist and client shall be privileged as...
- 2919: A licensed psychologist shall retain a patient's health service records for a minimum of seven years...
- 2920: The Board of Psychology shall enforce and administer this chapter. The board shall consist of nine m...
- 2920.1: Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Board of Psychology in exercising its...
- 2921: Each member of the board shall hold office for a term of four years, and shall serve until the appoi...
- 2922: In appointing the members of the board, except the public members, the Governor shall use his or her...
- 2923: Each member of the board shall have all of the following qualifications:
(a) He or she shall be a re...
- 2924: The Governor has power to remove from office any member of the board for neglect of any duty require...
- 2925: The board shall elect annually a president and vice president from among its members.
- 2926: The board shall hold at least one regular meeting each year. Additional meetings may be held upon ca...
- 2927: Five members of the board shall at all times constitute a quorum.
- 2927.5: Notice of each regular meeting of the board shall be given in accordance with the Bagley-Keene Open ...
- 2928: The board shall administer and enforce this chapter.
- 2929: The board shall adopt a seal, which shall be affixed to all licenses issued by the board.
- 2930: The board shall from time to time adopt rules and regulations as may be necessary to effectuate this...
- 2930.5: (a) Any psychologist, who as a sole proprietor, or in a partnership, group, or professional corporat...
- 2931: The board shall examine and pass upon the qualifications of the applicants for a license as provided...
- 2933: Except as provided by Section 159.5, the board shall employ and shall make available to the board wi...
- 2934: Notwithstanding Section 112, the board may issue, biennially, a current geographical directory of li...
- 2935: Each member of the board shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
- 2936: The board shall adopt a program of consumer and professional education in matters relevant to the et...
- 2940: Each person desiring to obtain a license from the board shall make application to the board. The app...
- 2941: Each applicant for a psychology license shall be examined by the board, and shall pay to the board, ...
- 2942: The board may examine by written or computer-assisted examination or by both. All aspects of the exa...
- 2943: The board may examine for knowledge in whatever theoretical or applied fields in psychology as it de...
- 2944: The board shall grade the written examination and keep the written examination papers for at least o...
- 2946: The board shall grant a license to any person who passes the board's supplemental licensing examinat...
- 2947: The board may appoint qualified persons to give the whole or any portion of any examination provided...
- 2948: The board shall issue a license to all applicants who meet the requirements of this chapter and who ...
- 2960: The board may refuse to issue any registration or license, or may issue a registration or license wi...
- 2960.05: (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b), (c), and (e), any accusation filed against a licensee pu...
- 2960.1: Notwithstanding Section 2960, any proposed decision or decision issued under this chapter in accorda...
- 2960.2: (a) A licensee shall meet the requirements set forth in subdivision (f) of Section 1031 of the Gover...
- 2960.5: The board may refuse to issue any registration or license whenever it appears that an applicant may ...
- 2960.6: The board may deny any application for, or may suspend or revoke a license or registration issued un...
- 2961: The board may deny an application for, or issue subject to terms and conditions, or suspend or revok...
- 2962: (a) A person whose license or registration has been revoked, suspended, or surrendered, or who has b...
- 2963: A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge whi...
- 2964: Whenever the board orders a license revoked for cause, with the exception of nonpayment of fees, or ...
- 2964.3: Any person required to register as a sex offender pursuant to Section 290 of the Penal Code, is not ...
- 2964.5: The board at its discretion may require any licensee placed on probation or whose license is suspend...
- 2964.6: An administrative disciplinary decision that imposes terms of probation may include, among other thi...
- 2965: The proceedings under this article shall be conducted by the board in accordance with Chapter 5 (com...
- 2966: (a) A psychologist's license shall be suspended automatically during any time that the holder of the...
- 2969: (a) (1) A licensee who fails or refuses to comply with a request for the medical records of a patien...
- 2970: Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punis...
- 2971: Whenever any person other than a licensed psychologist has engaged in any act or practice that const...
- 2980: There is in the State Treasury the Psychology Fund. The board shall report to the Controller at the ...
- 2981: The money in the Psychology Fund shall be used for the administration of this chapter.
- 2982: All licenses expire and become invalid at 12 midnight on the last day of February, 1980, and thereaf...
- 2983: Every person to whom a license is issued shall, as a condition precedent to its issuance, and in add...
- 2984: Except as provided in Section 2985, a license that has expired may be renewed at any time within thr...
- 2985: A suspended license is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article, but s...
- 2986: A person who fails to renew his or her license within the three years after its expiration may not r...
- 2987: The amount of the fees prescribed by this chapter shall be determined by the board, and shall be as ...
- 2987.2: In addition to the fees charged pursuant to Section 2987 for the biennial renewal of a license, the ...
- 2987.3: The following fees apply to fictitious-name permits issued under Section 2930.5.
(a) The initial per...
- 2987.5: Every person licensed under this chapter is exempt from the payment of the renewal fee in any one of...
- 2988: A licensed psychologist who for reasons, including, but not limited to, retirement, ill health, or a...
- 2989: The fees in this article shall be fixed by the board and shall be set forth with the regulations whi...
- 2995: A psychological corporation is a corporation that is authorized to render professional services, as ...
- 2996: It shall constitute unprofessional conduct and a violation of this chapter for any person licensed u...
- 2996.1: A psychological corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which or the failure to ...
- 2996.2: The income of a psychological corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a sha...
- 2997: Except as provided in Sections 13401.5 and 13403 of the Corporations Code, each shareholder, directo...
- 2998: The name of a psychological corporation and any name or names under which it may render professional...
- 2999: The board may adopt and enforce regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of this article...
- 3000: This chapter constitutes the chapter on optometry. It shall be known and may be cited as the Optomet...
- 3001: As used in this chapter, an ophthalmic lens is any lens which has a spherical, cylindrical or prisma...
- 3002: As used in this chapter, a trial frame or test lens is any frame or lens used in testing the eye, wh...
- 3003: As used in this chapter, "optometrist" means a person who is licensed to practice optometry in this ...
- 3004: As used in this chapter, "board" means the State Board of Optometry.
- 3005: As used in this chapter, "place of practice" means any location where optometry is practiced.
- 3006: As used in this chapter, the term "advertise" and any of its variants include the use of a newspaper...
- 3007: An optometrist shall retain a patient's records for a minimum of seven years from the date he or she...
- 3010.1: Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the State Board of Optometry in exercisin...
- 3010.5: (a) There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs a State Board of Optometry in which the enforceme...
- 3011: Members of the board, except the public members, shall be appointed only from persons who are regist...
- 3013: (a) Each member of the board shall hold office for a term of four years, and shall serve until the a...
- 3014: The board shall elect from its membership a president, a vice president, and a secretary who shall h...
- 3014.6: (a) The board may appoint a person exempt from civil service who shall be designated as an executive...
- 3016: Each member of the board shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
- 3017: The board shall hold regular meetings every calendar quarter.
Special meetings shall be held upon re...
- 3018: The board shall keep an accurate record of all of its licensees, proceedings, and meetings.
- 3019: The board shall keep a record of all prosecutions for violations of this chapter and of all applicat...
- 3023: For the purposes of this chapter, the board shall accredit schools, colleges, and universities in or...
- 3024: The board may grant or refuse to grant certificates of registration as provided in this chapter and ...
- 3025: The board may make and promulgate rules and regulations governing procedure of the board, the admiss...
- 3025.1: The board may adopt rules and regulations that are, in its judgment, reasonable and necessary to ens...
- 3025.2: The board may adopt rules and regulations that are, in its judgment, reasonable and necessary to ens...
- 3025.5: The board may adopt regulations prescribing minimum standards governing the optometric services offe...
- 3025.6: The board may adopt regulations clarifying the level of training and the level of supervision of ass...
- 3025.7: Except as provided in Sections 3102 and 3103, nothing contained in Section 651.3 shall be construed ...
- 3026: The board may adopt and use a common seal and establish a permanent office or offices.
- 3027: The board shall employ an executive officer and other necessary assistance in the carrying out of th...
- 3028: The Attorney General shall act as the legal counsel for the board and his or her services shall be a...
- 3040: It is unlawful for a person to engage in the practice of optometry or to display a sign or in any ot...
- 3041: (a) The practice of optometry includes the prevention and diagnosis of disorders and dysfunctions of...
- 3041.1: With respect to the practices set forth in subdivisions (b), (d), and (e) of Section 3041, optometri...
- 3041.2: (a) The State Board of Optometry shall by regulation, establish educational and examination requirem...
- 3041.3: (a) In order to be certified to use therapeutic pharmaceutical agents and authorized to diagnose and...
- 3042: The provisions of this chapter do not prevent a licensed physician and surgeon from treating or fitt...
- 3042.5: (a) The practice of persons actually enrolled as undergraduate or graduate students of optometry in ...
- 3043: The provisions of this chapter do not prohibit the sale of goggles, sun glasses, colored glasses or ...
- 3044: A person over the age of 18 years desiring to engage in the practice of optometry in this state may ...
- 3045: Applications shall be verified by the oath of the applicant and shall contain information and eviden...
- 3046: In order to obtain a license to practice optometry in California, an applicant shall have graduated ...
- 3051: All applicants for examination for a certificate of registration in accordance with the educational ...
- 3053: All examinations shall be practical in character, designed to ascertain applicants' fitness to pract...
- 3054: The passing grades for the licensure examination shall be based on psychometrically sound principles...
- 3055: The board shall issue a license to an applicant who meets the requirements of this chapter, includin...
- 3056: (a) The board may issue a license to practice optometry to a person who meets all of the following q...
- 3057: (a) The board may issue a license to practice optometry to a person who meets all of the following r...
- 3057.5: Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the board shall permit a person who meets all o...
- 3059: (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the public health and safety would be served by requiri...
- 3060: The board shall periodically develop and disseminate to all persons licensed to practice optometry i...
- 3070: (a) Before engaging in the practice of optometry, each licensed optometrist shall notify the board i...
- 3070.1: (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
(1) "Health facil...
- 3075: An optometrist shall post in each location where he or she practices optometry, in an area that is l...
- 3076: A licensed optometrist shall deliver to each patient that makes a payment to the practice, excluding...
- 3077: As used in this section "office" means any office or other place for the practice of optometry.
(a) ...
- 3078: (a) It is unlawful to practice optometry under a false or assumed name, or to use a false or assumed...
- 3090: Except as otherwise provided by law, the board may take action against all persons guilty of violati...
- 3091: (a) The board may deny an optometrist license to any applicant guilty of unprofessional conduct or o...
- 3092: All proceedings against a licensee for any violation of this chapter or any of the regulations adopt...
- 3093: Before setting aside the revocation or suspension of any certificate the board may require the appli...
- 3094: In addition to other proceedings provided for in this chapter, whenever any person has engaged, or i...
- 3095: In accordance with Section 125.9, the board may establish a system for the issuance of citations, an...
- 3096: (a) A licensee may be ordered to undergo a professional competency examination if, after investigati...
- 3097: The sending of a solicitor from house to house or the soliciting from house to house by the holder o...
- 3098: When the holder uses the title of "Doctor" or "Dr." as a prefix to his name, without using the word ...
- 3099: No optometrist shall advertise or otherwise hold himself or herself out to be a specialist in eye di...
- 3100: The holding out as having a special knowledge of optometry, as defined in this chapter, by the holde...
- 3101: It is unlawful to advertise by displaying a sign or otherwise or hold himself or herself out to be a...
- 3102: It is unlawful to advertise as being free or without cost the furnishing of optometric services wher...
- 3103: It is unlawful to include in any advertisement relating to the sale or disposition of goggles, sungl...
- 3104: The employing of what are known as "cappers" or "steerers" to obtain business constitutes unprofessi...
- 3105: Altering or modifying the medical record of any person, with fraudulent intent, or creating any fals...
- 3106: Knowingly making or signing any certificate or other document directly or indirectly related to the ...
- 3107: It is unlawful to use or attempt to use any license issued by the board that has been purchased, fra...
- 3108: When the holder is suffering from a contagious or infectious disease, it constitutes a cause to susp...
- 3109: Directly or indirectly accepting employment to practice optometry from any person not having a valid...
- 3110: The board may take action against any licensee who is charged with unprofessional conduct, and may d...
- 3111: It is unprofessional conduct and a violation of this chapter for a person licensed under this chapte...
- 3120: Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon c...
- 3137: (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, any accusation filed against a licensee pursuant t...
- 3145: There is the Optometry Fund in the State Treasury. Unless otherwise provided, all money collected un...
- 3145.5: Administrative fines collected pursuant to Section 3095 shall be deposited in the Optometry Fund. It...
- 3146: A license issued under this chapter expires at midnight on the last day of the licenseholder's birth...
- 3147: Except as otherwise provided by Section 114, an expired license may be renewed at any time within th...
- 3147.5: A license that has been suspended is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this ...
- 3147.6: Except as otherwise provided by Section 114, a license that is not renewed within three years after ...
- 3147.7: The provisions of Section 3147.6 shall not apply to a person holding a license that has not been ren...
- 3148: From each fee for the renewal of a license for the biennial renewal of a license, there shall be pai...
- 3150: The department may make all necessary disbursements to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
- 3152: The amounts of fees and penalties prescribed by this chapter shall be established by the board in am...
- 3152.5: The board may require each applicant for a certificate to use therapeutic pharmaceutical agents, pur...
- 3160: An optometric corporation is a corporation that is authorized to render professional services, as de...
- 3163: Except as provided in Section 3125, the name of an optometric corporation and any name or names unde...
- 3164: Except as provided in Sections 13401.5 and 13403 of the Corporations Code, each director, shareholde...
- 3165: The income of an optometric corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a share...
- 3166: An optometric corporation shall not do or fail to do an act the doing of which or the failure to do ...
- 3167: The board may formulate and enforce rules and regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives o...
- 3500: In its concern with the growing shortage and geographic maldistribution of health care services in C...
- 3500.5: This chapter shall be known and cited as the Physician Assistant Practice Act.
- 3501: (a) As used in this chapter:
(1) "Board" means the Medical Board of California.
(2) "Approved progra...
- 3502: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a physician assistant may perform those medical serv...
- 3502.1: (a) In addition to the services authorized in the regulations adopted by the board, and except as pr...
- 3502.2: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a physician assistant may perform the physical examinati...
- 3502.3: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in addition to any other practices that meet the gen...
- 3502.5: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a physician assistant may perform those medical services...
- 3503: No person other than one who has been licensed to practice as a physician assistant shall practice a...
- 3503.5: (a) A person licensed under this chapter who in good faith renders emergency care at the scene of an...
- 3504: There is established a Physician Assistant Committee of the Medical Board of California. The committ...
- 3504.1: Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Physician Assistant Committee of the ...
- 3505: The members of the committee shall include one member of the Medical Board of California, a physicia...
- 3506: Each member of the committee shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
- 3507: The appointing power has power to remove from office any member of the committee, as provided in Sec...
- 3508: (a) The committee may convene from time to time as deemed necessary by the committee.
(b) Notice of ...
- 3509: It shall be the duty of the committee to:
(a) Establish standards and issue licenses of approval for...
- 3509.5: The committee shall elect annually a chairperson and a vice chairperson from among its members.
- 3510: The committee may adopt, amend, and repeal regulations as may be necessary to enable it to carry int...
- 3511: Five members shall constitute a quorum for transacting any business. The affirmative vote of a major...
- 3512: (a) Except as provided in Sections 159.5 and 2020, the committee shall employ within the limits of t...
- 3513: The committee shall recognize the approval of training programs for physician assistants approved by...
- 3514.1: (a) The committee shall formulate by regulation guidelines for the consideration of applications for...
- 3516: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a physician assistant licensed by the committee shal...
- 3516.5: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law and in accordance with regulations established by the...
- 3517: The committee shall require a written examination of physician assistants in the manner and under th...
- 3518: The committee shall keep current, two separate registers, one for approved supervising physicians an...
- 3519: The committee shall issue under the name of the Medical Board of California a license to all physici...
- 3519.5: (a) The committee may issue under the name of the board a probationary license to an applicant subje...
- 3520: Within 10 days after the beginning of each calendar month the board shall report to the Controller t...
- 3521: The fees to be paid for approval to supervise physician assistants are to be set by the committee as...
- 3521.1: The fees to be paid by physician assistants are to be set by the committee as follows:
(a) An applic...
- 3521.2: The fees to be paid by physician assistant training programs are to be set by the committee as follo...
- 3521.5: The committee shall report to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of each house of the Legi...
- 3522: An approval to supervise physician assistants shall expire at 12 midnight on the last day of the bir...
- 3523: All physician assistant licenses shall expire at 12 midnight of the last day of the birth month of t...
- 3524: A license or approval that has expired may be renewed at any time within five years after its expira...
- 3524.5: The committee may require a licensee to complete continuing education as a condition of license rene...
- 3525: A suspended license is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this chapter. Howev...
- 3526: A person who fails to renew his or her license or approval within five years after its expiration ma...
- 3527: (a) The committee may order the denial of an application for, or the issuance subject to terms and c...
- 3528: Any proceedings involving the denial, suspension, or revocation of the application for licensure or ...
- 3529: The committee may hear any matters filed pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 3527, or ma...
- 3530: (a) A person whose license or approval has been revoked or suspended, or who has been placed on prob...
- 3531: A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge of ...
- 3532: Any person who violates Section 3502, 3503, 3515, or 3516 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishabl...
- 3533: Whenever any person has engaged in any act or practice which constitutes an offense against this cha...
- 3534: (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the examining committee shall seek ways and means to id...
- 3534.1: The examining committee shall establish and administer a diversion program for the rehabilitation of...
- 3534.2: (a) Any committee established by the examining committee shall have at least three members. In makin...
- 3534.3: Each committee has the following duties and responsibilities:
(a) To evaluate physician assistants w...
- 3534.4: Criteria for acceptance into the diversion program shall include all of the following: (a) the appli...
- 3534.5: A participant may be terminated from the program for any of the following reasons: (a) the participa...
- 3534.6: In addition to the criteria and causes set forth in Section 3534.4, the examining committee may set ...
- 3534.7: All examining committee and committee records and records of proceedings and participation of a phys...
- 3534.8: A fee may be charged for participation in the program.
- 3534.9: If the examining committee contracts with any other entity to carry out this section, the executive ...
- 3534.10: Participation in a diversion program shall not be a defense to any disciplinary action which may be ...
- 3535: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, physicians and surgeons licensed by the Osteopathic ...
- 3537.10: (a) Subject to the other provisions of this article, the Office of Statewide Health Planning and De...
- 3537.15: (a) Prior to establishment of an ongoing international medical graduate physician assistant training...
- 3537.20: Any person who has satisfactorily completed the program established by this article shall be eligibl...
- 3537.25: Both the pilot and the ongoing training program shall provide training at no cost to the participant...
- 3537.30: (a) The Legislature recognizes that the goal of this program would be compromised if participants do...
- 3537.35: The Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development shall, in addition to other duties described...
- 3537.40: The Physician Assistant Training Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury for the purpose of rec...
- 3537.45: The program established pursuant to this article shall not be funded, directly or indirectly, from a...
- 3537.50: No General Fund revenues shall be expended to carry out this article. The implementation of the pilo...
- 3540: A physician assistants corporation is a corporation which is authorized to render professional servi...
- 3541: It shall constitute unprofessional conduct and a violation of this chapter for any person licensed u...
- 3542: A physician assistant corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which or the failu...
- 3543: The name of a physician assistant corporation and any name or names under which it may render profes...
- 3544: Except as provided in Sections 13401.5 and 13403 of the Corporations Code, each shareholder, directo...
- 3545: The income of a physician assistant corporation attributable to professional services rendered while...
- 3546: The board may adopt and enforce regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of this article...
- 3575: (a) For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:
(1) "Board" means the M...
- 3576: (a) A registration under this chapter may be denied, suspended, revoked, or otherwise subjected to d...
- 3577: (a) Each person who applies for registration under this chapter shall pay into the Contingent Fund o...
- 3578: Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit a clinic or health facility licensed pursuant to Division 2 (...
- 3579: Nothing in this chapter shall apply to diagnostic electroencephalograms conducted in accordance with...
- 3600: The law governing licentiates of the Osteopathic Medical Board of California is found in the Osteopa...
- 3610: This chapter may be cited as the Naturopathic Doctors Act.
- 3612: The Naturopathic Medicine Committee is hereby created within the Osteopathic Medical Board of Califo...
- 3613: The following definitions apply for the purposes of this chapter:
(a) "Committee" means the Naturopa...
- 3615: The provisions of this chapter are severable. If any provision of this chapter or its application is...
- 3620: The committee shall enforce and administer the provisions of this chapter and shall be solely respon...
- 3620.1: Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the committee in exercising its licensing...
- 3621: (a) The committee shall consist of nine members appointed by the Governor. Members of the committee ...
- 3621.5: The committee shall meet at least two times each calendar year and shall conduct additional meetings...
- 3622: (a) The committee shall adopt regulations in order to carry out the purposes of this chapter.
(b) Un...
- 3623: (a) The committee shall approve a naturopathic medical education program accredited by the Council o...
- 3624: (a) The committee may grant a certificate of registration to practice naturopathic medicine to a per...
- 3624.5: (a) This chapter does not apply to a practitioner licensed as a naturopathic doctor in another state...
- 3626: The committee may employ other officers and employees as necessary to discharge the duties of the co...
- 3627: (a) The committee shall establish a naturopathic formulary advisory subcommittee to determine a natu...
- 3628: (a) The committee shall establish a naturopathic childbirth attendance advisory subcommittee to issu...
- 3630: An applicant for a license as a naturopathic doctor shall file with the committee a written applicat...
- 3631: An applicant for licensure shall pass the Naturopathic Physicians Licensing Examination (NPLEX) or a...
- 3633: The committee may grant a license to an applicant who is licensed and in good standing as a naturopa...
- 3633.1: The committee may grant a license to an applicant who meets the requirements of Section 3630, but wh...
- 3634: A license issued under this chapter shall be subject to renewal biennially as prescribed by the comm...
- 3635: (a) In addition to any other qualifications and requirements for licensure renewal, the committee sh...
- 3636: (a) Upon a written request, the committee may grant inactive status to a naturopathic doctor who is ...
- 3637: Only an individual may be licensed under this chapter.
- 3640: (a) A naturopathic doctor may order and perform physical and laboratory examinations for diagnostic ...
- 3640.1: The committee shall make recommendations to the Legislature not later than January 1, 2007, regardin...
- 3640.2: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a naturopathic assistant may do all of the following:
(a...
- 3640.3: (a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as authorizing the licensure of naturopathic assistan...
- 3640.5: Nothing in this chapter or any other provision of law shall be construed to prohibit a naturopathic ...
- 3640.7: Notwithstanding the requirements of Section 3640.5 or any other provision of this chapter, a naturop...
- 3641: (a) A naturopathic doctor shall document his or her observations, diagnosis, and summary of treatmen...
- 3642: A naturopathic doctor may not perform any of the following functions:
(a) Prescribe, dispense, or ad...
- 3643: This chapter may not be construed to authorize a naturopathic doctor to practice medicine, as define...
- 3643.5: (a) This chapter may not be construed to limit the practice of a person licensed, certified, or regi...
- 3644: This chapter does not prevent or restrict the practice, services, or activities of any of the follow...
- 3645: (a) This chapter permits, and does not restrict the use of, the following titles by persons who are ...
- 3650: A naturopathic doctor may perform naturopathic childbirth attendance if he or she has completed addi...
- 3651: In order to be certified for the specialty practice of naturopathic childbirth attendance, a naturop...
- 3651.5: A naturopathic doctor certified for the specialty practice of naturopathic childbirth attendance sha...
- 3652: (a) A certificate of specialty practice in naturopathic childbirth attendance shall expire concurren...
- 3653: (a) Naturopathic childbirth attendance does not include the use or performance of any of the followi...
- 3654: In addition to Section 3640, a naturopathic doctor who holds a specialty certificate in naturopathic...
- 3655: (a) A licensee holding a speciality certificate in naturopathic childbirth attendance shall disclose...
- 3660: Except as provided in subdivision (h) of Section 3644, a person shall have a valid, unrevoked, or un...
- 3661: A naturopathic doctor who uses the term or designation "Dr." shall further identify himself or herse...
- 3662: It shall constitute unprofessional conduct for a naturopathic doctor to violate, attempt to violate,...
- 3663: (a) The committee shall have the responsibility for reviewing the quality of the practice of naturop...
- 3664: A person who violates Section 3660 or 3661 is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be ...
- 3670: A naturopathic corporation is a corporation that is authorized to render professional services, as d...
- 3671: A naturopathic corporation shall not engage in any conduct that constitutes unprofessional conduct. ...
- 3672: The income of a naturopathic corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shar...
- 3673: Except as provided in Section 13403 of the Corporations Code, each director, shareholder, and office...
- 3674: The name of a naturopathic corporation and any name or names under which it may render professional ...
- 3675: The committee may adopt and enforce regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of this art...
- 3680: The committee shall establish the amount of the fee assessed to conduct activities of the committee,...
- 3681: (a) All fees collected by the committee shall be paid into the State Treasury and shall be credited ...
- 3685: (a) The repeal of this chapter renders the committee subject to the review required by Division 1.2 ...
- 3686: This chapter shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2014, and as of that date is repealed, unl...
- 3700: This chapter may be cited as the "Respiratory Care Practice Act."
- 3701: The Legislature finds and declares that the practice of respiratory care in California affects the p...
- 3702: Respiratory care as a practice means a health care profession employed under the supervision of a me...
- 3702.7: Mechanical or physiological ventilatory support as used in subdivision (d) of Section 3702 includes,...
- 3703: (a) The settings in which respiratory care may be practiced include licensed health care facilities,...
- 3704: As used in this chapter, these terms shall be defined as follows:
(a) "Board" means the Respiratory ...
- 3705: Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as authorizing a respiratory care practitioner to practic...
- 3706: A person licensed under this chapter who in good faith renders emergency care at the scene of an eme...
- 3710: (a) The Respiratory Care Board of California, hereafter referred to as the board, shall enforce and ...
- 3710.1: Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Respiratory Care Board of California ...
- 3711: The members of the board shall be the following: one physician and surgeon, four respiratory care pr...
- 3712: The members of the board shall be appointed as follows:
(a) Two respiratory care practitioners and o...
- 3713: (a) The public members shall be appointed from persons having the following qualifications:
(1) Be a...
- 3715: Each member of the board shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
- 3716: The board may employ an executive officer exempt from civil service and, subject to the provisions o...
- 3717: (a) The board, or any licensed respiratory care practitioner, enforcement staff, or investigative un...
- 3718: The board shall issue, deny, suspend, and revoke licenses to practice respiratory care as provided i...
- 3719: Each person renewing his or her license shall submit proof satisfactory to the board that, during th...
- 3719.5: The board may require successful completion of one or more professional courses offered by the board...
- 3720: The board shall hold at least one regular meeting annually. The board may convene from time to time ...
- 3722: The board shall adopt any regulations as may be necessary to effectuate this chapter. In adopting ru...
- 3730: All licenses for the practice of respiratory care in this state shall be issued by the board, and al...
- 3731: A person holding a license as a respiratory care practitioner issued by the board shall use the titl...
- 3732: (a) The board shall investigate an applicant for a license, before a license is issued, in order to ...
- 3735: Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, no applicant shall receive a license under this chapte...
- 3735.5: The requirements to pass the written examination shall not apply to an applicant who at the time of ...
- 3739: (a) (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, every person who has filed an application for ...
- 3740: (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, all applicants for licensure under this chapter sh...
- 3741: (a) During the period of any clinical training, respiratory care services may be rendered by a stude...
- 3742: During the period of any clinical training, a student respiratory care practitioner shall be under t...
- 3750: The board may order the denial, suspension, or revocation of, or the imposition of probationary cond...
- 3750.5: In addition to any other grounds specified in this chapter, the board may deny, suspend, place on pr...
- 3750.51: (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b), (c), and (e), any accusation filed against a licensee pu...
- 3750.6: Upon request, every holder of a pocket license shall produce for inspection the original pocket lice...
- 3751: (a) A person whose license has been revoked, surrendered, or suspended, or placed on probation, may ...
- 3751.5: Notwithstanding Section 489, a person whose application for licensure has been denied for cause may ...
- 3752: A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge of ...
- 3752.5: For purposes of Division 1.5 (commencing with Section 475), and this chapter, a crime involving bodi...
- 3752.6: For purposes of Division 1.5 (commencing with Section 475), and this chapter, a crime involving sexu...
- 3752.7: Notwithstanding Section 3750, any proposed decision or decision issued under this chapter in accorda...
- 3753: The procedure in all matters and proceedings relating to the denial, suspension, or revocation of li...
- 3753.1: (a) An administrative disciplinary decision imposing terms of probation may include, among other thi...
- 3753.5: (a) In any order issued in resolution of a disciplinary proceeding before the board, the board or th...
- 3753.7: For purposes of this chapter, costs of prosecution shall include attorney general or other prosecuti...
- 3754: The board may deny an application for, or issue with terms and conditions, or suspend or revoke, or ...
- 3754.5: The board shall initiate action against any licensee who obtains a license by fraud or misrepresenta...
- 3755: The board may take action against any respiratory care practitioner who is charged with unprofession...
- 3756: (a) A respiratory care practitioner who provides respiratory care may be ordered to undergo a profes...
- 3757: The board may refuse to issue a license or an authorization to work as a "respiratory care practitio...
- 3758: (a) Any employer of a respiratory care practitioner shall report to the Respiratory Care Board the s...
- 3758.5: If a licensee has knowledge that another person may be in violation of, or has violated, any of the ...
- 3758.6: (a) In addition to the reporting required under Section 3758, an employer shall also report to the b...
- 3759: Pursuant to Section 43.8 of the Civil Code, no person shall incur any civil penalty as a result of m...
- 3760: (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, no person shall engage in the practice of respirat...
- 3761: (a) No person may practice respiratory care or represent himself or herself to be a respiratory care...
- 3762: Nothing in this chapter is intended to limit, preclude, or otherwise interfere with the practices of...
- 3763: Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punis...
- 3764: Whenever any person has engaged or is about to engage in any acts or practices that constitute or wi...
- 3765: This act does not prohibit any of the following activities:
(a) The performance of respiratory care ...
- 3766: (a) The board may issue a citation containing an order of abatement and civil penalties against a pe...
- 3767: (a) The board shall issue a citation to a person and to his or her employer or contractor, if, upon ...
- 3768: (a) After the exhaustion of the review procedures provided for in Section 3767, and as adopted by re...
- 3769.3: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision, the board may, by stipulation with the affected licensee, i...
- 3770: The department shall keep a record of its proceedings under this chapter, and a register of all pers...
- 3771: Within 10 days after the beginning of each calendar month, the board shall report to the Controller ...
- 3772: (a) There is established in the State Treasury the Respiratory Care Fund. All collections from perso...
- 3773: (a) At the time of application for renewal of a respiratory care practitioner license, the licensee ...
- 3774: On or before the birthday of a licensed practitioner in every other year, following the initial lice...
- 3775: The amount of fees provided in connection with licenses or approvals for the practice of respiratory...
- 3775.5: The fee for an inactive license shall be the same as the renewal fee for the practice of respiratory...
- 3775.6: (a) A licensee may request that his or her license be placed in a "retired" status at any time, prov...
- 3776: (a) Any person who submits to the board a check for fees that is returned unpaid shall pay all subse...
- 3777: Where an applicant is issued a license to practice respiratory care, and it is later discovered that...
- 3778: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board may contract with a collection service for the...
- 3779: For purposes of license verification, a person may rely upon the licensing information as it is disp...
- 4000: This chapter constitutes, and may be cited as, the Pharmacy Law.
- 4001: (a) There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs a California State Board of Pharmacy in which the...
- 4001.1: Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the California State Board of Pharmacy in...
- 4001.5: The Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection shall review the state's shortag...
- 4002: (a) The board shall elect a president, a vice president, and a treasurer. The officers of the board ...
- 4003: (a) The board, with the approval of the director, may appoint a person exempt from civil service who...
- 4004: No member of the board shall teach pharmacy in any of its branches, unless he or she teaches as eith...
- 4005: (a) The board may adopt rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the laws of this state, as may ...
- 4006: The board may adopt regulations consistent with this chapter and Section 111485 of the Health and Sa...
- 4007: (a) Nothing in Section 4005 shall be construed as authorizing the board to adopt rules of profession...
- 4008: (a) Except as provided by Section 159.5, the board may employ inspectors of pharmacy. The inspectors...
- 4009: The board may not adopt or amend any rule or regulation that thereby would conflict with Section 118...
- 4010: All authorized officers of the law, while investigating violations of this chapter in performance of...
- 4011: The board shall administer and enforce this chapter and the Uniform Controlled Substances Act (Divis...
- 4012: The board shall upon request furnish any person with a copy of the laws or regulations relating to d...
- 4013: (a) Any facility licensed by the board shall join the board's e-mail notification list within 60 day...
- 4015: For purposes of this chapter, the definitions of the terms in this article shall govern the construc...
- 4016: "Administer" means the direct application of a drug or device to the body of a patient or research s...
- 4017: "Authorized officers of the law" means inspectors of the California State Board of Pharmacy, inspect...
- 4018: "Board" means the California State Board of Pharmacy.
- 4019: An "order," entered on the chart or medical record of a patient registered in a hospital or a patien...
- 4021: "Controlled substance" means any substance listed in Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11053) of Di...
- 4022: "Dangerous drug" or "dangerous device" means any drug or device unsafe for self-use in humans or ani...
- 4022.5: (a) "Designated representative" means an individual to whom a license has been granted pursuant to S...
- 4023: "Device" means any instrument, apparatus, machine, implant, in vitro reagent, or contrivance, includ...
- 4023.5: For the purposes of this chapter, "direct supervision and control" means that a pharmacist is on the...
- 4024: (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), "dispense" means the furnishing of drugs or devices upon ...
- 4025: "Drug" means any of the following:
(a) Articles recognized in the official United States Pharmacopoe...
- 4025.1: "Nonprescription drug" means a drug which may be sold without a prescription and which is labeled fo...
- 4026: "Furnish" means to supply by any means, by sale or otherwise.
- 4026.5: "Good standing" means a license issued by the board that is unrestricted by disciplinary action take...
- 4027: (a) As used in this chapter, the terms "skilled nursing facility," "intermediate care facility," and...
- 4028: "Licensed hospital" means an institution, place, building, or agency that maintains and operates org...
- 4029: (a) "Hospital pharmacy" means and includes a pharmacy, licensed by the board, located within any lic...
- 4030: "Intern pharmacist" means a person issued a license pursuant to Section 4208.
- 4031: "Laboratory" means a research, teaching, or testing laboratory not engaged in the dispensing or furn...
- 4032: "License" means and includes any license, permit, registration, certificate, or exemption issued by ...
- 4033: (a) (1) "Manufacturer" means and includes every person who prepares, derives, produces, compounds, o...
- 4034: (a) "Pedigree" means a record, in electronic form, containing information regarding each transaction...
- 4034.1: (a) (1) Upon the effective date of federal legislation or adoption of a federal regulation addressin...
- 4035: "Person" includes firm, association, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, state gove...
- 4036: "Pharmacist" means a natural person to whom a license has been issued by the board, under Section 42...
- 4036.5: "Pharmacist-in-charge" means a pharmacist proposed by a pharmacy and approved by the board as the su...
- 4037: (a) "Pharmacy" means an area, place, or premises licensed by the board in which the profession of ph...
- 4038: (a) "Pharmacy technician" means an individual who assists a pharmacist in a pharmacy in the performa...
- 4039: "Physicians," "dentists," "optometrists," "pharmacists," "podiatrists," "veterinarians," "veterinary...
- 4040: (a) "Prescription" means an oral, written, or electronic transmission order that is both of the foll...
- 4040.5: "Reverse distributor" means every person who acts as an agent for pharmacies, drug wholesalers, manu...
- 4041: "Veterinary food-animal drug retailer" is an area, place, or premises, other than a pharmacy, that h...
- 4042: "Veterinary food-animal drugs" as used in this chapter shall include the following:
(a) Any drug to ...
- 4043: (a) "Wholesaler" means and includes a person who acts as a wholesale merchant, broker, jobber, custo...
- 4044: "Repackager" means a person or entity that is registered with the federal Food and Drug Administrati...
- 4045: "Third-party logistics provider" or "reverse third-party logistic provider" means an entity licensed...
- 4050: (a) In recognition of and consistent with the decisions of the appellate courts of this state, the L...
- 4051: (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, it is unlawful for any person to manufacture, comp...
- 4052: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacist may:
(1) Furnish a reasonable quantity ...
- 4052.1: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacist may perform the following procedures or...
- 4052.2: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacist may perform the following procedures or...
- 4052.3: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacist may furnish emergency contraception dru...
- 4052.4: Notwithstanding Section 2038 or any other provision of law, a pharmacist may perform skin puncture i...
- 4052.5: (a) In addition to the authority allowed under Section 4073, a pharmacist filling a prescription ord...
- 4052.7: (a) A pharmacy may, at a patient's request, repackage a drug previously dispensed to the patient or ...
- 4053: (a) Notwithstanding Section 4051, the board may issue a license as a designated representative to pr...
- 4054: Section 4051 shall not apply to a manufacturer or wholesaler that provides dialysis drugs and device...
- 4055: Nothing in this chapter, nor any other law, shall prohibit the sale of devices to clinics that have ...
- 4056: (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, a licensed hospital that contains 100 beds or few...
- 4057: (a) Except as provided in Sections 4006, 4240, and 4342, this chapter does not apply to the retail s...
- 4058: Every person holding a license issued under this chapter to operate a premises shall display the ori...
- 4059: (a) A person may not furnish any dangerous drug, except upon the prescription of a physician, dentis...
- 4059.5: (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, dangerous drugs or dangerous devices may only be o...
- 4060: No person shall possess any controlled substance, except that furnished to a person upon the prescri...
- 4061: (a) No manufacturer's sales representative shall distribute any dangerous drug or dangerous device a...
- 4062: (a) Notwithstanding Section 4059 or any other provision of law, a pharmacist may, in good faith, fur...
- 4063: No prescription for any dangerous drug or dangerous device may be refilled except upon authorization...
- 4064: (a) A prescription for a dangerous drug or dangerous device may be refilled without the prescriber's...
- 4065: (a) "Injection card system," as used in this section, means a system that enables a facility to auth...
- 4066: (a) Notwithstanding Section 4059, a wholesaler or pharmacy may furnish dangerous drugs to the master...
- 4067: (a) No person or entity shall dispense or furnish, or cause to be dispensed or furnished, dangerous ...
- 4068: (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, a prescriber may dispense a dangerous drug, inclu...
- 4070: (a) Except as provided in Section 4019 and subdivision (b), an oral or an electronic data transmissi...
- 4071: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a prescriber may authorize his or her agent on his or he...
- 4071.1: (a) A prescriber, a prescriber's authorized agent, or a pharmacist may electronically enter a prescr...
- 4072: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacist, registered nurse, licensed vocational ...
- 4073: (a) A pharmacist filling a prescription order for a drug product prescribed by its trade or brand na...
- 4074: (a) A pharmacist shall inform a patient orally or in writing of the harmful effects of a drug dispen...
- 4075: No prescription for a controlled substance transmitted by means of an oral or electronically transmi...
- 4076: (a) A pharmacist shall not dispense any prescription except in a container that meets the requiremen...
- 4076.5: (a) The board shall promulgate regulations that require, on or before January 1, 2011, a standardize...
- 4077: (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), no person shall dispense any dangerous drug upon...
- 4078: (a) (1) No person shall place a false or misleading label on a prescription.
(2) No prescriber shall...
- 4080: All stock of any dangerous drug or dangerous device or of shipments through a customs broker or carr...
- 4081: (a) All records of manufacture and of sale, acquisition, or disposition of dangerous drugs or danger...
- 4082: When called upon by an inspector, the owner or manager of any entity licensed by the board, or other...
- 4083: (a) An inspector may issue an order of correction to a licensee directing the licensee to comply wit...
- 4084: (a) When a board inspector finds, or has probable cause to believe, that any dangerous drug or dange...
- 4085: (a) It is unlawful for any person to remove, sell, or dispose of an embargoed dangerous drug or dang...
- 4086: (a) If a dangerous drug or dangerous device is alleged to be adulterated or counterfeit, the board s...
- 4100: (a) Within 30 days after changing his or her address of record with the board or after changing his ...
- 4101: (a) A pharmacist may take charge of and act as the pharmacist-in-charge of a pharmacy upon applicati...
- 4103: Notwithstanding Section 2038, or any other provision of law, a pharmacist may take a person's blood ...
- 4104: (a) Every pharmacy shall have in place procedures for taking action to protect the public when a lic...
- 4105: (a) All records or other documentation of the acquisition and disposition of dangerous drugs and dan...
- 4106: For purposes of license verification, a person may rely upon the licensing information as it is disp...
- 4107: The board may not issue more than one site license to a single premises except to issue a veterinary...
- 4110: (a) No person shall conduct a pharmacy in the State of California unless he or she has obtained a li...
- 4111: (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), (d), or (e), the board shall not issue or renew...
- 4112: (a) Any pharmacy located outside this state that ships, mails, or delivers, in any manner, controlle...
- 4113: (a) Every pharmacy shall designate a pharmacist-in-charge and, within 30 days thereof, shall notify ...
- 4114: (a) An intern pharmacist may perform all functions of a pharmacist at the discretion of and under th...
- 4115: (a) A pharmacy technician may perform packaging, manipulative, repetitive, or other nondiscretionary...
- 4115.5: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacy technician trainee may be placed in a pha...
- 4116: (a) No person other than a pharmacist, an intern pharmacist, an authorized officer of the law, or a ...
- 4117: No person other than a pharmacist, an intern pharmacist, a pharmacy technician, an authorized office...
- 4118: (a) When, in the opinion of the board, a high standard of patient safety, consistent with good patie...
- 4119: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacy may furnish a dangerous drug or dangerous...
- 4119.1: (a) A pharmacy may provide pharmacy services to a health facility licensed pursuant to subdivision (...
- 4119.2: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacy may furnish epinephrine auto-injectors to...
- 4119.5: (a) A pharmacy can transfer a reasonable supply of dangerous drugs to another pharmacy.
(b) A pharma...
- 4120: (a) A nonresident pharmacy shall not sell or distribute dangerous drugs or dangerous devices in this...
- 4121: (a) Notwithstanding Section 651, an advertisement of the retail price for a drug that requires a pre...
- 4122: (a) In every pharmacy there shall be prominently posted in a place conspicuous to, and readable by, ...
- 4123: Any pharmacy that contracts to compound a drug for parenteral therapy, pursuant to a prescription, f...
- 4124: (a) Notwithstanding Section 2543, a pharmacist may dispense replacement contact lenses pursuant to a...
- 4125: (a) Every pharmacy shall establish a quality assurance program that shall, at a minimum, document me...
- 4126: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a covered entity may contract with a pharmacy to pro...
- 4126.5: (a) A pharmacy may furnish dangerous drugs only to the following:
(1) A wholesaler owned or under co...
- 4127: The board shall adopt regulations establishing standards for compounding injectable sterile drug pro...
- 4127.1: (a) A pharmacy shall not compound injectable sterile drug products in this state unless the pharmacy...
- 4127.2: (a) A nonresident pharmacy may not compound injectable sterile drug products for shipment into the S...
- 4127.3: (a) Whenever the board has a reasonable belief, based on information obtained during an inspection o...
- 4127.4: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a violation of this article, or regulations adopted purs...
- 4127.6: This article shall become operative upon the allocation of positions to the board for the implementa...
- 4127.7: On and after July 1, 2005, a pharmacy shall compound sterile injectable products from one or more no...
- 4127.8: The board may, at its discretion, issue a temporary license to compound injectable sterile drug prod...
- 4141: No person shall furnish hypodermic needles or syringes, by sale or otherwise, without a license issu...
- 4142: Except as otherwise provided by this article, no hypodermic needle or syringe shall be sold at retai...
- 4143: This article shall not apply to the sale of hypodermic syringes and needles at wholesale by pharmaci...
- 4144: (a) A person may sell or obtain hypodermic needles and hypodermic syringes without a prescription or...
- 4144.5: (a) A person may sell or obtain hypodermic needles and hypodermic syringes without a prescription or...
- 4145: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacist or physician may, without a prescriptio...
- 4145.5: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacist or physician may, without a prescriptio...
- 4146: A pharmacy may accept the return of needles and syringes from the public if contained in a sharps co...
- 4147: (a) For the purposes of this section, "playground" means any park or outdoor recreational area speci...
- 4148: (a) All stocks of hypodermic needles or syringes shall be confiscated if found outside the licensed ...
- 4148.5: (a) All stocks of hypodermic needles or syringes shall be confiscated if found outside the licensed ...
- 4149: (a) A nonresident distributor shall not sell or distribute hypodermic needles or syringes in this st...
- 4149.5: (a) Local authorizations related to Sections 4144, 4145, and 4148 of this code and Sections 11364 an...
- 4150: (a) A pharmacy corporation means a corporation that is authorized to render professional services, a...
- 4151: Each shareholder, director, and officer of a pharmacy corporation, except an assistant secretary and...
- 4152: The name of a pharmacy corporation and any name or names under which it may render professional serv...
- 4153: The income of a pharmacy corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a sharehol...
- 4154: The board may adopt and enforce regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of this article...
- 4155: Nothing in this article shall be construed as requiring the applicant or holder of a pharmacy permit...
- 4156: A pharmacy corporation shall not do, or fail to do, any act where doing or failing to do the act wou...
- 4160: (a) A person may not act as a wholesaler of any dangerous drug or dangerous device unless he or she ...
- 4161: (a) A person located outside this state that (1) ships, sells, mails, or delivers dangerous drugs or...
- 4162: (a) (1) An applicant, that is not a government owned and operated wholesaler, for the issuance or re...
- 4162.5: (a) (1) An applicant for the issuance or renewal of a nonresident wholesaler license shall submit a ...
- 4163: (a) A manufacturer, wholesaler, repackager, or pharmacy may not furnish a dangerous drug or dangerou...
- 4163.1: It is the intent of the Legislature that commencing on January 1, 2007, and continuing through the f...
- 4163.1: (a) For purposes of Sections 4034 and 4163, "drop shipment" means a sale of a dangerous drug by the ...
- 4163.2: (a) (1) A manufacturer, wholesaler, or pharmacy lawfully possessing or owning dangerous drugs manufa...
- 4163.3: (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that participants in the distribution chain for dangerous dr...
- 4163.4: (a) All units of dangerous drug in the possession of a wholesaler or pharmacy, for which the manufac...
- 4163.5: (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that:
(1) The electronic pedigree system required by S...
- 4164: (a) A wholesaler licensed by the board that distributes controlled substances, dangerous drugs, or d...
- 4165: A wholesaler licensed by the board who sells or transfers any dangerous drug or dangerous device int...
- 4166: (a) Any wholesaler that uses the services of any carrier, including, but not limited to, the United ...
- 4167: A wholesaler shall not obtain, by purchase or otherwise, any dangerous drugs or dangerous devices th...
- 4168: A county or municipality may not issue a business license for any establishment that requires a whol...
- 4169: (a) A person or entity may not do any of the following:
(1) Purchase, trade, sell, or transfer dange...
- 4170: (a) No prescriber shall dispense drugs or dangerous devices to patients in his or her office or plac...
- 4170.5: (a) Veterinarians in a veterinary teaching hospital operated by an accredited veterinary medical sch...
- 4171: (a) Section 4170 shall not prohibit the furnishing of a limited quantity of samples by a prescriber,...
- 4172: A prescriber who dispenses drugs pursuant to Section 4170 shall store all drugs to be dispensed in a...
- 4173: This chapter does not prevent the dispensing of drugs or devices by registered nurses functioning pu...
- 4174: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacist may dispense drugs or devices upon the drug...
- 4175: (a) The California State Board of Pharmacy shall promptly forward to the appropriate licensing entit...
- 4180: (a) (1) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, any of the following clinics may purchase dru...
- 4181: (a) Prior to the issuance of a clinic license authorized under Section 4180, the clinic shall comply...
- 4182: (a) Each clinic that makes an application for a license under Section 4180 shall show evidence that ...
- 4183: No clinic dispensing drugs pursuant to this article shall be eligible for any professional dispensin...
- 4184: No Schedule II controlled substance shall be dispensed by the clinic. This limitation shall not be c...
- 4185: The board shall have the authority to inspect a clinic at any time in order to determine whether a c...
- 4186: (a) Automated drug delivery systems, as defined in subdivision (h), may be located in any clinic lic...
- 4190: (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, a surgical clinic, as defined in paragraph (1) of...
- 4191: (a) Prior to the issuance of a clinic license authorized under this article, the clinic shall comply...
- 4192: (a) Each clinic that makes an application for a license under this article shall show evidence that ...
- 4193: No clinic holding a license pursuant to this article shall be eligible for any professional dispensi...
- 4194: No Schedule II controlled substance shall be dispensed in the clinic. This limitation does not prohi...
- 4195: The board shall have the authority to inspect a clinic at any time in order to determine whether a c...
- 4196: (a) No person shall conduct a veterinary food-animal drug retailer in the State of California unless...
- 4197: (a) The following minimum standards shall apply to all veterinary food-animal drug retailers license...
- 4198: (a) Each veterinary food-animal drug retailer shall have written policies and procedures related to ...
- 4199: (a) Any veterinary food-animal drug dispensed pursuant to a prescription from a licensed veterinaria...
- 4200: (a) The board may license as a pharmacist an applicant who meets all the following requirements:
(1)...
- 4200.1: (a) Notwithstanding Section 135, an applicant may take the North American Pharmacist Licensure Exami...
- 4200.2: When developing the California Practice Standards and Jurisprudence Examination for Pharmacists, the...
- 4200.3: (a) The examination process shall be regularly reviewed pursuant to Section 139.
(b) The examination...
- 4200.4: An applicant who fails the national examination may not retake the examination for at least 90 days ...
- 4200.5: (a) The board shall issue, upon application and payment of the fee established by Section 4400, a re...
- 4201: (a) Each application to conduct a pharmacy, wholesaler, or veterinary food-animal drug retailer, sha...
- 4202: (a) The board may issue a pharmacy technician license to an individual if he or she is a high school...
- 4203: (a) Each application for a license under Section 4180 shall be made on a form furnished by the board...
- 4204: (a) Each application for a license under Section 4190 shall be made on a form furnished by the board...
- 4205: (a) A license issued pursuant to Section 4110, 4120, 4160, or 4161 shall be considered a license wit...
- 4207: (a) Upon receipt of an application for a license and the applicable fee, the board shall make a thor...
- 4208: (a) At the discretion of the board, an intern pharmacist license may be issued for a period of:
(1) ...
- 4209: (a) (1) An intern pharmacist shall complete 1,500 hours of pharmacy practice before applying for the...
- 4231: (a) The board shall not renew a pharmacist license unless the applicant submits proof satisfactory t...
- 4232: (a) The courses shall be in the form of postgraduate studies, institutes, seminars, lectures, confer...
- 4234: The board may, in accordance with the intent of this article, make exceptions from the requirements ...
- 4240: (a) The California Hazardous Substances Act, Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 108100) of Part 3 of...
- 4300: (a) Every license issued may be suspended or revoked.
(b) The board shall discipline the holder of a...
- 4301: The board shall take action against any holder of a license who is guilty of unprofessional conduct ...
- 4301.5: (a) If a pharmacist possesses a license or is otherwise authorized to practice pharmacy in any other...
- 4302: The board may deny, suspend, or revoke any license of a corporation where conditions exist in relati...
- 4303: (a) The board may report any violation by a nonresident pharmacy of the laws and regulations of this...
- 4304: The board may deny, revoke, or suspend any license issued pursuant to Section 4161 for any violation...
- 4305: (a) Failure by any pharmacist to notify the board in writing that he or she has ceased to act as the...
- 4305.5: (a) A person who has obtained a license to conduct a wholesaler or veterinary food-animal drug retai...
- 4306: It shall constitute unprofessional conduct and a violation of this chapter for any person licensed u...
- 4306.5: Unprofessional conduct for a pharmacist may include any of the following:
(a) Acts or omissions tha...
- 4306.6: If the board disciplines a pharmacist-in-charge for the violation of a state or federal law or regul...
- 4307: (a) Any person who has been denied a license or whose license has been revoked or is under suspensio...
- 4308: Whenever a person is prohibited from serving as a manager, administrator, owner, member, officer, di...
- 4309: (a) A person whose license has been revoked or suspended or who has been placed on probation may pet...
- 4310: Immediately upon the denial of any application for a license the board shall notify the applicant in...
- 4311: (a) Any license issued by the board, or the holder thereof, shall be suspended automatically during ...
- 4312: (a) The board may cancel the license of a wholesaler, pharmacy, or veterinary food-animal drug retai...
- 4313: In determining whether to grant an application for licensure or whether to discipline or reinstate a...
- 4314: (a) The board may issue citations containing fines and orders of abatement for any violation of Sect...
- 4315: (a) The executive officer, or his or her designee, may issue a letter of admonishment to a licensee ...
- 4320: (a) The penalties prescribed in this chapter may be recovered in any court having jurisdiction, by a...
- 4321: (a) Any person who knowingly violates any of the provisions of this chapter, when no other penalty i...
- 4322: Any person who attempts to secure or secures licensure for himself or herself or any other person un...
- 4323: Every person who, in order to obtain any drug, falsely represents himself or herself to be a physici...
- 4324: (a) Every person who signs the name of another, or of a fictitious person, or falsely makes, alters,...
- 4325: (a) No person other than a physician, dentist, podiatrist, veterinarian, pharmacist, or other person...
- 4326: (a) Any person who obtains a hypodermic needle or hypodermic syringe by a false or fraudulent repres...
- 4327: Any person who, while on duty, sells, dispenses or compounds any drug while under the influence of a...
- 4328: Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, any person who permits the compounding or dispensing o...
- 4329: Any nonpharmacist who takes charge of or acts as supervisor, manager, or pharmacist-in-charge of any...
- 4330: (a) Any person who has obtained a license to conduct a pharmacy, who fails to place in charge of the...
- 4331: (a) A person who is neither a pharmacist nor a designated representative and who takes charge of a w...
- 4332: Any person who fails, neglects, or refuses to maintain the records required by Section 4081 or who, ...
- 4333: (a) All prescriptions filled by a pharmacy and all other records required by Section 4081 shall be m...
- 4335: Any person who knowingly violates subdivision (b) of Section 4312 is guilty of a misdemeanor.
- 4336: (a) Every person who knowingly or willfully violates Section 4055, 4059, 4060, 4061, 4062, 4063, 406...
- 4337: Except as otherwise specified, all fines collected for violations of this chapter shall be paid as f...
- 4338: In addition to any fine assessed under Section 4321, the judge may assess a fine not to exceed seven...
- 4339: (a) The board may bring an action to enjoin the violation of any provision of this chapter in any su...
- 4340: It is unlawful for any nonresident pharmacy that is not registered pursuant to Section 4112 or for a...
- 4341: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, prescription drugs or devices may be advertised if the a...
- 4342: (a) The board may institute any action or actions as may be provided by law and that, in its discret...
- 4343: No building shall have upon it or displayed within it or affixed to or used in connection with it a ...
- 4360: The board shall operate a pharmacists recovery program to rehabilitate pharmacists and intern pharma...
- 4361: (a) "Participant" means a pharmacist or intern pharmacist who has entered the pharmacists recovery p...
- 4362: (a) A pharmacist or intern pharmacist may enter the pharmacists recovery program if:
(1) The pharmac...
- 4364: (a) The board shall establish criteria for the participation of pharmacists and intern pharmacists i...
- 4365: The board shall contract with one or more qualified contractors to administer the pharmacists recove...
- 4366: The functions of the contractor administering the pharmacists recovery program shall include, but no...
- 4369: (a) Any failure to comply with the treatment contract, determination that the participant is failing...
- 4371: (a) The executive officer of the board shall designate a program manager of the pharmacists recovery...
- 4372: All board records and records of the pharmacists recovery program pertaining to the treatment of a p...
- 4373: No member of the board shall be liable for any civil damages because of acts or omissions that may o...
- 4380: (a) The resale, by any person, of drugs acquired at preferentially low prices permitted under federa...
- 4381: (a) A violation of this article is an act of unfair competition within the meaning of Chapter 5 (com...
- 4382: The board may audit persons for compliance with the limits established in paragraph (3) of subdivisi...
- 4400: The amount of fees and penalties prescribed by this chapter, except as otherwise provided, is that f...
- 4401: Every pharmacist who desires to retain his or her license on the books of the board shall biennially...
- 4402: (a) Any pharmacist license that is not renewed within three years following its expiration may not b...
- 4403: The board shall not reissue or renew any license without the payment of the fees required by this ch...
- 4404: If any license issued under this chapter is lost or destroyed, or if any person desires a reissuance...
- 4405: All fines recoverable under this chapter shall be paid by the magistrate receiving the same to the b...
- 4406: All fees collected on behalf of the board and all receipts of every kind and nature shall be reporte...
- 4407: All compensation of members and all other expenses of the board shall be paid out of the examination...
- 4409: At the time a pharmacy license is renewed pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 4110 or a pharmacis...
- 4425: (a) As a condition for the participation of a pharmacy in the Medi-Cal program pursuant to Chapter 7...
- 4426: The State Department of Health Care Services shall conduct a study of the adequacy of Medi-Cal pharm...
- 4500: This chapter is known and may be cited as the "Psychiatric Technicians Law."
- 4501: (a) "Board," as used in this chapter, means the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technici...
- 4501.1: Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the board in exercising its licensing, re...
- 4502: As used in this chapter, "psychiatric technician" means any person who, for compensation or personal...
- 4502.1: A psychiatric technician, working in a mental health facility or developmental disability facility, ...
- 4502.2: A psychiatric technician, when prescribed by a physician and surgeon, may withdraw blood from a pati...
- 4502.3: (a) A psychiatric technician, when prescribed by a physician and surgeon, may perform the following ...
- 4503: (a) The board shall administer and enforce this chapter.
(b) This section shall remain in effect onl...
- 4504: The board may adopt rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
- 4505: Except as provided by Section 159.5, the board may employ whatever personnel is necessary for the ad...
- 4507: This chapter shall not apply to the following:
(a) Physicians and surgeons licensed pursuant to Chap...
- 4508: This chapter does not prohibit provisions of the services regulated herein with or without compensat...
- 4509.5: Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent persons from performing services described in ...
- 4510: The board shall issue a psychiatric technician's license to each applicant who qualifies therefor, a...
- 4510.1: An applicant for license by examination shall submit a written application in the form prescribed by...
- 4511: An applicant for a psychiatric technician's license shall have the following qualifications:
(a) Be ...
- 4511.2: The board shall deny the application for approval made by, and shall revoke the approval given to, a...
- 4512: An applicant for a psychiatric technician's license shall, upon the filing of his application, pay t...
- 4513: Unless otherwise provided in this chapter, every applicant for a psychiatric technician's license sh...
- 4515: Upon written application and receipt of the required application fee the board may issue a license t...
- 4516: Every person licensed under this chapter may be known as a licensed psychiatric technician and may p...
- 4517: The board may, in its discretion, provide for a continuing education program in connection with the ...
- 4518: In the event the board adopts a continuing education program, the board may collect a biennial fee a...
- 4519: (a) In the case of a person who is employed by the state as a psychiatric technician, no state funds...
- 4520: Every licensed psychiatric technician under this chapter may be disciplined as provided in this arti...
- 4521: The board may suspend or revoke a license issued under this chapter for any of the following reasons...
- 4521.1: (a) The board may issue an initial license on probation, with specific terms and conditions, to any ...
- 4521.2: (a) If a psychiatric technician has knowledge that another person has committed any act prohibited b...
- 4521.6: The board may deny any application or may suspend or revoke any license or permit issued under this ...
- 4522: (a) Notwithstanding Section 4521 or any other provision of law, the board may revoke, suspend, or de...
- 4523: A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge sub...
- 4524: (a) A person whose license has been revoked, suspended, surrendered, or placed on probation, may pet...
- 4530: The board shall prepare and maintain a list of approved schools which offer an approved program for ...
- 4531: The course of instruction of an approved school shall consist of not less than the number of hours o...
- 4532: The board shall provide for the periodic inspection or review of all psychiatric technician schools ...
- 4540: After January 1, 1970, no person shall perform services described in Section 4502 without a license ...
- 4541: It is unlawful for any person to use any title or letters which imply that he is a certified or lice...
- 4542: It is unlawful for any person willfully to make any false representation, impersonate any other pers...
- 4543: Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon a ...
- 4544: A license expires each year on that date prescribed by the board, if not renewed. To renew an unexpi...
- 4544.5: The board may establish a biennial renewal period.
- 4545: Except as provided in Section 4545.2, a license that has expired may be renewed at any time within f...
- 4545.1: A suspended certificate is subject to expiration in the same manner as provided in this article for ...
- 4545.2: A revoked certificate is subject to expiration in the same manner as provided in this article for an...
- 4545.3: A certificate and the holder thereof are subject to this section in the same manner as are a license...
- 4546: The board shall report each month to the Controller the amount and source of all revenue received by...
- 4547: All expenses incurred in the operation of this chapter shall be paid out of the Vocational Nursing a...
- 4548: The amount of the fees prescribed by this chapter in connection with the issuance of licenses under ...
- 4600: As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
(a) "Approved school...
- 4600.5: (a) The California Massage Therapy Council, as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 4600, shall be ...
- 4601: (a) The council shall issue a certificate under this chapter to an applicant who satisfies the requi...
- 4601.2: No certificates shall be issued by the organization pursuant to this chapter prior to September 1, 2...
- 4601.3: (a) Prior to issuing a certificate to the applicant or designating a custodian of records, the counc...
- 4601.4: Council directors, employees, or volunteer individuals may undergo the background investigation proc...
- 4602: (a) The council may discipline a certificate holder by any, or a combination, of the following metho...
- 4602.5: (a) Upon the request of any law enforcement agency or any other representative of a local government...
- 4603: It is a violation of this chapter for a certificate holder to commit, and the council may deny an ap...
- 4603.1: (a) No certificate holder or certificate applicant may be disciplined or denied a certificate pursua...
- 4603.5: It shall be the responsibility of any certificate holder to notify the council of his or her home ad...
- 4603.7: A certificate holder shall include the name under which he or she is certified and his or her certif...
- 4604: (a) Notwithstanding Section 4601, the council may grant a massage practitioner certificate to any pe...
- 4605: It is an unfair business practice for any person to state or advertise or put out any sign or card o...
- 4606: It is an unfair business practice for any person to hold oneself out or use the title of "certified ...
- 4607: The superior court in and for the county in which any person acts as a massage practitioner or massa...
- 4608: Nothing in this chapter is intended to limit or prohibit a person who obtains a certification pursua...
- 4612: (a) (1) The holder of a certificate issued pursuant to this chapter shall have the right to practice...
- 4613: (a) Nothing in this chapter shall restrict or limit in any way the authority of a city, county, or c...
- 4614: The Legislature finds and declares that due to important health, safety, and welfare concerns that a...
- 4615: This chapter shall be subject to the review required by Article 7.5 (commencing with Section 9147.7)...
- 4616: This chapter shall be liberally construed to effectuate its purposes. If any provision of this chapt...
- 4620: This chapter shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2015, and as of that date is repealed, unl...
- 4800: (a) There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs a Veterinary Medical Board in which the administr...
- 4800.1: Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Veterinary Medical Board in exercisin...
- 4801: (a) Each veterinarian member of the board shall be a bona fide resident of this state for a period o...
- 4802: The members of the board shall hold office for a term of four years. Each member shall serve until t...
- 4803: The Governor may, in his judgment, remove any member of the board for neglect of duty or other suffi...
- 4804: The board shall elect a president, vice president, and any other officers of the board as shall be n...
- 4804.5: The board may appoint a person exempt from civil service who shall be designated as an executive off...
- 4805: The executive officer of the board may administer oaths or affirmations upon matters pertaining to t...
- 4806: Each member of the board shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
- 4807: Five members of the board constitute a quorum for transaction of business at any meeting of the boar...
- 4808: The board may in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, adopt, amend, o...
- 4809: The board shall keep an official record of its meetings, and it shall also keep an official register...
- 4809.5: The board may at any time inspect the premises in which veterinary medicine, veterinary dentistry, o...
- 4809.6: The enforcement of Sections 4809.5 and 4854 of this chapter is a function exclusively reserved to th...
- 4809.7: The board shall establish a regular inspection program which will provide for random, unannounced in...
- 4809.8: (a) The board shall establish an advisory committee to assist, advise, and make recommendations for ...
- 4810: (a) As used in this chapter:
(1) "Board" means the Veterinary Medical Board.
(2) "Committee" means t...
- 4810: (a) As used in this chapter:
(1) "Board" means the Veterinary Medical Board.
(2) "Multidisciplinary ...
- 4811: This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Veterinary Medicine Practice Act."
- 4825: It is unlawful for any person to practice veterinary medicine or any branch thereof in this State un...
- 4825.1: These definitions shall govern the construction of this chapter as it applies to veterinary medicine...
- 4826: A person practices veterinary medicine, surgery, and dentistry, and the various branches thereof, wh...
- 4826.1: A veterinarian who on his or her own initiative, at the request of an owner, or at the request of so...
- 4826.2: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a veterinarian, registered veterinary technician, or an ...
- 4827: Nothing in this chapter prohibits any person from:
(a) Practicing veterinary medicine as a bona fide...
- 4828: All veterinarians actually engaged and employed as veterinarians by the state, or a county, city, co...
- 4829: Any license granted to any person to practice veterinary medicine, or any branch thereof, in this St...
- 4830: (a) This chapter does not apply to:
(1) Veterinarians while serving in any armed branch of the milit...
- 4830.5: Whenever any licensee under this chapter has reasonable cause to believe that a dog has been injured...
- 4830.7: Whenever any licensee under this chapter has reasonable cause to believe an animal under its care ha...
- 4830.8: (a) An attending or on-call veterinarian at a rodeo event shall, pursuant to Section 596.7 of the Pe...
- 4831: Any person, who violates or aids or abets in violating any of the provisions of this chapter, is gui...
- 4832: (a) The board shall establish an advisory committee on issues pertaining to the practice of veterina...
- 4833: (a) The committee shall advise and may assist the board in the examination of applicants for veterin...
- 4834: (a) The board has the power to remove from office at any time any member of the committee for contin...
- 4835: (a) Each member of the committee shall receive a per diem and expenses, as provided in Section 103.
...
- 4836: (a) The board shall adopt regulations establishing animal health care tasks and an appropriate degre...
- 4836.1: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a registered veterinary technician or an unregistere...
- 4836.5: The board shall take action pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 4875) of this chapter aga...
- 4837: The board may revoke or suspend the registration of a registered veterinary technician in this state...
- 4838: Effective with the 1976 renewal period, if the board determines that the public health and safety wo...
- 4839: (a) For purposes of this article, a registered veterinary technician means a person who has met the ...
- 4839.5: No person shall use the title "registered veterinary technician" or "veterinary technician," or any ...
- 4840: (a) Registered veterinary technicians and unregistered assistants are approved to perform those anim...
- 4840.2: Registered veterinary technicians and unregistered assistants shall not perform the following health...
- 4840.5: Under conditions of an emergency, a registered veterinary technician may render such lifesaving aid ...
- 4840.6: Any registered veterinary technician registered in this state who in good faith renders emergency an...
- 4840.7: (a) A registered veterinary technician who has been examined by the board in the area of radiation s...
- 4840.9: Registered veterinary technicians and unregistered assistants may be employed by any veterinarian li...
- 4841: Any person performing any of the tasks designated by the board pursuant to Section 4836 and any pers...
- 4841.1: (a) This article shall not apply to students in the clinical portion of their final year of study in...
- 4841.4: (a) The board shall, by means of examination, determine the professional qualifications of all appli...
- 4841.5: To be eligible to take the written and practical examination for registration as a registered veteri...
- 4842: The board may deny an application to take a written and practical examination for registration as a ...
- 4842.1: The board shall issue a certificate of registration to each applicant who passes the examination. Th...
- 4842.2: All funds collected by the board under this article shall be deposited in the Veterinary Medical Boa...
- 4842.5: The amount of fees prescribed by this article is that fixed by the following schedule:
(a) The fee f...
- 4842.6: (a) Each individual registered by the board shall biennially apply for renewal of his or her license...
- 4842.7: Every person registered by the board under this article who changes his or her mailing address shall...
- 4843: The board shall approve all schools or institutions offering a curriculum for training registered ve...
- 4843.5: Except as otherwise provided in this article, an expired certificate of registration may be renewed ...
- 4844: A person who fails to renew his certificate of registration within five years after its expiration m...
- 4845: (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board may, in its sole discretion, issue a proba...
- 4845.5: (a) Notwithstanding Sections 4837 and 4842.6 or any other provision of law, the board may revoke, su...
- 4846: Applications for a license shall be upon a form furnished by the board and, in addition, shall be ac...
- 4846.1: If the veterinary college from which an applicant is graduated is not recognized by the board, the b...
- 4846.2: If the board finds in evaluating the graduate described in Section 4846.1 that such applicant is def...
- 4846.4: (a) Each individual licensed by the board shall biennially apply for renewal of his or her license o...
- 4846.5: (a) Except as provided in this section, the board shall issue renewal licenses only to those applica...
- 4847: The board shall number consecutively all applications received, note upon each the disposition made ...
- 4848: (a) (1) The board shall, by means of examination, ascertain the professional qualifications of all a...
- 4848.3: (a) The board shall issue a temporary license valid for one year to an applicant accepted into a qua...
- 4849: The state board examination shall be given at least twice each year. It shall include all the subjec...
- 4850: Every person holding a license under this chapter shall conspicuously display the license in his or ...
- 4852: Every person holding a license issued under this chapter who changes his or her mailing address shal...
- 4853: (a) All premises where veterinary medicine, veterinary dentistry, veterinary surgery, and the variou...
- 4853.1: (a) Each application to register a premise pursuant to Section 4853 shall be made on a form provided...
- 4853.5: When it has been adjudicated in an administrative hearing that the licensee manager has failed to ke...
- 4853.6: The board shall withhold, suspend or revoke registration of veterinary premises:
(a) When the licens...
- 4854: All premises where veterinary medicine, veterinary dentistry, or veterinary surgery is being practic...
- 4854.5: (a) Every off-campus educational program site shall display in a conspicuous place a consumer notifi...
- 4855: A veterinarian subject to the provisions of this chapter shall, as required by regulation of the boa...
- 4856: (a) All records required by law to be kept by a veterinarian subject to this chapter, including, but...
- 4857: (a) A veterinarian licensed under the provisions of this chapter shall not disclose any information ...
- 4860: It is the intent of the Legislature that the Veterinary Medical Board seek ways and means to identif...
- 4861: One or more diversion evaluation committees is hereby authorized to be established by the board. Eac...
- 4862: Each member of a diversion evaluation committee shall receive per diem and expenses as provided in S...
- 4863: Three members of a diversion evaluation committee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of b...
- 4864: Each diversion evaluation committee shall elect from its membership a chairperson and a vice chairpe...
- 4865: The board shall administer the provisions of this article.
- 4866: (a) The board shall establish criteria for the acceptance, denial, or termination of veterinarians a...
- 4867: The diversion evaluation committee shall inform each veterinarian and registered veterinary technici...
- 4868: Each diversion evaluation committee shall have the following duties and responsibilities:
(a) To eva...
- 4869: Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 o...
- 4870: Each veterinarian and registered veterinary technician who requests participation in a diversion pro...
- 4871: (a) After a diversion evaluation committee in its discretion has determined that a veterinarian or r...
- 4872: The board shall provide for the representation of any persons making reports to a diversion evaluati...
- 4873: The board shall charge each veterinarian and registered veterinary technician who is accepted to par...
- 4875: The board may revoke or suspend for a certain time the license or registration of any person to prac...
- 4875.1: (a) In order to ensure that its resources are maximized for the protection of the public, the board ...
- 4875.2: If, upon completion of an investigation, the executive officer has probable cause to believe that a ...
- 4875.3: (a) If the board determines, as a result of its inspection of the premises pursuant to Section 4809....
- 4875.4: (a) The board shall, in the manner prescribed in Section 4808, adopt regulations covering the assess...
- 4875.6: (a) If a veterinarian, a registered veterinary technician, or an unlicensed person desires to admini...
- 4876: In addition to its authority to suspend or revoke a license or registration, or assess a fine on a p...
- 4881: The executive officer in all cases of suspension, revocation, or restriction of licenses or assessme...
- 4883: The board may deny, revoke, or suspend a license or registration or assess a fine as provided in Sec...
- 4885: A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge of ...
- 4886: In reinstating a license or registration that has been revoked or suspended under Section 4883, the ...
- 4887: A person whose license or registration has been revoked or who has been placed on probation may peti...
- 4900: (a) All veterinary licenses and veterinary technician registrations shall expire at 12 midnight of t...
- 4901: Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, an expired license or registration may be renewed at a...
- 4901.1: A license or registration that is suspended is subject to expiration, and shall be renewed as provid...
- 4901.2: A revoked license or registration is subject to expiration as provided in this article, but it may n...
- 4902: A person who fails to renew his license within five years after its expiration may not renew it, and...
- 4903: Of all fines or forfeitures of bail in any case wherein any person is charged with a violation of an...
- 4904: All fees collected on behalf of the board and all receipts of every kind and nature shall be reporte...
- 4905: The following fees shall be collected by the board and shall be credited to the Veterinary Medical B...
- 4910: A veterinary corporation is a corporation which is authorized to render professional services, as de...
- 4911: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the name of a veterinary corporation and any name or nam...
- 4912: Except as provided in Section 13403 of the Corporations Code, each director, shareholder, and office...
- 4913: The income of a veterinary corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shareh...
- 4914: A veterinary corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which or the failure to do ...
- 4915: It shall constitute unprofessional conduct and a violation of this chapter, punishable as specified ...
- 4916: The board may formulate and enforce rules and regulations to carry out the purposes and the objectiv...
- 4917: Nothing in this article requires an applicant for or a holder of a certificate of registration of ve...
- 4925: (a) This chapter constitutes the chapter on acupuncture of the Business and Professions Code.
This c...
- 4926: In its concern with the need to eliminate the fundamental causes of illness, not simply to remove sy...
- 4927: As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) "Board" means the Acupuncture "B...
- 4928: The Acupuncture Board, which consists of seven members, shall enforce and administer this chapter.
T...
- 4928.1: Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Acupuncture Board in exercising its l...
- 4929: Three members of the board shall be acupuncturists with at least five years of experience in acupunc...
- 4930: Each member of the board shall be appointed for a term of four years.
- 4931: Each member of the board shall receive per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103.
- 4933: (a) The board shall administer this chapter.
(b) The board may adopt, amend, or repeal, in accordanc...
- 4934: (a) The board, by and with the approval of the director, may employ personnel necessary for the admi...
- 4934.1: (a) The Legislature requests the Milton Marks "Little Hoover" Commission on California State Governm...
- 4934.2: The board shall conduct the following studies and reviews, and shall report its findings and recomme...
- 4935: (a) (1) It is a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) and no...
- 4937: An acupuncturist's license authorizes the holder thereof:
(a) To engage in the practice of acupunctu...
- 4938: The board shall issue a license to practice acupuncture to any person who makes an application and m...
- 4939: (a) On or before January 1, 2004, the board shall establish standards for the approval of schools an...
- 4940: (a) The board shall establish standards for the approval of tutorial programs for education and trai...
- 4941: In reviewing applications for licensure based upon the completion of a tutorial program in acupunctu...
- 4944: (a) The board shall have the authority to investigate and evaluate each and every applicant applying...
- 4945: (a) The committee shall establish standards for continuing education for acupuncturists.
(b) The com...
- 4945: (a) The board shall establish standards for continuing education for acupuncturists.
(b) The board s...
- 4947: (a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent the practice of acupuncture by a person li...
- 4948: The provisions of this chapter shall not be construed to make unlawful the activities of persons inv...
- 4949: The provisions of this chapter shall not prohibit an acupuncturist from another state or country, wh...
- 4955: The board may deny, suspend, or revoke, or impose probationary conditions upon, the license of any a...
- 4955.1: The board may deny, suspend, revoke, or impose probationary conditions upon the license of any acupu...
- 4955.2: The board may deny, suspend, revoke, or impose probationary conditions upon the license of any acupu...
- 4956: A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge whi...
- 4959: (a) The board may request the administrative law judge, under his or her proposed decision in resolu...
- 4960: Disciplinary proceedings under this article shall be conducted pursuant to the Administrative Proced...
- 4960.2: The board in all cases of revocation shall certify the fact of the revocation, under the seal of the...
- 4960.5: (a) A person whose license or registration has been revoked, suspended, or surrendered, or who has b...
- 4961: (a) Every person who is now or hereafter licensed to practice acupuncture in this state shall regist...
- 4963: Whenever any person has engaged in an act or practice which constitutes an offense against this chap...
- 4964: The provisions of this article insofar as they are substantially the same as provisions relating to ...
- 4965: (a) Licenses issued pursuant to this chapter shall expire on the last day of the birth month of the ...
- 4966: Except as provided in Section 4969, a license that has expired may be renewed at any time within thr...
- 4967: A person who fails to renew his or her license within three years after its expiration may not renew...
- 4969: (a) A suspended license is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article, b...
- 4970: The amount of fees prescribed for licensed acupuncturists shall be those set forth in this section u...
- 4971: The amount of fees prescribed for acupuncture tutorial programs shall be as follows:
(a) The applica...
- 4972: Fees fixed by the board shall be set forth in regulations duly adopted by the board.
- 4973: A fee for the inspection or reinspection of a school or college of acupuncture for purposes of appro...
- 4974: The board shall report to the Controller at the beginning of each month for the month preceding the ...
- 4975: An acupuncture corporation is a corporation which is authorized to render professional services, as ...
- 4976: It shall constitute unprofessional conduct and a violation of this chapter for any person licensed u...
- 4977: An acupuncture corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which or the failure to d...
- 4977.1: The income of an acupuncture corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shar...
- 4977.2: Except as provided in Section 13403 of the Corporations Code, each director, shareholder, and office...
- 4978: The name of an acupuncture corporation and any name or names under which it may render professional ...
- 4979: The board may adopt and enforce regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of this article...
- 4980: (a) Many California families and many individual Californians are experiencing difficulty and distre...
- 4980.01: (a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to constrict, limit, or withdraw the Medical Practice...
- 4980.02: For the purposes of this chapter, the practice of marriage and family therapy shall mean that servic...
- 4980.03: (a) "Board," as used in this chapter, means the Board of Behavioral Sciences.
(b) "Intern," as used ...
- 4980.04: This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Marriage and Family Therapist Act.
- 4980.08: (a) The title "licensed marriage, family and child counselor" or "marriage, family and child counsel...
- 4980.10: A person engages in the practice of marriage and family therapy when he or she performs or offers to...
- 4980.30: Except as otherwise provided herein, a person desiring to practice and to advertise the performance ...
- 4980.31: A licensee shall display his or her license in a conspicuous place in the licensee's primary place o...
- 4980.34: It is the intent of the Legislature that the board employ its resources for each and all of the foll...
- 4980.35: (a) The Legislature acknowledges that the basic obligation to provide a complete and accurate applic...
- 4980.36: (a) This section shall apply to the following:
(1) Applicants for licensure or registration who begi...
- 4980.37: (a) This section shall apply to applicants for licensure or registration who begin graduate study be...
- 4980.38: (a) Each educational institution preparing applicants to qualify for registration or licensure shall...
- 4980.39: (a) An applicant for licensure whose education qualifies him or her under Section 4980.37 shall comp...
- 4980.395: (a) A licensee who began graduate study prior to January 1, 2004, shall complete a three-hour contin...
- 4980.397: (a) Effective January 1, 2013, an applicant for licensure as a marriage and family therapist shall p...
- 4980.398: (a) Each applicant who had previously taken and passed the standard written examination shall also o...
- 4980.399: (a) Each applicant and registrant shall obtain a passing score on a board-administered California la...
- 4980.40: To qualify for a license, an applicant shall have all of the following qualifications:
(a) Meet the ...
- 4980.40: To qualify for a license, an applicant shall have all of the following qualifications:
(a) Meet the ...
- 4980.41: (a) An applicant for licensure whose education qualifies him or her under Section 4980.37 shall comp...
- 4980.42: (a) Trainees performing services in any work setting specified in subdivision (d) of Section 4980.43...
- 4980.43: (a) Prior to applying for licensure examinations, each applicant shall complete experience that shal...
- 4980.44: An unlicensed marriage and family therapist intern employed under this chapter shall comply with the...
- 4980.45: (a) A licensed professional in private practice who has satisfied the requirements of subdivision (g...
- 4980.46: Any licensed marriage and family therapist who conducts a private practice under a fictitious busine...
- 4980.48: (a) A trainee shall, prior to performing any professional services, inform each client or patient th...
- 4980.50: (a) Every applicant who meets the educational and experience requirements and applies for a license ...
- 4980.50: Effective January 1, 2013, the following shall apply:
(a) Every applicant who meets the educational ...
- 4980.54: (a) The Legislature recognizes that the education and experience requirements in this chapter consti...
- 4980.55: As a model for all therapeutic professions, and to acknowledge respect and regard for the consuming ...
- 4980.57: (a) The board shall require a licensee who began graduate study prior to January 1, 2004, to take a ...
- 4980.60: (a) The board may adopt those rules and regulations as may be necessary to enable it to carry into e...
- 4980.70: Except as provided by Section 159.5, the board may employ whatever additional personnel is necessary...
- 4980.72: (a) This section applies to persons who are licensed outside of California and apply for licensure o...
- 4980.74: (a) This section applies to persons who apply for licensure or registration on or after January 1, 2...
- 4980.76: An applicant for licensure or registration with a degree obtained from an educational institution ou...
- 4980.78: (a) This section applies to persons who apply for licensure or registration on or after January 1, 2...
- 4980.80: (a) This section applies to persons who apply for licensure between January 1, 2010, and December 31...
- 4980.90: (a) This section applies to persons who apply for licensure between January 1, 2010, and December 31...
- 4982: The board may deny a license or registration or may suspend or revoke the license or registration of...
- 4982.05: (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b), (c), and (e), any accusation filed against a licensee pu...
- 4982.1: The board may refuse to issue any registration or license whenever it appears that an applicant may ...
- 4982.15: (a) The board may place a license or registration on probation under the following circumstances:
(1...
- 4982.25: The board may deny an application, or may suspend or revoke a license or registration issued under t...
- 4982.26: The board shall revoke any license issued under this chapter upon a decision made in accordance with...
- 4982.3: The proceedings conducted under this article shall be held in accordance with Chapter 5 (commencing ...
- 4983: Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable ...
- 4983.1: In addition to other proceedings provided for in this chapter, whenever any person has engaged, or i...
- 4984: (a) Licenses issued under this chapter shall expire no more than 24 months after the issue date. The...
- 4984.01: (a) The marriage and family therapist intern registration shall expire one year from the last day of...
- 4984.01: (a) The marriage and family therapist intern registration shall expire one year from the last day of...
- 4984.1: A licensee may renew a license at any time within three years after its expiration by completing all...
- 4984.2: A suspended license is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article, but s...
- 4984.3: A revoked license is subject to expiration as provided in this article, but it may not be renewed. I...
- 4984.4: A license that is not renewed within three years after its expiration may not be renewed, restored, ...
- 4984.41: (a) The board shall issue, upon application and payment of the fee fixed by this chapter, a retired ...
- 4984.5: The board shall report each month to the Controller the amount and source of all revenue received pu...
- 4984.7: (a) The board shall assess the following fees relating to the licensure of marriage and family thera...
- 4984.7: (a) The board shall assess the following fees relating to the licensure of marriage and family thera...
- 4984.72: (a) An applicant who fails a standard or clinical vignette written examination may, within one year ...
- 4984.72: (a) Effective January 1, 2013, an applicant who fails the clinical examination may, within one year ...
- 4984.75: In addition to the fees charged pursuant to Section 4984.7 for the biennial renewal of a license pur...
- 4984.8: (a) A licensee may apply to the board to request that his or her license be placed on inactive statu...
- 4984.9: A licensee or registrant shall give written notice to the board of a name change within 30 days afte...
- 4987.5: A marriage and family therapy corporation is a corporation that is authorized to render professional...
- 4987.6: It shall constitute unprofessional conduct and a violation of this chapter for any person licensed u...
- 4987.7: The name of a marriage and family therapy corporation shall contain one or more of the words "marria...
- 4987.8: Except as provided in Section 13403 of the Corporations Code, each director, shareholder, and office...
- 4988: The income of a marriage and family therapy corporation attributable to professional services render...
- 4988.1: A marriage and family therapy corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which or t...
- 4988.2: The board may formulate and enforce rules and regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives o...
- 4989: The powers and duties of the board, as set forth in this chapter, shall be subject to the review req...
- 4989.10: This chapter shall be known, and may be cited as, the Educational Psychologist Practice Act.
- 4989.12: The Board of Behavioral Sciences shall administer and enforce the provisions of this chapter. For th...
- 4989.13: A person engages in the practice of educational psychology when he or she performs or offers to perf...
- 4989.14: The practice of educational psychology is the performance of any of the following professional funct...
- 4989.16: (a) A person appropriately credentialed by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing may perform the f...
- 4989.18: The board may, by rules or regulations, adopt, amend, or repeal rules of professional conduct approp...
- 4989.20: (a) The board may issue a license as an educational psychologist if the applicant satisfies, with pr...
- 4989.22: (a) Only persons who satisfy the requirements of Section 4989.20 are eligible to take the licensure ...
- 4989.24: The board shall not issue a license to a person who has been convicted of a crime in this or any oth...
- 4989.26: The board may refuse to issue a license to an applicant if it appears he or she may be unable to pra...
- 4989.28: The board may deny an application for licensure if the applicant is or has been guilty of unprofessi...
- 4989.30: A license issued under this chapter shall expire no later than 24 months after its date of issue. Th...
- 4989.32: To renew an unexpired license, the licensee shall, on or before the expiration date of the license, ...
- 4989.34: (a) To renew his or her license, a licensee shall certify to the board, on a form prescribed by the ...
- 4989.36: A licensee may renew a license that has expired at any time within three years after its expiration ...
- 4989.38: A suspended license is subject to expiration as provided in this article and may be renewed, followi...
- 4989.40: A revoked license is subject to expiration as provided in this article and shall not be renewed. The...
- 4989.42: A license that is not renewed within three years after its expiration may not be renewed, restored, ...
- 4989.44: (a) A licensee may apply to the board to request that his or her license be placed on inactive statu...
- 4989.45: (a) The board shall issue, upon application and payment of the fee fixed by this chapter, a retired ...
- 4989.46: A licensee shall give written notice to the board of a name change within 30 days after each change,...
- 4989.48: A licensee shall display his or her license in a conspicuous place in the licensee's primary place o...
- 4989.49: "Advertising," as used in this chapter, includes, but is not limited to, any public communication as...
- 4989.50: Except as authorized by this chapter, it is unlawful for any person to practice educational psycholo...
- 4989.52: All consideration, compensation, or remuneration received by the licensee shall be in relation to pr...
- 4989.54: The board may deny a license or may suspend or revoke the license of a licensee if he or she has bee...
- 4989.56: The board shall revoke the license of a licensee, other than one who is also licensed as a physician...
- 4989.58: The board shall revoke the license of a licensee upon a decision that contains a finding of fact tha...
- 4989.60: A person whose license has been suspended or revoked shall not, until the reinstatement of his or he...
- 4989.62: All proceedings by the board to suspend, revoke, or to take other disciplinary action against a lice...
- 4989.64: In addition to other proceedings provided for in this chapter, whenever a person has engaged, or is ...
- 4989.66: A person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor.
- 4989.68: (a) The board shall assess the following fees relating to the licensure of educational psychologists...
- 4989.70: The board shall report each month to the Controller the amount and source of all revenue received pu...
- 4990: (a) There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs, a Board of Behavioral Sciences that consists of ...
- 4990.02: "Board," as used in this chapter, Chapter 13 (commencing with Section 4980), Chapter 13.5 (commencin...
- 4990.04: (a) The board shall appoint an executive officer. This position is designated as a confidential posi...
- 4990.06: Subject to the State Civil Service Act (Part 2 (commencing with Section 18500) of Division 5 of Titl...
- 4990.08: The board shall keep an accurate record of all of its proceedings and a record of all applicants for...
- 4990.09: The board shall not publish on the Internet the final determination of a citation and fine of one th...
- 4990.10: The board may conduct research in, and make studies of problems involved in, the maintaining of prof...
- 4990.12: The duty of administering and enforcing this chapter, Chapter 13 (commencing with Section 4980), Cha...
- 4990.14: The board shall have and use a seal bearing the words "The Board of Behavioral Sciences," and shall ...
- 4990.16: Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the board in exercising its licensing, re...
- 4990.18: It is the intent of the Legislature that the board employ its resources for each and all of the foll...
- 4990.20: (a) The board may adopt rules and regulations as necessary to administer and enforce the provisions ...
- 4990.22: (a) The Behavioral Sciences Fund shall be used for the purposes of carrying out and enforcing the pr...
- 4990.24: The powers and duties of the board, as set forth in this chapter, shall be subject to the review req...
- 4990.26: Wherever "Board of Behavioral Science Examiners," "Board of Social Work Examiners of the State of Ca...
- 4990.28: The board may refuse to issue a registration or license under the chapters it administers and enforc...
- 4990.30: (a) A licensed marriage and family therapist, marriage and family therapist intern, licensed clinica...
- 4990.32: (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, an accusation filed pursuant to Section 11503 of t...
- 4990.34: (a) The board may place a license or registration issued under the chapters it administers and enfor...
- 4990.36: The board, in its discretion, may require a licensee or registrant whose license or registration has...
- 4990.38: The board may deny an application or may suspend or revoke a license or registration issued under th...
- 4990.40: The board shall revoke a license or registration issued under the chapters it administers and enforc...
- 4990.42: The proceedings under this article shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 5 (commencing with ...
- 4991: This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Clinical Social Worker Practice Act. It shall ...
- 4991.1: A person engages in the practice of clinical social work when he or she performs or offers to perfor...
- 4991.2: "Accredited school of social work," within the meaning of this chapter, is a school that is accredit...
- 4992: Every applicant for a license under this chapter shall file an application with the board accompanie...
- 4992.05: (a) Effective January 1, 2013, an applicant for licensure as a clinical social worker shall pass the...
- 4992.07: (a) An applicant who had previously taken and passed the standard written examination shall also obt...
- 4992.09: (a) An applicant and registrant shall obtain a passing score on a board-administered California law ...
- 4992.1: (a) Only individuals who have the qualifications prescribed by the board under this chapter are elig...
- 4992.1: (a) Only individuals who have the qualifications prescribed by the board under this chapter are elig...
- 4992.2: "Advertising," as used in this chapter, includes, but is not limited to, any public communication as...
- 4992.3: The board may deny a license or a registration, or may suspend or revoke the license or registration...
- 4992.33: The board shall revoke any license issued under this chapter upon a decision made in accordance with...
- 4992.35: The board may refuse to issue any registration or license whenever it appears that an applicant may ...
- 4992.36: The board may deny an application, or may suspend or revoke a license or registration issued under t...
- 4992.4: The proceedings for the suspension or revocation of licenses under this chapter shall be conducted i...
- 4992.5: Examinations may be held at those times and places as the board may determine. However, one examinat...
- 4992.7: Every person who willfully makes any false statement or who impersonates any other person or permits...
- 4992.8: A licensee or registrant shall give written notice to the board of a name change within 30 days afte...
- 4992.10: A licensed clinical social worker who conducts a private practice under a fictitious business name s...
- 4996: (a) Only individuals who have received a license under this article may style themselves as "License...
- 4996.1: (a) The board shall issue a clinical social worker license to each applicant who qualifies pursuant ...
- 4996.1: (a) Effective January 1, 2013, the board shall issue a clinical social worker license to each applic...
- 4996.2: Each applicant shall furnish evidence satisfactory to the board that he or she complies with all of ...
- 4996.3: (a) The board shall assess the following fees relating to the licensure of clinical social workers:
...
- 4996.3: (a) The board shall assess the following fees relating to the licensure of clinical social workers:
...
- 4996.4: (a) An applicant who fails a standard or clinical vignette written examination may, within one year ...
- 4996.4: (a) Effective January 1, 2013, an applicant who fails the clinical examination may, within one year ...
- 4996.5: The board shall issue a license to each applicant meeting the requirements of this article, which li...
- 4996.6: (a) Licenses issued under this chapter shall expire no more than 24 months after the issue date. The...
- 4996.65: In addition to the fees charged pursuant to Section 4996.6 for the biennial renewal of a license, th...
- 4996.7: A licensee shall display his or her license in a conspicuous place in the licensee's primary place o...
- 4996.8: The current renewal receipt shall be displayed near the license.
- 4996.9: The practice of clinical social work is defined as a service in which a special knowledge of social ...
- 4996.10: The provisions of this article shall be construed only as provisions relating to the examination and...
- 4996.11: The board may suspend or revoke the license of any person who is guilty on the grounds set forth in ...
- 4996.12: Any person who violates this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in ...
- 4996.13: Nothing in this article shall prevent qualified members of other professional groups from doing work...
- 4996.14: (a) This chapter shall not apply to an employee who is working in any of the following settings if h...
- 4996.15: Nothing in this article shall restrict or prevent activities of a psychosocial nature on the part of...
- 4996.16: Nothing in this chapter shall apply to any clinical social worker from outside this state, when in a...
- 4996.17: (a) Experience gained outside of California shall be accepted toward the licensure requirements if i...
- 4996.17: (a) Experience gained outside of California shall be accepted toward the licensure requirements if i...
- 4996.17: (a) Experience gained outside of California shall be accepted toward the licensure requirements if i...
- 4996.18: (a) A person who wishes to be credited with experience toward licensure requirements shall register ...
- 4996.19: Nothing in this article shall prohibit the acts or practices of a licensed clinical social workers' ...
- 4996.22: (a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (c), the board shall not renew any license pursuant to thi...
- 4996.23: The experience required by subdivision (c) of Section 4996.2 shall meet the following criteria:
(a) ...
- 4996.24: (a) A licensee in private practice who has satisfied the requirements of Section 1870 of Title 16 of...
- 4996.25: (a) Any applicant for licensure as a licensed clinical social worker who began graduate study on or ...
- 4996.26: (a) A licensee who began graduate study prior to January 1, 2004, shall complete a three-hour contin...
- 4996.28: (a) Registration as an associate clinical social worker shall expire one year from the last day of t...
- 4997: (a) A licensee may apply to the board to request that his or her license be placed on inactive statu...
- 4997.1: (a) The board shall issue, upon application and payment of the fee fixed by this chapter, a retired ...
- 4998: A licensed clinical social worker corporation is a corporation that is authorized to render professi...
- 4998.1: It shall constitute unprofessional conduct and a violation of this chapter for any person licensed u...
- 4998.2: Notwithstanding Section 4996, the name of a licensed clinical social worker corporation and any name...
- 4998.3: Except as provided in Section 13403 of the Corporations Code, each director, shareholder, and office...
- 4998.4: The income of a licensed clinical social worker corporation attributable to professional services re...
- 4998.5: A licensed clinical social worker corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which ...
- 4999: (a) Any business entity that employs, or contracts or subcontracts, directly or indirectly, with, th...
- 4999.1: Application for registration as an in-state or out-of-state telephone medical advice service shall b...
- 4999.2: (a) In order to obtain and maintain a registration, in-state or out-of-state telephone medical advic...
- 4999.3: (a) The department may suspend, revoke, or otherwise discipline a registrant or deny an application ...
- 4999.4: (a) Every registration issued to a telephone medical advice service shall expire 24 months after the...
- 4999.5: The department may set fees for registration, as an in-state or out-of-state telephone medical advic...
- 4999.6: The department may adopt, amend, or repeal any rules and regulations that are reasonably necessary t...
- 4999.7: (a) This section does not limit, preclude, or otherwise interfere with the practices of other person...
- 4999.10: This chapter constitutes, and may be cited as, the Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor Act.
- 4999.11: In enacting this chapter, the Legislature recognizes that licensed professional clinical counselors ...
- 4999.12: For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:
(a) "Board" means the...
- 4999.13: A person engages in the practice of professional clinical counseling when he or she performs or offe...
- 4999.14: The board shall do all of the following:
(a) Communicate information about its activities, the requi...
- 4999.100: (a) An intern registration shall expire one year from the last day of the month in which it was issu...
- 4999.100: (a) An intern registration shall expire one year from the last day of the month in which it was issu...
- 4999.102: (a) Licenses issued under this chapter shall expire no more than 24 months after the issue date. The...
- 4999.104: Licenses issued under this chapter that have expired may be renewed at any time within three years o...
- 4999.106: A license that is not renewed within three years after its expiration may not be renewed, restored, ...
- 4999.108: A suspended license is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article, but t...
- 4999.110: A revoked license is subject to expiration as provided in this article, but it may not be renewed. I...
- 4999.112: (a) A licensed professional clinical counselor may apply to the board to request that his or her lic...
- 4999.113: (a) The board shall issue, upon application and payment of the fee fixed by this chapter, a retired ...
- 4999.114: The board shall report each month to the Controller the amount and source of all revenue received pu...
- 4999.116: (a) The moneys credited to the Behavioral Sciences Fund under Section 4999.114 shall, upon appropria...
- 4999.118: A licensee or registrant shall give written notice to the board of a name change within 30 days afte...
- 4999.120: The board shall assess fees for the application for and the issuance and renewal of licenses and for...
- 4999.122: The professional clinical counselor licensing program shall be supported from fees assessed to appli...
- 4999.123: A professional clinical counselor corporation is a corporation that is authorized to render professi...
- 4999.124: It shall constitute unprofessional conduct and a violation of this chapter for any person licensed u...
- 4999.125: The name of a professional clinical counselor corporation and any name or names under which it may b...
- 4999.126: Except as provided in Section 13403 of the Corporations Code, each director, shareholder, and office...
- 4999.127: The income of a professional clinical counselor corporation attributable to professional services re...
- 4999.128: A professional clinical counselor corporation shall not perform or fail to perform any act the perfo...
- 4999.129: The board may formulate and enforce any rule or regulation to carry out the purposes and objectives ...
- 4999.20: (a) (1) "Professional clinical counseling" means the application of counseling interventions and psy...
- 4999.22: (a) Nothing in this chapter shall prevent qualified persons from doing work of a psychosocial nature...
- 4999.24: Nothing in this chapter shall restrict or prevent activities of a psychotherapeutic or counseling na...
- 4999.30: Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a person shall not practice or advertise the performan...
- 4999.32: (a) This section shall apply to applicants for examination eligibility or registration who begin gra...
- 4999.33: (a) This section shall apply to the following:
(1) Applicants for examination eligibility or registr...
- 4999.34: A clinical counselor trainee may be credited with predegree supervised practicum and field study exp...
- 4999.36: (a) A clinical counselor trainee may perform activities and services provided that the activities an...
- 4999.40: (a) Each educational institution preparing applicants to qualify for licensure shall notify each of ...
- 4999.42: (a) To qualify for registration as an intern, an applicant shall have all of the following qualifica...
- 4999.44: An intern may be credited with supervised experience completed in any setting that meets all of the ...
- 4999.45: An intern employed under this chapter shall:
(a) Not perform any duties, except for those services p...
- 4999.45: (a) An intern employed under this chapter shall:
(1) Not perform any duties, except for those servic...
- 4999.455: (a) A licensed professional in private practice who has satisfied the requirements of subdivision (h...
- 4999.46: (a) To qualify for the licensure examinations specified in subdivision (c) of Section 4999.52, appli...
- 4999.46: (a) To qualify for the licensure examination specified by paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Sectio...
- 4999.47: (a) Clinical counselor trainees, interns, and applicants shall perform services as an employee or as...
- 4999.48: The board shall adopt regulations regarding the supervision of interns which may include, but not be...
- 4999.50: (a) The board may issue a professional clinical counselor license to any person who meets all of the...
- 4999.50: (a) The board may issue a professional clinical counselor license to any person who meets all of the...
- 4999.51: To qualify for licensure as a professional clinical counselor or registration as an intern, applican...
- 4999.52: (a) Except as provided in Sections 4999.54 and 4999.56, every applicant for a license as a professio...
- 4999.52: (a) Except as provided in Sections 4999.54 and 4999.56, every applicant for a license as a professio...
- 4999.53: (a) Effective January 1, 2013, a clinical counselor intern applying for licensure as a clinical coun...
- 4999.54: (a) Notwithstanding Section 4999.50, the board may issue a license to any person who submits an appl...
- 4999.55: (a) Each applicant and registrant shall obtain a passing score on a board-administered California la...
- 4999.57: (a) This section applies to a person who applies for examination eligibility or registration between...
- 4999.58: (a) This section applies to a person who applies for examination eligibility between January 1, 2011...
- 4999.59: (a) This section applies to a person who applies for examination eligibility or registration between...
- 4999.60: (a) This section applies to persons who are licensed outside of California and apply for examination...
- 4999.61: (a) This section applies to persons who apply for examination eligibility or registration on or afte...
- 4999.62: (a) This section applies to persons who apply for examination eligibility or registration on or afte...
- 4999.63: (a) For applicants who submit an application for a license on or before January 1, 2013, a valid pas...
- 4999.64: (a) Effective January 1, 2013, an applicant who fails the examination specified in paragraph (2) of ...
- 4999.70: A licensee shall display his or her license in a conspicuous place in his or her primary place of pr...
- 4999.72: Any licensed professional clinical counselor who conducts a private practice under a fictitious busi...
- 4999.74: Licensed professional clinical counselors shall provide to each client accurate information about th...
- 4999.76: (a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) and subdivision (c), the board shall not renew any licen...
- 4999.80: In order to carry out the provisions of this chapter, the board shall do all of the following:
(a) E...
- 4999.82: It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in any of the following acts:
(a) Engage in the practi...
- 4999.84: It is the intent of the Legislature that any communication made by a person to a licensed profession...
- 4999.86: Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable ...
- 4999.88: In addition to other proceedings provided in this chapter, whenever any person has engaged, or is ab...
- 4999.90: The board may refuse to issue any registration or license, or may suspend or revoke the registration...
- 4999.91: The board may deny any application, or may suspend or revoke any license or registration issued unde...
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