Title BPC, California Bus. & Prof. Code

An administrative fee to be established by the board, may be charged for participation in the program; all costs of treatment shall be paid by the participant. These fees shall be deposited into the Contingent Fund of the Osteopathic Medical Board of California. (Amended by Stats…

(a) After the committee and the program manager, in their discretion, have determined that a participant has been rehabilitated and the program is completed, the committee shall purge and destroy all records pertaining to the participation in a treatment program. (b) Except as au…

The board shall provide for the representation of any persons making reports to the diversion evaluation committee or to the board under this article in any action for defamation for reports or information given to the committee or the board regarding a licensee’s participation i…

The department may place reasonable conditions upon retail licensees or upon any licensee in the exercise of retail privileges in the following situations: (a) If grounds exist for the denial of an application for a license or where a protest against the issuance of a license is …

The conditions authorized by Section 23800 may cover any matter relating to the privileges to be exercised under the license, the personal qualifications of the licensee, the conduct of the business or the condition of the premises, which will protect the public welfare and moral…

Such conditions shall be endorsed upon the license and any renewal thereof and shall be binding upon all persons to whom the license is transferred. (Added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 1351.)

(a) The department, upon its own motion or upon the petition of a licensee or a transferee who has filed an application for the transfer of the license, if it is satisfied that the grounds that caused the imposition of the conditions no longer exist, shall order their removal or …

A violation of a condition placed upon a license pursuant to this article shall constitute the exercising of a privilege or the performing of an act for which a license is required without the authority thereof and shall be grounds for the suspension or revocation of such license…

The proceedings specified in Section 23800(a), (b), (c), (d), and (e) shall be conducted in the same manner as is required for other proceedings involving petitions, protests or accusations, and the right of a respondent in the proceedings to appeal shall include the right to app…

Notwithstanding any other law, a licensed gambling enterprise may contract with a third party for the purpose of providing proposition player services at a gambling establishment, subject to the following conditions: (a) Any agreement, contract, or arrangement between a gambling …

The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) Nonprofit organizations provide important and necessary services to the people of the State of California with respect to educational and social services and there is a need to provide methods of fundraising to nonprofit organ…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of state law a nonprofit organization may conduct a fundraiser using controlled games as a funding mechanism to further the purposes and mission of the nonprofit organization. (b) A nonprofit organization holding a fundraiser pursuant to su…

(a) The department, by regulation or order, may require any person or entity set forth in subdivision (b), to register with the department. (b) “Person or entity” means one who, directly or indirectly, manufactures, distributes, supplies, vends, leases, or otherwise provides, sup…

No licensee, who in good faith renders emergency care at the scene of an emergency, shall be liable for any civil damages as a result of any acts or omissions by such person in rendering the emergency care. “The scene of an emergency” as used in this section shall include, but no…

(a) A licensee who serves on an on-call basis to a hospital emergency room, who in good faith renders emergency obstetrical services to a person while serving on-call, shall not be liable for any civil damages as a result of any negligent act or omission by the licensee in render…

No licensee, who in good faith upon the request of another person so licensed, renders emergency medical care to a person for medical complication arising from prior care by another person so licensed, shall be liable for any civil damages as a result of any acts or omissions by …

(a) A licensee shall not be liable for civil damages for injury or death caused in an emergency situation occurring in the licensee’s office or in a hospital on account of a failure to inform a patient of the possible consequences of a medical procedure where the failure to infor…

No licensee, who in good faith and without compensation renders voluntary emergency medical assistance to a participant in a community college or high school athletic event or contest, at the site of the event or contest, or during transportation to a health care facility, for an…

Corporations and other artificial legal entities shall have no professional rights, privileges, or powers. However, the Division of Licensing may in its discretion, after such investigation and review of such documentary evidence as it may require, and under regulations adopted b…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 2400, a clinic operated primarily for the purpose of medical education by a public or private nonprofit university medical school, which is approved by the board or the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, may charge for professional services rende…

The provisions of Section 2400 do not apply to a medical or podiatry corporation practicing pursuant to the Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation Act (Part 4 (commencing with Section 13400) of Division 3 of Title 1 of the Corporations Code) and this article, when such corporation…

The provisions of Section 2400 do not apply to physicians and surgeons or doctors of podiatric medicine enrolled in approved residency postgraduate training programs or fellowship programs. (Added by Stats. 2013, Ch. 515, Sec. 16. (SB 304) Effective January 1, 2014.)

A medical corporation or podiatry corporation is a corporation that is authorized to render professional services, as defined in Section 13401 of the Corporations Code, so long as that corporation and its shareholders, officers, directors, and employees rendering professional ser…

(a) When a physician and surgeon, podiatrist, or other referring practitioner refers a patient to receive services by a physical therapist employed by a professional corporation as defined in Section 13401 of the Corporations Code, the referring practitioner shall comply with Art…

A medical or podiatry corporation shall be subject to the provisions of Sections 2285 and 2415. (Added by Stats. 1980, Ch. 1314, Sec. 4.2.)

Except as provided in Sections 13401.5 and 13403 of the Corporations Code, each shareholder, director and officer of a medical or podiatry corporation, except an assistant secretary or an assistant treasurer, shall be a licensed person as defined in Section 13401 of the Corporati…

The income of a medical and podiatry corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shareholder is a disqualified person, as defined in Section 13401 of the Corporations Code, shall not in any manner accrue to the benefit of such shareholder or his or her shar…

A medical or podiatry corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which or the failure to do which would constitute unprofessional conduct under any statute or regulation now or hereafter in effect. In the conduct of its practice, it shall observe and be bound by …

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the offering and operation by a medical corporation of a health care service plan licensed pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 2.2 (commencing with Section 1340) of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code is hereby authorized. For su…

The Division of Licensing may adopt and enforce regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of this article and the Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation Act including regulations requiring (a) that the bylaws of a medical or podiatry corporation shall include a provisio…

This article shall apply to medical corporations which have physicians and surgeons licensed by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California as shareholders, officers, and directors only to the extent that this article is not in conflict with or inconsistent with Section 2454. (Am…

(a) Any physician and surgeon or any doctor of podiatric medicine, as the case may be, who as a sole proprietor, or in a partnership, group, or professional corporation, desires to practice under any name that would otherwise be a violation of Section 2285 may practice under that…

Physicians and surgeons and doctors of podiatric medicine may conduct their professional practices in a partnership or group of physicians and surgeons or a partnership or group of doctors of podiatric medicine, respectively. Physicians and surgeons and doctors of podiatric medic…

(a) If the Department of Insurance has evidence that a business is being operated in violation of this chapter, Part 4 (commencing with Section 13400) of Division 3 of the Corporations Code, or Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 1200) of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code, …

(a) A business organization that offers to provide, or provides, outpatient elective cosmetic medical procedures or treatments, that is owned or operated in violation of Section 2400, and that contracts with, or otherwise employs, a physician and surgeon to facilitate its offers …

As used in this article, the terms: (a) “License” includes “certificate,” “permit,” and “registration.” (b) “Licensee” includes the holder of a license. (c) “Licensing authority” means the board, which has jurisdiction over a particular licensee. (Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 775,…

(a) All physician and surgeon’s certificates, and certificates to practice midwifery, research psychoanalyst registrations, polysomnographic trainee, technician, and technologist registrations, and fictitious-name permits shall expire at 12 midnight on the last day of the month i…

Notwithstanding Section 163.5, any licensee of the board or the California Board of Podiatric Medicine who does not renew the licensee’s expired license within 30 days of its date of expiration shall pay all the following fees: (a) The renewal fee in effect at the time of renewal…

(a) The board may prepare and provide electronically or by mail to every licensed physician at the time of license renewal a questionnaire containing any questions as are necessary to establish that the physician currently has no disorder that would impair the physician’s ability…

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Currently, California is experiencing an access to health care crisis that, in large measure, is the result of medical group insolvency, health facility closures, low or no reimbursement rates, and an increasing number …

(a) A licensed physician and surgeon shall report to the board, immediately upon issuance of an initial license and at the time of license renewal, any specialty board certification he or she holds that is issued by a member board of the American Board of Medical Specialties or a…

(a) A licensee shall report to the board at the time of renewal of a license any financial interest that the licensee or a member of the licensee’s immediate family may have in a health-related facility. The report shall be made on a form provided by the board. (b) For purposes o…

(a) Except as provided in Section 2429, a license which has expired may be renewed at any time within five years after its expiration on filing an application for renewal on a form prescribed by the licensing authority and payment of all accrued renewal fees and any other fees re…

(a) A person who voluntarily cancels his or her license or who fails to renew his or her license within five years after its expiration shall not renew it, but that person may apply for and obtain a new license if he or she: (1) Has not committed any acts or crimes constituting g…

(a) A license which is suspended for unprofessional conduct is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article, but such renewal does not entitle the licensee, while the license remains suspended, and until it is reinstated, to engage in the licensed activi…

Upon filing an application therefor, containing such information as the licensing authority may require and accompanied by the required duplicate certificate fee, if any, a duplicate certificate may be issued to any person so licensed under the applicable provisions of law where …