California · Business and Professions Code - BPC

BPC §1701.1: (a) Notwithstanding Sections 1700 and 1701, a person who willfully, under circumstances or conditions that cause or create risk of bodily harm, serious physical or mental illness, or death, practices

Misdemeanor

What this law says, in plain English

A person who willfully practices dentistry without a valid license under circumstances creating risk of bodily harm, illness, or death commits a public offense punishable by up to $10,000 fine and/or up to one year county jail imprisonment.

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(a) Notwithstanding Sections 1700 and 1701, a person who willfully, under circumstances or conditions that cause or create risk of bodily harm, serious physical or mental illness, or death, practices or attempts to practice, or advertises or holds themselves out as practicing dentistry without having at the time of so doing a valid, unrevoked, and unsuspended certificate, license, registration, or permit as provided in this chapter, or without being authorized to perform that act pursuant to a certificate, license, registration, or permit obtained in accordance with some other provision of law, is guilty of a public offense, punishable by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code, by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by both the fine and either imprisonment. (b) A person who conspires with or aids and abets another to commit any act described in subdivision (a) is guilty of a public offense and subject to the punishment described in subdivision (a). (c) The board may post an administrative citation issued pursuant to Section 148 on the board’s internet website for an offense described in subdivisions (a) and (b). (d) The remedy provided in this section shall not preclude any other remedy provided by law.

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