California

Business and Professions Code - BPC

10,525 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 23987 — Upon the receipt by the department of an original application for any license or an application for transfer of any license, written notice thereof, consisting of a copy of the application, shall imme
• § 24 — If any provision of this code, or the application thereof, to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the code, or the application of such provision to other persons or circumsta
• § 2400 — Corporations and other artificial legal entities shall have no professional rights, privileges, or powers.
• § 2401 — (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 Ost
• § 24011 — Immediately upon the denial of any application for a license, the department shall notify the applicant in writing.
• § 24012 — Upon receipt by the department of a petition for a license in proper form, the petition shall be set for hearing.
• § 24013 — (a) Protests may be filed at any office of the department within 30 days from the first date of posting the notice of intention to engage in the sale of alcoholic beverages at the premises, within 30
• § 24013.1 — If an application for a license is voluntarily withdrawn as a result of any protest being filed opposing the issuance of such license, such applicant may not refile an application for the same locatio
• § 24013.2 — If an application for issuance of a license at a premises is withdrawn pursuant to Section 24013.
• § 24013.5 — (a) No license shall be issued for any premises for which a license has been denied or revoked, for reasons pertaining to the premises, unless one year has elapsed from the date the order becomes fina
• § 24014 — (a) A protest made by any person other than an employee of the department or a public officer shall be verified.
• § 24015 — (a) If, after investigation, the department recommends that a license be issued, with or without conditions, notwithstanding that one or more protests have been accepted by the department, the departm
• § 2402 — 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 Divisio
• § 2403 — 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.
• § 24040 — Each license shall be issued to a specific person and, except in the case of licenses authorizing the sale of alcoholic beverages on trains or boats, or the service of alcoholic beverages on airplanes
• § 24041 — Separate licenses shall be issued for each of the premises of any business establishment having more than one location, except as provided for in Sections 23355.
• § 24041.5 — The provisions of this division do not prohibit the issuance of an off-sale general license for use on part of the same premises for which an off-sale beer and wine license has been issued and is in f
• § 24042 — (a) Any licensee under an on-sale general license or an on-sale general license for seasonal business who maintains upon or within the premises for which the license is issued more than one room in wh
• § 24042.5 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, any licensee under an on-sale general or on-sale general license for seasonal business who has a premises with a fixed counter or service bar in o
• § 24043 — Licenses for trains and boats shall be based on the average number in actual operation during the license year of each class of operating units, namely, trains and boats upon which the license privile
• § 24044 — (a) Licenses for the retail sale of alcoholic beverages may be issued for or transferred to premises that are to be constructed or that are in the process of construction.
• § 24044.5 — (a) The department, in its discretion, may issue an interim operating permit to an applicant for any license to operate the premises during the period an application for a license at the premises is p
• § 24045 — (a) All licenses, except on-sale general licenses for seasonal businesses and daily on-sale general licenses issued pursuant to Section 24045.
• § 24045.1 — (a) The department, in its discretion, may issue on a temporary basis a daily on-sale general license and the fee for such license shall be seventy-five dollars ($75) per day.
• § 24045.10 — (a) The department in its discretion may issue, on a temporary basis, a daily on-sale general license for a vessel of 7,000 tons or more displacement engaged in interstate or foreign commerce, which i
• § 24045.11 — (a) The department may issue a special on-sale wine license to an establishment licensed to do business as a bed and breakfast inn.
• § 24045.12 — (a) The department may issue a special on-sale general license to an establishment licensed to do business as a bed and breakfast inn.
• § 24045.13 — (a) The department may issue a special temporary off-sale license to a former licensee for the limited purpose of selling any stock of collectible beer, wine, or distilled spirits decanters acquired w
• § 24045.14 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, the department may issue an on-sale general license to any maritime museum association that has been organized as a nonprofit corporation more
• § 24045.15 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, the department may issue a special temporary on-sale or off-sale wine license to any nonprofit corporation having an agricultural purpose that
• § 24045.16 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, the department may issue an on-sale general bona fide public eating place license as defined by Section 23038 to any nonprofit charitable arts tru
• § 24045.17 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department may issue a general on-sale license to a person who does not operate a bona fide eating place or other public premises who meets all of the f
• § 24045.18 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, a beer and wine wholesaler that also holds an off-sale beer and wine retail license and only sells wine or the holder of a limited off-sale retail
• § 24045.19 — (a) The department may issue a special temporary on-sale wine license to a nonprofit corporation, exempt from payment of income taxes under Section 23701a or 23701e of the Revenue and Taxation Code an
• § 24045.2 — (a) The department may issue a special temporary retail package off-sale beer and wine license to: (1) a television station, supported wholly or in part by public membership subscription, which is a n
• § 24045.3 — (a) The department may issue a special temporary retail package off-sale beer and wine license to a women’s educational and charitable organization that is a part of a national organization having at
• § 24045.4 — (a) The department may issue a special temporary off-sale general license to any nonprofit corporation which is exempt from payment of income taxes under the provisions of Section 23701d of the Revenu
• § 24045.5 — The department in its discretion may issue a temporary permit to the transferee of any license to continue the operation of the premises during the period a transfer application for the license from p
• § 24045.6 — (a) The department may issue a special temporary on-sale or off-sale beer or wine license to any nonprofit corporation that is exempt from payment of income taxes under Section 23701d or 23701e of the
• § 24045.7 — (a) (1) The department may issue a special on-sale general license to any nonprofit theater company, nonprofit radio broadcasting company, or nonprofit cultural film exhibition company that is exempt
• § 24045.75 — (a) The department may issue a special on-sale general license to the operator of any for-profit theater located within the City and County of San Francisco, configured with theatrical seating of at l
• § 24045.76 — (a) The department may issue a special on-sale general license to the operator of any for-profit cemetery that is more than 100 years old, on the National Register of Historic Places, is located in, a
• § 24045.77 — (a) (1) The department may issue a special on-sale general license to the operator of any for-profit theater located within the County of Napa, configured with theatrical seating of at least 800 seats
• § 24045.78 — (a) The department may issue a special on-sale general license to a nonprofit arts foundation operating within a former church that is over 100 years old, on the National Register of Historic Places,
• § 24045.8 — (a) The department may issue a special temporary off-sale wine license (1) to an executor, administrator, guardian or conservator of an estate, or to an auctioneer acting as an agent of any of the for
• § 24045.85 — (a) The department may issue a special on-sale beer, wine, or distilled spirits license to any symphony association organized as a nonprofit corporation more than 30 years before the date of applicati
• § 24045.9 — (a) The department may issue a special temporary on-sale beer and wine license to: (1) a television station, supported wholly or in part by public membership subscription, which is a nonprofit, charit
• § 24046 — Upon receipt of any license, the licensee shall post it in a conspicuous place upon the licensed premises.
• § 24047 — Whenever a license certificate is in effect and is lost or destroyed, the department shall issue a duplicate license upon the payment of a fee of twenty-five dollars ($25).
• § 24048 — Every license, other than a temporary license or a daily on-sale general license issued pursuant to Section 24045.
• § 24049 — The department may refuse to transfer any license when the applicant is delinquent in the payment of any taxes due under the Alcoholic Beverage Tax Law, the Sales and Use Tax Law, the Personal Income
• § 24049.5 — (a) The State Board of Equalization or the Franchise Tax Board may seize and sell the license of an off-sale or on-sale general licensee that, upon termination of business, is delinquent in the paymen
• § 24051 — The department may issue and renew on-sale beer licenses for fishing party boats on payment of the fees without regard to the provisions of Sections 23985, 23986, 23987, 23988, 24013, 24014, or 24043.
• § 2406 — 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
• § 2406.5 — (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
• § 2407 — A medical or podiatry corporation shall be subject to the provisions of Sections 2285 and 2415.
• § 24070 — Each license is separate and distinct and is transferable upon approval by the department from the licensee to another person and from one premises to another premises.
• § 24070.1 — An on-sale license issued for a bona fide public eating place may be transferred from the licensee to another person, as provided in Section 24070, for a bona fide public eating place or for public pr
• § 24070.2 — Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 24070, any off-sale general license issued prior to April 29, 1992, and located within the boundaries of the United States Bureau of the Census census tracts
• § 24070.5 — When a winegrower has failed to carry on business actively, pursuant to a winegrower’s license, for a period of one year, such winegrower’s license, without regard to when it was originally issued, ma
• § 24071 — (a) The license of one spouse may be transferred to the other spouse when the application for transfer is made prior to the entry of a final decree of divorce, and the license of a decedent, minor war
• § 24071.1 — (a) (1) When the ownership of 50 percent or more of the shares of stock of a corporation, which is required to report the issuance or transfer of those shares of stock under Section 23405, is acquired
• § 24071.2 — (a) (1) When the ownership of 50 percent or more of the membership interests in a limited liability company required to report the issuance or transfer of memberships under Section 23405.
• § 24072 — (a) Except as provided in Section 24071, the following transfer fees shall be charged by the department: (1) The application fee for a transfer of an on-sale general license or an off-sale general lic
• § 24072.1 — An on-sale license issued for a bona fide public eating place may be transferred from the premises for which issued to other premises, as provided in Section 24072, for a bona fide public eating place
• § 24072.2 — Any person who has an on-sale license issued for a bona fide public eating place may exchange their license for a similar license for public premises, as defined in Section 23039, and any person who h
• § 24072.3 — (a) (1) Any person that has a brewpub-restaurant license may exchange that license for a bona fide public eating place license, as defined in Section 23038.
• § 24072.5 — Any person who has any on-sale general license may exchange his or her license for a special on-sale general license and any person who has a special on-sale general license may exchange his or her li
• § 24073 — No retail license limited in numbers, off-sale beer and wine license, on-sale beer and wine license, on-sale beer and wine public premises license, on-sale beer license, on-sale beer public premises l
• § 24074 — Before the filing of such a transfer application with the department, if the intended transfer of the business or license involves a purchase price or consideration, the licensee and the intended tran
• § 24074.1 — Any person desiring to act as an escrow holder under Section 24074 shall: 1.
• § 24074.2 — Any person desiring to act as an escrow holder under Section 24074 shall not release any funds in the escrow in exchange for a promissory note or in exchange for any other consideration of less value
• § 24074.3 — (a) Within 30 days after the filing of an application for transfer of a license referred to in Section 24073, the intended transferee shall file with the department a statement executed under penalty
• § 24074.4 — (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 24074, no escrow shall be required to be established in connection with the transfer of a business or license if a corporate person files with the departm
• § 24075 — The provisions of Sections 24073 and 24074 do not apply to any transfer of a license made by an executor, administrator, guardian, conservator, trustee, receiver, except a receiver appointed under the
• § 24076 — No licensee shall enter into any agreement wherein he pledges the transfer of his license as security for a loan or as security for the fulfillment of any agreement.
• § 24077 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no license shall be transferred into any county having a population of 35,000 or less.
• § 24078 — A special onsale general license may be transferred from person to person or from premises to premises, as provided in this article, but only for the operation of the licensed premises as required by
• § 24079 — (a) An on-sale general license or off-sale general license shall not be transferred for a purchase price or consideration in excess of the original fee paid for that license pursuant to subparagraph (
• § 2408 — Except as provided in Sections 13401.
• § 24080 — Every application filed by the intended transferee with the department for the transfer of an onsale or offsale general license shall indicate whether the consideration, if any, to be paid to the tran
• § 24081 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law in this division including, but not limited to, requirements relating to the issuance or transfer of a license, any licensee whose premises, for which a
• § 24082 — The license of a licensee whose licensed premises have been destroyed as a result of fire or act of God or have been taken under the power of eminent domain, may be transferred to another location wit
• § 2409 — 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, shal
• § 2410 — 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 hereaf
• § 2411 — 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.
• § 2412 — 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 (
• § 2413 — 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
• § 2415 — (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
• § 2416 — 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 podiatri
• § 2417 — (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 Chapte
• § 2417.5 — (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 contrac
• § 2418 — (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (1) The State of California is facing a growing crisis in physician supply due, in part, to difficulties in recruiting and retaining
• § 24200 — The following are the grounds that constitute a basis for the suspension or revocation of licenses: (a) When the continuance of a license would be contrary to public welfare or morals.
• § 24200.1 — The following are additional bases upon which the department may suspend or revoke a license: (a) Failure to take reasonable steps to correct objectionable conditions on the licensed premises, includi
• § 24200.5 — Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 24200, the department shall revoke a license upon any of the following grounds: (a) If a retail licensee has knowingly permitted the illegal sale, or negotiat
• § 24200.6 — The department may revoke or suspend any license if the licensee or the agent or employee of the licensee violates any provision of Section 11364.
• § 24200.7 — The department shall revoke or suspend any license if the licensee or the agent or employee of the licensee manufactures, distributes, or offers for retail sale powdered alcohol.
• § 24200.8 — In determining the level of discipline for a violation of Section 25602 or 25658, the department may consider as a factor whether there is subsequent death or great bodily injury to the person who is
• § 24201 — Accusations may be made to the department by any person against any licensee.
• § 24202 — (a) All state and local law enforcement agencies shall immediately notify the department of any arrests made by them for violations over which the department has jurisdiction which involve a licensee
• § 24203 — Accusations against any on-sale or off-sale licensee may be filed with the department by the legislative body, or chief of police, of any city in which the premises in question are located, or if the
• § 24204 — The Director of the State Department of Public Health shall immediately notify the department of the conviction of any licensee of any violation of the Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law in connecti
• § 24205 — The license of any taxpayer shall be automatically suspended upon cancellation of his or her bond, or if the bond becomes void or unenforceable for any reason, or if the taxpayer fails to pay any taxe
• § 24206 — All accusations against licensees for violating or permitting the violation of Sections 24750 to 24757, inclusive, 24850 to 24881, inclusive, 25000 to 25010, inclusive, 25170 to 25238, inclusive, 2560
• § 24207 — All accusations against licensees for violating or permitting the violation of Sections 23300, 23355, 23431, 23453, 24200.
• § 24208 — The periods of one year and three years referred to in Sections 24206 and 24207 shall commence to run as follows: (a) If the act or omission alleged as the basis for the suspension or revocation of th
• § 24209 — When an arrest is made of any person, for a violation of this division, the arresting officer may release such person without taking such person before a magistrate upon such person’s signing an agree
• § 2421 — As used in this article, the terms: (a) “License” includes “certificate,” “permit,” and “registration.
• § 24211 — The department may on its own motion at any time before a penalty assessment is placed into effect and without any further proceedings, review the penalty, but such review shall be limited to its redu
• § 2423 — (a) All physician and surgeon’s certificates, and certificates to practice midwifery, research psychoanalyst registrations, polysomnographic trainee, technician, and technologist registrations, and fi
• § 2424 — Notwithstanding Section 163.
• § 2425 — (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 t
• § 2425.1 — 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, he
• § 2425.3 — (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 th
• § 2426 — (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 facili
• § 2427 — (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 l
• § 2428 — (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 n
• § 2429 — (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
• § 24300 — (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 11440.
• § 24301 — The department shall not create a record by videographic recording.
• § 24310 — (a) Any person requesting a transcript from the department in a case on appeal to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Appeals Board, shall pay the transcript cost specified in Section 69950 of the Governme
• § 2432 — 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 b
• § 2433 — Upon filing an application therefor, containing such information as the licensing authority may require and accompanied by the required endorsement fee, if any, the licensure or credentials of the per
• § 2435 — The following fees apply to the licensure of physicians and surgeons: (a) Each applicant for a certificate based upon a national board diplomate certificate, each applicant for a certificate based on
• § 2435.1 — (a) In addition to the fees charged for the initial issuance or biennial renewal of a physician and surgeon’s certificate pursuant to Section 2435, and at the time those fees are charged, the board sh
• § 2435.2 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if Article 14 (commencing with Section 2340) becomes inoperative or the diversion program described in that article is discontinued, the board shall red
• § 2435.3 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if Section 12529.
• § 2436 — The fees in this article fixed by the board shall be set forth as emergency regulations duly adopted by the Division of Licensing.
• § 2436.5 — (a) (1) In addition to the fees charged for the initial issuance or biennial renewal of a physician and surgeon’s certificate pursuant to Section 2435, and at the time those fees are charged, the boar
• § 2437 — The board may fix a fee for the approval of postgraduate training for clinical service programs approved by the Division of Licensing at an amount equal to the cost to the division in reviewing applic
• § 2439 — (a) Every licensee is exempt from the payment of the renewal fee and requirement for continuing medical education if the licensee has applied to the Division of Licensing for a retired license.
• § 2440 — (a) Every licensee is exempt from the payment of the renewal fee while engaged in full-time training or active service in the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marines, or in the United States Public Health S
• § 24400 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, two or more retail licensees of the same type may agree to group purchase distilled spirits and wine from a licensed wholesaler or rectifier through a desig
• § 2441 — (a) Any licensee who demonstrates to the satisfaction of the board that he or she is unable to practice medicine due to a disability may request a waiver of the license renewal fee.
• § 2442 — The renewal fee shall be waived for a physician and surgeon who certifies to the Medical Board of California that license renewal is for the sole purpose of providing voluntary, unpaid service.
• § 2443 — The following fees apply to fictitious-name permits issued under Section 2415: (a) The initial permit fee shall be seventy dollars ($70).
• § 2445 — All moneys paid to and received by the board shall be paid into the State Treasury and shall be credited to the Contingent Fund of the Medical Board of California.
• § 2446 — Unless otherwise expressly provided in this chapter, all fines imposed or forfeitures of bail collected by any court in connection with any violation of the provisions of this chapter shall, as soon a
• § 2447 — The board shall refund any fees, fines, or forfeitures in accordance with the provisions of Section 158.
• § 2448 — Notwithstanding the possession by a licensee of a renewal receipt or other acknowledgement of renewal of licensure, a license issued and renewed may, at any time, be suspended, revoked, or forfeited a
• § 2450 — There is a Board of Osteopathic Examiners of the State of California, established by the Osteopathic Act, which shall be known as the Osteopathic Medical Board of California which enforces this chapte
• § 2450.1 — Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Osteopathic Medical Board of California in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions.
• § 2451 — The words “Medical Board of California,” the term “board,” or any reference to a division of the Medical Board of California as used in this chapter shall be deemed to mean the Osteopathic Medical Boa
• § 2452 — This chapter applies to the Osteopathic Medical Board of California so far as consistent with the Osteopathic Act.
• § 2453 — (a) It is the policy of this state that holders of M.
• § 2453.5 — Individuals possessing physician’s and surgeon’s certificates issued by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California shall not hold themselves out to be board certified unless the board certification h
• § 2454.5 — In order to ensure the continuing competence of licensed osteopathic physicians and surgeons, the board shall adopt and administer standards for the continuing education of those licensees.
• § 2454.6 — In determining its continuing education requirements, the board shall consider including a course in infection-associated chronic conditions, including, but not limited to, long COVID, as defined by t
• § 2455 — The amount of fees and refunds is that established by the following schedule for any certificate issued by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California.
• § 2455.1 — (a) In addition to the fees charged pursuant to Section 2455, and at the time those fees are charged, the board shall charge each applicant for an original or reciprocity certificate or for a biennial
• § 2455.2 — (a) A licensed osteopathic physician and surgeon shall report to the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, at the time of initial licensure, any specialty board certification that he or she holds t
• § 2456 — (a) Each person holding a certificate issued by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California residing in or out of California shall pay the board a biennial license fee.
• § 2456.1 — All osteopathic physician’s and surgeon’s certificates shall be issued for two years and shall expire at midnight on the last day of the month in which the license was issued during the second year of
• § 2456.2 — (a) The board shall notify in writing by certified mail, return receipt requested, any physician and surgeon who does not renew his or her license within 60 days from its date of expiration.
• § 2456.3 — Except as provided in Section 2429, a license which has expired may be renewed at any time within five years after its expiration by filing an application for renewal on a form prescribed by the board
• § 2457 — The failure of any person holding a certificate issued by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California to pay the biennial license fee during the time his or her certificate remains in force shall auto
• § 2457.5 — (a) In addition to Article 12 (commencing with Section 2220), the charging, or obtaining of an unconscionable fee for professional services rendered to a patient by an osteopathic physician and surgeo
• § 2458 — When the prosecution for a violation of this chapter is initiated by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, 75 percent of all fines and forfeitures of bail shall be paid upon the collection by t
• § 2459 — The Osteopathic Medical Board of California shall not issue any drugless practitioner’s certificates under this chapter or any other law.
• § 2459.4 — (a) On and after July 1, 2019, except as otherwise provided in subdivision (c), the board shall require a licensee to provide a separate disclosure that includes the licensee’s probation status, the l
• § 2459.5 — An osteopathic physician and surgeon licensed pursuant to the Osteopathic Initiative Act may utilize the services of an aide to assist the osteopathic physician and surgeon in the rendering of osteopa
• § 2459.6 — (a) For the purposes of Section 2459.
• § 2459.7 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no osteopathic physician and surgeon shall utilize an osteopathic aide to perform services other than those specified in Sections 2459.
• § 2460 — (a) There is created in the Department of Consumer Affairs the Podiatric Medical Board of California.
• § 2460.1 — Notwithstanding any other law, the repeal of Section 2460 renders the Podiatric Medical Board of California subject to review by the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature.
• § 2460.2 — Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Podiatric Medical Board of California in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions.
• § 2461 — (a) As used in this article: (1) “Board” means the Podiatric Medical Board of California.
• § 2462 — The board shall consist of seven members, three of whom shall be public members.
• § 2463 — Each member of the board, except the public members, shall be appointed from persons having all of the following qualifications: (a) Be a citizen of this state for at least five years next preceding h
• § 2464 — The public members shall be appointed from persons having all of the following qualifications: (a) Be a citizen of this state for at least five years next preceding his or her appointment.
• § 2465 — No person who directly or indirectly owns any interest in any college, school, or other institution engaged in podiatric medical instruction shall be appointed to the board nor shall any incumbent mem
• § 2466 — All members of the board shall be appointed for terms of four years.
• § 2467 — (a) The board may convene from time to time as it deems necessary.
• § 2468 — Notice of each meeting of the board shall be given in accordance with the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of th
• § 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 Procedure Act (Chapter 3.
• § 2471 — Except as provided by Section 159.
• § 2472 — (a) The certificate to practice podiatric medicine authorizes the holder to practice podiatric medicine.
• § 2473 — (a) A doctor of podiatric medicine may independently prescribe and administer influenza and COVID-19 vaccines, consistent with recommendations adopted pursuant to Section 120164 of the Health and Safe
• § 2474 — (a) Any person who uses in any sign or in any advertisement or otherwise, the word or words “doctor of podiatric medicine,” “doctor of podiatry,” “podiatric doctor,” “podiatric surgeon,” “D.
• § 2475 — Unless otherwise provided by law, no postgraduate trainee, intern, resident postdoctoral fellow, or instructor may engage in the practice of podiatric medicine, or receive compensation therefor, or of
• § 2475.1 — Before a resident’s license may be issued, each applicant shall show by evidence satisfactory to the board, submitted directly to the board by the national score reporting institution, that he or she
• § 2475.2 — As used in this article, “podiatric residency” means a program of supervised postgraduate clinical training, one year or more in duration, approved by the board.
• § 2475.3 — (a) The board shall approve podiatric residency programs, as defined in Section 2475.
• § 2476 — Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent a regularly matriculated student undertaking a course of professional instruction in an approved college or school of podiatric medicine from part
• § 2477 — Nothing in this chapter prohibits the manufacture, the recommendation, or the sale of either corrective shoes or appliances for the human feet.
• § 2479 — The board shall issue a certificate to practice podiatric medicine to each applicant who meets the requirements of this chapter.
• § 2480 — The board shall have full authority to investigate and to evaluate each applicant applying for a certificate to practice podiatric medicine and to make a determination of the admission of the applican
• § 2481 — Each applicant who commenced professional instruction in podiatric medicine after September 1, 1959, shall show by an official transcript or other official evidence submitted directly to the board by
• § 2483 — (a) Each applicant for a certificate to practice podiatric medicine shall show by an official transcript or other official evidence satisfactory to the board that is submitted directly to the board by
• § 2484 — In addition to any other requirements of this chapter, before a certificate to practice podiatric medicine may be issued, each applicant shall show by evidence satisfactory to the board, submitted dir
• § 2486 — The board shall issue a certificate to practice podiatric medicine if the applicant has submitted directly to the board from the credentialing organizations verification that he or she meets all of th
• § 2488 — The board shall issue a certificate to practice podiatric medicine by credentialing if the applicant has submitted directly to the board from the credentialing organizations verification that they are
• § 2492 — (a) The board shall examine every applicant for a certificate to practice podiatric medicine to ensure a minimum of entry-level competence at the time and place designated by the board in its discreti
• § 2493 — An applicant for a certificate to practice podiatric medicine shall pass an examination in the subjects required by Section 2483 in order to ensure a minimum of entry-level competence.
• § 2495 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the board may delegate to officials of the board the authority to approve the admission of applicants to the examination and to approve the issuanc
• § 2496 — In order to ensure the continuing competence of persons licensed to practice podiatric medicine, the board shall adopt and administer regulations requiring continuing education of those licensees.
• § 2496.5 — Any vaccine training program provided through the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including courses that were completed by a licensed doctor of podiatric medicine on or after Janua
• § 2497 — (a) The board may order the denial of an application for, or the suspension of, or the revocation of, or the imposition of probationary conditions upon, a certificate to practice podiatric medicine fo