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.

• § 5019 — Every applicant, when subscribing to an application for certificate or registration, shall acknowledge the fact that the applicant has read and understands the rules of professional conduct adopted by
• § 502 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, both of the following apply: (1) The Board of Registered Nursing, the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians of the State of California, the Physici
• § 5020 — The board may, for the purpose of obtaining technical expertise, appoint an enforcement advisory committee of not more than 13 licensees to provide advice and assistance related to the functions speci
• § 5021 — The members of the enforcement advisory and qualifications committees shall hold office for two years.
• § 5022 — The qualifications committee shall make recommendations and forward its report to the board for action on any matter on which it is authorized to act.
• § 5023 — The board may establish a qualifications committee of its own certified public accountant members or other certified public accountants of the state in good standing, to perform the following advisory
• § 5024 — The board may create and appoint advisory committees, consisting solely of board members or consisting of board members and other persons who are not board members, for the purpose of making recommend
• § 5025.1 — (a) The board may contract with and employ certified public accountants and public accountants as consultants and experts to assist in the investigation and prosecution of judicial and administrative
• § 5025.2 — (a) The Legislature finds that there are occasions when the California Board of Accountancy urgently requires additional expenditure authority in order to fund unanticipated enforcement and litigation
• § 5025.3 — (a) Whenever the board enters into a contract for litigation or enforcement purposes, including, but not limited to, contracts pursuant to Section 5025.
• § 5026 — The Legislature has determined it is in the public interest to require that certified public accountants and public accountants licensed under provisions of this chapter comply with continuing educati
• § 5027 — The board shall by regulation prescribe, amend, or repeal rules including, but not limited to, all of the following: (a) A definition of basic requirements for continuing education.
• § 5028 — The board may, in accordance with the intent of this article, make exceptions from continuing education requirements for licensees not engaged in public practice, or for reasons of health, military se
• § 5030 — “Board” means the California Board of Accountancy.
• § 5031 — “Committee” means any committee created under the provisions of Article 1 (commencing at Section 5000).
• § 5032 — “State” when not specifically referring to this State, means any state, territory or insular possession of the United States, or the District of Columbia.
• § 5033 — “Certified public accountant” means any person who has received from the board a certificate of certified public accountant and who holds a valid permit to practice under the provisions of this chapte
• § 5033.1 — For purposes of this chapter, “license” shall also include “certificate.
• § 5034 — “Public accountant” means any person who has registered with the board as a public accountant and who holds a valid permit for the practice of public accountancy.
• § 5035 — “Person” includes individual, partnership, firm, association, limited liability company, or corporation, unless otherwise provided.
• § 5035.1 — “Firm” means a sole proprietorship, a corporation, or a partnership.
• § 5035.2 — “Client”, as used in any context in this chapter, means any person for whom public accountancy services are performed or to whom financial products, financial services, or securities are sold or provi
• § 5035.3 — For purposes of Sections 5054 and 5096.
• § 5035.4 — “Comparable licensure requirements” means another state requires passage of the examination described in Section 5082 and has education and experience requirements, when considered collectively, that
• § 5036 — Whenever any statute requires that any reports, financial statements, and other documents for any department, division, board, commission, or agency of this state be prepared by certified public accou
• § 5037 — (a) All statements, records, schedules, working papers and memoranda made by a licensee or a partner, shareholder, officer, director, or employee of a licensee, incident to, or in the course of, rende
• § 5037.1 — Nothing in subdivision (k) of Section 17406 of the Financial Code or subdivision (a) of Section 17406.
• § 5038 — If any provisions of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of the chapter and the application of such provision to other persons or circ
• § 5040 — The Legislature finds and declares that it is important to inform taxpayers that they may make voluntary contributions to certain funds or programs, as provided on the state income tax return.
• § 5050 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b) of this section, in subdivision (a) of Section 5054, and in Section 5096.
• § 5050.1 — (a) Any person that engages in any act that is the practice of public accountancy in this state consents to the personal, subject matter, and disciplinary jurisdiction of the board.
• § 5050.2 — (a) The board may revoke, suspend, issue a fine pursuant to Article 6.
• § 5051 — Except as provided in Sections 5052 and 5053, a person shall be deemed to be engaged in the practice of public accountancy within the meaning and intent of this chapter if they do any of the following
• § 5052 — Nothing in this chapter shall apply to any person who as an employee, independent contractor, or otherwise, contracts with one or more persons, organizations, or entities, for the purpose of keeping b
• § 5053 — Nothing contained in this chapter precludes a person who is not a certified public accountant or public accountant from serving as an employee of, or an assistant to, a certified public accountant or
• § 5054 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, an individual or firm holding a valid and current license, certificate, or permit to practice public accountancy from another state may prepare
• § 5055 — Any person who has received from the board a certificate of certified public accountant, or who is authorized to practice public accountancy in this state pursuant to Article 5.
• § 5056 — Any person who has received from the board a certificate of public accountant may, subject to Section 5051, be styled and known as a “public accountant” and may also use the abbreviation “P.
• § 5057 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an individual holding a valid and current license, certificate, or permit to practice public accountancy from another state shall be exempt from the require
• § 5058 — No person or partnership shall assume or use the title or designation “chartered accountant,” “certified accountant,” “enrolled accountant,” “registered accountant” or “licensed accountant,” or any ot
• § 5058.1 — A person or firm may not use any title or designation in connection with the designation “certified public accountant” or “public accountant” that is false or misleading.
• § 5058.2 — The holder of an inactive license issued by the board pursuant to Section 462, when lawfully using the title “certified public accountant,” the CPA designation, or any other reference that would sugge
• § 5058.3 — The holder of a retired license issued by the board pursuant to Section 5070.
• § 5058.4 — The holder of a permit in a military inactive status issued by the board pursuant to Section 5070.
• § 5060 — (a) No person or firm may practice public accountancy under any name which is false or misleading.
• § 5061 — (a) Except as expressly permitted by this section, a person engaged in the practice of public accountancy shall not: (1) pay a fee or commission to obtain a client or (2) accept a fee or commission fo
• § 5062 — A licensee shall issue a report which conforms to professional standards upon completion of a compilation, review or audit of financial statements.
• § 5062.2 — A licensee shall not accept employment with a publicly traded corporation or its affiliate within 12 months of the date of issuance of a financial statement report if both of the following criteria ar
• § 5062.3 — For purposes of an enforcement action taken by the board, an accounting firm providing attestation services where none of the licensee owners of the firm have authority to sign reports on attest engag
• § 5062.4 — If a licensee is no longer employed with an accounting firm, the accounting firm shall make all working papers available to a licensee who signed a report on an attest engagement upon request by the b
• § 5063 — (a) A licensee shall report to the board in writing of the occurrence of any of the following events occurring on or after January 1, 1997, within 30 days of the date the licensee has knowledge of the
• § 5063.1 — Within 10 days of entry of a conviction described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 5063 or a judgment described in subdivision (c) of Section 5063 by a court of this state, the court tha
• § 5063.10 — (a) Any restatement of a financial statement that is included in any report filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission shall be exempt from the requirement described in paragraph
• § 5063.2 — Within 30 days of payment of all or any portion of any civil action settlement or arbitration award against a licensee of the board in which the amount or value of the settlement or arbitration award
• § 5063.3 — (a) No confidential information obtained by a licensee, in their professional capacity, concerning a client or a prospective client shall be disclosed by the licensee without the written permission of
• § 5070 — (a) Permits to engage in the practice of public accountancy in this state shall be issued by the board only to holders of the certificate of certified public accountant issued under this chapter and t
• § 5070.1 — (a) The board may establish, by regulation, a system for the placement of a license into a retired status, upon application, for certified public accountants and public accountants who are not activel
• § 5070.2 — (a) (1) Beginning January 1, 2014, a holder of a permit may apply to have the holder’s permit placed in a military inactive status if the holder of a permit is engaged in, and provides sufficient evid
• § 5070.5 — (a) (1) A permit issued under this chapter to a certified public accountant or a public accountant expires at 12 midnight on the last day of the month of the legal birthday of the licensee during the
• § 5070.6 — Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, an expired permit may be renewed at any time within five years after its expiration upon the filing of an application for renewal on a form prescribed by
• § 5070.7 — (a) A permit that is not renewed within five years following its expiration may not be renewed, restored, or reinstated thereafter, and the certificate of the holder of the permit shall be canceled im
• § 5070.8 — A permit which has been suspended is subject to expiration, and shall be renewed as provided in this article, but such renewal does not entitle the holder of the permit, while it remains suspended, an
• § 5072 — (a) No persons shall engage in the practice of accountancy as a partnership unless the partnership is registered by the board.
• § 5073 — (a) Application for registration of a partnership shall be made upon a form prescribed by the board.
• § 5076 — (a) In order to renew its registration in an active status or convert to an active status, a firm, as defined in Section 5035.
• § 5076.1 — (a) The board shall appoint a peer review oversight committee of certified public accountants of this state who maintain a license in good standing and who are authorized to practice public accountanc
• § 5078 — In each office of a certified public accountant or public accountant in this state which is not under the personal management of such an accountant, respectively, work shall be supervised by a certifi
• § 5079 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, any firm lawfully engaged in the practice of public accountancy in this state may have owners who are not licensed as certified public accounta
• § 5080 — The “certified public accountant” license shall be granted by the board to any person who meets the requirements of this article, has not committed acts or crimes constituting grounds for denial of a
• § 5080.1 — The board may require an applicant for a certified public accountant license to appear in person to determine if the applicant’s qualifications are as prescribed in this chapter and in rules adopted b
• § 5081 — An applicant for an authorization to be admitted to the examination for a certified public accountant license shall: (a) Not have committed acts or crimes constituting grounds for denial of a license
• § 5082 — An applicant for a certified public accountant license shall have successfully passed an examination in subjects the board deems appropriate, and in the form and manner that the board deems appropriat
• § 5082.1 — (a) The examination required by the board for the granting of a license as a certified public accountant may be conducted by the board or by a public or private organization specified by the board.
• § 5082.2 — A candidate who fails an examination provided for in this article shall have the right to reexamination pursuant to the provisions of this article and regulations adopted by the board.
• § 5082.3 — An applicant for a license as a certified public accountant may be deemed by the board to have met the examination requirements of Section 5082 if the applicant satisfies all of the following requirem
• § 5082.4 — A Canadian Chartered Accountant in good standing may be deemed by the board to have met the examination requirements of Section 5082 if they have successfully passed the Canadian Chartered Accountant
• § 5082.5 — The board may give credit to a candidate who has passed all or part of the examination in another state if the members of the board determine that the standards under which the examination was held ar
• § 5087 — (a) The board may issue a certified public accountant license to any applicant who is a holder of a current, active, and unrestricted certified public accountant license issued under the laws of any s
• § 5088 — Any individual who is the holder of a current, active, and unrestricted license as a certified public accountant issued under the laws of any state and who applies to the board for a license as a cert
• § 5090 — An applicant for the certified public accountant license shall comply with the education, examination, and experience requirements in this article.
• § 5093 — (a) To qualify for the certified public accountant license, an applicant who is applying under this section shall meet the education, examination, and experience requirements specified in subdivisions
• § 5093.2 — (a) An applicant for admission to the certified public accountant examination under Section 5082 shall meet the educational requirements by presenting satisfactory evidence that the applicant has comp
• § 5093.3 — (a) An applicant seeking certified public accountant licensure shall show, to the satisfaction of the board, completion of two years of qualifying experience and passage of the certified public accoun
• § 5093.5 — (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 5093, the board may admit an applicant to the certified public accountant examination before the applicant completes the education requirements set forth
• § 5094 — (a) In order for education to be qualifying, it shall meet the standards described in subdivision (b) or (c) of this section.
• § 5094.3 — (a) An applicant for licensure as a certified public accountant shall, to the satisfaction of the board, provide documentation of the completion of 10 semester units or 15 quarter units of ethics stud
• § 5094.6 — (a) The board shall, by regulation, adopt guidelines for accounting study to be included as part of the education required under Section 5093.
• § 5095 — (a) To be authorized to sign reports on attest engagements, a licensee shall complete a minimum of 500 hours of experience, satisfactory to the board, in attest services.
• § 5096 — (a) An individual whose principal place of business is not in this state and who has a current and active license, certificate, or permit to practice public accountancy from another state may, subject
• § 5096.1 — (a) Any individual, not a licensee of this state, who is engaged in any act which is the practice of public accountancy in this state, and who does not qualify to practice pursuant to the practice pri
• § 5096.12 — (a) A certified public accounting firm that is authorized to practice in another state and that does not have an office in this state may engage in the practice of public accountancy in this state thr
• § 5096.2 — (a) (1) Practice privileges may be revoked for any of the following reasons: (A) If an individual no longer qualifies under, or complies with, the provisions of this article, including, but not limite
• § 5096.20 — (a) To ensure that Californians are protected from out-of-state licensees with disqualifying conditions, the board shall maintain an out-of-state licensee feature on its license lookup tab of the home
• § 5096.21 — (a) (1) If the board determines, through a majority vote of the board at a regularly scheduled meeting, that allowing individuals from a particular state to practice in this state pursuant to a practi
• § 5096.22 — (a) An individual whose principal place of business is in a state subject to an action of the board pursuant to Section 5096.
• § 5096.4 — (a) The right of an individual to practice in this state under a practice privilege may be administratively suspended at any time by an order issued by the board or its executive officer, without prio
• § 5096.5 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, an individual may not sign any attest report pursuant to a practice privilege unless the individual meets the experience requirements of Section 50
• § 5096.6 — In addition to the authority otherwise provided for by this code, the board may delegate to the executive officer the authority to issue any notice or order provided for in this article and to act on
• § 5096.7 — (a) Anywhere the term “license,” “licensee,” “permit,” or “certificate” is used in this chapter or Division 1.
• § 5096.8 — In addition to the authority otherwise provided by this code, all investigative powers of the board, including those delegated to the executive officer, shall apply to investigations concerning compli
• § 5096.9 — (a) The board is authorized to adopt regulations to implement, interpret, or make specific the provisions of this article.
• § 5097 — (a) Audit documentation shall be a licensee’s records of the procedures applied, the tests performed, the information obtained, and the pertinent conclusions reached in an audit engagement.
• § 5098 — The board may adopt regulations to implement, interpret, and make specific provisions relating to the following: (a) Requirements for licensees maintaining an audit documentation retention policy and
• § 510 — (a) The purpose of this section is to provide protection against retaliation for health care practitioners who advocate for appropriate health care for their patients pursuant to Wickline v.
• § 5100 — After notice and hearing the board may revoke, suspend, or refuse to renew any permit or certificate granted under Article 4 (commencing with Section 5070) and Article 5 (commencing with Section 5080)
• § 5100.1 — Notwithstanding any other law, in causes for discipline against a licensee under subdivisions (d), (h), or (l) of Section 5100, the board shall rely on the findings or events stated in a certified or
• § 5100.2 — (a) In addition to the grounds for the denial of a license pursuant to Section 480, the board may deny an applicant for a license if either of the following conditions are met: (1) The applicant was c
• § 5100.5 — (a) After notice and hearing the board may, for unprofessional conduct, permanently restrict or limit the practice of a licensee or impose a probationary term or condition on a license, which prohibit
• § 5101 — After notice and hearing the board shall revoke the registration and permit to practice of a partnership if at any time it does not have all the qualifications prescribed by the section of this chapte
• § 5102 — The proceedings under this article shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 5 (commencing at Section 11500) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, and the board shall have all
• § 5103 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board may inquire into any alleged violation of this chapter or any other state or federal law, regulation, or rule relevant to the practice of acco
• § 5103.5 — (a) The board shall post on its internet website, in an easily marked and identifiable location, notice of all formal accusations.
• § 5104 — Any certified public accountant or public accountant whose certificate, registration, or permit has been revoked or suspended shall, upon request of the board, relinquish their certificate or permit.
• § 5105 — Any certified public accountant or public accountant who is delinquent in the payment of his renewal fee shall upon request of the board relinquish his certificate and permit; provided, however, the b
• § 5106 — A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere is deemed to be a conviction within the meaning of this article.
• § 5107 — (a) The executive officer of the board may request the administrative law judge, as part of the proposed decision in a disciplinary proceeding, to direct any holder of a permit or certificate found to
• § 5108 — In connection with any investigation or action authorized by this chapter, the board may issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers, books, accounts, documents and te
• § 5109 — The expiration, cancellation, forfeiture, or suspension of a license, practice privilege, or other authority to practice public accountancy by operation of law or by order or decision of the board or
• § 511 — (a) No subcontract between a physician and surgeon, physician and surgeon group, or other licensed health care practitioner who contracts with a health care service plan or health insurance carrier, a
• § 511.1 — (a) In order to prevent the improper selling, leasing, or transferring of a health care provider’s contract, it is the intent of the Legislature that every arrangement that results in a payor paying a
• § 511.3 — (a) When a contracting agent sells, leases, or transfers a health provider’s contract to a payor, the rights and obligations of the provider shall be governed by the underlying contract between the he
• § 511.4 — (a) A contracting agent, as defined in paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of Section 511.
• § 5110 — (a) After notice and an opportunity for a hearing, the board may deny an application to take the licensing examination, deny admission to current and future licensing examinations, void examination gr
• § 5111 — Cheating on, or subverting or attempting to subvert any licensing examination includes, but is not limited to, engaging in, soliciting, or procuring any of the following: (a) Any communication between
• § 5112 — (a) The board may deny an application to take the licensing examination, deny admittance to current and future licensing examinations, and void examination grades on the grounds set forth in Section 5
• § 5113 — An individual who has been denied admission to the licensing examination under Section 5110 may petition the board for admission to the Certified Public Accountant examination not less than one year a
• § 5115 — (a) A person whose license has been revoked or surrendered may petition the board for reinstatement or reduction of penalty after a period of not less than one year has elapsed from the effective date
• § 5116 — (a) The board, after appropriate notice and an opportunity for hearing, may order any licensee or applicant for licensure or examination to pay an administrative penalty as provided in this article as
• § 5116.1 — In accordance with Section 5116 and applicable regulations, except as provided in Section 5116.
• § 5116.2 — In accordance with Section 5116 and applicable regulations, any licensee who violates subdivision (a), (c), (i), (j) or (k) of Section 5100 may be assessed an administrative penalty of not more than o
• § 5116.3 — In accordance with Section 5116 and applicable regulations, any person who is found to have cheated or subverted or attempted to subvert or cheat on any licensing examination or who conspired with or
• § 5116.4 — (a) The board’s executive officer may request assessment of an administrative penalty in any disciplinary or other proceeding provided in this chapter or in any notice to an applicant pursuant to Sect
• § 5116.5 — The board may obtain a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction ordering the payment of any final administrative penalty assessed by the board pursuant to this article upon the filing of a cert
• § 5116.6 — Anywhere the term “licensee” is used in the article it shall include certified public accountants, public accountants, partnerships, corporations, holders of practice privileges, other persons license
• § 512 — (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), no contract that is issued, amended, renewed, or delivered on or after January 1, 1999, between any person or entity, including, but not limited to,
• § 5120 — Any person who violates Article 3 (commencing with Section 5050) is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars
• § 5121 — The display or uttering by a person of a card, sign, advertisement or other printed, engraved or written instrument or device, bearing a person’s name in conjunction with the words “certified public a
• § 5122 — Whenever in the judgment of the board, or with its approval the enforcement advisory committee, any person has engaged, or is about to engage, in any acts or practices that constitute, or will constit
• § 5130 — The board shall charge and collect a fee from each applicant for the certificate of certified public accountant.
• § 5131 — (a) The board may charge and collect an application fee and an examination fee from each applicant.
• § 5132 — (a) All moneys received by the board under this chapter from any source and for any purpose and from a temporary license issued under Section 115.
• § 5133 — All money in the Accountancy Fund is hereby appropriated to the California Board of Accountancy to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
• § 5134 — The amount of fees prescribed by this chapter is as follows: (a) The fee to be charged to each applicant for the certified public accountant examination shall be fixed by the board at an amount not to
• § 5150 — An accountancy corporation is a corporation which is registered with the California Board of Accountancy and has a currently effective certificate of registration from the board pursuant to the Moscon
• § 5151 — An applicant for registration as an accountancy corporation shall supply to the board all necessary and pertinent documents and information requested by the board concerning the applicant’s plan of op
• § 5152 — Each accountancy corporation shall file with the board at the times the board may require a report containing information pertaining to qualification and compliance with the statutes, rules and regula
• § 5152.1 — Each accountancy corporation shall renew its permit to practice biennially and shall pay the renewal fee fixed by the board in accordance with Section 5134.
• § 5154 — Except as provided in Section 5079 of this code and in Section 13403 of the Corporations Code, each director, shareholder, and officer of an accountancy corporation shall be a licensed person as defin
• § 5155 — The income of an accountancy corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shareholder is a disqualified person (as defined in the Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation Act) shall
• § 5156 — An accountancy 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, rule or regulation now or hereaft
• § 5157 — The board may formulate and enforce rules and regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of this article, including rules and regulations requiring (a) that the articles of incorporation or
• § 5158 — Each office of an accountancy corporation engaged in the practice of public accountancy in this state shall be managed by a certified public accountant or public accountant.
• § 5200 — This chapter of the Business and Professions Code constitutes the chapter on advertisers.
• § 5201 — Unless the context otherwise requires, the general provisions set forth in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• § 5202 — “Advertising display” refers to advertising structures and to signs.
• § 5203 — “Advertising structure” means a structure of any kind or character erected, used, or maintained for outdoor advertising purposes, upon which any poster, bill, printing, painting or other advertisement
• § 5204 — “Bonus segment” means any segment of an interstate highway which was covered by the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1958 and the Collier-Z'berg Act, namely, any such segment which is constructed upon right
• § 5205 — “Business area” means an area within 1,000 feet, measured in each direction, from the nearest edge of a commercial or industrial building or activity and which is zoned under authority of state law pr
• § 5206 — “Centerline of the highway” means a line equidistant from the edges of the median separating the main traveled way of a divided highway, or the centerline of the main traveled way of a nondivided high
• § 5208 — “Collier-Z'berg Act” refers to Chapter 128, Statutes of 1964 (First Extraordinary Session).
• § 5208.6 — “Department” means the Department of Transportation.
• § 5209 — “Director” refers to the Director of Transportation of the State of California.
• § 5210 — “Federal Aid Highway Act of 1958” refers to Section 131 of Title 23 of the United States Code, as in effect before October 22, 1965.
• § 5211 — “Flashing” is a light or message that changes more than once every four seconds.
• § 5212 — “Freeway,” for the purposes of this chapter only, means a divided arterial highway for through traffic with full control of access and with grade separations at intersections.
• § 5213 — “Highway” includes roads, streets, boulevards, lanes, courts, places, commons, trails, ways or other rights-of-way or easements used for or laid out and intended for the public passage of vehicles or
• § 5214 — “Highway Beautification Act of 1965” refers to Section 131 of Title 23 of the United States Code, as in effect October 22, 1965.
• § 5215 — “Interstate highway” means any highway at any time officially designated as a part of the national system of interstate and defense highways by the director and approved by appropriate authority of th
• § 5216 — (a) “Landscaped freeway” means a section or sections of a freeway that is now, or hereafter may be, improved by the planting at least on one side or on the median of the freeway right-of-way of lawns,
• § 5216.1 — “Lawfully erected” means, in reference to advertising displays, advertising displays which were erected in compliance with state laws and local ordinances in effect at the time of their erection or wh
• § 5216.3 — “Main-traveled way” is the traveled way of a highway on which through traffic is carried.
• § 5216.4 — “Message center” is an advertising display where the message is changed more than once every two minutes, but no more than once every four seconds.
• § 5216.5 — “Nonconforming advertising display” is an advertising display that was lawfully placed, but that does not conform to the provisions of this chapter, or the administrative regulations adopted pursuant
• § 5216.6 — (a) “Officially designated scenic highway or scenic byway” is any state highway that has been officially designated and maintained as a state scenic highway pursuant to Sections 260, 261, 262, and 262
• § 5218 — “Penalty segment” means any segment of a highway located in this state which was not covered by the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1958 and the Collier-Z'berg Act but which is covered by the Highway Beaut
• § 5219 — “Person” includes natural person, firm, cooperative, partnership, association, limited liability company, and corporation.
• § 5220 — “Primary highway” means any highway, other than an interstate highway, designated as a part of the federal-aid primary system in existence on June 1, 1991, and any highway that is not in that system b
• § 5221 — “Sign” refers to any card, cloth, paper, metal, painted or wooden sign of any character placed for outdoor advertising purposes on or to the ground or any tree, wall, bush, rock, fence, building, stru
• § 5222 — “660 feet from the edge of the right-of-way” means 660 feet measured from the edge of the right-of-way horizontally along a line normal or perpendicular to the centerline of the highway.
• § 5222.1 — “State highway system” means the state highway system as described in Section 300 of the Streets and Highways Code.
• § 5223 — “Unzoned commercial or industrial area” means an area not zoned under authority of state law in which the land use is characteristic of that generally permitted only in areas which are actually zoned
• § 5224 — “Visible” means capable of being seen (whether or not legible) without visual aid by a person of normal visual acuity.
• § 5225 — The verb, “to place” and any of its variants, as applied to advertising displays, includes the maintaining and the erecting, constructing, posting, painting, printing, tacking, nailing, gluing, sticki
• § 5226 — The regulation of advertising displays adjacent to any interstate highway or primary highway as provided in Section 5405 is hereby declared to be necessary to promote the public safety, health, welfar
• § 5227 — It is the intention of the Legislature to occupy the whole field of regulation by the provisions of this chapter except that nothing in this chapter prohibits enforcement of any or all of its provisio
• § 5228 — It is declared to be the intent of the Legislature in enacting the provisions of this chapter regulating advertising displays adjacent to highways included in the national system of interstate and def
• § 5229 — The provisions of this chapter shall not be construed to permit a person to place or maintain in existence on or adjacent to any street, road or highway, including any interstate or state highway, any
• § 5230 — The governing body of any city, county, or city and county may enact ordinances, including, but not limited to, land use or zoning ordinances, imposing restrictions on advertising displays adjacent to
• § 5231 — The governing body of any city or city and county may enact ordinances requiring licenses or permits, or both, in addition to those imposed by this chapter, for the placing of advertising displays in
• § 525 — No dispensing optician, optometrist, or physician and surgeon shall dispense, prescribe, or sell any eyeglasses for use of a person whose sight is limited to one eye, a person who is a member of the C
• § 5250 — The director may make orders and regulations for the enforcement of this chapter and may authorize the Department of Transportation to enforce its provisions.
• § 5251 — Regulations promulgated by the director prior to November 8, 1967, concerning interstate highways constructed upon rights-of-way, the entire width of which was acquired after July 1, 1956, shall be co
• § 5252 — The director shall prescribe the form of all applications, licenses, permits and other appurtenant written matter.
• § 5253 — The director shall furnish requisite forms for applications, licenses and permits provided for in this chapter and may appoint a representative or agent in each of the counties throughout the state fo
• § 5254 — The director may enforce the penalties for failure to comply with the provisions of this chapter.
• § 526 — A dispensing optician, optometrist, or physician and surgeon shall not be subject to disciplinary action under this article unless they are informed by the person obtaining the eyeglasses or they have
• § 527 — Any dispensing optician, optometrist, or physician and surgeon who violates this article is subject to disciplinary action by the board that issues their license, registration, or certificate to engag
• § 5270 — The regulation of the placing of advertising displays by this chapter, insofar as such regulation may affect the placing of advertising displays within view of the public highways of this state in uni
• § 5271 — Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the provisions of this chapter apply only to the placing of advertising displays within view of highways located in unincorporated areas of this state, ex
• § 5272 — (a) With the exception of Article 4 (commencing with Section 5300) and Sections 5400 to 5404, inclusive, this chapter does not apply to any advertising display used exclusively for any of the followin