California Code
CHAPTER 5 - Medicine
ARTICLE 12 - Enforcement

Section 2220. - 2220. Except as otherwise provided by law, the board may...

Section 2220.01. - 2220.01. (a) (1) The director shall appoint an independent enforcement...

Section 2220.05. - 2220.05. (a) In order to ensure that its resources are...

Section 2220.08. - 2220.08. (a) Except for reports received by the board pursuant...

Section 2220.5. - 2220.5. (a) The Medical Board of California is the only...

Section 2220.6. - 2220.6. The board shall investigate any licensee against whom an...

Section 2220.7. - 2220.7. (a) A physician and surgeon shall not include or...

Section 2221. - 2221. (a) The board may deny a physician’s and surgeon’s...

Section 2221.05. - 2221.05. (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 2221, the board...

Section 2221.1. - 2221.1. (a) The board and the California Board of Podiatric...

Section 2222. - 2222. The California Board of Podiatric Medicine shall enforce and...

Section 2224. - 2224. (a) The board may delegate the authority under this...

Section 2225. - 2225. (a) Notwithstanding Section 2263 and any other law making...

Section 2225.3. - 2225.3. The board, the California Board of Podiatric Medicine, and...

Section 2225.5. - 2225.5. (a) (1) A licensee who fails or refuses to...

Section 2226. - 2226. The Division of Medical Quality or the Senior Assistant...

Section 2227. - 2227. (a) A licensee whose matter has been heard by...

Section 2227.3. - 2227.3. (a) The board may delegate to its executive director...

Section 2227.5. - 2227.5. The board shall keep a copy of a complaint...

Section 2228. - 2228. The authority of the board or the California Board...

Section 2228.1. - 2228.1. (a) On and after July 1, 2019, except as...

Section 2228.5. - 2228.5. (a) A physician and surgeon shall not automatically deny...

Section 2229. - 2229. (a) Protection of the public shall be the highest...

Section 2230. - 2230. (a) All proceedings against a licensee for unprofessional conduct,...

Section 2230.5. - 2230.5. (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b), (c), and...

Section 2231. - 2231. An administrative law judge as designated in Section 11371...

Section 2232. - 2232. (a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (c), the...

Section 2233. - 2233. The board may, by stipulation or settlement with the...

Section 2234. - 2234. The board shall take action against any licensee who...

Section 2234.1. - 2234.1. (a) A physician and surgeon shall not be subject...

Section 2235. - 2235. Upon referral from the division, the Senior Assistant Attorney...

Section 2236. - 2236. (a) The conviction of any offense substantially related to...

Section 2236.1. - 2236.1. (a) A physician and surgeon’s certificate shall be suspended...

Section 2236.2. - 2236.2. (a) Notwithstanding Article 9 (commencing with Section 700) of...

Section 2237. - 2237. (a) The conviction of a charge of violating any...

Section 2238. - 2238. A violation of any federal statute or federal regulation...

Section 2239. - 2239. (a) The use or prescribing for or administering to...

Section 2240. - 2240. (a) A physician and surgeon who performs a medical...

Section 2241. - 2241. (a) A physician and surgeon may prescribe, dispense, or...

Section 2241.3. - 2241.3. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, nothing shall preclude...

Section 2241.5. - 2241.5. (a) A physician and surgeon may prescribe for, or...

Section 2241.6. - 2241.6. The Division of Medical Quality shall develop standards before...

Section 2242. - 2242. (a) Prescribing, dispensing, or furnishing dangerous drugs as defined...

Section 2242.1. - 2242.1. (a) No person or entity may prescribe, dispense, or...

Section 2242.2. - 2242.2. Notwithstanding any other law, a physician and surgeon, a...

Section 2243. - 2243. Upon referral by the National Health Services Corps to...

Section 2244. - 2244. A physician and surgeon who collects biological specimens for...

Section 2245. - 2245. (a) The Medical Board of California on a quarterly...

Section 2246. - 2246. Any proposed decision or decision issued under this article...

Section 2247. - 2247. (a) A licensee shall meet the requirements set forth...

Section 2248. - 2248. This section shall be known as, and may be...

Section 2248.5. - 2248.5. (a) A standardized written summary in layman’s language and...

Section 2249. - 2249. (a) A physician and surgeon primarily responsible for providing...

Section 2250. - 2250. The willful failure to comply with the requirements of...

Section 2251. - 2251. The prescribing, dispensing, administering, or furnishing of liquid silicone...

Section 2252. - 2252. The violation of Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 109250)...

Section 2253. - 2253. (a) Failure to comply with the Reproductive Privacy Act...

Section 2254. - 2254. The violation of Section 123440 of the Health and...

Section 2255. - 2255. The violation of any provision of Chapter 2.3 (commencing...

Section 2256. - 2256. Any intentional violation of Sections 5326.2 to 5326.8, inclusive,...

Section 2257. - 2257. The violation of Section 109275 of the Health and...

Section 2258. - 2258. The violation of Section 1708.5 of the Health and...

Section 2259. - 2259. (a) A physician and surgeon shall give each patient...

Section 2259.5. - 2259.5. (a) A physician and surgeon shall give each patient...

Section 2259.7. - 2259.7. The Medical Board of California shall adopt extraction and...

Section 2259.8. - 2259.8. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an elective...

Section 2260. - 2260. (a) A physician and surgeon who removes sperm or...

Section 2260.5. - 2260.5. A violation of Section 24185 of the Health and...

Section 2261. - 2261. Knowingly making or signing any certificate or other document...

Section 2262. - 2262. Altering or modifying the medical record of any person,...

Section 2263. - 2263. The willful, unauthorized violation of professional confidence constitutes unprofessional...

Section 2264. - 2264. The employing, directly or indirectly, the aiding, or the...

Section 2266. - 2266. The failure of a physician and surgeon to maintain...

Section 2270. - 2270. (a) It shall constitute unprofessional conduct for a physician...

Section 2271. - 2271. Any advertising in violation of Section 17500, relating to...

Section 2272. - 2272. Any advertising of the practice of medicine in which...

Section 2273. - 2273. (a) Except as otherwise allowed by law, the employment...

Section 2274. - 2274. (a) The use by any licensee of any certificate,...

Section 2275. - 2275. Any person who held a physician’s and surgeon’s certificate...

Section 2276. - 2276. Unless the holder of any certificate provided for in...

Section 2277. - 2277. Unless the holder of any certificate provided for in...

Section 2278. - 2278. Unless a person authorized under this chapter to use...

Section 2280. - 2280. No licensee shall practice medicine while under the influence...

Section 2281. - 2281. A physician and surgeon or a student undertaking a...

Section 2282. - 2282. The regular practice of medicine in a licensed general...

Section 2282.5. - 2282.5. (a) The medical staff’s right of self-governance shall include,...

Section 2282.5. - 2282.5. (a) The medical staff’s right of self-governance shall include,...

Section 2283. - 2283. The regular practice of medicine in a licensed general...

Section 2284. - 2284. (a) A licensed physician and surgeon or a licensed...

Section 2285. - 2285. The use of any fictitious, false, or assumed name,...

Section 2286. - 2286. It shall constitute unprofessional conduct for any licensee to...

Section 2287. - 2287. The purchase, sale, or barter, or offering to purchase,...

Section 2288. - 2288. The impersonation of any applicant or acting as proxy...

Section 2289. - 2289. The impersonation of another licensed practitioner or permitting or...

Section 2290. - 2290. The provisions of Article 4 (commencing with Section 580)...

Section 2290.5. - 2290.5. (a) For purposes of this division, the following definitions...

Section 2291. - 2291. It is unprofessional conduct for any licensee not a...

Section 2292. - 2292. (a) A licensee may be ordered to undergo a...

Section 2293. - 2293. (a) The professional competency examination shall be in the...

Section 2294. - 2294. (a) If the division proceeds pursuant to the provisions...

Section 2305. - 2305. The revocation, suspension, or other discipline, restriction, or limitation...

Section 2306. - 2306. If a licensee’s right to practice medicine is suspended,...

Section 2307. - 2307. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (i), a person...

Section 2310. - 2310. (a) If a physician and surgeon possesses a license...

Section 2311. - 2311. Whenever any person has engaged in or is about...

Section 2312. - 2312. The Division of Medical Quality shall seek to obtain...

Section 2313. - 2313. The board shall report annually to the Legislature, no...

Section 2314. - 2314. (a) Unless it is otherwise expressly provided, any person,...

Section 2315. - 2315. (a) Except as otherwise provided by law, any person...

Section 2316. - 2316. If a licensed physician and surgeon who provides expertise...

Section 2317. - 2317. If a person, not a regular employee of the...

Section 2318. - 2318. In addition to any immunity afforded by Sections 43.8...

Section 2319. - 2319. (a) The board shall set as a goal the...