California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
GENERAL PROVISIONS

Section 1. - 1. This act shall be known as the Business and...

Section 2. - 2. The provisions of this code in so far as...

Section 3. - 3. All persons who, at the time this code goes...

Section 4. - 4. No action or proceeding commenced before this code takes...

Section 5. - 5. No rights given by any license or certificate under...

Section 6. - 6. All persons who, at the time this code goes...

Section 7. - 7. Any conviction for a crime under any act repealed...

Section 7.5. - 7.5. (a) A conviction within the meaning of this code...

Section 8. - 8. Unless the context otherwise requires, the general provisions hereinafter...

Section 9. - 9. Division, part, chapter, article and section headings contained herein...

Section 10. - 10. Whenever, by the provisions of this code, a power...

Section 11. - 11. Writing includes any form of recorded message capable of...

Section 12. - 12. Whenever any reference is made to any portion of...

Section 12.5. - 12.5. Whenever in any provision of this code authority is...

Section 13. - 13. The term “materia medica” as used in this code...

Section 14. - 14. The present tense includes the past and future tenses;...

Section 14.1. - 14.1. The Legislature hereby declares its intent that the terms...

Section 14.2. - 14.2. “Spouse” includes “registered domestic partner,” as required by Section...

Section 15. - 15. “Section” means a section of this code unless some...

Section 16. - 16. The singular number includes the plural, and the plural...

Section 17. - 17. “County” includes city and county. (Enacted by Stats. 1937,...

Section 18. - 18. “City” includes city and county. (Enacted by Stats. 1937,...

Section 19. - 19. “Shall” is mandatory and “may” is permissive. (Enacted by...

Section 20. - 20. “Oath” includes affirmation. (Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 399.)

Section 21. - 21. “State” means the State of California, unless applied to...

Section 22. - 22. “Board,” as used in any provision of this code,...

Section 23. - 23. “Department,” unless otherwise defined, refers to the Department of...

Section 23.5. - 23.5. “Director,” unless otherwise defined, refers to the Director of...

Section 23.6. - 23.6. “Appointing power,” unless otherwise defined, refers to the Director...

Section 23.7. - 23.7. Unless otherwise expressly provided, “license” means license, certificate, registration,...

Section 23.8. - 23.8. “Licensee” means any person authorized by a license, certificate,...

Section 23.9. - 23.9. Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, any individual...

Section 24. - 24. If any provision of this code, or the application...

Section 25. - 25. Any person applying for a license, registration, or the...

Section 26. - 26. Wherever, pursuant to this code, any state department, officer,...

Section 27. - 27. (a) Each entity specified in subdivisions (c), (d), and...

Section 27.6. - 27.6. The successor agency to the Bureau for Private Postsecondary...

Section 28. - 28. (a) The Legislature finds that there is a need...

Section 29. - 29. (a) The Board of Psychology and the Board of...

Section 29.5. - 29.5. In addition to other qualifications for licensure prescribed by...

Section 30. - 30. (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, any board, as...

Section 31. - 31. (a) As used in this section, “board” means any...

Section 32. - 32. (a) The Legislature finds that there is a need...

Section 35. - 35. It is the policy of this state that, consistent...

Section 40. - 40. (a) Subject to the standards described in Section 19130...