California Laws: Business and Professions Code Sections 1600-1621
- California Laws: Business and Professions Code Section 1600
This chapter constitutes the chapter on dentistry of the Business and Professions Code. It may be known and cited as the Dental Practice Act. Whenever...
- California Laws: Business and Professions Code Section 1601.1
(a) There shall be in the Department of Consumer Affairs the Dental Board of California in which the administration of this chapter is vested. The...
- California Laws: Business and Professions Code Section 1601.2
Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Dental Board of California in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever the...
- California Laws: Business and Professions Code Section 1601.5
For purposes of Section 1601, "practicing dentist" includes a member of a faculty of any dental college or dental department of any medical college in...
- California Laws: Business and Professions Code Section 1602
All of the members of the board, except the public members, shall have been actively and legally engaged in the practice of dentistry in the...
- California Laws: Business and Professions Code Section 1603
Except for the initial appointments, members of the board shall be appointed for a term of four years, and each member shall hold office until...
- California Laws: Business and Professions Code Section 1603a
A member of the Board of Dental Examiners who has served two terms shall not be eligible for reappointment to the board. In computing two...
- California Laws: Business and Professions Code Section 1604
Each member of the board, upon his or her qualification, shall file with the executive officer his or her post office address, and thereafter any...
- California Laws: Business and Professions Code Section 1605
The Governor has power to remove from office at any time any member of the board for continued neglect of duty required by this chapter...
- California Laws: Business and Professions Code Section 1606
The board shall elect a president, a vice president and a secretary from its membership. This section controls over the provisions of section 107 of...
- California Laws: Business and Professions Code Section 1607
The board shall meet regularly once each year in San Francisco and once each year in Los Angeles after the commencement of the dental schools...
- California Laws: Business and Professions Code Section 1608
Special meetings may be held at such times as the board may elect, or on the call of the president of the board, or of...
- California Laws: Business and Professions Code Section 1609
Meetings may be held at any time and place by unanimous consent evidenced either by writing or by the presence of any member whose consent...
- California Laws: Business and Professions Code Section 1610
Eight members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting. ...
- California Laws: Business and Professions Code Section 1611
The board shall carry out the purposes and enforce the provisions of this chapter. It shall examine all applicants for a license to practice dentistry...
- California Laws: Business and Professions Code Section 1611.5
The board may inspect the books, records, and premises of any dentist licensed under this chapter in response to a complaint that a licensee has...
- California Laws: Business and Professions Code Section 1612
The board shall keep a record of the names of all persons to whom licenses have been granted by it to practice dentistry, and such...
- California Laws: Business and Professions Code Section 1613
The board shall have and use a seal bearing the name "Board of Dental Examiners of California." ...
- California Laws: Business and Professions Code Section 1614
The board may adopt reasonably necessary rules not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter concerning: (a) The holding of meetings. (b) The holding of...
- California Laws: Business and Professions Code Section 1615
Each member of the board shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103. The secretary shall be entitled to traveling and...
- California Laws: Business and Professions Code Section 1616
The board shall have full power to employ all necessary investigators, clerical and other assistants and appoint its own attorney, prescribe his duties and fix...
- California Laws: Business and Professions Code Section 1616.5
(a) The board, by and with the approval of the director, may appoint a person exempt from civil service who shall be designated as an...
- California Laws: Business and Professions Code Section 1617
A copy of any part or all of the books of the board duly certified by the executive officer shall be primary evidence in any...
- California Laws: Business and Professions Code Section 1618
The original books, records, and papers of the board shall be kept at the office of the executive officer, which shall be at such place...
- California Laws: Business and Professions Code Section 1618.5
(a) The board shall provide to the Director of the Department of Managed Health Care a copy of any accusation filed with the Office of...
- California Laws: Business and Professions Code Section 1619
The examination papers of any applicant shall be kept for the period of one year and may then be destroyed, but they shall be open...
- California Laws: Business and Professions Code Section 1619.1
Notwithstanding Section 1619, the board need not retain the National Board of Dental Examiners' examination papers. ...
- California Laws: Business and Professions Code Section 1620.1
The Department of Consumer Affairs, in conjunction with the board and the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection, shall review the scope of...
- California Laws: Business and Professions Code Section 1621
The board shall utilize in the administration of its licensure examinations only examiners whom it has appointed and who meet the following criteria: (a) Possession...
