Sections
23 entriesSection 6000Defines this Business and Professions Code chapter as the chapter governing attorneys and allows it to be cited as the State Bar…Section 6001Establishes the State Bar as a public corporation with perpetual succession, a seal, power to sue and be sued, contract, borrow, own…Section 6001.1Requires the State Bar and its board of trustees to make protection of the public, including greater access to and inclusion in…Section 6001.3Requires the State Bar to develop and implement a plan supporting the stated access, fairness, diversity, inclusion, and anti-bias goals and permits…Section 6001.4Requires the State Bar, beginning on or before February 1, 2011, to provide any requesting member of the public each employee’s classification…Section 6001.5Requires all State Bar employees and prospective employees, and permits the Bar to require volunteers, contractors, and subcontractors, to submit fingerprints for…Section 6002Defines State Bar licensees as all persons admitted and licensed to practice law in California, excluding justices and judges of courts of…Section 6002.1Requires State Bar licensees to maintain specified contact, certification, admission, discipline, and probation information and report changes within 30 days; former licensees…Section 6003Defines State Bar licensees as belonging to one of two classes: active licensees or inactive licensees. The classification provision creates only those…Section 6004Establishes every State Bar licensee as an active licensee until the licensee is placed in the status described by the referenced provision…Section 6005Defines inactive State Bar licensees as licensees who requested enrollment as inactive or who were enrolled as inactive under the specified provision.…Section 6006Allows active State Bar licensees who retire from practice to become inactive on request and permits voluntarily inactive licensees to reactivate by…Section 6007Requires involuntary inactive enrollment of specified State Bar licensees because of qualifying treatment, incapacity, court orders, serious disability, certain disciplinary findings, inability…Section 6008Exempts all State Bar property from taxes imposed by California or any city, city and county, district, public corporation, political subdivision, public…Section 6008.1Bars any State Bar contractual obligation, including specified debt and security instruments, from creating debt or liability for the state or any…Section 6008.2Exempts State Bar bonds, notes, debentures, and other evidences of indebtedness, together with their interest and income, from taxes. The provision declares…Section 6008.3Allows the State Bar to give an obligee or trustee specified remedies if the Bar defaults on an obligation, including possession of…Section 6008.4Allows the State Bar’s board of trustees to exercise all powers granted by the specified statutes. Allows the board, in instruments relating…Section 6008.6Prohibits the State Bar from awarding contracts over $50,000, or information-technology contracts over $100,000, without compliance with specified public-contract standards and board…Section 6008.7Requires the State Bar, by January 1, 2019, to develop purchasing policies aligned with the purchasing policies used by other state agencies.…Section 6009Allows a city, county, or city and county to require attorneys who meet its lobbyist definition to register, disclose local lobbying, and…Section 6009.3Establishes legislative findings that taxpayers may be unaware of voluntary contribution checkoffs on state income tax returns and states legislative intent to…Section 6009.5Requires the State Bar to provide licensees a centralized online mechanism for reporting mandatory and voluntary information, including required statutory, rule-based, case-law,…