California Codes, Business and Professions Code - BPC, Division 2 — Healing Arts, Chapter 13 — Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, Article 2 — Denial, Suspension, and Revocation, Section 4982.26

The board shall revoke any license issued under this chapter upon a decision made in accordance with the procedures set forth in Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, that contains any finding of fact that the licensee or registrant engaged in any act of sexual contact, as defined in Section 729, when that act is with a patient, or with a former patient when the relationship was terminated primarily for the purpose of engaging in that act. The revocation shall not be stayed by the administrative law judge or the board.

Notes

Requires the board to revoke a license after the prescribed administrative process finds that the licensee or registrant engaged in sexual contact with a patient, or with a former patient when the relationship ended primarily to permit that contact. Neither the administrative law judge nor the board may stay the revocation.

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