Sections
30 entriesSection 1600Defines the chapter as the dentistry chapter of the Business and Professions Code and permits it to be known and cited as…Section 1601.1Establishes the Dental Board of California within Consumer Affairs with eight practicing dentists, two registered dental assistants, and five public members, including…Section 1601.2Establishes protection of the public as the Dental Board of California’s highest priority when performing licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. When public…Section 1601.3Allows board committees to evaluate regulatory-change suggestions, hold informational hearings, and make recommendations after consulting departmental counsel and the board’s chief executive…Section 1601.4Requires the board to review anesthesia and sedation adverse-event data and relevant professional guidance and report pertinent findings to the Legislature by…Section 1601.8Allows the board, for general anesthesia, deep sedation, and moderate sedation training standards, to approve training instead of Pediatric Advanced Life Support…Section 1602Requires all nonpublic board members to have at least five immediately preceding years of lawful California practice in their respective roles, while…Section 1603Sets board-member terms at four years, except initial gubernatorial appointments were staggered at one, two, three, or four years and the two…Section 1603.1Bars a Dental Board of California member who has served two terms from being reappointed to the board. In determining whether the…Section 1604Requires each board member, upon qualification, to file a post office address with the executive officer and thereafter give notice of any…Section 1605Allows each appointing authority to remove at any time a Dental Board member that authority appointed under the referenced appointment provision, under…Section 1606Requires the board to elect a president, vice president, and secretary from among its own members. This officer-selection rule expressly controls over…Section 1608Allows special board meetings at times chosen by the board or called by the president or at least four members. The executive…Section 1609Allows board meetings to be held at any time and place when there is unanimous consent, shown either in writing or by…Section 1610Establishes eight Dental Board members as the quorum required to transact business at any board meeting. The quorum rule fixes the number…Section 1611Requires the board to carry out and enforce the chapter, examine applicants for dentistry and dental-assisting licenses or permits, issue credentials to…Section 1611.3Requires the board’s statutory consumer notice to state that the Dental Board regulates dentists and dental assistants and to provide the board’s…Section 1611.5Allows the board, in response to a complaint alleging a dentist or permitted dental assistant violated a law or regulation supporting discipline,…Section 1612Requires the board to keep records naming every person to whom it grants a license or permit to practice dentistry, dental assisting,…Section 1613Requires the Dental Board to have and use a seal bearing the name “Dental Board of California.” The required seal must carry…Section 1614Allows the board to adopt regulations on meetings, examinations, license issuance and reissuance, approval standards for dental colleges, dental assisting programs and…Section 1615Requires every board member to receive the per diem and expense payments provided for board service under the referenced compensation provision. Each…Section 1616Allows the board to employ necessary investigators, clerical staff, and other assistants, appoint its own attorney, prescribe the attorney’s duties, and set…Section 1616.6Establishes a full-time management-level staff position within the Dental Board under the executive officer’s direction, with responsibilities including management of dental-assisting education,…Section 1617Establishes a copy of any part or all of the board’s books, when duly certified by the executive officer, as primary evidence…Section 1618Requires the board’s original books, records, and papers to be kept at the executive officer’s office at a location designated by the…Section 1618.5Requires the board, when filing a quality-of-care accusation involving a dental provider of a health care service plan, to provide a copy…Section 1619Requires the board to preserve an applicant’s examination documentation for at least one year from the date of the final successful examination…Section 1619.1Exempts the board, despite the referenced retention requirement, from retaining National Board of Dental Examiners examination papers. The exemption specifically concerns those…Section 1621Requires the board to use appointed examiners holding a valid California dentist or specified registered dental assistant license who practiced in that…