California CodesBusiness and Professions Code - BPCDivision 2 — Healing ArtsChapter 4 — DentistryArticle 9 — Dental HygienistsSection 1961
A person who willfully, under circumstances that cause risk of bodily harm, serious physical or mental illness, or death, practices, attempts to practice, advertises, or holds himself or herself out as practicing dental hygiene without having at the time of so doing a valid, unrevoked, and unsuspended license as provided in this article, is guilty of a crime, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for up to one year. The remedy provided in this section shall not preclude any other remedy provided by law.
Notes
Prohibits willfully practicing, attempting to practice, advertising, or holding oneself out as practicing dental hygiene without a valid, unrevoked, and unsuspended license when the circumstances create risk of bodily harm, serious physical or mental illness, or death. The crime is punishable by up to one year in county jail, and this remedy does not exclude other legal remedies.
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