California Codes, Business and Professions Code - BPC, Division 2 — Healing Arts, Chapter 5.3 — Speech-Language Pathologists, Audiologists, and Hearing Aid Dispensers, Article 7 — Speech-Language Pathology Corporations and Audiology Corporations, Section 2537.5

The board may adopt and enforce regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of this article, and the Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation Act, including regulations requiring any of the following:

(a) That the bylaws of a speech-language pathology corporation or an audiology corporation shall include a provision whereby the capital stock of the corporation owned by a disqualified person as defined in Section 13401 of the Corporations Code, or by the estate of a deceased person shall be sold to the corporation or to the remaining shareholders of the corporation within that time as the regulations may provide.

(b) That a speech-language pathology corporation or an audiology corporation shall provide adequate security by insurance or otherwise for claims against it by its patients arising out of the rendering of professional services.

Notes

Allows the board to adopt and enforce regulations implementing the article and the Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation Act, including rules requiring stock owned by a disqualified or deceased person to be sold within a regulatory period. Allows rules requiring speech-language pathology and audiology corporations to maintain insurance or other adequate security for patient professional-service claims.

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