Sections
43 entriesSection 2460Establishes the Podiatric Medical Board of California within the Department of Consumer Affairs and treats statutory references to the former California Board…Section 2460.1Establishes that repeal of the referenced section renders the Podiatric Medical Board of California subject to review by the Legislature’s appropriate policy…Section 2460.2Establishes protection of the public as the Podiatric Medical Board of California's highest priority when exercising licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever…Section 2461Defines “board” for the article as the Podiatric Medical Board of California and defines “podiatric licensing authority” as an officer, board, commission,…Section 2462Establishes a seven-member podiatric board with three public members and no more than one full-time podiatric-school faculty member. The Governor appoints four…Section 2463Requires each nonpublic board member to have been a citizen of the state for the five years immediately before appointment, graduated from…Section 2464Requires each public board member to have been a citizen of the state for at least the five years immediately before appointment.…Section 2465Prohibits appointment to the board of any person who directly or indirectly owns an interest in a college, school, or other institution…Section 2466Sets board-member terms at four years and requires the appointing authority to fill vacancies immediately for the remainder of each unexpired term.…Section 2467Allows the board to meet as it considers necessary, sets four members as a quorum, and requires an affirmative majority of members…Section 2468Requires notice of every board meeting to be given in accordance with the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act. The meeting-notice duty incorporates the…Section 2469Requires each board member to receive the per diem compensation and expense reimbursement provided under Section 2016. The rule applies to every…Section 2470Allows the board to adopt, amend, or repeal regulations under the Administrative Procedure Act when necessary to carry out laws governing the…Section 2471Allows the board, subject to Section 159.5, to employ all personnel necessary to carry out the chapter, but only within the limits…Section 2472Defines podiatric medicine to include specified foot, ankle, tendon, and leg treatment and limits podiatrists to local anesthesia unless another authorized practitioner…Section 2473Allows a podiatrist to independently prescribe and administer recommended influenza and COVID-19 vaccines to persons age three or older after biennial approved…Section 2474Prohibits anyone without a valid, unrevoked, unsuspended certificate from using listed podiatric titles, initials, advertising, or representations implying practice of podiatric medicine…Section 2475Prohibits unlicensed podiatric trainees from practicing or receiving compensation, but allows approved graduates with resident licenses, renewable annually up to eight years,…Section 2475.1Requires a resident-license applicant to provide board-satisfactory evidence, sent directly by the national score-reporting institution, of passing Parts I and II of…Section 2475.2Defines “podiatric residency” for the article as a board-approved program of supervised postgraduate clinical training lasting one year or longer. The defined…Section 2475.3Requires the board to approve podiatric residency programs for applicants or certificate holders and limits approval to residencies meeting three conditions. A…Section 2476Allows a regularly matriculated student in an approved podiatric medical college or school to participate in training beyond the scope of podiatric…Section 2477Allows the manufacture, recommendation, or sale of corrective shoes or appliances for human feet, providing that nothing in the chapter prohibits any…Section 2479Requires the board to issue a certificate to practice podiatric medicine to each applicant who meets the chapter’s requirements. Requires every applicant…Section 2480Allows the board full authority to investigate and evaluate every applicant seeking a certificate to practice podiatric medicine and to determine the…Section 2481Requires a podiatric-medicine applicant who began professional instruction after September 1, 1959, to provide official evidence sent directly by the academic institution…Section 2483Requires podiatric-medicine certificate applicants to provide official evidence sent directly by the institution showing at least four academic years or 32 months…Section 2484Requires a podiatric-medicine certificate applicant, in addition to other chapter requirements, to provide satisfactory evidence sent directly by the sponsoring institution that…Section 2486Requires the board to issue a podiatric-medicine certificate when credentialing organizations verify graduation and training requirements, examinations passed within the past 10…Section 2488Requires the board to issue a podiatric-medicine certificate by credentialing when verification shows an out-of-state podiatric license, approved-school graduation, qualifying national or…Section 2492Requires the board to examine every podiatric-medicine certificate applicant for entry-level competence at a board-designated time and place at least twice yearly.…Section 2493Requires a podiatric-medicine certificate applicant to pass an examination covering the subjects required by the referenced provision. The examination requirement is imposed…Section 2495Allows the board, notwithstanding other chapter provisions, to delegate to board officials authority to approve examination admission and issuance of podiatric-medicine certificates…Section 2496Requires the board to adopt and administer regulations mandating continuing education for persons licensed to practice podiatric medicine. The continuing-education requirement is…Section 2496.5Requires vaccine training provided through the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to count toward the specified continuing-education requirements, including qualifying…Section 2497Allows the board to deny, suspend, revoke, or impose probationary conditions on a podiatric-medicine certificate for the causes provided in the referenced…Section 2497.5Allows disciplinary orders to require a licensee to repay no more than actual and reasonable investigation and prosecution costs, with judicial enforcement…Section 2498Requires the board to review the quality of podiatric medical practice and allows board members or board-appointed licensed podiatrists to inspect hospitals,…Section 2499Establishes the Podiatric Medical Board Fund, renamed from the Board of Podiatric Medicine Fund beginning July 1, 2019, and treats statutory references…Section 2499.5Sets podiatric fees at $100 application, $100 upon qualification, $800 initial, $1,900 biennial renewal, $150 delinquency, $100 duplicate certificate, good-standing or loan-deferment…Section 2499.6Requires fees under the article to be fixed by the board in accordance with Section 313.1. The provision assigns the board responsibility…Section 2499.7Sets podiatric-medicine certificates to expire at midnight on the last day of the licensee’s birth month in the second year of a…Section 2499.8Allows a podiatric-medicine licensee unable to practice because of disability to request a discretionary renewal-fee waiver that the board may terminate at…