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DIVISION 1.5. DENIAL, SUSPENSION AND REVOCATION OF LICENSES 475-499›CHAPTER 2. Denial of Licenses 480-489

§ 488 (repealed January 1, 2021)

California Business and Professions Code · 2020-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

(a) Except as otherwise provided by law, following a hearing requested by an applicant pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 485, the board may take any of the following actions:

(1) Grant the license effective upon completion of all licensing requirements by the applicant.

(2) Grant the license effective upon completion of all licensing requirements by the applicant, immediately revoke the license, stay the revocation, and impose probationary conditions on the license, which may include suspension.

(3) Deny the license.

(4) Take other action in relation to denying or granting the license as the board in its discretion may deem proper.

(b) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2020, and, as of January 1, 2021, is repealed.

(Amended by Stats. 2018, Ch. 995, Sec. 10. (AB 2138) Effective January 1, 2019. Section inoperative July 1, 2020. Repealed as of January 1, 2021, by its own provisions. See later operative version added by Stats. 2018, Ch. 995.)

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