DIVISION 2. HEALING ARTS 500-4999.129›CHAPTER 1. General Provisions 500-865.2›ARTICLE 10. Federal Personnel and Tribal Health Programs 710-719
§ 715
California Business and Professions Code · 2020-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California
Unless otherwise required by federal law or regulation, no board under this division which licenses dentists, physicians and surgeons, podiatrists, or nurses may require a person to obtain or maintain any license to practice a profession or render services in the State of California if one of the following applies:
(a) The person practicing a profession or rendering services does so exclusively as an employee of a department, bureau, office, division, or similarly constituted agency of the federal government, and provides medical services exclusively on a federal reservation or at any facility wholly supported by and maintained by the United States government.
(b) The person practicing a profession or rendering services does so solely pursuant to a contract with the federal government on a federal reservation or at any facility wholly supported and maintained by the United States government.
(c) The person practicing a profession or rendering services does so pursuant to, or as a part of a program or project conducted or administered by a department, bureau, office, division, or similarly constituted agency of the federal government which by federal statute expressly exempts persons practicing a profession or rendering services as part of the program or project from state laws requiring licensure.
(Amended by Stats. 1986, Ch. 220, Sec. 7.5. Effective June 30, 1986.)
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