DIVISION 3. PROFESSIONS AND VOCATIONS GENERALLY 5000-9998.11›CHAPTER 4. Attorneys 6000-6243›ARTICLE 3. Investigations, Examining Committee, Subpoenas, and Other Proceedings 6043.5-6054

§ 6043.5

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(a) Every person who reports to the State Bar or causes a complaint to be filed with the State Bar that an attorney has engaged in professional misconduct, knowing the report or complaint to be false and malicious, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(b) The State Bar may, in its discretion, notify the appropriate district attorney or city attorney that a person has filed what the State Bar believes to be a false and malicious report or complaint against an attorney and recommend prosecution of the person under subdivision (a).

(Added by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1639, Sec. 2.)

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