California Business and Professions Code

§ 10153

BPC § 10153 Effective Jan 1, 2026Div. 4 · Part 1 · Ch. 3 · Art. 2

Statute text

In addition to the proof of honesty and truthfulness required of any applicant for a real estate license, the commissioner shall ascertain by written examination that the applicant, and in case of a corporation applicant for a real estate broker’s license that each officer, or agent thereof through whom it proposes to act as a real estate licensee, has all of the following:

(a)An appropriate knowledge of the English language, including reading, writing, and spelling and of arithmetical computations common to real estate and business opportunity practices.

(b)An understanding of the principles of real estate and business opportunity conveyancing, the general purposes and general legal effect of agency contracts, deposit receipts, deeds, mortgages, deeds of trust, chattel mortgages, bills of sale, land contracts of sale and leases, and of the principles of business and land economics and appraisals.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2025, Ch. 786, Sec. 12. (SB 774) Effective January 1, 2026.