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California Business and Professions Code

§ 581

BPC § 581 Effective Jun 30, 1986Div. 2 · Ch. 1 · Art. 4

Statute text

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No person, company, or association shall purchase or procure by barter or by any unlawful means or method, or have in possession any diploma, certificate, transcript, or any other writing with intent that it shall be used as evidence of the holder’s qualifications to practice as a physician and surgeon, osteopathic physician, podiatrist, any other system or mode of treating the sick or afflicted, as provided in the Medical Practice Act, Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 2000), or to practice as any other licentiate under this division or in any fraud of the law regulating this practice or, shall with fraudulent intent, alter in a material regard, any such diploma, certificate, transcript, or any other writing.

Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 1986, Ch. 220, Sec. 3. Effective June 30, 1986.

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