SECTIONS 1658-1658.8 - California Statutes

BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE

SECTION 1658-1658.8

1658. (a) When a licensee desires to have more than one place of
practice, he or she shall, prior to the opening of the additional
office, apply to the board, pay the fee required by this chapter, and
receive permission in writing from the board to have the additional
place of practice.
"Place of practice" means any dental office where any act of
dentistry is practiced as defined by Section 1625, and includes a
place of practice in which the applicant holds any proprietary
interest of any nature whatsoever, or in which he or she holds any
right to participate in the management or control thereof. A dentist
who is the lessor of a dental office shall not be deemed to hold a
proprietary interest in that place of practice, unless he or she is
entitled to participate in the management or control of the dentistry
practiced there.
(b) This section shall not apply to a licensee who practices
dentistry outside his or her registered place of practice in any of
the following places:
(1) Facilities licensed by the State Department of Health
Services.
(2) Licensed health facilities as defined in Section 1250 of the
Health and Safety Code.
(3) Clinics that are licensed under subdivision (a) of Section
1204 of, or that are exempt from licensure under subdivision (b),
(c), or (h) of Section 1206 of, the Health and Safety Code.
(4) Licensed community care facilities as defined in Section 1502
of the Health and Safety Code.
(5) Schools of any grade level, whether public or private.
(6) Public institutions, including, but not limited to, federal,
state, and local penal and correctional facilities.
(7) Mobile units that are operated by a public or governmental
agency or a nonprofit or charitable organization and are approved by
the board, provided that the mobile units meet all statutory or
regulatory requirements.
(8) The home of a nonambulatory patient when a physician or
registered nurse has provided a written note that the patient is
unable to visit a dental office.

1658.1. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit a
licensed dentist from maintaining more than one dental office in this
state if all of the following conditions are met:
(a) In addition to any existing legal responsibility or liability,
a dentist maintaining more than one office shall assume legal
responsibility and liability for the dental services rendered in each
of the offices maintained by the dentist.
(b) A dentist maintaining more than one office shall ensure that
each office is in compliance with the supervision requirements of
this chapter.
(c) A dentist maintaining more than one office shall post, in an
area which is likely to be seen by all patients who use the facility,
a sign with the dentist's name, mailing address, telephone number,
and dental license number.

1658.2. (a) "Additional place of practice," as used in this
article, means any place of practice that increases the number of
places of practice of the applicant, and includes an additional
office that the applicant proposes to originally establish, either
individually or in association with another, as well as an
established place of practice that the applicant acquires or proposes
to acquire, in whole or in part, by purchase, repossession,
reassignment, gift, devise, bequest, or operation of law, except as
otherwise provided in this article.
(b) A practice location described in subdivision (b) of Section
1658 does not constitute an additional place of practice.

1658.3. Nothing in this article shall limit or authorize the board
to limit the number of additional places of practice authorized by
the board, which are in operation on October 1, 1961, and which
conform to the provisions of this article, nor prevent or limit a
licensee from acquiring from his parent, by sale, transfer,
assignment, gift, succession, bequest, or operation of law, whether
heretofore or hereafter made, prior to January 1, 1968 or the
effective date of the amendments to this section enacted by the
Legislature at the 1967 Regular Session, whichever date occurs later,
and from operating any additional office or offices of his parent so
acquired.

1658.4. The transfer after October 1, 1961, of any additional
office from one licentiate to another, other than as authorized by
this article, shall terminate the privilege of operating such
additional office.

1658.5. The transfer of the location of one additional office to a
new location within the same county shall not be considered the
establishment of a new additional office.

1658.6. Failure to comply with the provisions of this article
relating to the operation of additional offices shall be a ground for
the suspension or revocation of the permission granted by the board
to operate such additional office.

1658.7. The board shall have the power to carry out the provisions
of this article by uniform rules and regulations.

1658.8. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a
licensed dentist may operate a mobile dental unit provided by his or
her property and casualty insurer as a temporary substitute site for
the practice registered by him or her pursuant to Section 1650, if
both of the following requirements are met:
(a) The licensee's registered place of practice has been rendered
and remains unusable due to loss or calamity.
(b) The licensee's insurer registers the unit with the board in
compliance with Section 1657.