SECTIONS 580-585 - California Statutes

BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE

SECTION 580-585

580. No person, company, or association shall sell or barter or
offer to sell or barter any medical degree, podiatric degree, or
osteopathic degree, or chiropractic degree, or any other degree which
is required for licensure, certification, or registration under this
division, or any degree, certificate, transcript, or any other
writing, made or purporting to be made pursuant to any laws
regulating the licensing and registration or issuing of a certificate
to physicians and surgeons, podiatrists, osteopathic physicians,
chiropractors, persons lawfully engaged in any other system or mode
of treating the sick or afflicted, or to any other person licensed,
certified, or registered under this division.

581. 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.

582. No person, company, or association shall use or attempt to use
any diploma, certificate, transcript, or any other writing which has
been purchased, fraudulently issued, illegally obtained,
counterfeited, or materially altered, either as a certificate or as
to character or color of certificate, to practice as a physician and
surgeon, podiatrist, osteopathic physician, or a chiropractor, or to
practice 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.

583. No person shall in any document or writing required of an
applicant for examination, license, certificate, or registration
under this division, the Osteopathic Initiative Act, or the
Chiropractic Initiative Act, willfully make a false statement in a
material regard.

584. No person shall violate the security of any examination, as
defined in subdivision (a) of Section 123, or impersonate, attempt to
impersonate, or solicit the impersonation of, another in any
examination for a license, certificate, or registration to practice
as provided in this division, the Osteopathic Initiative Act, or the
Chiropractic Initiative Act, or under any other law providing for the
regulation of any other system or method of treating the sick or
afflicted in this state.

585. Any person, company, or association violating the provisions
of this article is guilty of a felony and upon conviction thereof
shall be punishable by a fine of not less than two thousand dollars
($2,000) nor more than six thousand dollars ($6,000), or by
imprisonment in the state prison. The enforcement remedies provided
under this article are not exclusive and shall not preclude the use
of any other criminal, civil, or administrative remedy.