SB 417, as introduced, Berryhill. Department of Consumer Affairs: unlicensed activity enforcement.
Existing law punishes specified unlicensed activity in the professions and vocations regulated by the Department of Consumer Affairs as an infraction and authorizes the establishment by boards within the department of an administrative citation system for unlicensed persons acting in the capacity of a licensee or registrant.
This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this provision.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 148 of the Business and Professions Code
2 is amended to read:
begin deleteAny end deletebegin insertA end insertboard, bureau, or commission within the department
4may, in addition to the administrative citation system authorized
5by Section 125.9, also establish, by regulation, a similar system
6for the issuance of an administrative citation to an unlicensed
7person who is acting in the capacity of a licensee or registrant
8under the jurisdiction of that board, bureau, or commission. The
9administrative citation system authorized by this section shall meet
P2 1the requirements of Section 125.9 and may not be applied to an
2unlicensed person who is otherwise exempted from the provisions
3of the applicable licensing act. The establishment of
an
4administrative citation system for unlicensed activity does not
5preclude the use of other enforcement statutes for unlicensed
6activities at the discretion of the board, bureau, or commission.
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