(a) The board may select and contract with necessary medical consultants who are licensed physicians and surgeons to assist it in its programs. Subject to § 19130 of the Government Code, the board may contract with these consultants on a sole source basis.

(b) Every consultant retained under this section for a given investigation of a licensee shall be a specialist, as defined in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (5) of subdivision (h) of Section 651.

Terms Used In California Business and Professions Code 2024

  • board: as used in this chapter means the Medical Board of California. See California Business and Professions Code 2002
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • licensee: as used in this chapter means the holder of a physician's and surgeon's certificate or doctor of podiatric medicine's certificate, as the case may be, who is engaged in the professional practice authorized by the certificate under the jurisdiction of the appropriate board. See California Business and Professions Code 2041
  • Subdivision: means a subdivision of the section in which that term occurs, unless some other section is expressly mentioned. See California Business and Professions Code 15

(Amended by Stats. 1998, Ch. 984, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1999.)

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