Complainants against licensees of the board, including licensees of allied health boards within the jurisdiction of the board, and of the Board of Podiatric Medicine, who are subject to formal disciplinary proceedings shall be notified of the actions proposed to be taken against the licensee. This notification shall be provided only to complainants who are known to the boards.

Complainants shall be given an opportunity to provide a statement to the deputy attorney general from the Health Quality Enforcement Section who is assigned the case. These statements shall not be considered by a panel of the division, the Board of Podiatric Medicine, or other board for purposes of adjudicating the case to which the statement pertains, but may be considered by the division or those boards after the case is finally adjudicated for purposes of setting generally applicable policies and standards.

Terms Used In California Business and Professions Code 2330

  • board: as used in this chapter means the Medical Board of California. See California Business and Professions Code 2002
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • 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
  • podiatric medicine: means the diagnosis, medical, surgical, mechanical, manipulative, and electrical treatment of the human foot, including the ankle and tendons that insert into the foot and the nonsurgical treatment of the muscles and tendons of the leg governing the functions of the foot. See California Business and Professions Code 2472

(Added by Stats. 1993, Ch. 1267, Sec. 32. Effective January 1, 1994.)

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