The following fees apply to certificates to practice podiatric medicine.The amount of fees prescribed for doctors of podiatric medicine shall be determined by the board and shall be as described below. Fees collected pursuant to this section shall be fixed by the board in amounts not to exceed the actual costs of providing the service for which the fee is collected.

(a) Each applicant for a certificate to practice podiatric medicine shall pay an application fee of one hundred dollars ($100) at the time the application is filed. If the applicant qualifies for a certificate, they shall pay a fee of one hundred dollars ($100).

Terms Used In California Business and Professions Code 2499.5

  • Board: means the Podiatric Medical Board of California. See California Business and Professions Code 2461
  • certificate: as used in this chapter are deemed to be synonomous. See California Business and Professions Code 2040
  • license: means license, certificate, registration, or other means to engage in a business or profession regulated by this code or referred to in Section 1000 or 3600. See California Business and Professions Code 23.7
  • 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
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.

(b) Each applicant who qualifies for a certificate, as a condition precedent to its issuance, in addition to other fees required by this section, shall pay an initial license fee. The initial license fee shall be eight hundred dollars ($800). The initial license shall expire the second year after its issuance on the last day of the month of birth of the licensee. The board may reduce the initial license fee by up to 50 percent of the amount of the fee for any applicant who is enrolled in a postgraduate training program approved by the board or who has completed a postgraduate training program approved by the board within six months prior to the payment of the initial license fee.

(c) Before January 1, 2021, the biennial renewal fee shall be one thousand one hundred dollars ($1,100). Any licensee enrolled in an approved residency program shall be required to pay only 50 percent of the biennial renewal fee at the time of their first renewal.

(d) On and after January 1, 2021, the biennial renewal fee shall be one thousand three hundred and eighteen dollars ($1,318). Any licensee enrolled in an approved residency program shall be required to pay only 50 percent of the biennial renewal fee at the time of their first renewal.

(e) The delinquency fee shall be one hundred fifty dollars ($150).

(f) The duplicate wall certificate fee shall be one hundred dollars ($100).

(g) The duplicate renewal receipt fee shall be fifty dollars ($50).

(h) The endorsement fee shall be thirty dollars ($30).

(i) The letter of good standing fee or for loan deferment shall be one hundred dollars ($100).

(j) There shall be a fee of one hundred dollars ($100) for the issuance of a resident’s license under Section 2475.

(k) The fee for approval of a continuing education course or program shall be two hundred fifty dollars ($250).

(Amended by Stats. 2020, Ch. 359, Sec. 4. (AB 3330) Effective January 1, 2021.)