Business and Professions Code section 2316

If a licensed physician and surgeon who provides expertise to the board in the evaluation of an applicant or a licensee is, as a result of providing that expertise, the subject of a disciplinary proceeding undertaken by a specialty board of which the physician and surgeon is a member, with board approval, the Office of the Attorney General shall represent the physician and surgeon in that disciplinary proceeding regarding any allegation brought against the physician and surgeon as a direct result of providing that expertise to the board.

Source: Section 2316, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=BPC§ionNum=2316. (updated Jan. 1, 2011; accessed Jun. 25, 2025).

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Original Source: Section 2316, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=BPC§ionNum=2316. (last accessed May 12, 2025).