Cal. Business and Professions Code - BPC § 4540. Section 4540.
After January 1, 1970, no person shall perform services described in Section 4502 without a license issued under this chapter.
ARTICLE 5. Penal Provisions [4540. - 4543.]
Cal. Business and Professions Code - BPC 5.
in effectCal. Business and Professions Code - BPC § 4541. Section 4541.
It is unlawful for any person to use any title or letters that imply that the person is a certified or licensed psychiatric technician unless at the time of so doing the person holds a valid, unexpired, and unrevoked certificate or license issued under this chapter.
Cal. Business and Professions Code - BPC § 4542. Section 4542.
(a)
It is unlawful for any person willfully to make any false representation or impersonate any other person in connection with any examination or application for a license.
(b)
It is unlawful for any person to permit or aid any other person in any manner to impersonate that person in connection with any examination or application for a license.
Cal. Business and Professions Code - BPC § 4543. Section 4543.
Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon a conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than 10 days nor more than one year, or by a fine of not less than twenty dollars ($20) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both such fine and imprisonment.
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