ARTICLE 8. Physicians’ Assistants Corporations [3540. - 3545.]

Cal. Business and Professions Code - BPC 8.

in effect

Cal. Business and Professions Code - BPC § 3540. Section 3540.

A physician assistants corporation is a corporation which is authorized to render professional services, as defined in Section 13401 of the Corporations Code, so long as that corporation and its shareholders, officers, directors, and employees rendering professional services who are certified physician assistants are in compliance with the Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation Act, the provisions of this article, and all other statutes and regulations now or hereafter enacted or adopted pertaining to the corporation and the conduct of its affairs. With respect to a physician assistants corporation, the governmental agency referred to in the Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation Act (commencing with Section 13400) of Division 3 of Title 1 of the Corporations Code is the board.

Cal. Business and Professions Code - BPC § 3541. Section 3541.

It shall constitute unprofessional conduct and a violation of this chapter for any person licensed under this chapter to violate, attempt to violate, directly or indirectly, or assist in or abet the violation of, or conspire to violate any provision or term of this article, the Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation Act, or any regulations duly adopted under those laws.

Cal. Business and Professions Code - BPC § 3542. Section 3542.

A physician assistant corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which or the failure to do which would constitute unprofessional conduct under any statute or regulation, now or hereafter in effect. In the conduct of its practice, it shall observe and be bound by these statutes and regulations to the same extent as a person holding a license under this chapter.

Cal. Business and Professions Code - BPC § 3543. Section 3543.

The name of a physician assistant corporation and any name or names under which it may render professional services shall contain the words “physician assistant,” and wording or abbreviations denoting corporate existence.

Cal. Business and Professions Code - BPC § 3544. Section 3544.

Except as provided in Sections 13401.5 and 13403 of the Corporations Code, each shareholder, director and officer of a physician assistant corporation, except an assistant secretary and an assistant treasurer, shall be a licensed person as defined in Section 13401 of the Corporations Code.

Cal. Business and Professions Code - BPC § 3545. Section 3545.

The income of a physician assistant corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shareholder is a disqualified person, as defined in Section 13401 of the Corporations Code, shall not in any manner accrue to the benefit of the shareholder or their shares in the physician assistant corporation.

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