Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 2. HEALING ARTS [500 - 4999.129]
( Division 2 enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 399. ) CHAPTER 7.7. Physician Assistants [3500 - 3545]
( Heading of Chapter 7.7 amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 427, Sec. 5. ) ARTICLE 6.5. Diversion of Impaired Physician Assistants [3534 - 3534.10]
( Article 6.5 added by Stats. 1988, Ch. 385, Sec. 2. ) 3534.
It is the intent of the Legislature that the board shall seek ways and means to identify and rehabilitate physician assistants whose competency is impaired due to abuse of dangerous drugs or alcohol so that they may be treated and returned to the practice of medicine in a manner which will not endanger the public health and safety.
(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 332, Sec. 66. (SB 1236) Effective January 1, 2013.)