{"data":{"id":"us-ca/bpc-6043.5","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"BPC § 6043.5","heading":"","body":"(a) Every person who reports to the State Bar or causes a complaint to be filed with the State Bar that an attorney has engaged in professional misconduct, knowing the report or complaint to be false and malicious, is guilty of a misdemeanor.\n(b) The State Bar may, in its discretion, notify the appropriate district attorney or city attorney that a person has filed what the State Bar believes to be a false and malicious report or complaint against an attorney and recommend prosecution of the person under subdivision (a).","path":["Business and Professions Code - BPC","DIVISION 3. PROFESSIONS AND VOCATIONS GENERALLY [5000. - 9998.12.]","CHAPTER 4. Attorneys [6000. - 6256.]","ARTICLE 3. Investigations, Examining Committee, Subpoenas, and Other Proceedings  [6043.5. - 6054.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"b68f992a3cb42b3bef42d036ad797a505400c65eb1892f52777e5a8fd7cda61d","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/bpc-6038","next":"us-ca/bpc-6044"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}