{"data":{"id":"us-ca/bpc-715","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"BPC § 715","heading":"","body":"Unless otherwise required by federal law or regulation, no board under this division which licenses dentists, physicians and surgeons, podiatrists, or nurses may require a person to obtain or maintain any license to practice a profession or render services in the State of California if one of the following applies:\n(a) The person practicing a profession or rendering services does so exclusively as an employee of a department, bureau, office, division, or similarly constituted agency of the federal government, and provides medical services exclusively on a federal reservation or at any facility wholly supported by and maintained by the United States government.\n(b) The person practicing a profession or rendering services does so solely pursuant to a contract with the federal government on a federal reservation or at any facility wholly supported and maintained by the United States government.\n(c) The person practicing a profession or rendering services does so pursuant to, or as a part of a program or project conducted or administered by a department, bureau, office, division, or similarly constituted agency of the federal government which by federal statute expressly exempts persons practicing a profession or rendering services as part of the program or project from state laws requiring licensure.","path":["Business and Professions Code - BPC","DIVISION 2. HEALING ARTS [500. - 4999.202.]","CHAPTER 1. General Provisions [500. - 865.2.]","ARTICLE 10. Federal Personnel and Tribal Health Programs [710. - 719.]"],"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":"08937c6dce6979a4c53940785de1c9abbd7c54f12af834b45adc55d9d00cd0dd","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/bpc-710","next":"us-ca/bpc-716"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}