2011 California Code
Business and Professions Code
DIVISION 3. PROFESSIONS AND VOCATIONS GENERALLY [5000 - 9998.8]
ARTICLE 4. Registration
Section 7848.1

A temporary authorization for the practice of geophysics or a certified specialty geophysics, or both geophysics and a certified specialty geophysics, may be granted, for a specific project, upon application and payment of the fee prescribed in Section 7887 for a period not to exceed 60 consecutive days in any calendar year if the applicant complies with all of the following:

(a) The applicant maintains no office for the practice of geophysics or a certified specialty geophysics, or both geophysics and a certified specialty geophysics, other than for the authorized project, in this state.

(b) The applicant is qualified to practice geophysics or a certified specialty geophysics, or both geophysics and a certified specialty geophysics for others, and is not legally prohibited from so doing, in the state or country where he or she maintains an office for that practice.

(c) The applicant demonstrates by means of an individual appearance before the board, or before a committee appointed by the board for that purpose, satisfactory evidence or adequate knowledge in that phase of geophysics for which the applicant proposes to practice under the temporary authorization.

If the applicant can satisfy the board that the completion of the specific project for which the authorization is granted will require more than 60 consecutive calendar days, the board may extend the authorization to a period not to exceed a total of 120 days.

Upon completion of these requirements as necessary, the executive officer on direction of the board shall issue a temporary authorization to the applicant.

(Amended by Stats. 1984, Ch. 47, Sec. 73. Effective March 21, 1984.)