2015 California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 1.5 - DENIAL, SUSPENSION AND REVOCATION OF LICENSES
CHAPTER 3 - Suspension and Revocation of Licenses
Section 493.
493. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in a proceeding conducted by a board within the department pursuant to law to deny an application for a license or to suspend or revoke a license or otherwise take disciplinary action against a person who holds a license, upon the ground that the applicant or the licensee has been convicted of a crime substantially related to the qualifications, functions, and duties of the licensee in question, the record of conviction of the crime shall be conclusive evidence of the fact that the conviction occurred, but only of that fact, and the board may inquire into the circumstances surrounding the commission of the crime in order to fix the degree of discipline or to determine if the conviction is substantially related to the qualifications, functions, and duties of the licensee in question.
As used in this section, license includes certificate, permit, authority, and registration.
(Added by renumbering Section 117 by Stats. 1989, Ch. 1104, Sec. 1.3.)
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