2025 California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 2 - HEALING ARTS
CHAPTER 10 - Psychiatric Technicians
ARTICLE 4 - Schools for Preparation of Psychiatric Technicians
Section 4531.

Universal Citation:
CA Bus & Prof Code § 4531 (2025)
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4531. The course of instruction of an approved school shall consist of not less than the number of hours or semester units of instruction required for the other program administered by the board. The subjects of instruction shall include the principles of the care of the mentally disabled and the developmentally disabled. Clinical inpatient experience shall be an integral part of that prescribed or equivalent course of study and training. The experience shall be obtained in a state hospital, except where the board finds that the requirement is not feasible due either to the distance of a state hospital from the school or the unavailability, as determined by the State Department of Developmental Services or the State Department of State Hospitals, of state hospital clinical training placements.

(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 24, Sec. 5. (AB 1470) Effective June 27, 2012.)

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