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2025 California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 2 - HEALING ARTS
CHAPTER 5 - Medicine
ARTICLE 3 - License Required and Exemptions
Section 2055.
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CA Bus & Prof Code § 2055 (2025)
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2055. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person issued a physician’s and surgeon’s certificate by the Medical Board of California pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be entitled to use of the initials “M.D.”
(Amended by Stats. 1989, Ch. 886, Sec. 19.)
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