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2024 California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 3 - PROFESSIONS AND VOCATIONS GENERALLY
CHAPTER 4 - Attorneys
ARTICLE 3 - Investigations, Examining Committee, Subpoenas, and Other Proceedings
Section 6043.5.
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CA Bus & Prof Code § 6043.5 (2024)
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6043.5. (a) Every person who reports to the State Bar or causes a complaint to be filed with the State Bar that an attorney has engaged in professional misconduct, knowing the report or complaint to be false and malicious, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(b) The State Bar may, in its discretion, notify the appropriate district attorney or city attorney that a person has filed what the State Bar believes to be a false and malicious report or complaint against an attorney and recommend prosecution of the person under subdivision (a).
(Added by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1639, Sec. 2.)
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