California Business and Professions Code

§ 7539

BPC § 7539 Effective Jan 1, 2025Div. 3 · Ch. 11.3 · Art. 3

Statute text

(a)Any licensee or officer, director, partner, member, manager, or qualified manager of a licensee may divulge to any law enforcement officer or district attorney, or their representative, any information they may acquire as to any criminal offense, but they shall not divulge to any other person, except as otherwise required by law, any information acquired by them except at the direction of the employer or client for whom the information was obtained.

(b)A licensee or officer, director, partner, member, manager, qualified manager, or employee of a licensee shall not knowingly make any false report to their employer or client for whom information was being obtained.

(c)A written report shall not be submitted to a client except by the licensee, qualified manager, or a person authorized by one or either of them, and the person submitting the report shall exercise diligence in ascertaining whether or not the facts and information in the report are true and correct.

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Legislative history

Amended (as amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 625, Sec. 33) by Stats. 2024, Ch. 484, Sec. 23. (SB 1454) Effective January 1, 2025. Repealed as of January 1, 2030, by its own provisions. See later operative version, as amended by Sec. 24 of Stats. 2024, Ch. 484.