{"code":"BPC","codeName":"Business and Professions Code","section":"2863","citation":"Bus. & Prof. Code, § 2863","status":"in-force","lawOn":"2026-09-28","headings":[{"name":"DIVISION 2. HEALING ARTS [500. - 4999.202.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/business-and-professions-code/division-2"},{"name":"CHAPTER 6.5. Vocational Nursing [2840. - 2895.5.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/business-and-professions-code/division-2/chapter-6.5"},{"name":"ARTICLE 2. Scope of Regulation [2859. - 2873.6.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/business-and-professions-code/division-2/chapter-6.5/article-2"}],"history":"Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 1689.","effective":null,"html":"<p>This chapter does not prohibit vocational nursing or the care of the sick, with or without compensation or personal profit, when done by the adherents of and in connection with the practice of the religious tenets of any well recognized church or denomination, so long as they do not otherwise engage in the practice of vocational nursing.</p>","text":"This chapter does not prohibit vocational nursing or the care of the sick, with or without compensation or personal profit, when done by the adherents of and in connection with the practice of the religious tenets of any well recognized church or denomination, so long as they do not otherwise engage in the practice of vocational nursing.","otherVersions":[],"url":"https://blackletter.si/business-and-professions-code/scope-of-regulation-2863","source":"California Legislative Information bulk export (pubinfo)"}