with Section 1812.500) and 2 (commencing with Section 1812.503) of this title with respect to those referrals.

and will pay all sums due any individual or group of individuals when the person or his or her representative, agent, or employee has received those sums. The bond shall be for the benefit of any person or persons damaged by any violation of this title or by fraud, dishonesty, misstatement, misrepresentation, deceit, unlawful acts or omissions, or failure to provide the services of the nurses’ registry in performance of the contract with the nurse by the nurses’ registry or its agents, representatives, or employees while acting within the scope of their employment.

surety shall send a written notice of that cancellation or termination to both the nurses’ registry and the Secretary of State, identifying the bond and the date of cancellation or termination.

with evidence that the claimant is a person described in subdivision (b).

of the deposit.

as no longer needed or required for the purpose of this title that would otherwise be returned to the nurses’ registry by the Secretary of State.

acknowledgment of receipt of the written notice to the assignor at the address indicated therein, specifying the date of receipt of the written notice and anticipated date of release of the deposit, provided there are no outstanding claims against the deposit.

Nurses’ registries may enter into a continuing contract with private duty nurses covering the assignment of those nurses by the nurses’ registries. The continuing contract shall state:

by the nurses’ registry and the nurse.

registry will immediately notify the nurse in writing of all subsequent changes in the rates to be charged the patient for services, and that the nurse shall agree to abide by these rates.

dispute the correctness of any service fee claimed by the nurses’ registry in the written statement referred to above, and that in the absence of objections within a reasonable time, any such service fee may be presumed to be correctly charged.

registry.

It shall be the duty of the nurses’ registry to verify in writing the claims as to the experience or training listed on the application and to keep a file of those records in the nurse’s folder within the nurses’ registry. It shall also be the duty of the person interviewing the jobseeker to require the jobseeker to exhibit his or her license as issued by the Board of Registered Nursing or the Board of Vocational Nurse and Psychiatric Technician Examiners, with a notation to be made on the application by the interviewer that the license has been inspected and the date of expiration of the license.

Each nurses’ registry shall continuously maintain in its offices true and correct permanent log sheets and other records which shall disclose, in addition to the other information required, the date and hour of the receipt by the nurses’ registry of each order for a private duty nurse, and the date and hour of the making or giving of each assignment to the nurse by the nurses’ registry, the name of the nurse assigned, the name of the patient and the address where the nurse is assigned, the name of the attending physician, the date the assignment is to start, the period of actual service for each assignment, and the amount of the fee charged for each

assignment. No nurses’ registry, his or her agent or employees, shall make any false entry in those records. The nurses’ registry shall maintain the log sheets and records required by this section respectively for a period of one year.

lessons and other services that may be in effect between the same seller and the same buyer, the terms of which overlap for any period, shall be considered as one contract for the purposes of this title.

No nurses’ registry shall divide fees with any physician and surgeon, nurse, hospital, patient, or any agent or employee of any of these.

In the event that a nurses’ registry collects from a nurse a fee or expenses for an assignment, and the nurse fails to obtain the assignment, or the nurse fails to be paid for the assignment, the nurses’ registry shall upon demand therefor, repay to the nurse the fee and expenses so collected. Unless repayment is made within 48 hours after demand, the nurses’ registry shall pay to the nurse an additional sum equal to the amount of the fee.

his or her place of residence stating that it does not perform the services of a home health agency and clearly describing that it is a nurses’ registry only and that any complaints against licensed personnel providing a nursing service shall be brought to the local district attorney and the Department of Consumer Affairs. The address and telephone number of each agency and board to which complaints are required to be submitted shall be provided to all patients prior to the time they are under the care of any nursing services personnel.