California Code, Business and Professions Code - BPC § 489

Any agency in the department which is authorized by law to deny an application for a license upon the grounds specified in Section 480or 496, may without a hearing deny an application upon any of those grounds, if within one year previously, and after proceedings conducted in accordance with Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, that agency has denied an application from the same applicant upon the same ground.