California Code
Labor Code - LAB
GENERAL PROVISIONS

Section 1. - 1. This act shall be known as the Labor Code....

Section 2. - 2. The provisions of this code, in so far as...

Section 3. - 3. All persons who, at the time this code goes...

Section 4. - 4. No action or proceeding commenced before this code takes...

Section 5. - 5. Unless the context otherwise requires, the general provisions hereinafter...

Section 6. - 6. Division, part, chapter, article, and section headings contained herein...

Section 7. - 7. Whenever, by the provisions of this code, an administrative...

Section 8. - 8. Writing includes any form of recorded message capable of...

Section 9. - 9. Whenever any reference is made to any portion of...

Section 10. - 10. “Section” means a section of this code unless some...

Section 11. - 11. The present tense includes the past and future tenses;...

Section 12. - 12. The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter. (Enacted...

Section 12.1. - 12.1. The Legislature hereby declares its intent that the terms...

Section 12.2. - 12.2. “Spouse” includes “registered domestic partner,” as required by Section...

Section 13. - 13. The singular number includes the plural, and the plural...

Section 14. - 14. “County” includes “city and county.” (Enacted by Stats. 1937,...

Section 15. - 15. “Shall” is mandatory and “may” is permissive. (Enacted by...

Section 16. - 16. “Oath” includes affirmation. (Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)

Section 17. - 17. “Signature” or “subscription” includes mark when the signer or...

Section 18. - 18. “Person” means any person, association, organization, partnership, business trust,...

Section 18.5. - 18.5. “Agency” means the Labor and Workforce Development Agency. (Added...

Section 19. - 19. “Department” means Department of Industrial Relations. (Enacted by Stats....

Section 19.5. - 19.5. “Secretary” means the Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development....

Section 20. - 20. “Director” means Director of Industrial Relations. (Enacted by Stats....

Section 21. - 21. “Labor Commissioner” means Chief of the Division of Labor...

Section 22. - 22. “Violation” includes a failure to comply with any requirement...

Section 23. - 23. Except in cases where a different punishment is prescribed,...

Section 24. - 24. If any provision of this code, or the application...

Section 25. - 25. “Sheriff” includes “marshal.” (Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 872,...

Section 26. - 26. Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, no person...

Section 27. - 27. Whenever the term “workers’ compensation judge” or “workers’ compensation...

Section 28. - 28. For injuries occurring on and after January 1, 1991,...

Section 29. - 29. “Medical director” means the physician appointed by the administrative...

Section 29.5. - 29.5. The Governor shall annually issue a proclamation declaring April...