Whenever by the express or implied terms of any statute a state agency has authority to adopt regulations to implement, interpret, make specific or otherwise carry out the provisions of the statute, no regulation adopted is valid or effective unless consistent and not in conflict with the statute and reasonably necessary to effectuate the purpose of the statute.
Cal. Gov. Code § 11342.2
General
Applied in 63 court decisions — leading case 28 Cal. 3d 668 - Woods v. Superior Court (1981)
Most recently applied in 12 Cal. 5th 518 - In re Mohammad (January 2022)
Added by Stats. 1979, Ch. 567.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.