This division and Division 5 (commencing with Section 6300) are an expression of the police power and are intended to make effective and apply to a complete system of workers’ compensation the provisions of Section 4 of Article XIV of the California Constitution.
Cal. Lab. Code § 3201
General Provisions
Applied in 14 court decisions — leading case 43 Cal. 3d 46 - County of Los Angeles v. State of California (1987)
Most recently applied in 237 Cal. Rptr. 3d 702 - Villanueva v. Fid. Nat'l Title Co. (September 2018)
Amended by Stats. 1986, Ch. 248, Sec. 157.
How often courts cite this section
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.