It is not a defense to the State, any county, city, district or institution thereof, or any public or quasi-public corporation, that a person injured while rendering service for it was not lawfully employed by reason of the violation of any civil service or other law or regulation respecting the hiring of employees.
Cal. Lab. Code § 3604
Conditions of Compensation Liability
Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.
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