The provisions of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 1171) of Part 4 of Division 2 shall be administered and enforced by the department through the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement.
Cal. Lab. Code § 61
General Powers and Duties
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case 14 Cal. 4th 557 - Tidewater Marine Western, Inc. v. Bradshaw (1996)
Most recently applied in 219 Cal. Rptr. 3d 46 - Bartoni v. Am. Med. Response W. (April 2017)
Amended by Stats. 1976, Ch. 746.
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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.
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