California Labor Code CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions

• Section 3200.
  The Legislature hereby declares its intent that the term “workmen’s compensation” shall hereafter also be known as “workers’ compensation, ” and that the “Workmen’s Compensation...
• Section 3201.
  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...
• Section 3201.5.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), the Department of Industrial Relations and the courts of this state shall recognize as valid and binding...
• Section 3201.7.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the Department of Industrial Relations and the courts of this state shall recognize as valid and binding any labor-management...
• Section 3201.81.
  In the horse racing industry, the organization certified by the California Horse Racing Board to represent the majority of licensed jockeys pursuant to subdivision (b)...
• Section 3201.9.
  (a) On or before June 30, 2004, and biannually thereafter, the report required in subdivision (i) of Section 3201.5 and subdivision (h) of Section 3201.7 shall...
• Section 3202.
  This division and Division 5 (commencing with Section 6300) shall be liberally construed by the courts with the purpose of extending their benefits for the...
• Section 3202.5.
  All parties and lien claimants shall meet the evidentiary burden of proof on all issues by a preponderance of the evidence in order that all...
• Section 3203.
  This division and Division 5 (commencing with Section 6300) do not apply to employers or employments which, according to law, are so engaged in interstate...
• Section 3204.
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions hereinafter set forth in this chapter shall govern the construction and meaning of the terms and phrases used...
• Section 3205.
  “Division” means the Division of Workers’ Compensation.(Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 1097, Sec. 10. Effective January 1, 1995.)
• Section 3205.5.
  “Appeals board” means the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board of the Division of Workers’ Compensation.(Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 1097, Sec. 11. Effective January 1, 1995.)
• Section 3206.
  “Administrative director” means the Director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation.(Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 1097, Sec. 12. Effective January 1, 1995.)
• Section 3207.
  “Compensation” means compensation under this division and includes every benefit or payment conferred by this division upon an injured employee, or in the event of...
• Section 3208.
  “Injury” includes any injury or disease arising out of the employment, including injuries to artificial members, dentures, hearing aids, eyeglasses and medical braces of all...
• Section 3208.05.
  (a) “Injury” includes a reaction to or a side effect arising from health care provided by an employer to a health care worker, which health care...
• Section 3208.1.
  An injury may be either: (a) “specific,” occurring as the result of one incident or exposure which causes disability or need for medical treatment; or...
• Section 3208.2.
  When disability, need for medical treatment, or death results from the combined effects of two or more injuries, either specific, cumulative, or both, all questions...
• Section 3208.3.
  (a) A psychiatric injury shall be compensable if it is a mental disorder which causes disability or need for medical treatment, and it is diagnosed pursuant...
• Section 3208.4.
  In any proceeding under this division involving an injury arising out of alleged conduct that constitutes sexual harassment, sexual assault, or sexual battery, any party...
• Section 3209.
  “Damages” means the recovery allowed in an action at law as contrasted with compensation.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)
• Section 3209.3.
  (a) “Physician” includes physicians and surgeons holding an M.D. or D.O. degree, psychologists, acupuncturists, optometrists, dentists, podiatrists, and chiropractic practitioners licensed by California state law and...
• Section 3209.4.
  The inclusion of optometrists in Section 3209.3 does not imply any right or entitle any optometrist to represent, advertise, or hold himself out as a...
• Section 3209.5.
  Medical, surgical, and hospital treatment, including nursing, medicines, medical and surgical supplies, crutches, and apparatus, includes but is not limited to services and supplies by...
• Section 3209.6.
  The inclusion of chiropractors in Sections 3209.3 and 3209.5 does not imply any right or entitle any chiropractor to represent, advertise, or hold himself out...
• Section 3209.7.
  Treatment of injuries at the expense of the employer may also include, either in addition to or in place of medical, surgical, and hospital services,...
• Section 3209.8.
  Treatment reasonably required to cure or relieve from the effects of an injury shall include the services of marriage and family therapists and clinical social...
• Section 3209.9.
  The inclusion of acupuncturists in Section 3209.3 does not imply any right or entitle any acupuncturist to represent, advertise, or hold himself or herself out...
• Section 3209.10.
  (a) Medical treatment of a work-related injury required to cure or relieve the effects of the injury may be provided by a state licensed physician assistant...
• Section 3210.
  “Person” includes an individual, firm, voluntary association, or a public, quasi public, or private corporation.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)
• Section 3211.
  “Insurer” includes the State Compensation Insurance Fund and any private company, corporation, mutual association, reciprocal or interinsurance exchange authorized under the laws of this State...
• Section 3211.5.
  For purposes of this division, whenever the term “firefighter,” “firefighting member,” and “member of a fire department” is used, the term shall include, but shall...
• Section 3211.9.
  “Disaster council” means a public agency established by ordinance which is empowered to register and direct the activities of disaster service workers within the area...
• Section 3211.91.
  “Accredited disaster council” means a disaster council that is certified by the Office of Emergency Services as conforming with the rules and regulations established by...
• Section 3211.92.
  (a) “Disaster service worker” means any natural person who is registered with an accredited disaster council or a state agency for the purpose of engaging in...
• Section 3211.93.
  “Disaster service” means all activities authorized by and carried on pursuant to the California Emergency Services Act, including training necessary or proper to engage in...
• Section 3211.93a.
  “Disaster service” does not include any activities or functions performed by a person if the accredited disaster council with which that person is registered receives...
• Section 3212.
  In the case of members of a sheriff’s office or the California Highway Patrol, district attorney’s staff of inspectors and investigators or of police or...
• Section 3212.1.
  (a) This section applies to all of the following:(1) Active firefighting members, whether volunteers, partly paid, or fully paid, of all of the following fire departments:(A) A fire...
• Section 3212.2.
  In the case of officers and employees in the Department of Corrections having custodial duties, each officer and employee in the Department of Youth Authority...
• Section 3212.3.
  In the case of a peace officer who is designated under subdivision (a) of Section 2250.1 of the Vehicle Code and who has graduated from...
• Section 3212.4.
  In the case of a member of a University of California fire department located at a campus or other facility administered by the Regents of...
• Section 3212.5.
  In the case of a member of a police department of a city or municipality, or a member of the State Highway Patrol, when any...
• Section 3212.6.
  In the case of a member of a police department of a city or county, or a member of the sheriff’s office of a county,...
• Section 3212.7.
  In the case of an employee in the Department of Justice falling within the “state safety” class, when any such individual is employed under civil...
• Section 3212.8.
  (a) In the case of members of a sheriff’s office, of police or fire departments of cities, counties, cities and counties, districts, or other public or...
• Section 3212.85.
  (a) This section applies to peace officers described in Sections 830.1 to 830.5, inclusive, of the Penal Code, and members of a fire department.(b) The term “injury,”...
• Section 3212.9.
  In the case of a member of a police department of a city, county, or city and county, or a member of the sheriff’s office...
• Section 3212.10.a.
  In the case of a peace officer of the Department of Corrections who has custodial or supervisory duties of inmates or parolees, or a peace...
• Section 3212.11.
  This section applies to both of the following: (a) active lifeguards employed by a city, county, city and county, district, or other public or municipal...
• Section 3212.12.
  (a) This section applies to peace officers, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 830.1 of the Penal Code, subdivisions (e), (f), and (g) of Section...
• Section 3213.
  In the case of a member of the University of California Police Department who has graduated from an academy certified by the Commission on Peace...
• Section 3213.2.
  (a) In the case of a member of a police department of a city, county, or city and county, or a member of the sheriff’s office...
• Section 3214.
  (a) The Department of Corrections and the Department of the Youth Authority shall, in conjunction with all recognized employee representative associations, develop policy and implement the...
• Section 3215.
  Except as otherwise permitted by law, any person acting individually or through his or her employees or agents, who offers, delivers, receives, or accepts any...
• Section 3217.
  (a) Section 3215 shall not be construed to prevent the recommendation of professional employment where that recommendation is not prohibited by the Rules of Professional Conduct...
• Section 3218.
  A violation of Section 3215 is a public offense punishable upon a first conviction by incarceration in the county jail for not more than one...
• Section 3219.
  (a) (1) Except as otherwise permitted by law, any person acting individually or through his or her employees or agents, who offers or delivers any rebate, refund,...

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