CHAPTER 1. General Powers and Duties [50. - 64.5.]

Chapter 1 enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.

§§ 50–64.5 · 32 sections

§ 50 There is in the Labor and Workforce Development Agency the Department of Industrial Relations.
§ 50.5 One of the functions of the Department of Industrial Relations is to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of California, to improve…
§ 50.6 The Department of Industrial Relations may assist and cooperate with the Wage and Hour Division, and the Children’s Bureau, United States Department of Labor,…
§ 50.7 (a) The Department of Industrial Relations is the state agency designated to be responsible for administering the state plan for the development and…
§ 50.8 The department shall develop a long range program for upgrading and expanding the resources of the State of California in the area of occupational health and…
§ 50.9 In furtherance of the provisions of Section 50.5, the director, or the Director of Employment Development, may comment on the impact of actions or projects…
§ 51 The department shall be conducted under the control of an executive officer known as Director of Industrial Relations. The Director of Industrial Relations…
§ 52 Except as otherwise prescribed in this code, the provisions of the Government Code relating to departments of the State shall govern and apply to the conduct…
§ 53 Whenever in Section 1001 or in Part 1 (commencing with Section 11000) of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code “head of the department” or similar…
§ 54 The director shall perform all duties, exercise all powers and jurisdiction, assume and discharge all responsibilities, and carry out and effect all purposes…
§ 54.5 The director may appoint an attorney and assistants licensed to practice law in this state. In the absence of an appointment, the attorney for the Division of…
§ 55 For the purpose of administration the director shall organize the department subject to the approval of the Governor, in the manner he deems necessary properly…
§ 56 The work of the department shall be divided into at least five divisions known as the Division of Workers’ Compensation, the Division of Occupational Safety…
§ 57 Each division shall be in charge of a chief who shall be appointed by the Governor and shall receive a salary fixed in accordance with law, and shall serve at…
§ 57.1 (a) The Chief of the Division of Occupational Safety and Health shall receive an annual salary as provided by Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 11550) of Part…
§ 57.2 (a) (1) Upon appropriation by the Legislature and notwithstanding any other law, upon intake of a complaint from an agricultural employee by any department,…
§ 57.5 All duties, powers, and jurisdiction relating to the administration of the State Compensation Insurance Fund shall be vested in the Board of Directors of the…
§ 58 The department shall have possession and control of all records, books, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, moneys, funds, appropriations, land, and other…
§ 59 The department through its appropriate officers shall administer and enforce all laws imposing any duty, power, or function upon the offices or officers of the…
§ 60 Except as otherwise provided, the provisions of Divisions 4 and 4.5 of this code shall be administered and enforced by the Division of Workers’ Compensation.
§ 60.5 (a) The provisions of Part 1 of Division 5 of this code shall be administered and enforced by the department through the Division of Occupational Safety and…
§ 60.6 All persons serving in the state civil service in the Division of Industrial Safety or in the Occupational Health Branch of the State Department of Health…
§ 60.7 The Division of Occupational Safety and Health shall have possession and control of all records, books, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, moneys, funds,…
§ 60.8 The Division of Occupational Safety and Health may expend money appropriated for the administration of the laws the enforcement of which is committed to the…
§ 60.9 There is within the Division of Occupational Safety and Health an occupational health unit and an occupational safety unit, which shall assist in the…
§ 61 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…
§ 62 The department may expend money appropriated for the administration of the provisions of the laws, the enforcement of which is committed to the department. The…
§ 62.5 (a) (1) The Workers’ Compensation Administration Revolving Fund is hereby created as a special account in the State Treasury. Money in the fund may be expended…
§ 62.8 Five million dollars ($5,000,000) is hereby appropriated for transfer by the State Controller upon order of the Director of Finance from the Cal-OSHA Targeted…
§ 63 The Director may authorize the refund of moneys received or collected by the department in payment of license fees or for other services in cases where the…
§ 64 The Labor Commissioner may enter into reciprocal agreements with the labor department or corresponding agency of any other state or with the person, board,…
§ 64.5 When requested by the State Board of Equalization, the department may permit any duly authorized representative of that agency to transmit to the State Board…