Section 3712 Of Article 2. Uninsured Employers Fund From California Labor Code >> Division 4. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 4. >> Article 2.
3712
. (a) The securing of the payment of compensation in a way
provided in this division is essential to the functioning of the
expressly declared social public policy of this state in the matter
of workers' compensation. The conduct or operation of any business or
undertaking without full compensation security, in continuing
violation of social policy, shall be subject to imposition of
business strictures and monetary penalties by the director,
including, but not limited to, resort to the superior court of any
county in which all or some part of the business is being thus
unlawfully conducted or operated, for carrying out the intent of this
article.
(b) In a proceeding before the superior court in matters concerned
with this article, no filing fee shall be charged to the plaintiff;
nor may any charge or cost be imposed for any act or service required
of or done by any state or county officer or employee in connection
with the proceeding. If the court or the judge before whom the order
to show cause in the proceeding is made returnable, finds that the
defendant is conducting or operating a business or undertaking
without the full compensation security required, the court or judge
shall forthwith, and without continuance, issue an order restraining
the future or further conduct and operation of the business or
undertaking so long as the violation of social public policy
continues. The action shall be prosecuted by the Attorney General of
California, the district attorney of the county in which suit is
brought, the city attorney of any city in which such a business or
undertaking is being operated or conducted without full compensation
security, or any attorney possessing civil service status who is an
employee of the Department of Industrial Relations who may be
designated by the director for that purpose. No finding made in the
course of any such action is binding on the appeals board in any
subsequent proceeding before it for benefits under this division.