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Chapter 8. Office of the Director
Subchapter 2.1. Illegally Uninsured Employers. Determinations by the Director: Prima Facie Illegally Uninsured, Corporate Parent and Substantial Shareholder; Notice; Hearings; Appeals
Article 2. Determinations by Director
New Query

§15721. Negative Inferences.


If information or documentary proof has been requested by the director from the alleged uninsured employer, and the alleged uninsured employer has not supplied such information or documents, and if the information, documents or copies thereof can reasonably be assumed to be in the possession or control of the alleged uninsured employer, the director shall infer from the failure to comply with the request that the documents do not exist, or that the information or the contents of the documents establish that the alleged uninsured employer was illegally uninsured, or that there was substantial shareholder or parent status, whichever is applicable.

NOTE: Authority cited: Sections 54, 55, 59, 3702.10, 3710 and 3715, Labor Code. Reference: Sections 3715, 3717.2, 3720, 3720.1 and 3721, Labor Code.

HISTORY

1. New section filed 6-19-89; operative 7-19-89 (Register 89, No. 27). For history of former Group 2.1 (Sections 15600-15670, not consecutive), see Register 83, No. 31.

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