2014 California Code
Labor Code - LAB
DIVISION 2 - EMPLOYMENT REGULATION AND SUPERVISION
PART 7 - PUBLIC WORKS AND PUBLIC AGENCIES
CHAPTER 1 - Public Works
ARTICLE 2 - Wages
1778

CA Labor Code § 1778 (2014) What's This?

Every person, who individually or as a representative of an awarding or public body or officer, or as a contractor or subcontractor doing public work, or agent or officer thereof, who takes, receives, or conspires with another to take or receive, for his own use or the use of any other person any portion of the wages of any workman or working subcontractor, in connection with services rendered upon any public work is guilty of a felony.

(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.)

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