California Code of Regulations
Title 8 - Industrial Relations
Division 1 - Department of Industrial Relations
Chapter 4.5 - Division of Workers' Compensation
Subchapter 2 - Workers' Compensation Appeals Board-Rules and Practice Procedure
Article 7 - Petitions, Pleadings and Forms
Section 10530 - Emergency Petition for Stay

(a) A party may present to the presiding workers' compensation judge of the district office having venue or the workers' compensation judge of the permanently staffed satellite office having venue a petition to stay an action by another party pending a hearing. Each district office will have a designee of the presiding workers' compensation judge available to assign petitions for stay from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on court days.

(b) A party who walks through a petition to stay an action shall provide notice by fax or e-mail to the opposing party or parties no later than 10:00 a.m. of the immediately preceding court day. This notice shall state with specificity the nature of the relief to be requested by the petition to stay and state the date, time and place that the petition to stay will be presented. A copy of the petition to stay shall be attached to the notice. If notice by fax or e-mail fails, or if an opposing party's fax number or e-mail address are unknown, notice shall be given in the manner best calculated to expeditiously provide the party or parties with notice including notice by phone or by overnight mail or delivery service. First-class mail shall not be utilized for notice of a petition to stay an action.

(c) A petition to stay an action shall be accompanied by a declaration regarding notice stating under penalty of perjury:

(d) Upon the receipt of a proper petition to stay an action, the presiding workers' compensation judge shall, in their discretion, either: