California Code of Regulations
Title 8 - Industrial Relations
Division 1 - Department of Industrial Relations
Chapter 8 - Office of the Director
Subchapter 6 - Prevailing Wage Hearings
Article 3 - Prehearing Procedures
Section 17237 - Depositions and Other Discovery
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) There shall be no right to take oral depositions or obtain any other form of discovery that is not expressly authorized under these Rules.
(b) Oral depositions may be conducted only by stipulation of all Parties to the proceedings or by order of the appointed Hearing Officer upon a showing of substantial good cause. Oral depositions will be permitted only for purposes of obtaining the testimony of witnesses who are likely to be unavailable to testify at the hearing.
(c) Nothing in this Rule shall preclude the use of deposition testimony or other evidence obtained in separate proceedings, if such evidence is otherwise relevant and admissible.
1. New section filed 1-15-2002; operative 1-15-2002 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4 (Register 2002, No. 3).
Note: Authority cited: Sections 55, 59, 1742(b) and 1773.5, Labor Code. Reference: Section 1987, Code of Civil Procedure; Sections 11450.50- 11455.30, Government Code; and Section 1742(b), Labor Code.
