Opinion No. (1997)

DANIEL E. LUNGREN Attorney General CLAYTON P. ROCHE Deputy Attorney General THE HONORABLE TOM J. BORDONARO, JR., MEMBER OF THE CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLY, has requested an opinion on the following question: Is Labor Code section 1150 constitutional in prohibiting members of the Agricultural Labor Relations Board from engaging in any other business, vocation, or employment? CONCLUSION Labor Code section 1150 is constitutional in prohibiting members of the Agricultural Labor Relations Board from engaging in any other business, vocation, or employment. ANALYSIS Labor Code section 1150 1 provides: "Each member of the board and the general counsel of the board shall be eligible for reappointment, and shall not engage in any other business, vocation, or employment." The "board" is the Agricultural Labor Relations Board (§ 1140.4 , subd. (i); "Board"). We are asked whether section 1150 is constitutional in prohibiting Board members from engaging "in any other business, vocation, or employment." We conclude that the statutory prohibition is constitutional. In addressing this question, we first note that section 1150 is part of the Alatorre-Zenovich-Dunlap-Berman Agricultural Labor Relations…