Southern California Nurses Registries Ass'n v. Division of Labor Statistics & Law Enforcement

The Private Employment Agency Law of the state of California (Stats. 1913, p. 515, as amended), designed to regulate private employment agencies, *293 specifically exempts from its operation certain nonprofit organizations whose membership fees are used solely for the maintenance of such organizations. But to secure exemption from the provisions of the act it is provided that such nonprofit organizations must file certain documentary evidence with the commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics on or before the first day of April of each year. This was done on February 22, 1935, by California State Nurses Association, District 5. Thereafter appellants herein complained to the bureau that said District 5 association was engaged in • activities that brought it without the exemption provisions of the act. A hearing was had before a deputy commissioner, who made certain findings of fact, which in substance were that District 5 association, by filing certain documents in the manner and form provided in the act, had thereby complied with the provisions of section 1 thereof. There was no determination as to whether said District 5 was or was not entitled to exemption.

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