CA Bus & Prof Code § 19526 (2021)
2021 California Code|Business and Professions Code - BPC|DIVISION 8 - SPECIAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS|CHAPTER 4 - Horse Racing|ARTICLE 5.5 - Other Licenses|Section 19526.

19526.  (a) Each trainer shall keep accurate payroll records, showing the name, address, social security number, work classification, straight time and overtime hours worked each day and week, paid to each of his or her employees.(b) The payroll records enumerated under subdivision (a) shall be available for inspection at all reasonable hours at the principal office of the trainer on the following basis:(1) A copy of an employee’s payroll record shall be made available for inspection or furnished to the employee or his or her authorized representative upon request.(2) A copy of all payroll records enumerated in subdivision (a) shall be made available for inspection or furnished upon request to the board and the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement of the Department of Industrial Relations.(3) On or before January 31 of each year, each trainer shall provide copies of federal W-2 and 1099 tax forms for his or her backstretch employees for the previous calendar year to the administrator of the pension fund for backstretch employees.(c) The payroll records described in this section shall be on forms provided by the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement or shall contain the same information as the forms provided by the division.(d) A trainer shall make the records enumerated in subdivision (a) available to an employee or his or her authorized representative within 10 days after receipt of a written request.(e) The trainer shall inform the board of the location of the records enumerated under subdivision (a), including the street address, city and county, and shall, within five working days, provide a notice of a change of location and address.(f) In addition to any other penalty imposed by law, any trainer who fails to provide access to the records enumerated in subdivision (a) to the board, the employee or his or her authorized representative, the administrator of the pension or welfare funds, or to the Division of Labor Standards enforcement as required by law shall be subject to suspension of his or her license.(g) Except for trainers covered by an operative collective bargaining agreement pursuant to Section 19613.7, the board may require, as a condition of issuing or renewing a trainer’s license, that the trainer submit a declaration that they have maintained true and correct payroll records and have complied with the requirements of the Labor Code and applicable wage orders of the Industrial Welfare Commission.(h) The Labor Commissioner shall establish and maintain a program to audit the payroll records of trainers who are not parties to a collective bargaining agreement entered pursuant to Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 19455) and who operate in California for 90 or more racing days in a calendar year, in a manner to ensure that every subject licensee is audited at least once prior to January 1, 2006. Evidence of substantial noncompliance with the Labor Code and applicable wage orders of the Industrial Welfare Commission shall be referred by the board to the Labor Commissioner.(Added by Stats. 2001, Ch. 198, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 2002.)