California Unemployment Codes 2709

any bona fide church, sect, denomination or organization and in accordance with its principles depends for healing entirely upon prayer or spiritual means, no medical examination shall be required, but in lieu thereof the director may accept the certificate of a duly authorized and accredited practitioner of such bona fide church, sect, denomination or organization as to the disability of the claimant and the estimated duration of such disability, and no authorized regulation prescribing the manner of proof of illness or injury shall discriminate against such individual.