The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1915-04-08
CHAPrER 2e5.

CHAPTER 295.
AN ACT Relative to Com pensation to
Employees for Personal Injuries Re-
ceived in the Course of Their EN-
ployment and to the Prevention of
Such Injuries.
Be II enacted, etc..
Section /. The following words and
phrases es used in this act shall, un-
less 4 different meaning is plainly re-
quired by the context. have the fol-
lowing meaning:
/. Employer" shall include corpo-
rations. partnerships. natural persons.
the State, counties, water districts and
all other quasi municipal corporations
of q similar nature. cities and also
visions OF this act, and il employer is
insured. 1t includes the insurer unless
the contrary intent Is apparent from
the purposes OF this act.
II. Employee" shall include every
person In the service Of another under
any contract of hire. express or I'M
laborers; (b) domestic servants; (c)
masters of and seamen on vessels en-.
gagged in interstate or foreign COM
merce; (d) person whose employment
course of the trade, business. profess
sion or occupation of his employer;
te) officials of the State. counties.
SHES o uownS and
= similar character. Policemen and
fremen shall be deemed employees
within the meaning of this act. If,
claims compensation under this act,
there shall be deducted from such
compensation any sum which such po-
liceman. fireman or other person may
or other benefit fund to which the
State or municipal body may contrib
ute. Any reference to an employee
who has been injured shall. when the
a m n DO dan al In Ind De- la
representatives. dependents and other
persons to whom compensation may be
III. Asserting employer" shall in
clude all employers who have complied
with the provisions of section six
hereof. and to whom certificate au-
thorized by said section has been is
tificate remains in force.
~. Commissioner" shall mean the
Commissioner Of Labor and Industry
Of the State of Maine. Commission"
shall mean the Industrial Accident
Commission created by section twenty
nine hereof.
Policy" shall mean policy In such
of the State of Maine approves. is
sued by any stock or mutual casualty
insurance company that may be now
or hereafter authorized to do business
in this State. which in substance and
effect guarantees the payment of the
medical and hospital
services. and expense OF sickness and
burial herein provided for, in such in
stallments, ct such time or times, and
to such person or persons and upon
such conditions as in this act provid-
ed Whenever policy or certificate
of renewal thereof is filed ,, as herein
lied by the Insurance Commissioner
of the State of Maine or his deputy,
shall be admissible as evidence In any
legal proceeding wherein the original
would be admissible.
VI Insurance Company" shall
mean any casualty insurance company
to do business in the State
conforming to the provisions of the
paragraph next preceding. Whenever
in this. act relating to procedure the
word Insurance Company" is used 1t
which the employer has elected to file
such policy. instead of furnishing sat
isfactory proof Of his ability to pay
and benefits hereinafter
VII. Representatives" may include
executors. administrators. and the de-
pendents of deceased employees. Pay
nents may be made to dependents di-
tors. If payments are made to the lat
ter they shall forthwith pay the same
to the dependents as the same are
he einafter defined.
members of the employees family or
next of kin, who are wholly or partly
de pendent upon the earnings of the
employee for support at the time of
shall be conclusively presumed to be
wholly dependent for support upon a
deceased employee:
.ta) a wife upon husband with
was living apart for justifiable
cause, or because he had deserted her
DIT upon whom she is dependent at the
time of the accident.
whom he lives. or upon whom he Is
dependent at the time of the accident.
tc) A child or children. including
adopted and stcp-children under the
n pacitatcd from earning) upon the
parent with whom he is or they are
wing. or upon whom he is or they are
said parent, there being no surviving
more than one child thus dependent,
he compensation shall be divided
In all cases questions OF entire or 4
,artial dependency shall be determined
n accordance with the fact. as the
act may hnvo been at the time Of the
injury. In such other cases. II there
$ more than one person wholly de-
pendent the compensation shall be d.
'idcd equally among them. and persons
iartly dependent, II any. shall receive
70 part thereof durinE the period 10
wholly dependent. II there Is anyone
wholly dependent and more than one
'erson partly dependant. the compcn-
Iation shall be- divided among them
heir dependency. n a dependent 1.
IN alien residing outside of the United
states, or Of the Dominion OF Canada.