The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-06-28
LAWS EFFECTIVE
ON July FIRST
WORK MANS COMPENSATION LAW
WILL PROVIDE ADEQUATE
PROTECTION FOR ALL
AUTO LAW ON LIGHTS AND ROAD RIGHTS
Electric Headlights Must be Different
Motor Drays And Deliveries
Licensed.

some of the laws passed at the last
legislature which go into effect on
July first are of Importance to readers
of this paper.
The employers liability act, provid.
ing for the compensation of workmen
injured, is perhaps the most important
ne and reaches the greatest number
II people. Unless the employer wants
to take a chance on being stung in a
financial way, it will be well for him
to comply with the law before August
LIST
Under the law every employer of
labor, regardless of the number of his
employees, is placed automatically un-
der the law July /, except farm and
agricultural laborers. casual laborers,
domestic servants, railroad employees
ENGAGED in interstate or foreign COM
merce, and those provided for by com
pensation under the laws of the Unit
ed States.
The provisions of the law shall APP
ply to the state. and any municipal
CORPORATION within the state, or any
political division thereof, and to en-
pl0ye thereof.
After July ! every employer and
every employe shall be presumed to
have accepted the provisions of the
law to pay and accept compensation
for personal injury or death by acct
dent Any employer who does not
wish to come under the provisions Of
the law may except himself by giving
tn proper notice to his employees and
to the state industrial commissioner.
Where an employer elects not to OPP
lt.ate under the law, in any suit at
law he cannot defend himself on any
Of the following grounds: % That
the employe was negligent; (2) that
the injury was caused by the negli-
gence of a fellow employe: CD that
the employ had assumed the risk Of
The injury.
If an employe elects not to operate
under the law in any suit for recovery
the employer may avail himself Of
either of the d~efenses above stated in
his defense.
Notice of exemption shall be posted
in a conspicuous place in the shop or
office of the employer in a form pre-
scribed by the industrial commission
or.
Benefits payable under the law are
rot to exceed so per cent of the
weekly age of the employe, nor more
han $12 per week, depending upon
the nature Of the injury. The wait
ing period Of no compensation is two
weeks, but if the disability continues
for eight weeks or longer the compen-
sation is computed from the date Of
injury. The employer must provide
first aid and medical service, but not
to exceed the amount of 800.
In case Of death, four times the 3v-
rage annual earnings will be paid,
but not less than $1,000 nor more than
$4,000.
Every employer subject to the pro
visions Of the law must furnish the in
dustrial commissioner with evidence
that he has complied not later than
August /, 1917.
The administration of the law Will
be in the hands of the industrial com
missioner at Pierre.
The attorney general holds that all
employees of the different state insti-
ployes and employees of all the minor
subdivisions Of the state are under
the provisions Of this law, and that in
case of injury or death from accident
al causes, the state or its subdivision
by which such person is employed is
liable for the amounts provided under
the law for such injuries or for death.
But it is held also that the state and
other public employees are in one man
ner in a different class than those of
private corporations, in that they are
brought absolutely under the law at
its going into effect, and none of the
governing boards or officers have the
power to exempt their counties, town
ships or other municipal organizations
from the workings of the law; and
that they are not required to take out
insurance OF their employees, but are
assumed to be responsible under the
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