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ARIZONA WORKMENS COMPENSATION
 ACT
SYNOPSIS OF PROPOSED AMEND MENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA

To provide Compensation for work men injured in hazardous employ. ments, and for their beneficiaries and dependents where death results from such injury; creating an Industrial Accident Board, defining it's powers and duties and providing for review of it's awards creating an Industrial Accident Fund, and providing for the administration thereof; prescribing the liability of employers who do not elect to come under the compensation provisions of this article; and ab. rogating all laws and constitutional provisions in conflict herewith.
 The Plan.
 State Insurance, administered by an Industrial Accident Board appoint ed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; providing that the employer shall pay certain rate of premium on his pay roll into the State Industrial Accident Fund, and that the injured employe shall be paid directly from this fund.
 Elective Features.
 It is optional with the employer to come under the law or stay out. If the employer elects to come under the law it is not binding upon an em- ploye who shall elect not to be bound by the law and serves notice to that effect on his employer and the Board. Any e mploye who has rejected the law, If his employer is operating un- der 1t, may at any time waive or re- consider such rejection upon notifca- tion to his employer and the Board. When injury is due to the accident arising out of or in the course of em ployment away from the plant of the employer, through the negligence or wrong of another, not in the same employ, recourse to common law by the employe may be elected, instead of compensation.
 Non-Hazardous Occupations.
 Any employer and his employees, en- gagged in non-hazardous work or em- ployment, by their joint election, filed with and approved by the Board, may accept the compensation provis-
 
 sessment of the employer shall be fixed at one-half of one per cent of his total payroll.
 Common Law Defenses.
 Employers who do not elect to come under the law shall not, in any suit brought by an employe to. recover damages for personal injury or death by accident, be permitted to defend any suit at law upon the grounds that the employe was negligent, or that the injury was caused by the negli- gence of a fellow emp1oye. or that the employe had assumed the risk attending the occupation which re- suited in the injury.
 Persons Entitled to Compensation.
 All persons (except household and domestic servants, and agricultural laborers, or casual employes) work ing for wages in occupations specified as hazardous, of which over 300 are named in the text of the law.
 Compensation tor Death.
 Where the injury causes death, sixty-six and two thirds per centum of the daily wage at the time of the injury for a period of nineteen hun- dred days to the beneficiary, if any, in no case to be less than (s3,0O0.00) Three Thousand dollars or more than ($S,000.00) Eight Thousand dollars. In addition to other compensation there shall be paid burial expenses of the employe not exceeding One Hundred and Twenty-Five dollars. If there be no beneficiary there shall be paid to his major dependents fifty per centum of the daily wages at the time of the injury for a period of nineteen hundred days not exceeding (sS,000.00) Eight Thousand dollars or less than (s3,OO0.OO) Three thousand dollars. If there be no major depend ents then upon the same basis forty per oentum shall be paid to his minor dependents.
 Beneficiary means and shall in. clude surviving wife or husband un- til re-marriage, a surviving child or children under the age of twenty-one years, and any invalid child or chil- dren over the age of twenty-one years.
 Major dependents means, if there be no beneficiary as defined above. the father and mother or the survivor of them if actually dependent to any extent upon the decedent at the time of his injury.
 Minor dependents means, if there be no beneficiary or major dependent, the brothers and sisters, under the age of twenty-one years, if actually dependent upon the decendent at the time of his injury.
 Disability.
 For an injury producing total dis ability. compensation shall be paid