Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-10-07

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licensed to transact business in Missouri,
Section s.. II any such insurance car
rier shall fail or refuse to make the re-
turn required by this act, the said SUPER
~intendent shall assess the tax against
such insurance carrier or self-insurer at :
the rate herein provided for, on such
amount or premiums or deposits as he
shall deem just, and the proceedings
thereon shall be the same as II the re-
turn had been mad
Section So. Every such insurance car
rier shall on or before the first day Of
April, 1920, and each year thereafter,
make a return, verified by the AFFIDAVIT
Of its president and secretary. or other
chief officers or agents.. to the superin-
tendent of the insurance department,
stating the amount Of all such gross
premiums or deposits, and credits during
the year ending on the 3lst day of De-
cember. next preceding. Upon the receipt
of such returns, the superintendent shall
verify the same and assess the tax upon
the various insurance carriers on the
basis and at the rate provided in section
81 OF this act, and make a schedule there
Of. duplicate copies of which, properly
certified by said superintendent, shall be
filed in the office of the state auditor
and state treasurer on or before the 10Th
day of April in each year. Immediately
thereafter the superintendent shall notify
the insurance carriers of the amount OF
taxes respectively due from them, and
such taxes shall be paid annually into the
workmen's compensation fund OF the
state treasury on or before the first day
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state treasurer shall certify the fact to
the superintendent, who shall thereafter
suspend such delinquent carriers of In.
surance from the further transaction of
business in this state until such taxes
shall be paid. Upon receiving said money
the state treasurer shall place the whole
thereof to the credit eff the fund for the
support of the workmen's compensation
commission Of Missouri; provided, that
when, at any time, such fund shall have
reached the sum of $5e, 5000, any excess
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to the state treasury. Such payments to
continue until the mounts of the origi-
nal appropriation as provided for in SEQ
ton 79 shall have been repaid.
Section 70. If any sue insurance car
rier shall withdraw from business in this
state before the tax shall fall due ac-
shall fail or neglect to pay the tax inn
posed herein, the superintendent shall at
once proceed to collect the same, and he
is hereby empowered and authorized to
employ such legal process as may be nec-
essary for that purpose, and when so col
lected he shall pay the same into the
state treasury as a part of the fund for
the support of the compensa-
brought by the superintendent in his own
name. in any court of this state having
Jurisdiction; reasonable attorneys, fees
may be taxed as costs therein, and pro-
cesssmay issue to any county of the state,
and may be served as in civil actions or
in cases of unincorporated associations,
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other plan or scheme, upon the principal
agent of the parties thereto.
Section II. Wherever the employer
carries his own risk or wherever substi-
tute schemes for insurance provided for
in section 80 have been approved, the
commission shall inform the superintend-
ent of insurance, who. thereupon, shall
assess and in like manner collect a SIM
liar tax from the employer carrying his
own risk at the same rate and on the
same basis as taxes are assessed against
insurance carries, of any character, carry
ing like risks in this state under the
provisions of this act.
Section 70. Any person or persons who
shall in his state act or assume to act
as agent for any such insurance carrier
whose authority to do business in this
state has been suspended under this act,
while such suspension remains in force,
or shall neglect or refuse to comply with
any of the provisions of this act obliga-
tory upon such person or party, or who
shall willfully make false or fraudulent
statement of the business orNcondition OF
any such insurance carrier, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on
conviction thereof shall be punish by a
fine of not less than $500 nor more than
81, 900, or by Imprisonment in the county
Jail for not less than one week nor more
than one year, or by both such fine and
Imprisonment.
officer is required to give any notice to
any insurance carrier, the same may be
given by mailing the same, postage pre-
paid, addressed to the principal office Of
the insurance carrier or it's agent in this
state, or to it's home or to the secretary,
general agent or chief officer thereof in
the United States.
Section "A. Any insurance carrier, for
eign or domestic, liable to pay a tax upon
it's premiums or deposits under this act
shall not be liable to pay any other or
further tax upon such premiums or de-
posits under any other law of this state,
and the provisions of this act shall also
extend and apply to all premiums or de-
posits received during any part of the
year 1919.
Section rs. Any person, corporation, his
or it's directors, officers or agents, or any
other person who violates any of the pro-
visions of this act for which a penalty has
not hereinbefore been specifically pro-
vided, shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and on conviction thereof shall
be punished by a fine Of not less than
ment in the county Jail for not less than
one week and not more than one year, or
both such fine and Imprisonment.
Section rs. All of the provisions of this
act shall he literally construed, with q
view of the public welfare, and a sub
stantial compliance Herewith shall be
sufficient to give effect to all rules, regu-
lations. requirements, awards, orders or
decisions of the commission, and they
hall not be declared imperative, illegal
or void for any omission of a technical
} nature in respect thereto.
Section II. If any section, subsection
sentence, clause or phrase of this act Ia
for any reason held to be unconstitutional,
such decision shall not affect the validity
of the remaining portions of thisa act. The
general assembly hereby declares that 1t
would have passed this act, and each sec
ton, subsection, sentence. clause and
phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact
that any one or more of the same shall
be declared unconstitutional.
Section rs. All acts or parts OF acts
in conflict or inconsistent herewith are to
hat extent hereby repealed.
Section 70. For the purpose of paying
the salaries and expenses of the members
of the commission and its employees, the
sum Of $50, 900 per year or so much there
of as may be necessary is hereby appro-
priated, and shall be known as the work.
of said appropriation to be efunded as
provided in section So.
Section 80. Notwithstanding the emer-
gency claus hereto attached sections two
to four, inclusive, and section thirty-four
of this act shall not take effect until Mo-
Vember, 1918.
Section 81. 1t being necessary for the
commission herein created to be fully or
ganized and make preliminary prepare
tons, and there being an immediate
necessity therefor, ~screates an emergency
within the meaning OF the Constitution,
and except as in this act otherwise pro-
vided, this act shall take effect from and
after the date Of it's approval.
PROPOSITION NO. IS.
PROPOSED BY INITIATIVE PETITION
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
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