Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-10-07
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lions or funds for the relief. ~pensioning,
retirement, or other benefit OF fremen.
policemen, or other public employees, their
widows. children or dependents, or as in
m manner interfering vita such as
sociations, funds or benefits. now or here
after established, but any. such public en-
ploye, his widow, children or dependents.
who shall receive compensation under
this act shall have deducted from any
benefit otherwise payable by any pension
or other benefit fund to which the mu-
picfpal corporation or other public en-
ployer contributes, a part Of such benefit
contributed to such fund by such en-
,ployer. which deductions shall be made
only during the compensation period. Nor
shall anything in this act be construed as
employe to draw full wages. or collect and
retain his fun fees, SO long as he holds his
office. appointment or, employment. but
the period during. which the same are re-
ceived after the injury shall be deducted
from the period of compensation pay
mentst due hereunder.
Section 9. In case any employee for
whose injury or death compensation is
payable under this act shall, at the time
Of the injury. Nbe employed and paid
Jointly by two or more employers subject
to this act, such employers shall con-
tribute the payment OF such compensa.
ton in the proportion of their several
wage liability to such employe. If one
or more but not all of such employers
should be subject to thisSact, and other
wise subject to liability for compensation
hereunder, then the liability of the entire
compensation which their proportionate
wage liability bears to the entire wag
Of the employe: Provided, however, that
nothing In this section shall prevent any
arrangement between such employers for
a different distribution, as between them
selves. of the ultimate burden of such
compensation.
Section 10. (a) Any person who has
work done under contract on or about his
premises which is an operation of the
usual business which he there carries on,
shall be deemed an employer and shall be
liable under this act to such contractor,
his Subcontracts, and their employees,
when injured or killed on or about the
premises of the employer while doing
work which is in the usual course of his
business.
(b) The provisions of this section shall
apply to the relationships of landlord and
and lessor or lessee, when created
for the fraudulent purpose of avoiding
liability, but not otherwise. In such cases
employer Of the employees of the tenant
or lessee.
(c) The provisions of this section shall
not apply to the owner of premises upon
which improvements are being erected,
demolished, altered or repaired by an in
dependent contractor, but such independ-
ent contractor shall be deemed to be the
employer of the employees of his subcon-
tractors and their subcontractors when
employed on or about the premises where
the principal contractor is doing work.
(d) In all cases mentioned in the pre-
ceding subsections, the immediate con-
tractor or subcontractor shall be liable as
an employer of the employees Of his sub
contractors. All persons SO liable may be
made parties to the proceedings on the
application of any party. The liability of
the immediate employer shall be primary,
and that Of the others secondary in their
order, and any compensation paid by
those ~secondarily liable may be recovered
from those primarily liable, with attor-
ney's fees and expenses of the suit. Such
recovery may be had on motion in the
original proceedings
(e) No such employer shall be liable as
In this section provided, II the enploye
insured by sis immediate or any in
termediate employer.
Section IL. If a third person not in the
same employ is also liable, the employee
may select to hold either the employer or
the third person. Election to hold the
third person Shall release the employer.
Election to hold the employer shall op-
crate as a assignment of the cause of
action against the third person which the
employer or his insurer may enforce in
his own name or that of the employee, and
in such actions recover may be had Of
the amount of compensation awarded,
with the reasonable expense of the suit,
including attorneys fees. Election to hold
the employer shall not be deemed to have
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is fled with the commission.
Section IL. (a) This act shall apply to
all cases within its provisions, except
those exclusively covered by any federal
law.
(b) This act shall apply to all injuries
received In this state, regardless of where
the contract of employment was made,
and also to all injuries received outside
Of this, state under contract of employ
ment made in this state, unless the con-
tract of employment in any such case
shall otherwise provide.
Section IS. {a) In addition to all other
compensation, the employee shall receive
such medical, surgical and hospital treat
ment, including nursing, ambulance and
medicines as may reasonably be required
for the first eight weeks after the injury
or disability, to cure and relieve from the
effects of the injury, and not exceeding
the amount of two hundred dollars. If
the employee desires, he shall have the
right to select his own physician, surgeon
expense. Where such requirements are
furnished by a public hospital or other
institution, payment therefor shall be
made to the proper authorities.
(b) If 1t be shown to the commission
that such requirements are being fur
nished in such manner that there is rea-
sonable ground for believing that the life.
health. or recovery of the employe is en-
dangered, thereby, the commission may
hospital or other requirement.
(c) All fees and charges under this
section shall be fair and reasonable, shall
be subject to regulation by the commits
sion. and shall be limited to such as are
fair and reasonable for similar treatment
of injured persons of a like standard of
living. The commission shall also have
jurisdiction to hear and determine all dis
putes as to such charges.
(d) No compensation shall be payable
for the death or disability of an employee.
If and in so far as the same may be
caused, continued or aggravated by an
unreasonable refusal to submit to any
ton, the risk of which is, in the opinion
of the commission, inconsiderable In view
of the seriousness of the injury. If the
employe dies as a result of an operation
made necessary by the injury, such death
shall be deemed to be caused by the
injury.
(e) The testimony Of any physician
who treated the employe shall be admis-
sible in violence in any proceedings for
compensation under this act.
~ Every hospital or other person fur
nishing the employe with medical aid
shall permit its records to be copied by
and shall furnish full information to the
commission, the employer, the employe or
his dependents and any other party to
any proceedings for compensation under
this act, and certified copies of such rec
ords shall be admissible in evidence in
any such proceedings.
Section IA. (a) Except as provided in
section Is, no compensation shall be pay
able for the first seven days or less of
disability unless the disability shall last
longer than six weeks. Il
(b) Compensation shall be payable as
the wage were paid prior to the injury or
at least once every two weeks. Each in
stallment shall bear interest at the rate
of six per cent per annum from date when
due until paid. Compensation shall be
payable on the basis of $685. per cent of
the average earnings of the employe COM