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NY Work Comp L § 146 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 8 - Administration 146 - Offices of the Board.

§  146. Offices of the board. There shall be an office of the board in   the city of New York and at such other place or places in the  state  as   may  be  required  properly and conveniently to transact the business of   the board. The board may meet and exercise any or all of its  powers  at   any place in the state.
NY Work Comp L § 147 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 8 - Administration 147 - Vacancies and Removals.

§  147. Vacancies and removals. If a vacancy shall occur in the office   of any member of the board otherwise than  by  expiration  of  term,  it   shall  be  filled by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of   the senate, for the unexpired term. The governor may remove the chairman   or any member of the board for cause after giving  him  a  copy  of  the   charges and an opportunity of being heard in person or by counsel on not   less  than ten days' notice. If the chairman or a member of the board be   removed the governor shall file with the department of state a statement   of the cause of such removal.
NY Work Comp L § 148 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 8 - Administration 148 - Salaries and Expenses.

§ 148. Salaries and expenses. 1. The chairman and members of the board   shall  devote  their entire time to the duties of their office and shall   not practice in their respective professions or callings. The reasonable   and necessary expenses of the board and  the  reasonable  and  necessary   traveling  and  other expenses of the chairman and members of the board,   the secretary and other officers  and  employees  of  the  board,  while   actually engaged in the performance of their duties, outside of the city   of  Albany,  or  if  any  such  officer  or  employee be in charge of or   actually employed at an office of the  board  outside  of  the  city  of   Albany,  the  reasonable  and  necessary  traveling  and  other expenses   outside of the place in which such office is located, shall be paid from   the state treasury upon the audit and warrant of the  comptroller,  upon   vouchers  approved  by the chairman or vice-chairman or secretary of the   board.2. For the purpose of extending the benefits of workmen's compensation   and improving administration and expediting the adjudication of  claims,   the   chairman   is   hereby   authorized,  within  the  limits  of  the   appropriation available therefor, to initiate studies  and  surveys,  to   observe  operations  in  other  states, to conduct research, and to make   investigations in the entire field of workmen's compensation, within and   without the state of New York. The chairman is also hereby authorized to   accept a gift, grant, or  contribution  of  funds  to  be  used  in  his   discretion  to  carry  out the purposes of this subdivision and shall in   the annual report of the board set forth the progress of the same.
NY Work Comp L § 149 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 8 - Administration 149 - Employees.

§  149.  Employees.  Permanent  employees  of  the department of labor   assigned  to  duties  wholly  in  relation  to   the   enforcement   and   administration  of  this  chapter,  in  the  competitive  class  of  the   classified civil service in office when this section takes effect  shall   continue  in  office,  except that upon certification by the chairman to   the director of the budget filed within sixty days from  the  time  this   chapter  takes  effect  that  any  such employee is not required for the   exercise of the functions, powers, duties  and  obligations  transferred   and  assigned to the board pursuant to this chapter, such employee shall   not be continued; provided, however, that whenever there are  more  than   three  officers or employees in the same class and grade of position the   provisions of section thirty-one of the civil service law  shall  apply,   and  any  such  employee  or  employees not continued in office shall be   placed on the preferred eligible list.The  chairman  of  the  board  may  appoint  officers  and  employees,   including   such  investigators,  statisticians,  examiners,  and  other   assistants, as may be necessary for the exercise of the powers  and  the   performance of the duties of the chairman or the board.The  chairman  may transfer officers or employees from their positions   to other positions under the board;  may  abolish  or  consolidate  such   positions; and may suspend or remove from office any officer or employee   of  the  board; subject, however, to the provisions of the civil service   law and rules.
NY Work Comp L § 152 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 8 - Administration 152 - Administrative Regulations.

§ 152. Administrative regulations. The chairman of the board may make,   amend and repeal regulations for the administration of the board and its   employees. Such regulations shall not be deemed rules within the meaning   of  this  chapter  or  of  the  labor  law  unless  the  context of such   regulations otherwise requires.The chairman may by  order  filed  in  the  office  of  the  secretary   delegate any of his administrative powers to or direct any of his duties   other than as a member of the board to be performed by any other officer   of the board or the head of any bureau or section of the board.
NY Work Comp L § 153 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 8 - Administration 153 - Annual Report.

§  153.  Annual  report. The board shall on or before the first day of   February in each year make an annual report in writing to the  governor,   stating in detail the work it has done in hearing and deciding cases and   otherwise.
NY Work Comp L § 154 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 8 - Administration 154 - Construction of Article.

§  154.  Construction of article. This article shall be construed as a   continuation of those parts of article two of chapter thirty-six of  the   laws  of  nineteen  hundred  nine,  entitled  "An act relating to labor,   constituting chapter thirty-one of the consolidated laws," as amended by   chapter fifty of the laws  of  nineteen  hundred  twenty-one,  and  acts   amendatory thereof, in so far as it relates to the administration of the   workmen's compensation law, and not as a new enactment.
NY Work Comp L § 155 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 8 - Administration 155 - Saving Clause.

§  155.  Saving clause. This article shall not affect pending actions,   civil or criminal, brought by or against the department  of  labor,  the   industrial  commissioner  or  the  industrial board, but the same may be   prosecuted or defended in the same manner and with the same effect as if   this article had not been passed, by the industrial commissioner if  the   subject matter of the action or proceeding falls within his jurisdiction   and  otherwise  by  the  workmen's  compensation  board  or the chairman   thereof. Every  rule,  regulation,  order,  permit  or  license  of  the   industrial  commissioner  or industrial board in force when this article   takes effect shall continue in force  until  such  rule,  regulation  or   order  be  amended  or  repealed  or  such  permit or license revoked or   terminated pursuant to the provisions of this chapter or  of  the  labor   law,   or   otherwise.  Any  investigation,  examination  or  proceeding   undertaken, commenced or instituted by the industrial board  or  by  any   referee  prior to the taking effect of this article may be conducted and   continued to a final determination or conclusion in the same manner, and   under the same terms and conditions and with the same effect  as  though   this article had not been passed, by the workmen's compensation board or   the  chairman  thereof,  if  the  subject  matter  of the investigation,   examination or proceeding falls within its or his  jurisdiction  by  the   terms of this act, and otherwise by the industrial commissioner.
NY Work Comp L § 156 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 8 - Administration 156 - Separability.

§  156.  Separability.  If any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of   this article or the application thereof to any person or  circumstances,   shall,  for any reason, be adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction   to be invalid, such judgments shall not affect,  impair,  or  invalidate   the  remainder  of  this  article,  and the application thereof to other   person or circumstances, but shall be confined in its operation  to  the   clause,  sentence,  paragraph,  or part thereof directly involved in the   controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered and  to  the   person  or  circumstances  involved.  It  is  hereby  declared to be the   legislative intent that this article would have been  adopted  had  such   invalid provisions not been included.
NY Work Comp L § 157 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 8 - Administration 157 - Application of Article to Volunteer Firefighters' Benefit Law or the Volunteer Ambulance Workers' Benefit Law.

§  157.  Application of article to volunteer firefighters' benefit law   or the volunteer ambulance workers' benefit  law.  The  following  terms   used   in   this   article,   unless  inconsistent  with  the  volunteer   firefighters' benefit law or the volunteer  ambulance  workers'  benefit   law, are hereby enlarged as follows:1.  "Employer"  includes any political subdivision liable for benefits   pursuant to the volunteer firefighters' benefit  law  or  the  volunteer   ambulance workers' benefit law.2.  "Employee" includes a volunteer firefighter or volunteer ambulance   worker who has been or might be injured in line of duty or who  dies  or   might  die  from  such  an  injury.  When  a  political subdivision or a   district or area thereof is responsible  for  the  payment  of  benefits   pursuant  to  the  volunteer  firefighters' benefit law or the volunteer   ambulance workers' benefit law, it shall be  deemed  the  "employer"  of   such "employee."3.  "Workers' compensation" and "compensation" include the benefits in   relation  to  volunteer  firefighters  or  volunteer  ambulance  workers   pursuant  to  the  volunteer  firefighters' benefit law or the volunteer   ambulance workers' benefit law.4. "This chapter" includes the volunteer firefighters' benefit law and   the volunteer ambulance workers' benefit law, except when such a meaning   is inconsistent with this article.5. "Subdivisions one and two of section fifty", as used in section one   hundred fifty-one of this chapter, includes subdivision nine of  section   thirty  of  the volunteer firefighters' benefit law and subdivision nine   of section thirty of the volunteer ambulance workers' benefit law.
NY Work Comp L § 161 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 8-A - World Trade Center Rescue, Recovery and Clean-Up Operations 161 - Definitions.

§ 161. Definitions. Whenever used in this article:   1.  "Participant  in  World  Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations" means any (a) employee who within the course of  employment, or (b) volunteer upon presentation to the board of evidence satisfactory to the board that he or she:  (i) participated in the rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations at the World Trade Center site between September eleventh, two thousand one and September twelfth, two thousand two; or  (ii)  worked  at  the  Fresh  Kills Land Fill in New York city between September eleventh, two thousand one and September twelfth, two thousand two, or  (iii) worked at the New York city morgue or the  temporary  morgue  on pier locations on the west side of Manhattan between September eleventh, two thousand one and September twelfth, two thousand two, or  (iv)  worked  on the barges between the west side of Manhattan and the Fresh Kills Land Fill in New York city between September  eleventh,  two thousand one and September twelfth, two thousand two.   2. "World Trade Center site" means anywhere below a line starting from the  Hudson River and Canal Street; east on Canal Street to Pike Street; south on Pike Street to the East River; and extending to the  lower  tip of Manhattan.   3.  "Qualifying  condition"  means  any  of  the following diseases or conditions resulting from a hazardous exposure during  participation  in World Trade Center rescue, recovery or clean-up operations:  (a)  Diseases  of  the  upper respiratory tract and mucosae, including conditions such as  conjunctivitis,  rhinitis,  sinusitis,  pharyngitis, laryngitis,  vocal  cord  disease,  upper  airway  hyper-reactivity  and tracheo-bronchitis, or a combination of such conditions;  (b) Diseases of the lower respiratory tract, including but not limited to  bronchitis,  asthma,  reactive  airway  dysfunction  syndrome,   and different types of pneumonitis, such as hypersensitivity, granulomatous, or eosinophilic;  (c)  Diseases of the gastroesophageal tract, including esophagitis and reflux  disease,  either  acute  or  chronic,  caused  by  exposure   or aggravated by exposure;  (d)  Diseases  of  the  psychological  axis,  including post-traumatic stress  disorder,  anxiety,  depression,  or  any  combination  of  such conditions; or  (e)  New onset diseases resulting from exposure as such diseases occur in the future including cancer, chronic obstructive  pulmonary  disease, asbestos-related disease, heavy metal poisoning, musculoskeletal disease and chronic psychological disease.   4.  "Disablement"  shall  have  the same meaning as defined in section thirty-seven of this chapter and determined by the  board  in  the  same manner as provided in section forty-two of this chapter.
NY Work Comp L § 162 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 8-A - World Trade Center Rescue, Recovery and Clean-Up Operations 162 - Registration of Participation in World Trade Center Rescue, Recovery and Clean-Up Operations.

§  162.  Registration  of  participation in World Trade Center rescue,   recovery  and  clean-up  operations.  In  order  for  the  claim  of   a   participant   in  World  Trade  Center  rescue,  recovery  and  clean-up   operations  to  come  within  the  application  of  this  article,  such   participant  must file a written and sworn statement with the board on a   form promulgated by the chair indicating the dates and locations of such   participation and the name of such  participant's  employer  during  the   period  of  participation.  Such  statement must be filed not later than   September eleventh, two thousand twenty-two. The board shall transmit  a   copy  of  such  statement  to the employer or carrier named therein. The   filing of such a statement shall not be considered the filing of a claim   for benefits under this chapter.
NY Work Comp L § 163 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 8-A - World Trade Center Rescue, Recovery and Clean-Up Operations 163 - Notice; Participants in the World Trade Center Rescue, Recovery and Clean-Up Operations.

§ 163. Notice; participants in the World Trade Center rescue, recovery   and  clean-up  operations.  The  notice requirements for injury or death   resulting from a qualifying condition for a participant in  World  Trade   Center rescue, recovery and clean-up operations shall be the same as set   forth  in section eighteen of this chapter, except that the notice shall   be given to the employer, or in the case of a volunteer, to  the  board,   within  two  years after the disablement of the participant or after the   participant knew or should have known that the qualifying condition  was   causally  related  to  his  or  her  participation in World Trade Center   rescue, recovery and clean-up operations, whichever is the later date.
NY Work Comp L § 164 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 8-A - World Trade Center Rescue, Recovery and Clean-Up Operations 164 - Disablement of a Participant in World Trade Center Rescue, Recovery and Clean-Up Operations Treated as an Accident.

§  164.  Disablement  of  a  participant in World Trade Center rescue,   recovery and clean-up operations treated as an  accident.  The  date  of   disablement  of a participant in World Trade Center rescue, recovery and   clean-up operations  resulting  from  a  qualifying  condition  that  is   causally  related  to such participant shall be treated as the happening   of an accident within the meaning of this chapter and the procedure  and   practice  provided  in this chapter shall apply to all proceedings under   this article, except where otherwise specifically provided  herein.  The   board shall determine the date of disablement that is most beneficial to   the claimant.
NY Work Comp L § 165 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 8-A - World Trade Center Rescue, Recovery and Clean-Up Operations 165 - Reopening of Disallowed Claims.

§  165.  Reopening  of  disallowed claims. The board, upon receiving a   statement duly filed as required under section one hundred sixty-two  of   this  article, from a participant in World Trade Center rescue, recovery   and clean-up operations for a qualifying condition that  was  disallowed   as barred by section eighteen or section twenty-eight of this chapter or   by section one hundred sixty-two of this article for failure to register   timely  shall  reopen  and redetermine such claim in accordance with the   provisions of this article, provided that no such previously  disallowed   claim  for  a qualifying condition shall be determined to have a date of   disablement that would bar the claim under section eighteen  or  section   twenty-eight of this chapter.
NY Work Comp L § 166 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 8-A - World Trade Center Rescue, Recovery and Clean-Up Operations 166 - Liability of Employer and Insurance Carrier.

§  166.  Liability  of employer and insurance carrier. The employer in   whose employment an employee participated in World Trade Center  rescue,   recovery  and  clean-up  operations  shall be liable for any claim for a   qualifying condition that is  causally  related  to  such  participation   provided  that such participation arose out of and in the course of such   employment. For the purpose of determining which carrier  has  insurance   coverage  of  such  claim,  the date of accident shall be considered the   last day of such participation.
NY Work Comp L § 167 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 8-A - World Trade Center Rescue, Recovery and Clean-Up Operations 167 - Claims of Volunteers.

§  167.  Claims  of  volunteers. For persons who participated in World   Trade Center rescue, recovery and clean-up operations as volunteers, the   uninsured employers' fund shall be deemed to be  the  employer  for  the   purposes  of  administering  and paying claims pursuant to this article.   Benefits under this chapter shall be payable to such volunteers  in  the   first  instance  and to the extent that funds are available out of funds   appropriated to the United States Department of Labor under  Public  Law   109-148  to  reimburse  the uninsured employer's fund for the payment of   such benefits and thereafter from the  uninsured  employers'  fund.  The   uninsured  employers'  fund  may  pay  for volunteers' medical treatment   notwithstanding such medical expenses having been denied  by  the  World   Trade Center Health Organization.
NY Work Comp L § 200 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 9 - Disability Benefits 200 - Short Title.

§  200.  Short  title. This article shall be known and may be cited as   the "disability benefits law and the paid family leave benefits law."
NY Work Comp L § 202 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 9 - Disability Benefits 202 - Covered Employer.

§  202.  Covered employer. 1. An employer who has in employment, after   June thirtieth, nineteen hundred sixty-one, one  or  more  employees  on   each  of  at  least thirty days in any calendar year, shall be a covered   employer subject to the  provisions  of  this  article  from  and  after   January  first,  nineteen  hundred  sixty-two, or the expiration of four   weeks following the thirtieth day of such employment, whichever  is  the   later.2.  The  provisions of subdivision one of this section shall not apply   to an employer of personal or domestic  employees  in  a  private  home,   except  an  employer  shall become a covered employer from and after the   expiration of four  weeks  following  the  employment  of  one  or  more   personal or domestic employees who work for a minimum of forty hours per   week  for such employer and are employed on each of at least thirty days   in any calendar year.3. A covered employer, except  as  otherwise  provided  herein,  shall   continue  to be a covered employer until the end of any calendar year in   which he shall not have employed in employment one or more employees  on   each  of  thirty  days,  and  shall  have  duly  filed with the chairman   satisfactory evidence  thereof.  A  covered  employer  of  employees  in   personal  or  domestic  service in a private home shall continue to be a   covered employer until the end of any calendar year in  which  he  shall   not  have  employed  in  such service one or more employees for at least   forty hours per week and on each of at least thirty days, and shall have   duly filed with the chairman satisfactory evidence thereof.4. An employer who by operation of law becomes successor to a  covered   employer, or who acquires by purchase or otherwise the trade or business   of a covered employer, shall immediately become a covered employer.5. Whenever an employee of a covered employer, with the consent of the   employer,  engages  or  permits another to do any work in employment for   which the employee is employed, the employer shall  be  deemed  for  the   purpose  of  this  article to be the employer also of such other person,   regardless of whether the employee or the employer pays for his service.
NY Work Comp L § 203-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 9 - Disability Benefits 203-A - Retaliatory Action Prohibited for Family Leave.

§  203-a.  Retaliatory  action  prohibited  for  family  leave. 1. The   provisions of section one hundred twenty of this chapter and section two   hundred forty-one of this article shall be applicable to family leave.2. Nothing in this section shall be deemed  to  diminish  the  rights,   privileges,  or remedies of any employee under any collective bargaining   agreement or employment contract.
NY Work Comp L § 203-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 9 - Disability Benefits 203-B - Reinstatement Following Family Leave.

§  203-b.  Reinstatement following family leave. Any eligible employee   of a covered employer who  takes  leave  under  this  article  shall  be   entitled,  on  return from such leave, to be restored by the employer to   the  position  of  employment  held  by  the  employee  when  the  leave   commenced,  or  to  be restored to a comparable position with comparable   employment benefits, pay and other terms and conditions  of  employment.   The  taking  of  family  leave  shall  not  result  in  the  loss of any   employment benefit  accrued  prior  to  the  date  on  which  the  leave   commenced.  Nothing  in  this  section shall be construed to entitle any   restored employee to the accrual of any seniority or employment benefits   during any period of leave, or any right, benefit or position  to  which   the  employee  would  have  been entitled had the employee not taken the   leave.