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FILE NAME Painters and Allied Trades PAINT DATE 1931 DOC PAINT028 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Missouri Law 382 - * ORKMEN'S ORKMEN'S ORKMEN'S COMPENSATION | to be necessary If the employe desires he shall have the right to select his own physician surgeon or other such requirement at his own expense Where such requirements arefurnished by a public hospital or other institution payment therefor shalt made to the proper authorities - ; the require- If it be shown to the commission that such require- ments are being furnished in such manner that there is reason- able ground for believing that the life health or recoveroyf the employe is endangered thereby the commission may order a change in the physician surgeon hospital or other require- ment : . .! 0 All fees and charges under this section shall be fair and reasonable shall be subject to regulation by the commission . and shall be limited to such as are fair and reasonable for similar treatment of injured persons of a like standard of living The to commission shall also have jurisdiction hear and determine all disputes as to such charges who. ae .di No compensation shall be payable for the death or disability of an employe if and in so far the same may be caused continued or aggravated by an unreasonable refusal to or submit to any medical surgical treatment or operation the of risk of which is in the opinion the commission inconsiderable comison 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 injury Sede te The testimony of any physician who treated the em- - proceedings ploye shall be admissible in evidence in any for compensation under this act . i f Every hospital or other person furnishing the employe with medical aid shall permit its record to be copied by and shall furnish full information to the commission commission the employer the employe or his dependents and any other party any proceedings for compensation under this act and certified copies of such records shall be admissible in exidence in any such - i proceedings wee er ; : Approved April 16 1931 . H. B. 498.11 Terms Defining WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION as Used in the Act Certain ; ; AN ACT to amend section 3305 of the workmen's compensation by adding contracted by workmen Revised Statutes of thereto a provision te +! Missouri 1929 relating to the relating to occupational tiseases . : SECTION 1. : . SECTION SECTION . ne 8.330 Certain terins act defined Be it enacted by the General Assembly Assembly of the State of Missouri us follows Section 1. Amending section 3305 chapter 28 article 1 |: a Revised Statutes of Missouri 1929 That section 3305 Re- DEFINING TERMS USED IN ACT . 383 vised Statutes 1929 be amended by striking out the period the end of paragraph b of said section and adding the following unless the employer shall file with the commission a written notice that he elects to bring himself with respect to occupational disease within the provisions of this and by keeping posted in conspicuous place on his premises a not to the furnished by the commission and any employee entering services of such employer any employee remaining in such service thirty days after the posting of such notice shall be conclusively presunted to have elected to accept this section inless he shall have filed with the commission and his written notice that he elects reject this act theanitplosyaiedr sertion when so amended will read as follows : Sec 3305. Certain terms of act defined : 23 The word employee as used in this chapter shall be construed to mean every person in the service of any employer as defined in this - shall chapter under any contract of hire express or implied oral or written or under any appointment or election but . include persons whose average annual earnings exceed not three thousand six hundred dollars Any reference to any employee who has been injured shall when the employee is dead also include his dependents and other persons to whom compensa- | tion may be payable The word employee shall also include | all minors who work for an employer whether or not such minors are employed in violation of law and all such minors are hereby made of full age for all purposes under in connection | with or arising out of this chapter ao tp b The word accident as used in this chapter unless a different meaning is clearly indicated by the context he construed to mean an unexpected or unforeseen event hapen- happen- happen- ing suddenly and violently with or without human fault producing at the time objective symptoms of an injury term injury and personal injuries shall mean only violence to the physical physical structure of the body such disease infec- tion as naturally results therefrom The said terms in shall no case except as hereinafter provided be construed include - D occupational disease in any form nor shall they be construed _- to include any contagious or infectious contacted contacted disease ing the course of the employment nor shall they include death due to natural causes occurring the workman is at work Death when mentioned as a basis for the right to compensa- tion means only death resulting from such violence and its re- sultant effects occurring within three hundred weeks the after accident Procided that nothing this chapter contained shall --- of be construed to deprive employees their lights under the diseases laws of this state pertaining to occupational unless the employer shall tile with the conimission a written notice that he elects to bring himself with respect to occupational disease with- in the provisions of this act and by keeping posted in a conspicu- 384 WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ous place on his premises a notice thereof to be furnished by the commission and any employce entering the services of employer and any employee remaining in such service such days after the posting of such notice shall be thirty sumed to have elected to accept this section conclusively pre- filed with the commission and his unless he shall have he elects to reject this act employer a written notice that C Without otherwise affecting either the meaning or interpretation of the abridged clause personal injuries out of and in the course of such employment it is hereabryisdien-g ctlhaered not to cover workmen except while engaged in or about premises where their duties are being performed or where their services require their presence as a part of such service d An employee who is employed by the same for more than five and half consecutive employer for the purpose of this chapter be considered work days shall a casual employee a regular and ; e The term total disability as used in this chapter shall mean inability to return to any employment and merely mean inability to return to the employment in which employee was engaged at the time of the accident Approved May 14 1931 re not the