Document jNE008v8ovE8YE59YLvR0OQV9

TEXT OF THE OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE ACT ACT NO. 284, 1939 P. L. 556. An Act defining the liability of an employer to pay damages for occupational disease contracted by an employee arising out of and in the course of employment; establishing an elective schedule of compensation; providing procedure for the determination of liability and compensation thereunder; imposing duties on the Department of Labor and Industry, the Workmen's Compensation Board, Workmen's Compensation Referees, and deans of medical schools; creating a medical board to determine controverted medical issues; establishing an Occupational Disease Fund in custody of the State Workmen's Insurance Board; imposing upon the Commonwealth a part of the compensation payable for certain occupational diseases; making an appropriation; and prescribing penalties. The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows: Article I INTERPRETATION AND DEFINITIONS Section 101, This act shall be called and may be cited as The Pennsyl vania Occupational Disease Act It shall apply to disabilities and deaths caused by occupational disease as defined in this act, resulting from employment within this Commonwealth, irrespective of the place where the contract o( hiring was made, renewed, or extended, and shall not apply to any such disabilities and deaths resulting from employment outside of the Commonwealth. Section 102. Wherever in this act the singular is used, the plural shall be included; and where the masculine gender is used, the feminine and neuter shall be included. Section 103. The term "employer," as used in this act, is declared tobe synonymous with master, and to include natural persons, partnerships, joint-stock companies, corporations for profit, corporations not for profit, municipal corporations, the Commonwealth, and all governmental agencies created by it. *Section 104.' The term "employee," as used in this act, is declared to be synonymous with servant, and includes all natural persons who perform services, except agricultural services or domestic services performed in a private home, for another for a valuable consideration, exclusive of persons whose employ ment is casual in character and not in the regular course of the business of the employer and exclusive of persons to whom articles or materials are given out to be made up, cleaned, washed, altered, ornamented, finished, or repaired, or adapted for sale, in the worker's own home, or on other premises not under the control or management of the employer. Every executive officer of a cor poration elected or appointed in accordance with the charter and by-laws of the corporation, except elected officers of the Commonwealth or any of its political subdivisions, shall be an employee of the corporation. * Aa amended bj Act No. 333, Lava of I93S, effective March 29,1936. 104