CHAPTER 145, LAWS OF 1913, PAGE 230. A Further Supplement to an act entitled "An act prescribing the liability of an employer to make compensation for injuries received by an employe in the course of employment, establishing an elective schedule of compensation, and regulating procedure for the determination of liability and compensation thereunder," approved April fourth, one thousand nine hundred and eleven. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. Every employe who shall be in the employ of the State, county, municipality or any board or commission, or any other governing body, including boards of education, within this State, shall be compensated under and by virtue of Section II. to which this act is a supplement; provided, however, that no person receiving a salary greater than twelve hundred dollars per year, nor any person holding an elective office shall be entitled to compensation; and provided, further, that nothing herein contained shall be construed as affecting any pension fund now or hereafter provided by law. 2. When any payment shall be due under the provisions of this supplement or the act to which it is a supplement, the name of the injured employe, or in case of his death, the names of the persons to whom payment is to be made as his dependents, shall be carried upon the pay roll, and payment shall be made in the same manner and from the same source in which and from which the wages of the injured employe were paid. In event that any extraordinary payment larger than the weekly rate of compensation shall be due, such payment shall be made from any fund available for the maintenance or incidental expenses of the institution, department, board or governing body under and by which the employe was employed. 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 27, 1913. In Luckey v. Newark, 37 N. J. L. J. 117, it was held that public employes were entitled to recover under the act to which this is a supplement, and in Allen v. Millville, 87 N. J. L. 356, 95 Atl. 130, 88 N. J. L. 693, 96 Atl. 1101, it was held that municipalities were employers within the meaning of the 1911 act. This act does not apply to death cases where there are dependents affected. Jersey City v. Borst, 90 N. J. L. 454, 101 Atl. 1033. This act applies to a member of police force of city of Burlington. Rogan v. Burlington, 39 N. J. L. J. 216. An elective officer is not entitled to compensation. CHAPTER 301, LAWS OF 1913, PAGE 617. A Supplement to an act entitled "An act prescribing the liability of an employer to make compensation for injuries received by an employe in the course of employment, establishing an elective schedule of compensation, and regulating procedure for the determination of liability and compensation thereunder," approved April fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. In any case where an infant or minor under the age of twenty-one years shall be entitled to receive a distributive share of or compensation by virtue of the provisions of the act to which this act is a supplement, any duly authorized guardian of the person and property of and for such infant or minor appointed by the surrogate or the Orphans' Court of the county in which said infant or minor resides shall be authorized and empowered to act for such infant or minor to the same extent as a duly appointed next friend or guardian ad litem appointed by any court of law of this State, and any such guardian appointed by the surrogate or Orphans' Court shall have the right and authority to compromise and make composition in behalf of such infant or minor of any disputed claim for compensation arising under the provisions of the act to which this act is a supplement; provided, the terms of such compromise or composition shall be approved by an order of the Court of Common Pleas of the county wherein such infant or minor resides upon presentation of the facts and the terms thereof to said court, before the same shall become effective. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved April 9, 1913. See note to paragraph 20 of main act and the following act. CHAPTER 59, LAWS OF 1915, PAGE 101. A Supplement to an act entitled "An act prescribing the liability of an employer to make compensation for injuries received by an employe in the course of employment, establishing an elective schedule of compensation, and regulating procedure for the determination of liability and compensation thereunder," approved April fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. In case where an infant or minor under the age of twenty-one years shall be entitled to receive a sum or sums amounting, in the aggregate, to not more than two hundred and fifty dollars as compensation for injuries, or as a distributive share by virtue of the provisions of the act to which this act is a supplement, whether heretofore or hereafter arising, the father, mother or natural guardian upon whom such infant or minor shall be dependent for support shall be authorized and empowered to receive and receipt for such moneys to the same extent as a guardian of the person and property of such infant or minor duly appointed by the surrogate of the Orphans' Court of the county in which such infant or minor resides, and the release or discharge of such father, mother or natural guardian shall be a full and complete discharge of all claims or demands of such infant or minor thereunder. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 17, 1915. -10 |