970 WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION. [ART...101

1914, ch. 800, sec. 62.
63. Definitions as used in this Article:

1. "Extra-hazardous employment" means a work or occupation de-
scribed in Section 32 of this Article.

2. "Employer," except when otherwise expressly stated, means a
person, partnership, association, corporation, and the legal representa-
tives of a deceased employer, or the receiver or trustee of a person,
partnership, association or corporation employing workmen in extra-
hazardous employments.

3. "Employe" means a person who is engaged in an extra-hazardous
employment in the service of an employer carrying on or conducting
the same upon the premises or at a plant, or in the course of his employ-
ment away from the plant of his employer, and shall not include farm
laborers. "Farm laborers" as used in this Article shall mean any
employes who, at the time of the accident, are engaged in rendering
any agricultural service, including the thrashing and harvesting of
crops, or who, at the time of the accident, are engaged in service inci-
dental to and in connection with agricultural pursuits or developments,
whether the employer be the farmer or other person undertaking or
contracting with the farmer to perform any such agricultural service,
pursuit or development. This Article shall not apply to farm laborers,
domestic servants nor to country blacksmiths, wheelwrights or similar
rural employments, nor in any case where the accident-occurred before
this Article takes effect, nor to casual employes or any employe whose
salary is in excess of two thousand dollars a year, or any employes who
are employed wholly without the State.

4. "Employment" includes employment only in a trade, business or
occupation carried on by the employer for pecuniary gain.

5. "Compensation", means the money allowance payable to an em-
ploye or to his dependents as provided for in this Article, and includes
funeral benefits provided therein.

6. "Injury" and "personal injury" mean only accidental injuries
arising out of and in the course of employment and such disease or
infection as may naturally and unavoidably result therefrom.

7. "Death" when mentioned as a basis for the right to compensation
means only death resulting from such injury.

8. "Average weekly wages" for the purposes of this Article shall be
taken to mean the average weekly wages earned by an employe when
working on full time.

9. "State Accident Fund" means the State Insurance Fund provided
for in Section 16 of this article.

10. "Child" shall include a posthumous child and a child legally
adopted prior to the injury of the employe.

11. "Beneficiary" means a husband, wife, child, children or depend-
ents of an employe in whom shall vest a right to receive payment under
this article.