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766 WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION. [ART. CI
Nothing in this section shall be construed as preventing a workman
from recovering compensation under this Article from the sub-contractor
instead of from the contractor.
Whenever an employee of a sub-contractor files a claim under this
Article against the principal contractor, the principal contractor shall
have the right to join the sub-contractor or any intermediate contractors
as defendant or co-defendant in the case.
61.
This section referred to in construing section 56—see notes thereto.
Brenner v. Brenner, 127 Md. 193.
62.
See notes to section 14.
1914, ch. 800, sec. 62. 1916, ch. 597. 1916, ch. 86.
63. Definitions as used in this Article:
1. "Extra-hazardous employment" means a work or occupation
described 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. "Employee" means a person who is engaged in an extra-hazard-
ous employment in the service of an employer carrying on or conduct-
ing the same upon the premises or at a plant, or in the course of his
employment away from the plant of his employer, and shall not include
farm laborers. "Farm laborers" as used in this Article shall mean any
employees 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,
pusuit 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 employees or any employee whose
salary is in excess of two thousand dollars a year, or any employees 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
employee or to his dependents as provided for in this Article, and
includes funeral benefits provided therein.
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