3664 ARTICLE 101

An. Code, 1924, sec. 31. 1912, sec. 31. 1914, ch. 800, sec. 31.

32. Nothing herein shall affect any existing contract of policy of em-
ployer's liability insurance or the liability of any mutual insurance asso-
ciation, or any arrangement now existing between employers and employees,
providing for the payment to such employees, their families, dependents or
representatives of sick, accident or death benefits in addition to the com-
pensation provided for by this Article; but liability for the compensation
specified in this Article shall not be reduced or affected by any insurance,
contribution or other benefit whatsoever, due to or received by the person
entitled to such compensation, and the person so entitled shall, irrespective
of any such insurance or other contract, have the right to recover the com-
pensation directly from the employer.

This section referred to in construing sec. 48—see notes thereto. Scott v. Independent
Ice Co., 135 Md. 345.

Application of Article; Extra-Hazardous Employments.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 32. 1914, ch. 800, sec. 32. 1916, ch. 597, sec. 32. 1920, ch. 456, sec. 32.
1924, ch. 583, sec. 32. 1929, ch. 331.

33. Compensation provided for in this Article shall be payable for
injuries sustained or death incurred by employees engaged in the follow-
ing extra-hazardous employments:

(1) The operation, including construction and repair, of railways oper-
ated by steam, electric or other motive power, street railways and incline
railways, but not in their construction when constructed by any person
other than the company, which owns or operates the railways, including
work of express, sleeping, parlor and dining car employees on railway
trains.

(2) Construction and operation of railways not included in paragraph 1.

(3) The operation, including construction and repair, of car shops,
machine shops, steam and power plants, and other works for the purposes
of any such railway, or used or to be used in connection with it when opera-
ated, constructed or repaired by the company which owns or operates the
railway.

(4) The operation, including construction and repair, of car shops, ma-
chine shops, steam and power plants, not included in paragraph 3.

(5) The operation, including construction and repair, of telephone lines
and wires for the purposes of the business of a telephone company, or used
or to be used in connection with its business, when constructed or operated
by the company.

(6) The operation, including construction and repair, of telegraph lines
and wires f or the purposes of the business of a telegraph company, or used
or to be used in connection with its business, when constructed or operated
by the company.

(7) Construction of telegraph and telephone lines not included in para-
graphs 5 and 6.

(8) The operation, within or without the state, including repair, of
vessels other than vessels of other states or countries used in interstate or
foreign commerce, when operated or repaired by the company.
(9) Shipbuilding, including construction and repair in a ship yard or
elsewhere, not included in paragraph 8.

(10) Longshore work, including the loading or unloading of cargoes or
parts of cargoes of grain, coal, ore, freight, general merchandise, lumber