1462 LAWS OP MARYLAND.
(d) That the injury did not result solely from the intoxica-
tion of the injured employe while on duty.
SEC. 62. Definitions as used in this Act:
1. "Extra-hazardous employment" means a work or occu-
pation described in Section 32 of this Act.
2. "Employer," except when otherwise expressly stated,
means a person, partnership, association, corporation, and the
legal representatives of a deceased employer, or the receiver or
trustee of a person, partnership, association or corporation em-
ploying 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 employment away from the plant of his
employer, and shall not include farm laborers. "Farm labor-
ers," as used in this Act, shall mean any employes who, at
the time of the accident, are engaged in rendering any agri-
cultural service, including the thrashing and harvesting of
crops, or who, at the time of the accident; are engaged in ser-
vice incidental 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
Act shall not apply to farm laborers, domestic servants nor to
country blacksmiths, wheelwrights or similar rural employ
ments, nor in any case where the accident occurred before this
Act takes effect, nor to casual employes or any employe whose
salary is in excess of two thousand dollars a year, or any em-
ployes 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 employe or to his dependents as provided for in this Act,
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.
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