MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                       1381

Sec. 9. 10. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect July JUNE 1, 1969.

Approved May 14, 1969.

CHAPTER 588
(Senate Bill 222)

AN ACT to repeal Section 67 (3) of Article 101 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1964 Replacement Volume and 1968 Supple-
ment) , title "Workmen's Compensation," subtitle "Miscellaneous,"
and to enact a new Section 67 (3) in lieu thereof to stand in the
place of the section so repealed, re-enacting the provisions of a
law concerning certain definitions for the purposes of the Work-
men's Compensation Act in order to remove any doubts of the
proper wording of this section.

Whereas, Section 67 (3) of Article 101 of the Code was amended
by Chapter 742 of the Acts of 1968; and

Whereas, There is some doubt whether the Acts of 1968 were
properly prepared and as to its possible effect upon the Workmen's
Compensation Laws; and

Whereas, It is desirable to enact the section with its proper word-
ing in order to remove any doubts about its present language; now,
therefore,

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 67 (3) of Article 101 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1964 Replacement Volume and 1968 Supplement), title "Work-
men's Compensation," subtitle "Miscellaneous," be and it is hereby
repealed, and that new Section 67 (3) be and it is hereby enacted in
lieu thereof, to stand in the place of the section repealed, and to read
as follows:

67.

(3) (a) "Employee" 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 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
threshing or harvesting of crops, or who, at the time of the accident,
are engaged in service incidental to and in connection with agricul-
tural pursuits or developments, whether the employer be the farmer
or other person undertaking or contracting with the farmer to per-
form any such agricultural service, pursuit or development. This
Article shall not apply to cutters of cord wood or fire wood, farm
laborers, domestic servants, nor to country blacksmiths, wheel-
wrights or similar rural employments, unless these employments
elect to come under this Article as provided in Section 31, nor in
any case where the accident occurred before this Article takes effect,