1594                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                       [CH. 723

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,,
That Section 23(d) of Article 101 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1968 Supplement), title, "Workmen's Compensation," sub-
title, "Application of Article; Extra-Hazardous Employments," be
and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments,
to read as follows:

23.

(d) When disability or death of an employee shall be due to
silicosis, asbestosis or other pulmonary dust disease, the employer
shall be liable for compensation if such disease causing such dis-
ability or death shall be due to the nature of the employment in
which the hazards of such disease actually exist, and to a reasonable
degree of medical certainty is attributable to his type of employment,
and is actually incurred in his employment, provided such disability
or death shall occur within five (5) years after the employee shall
be found to be affected by silicosis, asbestosis, or other pulmonary
dust disease. This section shall apply only to cases where there has
been an injurious exposure for a period of 90 days subsequent to
June 1,1967.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1969.

Approved May 14, 1969.

CHAPTER 723
(House Bill 1042)

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 new Sections 67(3) and 67(3) (a) to stand in lieu of
the section so repealed, to clarify the reference in the statute as
to right of self-employed individuals or partners to qualify as
"employees" under the Workmen's Compensation Law.

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repealed and that new Sections 67(3) and 67(3) (a) be and they
are hereby enacted in lieu thereof, to stand in the place of the section
so repealed, and to read as follows:

67.

(3) "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