1962

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 634

21.

(b) The following shall constitute employees subject
to the provisions of this act, except as exempted under
subsection (c) of this section:

(1) Every person, including a person under
eighteen years of age, whether lawfully or unlawfully
employed, in the service of an employer under any contract
of hire or apprenticeship, express or implied, and all
helpers and assistants of employees whether paid by the
employer or employee, if employed with the knowledge, actual
or constructive, of the employer.

[(2) Every officer of the corporation EXCEPT A
CLOSE CORPORATION, rendering services for said corporation
for monetary remuneration except that an officer may elect
not to be covered OF A CLOSE CORPORATION. [ if the
corporation maintains a health and accident insurance plan
providing benefits for accidental injury or occupational
disease equivalent to benefits available under the Workmen's
Compensation Law.]

[(3)] (2) Any employer, partner or sole
proprietor or officer of a CLOSE corporation electing
coverage under the provisions of § 67 (4) of this article.

[(4)] (3) Every person in the service of
any political subdivision or agency thereof, under any
contract of hire, express or implied, and every official or
officer thereof, whether elected or appointed, while
performing his official duties. Except as provided in
subsection 21 (c) [(6)] (5) of this act, every person
who is a member of a volunteer fire or rescue squad or
police department shall be deemed for the purpose of this
act, to be in the employment of the political subdivision of
the State where the department is organized. Except as
provided in subsection 21 (c) [(6)] (5) of this act,
every person who is a regularly enrolled volunteer member or
trainee of the civil defense corps of this State as
established under the Maryland Civil Defense Act shall be
deemed, for the purposes of this act, to be in the
employment of the State.

[(5)] (4) Every person performing
services for remuneration in the course of the trade,
business, profession or occupation of an employer at the
time of the injury, provided such person in relation to this
service does not maintain a separate business, does not hold
himself out to and render service to the public and not
himself an employer subject to this act.

[(6)] (5) Subject to the provisions of
this section, every person regularly selling or distributing
newspapers on the street or to customers at their homes or
places of business. For the purposes of this act, such
person shall be deemed an employee of any independent news
agency for whom he shall sell newspapers, or of each