ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor                              Ch. 57

full amount of their wages in legal tender money of the United States, and any
contract by or on behalf of any such corporation for the payment of the whole or any
part of such wages in any other manner than herein provided shall be and is hereby
declared illegal, null and void. Every such employee shall be entitled to recover from
any such corporation employing him the whole or so much of the wages earned by him
as shall not have been actually paid to him in legal tender money of the United States
without setoff or deduction of his demand for or in respect of any account or claim
whatever.]

[117-2.

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent any such corporation
demising to any of its employees the whole or any part of any tenement in said county
of any rent thereon reserved of from contracting for or advancing money to supply
him with medicine or medical attendance needed for himself or his family or smithing
or fuel and deducting from the wages of any such employee for and in respect of such
rent, medicine, medical attendance, smithing or fuel or money advanced as
aforesaid.]

[117-3.

Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to prevent the payment, in
whole or in part, of the wages of any such employee in the notes of any bank, payable
to bearer on demand, that shall be current at par in this state at the time of such
payment, but all payments made in such notes with consent of such employees shall
be as valid and effective as if made in legal tender money of the United States.]

[117-4.

Any corporation aforementioned which shall, directly or indirectly, enter into
any contract or make any payment hereby declared illegal shall be liable to
indictment and, upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction, shall
for the first offense be fined one hundred dollars ($100.) and for each succeeding
offense not less than five hundred dollars ($500.) nor more than one thousand dollars
($1,000.).]

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect October 1, 2004.

Approved April 13, 2004.

CHAPTER 57
(House Bill 627)

AN ACT concerning

State Acupuncture Board - Auricular Detoxification

FOR the purpose of altering the supervision requirements for individuals performing
auricular detoxification; repealing the termination provision for certain

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