STATE OF ILLINOIS 
DWIGHT H. GREEN, Governor 
Illinois Workmens 
Compensation Act 
(As Amended and in Force July, 1947) 
INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION OF ILLINOIS 
WILLIAM E. KAISER, Chairman 
160 North LaSalle Street 
CHICAGO I, ILL 
(Prim ed by author! . uj. che State of lllnoie) Workmen’s 
Compensation Act 
OF THE 
STATE OF ILLINOIS. 
As amended and in force July, 1947 
INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION 
William E. Kaiser, Chairman 
MEMBERS OF COMMISSION 
William John Granata 
William E. King 
John Moulin 
Elmer Schofield 
George R. Murphy 
Secretary Dwight H. Green, Governor TABLE OF CONTENTS 
PAGE 
Title 5 
Sec. 1. Employer—Notice 5 
Sec. 2. Repealed „ 6 
Sec. 3. Applies Automatically 7 
Sec. 3y2. Repealed ; 8 
Sec. 4. Term “Employer”—How Construed 8 
Sec. 5. Term “Employee”—How Construed 8 
Sec. 6. Employee’s Right to Recover Damages 10 
Sec. 7. Amount of Compensation for Injury Resulting in Death 10 
Sec. 8. Amount of Compensation for Injury Not Resulting in Death 17 
Sec. 9. Where Payment in Lump Sum Desired 27 
Sec, 10. Basis for Computing Compensation 28 
Sec. 11. Compensation Measure of Responsibility Employer Assumed 
Under Act .’. 29 
Sec. 12. Injured Must Submit to Examination 30 
Sec. 13. Industrial Board Created—Appointment—Term of Office 31 
lee. 14. Salary—Secretary—Clerks—Seal 32 
Sec. 15. Jurisdiction—Duties - . 33 
Sec. 16. Rules and Orders—Procedure—Powers 34 
Sec. 17. Blank Forms—Books and Records 36 
Sec. 18. Questions Determined by Industrial Board 37 
Sec. 19. Disputed Questions of Law or Fact—Committee of Arbitra- 
tion—Decision—Petition for Review—Physician—Decision 
of Industrial Board—Review by Circuit Court or City 
Court—Circuit Court to Render Judgment—Review after 
Award—Address to be Filed—Notice—Writ of Error to 
Supreme Court .". 37 
Sec. 19a. Rights and Remedies of Poor Person to have Transcript With- 
out Cost 45 
Sec. 20. Industrial Board to Report to Governor 46 
Sec. 21. Award not Subject to Lien—Death 46 
Sec. 22. Contract within Seven Days after Injury Presumed Fraudu- 
lent - 47 
Sec. 23. Waiver of Provisions Must be Approved by Industrial Board 47 
Sec. 24. Notice of Accident; Limit of Time for Filing Claim 47 TABLE OF CONTENTS—Continued 
PAGE 
Sec. 25. How Employer may be Relieved of Liability for Compensation 48 
Sec. 26. Provisions to be Made by Employer Electing to Pay Compen- 
sation—Approval of Industrial Board—When Provision not 
made or not Approved—Insurance Liability—Failure to 
Comply i 48 
Sec. 27. Not Affect Continuance of any Existing Insurance, etc.—Not 
Prevent Employer from Insuring--Employee May Insure 
for Additional Benefits 51 
Sec. 28. When Insurance Carrier becomes Primarily Liable 52 
Sec. 29. Where Injury Caused under Circumstances Creating a Legal 
Liability in some Person Other than the Employer 52 
Sec. 30. Report of Accident, etc., by Employer to Industrial Board 53 
Sec. 30%. Printed Notices of Rules 54 
Sec. 31. Who Included in Term “Employer”—Contracting with Others 
to do the Work 54 
Sec. 32. Right of Action Accruing Before Taking Effect of this Act— 
if this Act Repealed, etc.—Claim Under Previous Act, how 
Adjusted 55 
Sec. 33. Penalties 55 
Sec. 33%. Name of Act 55 
Sec. 34 Invalidity - 56 
Sec. 35. Repeal 56 
Commutation Tables - 57 
Subject Index 60 
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> 14 5 
WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ACT 
An Act to promote the general ivelfare of the people of 
this State hy providing compensation for accidental 
injuries or death suffered in the course of employment 
within this State, and without this State where the 
contract of employment is made within this State; pro- 
viding for the enforcement and administering thereof, 
and a penalty for its violation, and repealing an Act 
entitled “An Act to promote the general ivelfare of the 
people of this State hy providing compensation for 
accidental injuries or death suffered in the course of 
employment,” approved June 10, 1911; in force May 
1, 1912, as subsequently amended. 
Section 1. Employer—Notice.] Be it enacted hy 
the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the 
General Assembly: That an employer in this State, who 
does not come within the classes enumerated by section 
three (3) of this Act, may elect to provide and pay com- 
pensation for accidental injuries sustained by any em- 
ployee, arising out of and in the course of the employment 
according to the provisions of this Act, and thereby re- 
lieve himself from any liability for the recovery of dam- 
ages, except as herein provided. 
(a) Election by any employer to provide and pay 
compensation according to the provisions of this Act shall 
be made by the employer filing notice of such election 
with the industrial commission, or by insuring his lia- 
bility to pay compensation under this Act in some insur- 
ance carrier authorized, licensed or permitted to do such 
insurance business in this State. 
(b) Every employer within the provisions of this 
Act who has elected to provide and pay compensation 
according to the provisions of this Act by filing notice of 
such election with the industrial commission, shall be 
bound thereby as to all his employees until January 1st 
of the next succeeding year and for terms of each year 
thereafter: Provided, any such employer who may have 
once elected, may elect not to provide and pay the com- 
pensation herein provided for accidents resulting in 
either injury or death and occurring after the expiration 
of any such calendar year by filing notice of such election 
with the industrial board at least sixty days prior to the 
expiration of any such calendar year, and by posting such 
Compensation 
Accidental 
Injuries 
Employer 
Election 
to Pay 
Compensation 
Notice of 
Election 
Insuring 
Liability 
Bound to 
Employees 
Rejection 
When Filed 6 
Notice 
Posting 
notice at a conspicuous place in the plant, shop, office, 
room or place where such employee is employed, or by 
personal service, in written or printed form, upon such 
employees, at least sixty (60) days prior to the expiration 
of any such calendar year. Every employer within the 
provisions of this Act who has elected to provide and 
pay compensation according to the provisions of this Act 
by insuring his liability to pay compensation under this 
Act, as above provided, shall be bound thereby as to all 
his employees until the date of expiration or cancellation 
of such policy of insurance, or any renewal thereof. 
(c) In the event any employer mentioned in this 
section, elects to provide and pay the compensation pro- 
vided in this Act, then every employee of such employer, 
as a part of his contract of hiring or who may be em- 
ployed at the time of the taking effect of this Act and the 
acceptance of its provisions by such employer, shall be 
deemed to have accepted all the provisions of this Act 
and shall be bound thereby unless within thirty (30) 
days after such hiring or after the taking effect of this 
Act, and its acceptance by such employee, he shall file a 
notice to the contrary with the industrial board, whose 
duty it shall be to immediately notify the employer, and 
until such notice to the contrary is given to the employer, 
the measure of liability of such employer shall be deter- 
mined according to the compensation provisions of this 
Act: Provided, however, that any employee may with- 
draw from the operation of this Act upon filing a written 
notice of withdrawal at least ten (10) days prior to Jan- 
uary 1st of any year with the industrial board, whose 
duty it shall be to immediately notify such employer by 
registered mail, and, until such notice to the contrary is 
given to such employer, the measure of liability of such 
employer shall be determined according to the compensa- 
tion provisions of this Act. 
(d) Any such employer or employee may, without 
prejudice to any existing right or claim, withdraw his 
election to reject this Act by giving thirty (30) days’ 
written notice in such manner and form as may be pro- 
vided by the industrial board. [Amended by Act ap- 
proved June 10, 1929.] 
Sec. 2. Repealed.] Section two of an Act entitled, 
“An Act to promote the general welfare of the people of 
this State by providing compensation for accidental in- 
juries or death suffered in the course of employment 
within this State; providing for the enforcement and 
administering thereof, and a penalty for its violation, and 
repealing an Act entitled, ‘An Act to promote the general 
Effect of 
Election 
Rejection by 
Employer 
Employees' 
Withdrawal 
Notice 
Rejection 
Withdrawal 
of Election to 
Repeal and 
Amendments 7 
welfare of the people of this State by providing compen- 
sation for accidental injuries or death suffered in the 
course of employment, approved June 10, 1911, in force 
May 1, 1912,’ approved June 28, 1913, in force July 1, 
1913, as subsequently amended” is hereby repealed. 
[Amended by Act approved June 25, 1917.] 
Sec. 3. Applies automatically.] The provisions 
of this Act hereinafter following shall apply automat- 
ically and without election to the State, county, city, 
town, township, incorporated village or school district, 
body politic or municipal corporation, and to all em- 
ployers and all their employees, engaged in any depart- 
ment of the following enterprises or businesses which are 
declared to be extra hazardous, namely: 
1. The erection, maintaining, removing, remodeling, 
altering or demolishing of any structure, except as pro- 
vided in sub-paragraph 8 of this section. 
2. Construction, excavating or electrical work, ex- 
cept as provided in sub-paragraph 8 of this section. 
3. Carriage by land, water or aerial service and 
loading or unloading in connection therewith, including 
the distribution of any commodity by horse-drawn or 
motor driven vehicle where the employer employs more 
than two employees in the enterprise or business, except 
as provided in sub-paragraph 8 of this section. 
4. The operation of any warehouse or general 
or terminal storehouses. 
5. Mining, surface mining or quarrying. 
6. Any enterprise in which explosive materials are 
manufactured, handled or used in dangerous quantities. 
7. In any enterprise wherein molten metal, or ex- 
plosive or injurious gases or vapors, or inflammable va- 
pors or fluids, or corrosive acids are manufactured, used, 
generated, stored or conveyed in dangerous quantities. 
7%. Any enterprise in which sharpedged cutting 
tools, grinders or implements are used, including all en- 
terprises which buy, sell or handle junk and salvage, 
demolish or reconstruct machinery, except as provided in 
sub-paragraph 8 of this section. 
8. In any enterprise in which statutory or munici- 
pal ordinance regulations are now or shall hereafter be 
imposed for the regulating, guarding, use or the placing 
of machinery or appliances or for the protection and safe- 
guarding of the employees or the public therein; each of 
which occupations, enterprises or businesses are hereby 
declared to be extra hazardous: Provided, nothing con- 
tained herein shall be construed to apply to any work, 
employment or operations done, had or conducted by 
farmers and others engaged in farming, tillage of the 
State, etc., 
Extra 
Hazardous 
Businesses 
Automatically 
Under 
Structure 
Construction 
Carriage 
More than 
Two Em- 
ployees 
Warehouse 
Mining 
Explosive 
Materials 
Vapors 
Gases 
Sharp Edged 
T ools 
Grinders 
Junk and 
Salvage 
Statutes or 
Ordinances 
Farmers 
Excluded soil, or stock raising, or to those who rent, demise or lease 
land for any such purposes, or to any one in their employ 
or to any work done on a farm or country place, no mat- 
ter what kind of work or service is being done or 
rendered. 
9. Any enterprise, business or work in connection 
with the laying out or improvement of subdivisons of 
tracts of land. 
10. Any enterprise for the treatment of cross-ties, 
switch-ties, telegraph poles, timber or other wood with 
creosote or other preservatives. [Amended by Act ap- 
proved June 10, 1929. 
Sec. 3y2. [Repealed by Act approved July 3, 
1931. 
Sec. 4. Term “employer”—how construed.] The 
term “employer” as used in this Act shall be construed 
to be: 
First—The State and each county, city, town, town- 
ship, incorporated village, school district, body politic, or 
municipal corporation therein. • 
Second—Every person, firm, public or private cor- 
poration, including hospitals, public service, eleemosy- 
nary, religious or charitable corporations or associations 
who has any person in service or under any contract for 
hire, express or implied, oral or written, and who is en- 
gaged in any of the enterprises or businesses enumerat- 
ed in section three (3) of this Act, or who at or prior to 
the time of the accident to the employee for which com- 
pensation under this Act may be claimed, shall in the 
manner provided in this Act have elected to become 
subject to the provisions of this Act, and who shall not, 
prior to such accident, have effected a withdrawal of 
such election in the manner provided in this Act. 
[Amended by Act approved June 25, 1917. 
Sec. 5. Term “employee”—how construed.] The 
term “employee” as used in this Act shall be construed 
to mean: 
First—Every person in the service of the State, 
including all persons in the service of the University of 
Illinois on and after January 25, 1933 except members 
of the instructional, research, and administrative staffs 
thereof when not, at the time of the injury, actually en- 
gaged in an occupation declared to be extra-hazardous in 
Section Three (3) of this Act, county, city, town, town- 
ship, incorporated village or school district, body 
politic, or municipal corporation therein, under appoint- 
ment or contract of hire, express or implied, oral or 
written, except any totally blind person, any official of 
Subdividing 
of Land 
Wood 
Preservatives 
T erm 
“Employer” 
Defined 
State and 
Sub- Divisions 
Persons 
Corporations 
Associations 
Person in 
Service 
Contract of 
Hire 
Business in 
Sec. 3 
Election 
T erm 
“Employee” 
Defined 
Employment 
by State 
Totally Blind 
Person and 
Official 
Excepted 
Fire Dept. 
Members 
Excepted the State or of any county, city, town, township, incorpo- 
rated village, school district, body politic or municipal 
corporation therein and except any duly appointed 
member of the fire department in any city whose popu- 
lation exceeds two hundred thousand according to the 
last Federal or State census, and except any member of a 
fire insurance patrol maintained by a board of under- 
writers in this State: Provided, that any such employee, 
his personal representative, widow, children, beneficiaries 
or heirs, who is, are or shall be entitled to receive a pen- 
sion or benefit for or on account of disability or death 
arising out of or in the course of his employment from 
a pension or benefit fund to which the State or any 
county, town, township, incorporated village, school 
district, body politic, underwriters’ fire patrol or munici- 
pal corporation therein is a contributor, in whole or in 
part, shall be entitled to receive only such part of such 
pension or benefit as is in excess of the amount of com- 
pensation recovered and received by such employee, his 
personal representative, widow, children, beneficiaries or 
heirs under this Act. And, provided, further, that one 
employed by a contractor who has contracted with the 
State, or a county, city, town, township, incorporated 
village, school district, body politic or municipal corpora- 
tion therein, through its representatives, shall not be 
considered as an employee of the State, county, city, 
town, township, incorporated village, school district, 
body politic or municipal corporation which made the 
contract. 
Second—Every person in the service of another 
under any contract of hire, express or implied, oral or 
written, including persons whose employment is outside 
of the State of Illinois where the contract of hire is made 
within the State of Illinois, and including aliens, and 
minors who, for the purpose of this Act shall be con- 
sidered the same and have the same powrer to contract, 
receive payments and give quittances therefor, as adult 
employees, but not including any totally blind person or 
any person who is not engaged in the usual course of the 
trade, business, profession or occupation of his employer: 
Provided, however, that any employer may elect to 
provide and pay compensation to any employee other than 
those engaged in the usual course of the trade, business, 
profession or occupation of the said employer by com- 
plying with section 1 of this Act: Provided, further, 
that employees shall not be included within the provisions 
of this Act when excluded by the laws of the United 
States relating to liability of employers to their em- 
ployees for personal injuries where such laws are held 
Effect of 
Pension 
Independent 
Contractor 
Contract of 
Hire 
Employment 
Outside of 
State 
Aliens 
Minors 
Excluded 
When Not in 
Usual Course 
of Trade 
Employer 
May Include 
Other 
Employees 10 
to be exclusive. [Amended by Act approved July 6, 
1935. 
Sec. 6. Employee’s right to recover damages.] 
No common law or statutory right to recover damages 
for injury or death sustained by any employee while en- 
gaged in the line of his duty as such employee, other than 
the compensation herein provided, shall be available to 
any employee who is covered by the provisions of this 
Act, to any one wholly or partially dependent upon him, 
the legal representatives of his estate, or any one other- 
wise entitled to recover damages for such injury; pro- 
vided, however, that in any action now pending or here- 
after begun to enforce a common law or statutory right 
to recover damages for negligently causing the injury or 
death of any employee it shall not be necessary to allege 
in the declaration that either the employee or the em- 
ployer or both were not governed by the provisions of 
this Act or of any similar Act in force in this or any 
other State: Provided, further, that any illegally em- 
ployed minor or his legal representatives shall, except 
as hereinafter provided, have the right, within six months 
after the time of injury or death, to file with the commis- 
sion a rejection of his right to the benefits under this Act, 
in which case such illegally employed minor or his legal 
representatives shall have the right to pursue his or their 
common law or statutory remedies to recover damages 
for such injury or death; and provided, further, that no 
payment of compensation under this Act shall be made 
to an illegally employed minor, or his legal representa- 
tives, unless such payment has first been approved by the 
commission or any member thereof, and if such payment 
has been so approved such payment shall be a bar to a 
subsequent rejection of the provisions of this Act. 
[Amended by Act approved July 3, 1931. 
Sec. 7. Amount of compensation for accidental 
injury resulting in deatii.] The amount of compensa- 
tion which shall be paid for an accidental injury to the 
employee resulting in death shall be: 
(a) If the employee leaves any widow, child or 
children whom he was under legal obligations to sup- 
port at the time of his accident, a sum equal to four times 
the average annual earnings of the employee, but not 
less in any event than two thousand five hundred dol- 
lars and not more in any event than four thousand 
dollars. Provided, that when an award has been made 
under this paragraph, where the deceased left at the 
time of his death a widow and one child under sixteen 
years of age him surviving, the compensation payments 
and death benefits to the extent the same were increased 
No Common 
Law Action 
When 
Employee 
Covered by 
Act 
Illegal Em- 
ployment of 
Minors 
Death 
Compensation 
Widow and 
Children 
Surviving 
Legal 
Obligation to 
Support 11 
because of the existence of said child, insofar as same 
have not been paid, shall cease and become extinguished 
when said child arrives at the age of eighteen years, 
if said child is physically and mentally competent at 
that time. 
Any right to receive compensation hereunder shall 
be extinguished by the remarriage of a widow, if the 
deceased did not leave him surviving any child or chil- 
dren whom he was under legal obligations to support 
at the time of said accident. 
Any compensation payments other than necessary 
medical, surgical or hospital fees or services shall be 
deducted in ascertaining the amount payable on death. 
(b) If no amount is payable under paragraph (a) 
of this section and the employee leaves any parent, hus- 
band, child or children who at the time of accident were 
totally dependent upon the earnings of the employee, 
then a sum equal to four times the average annual earn- 
ings of the employee, but not less in any event than 
two thousand five hundred dollars, and not more in 
any event than four thousand dollars. Any compensa- 
tion payments other than necessary medical, surgical 
or hospital fees or services shall be deducted in ascer- 
taining the amount payable on death. 
(c) If no amount is payable under paragraph (a) 
or (b) of this section and the employee leaves any 
parent or parents, child or children, who at the time 
of accident were partially dependent upon the earnings 
of the employee, then such proportion of a sum equal to 
four times the average annual earnings of the employee 
as such dependency bears to total dependency, but not 
less in any event than one thousand dollars and not 
more in any event than three thousand seven hundred 
fifty dollars. Any compensation payments other than 
necessary medical, surgical or hospital fees or services 
shall be deducted in ascertaining the amounts payable 
on death. 
(d) If no amount is payable under paragraphs 
(a), (b) or (e) of this section and the employee leaves 
any grandparent, grandchild or grandchildren or col- 
lateral heirs dependent at the time of the accident to the 
employee upon his earnings to the extent of fifty per- 
centum or more of total dependency, then such pro- 
portion of a sum equal to four times the average annual 
earnings of the employee as such dependency bears to 
total dependency, but not more in any event than three 
thousand seven hundred fifty dollars. Any compensa- 
tion payments other than necessary medical, surgical or 
hospital fees or services shall be deducted in ascertain- 
ing the amounts payable on death. 
When 
Payments 
Shall Cease 
Remarriage of 
Widow 
Amount 
Payments 
Deducted 
Parent, 
Husband, 
Child, 
Surviving 
Total 
Dependents 
Parent, 
Children, 
Grandparent, 
Grandchildren 
Surviving 
Partial 
Dependency 
Apportionment 
Collateral 
Heirs: 
Dependency 
Fifty 
Percentum 
of Tota'l 
Dependency 12 
No Heirs 
(e) If no amount is payable under paragraph 
(a), (b), (c) or (d) of this section, a sum not to exceed 
one hundred and fifty dollars for burial expenses to 
be paid by the employer to the undertaker or to the 
person or persons incurring the expense of burial, and 
the further sum of four hundred dollars, which shall 
be paid within sixty days into a special filnd, of which 
the state treasurer shall be ex-officio custodian, such 
special fund to be held and disbursed for the purposes 
hereinafter stated in paragraph (f) of Section 8, either 
upon the order of the Industrial Commission or of a 
competent court. Said special fund shall be deposited 
the same as are state funds and any interest accruing 
thereon shall be added thereto every six months. It 
shall be subject to audit the same as state funds and 
accounts and shall be protected by the general bond 
given by the state treasurer. It shall be considered 
always appropriated for the purposes of disbursement 
as provided in Section 8, paragraph (f), of this Act, 
and shall be paid out and disbursed as therein provided 
and shall not at any time be appropriated or diverted 
to any other use or purpose: Provided, that whenever 
any sum is paid into the said fund and subsequently it 
develops that compensation is payable under para- 
graphs (a), (b), (e), or (d) of this section, the indus- 
trial commission shall order the refund of any sum paid 
into the said fund, and the state treasurer as custo- 
dian of said fund shall immediately refund the sum 
paid to him in accordance with the order of the indus- 
trial commission upon receipt by him of a certified 
copy of said order. The State Treasurer, or his duly 
authorized representative, shall be named as a party to 
all proceedings and receive the usual and customary 
notices of hearing in all cases involving claim for the 
loss of, or the permanent and complete loss of the use 
of one eye, one foot, one leg, one arm or one hand. In 
case of settlement contract or award the loss 
of, or the permanent and complete loss of the use of 
any one of the said members, it shall be the duty of the 
Industrial Commission, or a Commissioner or Arbitrator 
thereof, to award to the said Special Fund provided for 
in paragraph (e) of this Section, the sum payable under 
sub-paragraph (20) of paragraph (e) of Section 8 to 
be paid by the employer or the insurance carrier if such 
employer is insured. 
The industrial commission shall, within ten days 
after the rendition of any award providing for pay- 
ment into said special fund provided for in paragraph 
(e) of this section, mail a certified copy thereof to the 
state treasurer. If said award be not paid within 
Burial 
Expenses 
To Whom 
Paid 
Special Fund 
Created for 
Disability 
Under Sec. 8 
Refund from 
State 
T reasurer 
Award of 
Payment into 
Special Fund 13 
thirty days after the date said award has become final, 
the state treasurer shall proceed to take judgment 
thereon in his own name as ex-officio custodian of said 
fund as is provided for other awards by paragraph (g) 
of Section 19 of this Act and take the necessary steps 
to collect said award. The industrial commission shall 
immediately, upon learning of any death because of 
which payments into said fund may become due under 
paragraph (e) of this section, notify the state treas- 
urer thereof and the state treasurer, if payments be 
not made into said fund within sixty days following 
said death on account of which it may be due, shall 
within sixty days after the receipt of said notice in- 
stitute proceedings in his own name before the indus- 
trial commission for the collection thereof, and in said 
proceedings the industrial commission may order the 
burial fund provided for in this Act paid to the person, 
corporation or organization who has paid or become 
liable for the payment of same. In all such proceed- 
ings so instituted by the state treasurer it shall not be 
a defense that notice of the accidental injury was not 
given the employer within thirty days or that the de- 
mand for payment was not made within six months, 
or that written claim for compensation was not filed 
with the industrial commission within one year. Any 
person, corporation or organization who has paid or 
become liable for the payment of burial expenses of 
said deceased employee may in his or its own name in- 
stitute proceedings before the industrial commission 
for the collection thereof. 
In all cases involving disputed dependency claims 
it shall be the duty of the person filing such claim for 
or on behalf of the alleged dependents or for the funeral 
bill to name the State Treasurer as ex-officio custodian 
of the Fund, provided for in Section 7, paragraph (e), 
as a party to the said application for adjustment of 
claim. The said State Treasurer, or his duly authorized 
representative, shall have all rights of participation in 
the hearing and review of decisions as is provided under 
the provisions of this Act. For the purpose of adminis- 
tration, receipts and disbursements, the Special Fund 
provided for in paragraph (e) of this section shall be 
administered jointly with the Special Fund provided 
for in Section 7, paragraph (e) of the Workmen’s Occu- 
pational Diseases Act. Provided, further, that at no 
time shall there be paid into said special fund on ac- 
count of any one death a sum to exceed four hundred 
dollars. 
Judgment 
Thereon 
State 
Treasurer 
to Institute 
Proceedings 
Burial Fund 
Statutory 
Limitations 
Not Effective 
Collection of 
Burial 
Expenses 14 
All 
Compensation 
to be Paid in 
I nstallments 
(f) All compensation, except for burial expenses 
provided in this section to be paid in case accident results 
in death, shall be paid in installments equal to the per- 
centage of the average earning as provided for in sec- 
tion 8 of this Act, at the same intervals at which the 
wages or earnings of the employees were paid; or if this 
• shall not be feasible, then the installments shall be paid 
weekly: Provided, such compensation may be paid in a 
lump sum upon petition as provided in section 9 of this 
Act. 
(g) The compensation to be paid for accidental in- 
jury which results in death, as provided in this section, 
shall be paid to the persons who form the basis for deter- 
mining the amount of compensation to be paid by the em- 
ployer, the respective shares to be in the proportion of 
their respective dependency at the time of the accident on 
the earnings of the deceased: Provided, that the indus- 
trial commission or an arbitrator thereof may, in its or his 
discretion, order or award the payment to the parent or 
grandparent of a child for the latter’s support the 
amount of compensation which but for such order or 
award would have been paid to such child as its share of 
the compensation payable, which order or award may be 
modified from time to time by the commission in its dis- 
cretion with respect to the person to whom shall be paid 
the amount of said order or award remaining unpaid at 
the time of said modification. 
The payments of compensation by the employer in 
accordance with the order or award of the industrial com- 
mission shall discharge such employer from all further 
obligation as to such compensation. 
In a case where any of the persons who would be 
entitled to compensation is living at any place outside of 
the United States, then payment shall be made to the per- 
sonal representative of the deceased employee. The distri- 
bution by such personal representative to the persons en- 
titled shall be made to such persons and in such manner 
as the commission shall order. 
(h) 1. Whenever in paragraph (a) of this section 
a minimum of two thousand five hundred dollars is pro- 
vided, such minimum shall be increased in the following 
cases to the following amounts: 
Three thousand dollars in case of one child under 
the age of 16 years at the time of the death of the em- 
ployee. 
Three thousand one hundred dollars in case of two 
children under the age of 16 years at the time of the 
death of the employee. \ 
Compensation 
to Whom 
Paid 
Determina- 
tion of 
Dependency 
Child’s Share 
Paid to 
Parent or 
Grandparent 
Orders 
Modified 
Compensa- 
tion, 
Discharge by 
Payment of 
Beneficiaries 
Non-Resident 
Personal 
Representative 
Required 
Compensation 
Increase of 
Minimum 
One Child 
T wo 
Children 15 
Three thousand two hundred dollars in case of three 
or more children under the age of 16 years at the time of 
the death of the employee. 
2. Whenever four times the average annual earn- 
ings of the deceased employee as provided in paragraph 
(a) of this section amounts to more than two thousand 
five hundred dollars and to less than four thousand dol- 
lars, the amount so payable under said paragraph shall 
be increased as follows: 
In case such employee left surviving him one child 
under the age of sixteen years the amount so payable 
shall be increased three hundred fifty dollars. 
In case such employee left surviving him two chil- 
dren under the age of sixteen years the amount so pay- 
able shall be increased four hundred fifty dollars. 
In case such employee left surviving him three or 
more children under the age of sixteen years the amount 
so payable shall be increased six hundred dollars. 
3. Whenever in paragraph (a) of this section a 
maximum of four thousand dollars is provided, such 
maximum shall be increased in the following cases to the 
following amounts: 
Four thousand four hundred fifty dollars in case of 
one child under the age of. sixteen years at the time of the 
death of the employee. 
Four thousand eight hundred dollars in case of two 
children under the age of sixteen years at the time of the 
death of the employee. 
Five thousand five hundred dollars in case of three 
or more children under the age of sixteen years at the 
time of the death of the employee. 
4. Whenever four times the average annual earn- 
ings of the deceased employee as provided in paragraph 
(a) of this section amounts to four thousand dollars 
and not more than four thousand four hundred dollars 
and the deceased employee left surviving him one child 
under the age of sixteen years the amount payable shall 
be four thousand four hundred dollars. 
Whenever four times the average annual earnings 
of the deceased employee as provided in paragraph (a) 
of this section amounts to four thousand dollars and 
not more than four thousand seven hundred dollars and 
the deceased employee left surviving him two children 
under the age of sixteen years the amount payable shall 
be four thousand seven hundred dollars. 
Whenever four times the average annual earnings 
of the deceased employee as provided in paragraph (a) 
of this section amounts to four thousand dollars and not 
Three or 
More 
Children 
When Amount 
Payable Is 
Between 
Minimum 
and 
Maximum 
One Child 
Two 
Children 
Three or 
More 
Children 
Compensation 
Increase of 
Maximum 
one Child 
Two Children 
Three or 
More 
Children 16 
more than five thousand dollars and the deceased em- 
ployee left surviving him three or more children under 
the age of sixteen years the amount payable shall be five 
thousand dollars. 
(i) In case the injured employee is under sixteen 
years of age at the time of the accident and is illegally 
employed, the amount of compensation payable under 
paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) of this section 
shall be increased fifty percentum. Provided, however, 
that nothing herein contained shall be construed to re- 
peal or amend the provisions of an Act concerning child 
labor, approved June 26, 1917, as subsequently amended 
relating to the employment of minors under the age of 
sixteen years. 
(j) Whenever the dependents of a deceased em- 
ployee are aliens not residing in the United States or 
Canada, the amount of compensation payable shall be 
limited to the beneficiaries described in paragraphs (a), 
(b), and (c) of this section and shall be fifty per centum 
of the compensation provided in paragraphs (a), (b) 
and (c) of this section, except as otherwise provided by 
treaty. 
(k) Where death occurs to an employee as a result 
of an accidental injury sustained to an employee on or 
after July 1, 1945, and before July 1, 1947, compensation 
as provided in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d) and (hi of 
this section shall be computed according to the provi- 
sions of this section exclusive of this paragraph and 
after so computed shall be increased twenty per centum 
(20%) . Such increase shall be accomplished by increas- 
ing the aggregate amount only; provided, however, that 
in no case shall this paragraph operate to provide an 
aggregate increase of more than twenty per centum 
(20%) of the aggregate compensation which but for this 
paragraph would be payable. 
(l) Where deaty occurs to an employee as a result 
of an accidental injury sustained to an employee on or 
after July 1, 1947, compensation as provided in para- 
graphs (a), (b), (c), (d) and (h) of this section shall 
be computed according to the provisions of this section 
exclusive of this paragraph, and after so computed shall 
be increased thirty per centum (30%). Such increase 
shall be accomplished by increasing the aggregate amount 
only; provided, however, that in no case shall this para- 
graph operate to provide an aggregate increase of more 
than thirty per centum (30%) of the aggregate com- 
pensation which but for this paragraph would be payable. 
No amendment to this paragraph or any part there- 
of shall in any way affect any right of action thereunder 
existing at the time such amendment takes effect. 
Child 
Illegally 
Employed 
increase 
in Aggregate 
Death 
Benefit 17 
Sec. 8. Amount of compensation for accidental 
injury not resulting in death.] The amount of com- 
pensation which shall be paid to the employee for an 
accidental injury not resulting in death shall be; 
(a) The employer shall provide the necessary first 
aid medical and surgical services, and all necessary 
medical, surgical and hospital services thereafter, lim- 
ited, however, to that which is reasonably required to 
cure or relieve from the effects of the accidental injury. 
The employee may elect to secure his own physician, 
surgeon and hospital services at his own expense. Where 
the accidental injury results in the amputation of an arm, 
hand, leg or foot, or the enucleation of any eye, or the loss 
of any of the natural teeth, the employer shall furnish an 
artificial of any such members, lost in accidental injury 
arising out of and in the course of the employment, and 
shall also furnish the necessary braces in all proper and 
necessary cases, provided, the furnishing by the employer 
of any such services or appliances shall not be construed 
to admit liability on the part of the employer to pay com- 
pensation, and the furnishing of any such services or 
appliances by the employer shall not be construed as the 
( payment of compensation. 
(b) If the period of temporary total incapacity 
I for work lasts more than six working days, compensa- 
I tion equal to fifty per centum of the earnings, but not 
less than $7.50 nor more than $15.00 per week, begin- 
ning on the eighth day of such temporary total in- 
capacity and continuing as long as the temporary total 
incapacity lasts, but not after the amount of compensa- 
tion paid equals the amount which would have been pay- 
able as a death benefit under paragraph (a), section 7, if 
j the employee had died as a result of the accidental injury 
at the time thereof, leaving heirs surviving as provided 
in said paragraph (a), section 7; Provided, that in 
the case where the temporary total incapacity for work 
continues for a period of more than twenty-eight days 
from the day of the accident, then compensation shall 
.commence on the day after the accident. 
(c) For any serious and permanent disfigurement 
' to the hand, head, face or neck, the employee shall be en- 
I titled to compensation for such disfigurement, the amount 
determined by agreement at any time or by arbitration 
J in accordance with the provisions of this Act, at a hear- 
- ing not less than six months after the date of the acci- 
dental injury, which amount shall not exceed one-quarter 
* of the amount of the compensation which would have 
been payable as a death benefit under paragraph (a), 
Section 7, if the employee had died as a result of the 
Compensation 
Non- Fatal 
I n j u ry 
Medical, 
Hospital 
Services 
Limited to 
Amount 
Reasonably 
Required 
Employee’s 
Own Doctor 
Employer to 
Furnish Arti- 
ficial Mem- 
bers and 
Appliances 
Not 
Construed 
Compensation 
Compensation 
Temporary 
T otal 
Incapacity 
Limitation 
on Amount 
Commence- 
ment 
Compensation 
Disfigurement 
Amount 
Limited When Not 
Allowed 
accident at the time thereof, leaving heirs surviving, as 
provided in said paragraph (a), Section 7; Provided, 
that no compensation shall be payable under this para- 
graph where compensation is payable under paragraph 
(d), (e) or (f) of this section: And, provided, further, 
that when the disfigurement is to the hand, head, face 
or neck, as a result of any accident, for which accident 
compensation is not payable under paragraph (d), (e) 
or (f) of this section, compensation for such disfigure- 
ment may be had under this paragraph. 
(d) If, after the accidental injury has been sus- 
tained, the employee .as a result thereof becomes partially 
incapacitated from pursuing his usual and customary line 
of employment, he shall, except in the cases covered 
by the specific schedule set forth in paragraph (e) of 
this section, receive compensation, subject to the limi- 
tations as to time and maximum amounts fixed in para- 
graphs (b) and (h) of this section, equal to fifty per- 
centum of the difference between the average amount 
which he earned before the accident and the average 
amount which he is earning or is able to earn in some 
suitable employment or business after the accident. 
Provided, however, if no compensation is awarded under 
the foregoing provisions of this paragraph, and when an 
accidental injury has been sustained which results in a 
fracture to the body of a vertebra, resulting in a loss of 
function of the back, compensation may be allowed for 
a period not to exceed thirty (30) weeks in addition to 
compensation for temporary total disability, such com- 
pensation to be in lieu of all other compensation specified 
hereinbefore by this paragraph. 
(d-1) An injured employee, to be entitled to com- 
pensation for hernia, must prove: 
1. The hernia was of recent origin; 
2. Its appearance was accompanied by pain; 
3. That it was immediately preceded by trauma 
arising out of and in the course of the employ- 
ment; 
4. That the hernia did not exist prior to the acci- 
dent. 
(e) For accidental injuries in the following sched- 
ule, the employee shall receive compensation for the 
period of temporary total incapacity for work resulting 
from such accidental injury, in accordance with the pro- 
visions of paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section; for a 
period not to exceed sixty-four weeks, and shall receive 
in addition thereto compensation for a further period 
subject to limitations as to amounts as in this section 
provided, for the specific loss herein mentioned, as fol- 
Compensation 
Partial 
Incapacity 
Amount 
Earned 
Before and 
After 
Accident 
Hernia 
Payment for 
Only When 
No Payment 
for Prior 
Hernia 
Compensation 
Additional 
for Specific 
Losses 
Schedule 19 
lows, but shall not receive any compensation for such 
injuries under any other provision of this Act. 
1. For the loss of a thumb, or the permanent and 
complete loss of its use, fifty percentum of the average 
weekly wage during seventy weeks. 
2. For the loss of a first finger, commonly called 
the index finger, or the permanent and complete loss 
of its use, fifty percentum of the average weekly wage 
during forty weeks. 
3. For the loss of a second finger, or the perma- 
nent and complete loss of its use, fifty percentum of the 
average weekly wage during thirty-five weeks. 
4. For the loss of a third finger, or the permanent 
and complete loss of its use, fifty percentum of the 
average weekly wage during twenty-five weeks. 
5. For the loss of a fourth finger, commonly called 
the little finger, or the permanent and complete loss of 
its use, fifty percentum of the average weekly wage dur- 
ing twenty weeks. 
6. The loss of the first or distal phalanx of the 
thumb or of any finger shall be coyisidered to be equal 
to the loss of one-half of such thumb or finger, and the 
compensation payable shall be one-half of the amount 
above specified; provided that the amputation' of the 
entire distal phalanx of a thumb or finger proximal to the 
distal joint at the reasonable point of election for amputa- 
tion of such phalanx shall be considered to be the loss of 
one phalanx only. 
7. The loss of more than one phalange shall be con- 
sidered as the loss of the entire finger or thumb; pro- 
vided, however, that in no case shall the amount received 
for more than one finger exceed the amount provided in 
this schedule for the loss of a hand. 
8. For the loss of a great toe, or for the permanent 
and complete loss of its use, fifty percentum of the aver- 
age weekly wage during thirty-five weeks. 
9. For the loss of each toe other than the great toe, 
or for the permanent and complete loss of its use, fifty 
percentum of the average weekly wage during the twelve 
weeks. 
10. The loss of the first or distal phalanx of any 
toe shall be considered to be equal to the loss of one-half 
of such toe, and the compensation payable shall be one- 
half of the amount above specified; provided, that the 
amputation of the entire distal phalanx of any toe proxi- 
mal to the distal joint at the reasonable point of election 
for amputation of such phalanx shall be considered to be 
the loss of one phalanx only. 
11. The loss of more than one phalange shall be 
considered as the loss of the entire toe. 
Thumb 
First Finger 
Second 
Finger 
Third Finger 
Fourth 
Finger 
Phalange 
More Than 
One Phalange 
Great Toe 
Other Toes 
Phalange of 
Toe 
More Than 
One Phalange 20 
Hand 
12. For the loss of a hand, or the permanent and 
complete loss of its use, fifty percentum of the average 
weekly wage during one hundred and seventy weeks. 
Where an accidental injury sustained is limited to a 
hand and results in the amputation thereof, and such 
amputation is performed at the point of election on the 
forearm for the purpose of permitting the use of an 
artificial member, such injury shall be compensated as 
a loss of a hand; provided, however that nothing herein 
contained shall reduce the amount payable for an arm 
where the accidental injury sustained includes the fore- 
arm above the wrist. 
13. For the loss of an arm, or the permanent and 
complete loss of its use, fifty percentum of the average 
weekly wage during two hundred and twenty-five 
weeks. 
14. For the loss of a foot or the permanent and 
complete loss of its use, fifty percentum of the average 
weekly wage during one hundred and thirty-five weeks. 
Where an accidental injury sustained is limited to a foot 
and results in the amputation thereof, and such amputa- 
tion is performed at the point of election on the lower leg 
for the purpose of permitting the use of an artificial mem- 
ber, such injury shall be compensated as a loss of a foot; 
provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall 
reduce the amount payable for a leg where the accidental 
injury sustained includes the lower leg above the ankle. 
15. For the loss of a leg, or the permanent and 
complete loss of its use, fifty percentum of the average 
weekly wage during one hundred and ninety weeks. 
16. For the loss of the sight of an eye, or for the 
permanent and complete loss of its use, fifty percentum 
of the average weekly wage during one hundred and 
twenty weeks. 
16y2. For the total and permanent loss of the hear- 
ing of one ear, fifty percentum of the average weekly 
wage during fifty weeks and for the total and perma- 
nent loss of hearing of both ears, fifty percentum of the 
average weekly wage during one hundred twenty-five 
weeks. 
16%. For the loss of a testicle, fifty percentum of 
the average weekly wage during fifty weeks, and for the 
loss of both testicles, fifty percentum of the average 
weekly wage during one hundred fifty weeks. 
17. For the permanent partial loss of use of a mem- 
ber or sight of an eye, but not including the hearing of 
an ear, fifty percentum of the average weekly wage dur- 
ing that proportion of the number of weeks in the fore- 
going schedule provided for the loss of such member or 
Arm 
Foot 
Leg 
Eye-Sight 
Loss of 
Hearing 
Loss of 
T esticle 
Permanent 
Partial Loss 
Proportion- 
ing 21 
sight of an eye which the partial loss of use thereof bears 
to the total loss of use of such member or sight of eye. 
IT1 In computing the compensation to be paid to 
any employee who, before the accident for which he 
claims compensation, had before that time sustained an 
injury resulting in the loss by amputation or partial loss 
by amputation of any member, including hand, arm, 
thumb or fingers, leg, foot or any toes, such loss or partial 
loss of any such member or the sight of an eye shall be 
deducted from any award made for the subsequent in- 
jury, and for the permanent total loss of use or the per- 
manent partial loss of use of any such member for which 
compensation has been paid, then such loss shall be taken 
into consideration and deducted from any award for 
the subsequent injury. 
18. The specific case of loss of both hands, or both 
arms, or both feet, or both legs, or both eyes, or of any 
two thereof, suffered in one accident, or the permanent 
and complete loss of use thereof, suffered in one accident, 
shall constitute total and permanent disability, to be 
compensated according to the compensation fixed by 
paragraph (f) of this section: Provided, that these 
specific cases of total and permanent disability shall not 
be construed as excluding other cases: Provided, fur- 
ther, that any employee who has previously suffered the 
loss or permanent and complete loss of the use of any 
of said members, and in a subsequent independent acci- 
dent loses another or suffers the permanent and complete 
loss of the use of any one of said members, the employer 
for whom the injured employee is working at the time 
of said last independent accident shall be liable to pay 
compensation only for the loss or permanent and com- 
plete loss of the use of the member occasioned by said 
last independent accident. 
19. In a case of specific loss under the provisions of 
this paragraph and the amount of which loss has been 
determined under the provisions of this Act, and the 
subsequent death of such injured employee from other 
causes than such injury, leaving a widow and/or lineal 
dependents surviving before payment in full for such 
injury, then and in that event the balance remaining due 
for such injury shall be payable to such dependents, in 
the proportion which such dependency bears to total 
dependency. 
20. In every case of loss of, or permanent and com- 
plete loss of use of one eye, one foot, one leg, one arm 
or one hand, the employer in addition to the compensa- 
tion as provided for in this section shall pay into the 
special fund provided for in Section 7, paragraph (e), 
Deduction on 
Account 
Previous 
Injury 
Loss of 
Any Two in 
One Accident 
Total 
Permanent 
Disability 
Employer 
Liable Only 
for Injury 
Suffered in 
His Employ- 
ment 
Specific Loss 
and Injured 
Employee 
Dies 
Balance to 
Beneficiaries the sum of two hundred twenty-five dollars, if the acci- 
dental injury occurs between July 1, 1939, and July 1, 
1941, both dates inclusive; thereafter the amount pay- 
able into the said special fund shall be one hundred 
dollars for the loss of, or permanent and complete loss 
of use of any such member; provided, however, that the 
payments herein fixed at one hundred dollars may on 
and after the date when payments in such amount be- 
come effective, be suspended or reduced as herein pro- 
vided, but in no event shall such payments be increased 
to exceed one hundred dollars. 
Beginning July first, 1941, and each July first 
thereafter, the Industrial Commission shall determine 
the expenditures to be made from the said special fund 
for the ensuing six months. If, upon such determina- 
tion made by the Commission there shall be found to 
be in excess of fifty thousand dollars or more in the said 
special fund over and above the expenditures to be made 
therefrom during the ensuing six months, the Industrial 
Commission shall by order posted in its offices, suspend 
payments at the rate of one hundred dollars in this para- 
graph provided or reduce the amount payable to a sum 
less than said one hundred dollars, but sufficient to main- 
tain such fifty thousand dollars excess, and such sus- 
pension or change in payments at the rate of one hundred 
dollars shall be effective with respect to accidental injur- 
ies occurring on or after the date of such order. 
(f) In case of complete disability, which renders 
the employee wholly and permanently incapable of 
work, compensation equal to fifty percentum of his earn- 
ings but not less than $7.50 nor more than $15.00 per 
week, commencing on the day after the accident, and con- 
tinuing until the amount paid equals the amount which 
would have been payable as a death benefit under para- 
graph (a), section 7, if the employee had died as a result 
of the accident at the time thereof, leaving heirs surviving 
as provided in said paragraph (a), section 7, and there- 
after a pension during life annually, in the specific case 
of total and permanent disability equal to 12 percentum 
and in other cases of total and permanent disability 
equal to 8 percentum, of the amount which would have 
been payable as a death benefit under paragraph (a), 
section 7, if the employee had died as a result of the 
accident at the time thereof, leaving heirs surviving, as 
provided in said paragraph (a), section 7. Such pension 
shall be paid monthly. Provided, any employee who re- 
ceives an award under this paragraph and afterwards 
returns to work or is able to do so, and who earns or is 
able to earn as much as before the accident, payments 
under such award shall cease; if such employee returns 
Compensation 
Disability 
Complete 
Pension for 
Life 
Amount of 
Employer's 
Right to 
Reduce or 
Stop 
Compensation 23 
to work, or is able to do so, and earns or is able to earn 
part but not as much as before the accident, such award 
shall be modified so as to conform to an award under 
paragraph (d) of this section: Provided, further, that 
if such award is terminated or reduced under the pro- 
visions of this paragraph, such employee shall have the 
right at any time within one year after the date of such 
termination or reduction to file a petition with the com- 
mission for the purpose of determining whether any dis- 
ability exists as a result of the original accidental injury 
and the extent thereof: Provided, further, that disability 
as enumerated in subdivision 18, paragraph (e) of this 
section shall be considered complete disability. If an em- 
ployee who had previously incurred loss or the perma- 
nent and complete loss of use of one member, through 
the loss or the permanent and complete loss of the use 
of one hand, one arm, one foot, one leg, or one eye, incurs 
permanent and complete disability through the loss or 
the permanent and complete loss of the use of another 
member, he shall receive, in addition to the compensation 
payable by the employer and after such payments have 
ceased, an amount from the special fund provided for 
in paragraph (e) of section 7, which, together with the 
compensation payable from the employer in whose em- 
ploy he was when the last accidental injury was incurred, 
will equal the amount payable for permanent and com- 
plete disability as provided in this paragraph of this 
section. 
The custodian of said special fund provided for in 
paragraph (e) of section 7 shall be joined with the em- 
ployer as a party respondent in the application for ad- 
justment of claim. Said application for adjustment of 
claim shall state briefly and in general terms the ap- 
proximate time and place and manner of the loss of the 
first member. The industrial commission shall mail a 
copy of said application to the custodian of said special 
fund and shall mail to said custodian all notices of hear- 
ing that are mailed to the employer and employee. 
In its award the commission or the arbitrator 
shall specifically find the amount the injured employee 
shall be weekly paid, the number of weeks’ compensa- 
tion which shall be paid by the employer, the date upon 
, which payments shall begin out of the fund provided 
for in paragraphs (d) and (e) of section 7 of this Act, 
the length of time said weekly payments shall continue, 
;the date upon which the pension payments shall com- 
mence and the monthly amount of said payments. A 
■“certified copy of said award and the judgment of any 
court of competent jurisdiction affirming same shall be, 
Employee’s 
Right After 
Termination of 
Award 
Employee’s 
Right to 
Receive 
Compensation 
from Fund 
Created 
Under 
Paragraph 
(e), Sec. 7 
State Treas- 
urer Joined 
as Party 
Respondent 
What Award 
Shall Find by the industrial commission, sent to the state treasurer 
by registered mail. It shall be the duty of the said 
state treasurer, thirty days after the date upon which 
payments out of said fund shall be commenced as pro- 
vided in said award, and every month thereafter, to 
mail to the said injured employee direct, or at the op- 
tion of said treasurer, to some bank in the county in 
which he resides for delivery to him, a check or draft 
payable out of said special fund, for all compensation 
accrued to that date at the rate fixed in said award. 
Said check or draft on the back thereof shall designate 
the style and docket number of the cause and the period 
of time for which it pays, and shall be accompanied by a 
duplicate receipt, on a form to be supplied by the indus- 
trial commission, which receipt shall be executed in 
duplicate by the injured employee and returned to the 
treasurer, who shall retain one thereof and shall mail 
one to the said industrial commission. Said draft, check 
or receipts shall be a full and complete acquittance to 
the said state treasurer for the payment out of said 
fund, and no other appropriation or warrant except the 
certified copy of said award and judgment of said court 
shall be necessary to warrant payment out of said fund. 
The said fund shall be always considered as appro- 
the purpose of making payments according 
to the terms of said awards. 
(g) In case death occurs as a result of the injury 
before the total of the payments made equals the 
amount payable as a death benefit, then in case the em- 
ployee leaves any widow, child or children, parents, 
grandparents, or other lineal heirs, entitled to compensa- 
tion under Section 7, the difference between the compen- 
sation for death and the sum of the payments made to 
the employee, shall be paid to the beneficiaries of the 
deceased employee, and distributed as provided in para- 
graph (f) of Section 7, but in no case shall the amount 
payable under this paragraph be less than $500.00. 
(h) In no event shall the compensation to be paid 
exceed fifty percentum of the average wreekly wage, or 
exceed $15.00 per week in amount; nor, except in case 
of complete disability, as defined above, shall any pay- 
ments ektend over a period of more than eight years 
from the date of the accident. In case an injured em- 
ployee shall be mentally incompetent at the time when 
any right or privilege accrues to him under the pro- 
visions of this Act, a conservator or guardian may be 
appointed pursuant to law, and may, on behalf of such 
mentally incompetent, claim and exercise any such 
right or privilege with the same force and effect as if 
State Treas- 
urer to Make 
Payments 
Compensation 
Death, Pay- 
ment of Part 
Minimum 
$500.00 
Compensation 
Maximum 
Period of 
Payment 
Conservator 
or Guardian 
Employee 
Mentally 
Incompetent 25 
the employee himself had been mentally competent and 
had claimed or exercised said right or privilege; and 
no limitations of time by this Act provided shall run 
so long as said mentally incompetent employee is with- 
out a conservator or guardian. 
(i) 1. All compensation provided for in para- 
graphs (b), (e), (d), (e) and (f) of this section, other 
than in case of pension for life, shall be paid in install- 
ments at the same intervals at which the wages or earn- 
ings of the employee were paid at the time of the accident, 
or if this shall not be feasible, then the installments 
shall be paid weekly; all payments of compensation to 
be made not later than two weeks after the interval for 
which compensation is payable. 
2. Provided, that any payments of compensation 
by the employer to an injured employee prior to the 
filing of application for adjustment of claim, shall not 
be construed against the employer as admitting liability 
to pay compensation; and 
3. Provided, further, that all compensation pay- 
ments named and provided for in paragraphs (b), (c), 
(d), (e) and (f) of this section, shall mean and be de- 
fined to be for accidental injuries and only such acci- 
dental injuries as are proven by competent evidence, of 
which there are or have been objective conditions or 
symptoms proven, not within the physical or mental 
control of the injured employee himself. 
(j) 1. Wherever in this section there is a pro- 
vision for fifty percentum, such percentum shall be in- 
creased five percentum for each child of the employee, 
including children who have been legally adopted, un- 
der 16 years of age at the time of the accident to the em- 
ployee until such percentum shall reach a maximum of 
sixty-five percentum. 
2. Wherever in this section a weekly minimum of 
$7.50 is provided, such minimum shall be increased in 
the following cases to the following amounts: 
$11.00 in case of an employee having one child un- 
der the age of 16 years at the time of the accident to 
the employee; 
$12.00 in case of an employee having two children 
under the age of 16 years at the time of the accident to 
the employee; 
$13.00 in ease of an employee having three children 
der the age of 16 years at the time of the accident to 
the employee; 
$14.00 in case of an employee having four or more 
children under the age of 16 years at the time of the 
accident to the employee; 
Limitations 
Extended 
Compensation 
Paid in 
Installments 
Not Later 
Than 
Two Weeks 
Payment of 
Compensation 
Not 
Admission of 
Liability 
Compensation 
to Be Paid 
Only When 
Objective 
Symptoms 
Proven, Not 
Within 
Control of 
Injured 
Compensation 
Increases of 
Percentage 
When 
Children 
Weekly 
Minimum 
Increased for 
One Child 
Two 
Three 
Four or More Maximum 
Increased 
3. Wherever in this section a weekly maximum of 
$15.00 is provided, such maximum shall be increased in 
the following cases to the following amounts: 
$16.00 in case of an employee with two children 
under the age of 16 years at the time of the accident to 
the employee; 
$18.00 in case of an employee with three children 
under the age of 16 years at the time of the accident to 
the employee; 
$20.00 in case of an employee with four or more 
children under the age of 16 years at the time of the 
accident to the employee. 
(k) In case the injured employee is under sixteen 
years of age at the time of the accident and is illegally 
employed, the amount of compensation payable under 
paragraphs (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f) of this section 
shall be increased fifty percentum. Provided, however, 
that nothing herein contained shall be construed to re- 
peal or amend the provisions of an Act concerning child 
labor, approved June 26, 1917, as subsequently amended 
relating to the employment of minors under the age of 
sixteen years. 
(l) Where the accidental injury occurs on or after 
July 1, 1945, and before July 1, 1947, compensation due 
the injured employee during his life time under this 
section shall be computed according to the provisions 
of this section exclusive of this paragraph, and after so 
computed shall be increased twenty percentum (20%). 
Such increase shall be accomplished by increasing each 
installment, and maximums otherwise applicable to the 
installment rate and the aggregate amount may be ex- 
ceeded only by such increase; provided that in no case 
shall this paragraph operate to provide an aggregate in- 
crease of more than twenty per centum (20%) of the 
aggregate compensation which but for this paragraph 
would be payable; provided, further, that this paragraph - 
shall operate to increase the installment rate payable to 
beneficiaries in cases of accidental injuries resulting in 
death except as to those accidents occurring on or after 
July 1, 1945. 
In applying the increase hereunder to compensation j 
for disfigurement, the aggregate amount fixed by 
agreement or by arbitration shall be twenty percentum I 
(20%) greater than provided by paragraph (c) of this 
section, and the maximum, including such increase, shall 
be deemed thirty percentum (30%) of what the death 
benefit would have been. 
(m) Where the accidental injury occurs on or 
after July 1, 1947, compensation due the injured em- 
Two Children 
Three 
Four or More 
Children 
Illegally 
Employed 27 
ployee during his lifetime under this section shall he com- 
puted according to the provisions of this section, exclusive 
of this paragraph, and after so computed shall he in- 
creased thirty percentum (30%). Such increase shall 
he accomplished hy increasing each installment, and 
maximums otherwise applicable to the installment rate 
and the aggregate amount may he exceeded only hy such 
increase; provided that in no case shall this paragraph 
i operate to provide an aggregate increase of more than 
i thirty percentum (30%) of the aggregate compensation 
which hut for this paragraph woidd he payable; pro- 
vided, further, that this paragraph shall operate to in- 
cease the installment rate payable to beneficiaries in 
cases of accidental iiijuries resulting in death. 
In applying the increase hereunder to compensation 
for disfigurement, the aggregate amount fixed hy agree- 
ment or hy arbitration shall he thirty per centum (30%) 
greater than provided hy paragraph (c) of this section, 
and the maximum, including such increase, shall he 
deemed thirty-two and one-half per centum (32y%%) 
of what the death benefit would have been. 
No amendment to this paragraph or any part there- 
of shall in any way affect any right of action thereunder 
existing at the time such amendment takes effect. 
Sec. 9. Where payment in lump sum desired.] 
Any employer or employee or beneficiary who shall 
\ desire to have such compensation, or any unpaid part 
i thereof, paid in a lump sum, may petition the com- 
I mission, asking that such compensation be so paid, 
f and if, upon proper notice to the interested parties 
and a proper showing made before such commission 
or any member thereof, it appears to the best interest 
, of the parties that such compensation be so paid, the 
commission may order the commutation of the com- 
pensation to an equivalent lump sum, which commuta- 
tion shall be an amount which will equal the total sum 
of the probable future payments capitalized at their 
present value upon the basis of interest calculated at 
three per centum per annum with annual rests: Provided, 
that in cases indicating complete disability no petition 
for a commutation to a lump sum basis shall be enter- 
tained by the commission until after the expiration 
of six months from the date of the injury, and where 
necessary, upon proper application being made, a 
guardian, conservator or administrator, as the case 
may be, may be appointed for any person under dis- 
ability who may be entitled to any such compensation 
and an employer bound by the terms of this Act and 
liable to pay such compensation, may petition for the 
Compensation 
Lump Sum 
Notice 
Commutation 
How Made 
Complete 
Disability 
Conservator 
or Guardian appointment of the public administrator, or a con- 
servator, or guardian, where no legal representative 
has been appointed or is acting for such party or 
parties so under disability. 
The payment of compensation in a lump sum to the 
employee in his lifetime upon order of the Industrial 
Commission, shall extinguish and bar all claims for com- 
pensation for death if the compensation paid in a lump 
sum represents a compromise of a dispute on any ques- 
tion other than the extent of disability. 
Subject to the provisions herein above in this para- 
graph contained, where no dispute exists as to the fact 
that the accident arose out of and in the course of the 
employment and where such accident results in death 
or in the amputation of any member or in the enuclea- 
tion of an eye, then and in such case the arbitrator or 
commission may, upon the petition of either the em- 
ployer or the employee, enter an award providing for 
the payment of compensation for such death or injury 
in accordance with the provisions of Section 7 or para- 
graph (e) of section 8 of this Act, [As amended by Act 
approved July 24, 1939. 
Sec. 10. Basis for computing compensation.] 
The basis for computing the compensation provided for 
in Sections 7 and 8 of the Act shall be as follows: 
(a) The compensation shall be computed on the 
basis of the annual earnings which the injured person 
received as salary, wages or earnings if in the employ- 
ment of the same employer continuously during the year 
next preceding the injury. 
(b) Employment by the same employer shall be 
taken to mean employment by the same employer in the 
grade in which the employee was employed at the time 
of the accident, uninterrupted by absence from work 
due to illness or any other unavoidable cause. 
(c) If the injured person has not been engaged 
in the employment of the same employer for the full 
year immediately preceding the accident, the compen- 
sation shall be computed according to the annual earn- 
ings which persons of the same class in the same 
employment and same location, (or if that be impractic- 
able, of neighboring employments of the same kind) 
have earned during such period. 
(d) As to employees in employments in which it 
is the custom to operate throughout the working days 
of the year, the annual earnings, if not otherwise deter- 
minable, shall be regarded as 300 times the average 
daily earnings in such computation. 
(e) As to employees in employments in which it 
Award Where 
No Dispute 
Exists 
Compensation 
Computation 
Annual 
Earnings 
Basis 
Employment 
Grade of 
Basis 
Employment 
Same Class 
Basis 
Employment 
Annual 
Earnings 
300x 29 
is the custom to operate for a part of the whole number 
of working days in each year, such number, if the 
annual earnings are not otherwise determinable, shall 
be used instead of 300 as a basis for computing the 
annual earnings, provided the minimum number of 
days which shall be so used for the basis of the year’s 
work shall be not less than 200. 
(f) In the case of injured employees who earn 
either no wage or less than the earnings of adult day 
laborers in the same line of employment in that locality, 
the yearly wage shall be reckoned according to the 
average annual earnings of adults of the same class 
in the same (or if that is impracticable, then of neigh- 
boring) employments. 
(g) Earnings, for the purpose of this section, 
shall be based on the earnings for the number of hours 
commonly regarded as a day’s work for that employ- 
ment, and shall exclude overtime earnings. The earnings 
shall not include any sum which the employer has been 
accustomed to pay the employee to cover any special 
expense entailed on him by the nature of his employ- 
ment. 
(h) In computing the compensation to be paid to 
any employee, who, before the accident for which he 
claims compensation, was disabled and drawing com- 
pensation under the terms of this Act, the compensation 
for each subsequent injury shall be apportioned accord- 
ing to the proportion of incapacity and disability caused 
by the respective injuries which he may have suffered. 
(i) To determine the amount of compensation for 
each installment period, the amount per annum shall 
be ascertained pursuant hereto, and such amount divided 
by the number of installment periods per annum. 
Sec. 11. Compensation measure of responsibility 
assumed under act.] The compensation here- 
in provided, together with the provisions of this Act, 
t«hall be the measure of the responsibility of any em- 
jjbloyer engaged in any of the enterprises or businesses 
(|numerated in section three (3) of this Act, or of any 
Employer who is not engaged in any such enterprises 
Jr businesses, but who has elected to provide and pay 
(Compensation for accidental injuries sustained by any 
(employee arising out of and in the course of the em- 
ployment according to the provisions of this Act, and 
-(Whose election to continue under this Act, has not been 
j/iullified by any action of his employees as provided 
jfor in this Act. [Amended by Act approved June 25, 
11917.] 
Employment 
Part Time 
Annual 
Earnings 
200x 
Employee 
Earning 
No Wage 
Earning 
Day’s Work 
as Basis 
Compensation 
Where Pre- 
vious Injuries 
Compensation 
Determination 
of Install- 
ment Period 
Employer 
Responsibility 
Measure of 
Compensation 
Limits 30 
Employee 
Examined 
Expense of 
Employer 
Sec. 12. Injured employee must submit to exam- 
ination.] An employee entitled to receive disability pay- 
ments shall be required, if requested by the employer, 
to submit himself, at the expense of the employer, for 
examination to a duly qualified medical practitioner or 
surgeon selected by the employer, at any time and 
place reasonably convenient for the employee, either 
within or without the State of Illinois, for the purpose 
of determining the nature, extent and probable dura- 
tion of the injury received by the employee, and for 
the purpose of ascertaining the amount of compensation 
which may be due the employee from time to time for 
disability according to the provisions of this Act: 
Provided, an employer requesting such an examination, 
of an employee residing within the State of Illinois, 
shall pay in advance of the time fixed for the examina- 
tion sufficient money to defray the necessary expense of 
travel by the most convenient means to and from the 
place of examination, and the cost of meals necessary 
during the trip, and if the examination or travel to 
and from the place of examination causes any loss of 
working time on the part of the employee, the employer 
shall reimburse him for such loss of wages upon the basis 
of his average daily wage. Provided, however, that 
such examination shall be made in the presence of a 
duly qualified medical practitioner or surgeon pro- 
vided and paid for by the employee, if such employee 
so desires: 
In all cases where the examination is made by a 
surgeon engaged by the employer, and the injured 
employee has no surgeon present at such examination, 
it shall be the duty of the surgeon making the examina- 
tion at the instance of the employer to deliver to the 
injured employee, or his representative, a statement 
in writing of the condition and extent of the injury 
to the same extent that said surgeon reports to the 
employer and the same shall be an exact copy of that 
furnished to the employer, said copy to be furnished 
the employee, or his representative as soon as practica- 
ble but not later than forty-eight hours before the 
time the ease is set for hearing. Such delivery shall 
be made in person either to the employee or his repre 
sentative, or by registered mail to either, and the receipt 
of either shall be proof of such delivery. If such sur- 
geon refuses to furnish the employee with such state- 
ment to the same extent as that furnished the employer, 
said surgeon shall not be permitted to testify at the 
hearing next following said examination. If the em- 
ployee refuses so to submit himself to examination or 
unnecessarily obstructs the same, his right to compen- 
Time and 
Place 
Employer 
to Defray 
Expenses of 
Employee 
Employee 
May Have 
Own Physi- 
cian Present 
Surgeon to 
Furnish 
Employee 
with Copy 
of Report 
Examination 
Obstructed 
Compensation 
Suspended 31 
sation payments shall be temporarily suspended until 
such examination shall have taken place, and no com- 
pensation shall be payable under this Act for such 
period. It shall be the duty of surgeons treating an 
injured employee who is likely to die, and treating 
him at the instance of the employer, to have called in 
another surgeon to be designated and paid for by either 
the injured employee or by the person or persons who 
would become his beneficiary or beneficiaries, to make 
an examination before the death of such injured em- 
ployee. 
In all cases where the examination is made by a 
surgeon engaged by the injured employee, and the 
employer has no surgeon present at such examination, 
it shall be the duty of the surgeon making the examina- 
tion at the instance of the employee, to deliver to the 
employer, or his representative, a statement in writing 
of the condition and extent of the injury to the same 
extent that said surgeon reports to the employee and 
the same shall be an exact copy of that furnished to 
the employee, said copy to be furnished the employer, 
or his representative, as soon as practicable but not later 
than forty-eight hours before the time the case is set 
for hearing. Such delivery shall be made in person 
either to the employer, or his representative, or by reg- 
istered mail to either, and the receipt of either shall 
be proof of such delivery. If such surgeon refuses to 
furnish the employer with such statement to the same 
extent as that furnished the employee, said surgeon 
shall not be permitted to testify at the hearing next 
following said examination. 
Sec. 13. Industrial board created—appointment 
—term of office.] (a) There is hereby created a board 
which shall be known as the Industrial Board to con- 
sist of five members to be appointed by the Governor, 
by and with the consent of the Senate, two of whom 
shall be representative citizens of the employing class 
operating under this Act, and two of whom shall be 
representative citizens of the class of employees oper- 
iting under this Act, and one of whom shall be a 
•epresentative citizen not identified with either the 
imploying or employee classes and who shall be design- 
ated by the Governor as chairman. Appointment of 
members to places on the first board or to fill vacancies 
on said board may be made during recesses of the 
Senate, but shall be subject to confirmation by the 
Senate at the next ensuing session of the Legislature. 
(b) When there shall become effective the Act 
known as “The Civil Administrative Code of Illinois,” 
Surgeon’s 
Duty 
Employee 
Likely to Die 
Employee’s 
Surgeon to 
Furnish 
Employer with 
Copy of 
Report 
Industrial 
Poard Created 32 
Industrial 
Commission 
Under Civil 
Administra- 
tive Code 
being an Act entitled, “An Act in relation to the civil 
administration of the State Government,” there shall 
thereupon be vested in the Industrial Commission and 
the industrial officers thereof by said Act created, all 
of the power and duties vested in the Industrial Board 
by the Workmen’s Compensation Act, and thereupon 
wherever in the Workmen’s Compensation Act refer- 
ence shall be made to the Industrial Board, the board 
or to any member thereof, it shall be construed as refer- 
ring and shall apply to the said Industrial Commission, 
the said commission, and any industrial officer thereof, 
respectively. [Amended by Act approved June 25, 
1917.] 
Sec. 14. Secretary—assistant secretary—secur- 
ity SUPERVISOR—-TRAVELING EXPENSES AND DISBURSEMENTS 
—seal—records—certified copies.] The commission 
shall appoint a secretary, an assistant secretary and a 
security supervisor, and shall employe such assistants 
and clerical help as may be necessary. 
The members of the commission, arbitrators and 
other employees whose duties require them to travel, 
shall have reimbursed to them their actual traveling 
expenses and disbursements made or incurred by them 
in the discharge of their official duties while away 
from their place of residence in the performance of 
their duties. The commission shall provide itself with 
a seal for the authentication of its orders, awards and 
proceedings upon which shall be inscribed the name 
of the commission and the words “Illinois—Seal.” The 
secretary or assistant secretary, under the direction of; 
the industrial commission, shall have charge and custody 
of the seal of the commission and also charge and 
custody of all records, files, orders, proceedings, deci- 
sions, awards and other documents on file with the' 
commission. He shall furnish certified copies, undei 
the seal of the commission, of any such records, files 
orders, proceedings, decisions, awards and other docu, 
ments on file with the commission as may be re 
quired. Certified copies so furnished by the secre 
tary or assistant secretary shall be received in evidene 
before the commission or any arbitrator thereof, an 
in all courts, provided that the original of such cert 
fied copy is otherwise competent and admissible i 
evidence. The secretary or assistant secretary shal 
perform such other duties as may be prescribed fron 
time to time by the commission. 
The security supervisor, under the direction of tin 
industrial commission, shall perform such duties as may 
be prescribed from time to time by the commission 
[As amended by act approved June 29, 1945.] 
Salaries of 
Commissioners 
Reimburse- 
ment 
I raveling 
Expense 
Seal 
Duties of 
Secretary 
Prescribed 
Duties of 
Security 
Supervisor Sec. 15. Administration of act.] The industrial 
commission shall administer this act. [As amened by act 
approved June 3, 1943.] 
Sec. 16. Rules and orders—depositions—sub- 
poenas CONTEMPT HOSPITAL RECORDS STENOGRAPHERS 
FIXING FEES AND CHARGES OF ATTORNEYS, PHYSICIANS, 
surgeons and hospitals.] The industrial commission 
shall make and publish rules and orders for carrying 
out the duties imposed upon it which rules and orders 
shall be deemed prima facie reasonable and valid; and 
the process and procedure before the commission shall 
be as simple and summary as reasonably may be. The 
commission upon application of either party may issue 
dedimus potestatem directed to a commissioner, notary 
public, justice of the peace or any other officer author- 
ized by law to administer oaths, to take the deposi- 
tions of such witness or witnesses as may be neces- 
sary in the judgment of such applicant. Such dedimus 
potestatem may issue to any of the officers aforesaid in 
any state or territory of the United States. When the 
deposition of any witness resident of a foreign country 
is desired to be taken, the dedimus shall be directed to 
and the deposition taken before a consul, vice consul or 
other authorized representative of the government of the 
United States of America, whose station is in the country 
where the witness whose deposition is to be taken resides; 
provided, that in countries where the government of the 
United States has no consul or other diplomatic repre- 
sentative, then depositions shall be taken through the 
appropriate judicial authority of that country; or wrhere 
treaties provide for other methods of taking depositions, 
they may be taken as in such treaties provided. The 
commission may adopt rules to govern the issue of such 
dedimus potestatem. The commission, or any member 
thereof, or any arbitrator designated by the commission 
may administer oaths, subpoena and examine witnesses, 
issue subpoenas duces tecum requiring the production 
of such books, papers, records and documents as may be 
evidence of any matter under inquiry and examine and 
inspect the same and such places or premises as may 
relate to the question in dispute. The commission or 
any member thereof, or any arbitrator designated by the 
commission shall on written request of either party to 
the dispute, issue subpoenas for the attendance of such 
witnesses and production of such books, papers, records 
and documents as shall be designated in the applications, 
providing, however, that the parties applying for such 
subpoenas shall advance the officer and witness fees pro- 
vided for in suits pending in the Circuit Court, except 
Board 
Jurisdiction 
Duties as otherwise provided by Section 19a of this Act.1 Serv- 
ice of such subpoenas shall be made by any sheriff or 
constable or other person. In case any person refuses 
to comply with an order of the commission or subpoenas 
issued by it or by any member thereof, or any arbitrator 
designated by the commission or to permit an inspection 
of places or premises, or to produce any books, papers, 
records, or documents, or any witness refuses to testify 
to any matter regarding which he may be lawfully inter- 
rogated, the County Court of the county in which said 
hearing or matter is pending, on application of any 
member of the commission or any arbitrator designated 
by the commission, shall compel obedience by attachment 
proceedings, as for contempt, as in a case of disobedience 
of the requirements of a subpoena from such court on a 
refusal to testify therein. 
The records kept by a hospital, certified to as true 
and correct by the superintendent or other officer in 
charge, showing the medical and surgical treatment given 
an injured employee in such hospital, shall be admissible 
without any further proof as evidence of the medical and 
surgical matters stated therein, but shall not be con- 
clusive proof of such matters. 
The commission at its expense shall provide a stenog- 
rapher to take the testimony and record of proceedings 
at the hearings before an arbitrator, committee of arbi- 
tration, or the commission, and said stenographer shall 
furnish a transcript of the testimony or proceedings to 
either party requesting it, upon payment to him there- 
for of ten cents per one hundred words for the original 
and eight cents per one hundred words for each copy of 
such transcript, except as otherwise provided by Section 
19a of this Act. 
The commission may determine the reasonableness 
and fix the amount of any fee of compensation charged 
by any person, including attorneys, physicians, surgeons 
and hospitals, for any service performed in connection 
with this Act, or for which payment is to be made or 
rendered in securing any right under this Act. [Amended 
by act approved June 3, 1943.] 
Sec. 16. Rules and orders—procedure—powers.] 
The board shall make and publish rules and orders 
for carrying out the duties imposed upon it by law, 
which rules and orders shall be deemed prima facie 
reasonable and valid; and the process and procedure 
before the board shall be as simple and summary as 
reasonably may be. The board upon application of 
either party may issue dedimus postestatem directed to 
a commissioner, notary public, justice of the peace or 
Rules and 
Orders 
Procedure 35 
any other officer authorized by law to administer oaths, 
to take the depositions of such witness or witnesses as 
may be necessary in the judgment of such applicant. 
Such dedimus potestatem may issue to any of the 
officers aforesaid in any state or territory of the United 
States. When the deposition of any witness resident 
of a foreign country is desired to be taken, the dedimus 
shall be directed to and the deposition taken before a 
consul, vice consul or other authorized representative 
of the government of the United States of America, 
whose station is in the country where the witness whose 
deposition is to be taken resides; provided, that in 
countries where the government of the United States 
has no consul or other diplomatic representative, then 
depositions in such case shall be taken through the 
appropriate judicial authority of that country; or 
where treaties provide for other methods of taking 
depositions, then the same may be taken as in such 
treaties provided. The board shall have the power to 
adopt necessary rules to govern the issue of such 
dedimus potestatem. The board, or any member there- 
of, or any arbitrator designated by said board shall have 
the power to administer oaths, subpoena and examine 
witnesses; to issue subpoenas duces tecum, requiring the 
production of such books, papers, records and docu- 
ments as may be evidence of any matter under inquiry, 
and to examine and inspect the same and such places 
or premises as may relate to the question in dispute. 
Said board, or any member thereof, or any arbitrator 
designated by said board, shall on written request of 
either party to the dispute, issue subpeonas for the 
attendance of such witnesses and production of such 
books, papers, records and documents as shall be desig- 
nated in said applications, providing, however, that 
the parties applying for such subpeona shall advance 
the officer and witness fees provided for in suits pend- 
ing in the Circuit Court, except as otherwise provided 
by Section 19a of this Act.1 Service of such subpoena 
shall be made by any sheriff or constable or other 
person. In ease any person refuses to comply with 
an order of the board or subpeonas issued by it or by 
any member thereof, or any arbitrator designated by 
said board or to permit an inspection of places or pre- 
mises, or to produce any books, papers, records, or 
documents, or any witness refuses to testify to any 
matters regarding which he may be lawfully inter- 
rogated, the County Court of the county in which said 
hearing or matter is pending, on application of any 
Dedimus 
Potestatem 
Depositions 
Deposition 
in Foreign 
Country 
Powers of 
Board 
Subpoenas 
Refusing to 
Comply with 
Order 
Contempt 
How 
Punished 36 
member of the board or any arbitrator designated by 
the board, shall compel obedience by attachment pro- 
ceedings, as for contempt, as in a case of disobedience 
of the requirements of a subpoena from such court on 
a refusal to testify therein. 
The records kept by a hospital, certified to as 
true and correct by the superintendent or other officer 
in charge, showing the medical and surgical treatment 
given an injured employee in such hospital, shall be 
admissible without any further proof as evidence of 
the medical and surgical matters stated therein, but 
shall not be conclusive proof of such matters. 
The Board at its expense shall provide an official 
court reporter to take the testimony and record of pro- 
ceedings at the hearings before Arbitrator, committee of 
arbitration, or the board, who shall furnish a transcript 
of such testimony or proceedings to either party re- 
questing it, upon payment to him therefor of fourteen 
cents per one hundred words for the original and ten 
cents per one hundred words for each copy of such 
transcript, except as otherwise provided by Section 19a 
of this Act. 
The board shall have the power to determine the 
reasonableness and fix the amount of any fee of com- 
pensation charged by any person, including attorneys, 
physicians, surgeons and hospitals, for any service 
performed in connection with this Act, or for which 
payment is to be made under this Act or rendered in 
securing any right under this act. [Amended by act 
approved July 15, 1943.] 
Sec. 17. Blank forms—records—destroying old 
papers.] The Industrial Commission shall cause to be 
printed and furnish free of charge upon request by any 
employer or employee such blank forms as may facilitate 
or promote efficient administration and the performance 
of the duties of the commission; it shall provide a proper 
record in which shall be entered and indexed the name 
of any employer who shall file a notice of declination or 
withdrawal under this act, and the date of the filing 
thereof; and a proper record in which shall be entered 
and indexed the name of any employee who shall file 
such notice of declination or withdrawal, and the date 
of the filing thereof; and such other notices as may be 
required by this act; and records in which shall be re- 
corded all proceedings, orders and awards had or made 
by the commission or by the arbitration committees, and 
such other books or records as it shall deem necessary, 
all such records to be kept in the office of the commission. 
The commission may destroy all papers and documents 
Hospital 
Records 
Admissible as 
Evidence 
Provision for 
Stenog- 
raphers— 
Court 
Reporters 
Power to 
Fix Fees 
Blank Forms 
Records 
Books 
Commission 
May Destroy 
Files 37 
which have been on file for more than five years where 
there is no claim for compensation pending, or where 
more than two years have elapsed since the termination 
of the compensation period. [As amended by act ap- 
proved June 3, 1943.] 
Sec. 18. Questions determined by industrial 
board.] All questions arising under this Act, if not 
settled by agreement of the parties interested therein, 
shall, except as otherwise provided, be determined by 
the industrial commission. [As amended by act approved 
June 3, 1943.] 
Sec. 19. Disputed questions of law or fact—• 
COMMITTEE OF ARBITRATION DECISION PETITION FOR 
REVIEW — PHYSICIAN DECISION OF INDUSTRIAL BOARD — 
REVIEW BY CIRCUIT COURT CIRCUIT COURT TO RENDER 
JUDGMENT REVIEW AFTER AWARD ADDRESS TO BE FILED 
NOTICE WRIT OF ERROR TO SUPREME COURT.] Any 
disputed questions of law or fact shall be determined as 
herein provided. 
(a) It shall be the duty of the industrial com- 
mission upon notification that the parties have failed 
to reach an agreement, to designate an arbitrator; 
provided, that if the compensation claimed is for a par- 
tial permanent or total permanent incapacity or for death, 
then the dispute may, at the election of either party, 
be determined by the committee of arbitration, which 
election for determination by a committee shall be made 
by petitioner filing with the commission his election in 
writing with his petition or by the other party filing with 
the commission his election in writing within five days of 
notice to him of the filing of the petition, and thereupon, 
it shall be the duty of the industrial commission upon 
either of the parties having filed their election for a com- 
mittee of arbitration as above provided, to notify both 
parties to appoint their respective respresentatives on 
the committee of arbitration. The commission shall 
designate an arbitrator to act as chairman, and if 
either party fails to appoint its members on the com- 
mittee within seven days after notification as above 
provided, the commission shall appoint a person to 
fill the vacancy and notify the parties to that effect. 
The party filing his election for a committee of arbi- 
tration shall with his election, except as otherwise 
provided by Section 19a of this Act,1 deposit with the 
commission the sum of twenty dollars, to be paid by the 
commission to the arbitrators selected by the parties as 
compensation for their services as arbitrators and upon 
Questions 
Determined 
by Board 
Disputed 
Questions of 
Law or Fact 
Arbitrator 
Designated 
Dispute 
Designation of 
Committee 
Arbitration 
Expenses 
Arbitration 
Committee 38 
a failure to deposit as aforesaid, the election shall be 
void and the determination shall be by an arbitrator 
designated by the commission. The members of the com- 
mittee of arbitration appointed by either of the parties or 
one appointed by the commission to fill a vacancy by 
reason of the failure of one of the parties to appoint, shall 
not be a member of the commission or an employee 
thereof. 
(b) The arbitrator or committee of arbitration 
shall make such inquiries and investigations as he or 
they shall deem necessary and may examine and in- 
spect all books, papers, records, places, or premises 
relating to the questions in dispute and hear such prop- 
er evidence as the parties may submit. The hearings 
before the arbitrator or committee of arbitration shall 
be held in the vicinity where the injury occurred, 
after ten days’ notice of the time and place of 
such hearing shall have been given to each of the 
parties or their attorneys of record. The arbitrator or 
committee of arbitration may find that the disabling 
condition is temporary and has not yet reached a per- 
manent condition and may order the payment of com- 
pensation up to the date of the hearing, which award 
shall be reviewable and enforceable in the same man- 
ner as other awards, and in no instance be a bar to a 
further hearing and determination of a further amount 
of temporary total compensation or of compensation 
for permanent disability, but shall be conclusive as to 
all other questions except the nature and extent of 
said disability. The decision of the arbitrator or com- 
mittee of arbitration shall be filed with the industrial 
commission, which commission shall immediately send 
to each party or his attorney a copy of such decision, 
together with a notification of the time when it was 
filed, and unless a petition for review is filed by either 
party within fifteen days after the receipt by said 
party of the copy of said decision and notification of 
time when filed, and unless such party petitioning for a 
review shall within twenty days after the receipt by 
him of the copy of said decision, file with the commission 
either an agreed statement of the facts appearing upon 
the hearing before the arbitrator or committee of arbi- 
tration, or if such party shall so elect, a correct tran- 
script of evidence of the proceedings at such hearings, 
then the decision shall become the decision of the in- 
dustrial commission and in the absence of fraud shall 
be conclusive: Provided, that such industrial com- 
mission or any member thereof may grant further time 
Arbitration 
Hearings 
Notice 
Award Where 
Temporary 
Disability 
Not Ended 
Decision 
Review 
Time for 
Statement of 
Facts op 
Transcript of 
Evidence 
Filing 
Fraud 
Extension 
of Time 39 
not exceeding thirty days, in which to petition for 
such review or to file such agreed statement or tran- 
script of evidence. Such agreed statement of facts or 
correct transcript of evidence, as the case may be, shall 
be authenticated by the signatures of the parties or 
their attorneys, and in the event they do not agree as 
to the correctness of the transcript of evidence it shall 
be authenticated by the signature of the arbitrator 
designated by the commission. 
(c) The industrial commission may appoint, at its 
own expense, a duly qualified, impartial physician to 
examine the injured employee and report to the com- 
mission. The fee for this service shall not exceed five 
dollars and traveling expenses, but the commission 
may allow additional reasonable amounts in extraor- 
dinary cases. 
The fees and the payment thereof of all attorneys 
and physicians for services authorized by the commis- 
sion under this Act shall, upon request of either the 
employer or the employee or the beneficiary affected, 
be subject to the review and decision of the indus- 
trial commission. 
(d) If any employee shall persist in insanitary or 
injurious practices which tend to either imperil or 
retard his recovery or shall refuse to submit to such 
medical, surgical, or hospital treatment as is reason- 
ably essential to promote his recovery, the commission 
may, in its discretion, reduce or suspend the compen- 
sation of any such injured employee. 
(e) If a petition for review and agreed statement 
of facts or transcript of evidence is filed, as provided 
herein, the industrial commission shall promptly review 
the decision of the arbitrator or committee of arbitra- 
tion and all questions of law or fact which appear from 
the said statement of facts or transcript of evidence, 
and such additional evidence as the parties may submit. 
After such hearing upon review, the commission shall 
file in its office its decision thereon, and shall immedi- 
ately send to each party or his attorney a copy of such 
decision and a notification of the time when it was filed. 
Such review and hearing may be held in its office 
or elsewhere as the commission may deem advisable: 
Provided, that the taking of testimony on such hearing 
may be had before any member of the commission and in 
the event either of the parties may desire an argument 
before others ©f the commission, such argument may 
be had upon written demand therefor filed with the 
Commission 
May Appoint 
Physician 
Fees for 
Services 
Refusal to 
Submit to 
Medical 
T reatment 
Compensation 
Suspended 
Review by 
Commission 
Additional 
Evidence 
Hearing on 
Review 40 
commissioner at least five days before the date of the 
hearing, in which event such argument shall be had 
before not less than a majority of the commission: 
Provided, that the commission shall give ten days’ 
notice to the parties or their attorneys of the time and 
place of such taking of testimony and of such argument. 
In any case the commission in its decision may in 
its discretion find specially upon any question or 
questions of law or fact which shall be submitted in 
writing by either party, whether ultimate or otherwise. 
Any party may, within twenty days after receipt of 
notice of the commission’s decision, or within such 
further time, not exceeding thirty days, as the com- 
mission may grant, file with the commission either an 
agreed statement of the facts appearing upon the hear- 
ing, or, if such party shall so elect, a correct transcript 
of evidence of tjie additional proceedings presented be- 
fore the commission, in which report the party may 
embody a correct statement of such other proceedings 
in the case as such party may desire to have reviewed, 
such statement of facts or transcript of evidence to be 
authenticated by the signature of the parties or their 
attorneys, and in the event that they do not agree, 
then the authentication of such transcript of evidence 
shall be by the signature of any member of the com- 
mission. If a reporter does not for any reason furnish 
a transcript of the proceedings before the arbitrator 
in any case for use on a hearing for review before the 
industrial commission, within the limitations of time 
as fixed in this section, the industrial commission may, 
in its discretion, order a trial de novo before the in- 
dustrial commission in such case upon application of 
either party. The applications for adjustment of claim 
and other documents in the nature of pleadings filed 
by either party, together with the decisions of the arbi- 
trator and of the industrial commission and the state- 
ment of facts or transcripts of evidence hereinbefore 
provided for in paragraphs (b) and (c) shall be the 
record of the proceedings of said commission, and shall 
be subject to review as hereinafter provided. 
(f) The decision of the industrial commission act- 
ing within its powers, according to the provisions of 
paragraph (e) of this section shall, in the absence of 
fraud, be conclusive unless reviewed as in this para- 
graph hereinafter provided: Provided, however, that 
the arbitrator or the commission may on his or its own 
motion, or on the motion of either party, correct any 
clerical error or errors in computation within fifteen 
days after the date of any award by such arbitrator or 
Oral Argument 
Special 
Findings 
Transcript of 
Evidence 
Authenti- 
cation 
Trial 
De Novo 
What Con- 
stitutes 
Record of 
Proceedings 
Decision 
Conclusive 
Correction of 
Clerical 
Errors in 
Award or 
Decision 41 
any decision on review of the commission, and shall have 
the power to recall the original award on arbitration or 
decision on review, and issue in lieu thereof such cor- 
rected award or decision. Where such correction is 
made the time for appeal or review herein specified 
shall begin to run from the date of the receipt of the 
corrected award or decision. 
(1) The Circuit Court of the county and the City 
Court of the City, if it has more than twenty-five thou- 
sand (25,000) inhabitants, where any of the parties de- 
fendant may be found shall by writ of certiorari to the 
industrial commission have power to review all questions 
of law and fact presented by such record. 
Such suit by writ of certiorari shall be commenced 
within twenty days of the receipt of notice of the de- 
cision of the commission. Such writ of certiorari and 
writ of scire facias shall be issued by the clerk of such 
court upon praecipe returnable on a designated return 
day, not less than ten or more than sixty days from the 
date of issuance thereof, and the praecipe shall contain 
the last known address of other parties in interest and 
their attorneys of record who are to be served by scire 
facias. Service upon any member of the industrial 
commission or the secretary or the assistant secretary 
thereof shall be service upon the commission, and service 
upon other parties in interest and their attorneys of 
record shall be by scire facias, and such service shall be 
made upon said commission and other parties in inter- 
est by mailing notices of the commencement of the pro- 
ceedings and the return day of the writ to the office of 
the said commission and to the last known place of resi- 
dence of other parties in interest or their attorney or 
attorneys of record. The clerk of the court issuing the 
writ of scire facias shall on the day of issue mail notice 
of the commencement of the proceedings which shall be 
done by mailing a copy of the writ of certiorari to the 
office of the industrial commission, and a copy of the 
writ of scire facias to the other parties in interest or 
their attorney or attorneys of record, and the clerk of 
said court shall make certificate that he has so sent said 
notices in pursuance of this section, which shall be evi- 
dence of service on the commission and other parties in 
interest. 
The industrial commission shall not be required to 
certify the record of their proceedings to the Circuit or 
City Court, unless the party commencing the proceed- 
ings for review in the Circuit or City Court as above 
provided, shall pay to the commission the sum of four- 
Circuit or 
City Court 
Review Law 
and Fact 
Writ of 
Certiorari 
Issued 
Time 
Address 
Parties In 
Interest 
Mailing 
Notice 
Clerk of 
Circuit or 
City Court 
Mail Notices 
Commission 
Parties in 
Interest 
Clerk’s 
Certificate 
Record of 
Proceedings 42 
Certification 
on Payment 
of Costs 
teen cents per one hundred words of testimony taken 
before said commission, and eight cents per one hun- 
dred words of all other matters contained in such record, 
except as otherwise provided by Section 19a of this Act, 
and it shall be the duty of the commission upon such 
payment, or failure to pay as permitted under Section 
19a of this Act, to prepare a true and correct type- 
written copy of such testimony and a true and correct 
copy of all other matters contained in such record and 
certified to by the secretary thereof. 
In its decision on review the industrial commission 
shall determine in each particular case the amount of the 
probable cost of the record to be filed as a return to the 
writ of certiorari in that case and no praecipe for a writ 
of certiorari may be filed and no writ of certiorari shall 
issue unless the party seeking to review the decision of 
the industrial commission shall exhibit to the clerk of the 
said Circuit or City Court a receipt showing payment of 
the sums so determined to the secretary of the industrial 
commission, except as otherwise provided by Section 19a 
of this Act. 
(2) No such writ of certiorari shall issue unless the 
one against whom the industrial commission shall have 
rendered an award for the payment of money shall upon 
the filing of his praecipe for such writ file with the clerk 
of said court a bond conditioned that if he shall not suc- 
cessfully prosecute said writ, he will pay the said award 
and the costs of the proceedings in said court. The 
amount of the bond shall be fixed by any member of the 
industrial commission and the surety or sureties of said 
bond shall be approved by the clerk of said court. 
The State and every county, city, town, township, 
incorporated village, school district, body politic or mu- 
nicipal corporation having a population of five hundred 
thousand or more against whom the industrial commis- 
sion shall have rendered an award for the payment of 
money shall not be required to file a bond to secure the 
payment of said award and the costs of the proceedings 
in said court to authorize said court to issue such writ 
of certiorari. 
The court may confirm or set aside the decision of 
the industrial commission. If the decision is set aside 
and the facts found in the proceedings before the com- 
mission are sufficient, the court may enter such decision 
as is justified by law, or may remand the cause to the 
industrial commission for further proceedings and may 
state the questions requiring further hearing, and give 
such other instructions as may be proper. 
Commission 
Determine 
Cost 
of Record 
Issue Receipt 
Certiorari 
Bond 
Confirming 
Setting Aside 
Decision 
Remanding 43 
Judgments and orders of the Circuit or City Court 
under this Act shall be reviewed only by the Supreme 
Court upon a writ of error which the Supreme Court in 
its discretion may order to issue, if applied for within 
sixty days after the rendition of the Circuit or City 
Court judgment or order sought to he reviewed. The 
writ of error when issued shall operate as a supersedeas. 
The bond filed with the praecipe for the writ of cer- 
tiorari as provided in this paragraph shall operate as a 
stay of judgment or order of the Circuit or City Court 
until the time shall have passed within which an applica- 
tion for a writ of error can be made, and until the 
Supreme Court has acted upon the application for a writ 
of error, if such application is made. 
It shall be the duty of the clerk of any court render- 
ing a decision affecting or affirming an award of the com- 
mission to promptly furnish the commission with a copy 
of such decision, without charge. 
The decision of a majority of the members of the 
committee of arbitration or of the industrial commission, 
shall be considered the decision of such committee or 
commission, respectively. 
(g) Either party may present a certified copy of 
the award of the arbitrator, or a certified copy of the 
decision of the industrial commission when the same has 
become final, when no proceedings for review are pend- 
ing, providing for the payment of compensation accord- 
ing to this Act, to the Circuit Court of the county or to 
the City Court of the City in which such accident oc- 
curred or either of the parties are residents, whereupon 
said court shall render a judgment in accordance there- 
with; and in case where the employer refuses to pay 
compensation according to such final award or such final 
decision upon which such judgment is entered, the court 
shall in entering judgment thereon, tax as costs against 
him the reasonable costs and attorney fees in the arbitra- 
tion proceedings and in the court entering the judgment 
for the person in whose favor the judgment is entered, 
which judgment and costs taxed as herein provided 
shall, until and unless set aside, have the same effect as 
though duly rendered in an action duly tried and deter- 
mined by said court, and shall with like effect, be 
entered and docketed. The Circuit or City Court shall 
have power at any time upon application to make any 
such judgment conform to any modification required by 
any subsequent decision of the Supreme Court upon 
appeal, or as the result of any subsequent proceedings 
for review, as provided in this Act. 
Judgments 
Review 
Writ of Error 
Time to 
Sue Out Writ 
Supersedeas 
Bond 
Judgment 
Stay 
Court 
Decisions to 
be Furnished 
to Commis- 
sion 
Decision of 
Majority of 
Commission 
Judgment on 
Award 
Costs 
Attorney’s 
Fees 
Judgment 
Modification 44 
Notice 
Required for 
Judgment 
Judgment shall not be entered until fifteen days’ 
notice of the time and place of the application for the 
entry of judgment shall be served upon the employer by 
filing such notice with the industrial commission, which 
commission shall, in case it has on file the address of the 
employer or the name and address of its agent upon 
whom notices may be served, immediately send a copy of 
the notice to the employer or such designated agent. 
(h) An agreement or award under this Act provid- 
ing for compensation in installments, may at any time 
within eighteen months after such agreement or award 
be reviewed by the industrial commission at the request 
of either the employer or the employee, on the ground 
that the disability of the employee has subsequently re- 
curred, increased, diminished or ended; and on such re- 
view compensation payments may be re-established, in- 
creased, diminished or ended: Provided that the com- 
mission shall give fifteen days’ notice to the parties of 
the hearing for review: And, provided, further, any 
employee, upon any petition for such review being filed 
by the employer, shall be entitled to one day’s notice for 
each one hundred miles necessary to be traveled by him 
in attending the hearing of the commission upon said 
petition, and three days in addition thereto, and such 
employee shall, at the discretion of the commission, also 
be entitled to five cents per mile necessarily traveled by 
him within the State of Illinois in attending such hear- 
ing, not to exceed a distance of 300 miles, to be taxed by 
the commission as costs and deposited with the petition 
of the employer: Provided, further, that when compen- 
sation which is payable in accordance with an award or 
settlement contract approved by the industrial commis- 
sion, is ordered paid in a lump sum by the commission, 
no review shall be had as in this paragraph mentioned. 
(i) Each party, upon taking any proceedings or 
steps whatsoever before any arbitrator, committee of ar- 
bitration, industrial commission or court, shall file with 
the industrial commission his address, or the name and 
address of any agent upon whom all notices to be given 
to such party shall be served, either personally or by 
registered mail, addressed to such party or agent at the 
last address so filed with the industrial commission: 
Provided, that in the event such party has not filed his 
address, or the name and address of an agent, as above 
provided, service of any notice may be had by filing 
such notice with the industrial commission. 
(j) Whenever in any proceeding testimony has 
been taken or a final decision has been rendered, and 
after the taking of such testimony or after such decision 
Review of 
Agreement 
or Award 
if Disability 
Recurs, 
Increases, 
Diminishes 
or Ends 
Notice of 
Hearing 
Fee for 
Travel 
Award, 
Settlement 
Contract Paid 
in Lump Sum 
Not 
Reviewable 
Under 
This Section 
Address Filed 
Service of 
Notice 
Death of 
Employee 45 
has become final, the injured employee dies, then in any 
subsequent proceeding brought by the personal repre- 
sentative or beneficiaries of the deceased employee, such 
testimony in the former proceeding may be introduced 
with the same force and effect as though the witness 
having so testified were present in person in such subse- 
quent proceedings and such final decision, if any, shall 
be taken as final adjudication of any of the issues which 
are the same in both proceedings. 
(k) In any case where there has been any un- 
reasonable or vexatious delay of payment or intentional 
underpayment of compensation, or proceedings have 
been instituted or carried on by the one liable to pay the 
compensation, which do not present a real controversy, 
but are merely frivolous or for delay, then the commis- 
sion may award compensation additional to that other- 
wise payable under this Act equal to fifty percentum of 
the amount payable at the time of such award. Failure 
to pay compensation in accordance with the provisions of 
Section 8, paragraph (i) of this Act, shall be considered 
unreasonable delay. [As amended by act approved 
July 15, 1943.] 
Sec. 19a. If the Commission shall, before or after 
any hearing, proceeding, or review to any court, be 
satisfied that the employee is a poor person, and unable 
to pay the costs and expenses provided for by this Act, 
the Commission shall permit such poor person to have 
all the rights and remedies provided by this Act, in- 
cluding the issuance and service of subpoenas; a tran- 
script of testimony and the record of proceedings at 
hearings before an arbitrator, committee of arbitration, 
or the board; the right to elect for a committee of arbi- 
tration; the right to have the record of proceedings 
certified to the circuit court; the right to the filing of 
a praecipe for a writ of certiorari; and the right to the 
issuance of a writ of certiorari, wuthout the filing of a 
bond for costs and without the payment of any of the 
costs provided for by this act; provided that the com- 
mission shall not be required to furnish photostatic 
copies of exhibits unless the cost thereof shall have been 
deposited with the Commission; provided, further, that 
if an award is granted to such employee, or settlement 
is made, the costs and expenses chargeable to said em- 
ployee as provided for by this Act shall be paid by the 
employer out of the award herein granted, or settle- 
ment, before any of the balance of said award or set- 
tlement shall be paid to the employee. Approved July 
15, 1943. 
T estimony 
on Former 
Hearing 
Additional 
Compensation 
Where Delay 
or Intentional 
Underpay- 
ment 
What 
Considered 
Unreasonable 
Delay 46 
Reports 
Bulletins 
Sec. 20. Annual report to governor.] The In- 
dustrial Commission shall report in writing to the Gov- 
ernor on the 30th day of June, annually, the details and 
results of its administration of this Act, and may pre- 
pare and issue such special bulletins and reports from 
time to time as may seem advisable. [As amended by 
act approved June 3, 1943.] 
Sec. 21. Award not subject to lien — death.] 
No payment, claim, award or decision under this Act 
shall be assignable or subject to any lien, attachment or 
garnishment, or be held liable in any way for any lien, 
debt, penalty or damages. And the compensation al- 
lowed by any award or decision of the commission shall 
be entitled to a preference over the unsecured debts of 
the employer, wages excepted, contracted after the date 
of the injury to an employee. A decision or award of 
the Industrial Commission against an employer for com- 
pensation under this Act, or a written agreement by an 
employer to pay such compensation shall, upon the filing 
of a certified copy of the decision or said agreement, as 
the case may be, with the recorder of deeds of the 
county, constitute a lien upon all property of the em- 
ployer within said county, paramount to all other claims 
or liens, except mortgages, trust deeds, or for wages or 
taxes, and such liens may be enforced in the manner 
provided for the foreclosure of mortgages under the laws 
of this State. Any right to receive compensation here- 
under shall be extinguished by the death of the person 
or persons entitled thereto, subject to the provisions of 
this Act relative to compensation for death received in 
the course of employment, and subject to the provisions 
of paragraph (e) of section 8 of this Act relative to 
specific loss: Provided, that upon the death of a bene- 
ficiary, who is receiving compensation provided for in 
section 7, leaving surviving a parent, sister or brother 
of the deceased employee, at the time of his death de- 
pendent upon him for support, who were receiving from 
such beneficiary a contribution to support, then that 
proportion of the compensation of the beneficiary which 
would have been paid but for the death of the benefi- 
ciary, but in no event exceeding said unpaid compensa- 
tion, which the contribution of the beneficiary to the 
dependent’s support within one year prior to the death 
©f the beneficiary bears to the compensation of the bene- 
ficiary within that year, shall be continued for the bene- 
fit of such dependents, notwithstanding the death of the 
beneficiary. [Amended by Act approved June 10, 1929.] 
Award 
Non-Assign- 
able 
Award to 
Have 
Preference 
Over Unse- 
cured Debts 
Decision 
Recorded 
Lien 
Compensation 
Extinguished 
Beneficiary 
Death 47 
Sec. 22. Contract within seven days after in- 
jury presumed fraudulent.] Any contract or agree- 
ment made by any employer or his agent or attorney 
with any employee or any other beneficiary of any claim 
under the provisions of this Act within seven days after 
the injury shall be presumed to be fraudulent. 
Sec. 23. Waiver op provisions must be approved 
by industrial board.] No employee, personal repre- 
sentative, or beneficiary shall have power to waive any 
of the provisions of this Act in regard to the amount of 
compensation which may be payable to such employee, 
personal representative or beneficiary hereunder except 
after approval by the Industrial Commission. 
A minor death beneficiary, by parent or grand- 
parent as next friend, may compromise disputes and 
may enter into and submit a settlement contract or lump 
sum petition, and upon approval by the Industrial Com- 
mission such settlement contract or lump sum order shall 
have the same force and effect as though such minor had 
been an adult. 
Sec. 24. Notice of accident—limit of time for 
filing claim.] No proceedings for compensation under 
this Act shall be maintained unless notice of the accident 
has been given to the employer as soon as practicable, 
but not later than thirty days after the accident, except 
in cases of hernia, in which cases notice shall be given 
the employer within fifteen days after the accident. In 
case of mental incapacity of the employee or any de- 
pendents of a deceased employee who may be entitled to 
compensation under the provisions of this Act, the limi- 
tations of time by this Act provided shall not begin to 
run against said mental incompetents until a conservator 
or guardian has been appointed: Provided that where 
such limitation bars an adult mentally competent mem- 
ber of a class of beneficiaries entitled to receive com- 
pensation for death, such limitation shall then bar all 
beneficiaries notwithstanding that another or others be 
mentally or otherwise incapacitated or incompetent. No 
defect or inaccuracy of such notice shall be a bar to the 
maintenance of proceedings of arbitration or otherwise 
by the employee unless the employer proves that he is 
unduly prejudiced in such proceedings by such defect or 
inaccuracy. Notice of the accident shall give the ap- 
proximate date and place of the accident, if known, and 
may be given orally or in writing; provided, no proceed- 
ings for compensation under this Act shall be main- 
tained unless claim for compensation has been made 
within six months after the accident, Provided, that in 
any case, unless application for compensation is filed 
Contract 
Fraudulent 
Provisions 
Waiver 
Notice of 
Accident 
Notice of 
Hernia 
Mental 
I ncapacity 
Inaccuracy 
Notice 
Oral or 
Written 
Claim for 
Compensation 
Within Six 
Months with the Industrial Commission within one year after the 
date of the accident, where no compensation has been 
paid, or within one year after the date of the last pay- 
ment of compensation, where any has been paid, the 
right to file such application shall be barred; Provided, 
further, that if the accidental injury results in death 
within said year, application for compensation for death 
may be filed with the Industrial Commission within one 
year after the date of death, but not thereafter. 
Sec. 25. How employer may be relieved op lia- 
bility for compensation.] Any employer against whom 
liability may exist for compensation under this Act shall 
upon the order and direction of the industrial commis- 
sion: 
(a) Deposit the commuted value of the total un- 
paid compensation for which such liability exists, com- 
puted at three percentum per annum in the same man- 
ner as provided in section 9, with the State Treasurer, 
or county treasurer in the county where the accident 
happened, or with any State or National bank or trust 
company doing business in this State, or in some other 
suitable depository approved by the industrial commis- 
sion : Provided, that any such depository to which such 
compensation may be paid, shall pay the same out in 
installments as in this Act provided, unless such sum 
is ordered paid in, and is commuted to a lump sum pay- 
ment in accordance with the provisions of this Act; or 
(b) Purchase an annuity, in an amount of com- 
pensation due or computed, under this Act within the 
limitation provided by law in any insurance company 
granting annuities and licensed or permitted to do busi- 
ness in this State which may be designated by the em- 
ployer or the industrial commission. [Amended by Act 
approved June 29, 1921.] 
Sec. 26. Provisions to be made by employer elect- 
ing TO PAY COMPENSATION APPROVAL OF INDUSTRIAL 
BOARD WHEN PROVISION NOT MADE OR NOT APPROVED— 
INSURANCE LIABILITY—FAILURE TO COMPLY.] (a) Any 
employer who shall come within the provisions of section 
3 of this Act, and any other employer who shall elect to 
provide and pay the compensation provided for in this 
Act shall: 
(1) File with the commission a sworn statement 
showing his financial ability to pay the compensation 
provided for in this Act, the affidavit to which statement 
shall be signed and sworn to by the president or vice 
president and secretary or assistant secretary of said 
employer if it be a corporation, or by all of the partners 
Barred Unless 
Claim Filed 
with 
Commission 
Liability 
Relief From 
Depositing 
Compensation 
Annuity 
Provisions 
to Pay 
Statement 49 
if it be a co-partnership, or by the owner if it be neither 
a co-partnership nor a corporation. 
If any such employer fails to file such a sworn state- 
ment, or if the sworn statement of any such employer 
does not satisfy the commission of the financial ability 
of the employer who has filed it, the commission shall 
require such employer to, 
(2) Furnish security, indemnity or a bond guaran- 
teeing the payment by the employer of the compensation 
provided for in this Act, or 
(3) Insure his entire liability to pay such compen- 
sation in some insurance carrier authorized, licensed, or 
permitted to do such insurance business in this State; 
all policies of such insurance carriers insuring the pay- 
ment of compensation under this Act shall cover all the 
employees and the entire compensation liability of the 
insured, and any provision in such policy, or in any en- 
dorsement attached thereto, attempting to limit or modi- 
fy in any way, the liability of the insurance carriers is- 
suing the same shall be wholly void; provided, that noth- 
ing herein contained shall apply to policies of excess 
liability carriage secured by employers who have quali- 
fied under subparagraphs 1 or 2 of paragraph (a) of 
this section, or 
(4) Make some other provision, satisfactory to the 
industrial commission, for the securing of the payment 
of compensation provided for in this Act, and 
(5) Upon becoming subject to this Act and there- 
after as often as the commission may in writing demand, 
file with the commission in form prescribed by it evi- 
dence of his compliance with the provisions of this 
section, 
( b) The sworn statement of financial ability, or se- 
curity, indemnity or bond, or amount of insurance, or 
other provisions, filed, furnished, carried, or made by the 
employer, as the case may be, shall be subject to the ap- 
proval of the commission, upon the approval of which, 
the commission shall send to the employer written notice 
of its approval thereof. A certificate of compliance with 
the provisions of subparagraphs 2 and 3 of paragraph 
(a) of this section shall within five days after the effect- 
ive date of said policy be delivered by the insurance car- 
rier to the industrial commission. Said policy shall re- 
main in full force and effect until ten days after receipt 
by the industrial commission of notice of its cancellation 
or expiration and shall cover all compensation liability 
occurring during said time. 
(c) Whenever the industrial commission shall find 
Furnishing 
Security 
I nsuring 
Compensation 
I nsurance 
Policy Shall 
Cover Entire 
Compensation 
Liability 
Alternative 
File Evidence 
of Compliance 
Approval by 
Commission 
Delivery of 
Certificate of 
Compliance 
Notice of 
Cancellation 
of Policy 50 
Insurer 
Insolvent 
that any corporation, company, association, aggregation 
of individuals, reciprocal or interinsurers exchange, or 
other insurer affecting workmen’s compensation insur- 
ance in this State shall be insolvent, financially unsound, 
or unable to fully meet all payments and liabilities as- 
sumed or to be assumed for compensation insurance in 
this State, or shall practice a policy of delay or unfair- 
ness toward employees in the adjustment, settlement, or 
payment of benefits due such employees, the said in- 
dustrial commission may after reasonable notice and 
hearing order and direct that such corporation, com- 
pany, association, aggregation of individuals, reciprocal 
or interinsurers exchange, or insurer, shall from and 
after a date fixed in such order discontinue the writing 
of any such workmen’s compensation insurance in this 
State. Subject to such modification of said order as the 
commission may later make on review of said order, as 
herein provided, it shall thereupon be unlawful for any 
such corporation, company, association, aggregation of 
individuals, reciprocal or interinsurers exchange, or in- 
surer to effect any workmen’s compensation insurance in 
this State. All orders made by the industrial commis- 
sion under this section shall be subject to review by the 
courts, said review to be taken in the same manner and 
within the same time as provided by section 19 of this 
Act for review of awards and decisions of the industrial 
commission, upon the party seeking said review filing 
with the clerk of the court to which said review is taken 
a bond in an amount to be fixed and approved by the 
judge of the court to which said review is taken, condi- 
tioned upon the payment of all compensation awarded 
against said person taking said review pending a deci- 
sion thereof, provided that upon said review the Circuit 
Court shall have power to review all questions of fact as 
well as of law: Provided, that the penalty hereinafter 
provided for in this paragraph shall not attach and 
shall not begin to run until the final determination of 
the order of the commission. 
(d) The failure or neglect of an employer to com- 
ply with any of the provisions of paragraph (a) of this 
section shall be deemed a misdemeanor punishable by a 
fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than 
five hundred dollars, for each day of such refusal or 
neglect until the same ceases. Each day of such refusal 
or neglect shall constitute a separate offense. 
In all prosecutions under this section the venue may 
be in any county wherein said employer or insurance 
carrier has property or maintains a principal office. Up- 
on the failure or refusal of any employer or insurance 
carrier to comply with the orders of the industrial com- 
Delay and 
Unfairness 
Commission 
May Order 
Discontinu- 
ance of 
Business 
Orders of 
Commission 
Subject to 
Review 
Non- 
Compliance 
Penalty 
Attorney 
General to 
Prosecute 51 
mission under this section, or the order of the court on 
review after final adjudication, it shall be the duty of 
the industrial commission to immediately report said 
failure or refusal to the Attorney General and it shall 
be the duty of said Attorney General within thirty 
days after receipt of said notice, to institute prosecu- 
tions and promptly prosecute all reported violations of 
this section. 
Sec. 27. Not affect continuance of any existing 
INSURANCE, ETC. NOT PREVENT EMPLOYER FROM INSUR- 
ING EMPLOYEE MAY INSURE FOR ADDITIONAL. BENEFITS.] 
(a) This Act shall not affect or disturb the continuance 
of any existing insurance, mutual aid, benefit, or relief 
association or department, whether maintained in whole 
or in part by the employer or whether maintained by the 
employees, the payment of benefits of such association 
or department being guaranteed by the employer or by 
some person, firm or corporation for him: Provided, the 
employer contributes to such association or department 
an amount not less than the full compensation herein 
provided, exclusive of the cost of the maintenance of 
such association or department and without any expense 
to the employee. This Act shall not prevent the organi- 
zation and maintaining under the insurance laws of this 
State of any benefit or insurance company for the pur- 
pose of insuring against the compensation provided for 
in this Act, the expense of which is maintained by the 
employer. This Act shall not prevent the organization 
or maintaining under the insurance laws of this State of 
any voluntary mutual aid, benefit or relief association 
among employees for the payment of additional accident 
or sick benefits. 
(b) No existing insurance, mutual aid, benefit or 
relief association or department shall, by reason of any- 
thing herein contained, be authorized to discontinue its 
operation without first discharging its obligations to any 
and all persons carrying insurance in the same or en- 
titled to relief or benefits therein. 
(e) Any contract, oral, written or implied, of em- 
ployment providing for relief benefit, or insurance or 
any other device whereby the employee is required to 
pay any premium or premiums for insurance against 
the compensation provided for in this Act shall be null 
and void, and any employer withholding from the wages 
of any employee any amount for the purpose of paying 
any such premium shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and 
punishable by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more 
than one thousand dollars, or imprisonment in the 
county jail for not more than six months, or both, in the 
discretion of the court. 
Existing 
Insurance 
Mutual Bene- 
fit Society 
Insurer 
Can Not 
Discontinue 
Wages 
Withheld for 
Premium 52 
Carrier 
Liability 
Sec. 28. When insurance carrier becomes pri- 
marily liable.] In the event the employer does not pay 
the compensation for which he is liable, then an insur- 
ance company, association or insurer which may have 
insured such employer against such liability shall be- 
come primarily liable to pay to the employee, his per- 
sonal representative or beneficiary the compensation re- 
quired by the provisions of this Act to be paid by such 
employer. The insurance carrier may be made a party 
to the proceedings to which the employer is a party and 
an award may be entered jointly against the employer 
and the insurance carrier. 
Sec. 29. Where injury caused under circum- 
stances CREATING A LEGAL LIABILITY IN SOME PERSON 
other than the employer.] Where an injury or death 
for which compensation is payable by the employer un- 
der this Act was not proximately caused by the negli- 
gence of the employer or his employees, and was caused 
under circumstances creating a legal liability for dam- 
ages in some person other than the employer to pay 
damages, such other person having also elected to be 
bound by this Act, or being bound thereby under section 
three (3) of this Act, then the right of the employee or 
personal representative to recover against such other 
person shall be transferred to his employer and such 
employer may bring legal proceedings against such other 
person to recover the damages sustained, in an amount 
not exceeding the aggregate amount of compensation 
payable under this Act, by reason of the injury or death 
of such employee. 
Where the injury or death for which compensation 
is payable under this Act was not proximately caused by 
the negligence of the employer or his employees and was 
caused under circumstances creating a legal liability for 
damages on the part of some person other than the em- 
ployer to pay damages, such other person having elected 
not to be bound by this Act, then legal proceedings may 
be taken against such other person to recover damages 
notwithstanding such employer’s payment of or liability 
to pay compensation under this Act. In such case, how- 
ever, if the action against such other person is brought 
by the injured employee or his personal representative 
and judgment is obtained and paid, or settlement is 
made with such other person, either with or without suit, 
then from the amount received by such employee or per- 
sonal representative there shall be paid to the employer 
the amount of compensation paid or to be paid by him to 
such employee or personal representative. 
If the injured employee or his personal representa- 
Joint Award 
Third Person 
Injury.by 
Subrogation 
Third Person 
Not Under 
Act 53 
tive shall agree to receive compensation from the em- 
ployer or accept from the employer any payment on ac- 
count of such compensation, or to institute proceedings 
to recover the same, the said employer may have or 
claim a lien upon any award, judgment or fund out of 
which such employee might be compensated from such 
third party. 
In such actions brought by the employee or his 
personal representative, he shall forthwith notify his 
employer by personal service or registered mail, of such 
fact and of the name of the court in which such suit 
is brought, filing proof thereof in such action. The em- 
ployer may, at any time thereafter join in said action 
upon his motion so that all orders of court after hearing 
and judgment shall be made for his protection. No 
release or settlement of claim for damages by reason of 
such injury or death, and no satisfaction of judgment 
in such proceedings, shall be valid without the written 
consent of both employer and employee or his personal 
representative, except in the case of the employers, such 
consent shall not be required where said employer has 
been fully indemnified or protected by Court order. 
In the event the said employee or his personal rep- 
resentative shall fail to institute a proceeding against 
mch third person at any time prior to three months 
oefore said action would be barred at law said employer 
may in his own name, or in the name of the employee, 
or his personal representative, commence a proceeding 
against such other person for the recovery of damages 
on account of such injury or death to the employee, and 
out of any amount recovered the employer shall pay 
over to the injured employee or his personal representa- 
tive all sums collected from such other person by judg- 
ment or otherwise in excess of the amount of such com- 
pensation paid or to be paid under this Act, and costs, 
attorney’s fees and reasonable expenses as may be in- 
curred by such employer in making such collection or 
in enforcing such liability. 
Sec. 30. Every employer subject to this act shall 
send to the Industrial Commission in writing an immedi- 
ate report of all accidental injuries arising out of and in 
the course of the employment and resulting in death. 
Every such employer shall also report between the 15th 
and the 25th of each month to the Industrial Commission 
all accidental injuries for which compensation has been 
paid under this Act, which injuries entail a loss to the 
employee of more than one week’s time, and in case the 
Subrogation 
Accident 
Report 
Disability 54 
Report as to 
Compensation 
injury results in permanent disability, a further report 
shall be made as soon as it is determined that such perma- 
nent disability has resulted or will result from such in- 
jury. All reports shall state the date of the injury, 
including the time of day or night, the nature of the 
employer’s business, the name, address, the age, sex, 
conjugal condition of the injured person, the specific oc- 
cupation of the injured person, the direct cause of the 
injury and the nature of the accident, the character of 
the injury, the length of disability, and, in case of death, 
the length of disability before death, the wages of the 
injured person, whether compensation has been paid to 
the injured person, or to his legal representatives or his 
heirs or next of kin, the amount of compensation paid, 
the amount paid for physicians’, surgeons’ and hospital 
bills, and by whom paid, and the amount paid for funeral 
or burial expenses, if known. The making of such reports 
shall release the employer from making such reports 
to any other officer of the State. [Approved June 3, 
1943.] 
Sec. 30y2. Printed notices of rules, etc., to be 
posted.] Every employer within the provisions of this 
Act shall, under the rules and regulations prescribed by 
the Industrial Commission, post printed notices in their 
respective places of employment in such number and at 
such places as may be determined by the Commission, 
containing such information relative to this Act as in the 
judgment of the Commission may be necessary to aid 
employees to safeguard their rights under this Act in 
event of injury. [Added by Act approved July 8, 1933.] 
Sec. 31. Who included in term “employer”— 
CONTRACTING WITH OTHERS TO DO THE WORK.] Any one 
engaging in any business or enterprise referred to in sub- 
sections 1 and 2 of section 3 of this Act who undertakes 
to do any work enumerated therein, shall be liable to pay 
compensation to his own immediate employees in accord- 
ance with the provisions of this Act, and in addition 
thereto if he directly or indirectly engages any con- 
tractor whether principal or sub-contractor to do any 
such work, he shall be liable to pay compensation to the 
employees of any such contractor or sub-contractor un- 
less such contractor or sub-contractor shall have insured, 
in any company or association authorized under the laws 
of this State to insure the liability to pay compensation 
under this Act, or guaranteed his liability to pay such 
compensation. 
In the event any such person shall pay compensa- 
tion under this section he may recover the amount there- 
Printed 
Notices 
Contract with 
Others 
Duty to 
Insure 
Recovery 
Against 
Contractor 55 
of from the contractor or sub-contractor, if any, and in 
the event the contractor shall pay compensation under 
this section he may recover the amount thereof from the 
sub-contractor, if any. 
This section shall not apply in any case where the 
accident occurs elsewhere than on, in or about the imme- 
diate premises on which the principal has contracted 
that the work shall be done. [Amended by Act ap- 
proved June 28, 1919.] 
Sec. 32. Right of action accruing before taking 
EFFECT OF THIS ACT—IF THIS ACT REPEALED, ETC. CLAIM 
under previous act how adjusted.] If any of the pro- 
visions of this Act providing for compensation for in- 
juries to or death of employees shall be repealed or ad- 
judged invalid or unconstitutional, the period inter- 
vening between the occurrence of any injury or death 
and such repeal or final adjudication of invalidity, shall 
not be computed as a part of the time limited by law for 
the commencement of any action relating to such injury 
or death, but the amount of any compensation which may 
have been paid for any such injury shall be deducted 
from any judgment for damages recovered on account of 
such injury. Any claim, disagreement or controversy 
existing or arising under “An Act to promote the gener- 
al welfare of the people of this State, by providing com- 
pensation for accidental injuries or death suffered in the 
course of employment,” approved June 10, 1911, in 
force May 1, 1912, shall be adjusted in accordance with 
the provisions of said Act, notwithstanding the repeal 
thereof, or may by agreement of the parties be adjusted 
in accordance with the method of procedure provided in 
this Act for the adjustment of differences, jurisdiction 
to adjust such differences so submitted by the parties 
being hereby conferred upon the Industrial board or 
committee of arbitration provided for in this Act. 
[Amended by Act approved June 25, 1917.] 
Sec. 33. Penalties.] Any wilful neglect, refusal 
or failure to do the things required to be done by any 
section, clause, or provision of this Act, on the part of 
the persons herein required to do them, or any violation 
of any of the provisions or requirements hereof, or any 
attempt to obstruct or interfere with any court officer, or 
any other person charged with the duty of administer- 
ing or enforcing the provisions of this Act, shall be 
deemed a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less 
than $10.00 nor more than $500.00, at the discretion of 
the court. 
Sec. 33Y2. Name of act.] This Act may be cited 
Immediate 
Premises 
Invalidity of 
Part Right 
of Action 
Adjustment 
Claim Under 
Previous Act 
Refusal to 
Comply 
Penalty 
Name of Act 56 
as the Workmen’s Compensation Act. [Added by an Act 
approved June 28, 1915.] 
Sec. 34. Invalidity.] The invalidity of any por- 
tion of this Act shall in no way affect the validity of any 
other portion thereof which can be given effect without 
such invalid part. 
Sec. 35. Repeal.] That an Act to promote the 
general welfare of the people of the State of Illinois by 
providing compensation for accidental injuries or death 
suffered in the course of employment, approved June 10, 
1911, in force May 1, 1912, he, and the same is, hereby 
repealed 
Invalidity 
Repeal 57 
TABLE OF COMPENSATION 
To find the present value of any sum payable weekly, multiply that sum 
by the present value of $1 payable for the number of weeks for which such 
sum is payable. 
Example.—To find the present value of $7.20 payable at the end of each 
week for 100 weeks multiply $7.20 by the present value of $1 payable weekly 
for 100 weeks (shown in the tables to be $97.1833). $7.20X97.1833=$699.72, 
present value. 
PRESENT VALUE TABLES 
Present value at 3 per cent, compounded annually, at $1 per week, 
payable at’the end of each week for any term from one week up to eight 
years. 
No. of 
Weeks 
Present 
Value 
No. of 
Weeks 
Present 
Value 
No. of 
Weeks 
Present 
Value 
No. of 
Weeks 
Present 
Value 
1 
$ 0.9994 
46 
$45.3909 
91 
$88.6612 
136 
$130.8388 
2 
1.9983 
47 
46.3645 
92 
89.6103 
137 
- 131 7638 
3 
2 9966 
48 
47.3376 
93 
90.5588 
138 
132.6884 
4 
3 9943 
49 
48.3101 
94 
91.5068 
139 
133 6124 
5 
4.9915 
50 
49.2821 
95 
92.4542 
140 
134 5359 
6 
5 9881 
51 
50.2536 
96 
93.4011 
141 
135.4589 
7 
6.9841 
52 
51.2244 
97 
94 3474 
142 
136 3814 
8 
7.9796 
53 
52 1947 
98 
95.2933 
143 
137.3033 
9 
8 9745 
54 
53.1645 
99 
96.2385 
144 
138 2247 
10 
9.9688 
55 
54.1337 
100 
97.1833 
145 
139.1456 
11 
10 9626 
56 
65.1024 
101 
98.1275 
146 
140.0659 
12 
11.9558 
57 
56 0705 
102 
99.0711 
147 
140.9858 
13 
12 9484 
58 
57.0381 
103 
100 0143 
148 
141.9051 
14 
13.9405 
59 
58.0051 
104 
100.9569 
149 
142.8239 
15 
14.9320 
60 
58.9716 
105 
101.8989 
150 
143.7421 
16 
15 9229 
61 
59.9375 
106 
102.8405 
151 
144.6599 
17 
16 9133 
62 
60.9029 
107 
103.7814 
152 
145.5771 
18 
17.9031 
63 
61 8677 
108 
104 7219 
153 
146.4938 
19 
18.8924 
64 
62 8320 
109 
105.6618 
154 
147.4100 
20 
19.8811 
65 
63.7957 
110 
106.6012 
155 
148.3257 
21 
20.8692 
66 
64.7589 
111 
107.5401 
156 
149.2408 
22 
21 8568 
67 
65.7215 
112 
108.4784 
157 
150.1554 
23 
22.8438 
68 
66.6836 
113 
109.4162 
158 
151.0695 
24 
23.8303 
69 
67.6451 
114 
110.3534 
159 
151.9831 
25 
24,8161 
70 
68.6061 
115 
111.2901 
160 
152.8962 
26 
25.8015 
71 
69.5666 
116 
112 2263 
161 
153.8087 
27 
26.7862 
72 
70.5265 
117 
113.1620 
162 
154.7207 
28 
27.7705 
73 
71.4858 
118 
114.0971 
163 
155.6323 
29 
28.7541 
74 
72.4446 
119 
115.0317 
164 
156.5432 
30 
29.7372 
75 
73.4029 
120 
115.9658 
165 
157.4537 
31 
30.7197 
76 
74.3606 
121 
116.8993 
166 
158.3637 
32 
31.7017 
77 
75.3178 
122 
117.8323 
167 
159 2731 
33 
32.6831 
78 
76.2744 
123 
118.7648 
168 
160.1820 
34 
33.6640 
79 
77.2305 
124 
119.6967 
169 
161.0904 
35 
34 6443 
80 
78.1860 
125 
120.6281 
170 
161.9983 
36 
35,6240 
81 
79.1410 
126 
121.5590 
171 
162.9057 
37 
36 6032 
82 
80.0955 
127 
122 4894 
172 
163.8125 
38 
37.6818 
83 
81.0494 
128 
123.4192 
173 
164.7189 
39 
38.5599 
84 
82.0028 
129 
124.3485 
174 
165.6247 
40 
39.6374 
85 
82.9556 
130 
125.2772 
175 
166 5300 
41 
40.5144 
86 
83.9079 
131 
126.2055 
176 
167.4348 
42 
41.4908 
87 
84.8596 
132 
127.1332 
177 
168.3391 
43 
42.4667 
88 
85.8109 
133 
128.0604 
178 
169 2429 
44 
43,4420 
89 
86.7615 
134 
128.9870 
179 
170.1461 
45 
44.4167 
90 
87.7116 
135 
129.9132 
180 
171.0489 58 
No. of 
Weeks 
Present 
Value 
No. of 
Weeks 
Present 
Value 
No. of 
Weeks 
Present 
Value 
No. of 
Weeks 
Present 
Value 
181 
$171.9511 
240 
$224.2850 
299 
$274.8928 
358 
$323.8315 
182 
172.8528 
241 
225.1569 
300 
275.7360 
359 
324.6469 
183 
173.7540 
242 
226.0284 
301 
276.5787 
360 
325.4618 
184 
174.6547 
243 
226.8994 
302 
277.4210 
361 
326.2763 
185 
175.5549 
244 
227.7699 
303 
278.2628 
362 
327.0903 
186 
176.4546 
245 
228.6399 
304 
279.1041 
363 
327.9039 
187 
177.3537 
246 
229.5094 
305 
279.9449 
364 
328.7169 
188 
178.2524 
247 
230.3784 
306 
280.7852 
365 
329.5296 
189 
179.1505 
248 
231.2469 
307 
281.6251 
366 
330.3417 
190 
180.0481 
249 
232.1149 
308 
282.4645 
367 
331.1534 
191 
180.9452 
250 
232.9825 
309 
283.3034 
368 
331.9647 
192 
181.8418 
251 
233.8495 
310 
284.1419 
369 
332.7755 
193 
182.7379 
252 
234.7160 
311 
284.9798 
370 
333.5858 
194 
183.6335 
253 
235.5821 
312 
285.8173 
371 
334.3957 
195 
184.5286 
254 
236.4476 
313 
286.6543 
372 
335.2051 
196 
185.4232 
255 
237.3127 
314 
287.4908 
373 
336.0140 
197 
186.3172 
256 
238.1773 
315 
288.3269 
374 
336.8225 
198 
187.2108 
257 
239.0414 
316 
289.1625 
375 
337.6305 
199 
188.1038 
258 
239.9049 
317 
289.9976 
376 
338.4381 
200 
188.9964 
259 
240.7680 
318 
290.8322 
377 
339.2452 
201 
189.8884 
260 
241.6307 
319 
291.6664 
378 
340.0518 
202 
190 7799 
261 
242.4928 
320 
292.5001 
379 
34Q.8580 
203 
191.6709 
262 
243.3544 
321 
293.3333 
380 
34i.6637 
204 
192.5614 
263 
244.2155 
322 
294.1660 
381 
342.4690 
205 
193.4514 
264 
245.0763 
323 
294.9983 
382 
343.2738 
206 
194.3409 
265 
245.9364 
324 
295.8301 
383 
344.0782 
207 
195.2299 
266 
246.7960 
325 
296.6614 
384 
344.8821 
208 
196.1184 
267 
247.6552 
326 
297.4922 
385 
345.6855 
209 
197.0064 
268 
248.5139 
327 
298.3226 
386 
346.4885 
210 
197.8939 
269 
249.3721 
328 
299.1525 
387 
347.2911 
211 
198.7808 
270 
250.2298 
329 
299.9819 
388 
348.0931 
212 
199.6673 
271 
251.0871 
330 
300.8109 
389 
348.8947 
213 
200.5533 
272 
251.9438 
331 
301.6394 
390 
349.6959 
214 
201.4387 
273 
252.8001 
332 
302.4674 
391 
350.4966 
215 
202.3237 
274 
253,6558 
333 
303.2949 
392 
351.2969 
216 
203.2082 
275 
254.5111 
334 
304.1220 
393 
352.0967 
217 
204.0921 
276 
255.3659 
335 
304.9486 
394 
352.8960 
218 
204.9756 
277 
256.2202 
336 
305.7748 
395 
353.6949 
219 
205.8585 
278 
257.0741 
337 
306.6004 
396 
354.4933 
220 
206.7410 
279 
257.9274 
338 
307.4256 
397 
355.2913 
221 
207.6229 
280 
258.7803 
339 
308.2504 
398 
356.0888 
222 
208.5043 
281 
259.6326 
340 
309.0746 
399 
356.8859 
223 
209.3853 
282 
260.4845 
341 
309.8984 
400 
357.6825 
224 
210.2657 
283 
261.3359 
342 
310.7217 
401 
358.4787 
225 
211.1457 
284 
262.1868 
343 
311.5446 
402 
359.2744 
226 
212.0251 
285 
263.0373 
344 
312.3670 
403 
360.0697 
227 
212.9041 
286 
263.8872 
345 
313.1889 
404 
360.8645 
228 
213.7825 
287 
264.7367 
'346 
314.0103 
405 
361 6589 
229 
214.6605 
288 
265.5857 
347 
314.8313 
406 
362.4528 
230 
215.5379 
289 
266.4342 
348 
315.6519 
407 
363.2462 
231 
216.4148 
290 
267.2822 
349 
316.4719 
408 
364.0392 
232 
217.2913 
291 
268.1298 
350 
317.2915 
409 
364.8318 
233 
218.1672 
292 
268.9768 
351 
318.1106 
410 
365.6239 
234 
219.0427 
293 
269.8234 
352 
318.9293 
411 
366.4156 
235 
219.9176 
294 
270.6695 
353 
319.7475 
412 
367.2068 
236 
220.7921 
295 
271.5151 
354 
320.5652 
413 
367.9975 
237 
221.6661 
298 
272.3603 
355 
321.3825 
414 
368.7878 
238 
222.5395 
297 
273.2049 
356 
322.1993 
415 
369.5777 
239 
223.4125 
298 
274.0491 
357 
323.0156 
416 
417 
370.3671 
371.1561 59 
PRESENT VALUE TABLES—Continued 
Present value at 3 per cent, compounded annually, of $1 semi-monthly, payable at the end of each half month, for any 
term from one-half month up to eight years. « 
(For method of computation, see example given under weekly table.) 
MONTHS 
0 years 
1 year 
and— 
months 
2 years 
and— 
months 
3 years 
and— 
months 
4 years 
and— 
months 
5 years 
and— 
months* 
6 years 
and— 
months 
7 years 
and— 
months 
One-half 
.9978 
24.6020 
47.5272 
69 7927 
91.4194 
112.4242 
132 8254 
152 6394 
One 
1.9962 
25.5705 
48.4676 
70.7058 
92.3060 
113.2850 
133 6611 
153.4509 
One and one-half 
2.9925 
26.5378 
49.4068 
71.6178 
93.1915 
114.1449 
134.4961 
154.2616 
Two 
3.9875 
27.5040 
50.3450 
72 5288 
94 0761 
115 0038 
135 3301 
155 0714 
Two and one-half 
4.9812 
28.4690 
51.2821 
73.4388 
94.9597 
115.8619 
136.1633 
155.8805 
Three 
5 9738 
29.4329 
52 2172 
74 3477 
95 8423 
116 7190 
136.9956 
137.8270 
156.6887 
157.4961 
Three and one-half 
6.9651 
30.3956 
53.1520 
75.2556 
96.7240 
117.5752 
Four 
7.9552 
31.3517 
54.0858 
76 1624 
97.6047 
118 4305 
138 6576 
158 3027 
Four and one-half 
8.9441 
32.3175 
55.0186 
77.0683 
98.4844 
119.2848 
139.4873 
159.1085 
Five 
9.9317 
33.2767 
55.9502 
77 9731 
99.3631 
120.1383 
140 3162 
159.9134 
Five and one-half 
10.9182 
34.2348 
56.8807 
78.8769 
100.2409 
120.9908 
141.1444 
160.7176 
Six 
11.9034 
35.1917 
57.8102 
79 7796 
101 1177 
121 8425 
141 9713 
161 5210 
Six and one-half 
12.8874 
36.1475 
58.7385 
80.6814 
101.9936 
122.6932 
142.7976 
162.3235 
Seven 
13.8702 
37.1022 
59.6658 
81.5821 
102.8685 
123 5430 
143.6231 
163 1252 
Seven and one-half 
14.8517 
38.0557 
60.5921 
82.4818 
103.7424 
124.3920 
144.4477 
163.9262 
Eight 
15.8321 
39.0081 
61.5172 
83 3806 
104 6154 
125 2400 
145 2714 
164 7263 
Eight and one-half 
16.8113 
39.9593 
62.4413 
84.2783 
105.4875 
126.0871 
146.0943 
165.5257 
Nine 
17.7893 
40.9094 
63.3643 
85.1750 
106.3585 
126 9334 
146 9163 
166.3242 
Nine and one-half 
18.7661 
41.8584 
64.2863 
86.0706 
107.2287 
127.7787 
147.7375 
167.1219 
Ten 
19.7417 
42.8063 
65.2071 
86 9653 
108.0979 
128 6231 
148 5579 
167 9189 
Ten and one-half 
20.7161 
43.7530 
66.1270 
87.8590 
108.9661 
129.4667 
149.3774 
168.7150 
Eleven 
21.6894 
44.6986 
67.0457 
88 7517 
109 8334 
130.2094 
150 1961 
169.5104 
170 3050 
Eleven and one-half 
22.6614 
45.6431 
67.9635 
89.6434 
110.6998 
131.1512 
151.0139 
Twelve 
23.6323 
46.5857 
68.8786 
90.5319 
111.5625 
131.9887 
151.8271 
171.0944 (EXPLANATORY: References in this index are to sections, paragraphs and 
pages. The letters in parentheses refer to paragraphs under sections. Numbers 
under “Section” refer to sections of the Act. Numbers under “Page” refer to the 
pages where the substance contained in the index notation may be found, although 
the section may have started on a prior page.) 
INDEX 
A 
Section Page 
ACCIDENT REPORTS 
duty of employer to make when injuries entail loss of more than 
one week’s time 30 53 
need not report to any other officer of State 30 53 
requisites of notice 30 53 
to be made immediately in death cases % 30 53 
ACCIDENTS 
hernia, notice to employer within fifteen days 24 47 
mental incapacity, no limitations of time to run until conservator 
or guardian appointed (h) 8 24 
Also see 24 47 
notice to employer within thirty days 24 47 
previous, amputation, amount to be deducted (e) 8 19 
previous, employer not liable for (e) 8 19 
requisites of notice, oral or in writing 24 47 
ACIDS 
corrosive, use of designated as extra hazardous business (7) 3 7 
ACTION 
against third parties, where legal liability 29 52 
option to proceed under act or at law 29 52 
ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE 
may be heard on review before commission (e) 19 39 
ADDRESSES 
name and address to be filed with commission (i) 19 44 
praecipe shall contain address of parties in interest 19 41 
ADMINISTRATOR 
appointment in cases indicating complete disability 9 28 
employer may petition for appointment of public administrator 9 28 
(See Personal Representative) 
AERIAL SERVICE 
designated as extra hazardous business (3) 3 7 
AGREED STATEMENT OF FACTS 
of proceedings on arbitration; filing; extension of time (b) 19 37 
of proceedings on review, filing; extension of time (e) 19 39 
ALIENS 
construed as employees 5 8 
ALTERATIONS 
altering of any structure designated as extra hazardous business 
(1) 3 7 
AMPUTATION 
prior injury, amount to be deducted (e)...- 8 19 
ANNUAL REPORT 
commission to report to Governor 20 46 
APPEAL 
additional evidence (e)< . 19 39 
oral argument (e) 19 39 
petition to review arbitrator’s award; time for (b) 19 37 
place of hearing on review (e) 19 39 
to circuit court (f) 19 40 
city court (f) .... 19 40 
transcript of evidence or agreed statement of facts; time for (b) 19 38 61 
Section Page 
APPEAL, BOND (See Bond.) 
APPEARANCES 
name and address to be filed with commission (i) 19 44 
APPLICATION FOR ADJUSTMENT OF CLAIM 
amendment permitted (a-1) 19 37 
designation of arbitrator, committee of arbitration (a) 19 36 
must be filed with commission within one year after date of in- 
jury or within one year after date of last payment 24 47 
payments before filing not admission of liability (i) S 25 
when state treasurer, as custodian of special fund, shall be made 
party (f) 8 23 
ARBITRATION 
appeal: agreed statement of facts; transcript of evidence, authen- 
tication; extension of time (b) 19 37 
cost of transcript of evidence 16 34 
scope; where held; time; notice (b) 19 38 
ARBITRATORS 
duties (b) 19 38 
entry of award where no dispute exists 9 28 
how designated (a) 19 36 
may enter award when temporary disability not terminated (b).. 19 38 
power to administer oaths, subpoena and examine witnesses, 
issue subpoenas duces tecum, examine and inspect premises 16 34 
salary; traveling expenses 14 32-33 
ARGUMENT 
may be had before majority of commission upon written demand; 
commission to give notice (e) 19 39 
ARM 
artificial, employer to furnish (a) 8 17 
loss or loss of use of (e) 8 19 
ARTIFICIAL LIMBS AND APPLIANCES 
employer shall furnish (a) 8 17 
not to be construed as admitting liability or as payment of com- 
pensation 8 17 
ASSISTANT SECRETARY 
commission shall appoint; salary 14 32 
ASSURING PAYMENT 
methods for 25 48 
ATTORNEY GENERAL 
duty to prosecute employer or insurer (d) 26 50 
ATTACHMENT (See Lien.) 
ATTORNEYS’ FEES 
commission may determine reasonableness and fix amount of...;. 16 35 
shall be paid, in subrogation suit 29 53 
subject to review by commission (c) 19 38 
taxed as costs upon entry of judgment in circuit court (g) 19 43 
AWARD 
application for judgment on (g) 19 43 
certified copies furnished by secretary or assistant secretary 14 33 
conclusive in absence of fraud (b) 19 38 
correction of clerical errors of computation (f) 19 40 
decision of arbitrator; final if not reviewed (b) 19 38 
for purpose of lump sum, where no dispute exists 9 27 
for total disability, when terminated or reduced, employee may 
file petition within one year (f) 8 22 
lien when filed with recorder of deeds 21 46 
may be modified when ordered paid parent or grandparent for 
support of child (g) 7 14 
payments for complete disability out of special fund (f) 8 23 
review of; additional evidence; time for; notice, etc. (b) 19 38 
where temporary disability not terminated (b) 19 38 
' B 
BACK 
compensation for injury to (d) 8 18 
BENEFICIARY 
in pension fund limited to excess of compensation 5 10 
right to receive compensation extinguished by death of; exceptions 21 46 
INDEX—Continued 62 
Section Page 
BENEFIT INSURANCE 
employer collecting premiums for, compensation insurance void (c) 27 51 
not affected by (a) 27 51 
penalty for (c) 27 51 
BENEFIT INSURANCE COMPANY 
not authorized to discontinue (b) 27 51 
organization lawful when (a) 27 51 
BENEFIT OR RELIEF ASSOCIATIONS 
organization lawful when (a) 27 51 
BLANK FORMS 
commission shall have printed and furnished free of charge 17 35 
BLIND 
totally blind persons excepted from the term “employee” 5 8-9 
BOND 
amount to be fixed by commission (f) 19 41 
for appeal to circuit court (f) 19 41 
surety to be approved by clerk of circuit court (f) 19 
to operate as stay of judgment (f) 19 
BOOKS, PAPERS AND RECORDS 
commission or arbitrator may require production of and examine 
and inspect 16 33 
BROTHER (See Collateral Heirs.) 
BULLETINS 
commission may issue bulletins and reports 20 46 
BURIAL EXPENSES 
accident report shall contain statement of 30 53 
proceedings for collection of (e) 7 13 
special fund in addition to (e) 7 12 
when commission may order paid (e) 7 13 
when payable (e) 7 12 
C 
CARRIAGE 
by land or water designated as extra hazardous business (3) 3 7 
CERTIFIED COPY 
admissible in evidence 14 33 
of award ordering payments for complete disability out of special 
fund (f) 8 23 
of award ordering payment into special fund (e) 7 13 
of decision of commission or award of arbitrator for purpose of 
✓ judgment in Circuit Court (g) 19 43 
of decision or agreement may be filed with recorder of deeds 21 46 
of records* files, etc., to be furnished by secretary or assistant 
secretary 14 32 
CERTIORARI, WRIT OP 
commission not required to certify record unless payment of cost 
deposited (f) 19 40 
how service is had, bond, fee for certifying, parties in interest, 
how served (f) 19 41 
no writ issued unless receipt showing for record (f) 19 41 
to Circuit Court (f) 19 40 
to city court 19 40 
CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS 
construed as employer 4 8 
CHILD OR CHILDREN 
adopted (j) 8 25 
beneficiary In death case, legal obligation to support (a) 7 10 
beneficiary in death case, totally dependent (b) 7 11 
beneficiary in death case, partially dependent (c) 7 11 
compensation in death case may be awarded to parent or grand- 
parent for child’s support: award may be modified (g) 7 14 
compensation rate increased where children under 16 (h); illegally 
employed, compensation increased 50% (i) 7 14-16 
illegally employed, compensation increased 50% (k) 8 26 
maximum and minimum increased in death cases (h) 7 14 
of member fire department or fire insurance patrol 5 8 
payments to cease at age of 18 years (a) 7 10 
when amount payable shall not be less than $500 (g) 8 24 
INDEX—Continued 63 
INDEX—Continued 
Section Page 
CIRCUIT COURT 
certified copy of award may be presented to and judgment entered 
(S) 19 43 
duty of clerk to furnish commission with copy of decisions (f) 19 40 
fees for record to; bond for appeal to. 19 41-42 
power to review law and fact 19 40 
witness fees to be same as in 16 34 
writ of certiorari to (f) 19 40 
writ of scire facias (f) 19 40 
CITY COURT 
duty of clerk to furnish commission with copy of decision (f) 19 41 
power to review law and fact 19 40 
where 25,000 or more inhabitants /9 40 
writ of scire facias (f) 19 40 
CITIES AND VILLAGES 
construed as employer 4 8 
official of is not employee 5 8 
when act applies to 3 7 
CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION 
barred unless application filed with commission within one year 
after date of injury or one year after date of last payment 24 46 
for death barred where lump sum settlement in lifetime of em- 
ployee compromising dispute of any question other than extent 
of disability 9 27 
in case of incompetent employee, limitations stayed until appoint- 
ment of conservator or guardian (h) 8 24 
within six months after accident 24 47 
CLERICAL ERRORS 
in award or decision may be corrected (f) 19 40 
CLERICAL HELP 
commission shall employ assistants and clerical help 14 32 
COLLATERAL HEIRS 
beneficiaries in death case (d) 7 11 
right to compensation of sister or brother upon death of beneficiary 21 46 
COMMON LAW ACTIONS 
barred if there is right to compensation 6 10 
COMPENSATION 
additional for vexatious delay (k) 19 44 
aggregate death benefit increased 10% (k) 7 16 
claim for, statute of limitations 24 47 
complete disability (f) 8 21 
complete disability, payment in lump sum limitation 9 28 
computation basis 10 28 
computation day labor full year (a) 10 28 
computation same employer same grade (b) 10 29 
computation earnings of other employees (c) 10 29 
computation earnings based on 300 days (d) 10 29 
computation earnings less than full year with minimum of 200 
days (e) 10 29 
computation earning no wage or less than adult day laborers (f) 10 29 
computation earnings hours commonly regarded as day’s work (g) 10 29 
computation not include overtime or special expense (g) 10 29 
computation where employee was injured and drawing compensa- 
tion for subsequent injury (h) 10 29 
computation installments cased on number installment periods per 
annum (i) 10 30 
death of beneficiary, extinguishment of right to 21 46 
fatal injury distribution order necessary (g) 7 14 
fatal injury leaving collateral heirs (d) 7 11 
fatal injury leaving no widow or heirs (e) payment to special fund 7 12 
fatal injury, leaving widow and children (a) 7 10 
fatal injury, leaving parent, husband, child or children (b) 7 11 
fatal injury, leaving parent, child or children, grandparent or 
grandchildren (c) 7 11 
fatal injury, increased on account of children (h) 7 14 
fatal injuries, minimum, maximum on account of children 7 14-15 
fatal injuries, child’s share paid for care and support (g) 7 14 
fatal injury, payment to personal representative or beneficiary... 7 14 
fatal injury, payment installments, amount, time (f) 7 14 
injury resulting in death during payments (g) 8 24 
in death cases may be paid in lump sum (f) 7 14 
installments (non-fatal) increased (1) 8 24-25 Section Page 
COMPENSATION—Concluded 
installments (fatal) increased (k) 8 26 
limitation in case of complete disability (h) 8 24 
loss of two members constitutes complete disability (e.18) 8 21 
payments not to extend over eight years; exception (h) 8 24 
payments prior to filing claim not construed as liability (1) 8 24 
permanent partial incapacity (d) 8 18 
payments diminished, ended, increased and re-estabUshed review 
(h) 19 43 
payments, to be made not later than two weeks after due (i).. 8 24 
permanent disfigurement (c) 8 18 
review, time (b) 19 37 
review limitation 19 38 
review, extension of time granted 19 38 
review, additional evidence 19 38 
review hearings, where held 19 39 
review, special findings 19 39 
right to receive extinguished by death; exceptions 21 46 
specific loss or loss of use of thumb, finger or fingers, toe or toes, 
hand, arm, foot, leg, eye or sight thereof, hearing, testicle (e).. 8 19-20-21 
specific partial loss or partial loss of use (e) 8 19 
suspension for injurious practices and refusal to submit to essen- 
tial treatment (d) . 19 39 
suspension for refusal to submit to physical examination 12 30 
to be paid at same intervals as wages (i) 8 24 
COMPLETE DISABILITY 
administrator may be appointed in cases indicating 9 27 
award for may be modified (f) 8 22 
compensation payable for (f) 8 22 
loss of two members to constitute total and permanent disability 
(e-18) 8 21 
pension (f) 8 22 
review of award for (h) 19 43 
CONSERVATOR 
in case employee is incompetent (h) 8 24 
in case dependents of deceased employee are incompetent 24 47 
may be appointed in cases indicating complete disability 9 28 
when employer may petition for appointment of 9 28 
CONSTRUCTION 
business designated as extra hazardous (2) 3 7 
payments prior to filing not construed as liability (i) 8 24 
CONTRACT 
contract or agreement entered into within seven days of injury 
presumed to be fraudulent 22 47 
of hire within State 5 9 
CONTRIBUTION 
of beneficiary in death case to parent, sister or brother 21 46 
COUNTIES 
construed as employer 4 8 
employee or beneficiary entitled to participate in pension or benefit 
fund in excess of compensation only 5 8-9 
official of is not an employee 5 8 
when act applies to 3 7 
COUNTY COURT 
shall compel obedience to subpoenas 16 33 
COURT 
duty of clerk of any court to furnish commission with copy of 
decisions (f) 19 42 
COVERAGE 
policy of insurance shall cover all employees and entire compensa- 
tion liability (a) 26 48 
CREOSOTE (See Wood Preservatives.) 
D 
DAMAGES 
employer electing to come under act relieved from liability for.... 1 5 
liability for on part of third person 29 52 
limit of responsibility 11 30 
INDEX—Continued 65 
Section Page 
DAMAGES—Concluded 
no payment, claim, award or decision under act to be held liable 
for 21 46 
other than compensation, no common law or statutory right to 
recover damages from employer available to employee covered 
by act 6 10 
DAY’S WORK 
defned (g) 10 29 
DEATH 
balance for specific loss payable to widow or dependents (e) 8 21 
compensation payable for death ... 7 10 
compensation may be paid in lump sum (f) 7 14 
right to compensation extinguished by 21 46 
when amount payable shall not be less than $500 (g) 8 24 
DECLINATION, NOTICE 
recording with commission 17 35 
withdrawal of 17 35 
DEDiMUS POTESTATEM (See Depositions.) 
DELAY 
more than two weeks considered unreasonable (i) 8 25 
unreasonable or vexatious in payment of compensation, fifty per 
cent penalty (k) 19 44 
DEMOLISHING 
of machinery designated as extra hazardous enterprise 3 7 
of structure designated as extra hazardous enterprise (1) 3 7 
DEPENDENCY 
In death cases (b), (c), (d) 7 11 
upon death of beneficiary 21 46 
DEPENDENTS 
appointment of conservator or guardian when mentally incom- 
petent 24 47 
balance for specific loss payable to if injured employee dies (e).. 8 21 
limitations of time not to run in case of mental incapacity, 
exception .... 24 47 
DEPOSITIONS 
application for 16 33 
commission may adopt rules governing 16 33 
dedimus postestatem 16 34 
foreign country, to be taken before American consul 16 34 
DEPOSITORY 
approval 25 48 
commuted value of total unpaid compensation 25 48 
DISABILITY 
appointment of legal representatives 9 28 
apportionment when drawing compensation and suffers subsequent 
injury (h) 10 29 
compensation, review, notice (h) 19 43 
complete, award for, when payments shall cease or be reduced (f) 8 22 
complete, compensation payable for (f) 8 22 
complete, when award for terminated or reduced, employee may 
file petition within one year (f) 8 23 
notice of accident given in case of 24 47 
DISFIGUREMENT 
to hand, head, neck or face, compensation payable for (c) 8 18 
DISPUTE 
committee of arbitration (a) 19 3b 
designation of arbitrator (a) 19 36 
disputed questions of law and fact, how determined (a) 19 36 
review by commission (e) 19 39 
DISTRIBUTION 
in fatal cases, subject to order of commission (g) 7 14 
of commodity by horse-drawn or motor-driven vehicle designated 
as extra hazardous business (3) 3 7 
E 
EARNINGS 
basis for computing compensation 10 28 
defined (g) 10 29 
overtime excluded (g) 10 29 
INDEX—Continued Section Page 
ELECTION BY EMPLOYEE 
accepts provisions of act when employer elects to come under (c) 1 6 
election not to accept act by filing notice with industrial com- 
mission 1 5 
withdrawal from operation of act by filing notice with industrial 
commission 1 6 
withdrawal of election to reject act (d) 1 6 
ELECTION BY EMPLOYER 
binding while insurance policy remains in force (b) 1 5 
brings all employees under (c) 1 6 
by taking out compensation insurance (a) 1 5 
how employer may terminate election; notice to commission, 
posting notice, etc ’ 1 5-6 
may elect to come under act where business does not come under 
automatically by section 3 1 5 
thereby relieved from liability for damages 1 5 
■withdrawal of election to reject act (d) 1 6 
ELECTRICAL WORK 
designated as extra hazardous business (2) 3 7 
EMPLOYEE 
blind persons excepted 5 8 
defined . 5 8 
engaged in business or enterprise automatically under act 3 7 
no limitations of time shall run while mentally incompetent (h) 8 24 
not to include persons not engaged in usual course of trade, 
business, etc., of employer 5 9 
(See Election by Employee.) 
EMPLOYER 
business or enterprises automatically under act 3 7 
defined 4 8 
liable for accidents to employees of sub-contractor 31 54 
measure of responsibility 11 30 
not liable for disability from previous accident (e-18) 8 21 
where employs more than two employees (3) 3 7 
(See Election by Employer.) 
EMPLOYER’S LIABILITY INSURANCE 
approval notice (a), (b) 26 48-49 
disapproval by commission (b) 26 49 
existing continued, condition 27 51 
right of commission to order discontinuance of writing compensa- 
tion insurance (c) 26 49-50 
EMPLOYMENT 
children illegally employed, compensation increased 50% (i) 7 16 
children illegally employed, compensation increased 50% (k) 8 26 
EMPLOYMENT BY SAME EMPLOYER 
defined (b) 10 29 
ERECTION 
of structure designated as extra hazardous business (1) 3 7 
EVIDENCE 
additional may be offered on review (e) 19 39 
agreed statement of facts (e) 19 39 
books and papers, inspection of 16 33 
hospital records admissible 16 34 
only competent evidence, not subject to oriental or physical control 
of employee, admissible (i) 8 24 
premises, inspection of 16 34 
records certified by secretary admissible 14 32 
transcript of evidence (e) 19 39 
EXAMINATION (See Physical Examination.) 
EXCAVATING 
designated as extra hazardous business (2) 3 7 
EXECUTION (See Lien.) 
EXISTING RIGHTS AND REMEDIES 
continued 32 55 
INDEX—Continued Section Page 
EXPIRATION OF INSURANCE 
cannot discontinue insurance without discharging obligation (b).. 27 51 
policy in effect until 10 days after notice to commission of can- 
cellation or expiration (b) 26 49 
EXPLOSIVES 
when designated as extra hazardous (6) 3 7 
EXTRA HAZARDOUS 
occupations, enterprises or businesses 3 7 
automatically under act; structure (1), construction (2), carriage 
(3), more than two employees (3), warehouse (4), mining (5), 
explosive materials (6), vapors, gases (7), sharp edged tools, 
junk and salvage, demolish or reconstruct machinery (7%), 
statutes or ordinances (8), subdivisions of land (9), wood pre- 
servatives (10) 3 7-8 
farmers and farm work excluded (8) .... 3 7 
EXTRA TERRITORIAL 
applies to accidents without the State 5 9 
(See title of act) 5 
EYE 
artificial, employer to furnish (a) 8 17 
loss of sight or loss of use of (e) 8 19 
F 
FACE 
disfigurement to, serious and permanent (c) 8 18 
FARMERS AND FARM WORK 
excluded from operation of act (8) 3 7 
FATAL INJURY (See Death) 
FEES 
attorneys’ (c) 19 38 
commission has power to determine reasonableness and fix amount 
of fee charged by any person for service under act 16 35 
of members of committee of arbitration 19 36 
of physician appointed by commission (c) 19 38 
FEDERAL LAWS 
employees excluded by 5 9 
FINANCIAL ABILITY 
evidence of furnished by employer (b) 26 49 
filed with commission (b) 26 49 
subject to approval of commission (b) 26 49 
FINANCIAL STATEMENT 
approval by commission v 26 48 
filing with commission ' 26 48 
FINGERS 
disfigurement, serious and permanent (c) 8 18 
loss or loss of use of (e) 8 19 
FIRE DEPARTMENTS 
when act does not apply to members of 5 8 
FIRE INSURANCE PATROL 
when act does not apply to members of v 5 8 
FIRST AID 
employer shall provide (a) 8 17 
not to be construed as payment of compensation (a) 8 17 
FOOT 
artificial, employer to furnish (a) 8 17 
loss or loss of use of (e) 8 19 
FOREIGN BENEFICIARIES 
payments to be made to personal representative 7 14 
FORMS (See Blank Forms.) 
FRAUD 
contract within seven days after injury presumed fraudulent 22 47 
in absence of, decision of commission conclusive (f) 19 40 
FUND (See Special Fund.) 
INDEX—Continued INDEX—Continued 
G 
Section Page 
GASES 
injurious, use of designated as extra hazardous (7) ' 3 7 
GARNISHMENT (See Lien.) 
GRANDCHILD 
beneficiary in death cases (c) 7 11 
GRANDPARENT 
beneficiary in death cases (c) 7 11 
compensation may be awarded to for child’s support; award may 
be modified (g) 7 14 
when amount payable shall not be less than $500 (g) 8 24 
GRINDERS 
use of designated as extra hazardous business (7Vk) 3 7 
GUARDIAN 
in case employee is mentally incompetent (h) 8 24 
in case dependents of deceased employee are mentally incompetent 24 47 
may be appointed in cases indicating complete disability 9 28 
when employer may petition for appointment of 9 28 
H 
HAND 
artificial, employer to furnish (a) 8 17 
disfigurement, serious and permanent (c) 8 18 
loss or loss of use of (e) 8 19 
HEAD 
disfigurement of, serious and permanent (c) 8 18 
HEARING 
total loss of, one ear; both ears (e) 8 20 
HEARINGS 
arbitration; time; place: notice (a) (b) 19 36-37-38 
review; time; place; notice (e) 19 39 
review, argument before majority of commission (e) 19 39 
when state treasurer shall have notice of (f) 8 22 
HEIRS 
lineal (g) 8 24 
(See Collateral Heirs.) 
HERNIA 
notice must be given employer within fifteen days.. 24 47 
what must be proven to entitle employee to compensation (d-1).. 8 18 
HOSPITAL RECORDS 
admissible in evidence 16 35 
HOSPITALS 
construed as employer 4 8 
employer shall provide necessary services; employee may secure 
at his own expense (a) 8 17 
fees for services may be fixed by commission 16 35 
report of accident shall contain statement of charges 30 53 
HOSPITAL SERVICES 
furnishing of not to be construed as payment of compensation (a) 8 17 
refusal to submit to treatment: penalty (d) 19 39 
(See Hospitals) 
I 
INCOMPETENT EMPLOYEE 
. conservator, appointment of (h) 8 24 
guardian, appointment of (h) 8 24 
notice in case of mental incapacity 24 47 
statute of limitations (h) 8 24 Section Page 
INDEMNITY BOND 
approval (b) 26 49 
demand (a-5) 26 49 
disapproval by commission (b) 26 49 
file with commission (a-5) , 26 49 
notice to employer of disapproval (b) 26 49 
requisites (b) 26 49 
INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR 
accident must occur on premises 31 54 
defined .,. 31 54 
effect of failure of sub-contractor to guarantee liability..' 31 54 
primarily liable to employees of sub-contractors 31 54 
right of action against sub-contractor 31 54 
subrogation, employee’s right against third party 29 51 
INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION 
clerical help, employment 14 32 
destruction of records and files 17 35 
jurisdiction 15 33 
jurisdiction, disputed questions 19 36 
jurisdiction, quorum (e) 19 39 
jurisdiction, unsettled questions 18 36 
members, appointment, qualifications, term of office 13 32 
members, salary ." 14 32 
organization 13 32 
under “The Civil Administrative Code of Illinois’’ (b) 13 32 
rejection of act by employee; notice of employer (c) 1 6 
seal, form 14 33 
vacancies, filling during recess of Senate 13 32 
INJURY, FATAL 
compensation 7 10-11-12 
13-14-15-16-17 
INJURY, NON-FATAL 
compensation 8 17-18 
19-20-21 
22-23-24 
25-26-27 
INSPECTION 
books, papers, records, places, premises 16 34 
INSURANCE 
approved by commission (b) 26 49 
business discontinued (c) ft 26 49-50 
certificate to be filed with commission within five days (b) 26 49 
delay, unfairness (c) 26 49-50 
employer to insure 26 48 
failure of employer to comply (d) 26 50 
file evidence of compliance 26 49 
insurer cannot discontinue (b) 27 51 
insurer Insolvent (c) 26 49-50 
insuring liability constitutes election to be bound by act t 5 
organization of companies and associations for voluntary mutual 
aid, benefit relief, lawful (a) 27 51 
penalty (d) 26 50 
policy in effect until ten days after notice to commission of can- 
cellation or expiration (b) 26 49 
reciprocal or interinsurers exchange (c) 26 49 
review by court (c) 26 49 
shall cover entire compensation liability (a) 26 48 
shall not affect existing insurance 27 51 
wages withheld for premium; penalty (c) 27 51 
INSURANCE CARRIER 
may be made party to proceeding 28 52 
when becomes primarily liable 28 52 
INTEREST 
commutation tables 56-57-58 
how calculated on lump sum payments 9 27 
INTERSTATE COMMERCE 
(See Federal Laws.) 
INVESTIGATION 
arbitrator, scope (b) 19 37 
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JUDGMENT 
cost and attorney fees to be taxed (g) 19 43 
filing bond shall prevent entry of (f) 19 42 
not subject to lien 21 46 
on award, how obtained in circuit court (g) 19 43 
state treasurer to take for payment into special fund (e).. 7 12 
when amount in excess of compensation to be paid to employee.. 29 52 
JUNK 
buying, selling or handling designated as extra hazardous enter- 
prise (IVz) 3 7 
JURISDICTION 
commission shall have jurisdiction over operation and adminis- 
tration of act 15 33 
extra territorial (see title of act also) 5 9 
industrial commission, disputed questions 19 36 
judgment modification by circuit court (g) 19 43 
of circuit court to render judgment (g) 19 43 
L 
LAND 
subdividing of designated as extra hazardous business (9) 3 8 
DAW 
invalidity of any provision of act 34 56 
name of act 3314 55 
penalties 33 55 
questions of reviewed by court (f) 19 40 
repeals act of June 10, 1911 35 56 
wilful neglect, refusal or failure to do things required 33 55 
DBG 
artificial, employer to furnish (a) 8 17 
loss or loss of use of (e) 8 19 
DEGAD REPRESENTATIVE 
appointment in case of disability 9 28 
personal representative of deceased employee, appointment of (g) 7 14 
statute not to run until appointment of (h) 8 24 
(See Personal Representative, and Conser^tor.) 
DIABIDITY 
payments prior to filing claim not construed as (i) 8 24 
DIEN 
decision or award may be filed with recorder of deeds and shall 
constitute lien against all property of employer in county; how 
enforced 21 46 
no payment, claim, award or decision assignable or subject to lien, 
attachment or garnishment 21 46 
D1MITATIONS 
compensation (fatal), amount, minimum, maximum 7 14-15-16 
compensation (non-fatal), amount, minimum, maximum 8 17-27 
compensation, minimum, death of beneficiary during payment of 
(g) 8 24 
compensation payments not to exceed over eight years; exception 8 24 
in case employee is mentally incompetent (h) 8 24 
not to apply to special fund (e) 7 13 
statute of limitations 24 47-48 
DOSS OF 
compensation paid for loss of arm, hand, thumb, finger or fingers, 
leg, foot, toe or toes, eye or eyes or sight thereof, hearing, tes- 
ticle (see Compensation) 8 19-20-21 
DUMP SUM SETTDEMENT 
award may be made as basis for, where no dispute exists 9 28 
compensation may be paid in; notice to parties 9 28 
commutation, how made 9 28 
commutation tables 56-57-58 
in cases indicating complete disability: appointment of guardian, 
conservator or administrator 9 28 
may be made in death cases (f) 7 14 71 
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Section Page 
LUMP SUM SETTLEMENT—Concluded 
payment in lifetime bar to death claim unless lump sum is com- 
promise of dispute on question other than extent of disability.. 9 27 
when award or settlement contract paid in lump sum, review 
under sec. 19, par. (h), barred 19 44 
M 
MACHINERY 
demolishing or reconstructing designated as extra hazardous 
enterprise (7Vz) 3 7 
when subject to municipal or statutory regulations, enterprise 
designated as extra hazardous (8) 3 7 
MAINTAINING 
of structure designated as extra hazardous business (1) 3 7 
MAJORITY 
argument before (e) 19 39 
committee of arbitration (f) 19 40 
members of commission (f) 19 40 
MEDICAL SERVICES 
artificial members furnished (a) 8 17 
employer to provide (a) 8 17 
employee may secure at his own expense (a) 8 17 
first aid (a) 8 17 
furnishing of by employer not to be construed as payment of com- 
pensation (a) 8 17 
refusal to submit to treatment; penalty (d) 19 39 
MENTAL INCOMPETENTS 
employee (h) 8 24 
dependents of deceased employee 24 47 
MINING, SURFACE MINING AND QUARRYING 
designated as extra hazardous (5) 3 7 
MINORS 
computing earnings (f) 10 29 
death beneficiary, by parent or grandparent, may compromise dis- 
putes and enter into settlement contract and lump sum 23 47 
included in term “employee” 5 9 
illegally employed, compensation increased 50% (i) 7 16 
illegally employed, compensation increased 50% (k) 8 26 
power to contract, receive payments and give quittances 5 9 
(See Child or Children.) 
MISDEMEANOR 
failure to comply with provisions relating to insurance and liability 
to pay compensation (d) 26 50 
neglect, refusal or failure to comply with act or violation of its 
provisions 33 55 
withholding wages for payment of premium (c) 27 51 
MUNICIPAL CORPORATION 
construed as employer 4 5 
employee or beneficiary entitled to participate in pension or benefit 
fund in excess of compensation only 5 9 
official of is not an employee 5 8 
when act applies to 3 7 
MUNICIPAL ORDINANCE REGULATIONS 
bring business of employer under act (8) 3 7 
MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION 
organization lawful 27 51 
will not affect compensation insurance 27 51 
MUTUAL AID INSURANCE 
existing continued, condition 27 51 
N 
NEGLIGENCE 
legal liability of third parties for 29 
proximate cause test of liability 29 
NON-ELECTION (See Election by Employer; Election by Employee.) Section Page 
NON-FATAL INJURY (See Compensation.) 
NOTICE 
address, filing (i) 19 44 
appeal, circuit court, mailing of (f) 19 40 
approval of security (b) 26 49 
arbitration, duty of commission to notify parties (a) 19 36 
declination, recording 17 35 
discontinuance of election, filing (d) 1 6 
discontinuance of election, posting (d) 1 6 
election to adopt act, filing (a) 1 5 
employer’s withdrawal (c) 1 6 
hearing on arbitration, requisites <b) 19 37 
paying compensation in lump sum, requisites 9 26 
service, filing address (i) 19 44 
service, personal or by registered letter (i) 19 44 
withdrawal from operation of act by employee, filing and mailing 
(C) 4 1 6 
withdrawal from operation of act by employee, recording 17 35 
withdrawal from operation of act by employer, filing and posting 
(d) 1 6 
withdrawal of election to reject (d) 1 6 
NOTICE OF ACCIDENT 
defective or inaccurate, effect 24 47 
hernia, notice to employer within fifteen days 24 47 
notice to employer within thirty days 24 47 
mental incapacity, notice to employer 24 47 
requisites of notice, oral or in writing 24 47 
service personal or by registered mail 24 47 
NOTICE OF HEARINGS 
before arbitrator, ten days (b) * 19 36 
before commission on review, ten days (e) 19 39 
on review of agreement or award, fifteen days (h) 19 43 
state treasurer to have notice when joined as respondent (f) 8 22 
O 
OATHS 
member of commission or arbitrator may administer 16 33 
OBJECTIVE SYMPTOMS 
injury must be proven by (i-3) 8 25 
ORAL ARGUMENT (See Argument.) 
ORDERS 
paying compensation in lump sum 9 27 
recording 17 35 
to carry out the commission’s legal duties, power to make 16 33 
validity 16 33 
P 
PARENT 
beneficiary in death case, totally dependent (b) 7 11 
beneficiary in death case, partially dependent (c) 7 11 
compensation may be awarded to for child’s support; award may 
be modified (g) 7 14 
right to compensation upon death of beneficiary 21 46 
when amount payable shall not be less than $500 (g) 8 24 
PARTIAL PERMANENT INCAPACITY 
compensation payable for (d) 8 18 
limitations as to time and amount (h) 8 24 
PAYMENTS 
accordancfe with order or award shall discharge employer of 
further obligation (g) 7 14 
additional for vexatious delay or intentional under-payment (k) .. 19 44 
complete disability—lump sum—limitations 9 27-28 
death during (g) 8 24 
disability diminishing (h) 19 43 
disability ending (h) 19 43 
disability increasing (h) 19 43 
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PAYMENTS—Concluded 
injury fatal (g) 8 24 
installments—injury fatal (f) 7 14 
installments—injury non-fatal (i) 8 24 
insuring payment 26 48 
into State fund for compensation under section 8, paragraph (e) 
sub-section 18 (e) 7 12-13 
into State Fund, $225 in every case of loss or permanent loss or 
use of one member or one eye (e-20) 8 21 
lump sum 9 27 
lump sum practice 9 27 
of compensation to be made not later than two weeks after due (i) 8 24 
out of State fund created through section 7, paragraph (e), (f).. 8 22 
re-establishing (h) 19 44 
re-apportionment, modification to conform to (f) 8 22 
PENALTIES 
for failure to comply with provisions relating to insurance and 
liability to pay compensation (d) 26 50 
for unreasonable delay in payment, etc. (k) 19 45 
neglect, refusal or failure to comply with act or violation of its 
provisions 33 55 
suspension of compensation for injurious practices, refusal to 
submit to essential treatment (d) 19 39 
suspension of compensation for refusal to submit to physical 
examination 12 30 
withholding wages for payment of premium (c) 27 61 
PENSION 
for complete disability (f) 8 22 
for total permanent disability (e) 8 19 
pension fund, excess of compensation 5 8-9 
PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE 
payments shall be made to where foreign beneficiaries in death 
cases (g) 7 14 
PETITION 
arbitration, filing of (a) 19 37 
compensation for fatal injury, payment in lump sum 9 27 
compensation, review (h) 19 44 
paying compensation in lump sum for complete disability 9 28 
petition to suspend, insanitary practices (d) 19 39 
review by commission (e) 19 39 
PHALANGE 
loss of one or more (6), (7), (10), (11) 8 19-20 
PHYSICAL EXAMINATION 
commission may order; fee for (c) 19 39 
copy of report to be delivered to employee 12 30 
employee required to submit to; penalty 12 30-31 
employee may have own physician present 12 30 
employer to advance money for traveling expenses and meals 
and pay for loss of working time 12 30 
no examination on day of hearing 12 31 
surgeon for employee to deliver copy of report to employer 12 31 
surgeon for employer to deliver copy of report to employee 12 31 
surgeon’s duty when employee likely to die 12 31 
PHYSICIANS 
accident report shall contain statement of charges 30 53 
commission may appoint; fee and traveling expenses (c) 19 39 
commission may determine reasonableness and fix amount of fee 16 35 
examinations by 12 30 
not permitted to testify when report of examination not fur- 
nished employee 12 31 
(See Physical Examination.) 
POOR PERSON 
rights and remedies 19a 45 
PREMISES 
member of commission or arbitrator may examine and inspect 16 34 
PREVIOUS ACCIDENT 
employer not liable for (e) 8 19 
amputation in. amount to be deducted (e) 8 19 
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PROCEDURE 
commission has power to make rules and orders 16 33 
county court may punish for contempt 16 33 
examine books, papers, documents, etc 16 33 
inspect premises 16 33 
power to issue dedimus potestatem and to adopt rules to govern 
issue .of 16 33 
rules deemed prima facie reasonable and valid 16 33 
simple and summary 16 33 
trial de novo (e) 19 39 
PROCESS 
issue subpoenas: subpoenas duces tecum 16 33 
service same as in cases at law 16 33 
simple and summary as reasonably may be 16 33 
PROXIMATE CAUSE 
liability of third person operating under act 29 52 
liability of third person not operating under act 29 52 
when employee may bring action 29 52 
when employer may bring action 29 52 
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR (See Administrator.) 
Q 
QUARRYING 
designated as extra hazardous business (5) 3 7 
R 
REAL ESTATE (See Land.) 
RECEIPT 
showing payment of probable cost of record, to be exhibited to 
clerk of circuit court (f) 19 40 
written claim for compensation after receipt filed with commission 24 47 
RECORDS 
awards, orders and proceedings, commission to keep record in 
its office 17 35 
commission may destroy 17 35 
secretary and assistant secretary to have custody of and furnish 
certified copies 14 32 
REJECTION OF ACT 
employer and employee, notice, filing, posting, etc 1 5-6 
recording 17 35 
withdrawal notice 1 6 
RELEASE 
compensation paid to personal representative, effect of (g) 7 14 
contract made within seven days of injury invalid 22 47 
depositing amount of compensation (a) 25 48 
payment of compensation in accordance with order or award of 
commission discharges employer from further obligation (g).... 7 14 
purchasing annuity in amount of compensation (b) 25 48 
right to compensation extinguished; when 21 46 
RELIEF BENEFIT 
contracts for Invalid 27 51 
REMANDING ORDER 
circuit court or city court may remand cause to commission (f).. 19 42 
REMODELING 
of any structure designated as extra hazardous business (1) 3 7 
REMOVING 
of any structure designated as extra hazardous business (1) 3 7 
REPEAL 
Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1911 35 56 
REPORTS 
accident, making, requisites 30 53 
annual report to Governor, making and requisite 20 46 
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REVIEW 
award of arbitrator may be reviewed (e) 19 39 
agreement or award may be reviewed on ground disability has 
subsequently recurred, increased, diminished or ended, except 
when paid in lump sum (h) 19 44 
commission shall review questions of law and fact (e) 19 39 
reapportion, modify or stop (f) 8 22 
review by circuit court, writ of certiorari (f) 19 40 
review by city court, writ of certiorari (f) 19 40 
review by supreme court, writ of error (f) 19 42 
RULES 
commission shall make 16 33 
printed notice of 30% 54 
RUPTURE (See Hernia.) 
S 
SALARY 
arbitrators 14 32 
assistant secretary 14 32 
members industrial commission 14 32 
secretary 14 32 
security supervisor 14 32 
SCHEDULE 
compensation for fatal injuries 7 10 
compensation for non-fatal injuries . 8 17 
SCHOOL DISTRICT 
construed as employer 4 8 
employee or beneficiary entitled to participate in pension or 
benefit fund in excess of compensation only 5 9 
official of is not an employee - 5 8 
when act applies to 3 7 
SCIRE FACIAS, WRIT OF 
shall be issued by clerk of circuit court or city court (f) 19 40 
how service is had 19 40 
SEAL 
industrial commission, requirements 14 33 
SECRETARY 
commission shall appoint; salary; duties 14 32-33 
SECURITY 
approval by commission (b) 26 49 
employer shall furnish 26 48 
failure or neglect of employer; penalty (d) 26 50 
insolvent insurance company, association, aggregation of indi- 
viduals, commission’s duty to act (c) 26 49 
insurance carrier cannot discontinue without discharging obliga- 
tion (b) 27 51 
SECURITY SUPERVISOR 
commission shall appoint; salary; duties 14 32-33 
SERVICE 
filing (i) 19 44 
personal or by registered letter (i) 19 44 
SETTING CASES 
hearings, notice, time, place of arbitration (b) 19 38 
hearings, review, notice, time, place (e) 19 39 
SETTLEMENT 
failure to reach, notification (a) 19 37 
lump sums 9 27 
made within seven days of injury presumed fraudulent 22 47 
settlement contract or award paid in a lump sum not reviewable 
(h) 19 44 
void unless approved by the commission 23 47 
SISTER 
(See Collateral Heirs.) 
SPECIAL FINDINGS 
commission may make (e) 19 39 
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SPECIAL FUND 
in addition to burial expenses (e) 7 12 
how disbursed (f) 8 22-23 
refund to employer from 7 12 
state treasurer shall be custodian of 7 12 
SPECIFIC LOSS 
if injured employee dies, balance of compensation to beneficiary 
(e) 8 21 
or loss of use of any member (e) 8 19 
STATE 
construed as employer 4 8 
contractor with not to be considered employee 5 9 
employee or beneficiary entitled to participate in pension or bene- 
fit fund in excess of compensation only 5 9 
official of is not an employee 5 8 
when act applies to 5 8 
STATE TREASURER 
as custodian of special fund shall be made party respondent and 
receive notices of hearing (f) 8 23 
commuted value of unpaid compensation may be deposited with (a) 25 
custodian of special fund (e) 7 12 
may institute proceedings for payment into special fund 7 13 
shall be made party to all proceedings involving claim for loss or 7 13 
loss of use of one member or one eye (e) 7 12 
shall be made party to all claims of disputed dependency (e) 7 13 
STATUTE OP LIMITATIONS 
claim for compensation on employer 24 47 
filing claim with commission 24 47 
notice of accident to employer 24 47 
not to apply to special fund 7 13 
invalidity of act; effect 32 55 
mentally incompetent employees (h) 8 24 
mentally Incompetent dependents of deceased employees 24 47 
repeal of act; effect 32 55 
STENOGRAPHER 
commission shall, at its expense, provide Official Court Reporter to 
take testimony and keep record of proceedings 16 35 
employment of 14 32 
fees for transcripts of evidence 16 35 
STENOGRAPHIC REPORT (See Transcript of Evidence.) 
SUBDIVISIONS (See Land.) 
SUBPOENAS 
duces tecum may be Issued 16 34 
failure to comply with: how to enforce; penalty 16 34 
Issuance of, by member of commission or arbitrator 16 34 
service, how had, by sheriff, constable or other person.. 16 34 
SUB-CONTRACTOR 
liability of contractor when sub-contractor not insrured 31 54 
SUBROGATION 
against third parties 29 52 
employer failing to pay 28 52 
independent contractor against sub-contractor who carries no 
insurance 31 54 
SUBSEQUENT INJURY 
compensation apportionment (h) 10 29 
SUMMONS (See Subpoenas.) 
SUPREME COURT 
decision, power of circuit court or city court to make judgments 
conform to (g) 19 43 
review of judgments and orders of circuit court or city court (f).. 19 42 
writ of error to (f) 19 42 
SURGICAL SERVICES (See Medical Services.) 
SUSPENSION OP COMPENSATION 
insanitary and injurious practices (d) 19 39 
refusal to submit to physical examination 12 30 
refusal to submit to proper treatment (d) 19 39 77 
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T 
TABLES 
for commuting lump sum settlements to present value 57-58-59 
TEETH 
artificial, employer to furnish (a) 8 17 
TEMPORARY TOTAL INCAPACITY 
compensation payable for (b) 8 17 
in addition to (e) 8 19 
limitations as to the time and amount (h) 8 24 
limited to 64 weeks in case of specific loss (e) 8 19 
TESTICLE 
loss of one: loss of both (e) 8 20 
TESTIMONY (See Evidence.) 
THUMB 
disfigurement, serious and permanent (c) 8 18 
loss or loss of use of (e) 8 19 
TOES 
loss or loss of use of (e) 8 19 
TOOLS, SHARP EDGED 
use of designated as extra hazardous enterprise 3 7 
TOTAL AND PERMANENT DISABILITY 
loss of two members shall constitute (e-18) 8 21 
when paid from special fund (f) 8 22-23 
(See Complete Disability.) 
TRANSCRIPT OP EVIDENCE 
agreed statement of facts (b) 19 38 
appeal from award of arbitrator (b) 19 38 
appeal from decision or commission (f) 19 40 
arbitrator may authenticate (b) 19 38 
authentication 19 37 
cost; payment for 16 35 
time for filing (b) 19 38 
time to file may be extended by the commission (b) 19 38 
trial de novo, if reporter does not furnish (e) 19 40 
TRANSCRIPT OF RECORD 
cost (f-1) 19 40 
estimated cost deposited with commission (f) 19 41 
defined, consist of (e) 19 39 
receipt for cost to issue 19 41 
TRAVELING EXPENSES 
of employee examined at expense of employer 12 30 
of members of commission, arbitrators and other employees 14 33 
of physicians when appointed by commission (c) 19 39 
when injured employee entitled to (h) 19 44 
TREASURER (See State Treasurer.) 
TRIAL DE NOVO 
when may be had (e) 19 40 
U 
USUAL COURSE 
employee defined not to include persons not engaged in usual 
course of trade, business, etc., of employer 5 9 
V 
VACANCIES 
arbitration committee, filing (a) 19 37 
commission filled during recess of Senate 13 32 
VIOLATIONS 
penalties for 33 55 
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WAGES 
basis for computing compensation 10 28 
withholding to pay relief benefit, penalty (c) 27 51 
WAIVER 
employee cannot waive provisions of act in regard to amount of 
compensation payable without approval of commission 23 47 
WAREHOUSES AND STOREHOUSES 
designated as extra hazardous business (4) 3 7 
WIDOW 
balance for specific loss payable to if injured employee dies (e).. 8 22 
beneficiary in death case, legal obligation to support (a) 7 10 
of member fire department or fire insurance patrol 5 8 
right to compensation extinguished by remarriage (a) 7 10 
when amount payable shall not be less than $500 (g) 8 24 
WITHDRAWAL FROM ACT 
employee, notice, filing (c) 1 6 
employee, notice, recording 17 35 
employer, notice, filing and posting (b) 1 5 
WITHDRAWAL NOTICE 
recording 17 35 
WITNESSES 
fees, to be advanced 16 34 
power to examine 16 34 
subpoena 16 34 
swearing of 16 34 
testimony may be used in subsequent hearings (j) 19 44 
WOOD PRESERVATIVES 
use of designated as extra hazardous enterprise (10) 3 8 
WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION ACT 
invalidity of any portion in no way affects validity of any other 
portion 34 56 
may be cited as 33% 55 
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WRITS 
bond necessary (f-2) 19 42 
certiorari issued, time (f-1) 19 41 
certiorari, how served (f-1) 19 41 
certiorari, bond filed acts as stay of judgment (f-2) 19 42 
error, review by supreme court only on (f-2) 19 42 
error, time to sue out (f-2) 19 42 
error, act as supersedeas (f-2) 19 42 
scire facias, how served (f-1) 19 41 
scire facias, parties served (f-1) 19 41 
scire facias, requisites 19 41 
Office of 
INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION 
160 N. LaSalle St. 
Chicago 1, III. 
WILLIAM E. KAISER, 
Chairman