ACTS OF 1919

Rehabilitation of physically handicapped persons

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SECTION 1. Rehabilitation directed.-It shall be the duty of the department of public welfare to direct, as hereinafter provided, the rehabilitation of every physically handicapped person, sixteen (16) years of age or over, residing in the State of Illinois.

"A physically handicapped person" shall mean any person who, by reason of a physical defect or infirmity, whether congenital or acquired by accident, injury, or disease, is, or may be expected to be, incapacitated for remunerative occupation.

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Rehabilitation" shall mean the rendering of a person physically handicapped, fit to engage in a remunerative occupation.

"Persons residing in the State of Illinois" shall mean any person who is and has been domiciled within the State for one year or more.

This act, however, shall not be construed to apply to aged or helpless persons requiring permanent custodial care, or to blind persons under the care of the State, or to deaf persons under the care of the State, or to any epileptic or feeble-minded person, or to any person who may, in the judgment of the department of public welfare, not be susceptible of such rehabilitation.

SEC. 2. Methods.-The department of public welfare shall have power, and it shall be its duty;

(a) To establish relations with all public and private hospitals to receive prompt and complete reports of any persons under treatment in such hospitals for any injury or disease that may permanently impair their earning capacity. The persons thus reported shall be visited by representatives of the department of public welfare, who shall make records of their condition and report to the department of public welfare. The department of public welfare shall thea determine whether the person is susceptible of rehabilitation. Such persons as may be found so susceptible shall be acquainted by the department of publie welfare with the rehabilitation facilities offered by the State and the benefits of entering upon remunerative work at an early date. Any person who chooses to take advantage of these rehabilitation facilities shall be registered with the department of public welfare, and a record shall be kept of every such person and the measures taken for his or her rehabilitation. The department of public welfare shall offer to any such person counsel regarding the selection of a suitable occupation and of an appropriate course of training, and shall initiate definite plans for beginning rehabilitation as soon as the physical condition of the person permits.

(b) To arrange with the department of labor to receive reports of all cases of injuries received by employees in the course of employment which may result in permanent disability. The persons thus known to be injured shall be visited, examined, registered and advised in the same manner and for the same purposes as specified in clause (a) of this section.

(c) To receive applications of any physically handicapped persons residing within the State for advice and assistance regarding their rehabilitation. The persons thus known to be physically handicapped shall be visited, examined and advised in the same manner and for the same purposes as specified in clause (a) of this section.

(d) To make a survey to ascertain the number and condition of physically handicapped persons within the State. The persons thus known to be physically handicapped shall be visited, examined, registered and advised in the same manner and for the same purposes as specified in clause (a) of this section.

(e) To arrange for such therapeutic treatment as may be necessary for the rehabilitation of any physically handicapped person registered with the department of public welfare.

(f) To procure and furnish at cost to physically handicapped persons registered with the department of public welfare, artificial limbs and other orthopedic and prosthetic appliances, to be paid for in easy installments.

(g) To establish, equip, maintain and operate in one of the large cities in the State, a school of rehabilitation, and to establish, equip, maintain and operate branches of the school at such other places as may in the judgment of the department of public welfare be necessary. There shall be provided at the school and its branches courses of training in selected occupation for

physically handicapped persons registered with the department of public welfare whose physical condition may, in the judgment of the department of public welfare, require special courses of training to render them fit to engage in remunerative employment and who are assigned by the department of public welfare to the school or to any of its branches for the purposes of such special training.

The department of public welfare shall make the necessary rules for the proper conduct and management of the school and its branches; shall have control and care of the building and grounds used by the State for the school and its branches, and shall prescribe the course and methods of training to be given at the school and its branches.

(h) To arrange with the State and local school authorities for training courses in the public schools of the State in selected occupations for physically handicapped persons registered with the department of public welfare.

(i) To arrange with any educational institution for training courses in selected occupations for physically handicapped persons registered with the department of public welfare.

(1) To arrange with any public or private organization or commercial, industrial or agricultural establishment for training courses in selected occupations for physically handicapped persons registered with the department of public welfare.

(k) To provide for the maintenance, during the prescribed period of training, of physically handicapped persons registered with the department of public welfare: Provided, That the cost of such maintenance shall not exceed ten dollars ($10) per week for twenty weeks unless an extension of time is granted by the department of public welfare.

(1) To arrange for social service to and for the visiting of physically handicapped persons registered with the department of public welfare and their families in their homes during the period of treatment and training and after its completion, and to give advice regarding any matter that may effect rehabilitation.

(m) To cooperate with the department of labor in the placement in remunerative employment of physically handicapped persons registered with the department of public welfare.

(n) To conduct investigations and surveys of the several industries located in the State to ascertain the occupations within each industry in which physically handicapped persons can enter upon remunerative employment under favorable conditions and work with normal effectiveness, and to determine what practicable changes and adjustments in industrial operations and practices may facilitate such employment.

(0) To make such studies and reports as may be helpful for the operation of this act.

(p) To keep the people of the State informed regarding the operation of this act.

(q) To cooperate with any department of the Federal or State Government or with any private agency in the operation of this act.

(r) Provided, however, That no person shall be subject to this act or to any of its provisions, and shall not be examined, registered, or advised unless such person first elects to take advantage of the privileges afforded by this act and to come under its terms and conditions.

SEC. 3. Enforcement.-The department of public welfare, subject to the provisions of civil service law, which is now or which hereafter may be in force in this State, shall employ such persons as may be necessary for the enforcement of the provisions of this act, and shall prescribe their duties, compensation, and terms of employment.

SEC. 4. Rules.-The department of public welfare shall promulgate reasonable rules and regulations relating to the enforcement of the provisions of this act.

Stock for employees of corporations

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SECTION 32a (added 1923, p. 282). Authorization.-[Corporations for pecuniary profit are authorized to issue and sell stock to employees under terms and conditions fixed by the stockholders.]

ACTS OF 1921

Labor disputes-Extortion

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SECTION 1. Obtaining money.-It shall be unlawful for any person by virtue of representing, or under color of representing, or pretending to represent, any organization, association, or group of workmen or workwomen, to extort or attempt to extort, demand, accept or obtain, or attempt to obtain, from any employer, property owner or property lessee, or from the agent or representative of any of them, money or other property as a consideration for the withholding, withdrawing, settling or terminating of any demand, claim, dispute or controversy relating to the employment of such workmen or workwomen or relating to the handling, delivery or use of materials or supplies.

SEC. 2. Forcing payment.—It shall be unlawful for any person by virtue of representing, or under color of representing, or pretending to represent, any organization, association, or group of workmen or workwomen, to induce or compel, or attempt to induce or compel, an employer, property owner or property lessee, or from the agent or representative of any of them, to pay money or other property as a consideration for withholding, withdrawing, settling or terminating any demand, claim, dispute or controversy relating to the employment of such workmen or work women, or relating to the handling, delivery or use of materials or supplies.

SEC. 3. Collecting fines.-It shall be unlawful for any person by virtue of representing, or under color of representing, or pretending to represent, any organization, association, or group of workmen or workwomen, to demand, collect or attempt to collect from any employer, property owner or property lessee, or from the agent or representatives of any of them, any money or other property by way of a fine or penalty, or to impose, enforce or attempt to enforce any such fine or penalty.

SEC. 4. Giving evidence.-No person shall be excused from attending, testifying and producing any books, papers, documents or other evidence in obedience to a subpoena served at the instance of the Attorney General or of the State's attorney before any court, magistrate or grand jury, upon any investigation, proceeding or trial for a violation of the provisions of this act, upon the ground, or for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to criminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture; but no person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which he may so testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, in obedience to a subpœna served at the instance of the Attorney General or of the State's attorney except for perjury committed in such testimony.

SEC. 5. Violations.-Any person violating this act shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one year nor more than five years.

Metal mine regulations

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SECTIONS 1-48. Code.-[This act creates the office of inspector of mines other than coal and enacts a code of regulations for such mines. Inspection, safety provisions, accident reporting, the employment of minors, and penalties for violation are included in the act, which is worked out in detail corresponding generally to the provisions for coal mines, so far as apt.]

Mine regulations—Electricity
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SECTIONS 1-3. Safety.-[This act, with two sections added (1923, p. 464), requires transformer rooms to be fireproof and the guarding of curtains, etc., from ignition, limits the voltage of exposed wires, prescribes requirements for guarding, and directs that maps show certain installations. Sand to extinguish fires must be provided.]

INDIANA

CONSTITUTION

ARTICLE 1. Compensation for services

SECTION 66. Compensation.-No man's particular services shall be demanded without just compensation.

BURNS' ANNOTATED STATUTES-1914

Exemption of wages from garnishment

SECTION 993. Suits of nonresidents for wages.-Hereafter no court in this State shall have or entertain jurisdiction in any action of attachment, garnishment, or supplementary proceeding when the plaintiff and principal defendant are both nonresidents of this State, and the money sought to be reached by such attachment, garnishment, or supplementary proceedings is the personal earnings or wages due or owing to the principal defendant from any person or corporation doing business in this State.

SEC. 994. Wages exempt, when.-The wages of all householders in the employ of any person or corporation shall be exempt from garnishment and proceedings supplemental to execution in the hands of such person or corporation so long as such employee remains in such employment, not exceeding twentyfive dollars at any one time, and no exemption shall be allowed as against garnishment except as in this section provided.

SEC. 995.-Garnishee may pay exempted wages.-Any person or corporation in debt for wages, as in the preceding section provided, may, at any time after being served with a garnishee summons, pay to any such employee the amount of wages exempted by the preceding section; and such payment shall discharge such garnishee defendant from liability for the amount so paid, as effectually as if paid before the issuing of such summons.

Protection of employees as voters

SECTION 2578. Making threats, etc.--Whoever, for the purpose of influencing a voter, seeks, by violence or threats of violence or threats to enforce the payment of a debt; or to eject or threatens to eject from any house he may occupy; or begin a criminal prosecution; or to injure the business or trade of an elector; or, if an employer of laborers or an agent of such employer, threatens to withhold the wages of or to dismiss from service any laborer in his employment; or refuses to allow to any such employee time to attend at the place of election and vote, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars nor less than twenty dollars, imprisoned in the State prison not more than five years nor less than one year, and disfranchised and rendered incapable of holding any office of trust or profit for any determinate period.

Employment of children-Certain employments forbidden

SECTION 2623. Children under 15.-[Parents, etc., of children under 15 are forbidden to hire or dispose of them in acrobatic, riding, gymnastic or similar occupations, or in any illegal exhibition or any vocation injurious to health or dangerous to life or limb, under penalty; employers are also penalized.]

SEC. 2624. Children under 18.-[The employment of children under 18 in mendicant occupations, such as street musicians, etc., is prohibited.]

Seats for female employees

SECTIONS 2628, 2629. Seats required.-[All employers of women and girls are required under penalty to "provide suitable seats" for their use "when they are not necessarily engaged in the active duties" of their employment.]

Exemption of wages-Unlawful assignment of claims

SECTION 2669. Assignments, transfer, etc.-[Selling, transferring, purchasing, or accepting any claim for collection by attachment or garnishment out of the wages of the debtor, a citizen of the State, with the intent to deprive a resident of the State of his or her exemption rights under the laws of the State, when the parties are within the jurisdiction of the courts of the State, subjects the offender to a fine, and he is also liable for the full amount of the debt collected, with interest and attorney's fee.]

Forced contributions from employees

SECTION 2681. Exacting contributions.-It shall be unlawful for any railroad company or corporation operating railroads in Indiana to exact from its employees, without first obtaining written consent thereto in each and every instance, any portion of their wages for the maintenance of any hospital, reading room, library, gymnasium or restaurant.

SEC. 2682. Penalty.-Any paymaster, auditor or employee of any company so exacting from its employees such sums of money shall, upon conviction thereof in any circuit court having competent jurisdiction, be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, as the court may decree.

Although withholding wages without the consent of the employee is an illegal act, it does not absolve a company from its contract to supply hospital treatment to an injured employee whose wages have thus been withheld, nor from its liability in damages for the malpractice of a surgeon employed by it. 52 N. E. Rep. 152.

Railroad employees-Clearance cards-False charges

SECTION 2683a. Statement to be furnished.—Whenever any employee of any railroad company doing business in this State shall be discharged or voluntarily quits the service of such company it shall be the duty of the officer having jurisdiction over such employee upon request of such employee to issue such employee a letter duly signed by such officer setting forth the nature and character of service rendered by such employee to such railroad company and the duration thereof, and truly stating for what cause, if any, such employee has quit or been discharged from such service.

SEC. 2683b. Refusal.-Any officer having jurisdiction over employees referred to in section 1 [2683a] of this act failing or refusing to issue such letter to such employee when so requested by the employee, failing or refusing to state the facts correctly, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine in any sum not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100).

SEC. 2683e. False charges.-Every person who shall by any letter, mark, sign, or designation whatever, or by any verbal statement, falsely and without probable cause report to any railroad or any other company or corporation, or to any person or firm, or to any of the officers, servants, agents, or employees of any such corporation, person, or firm that any conductor, brakeman, engineer, fireman, station agent, or an employee of such railroad company, corporation, person, or firm has received any money or thing of value for the transportation of persons or property or for other service for which he has not accounted to such corporation, person, or firm, or shall falsely and without probable cause report that any conductor, brakeman, engineer, fireman, station agent, or other employee of any such railroad company, corporation, person, or firm, neglected, failed, or refused to collect any money or ticket for transportation of persons or property or other service when it was their duty so to do, shall on conviction. be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100).

Wages as preferred claims-In administration

SECTION 2901. Amount.[Wages not over $50, earned within two months prior to the death of the employer, have preference over general debts and legacies.]

Fire escapes on factories, etc.

SECTION 3841. Provisions required.- * * Every building in which persons are employed above the second story in a factory, workshop, or mercantile, or