Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 33 : Section 902


   
U.S. Code as of: 01/19/04
Section 902. Definitions

      When used in this chapter - 
        (1) The term "person" means individual, partnership,
      corporation, or association.
        (2) The term "injury" means accidental injury or death arising
      out of and in the course of employment, and such occupational
      disease or infection as arises naturally out of such employment
      or as naturally or unavoidably results from such accidental
      injury, and includes an injury caused by the willful act of a
      third person directed against an employee because of his
      employment.
        (3) The term "employee" means any person engaged in maritime
      employment, including any longshoreman or other person engaged in
      longshoring operations, and any harbor-worker including a ship
      repairman, shipbuilder, and ship-breaker, but such term does not
      include - 
          (A) individuals employed exclusively to perform office
        clerical, secretarial, security, or data processing work;
          (B) individuals employed by a club, camp, recreational
        operation, restaurant, museum, or retail outlet;
          (C) individuals employed by a marina and who are not engaged
        in construction, replacement, or expansion of such marina
        (except for routine maintenance);
          (D) individuals who (i) are employed by suppliers,
        transporters, or vendors, (ii) are temporarily doing business
        on the premises of an employer described in paragraph (4), and
        (iii) are not engaged in work normally performed by employees
        of that employer under this chapter;
          (E) aquaculture workers;
          (F) individuals employed to build, repair, or dismantle any
        recreational vessel under sixty-five feet in length;
          (G) a master or member of a crew of any vessel; or
          (H) any person engaged by a master to load or unload or
        repair any small vessel under eighteen tons net;

      if individuals described in clauses (A) through (F) are subject
      to coverage under a State workers' compensation law.
        (4) The term "employer" means an employer any of whose
      employees are employed in maritime employment, in whole or in
      part, upon the navigable waters of the United States (including
      any adjoining pier, wharf, dry dock, terminal, building way,
      marine railway, or other adjoining area customarily used by an
      employer in loading, unloading, repairing, or building a vessel).
        (5) The term "carrier" means any person or fund authorized
      under section 932 of this title to insure under this chapter and
      includes self-insurers.
        (6) The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Labor.
        (7) The term "deputy commissioner" means the deputy
      commissioner having jurisdiction in respect of an injury or
      death.
        (8) The term "State" includes a Territory and the District of
      Columbia.
        (9) The term "United States" when used in a geographical sense
      means the several States and Territories and the District of
      Columbia, including the territorial waters thereof.
        (10) "Disability" means incapacity because of injury to earn
      the wages which the employee was receiving at the time of injury
      in the same or any other employment; but such term shall mean
      permanent impairment, determined (to the extent covered thereby)
      under the guides to the evaluation of permanent impairment
      promulgated and modified from time to time by the American
      Medical Association, in the case of an individual whose claim is
      described in section 910(d)(2) of this title.
        (11) "Death" as a basis for a right to compensation means only
      death resulting from an injury.
        (12) "Compensation" means the money allowance payable to an
      employee or to his dependents as provided for in this chapter,
      and includes funeral benefits provided therein.
        (13) The term "wages" means the money rate at which the service
      rendered by an employee is compensated by an employer under the
      contract of hiring in force at the time of the injury, including
      the reasonable value of any advantage which is received from the
      employer and included for purposes of any withholding of tax
      under subtitle C of title 26 (relating to employment taxes). The
      term wages does not include fringe benefits, including (but not
      limited to) employer payments for or contributions to a
      retirement, pension, health and welfare, life insurance,
      training, social security or other employee or dependent benefit
      plan for the employee's or dependent's benefit, or any other
      employee's dependent entitlement.
        (14) "Child" shall include a posthumous child, a child legally
      adopted prior to the injury of the employee, a child in relation
      to whom the deceased employee stood in loco parentis for at least
      one year prior to the time of injury, and a stepchild or
      acknowledged illegitimate child dependent upon the deceased, but
      does not include married children unless wholly dependent on him.
      "Grandchild" means a child as above defined of a child as above
      defined. "Brother" and "sister" includes stepbrothers and
      stepsisters, half brothers and half sisters, and brothers and
      sisters by adoption, but does not include married brothers nor
      married sisters unless wholly dependent on the employee. "Child",
      "grandchild", "brother", and "sister" include only a person who
      is under eighteen years of age, or who, though eighteen years of
      age or over, is (1) wholly dependent upon the employee and
      incapable of self-support by reason of mental or physical
      disability, or (2) a student as defined in paragraph (19) of this
      section.
        (15) The term "parent" includes step-parents and parents by
      adoption, parents-in-law, and any person who for more than three
      years prior to the death of the deceased employee stood in the
      place of a parent to him, if dependent on the injured employee.
        (16) The terms "widow or widower" includes only the decedent's
      wife or husband living with or dependent for support upon him or
      her at the time of his or her death; or living apart for
      justifiable cause or by reason of his or her desertion at such
      time.
        (17) The terms "adoption" or "adopted" mean legal adoption
      prior to the time of the injury.
        (18) The term "student" means a person regularly pursuing a
      full-time course of study or training at an institution which is
      - 
          (A) a school or college or university operated or directly
        supported by the United States, or by any State or local
        government or political subdivision thereof,
          (B) a school or college or university which has been
        accredited by a State or by a State recognized or nationally
        recognized accrediting agency or body.
          (C) a school or college or university not so accredited but
        whose credits are accepted, on transfer, by not less than three
        institutions which are so accredited, for credit on the same
        basis as if transferred from an institution so accredited, or
          (D) an additional type of educational or training institution
        as defined by the Secretary,

      but not after he reaches the age of twenty-three or has completed
      four years of education beyond the high school level, except
      that, where his twenty-third birthday occurs during a semester or
      other enrollment period, he shall continue to be considered a
      student until the end of such semester or other enrollment
      period. A child shall not be deemed to have ceased to be a
      student during any interim between school years if the interim
      does not exceed five months and if he shows to the satisfaction
      of the Secretary that he has a bona fide intention of continuing
      to pursue a full-time course of education or training during the
      semester or other enrollment period immediately following the
      interim or during periods of reasonable duration during which, in
      the judgment of the Secretary, he is prevented by factors beyond
      his control from pursuing his education. A child shall not be
      deemed to be a student under this chapter during a period of
      service in the Armed Forces of the United States.
        (19) The term "national average weekly wage" means the national
      average weekly earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers
      on private nonagricultural payrolls.
        (20) The term "Board" shall mean the Benefits Review Board.
        (21) Unless the context requires otherwise, the term "vessel"
      means any vessel upon which or in connection with which any
      person entitled to benefits under this chapter suffers injury or
      death arising out of or in the course of his employment, and said
      vessel's owner, owner pro hac vice, agent, operator, charter or
      bare boat charterer, master, officer, or crew member.
        (22) The singular includes the plural and the masculine
      includes the feminine and neuter.



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