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


   

U.S. Code as of: 01/19/04
Section 902 - Notes
                                   SOURCE
    (Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 509, Sec. 2, 44 Stat. 1424; June 25, 1938, ch.
    685, Sec. 1, 52 Stat. 1164; Pub. L. 92-576, Secs. 2(a), (b), 3,
    5(b), 15(c), 18(b), 20(c)(1), Oct. 27, 1972, 86 Stat. 1251, 1253,
    1262, 1263, 1265; Pub. L. 98-426, Secs. 2, 5(a)(2), 27(a)(1), Sept.
    28, 1984, 98 Stat. 1639, 1641, 1654.)
                            REFERENCES IN TEXT                        
      The phrase "a student as defined in paragraph (19) of this
    section", referred to in par. (14), probably means a student as
    defined in paragraph (18) of this section.
                                AMENDMENTS                            
      1984 - Par. (3). Pub. L. 98-426, Sec. 2(a), amended par. (3)
    generally. Prior to amendment, par. (3) read as follows: "The term
    'employee' means any person engaged in maritime employment,
    including any longshoreman or other person engaged in longshoring
    operations, and any harborworker including a ship repairman,
    shipbuilder, and shipbreaker, but such term does not include a
    master or member of a crew of any vessel, or any person engaged by
    the master to load or unload or repair any small vessel under
    eighteen tons net."
      Par. (6). Pub. L. 98-426, Sec. 27(a)(1), substituted "The term
    'Secretary' means the Secretary of Labor" for "The term
    'commission' means the United States Employees' Compensation
    Commission".
      Par. (10). Pub. L. 98-426, Sec. 2(b), inserted "; 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".
      Par. (13). Pub. L. 98-426, Sec. 2(c), amended par. (13)
    generally. Prior to amendment, par. (13) read as follows: " 'Wages'
    means the money rate at which the service rendered is recompensed
    under the contract of hiring in force at the time of the injury,
    including the reasonable value of board, rent, housing, lodging, or
    similar advantage received from the employer, and gratuities
    received in the course of employment from others than the
    employer".
      Par. (21). Pub. L. 98-426, Sec. 5(a)(2), substituted "Unless the
    context requires otherwise, the" for "The".
      1972 - Par. (3). Pub. L. 92-576, Sec. 2(a), defined "employee" to
    mean any person engaged in maritime employment, including any
    longshoreman or other person engaged in longshoring operations, and
    any harborworker including a ship repairman, shipbuilder, and
    shipbreaker and substituted "or" for "nor" before "any person
    engaged by the master".
      Par. (4). Pub. L. 92-576, Sec. 2(b), defined "employer" to
    include an employer any of whose employees are employed in maritime
    employment 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.
      Par. (14). Pub. L. 92-576, Sec. 3(b), defined "child, grandchild,
    brother, and sister" to include a student as defined in par. (19)
    of this section.
      Par. (16). Pub. L. 92-576, Sec. 20(c)(1), consolidated provisions
    of former par. (16) definition of "widow" and former par. (17)
    definition of "widower" in one definition of "widow or widower";
    and in redefining "widower", substituted provision for decedent's
    husband living with or dependent upon wife for support at time of
    her death, for prior provision for decedent's husband living with
    and dependent upon wife for support at time of her death, and
    included decedent's husband living apart from wife for justifiable
    cause or by reason of her desertion at time of her death.
      Par. (17). Pub. L. 92-576, Sec. 20(c)(1), redesignated former
    par. (18) definition of "adoption" or "adopted" as par. (17).
    Former par. (17) definition of "widower" incorporated in par. (16).
      Par. (18). Pub. L. 92-576, Secs. 3(a), 20(c)(1), added par. (19)
    definition of "student" and redesignated such par. (19) as par.
    (18). Former par. (18) definition of "adoption" or "adopted"
    redesignated par. (17).
      Par. (19). Pub. L. 92-576, Secs. 5(b), 20(c)(1), added par. (20)
    definition of "national average weekly wage" and redesignated such
    par. (20) as par. (19). Former par. (19) definition of "student"
    redesignated par. (18).
      Par. (20). Pub. L. 92-576, Secs. 15(c), 20(c)(1), added par. (21)
    definition of "Board" and redesignated such par. (21) as par. (20).
    Former par. (20) definition of "national average weekly wage"
    redesignated par. (19).
      Par. (21). Pub. L. 92-576, Secs. 18(b), 20(c)(1), added par. (22)
    definition of "vessel" and redesignated such par. (22) as par.
    (21). Former par. (21) definition of "Board" redesignated par.
    (20).
      Par. (22). Pub. L. 92-576, Secs. 3(a), 5(b), 15(c), 18(b),
    20(c)(1), redesignated former par. (19) definition of "singular" as
    pars. (20), (21), (22), (23), and (22) again. Former par. (22)
    definition of "vessel" redesignated par. (21).
      1938 - Par. (14). Act June 25, 1938, included within definition
    of child, "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 within definition of child, grandchild, brother, and sister
    "persons who though eighteen years of age or over, are wholly
    dependent upon the deceased employee and incapable of self-support
    by reason of mental or physical disability".
                           TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS                       
      Prior to the amendment of this chapter by Pub. L. 98-426 the word
    "Secretary" meaning the Secretary of Labor had been substituted for
    the word "commission" meaning the United States Employees'
    Compensation Commission throughout this chapter even when not
    expressly so directed by statute in view of the transfer of the
    functions of the commission first to the Federal Security
    Administrator by Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1946, Sec. 3, eff. July 16,
    1946, 11 F.R. 7873, 60 Stat. 1095, and later to the Secretary of
    Labor by Reorg. Plan No. 19 of 1950, Sec. 1, eff. May 24, 1950, 15
    F.R. 3178, 64 Stat. 1271. Where such substitution had thus been
    made the statutory substitution of terms by Pub. L. 98-426 required
    no change in text.
                   SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS               
      This section is referred to in section 908 of this title; title 5
    sections 8171, 8172, 8173; title 30 section 932.

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