Pennsylvania Act 1961-634 — MAKING SCHOOL POLICE ELIGIBLE- WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION

Act text

MAKING SCHOOL POLICE ELIGIBLE- WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION
                 Act of Sep. 19, 1961, P.L. 1489, No. 634             Cl. 77
                               A SUPPLEMENT

     To the act of June 2, 1915 (P.L.736), entitled, as amended, "An
        act defining the liability of an employer to pay damages for
        injuries received by an employe in the course of employment;
        establishing an elective schedule of compensation; providing
        procedure for the determination of liability and compensation
        thereunder; and prescribing penalties," providing for the
        payment of compensation to special school police, appointed
        by municipalities and townships, or the dependents of such
        special school police.

        The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     hereby enacts as follows:

        Section 1.  In addition to those persons included within the
     definition of the word "employe" as defined in section 104, act
     of June 2, 1915 (P.L.736), known as "The Pennsylvania Workmen's
     Compensation Act," reenacted and amended June 21, 1939 (P.L.520)
     and amended February 28, 1956 (P.L.1120), there shall be
     included all special school police in municipalities and
     townships, who shall be and are hereby declared to be "employes"
     of the appointing municipality or township for all the purposes
     of said act, and shall be entitled to receive compensation in
     case of injuries received while actually engaged as policemen or
     while participating in instruction or while answering any
     emergency call for any purpose or while performing any other
     duty authorized by the municipality or township.
        The municipality or township as employer shall, in all cases,
     be deemed to have knowledge of all other employment of all
     members of its special school police, including self-employment,
     and shall be liable for compensation on account of all wages and
     earnings resulting therefrom. In all cases where an injury
     compensable under the provisions of this act is received by a
     member of the special school police who is, in whole or in part,
     a self-employer and loss of earnings results therefrom, such
     earnings shall, for the purposes of this act, be regarded as
     wages. The average weekly wage as so regarded shall be that most
     favorable to the employe, computed by dividing by thirteen the
     total earnings of the employe in the first, second, third or
     fourth period of thirteen consecutive calendar weeks in the
     fifty-two weeks immediately preceding the accident. In all cases
     where an injury compensable under the provisions of this act is
     received by a member of the special school police of a
     municipality or township, who is self-employed or unemployed,
     payments shall be made of not less than twenty-two dollars and
     fifty cents ($22.50) per week for total disability and not less
     then twelve dollars and fifty cents ($12.50) for partial
     disability.