Marvin Mandel, Governor                         2069

33.

[Whenever the State, county, city or any municipality shall en-
gage in any extra-hazardous work, within the meaning of this article,
whether for pecuniary gain or otherwise, in which workmen are em-
ployed for wages, this article shall be applicable thereto.]

In time of peace and while engaged in military service all officers
and enlisted men of the organized militia of the State of Maryland
shall be deemed workmen of the State for wages within the meaning
of this section; provided that, whenever and so long as provision
equal to or better than that given under the terms of this article is
made by the federal government for an employee of the military
department of Maryland injured in the course of employment, such
employee shall not be entitled to the benefit of this article.

[The officers of the Maryland State Police force, the Montgomery
County and Prince George's County police, the police of the Town of
Laurel, the police of all other municipal corporations in Prince
George's County which are subject to the provisions of Article HE
of the Constitution of Maryland, paid firemen employed by the fire
departments of Prince George's County, the regular members of
the police force, the paid firemen, the engineers, and the linemen of
the electric light plant of Frederick City, the members of the police
department and of the fire department of the City of Cumberland,
and all guards employed by any penal institutions of this State, shall
be deemed workmen for wages within the meaning of this section.]

[Whenever and so long as by State law, city charter, or municipal
ordinance, provision equal to or better than that given under the
terms of this article is made for municipal employees injured in the
course of employment, such employees shall not be entitled to the
benefit of this article.]

35.

(a) Whenever any prisoner working for the county roads board
or the board of county commissioners or county council in the coun-
ties to which this section applies shall be engaged in any [extra-
hazardous] employment within the meaning of this article for which
wages or a stipulated sum are paid by said county this article shall
be applicable thereto if said prisoner sustains a permanent partial or
permanent total disability as a result of said injury, and the average
weekly wages of any such prisoner injured in the course of his or her
employment shall be the average weekly wages paid by the county to
such prisoner, and in addition thereto, a fair and reasonable sum to
be determined by the Workmen's Compensation Committee for the
board and maintenance of such prisoner not to exceed the amount
customarily received by the county for its own use by prisoners
engaged in [extra-hazardous] employment by other employers.

67.

(1)    ["Extra-hazardous employment"] "Employment" means
[a] work or occupation described in Section 21 of this Article.

(2)    "Employer" means those persons who fall within the require-
ments of Section 21 (a) of this Article including a person, partner-