Chap. 534.—An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection (b) of section 2 of the
Virginia workmen’s compensation act, which became a law March 2], 1918,
as heretofore amended. {H B 236]

Approved March 25, 1926.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sub-
section (b) of section two of the Virginia workmen’s compensation
act, which became a law March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and
eighteen, as heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

Section 2. (b) ‘‘Employee’’ shall include every person, including
a minor, in the service of another under any contract of hire or ap-
prenticeship, written or implied, except one whose employment is not
in the usual course of the trade, business, occupation or profession of
the employer; and as relating to those so employed by the State the
term ‘‘employee’”’ shall include the officers and members of the
national guard, and all officers and employees of the State, except
only such as are elected by the people, or by the general assembly, or
appointed by the governor either with or without the confirmation of
the senate; as relating to municipal corporations and political divisions
of the State, the term ‘“‘employee”’ shall include all officers and em-
ployees thereof, except such as are elected by the people or elected by
the council, or other governing body of said municipal corporation or
political division, who act in purely administrative capacities and to
serve for a definite term of office. Policemen and firemen, except
policemen and firemen in cities containing more than one hundred and
seventy thousand inhabitants, shall be deemed to be employees of the
respective cities, counties or towns in which their services are em-
ployed and by whom their salaries are paid. Any reference to an
employee who has been injured shall, when the employee is dead,
include also his legal representative, dependents and other persons
to whom compensation may be payable. For the purpose of this act
the average weekly wage of the non-commissioned officers and mem-
bers of the national guard shall be deemed to be thirty dollars.