Chap. 19.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 65 and 67 of the Virginia
workmen’s compensation act, which became a law March 2], 1918, as rere
tofore amended. (H B 17]

Approved February 18, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections sixty-five and sixty-seven of the Virginia workmen’s com-
pensation act, which became a law March twenty-first, nineteen
hundred and eighteen, as heretofore amended, be further amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 65. Fees of attorneys and physicians and charges of
hospital for services whether employed by employer, employee or
insurance carrier under this act, shall be subject to the approval
and award of the commission; but no physician shall be entitled to
collect fees from an employer or insurance carrier until he has
made the reports required by the Industrial Commission in con-
nection with the case.

Section 67. (a) Every employer shall hereafter keep a record
of all injuries, fatal or otherwise, received by his employees in the
course of their employment, on blanks approved by the commis-
sion. Within ten days after the occurrence and knowledge thereof,
as provided in section twenty-three, of an injury to an employee,
a report thereof shall be made in writing and mailed to the Indus-
trial Commission on blanks to be procured from the commission
for this purpose.

(b) The records of the commission, insofar as they refer to
accidents, injuries and settlements, shall not be open to the public,
but only the parties satisfying the commission of their interest in
such records and the right to inspect them.

(c) Upon the termination of the disability of the employee, or
if the disability extends beyond a period of sixty days, then also at
the expiration of such period, the employer shall make a supple-
mentary report to the commission on blanks to be procured from
the commission for the purpose.

(d) The said accident reports shall contain the name, nature
and location of the business of the employer, and name, age, sex
and wages and occupation of the injured employee, and shall state
the date and hour of the accident causing the injury, the nature
and cause of the injury together with the medical cost and such
other information as may be required by the commission.

(e) Every employer shall upon request of the commission re-
port the number of its employees; hours of their labor and num-
ber of days of operation of business.

(f) Any employer who refuses or neglects to make any report
required by this section shall be liable for a penalty of not more
than twenty-five dollars for each refusal or neglect. The fine herein
provided may be assessed by the commission in an open hearing
with the right of review and appeal as in other cases. In the event
the employer has transmitted the report to the insurance carrier
for transmission by such insurance carrier to the industrial commis-
sion, the insurance carrier wilfully neglecting or failing to transmit
the report shall be hable for the said penalty.

Chap. 19.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1798 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to the appointment of commissioner of labor. [Hi B 28]

Approved February 18, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia. That
section seventeen hundred and ninety-eight of the Code of Virginia
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1798. The governor shall appoint, by and with the
consent of the senate, some suitable person identified with the
labor interests of the State, who shall be designated commissioner
of labor, and who shall, upon the request of the governor, furnish
such information as he may require.

The term of office for said commissioner shall be four years
from the date of his appointment, with power of removal bv the
governor for cause. The commissioner of labor who may be in
ofhce the day before this Code takes effect shall continue in office
until the term under his appointment expires.