Chap. 318.—An ACT to amend and reenact Section 2-b of Chapter 400 of the Acts
of Assembly of 1918, which became a law March 21, 1918, so as to include
forest wardens within the provisions of the section. [H 220]

Approved March 17, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section two-b of chapter four hundred of the Acts of
Assembly, nineteen hundred eighteen, which became a law March
twenty-one, nineteen hundred eighteen, be amended and reenacted
as follows:

Section 2-b. Employee Defined.—Unless the context otherwise
requires: “Employee” includes every person, including a minor,
in the service of another under any contract of hire or apprentice-
ship, 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” includes the officers and members of the National
Guard, the Virginia State Guard and the Virginia Reserve Militia,
the forest wardens, and all other 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 “em-
ployee” includes all officers and employees thereof, except such as
are elected by the people or by the governing body of the municipal
corporation or political division, who act in purely administrative
capacities and are to serve for a definite term of office. Policemen
and firemen, except policemen and firemen in cities containing
more than one hundred seventy thousand inhabitants, shall be
deemed to be employees of the respective cities, counties or towns
in which their services are employed 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 representa-
tive, 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 members of the National
Guard, the Virginia State Guard and the Virginia Reserve Militia,
and forest wardens shall be deemed to be such amount as will
entitle them to the maximum compensation payable under this act.