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and fourteen, to certify to the attorney-general of the state the names and residences, or places of business, of all employers known to the commission to be in default for such payment or payments for a longer period than five days and the amount due from such employer, and it shall then be the duty of the attorneygeneral forthwith to bring or cause to be brought against each such employer a civil action in the proper court for the collection of such amount so due, and the same when collected, shall be paid into the state insurance fund, and such employer's compliance with the provisions of this chapter requiring payments to be made to the state insurance fund shall date from the time. of the payment of said money so collected as aforesaid to the state treasurer for credit to the state insurance fund.

§ 100. Withdrawal from fund. Any employer may, upon complying with subdivision two or three of section fifty of this chapter, withdraw from the fund by turning in his insurance contract for cancellation, provided he is not in arrears for premiums due the fund and has given to the commission written notice of his intention to withdraw within thirty days before the expiration of the period for which he has elected to insure in the fund; provided that in case any employer so withdraws, his liability to assessments shall, notwithstanding such withdrawal, continue for one year after the date of such withdrawal as against all liabilities for such compensation accruing prior to such withdrawal.

§ 101. Audit of payrolls. Every employer who is insured in the state insurance fund shall keep a true and accurate record of the number of his employees and the wages paid by him, and shall furnish to the commission, upon demand, a sworn statement of the same. Such record shall be open to inspection at any time and as often as the commission shall require to verify the number of employees and the amount of the payroll.

§ 102. Falsification of payroll. An employer who shall wilfully misrepresent the amount of the payroll upon which the premiums chargeable by the state insurance fund is to be based shall be liable to the state in ten times the amount of the difference between the premiums paid and the amount the employer should have paid had his payroll been correctly computed; and the liability to the state under this section shall be enforced in a civil action in the name of the state insurance fund, and any amount so collected shall become a part of such fund.

§ 103. Wilful misrepresentation. Any person who wilfully misrepresents any fact in order to obtain insurance in the state

insurance fund at less than the proper rate for such insurance, or in order to obtain payment out of such fund, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

$104. Inspections. The commission shall have the right to inspect the plants and establishments of employers insured in the state insurance fund; and the inspectors designated by the commission shall have free access to such premises during regular working hours.

105. Disclosures prohibited. Information acquired by the commission or its officers or employees from employers or employees pursuant to this chapter shall not be opened to public inspection, and any officer or employee of the commission who, without authority of the commission or pursuant to its rules or as otherwise required by law shall disclose the same shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

ARTICLE 6.

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.

Section 110. Penalties applicable to expense of commission. 111. Record and report of injuries by employers. 112. Information to be furnished by employer.

113. Inspection of records of employers.

114. Interstate commerce.

115. Penalties for false representations.

116. Limitation of time.

117. Duties of commissioner of labor.

118. Unconstitutional provisions.

119. Actions or causes of action pending.

110. Penalties applicable to expenses of commission. All penalties imposed by this chapter shall be applicable to the expenses of the commission. When collected by the commission such penalties shall be paid into the state treasury and be thereafter appropriated by the legislature for the purposes prescribed by this section.

111. Record and report of injuries by employers. Every employer shall keep a record of all injuries, fatal or otherwise. received by his employees in the course of their employment. Within ten days after the occurrence of an accident resulting in personal injury a report thereof shall be made in writing by the employer to the commission upon blanks to be procured from the

commission for that purpose. Such report shall state the name and nature of the business of the employer, the location of his establishment or place of work, the name, address and occupation of the injured employee, the time, nature and cause of the injury and such other information as may be required by the commission. An employer who refuses or neglects to make a report as required by this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred. dollars.

§ 112. Information to be furnished by employer. Every employer shall furnish the commission, upon request, any information required by it to carry out the provisions of this chapter. The commission, a commissioner, deputy commissioner, or any person deputized by the commission for that purpose, may examine under oath any employer, officer, agent or employee. An employer or an employee receiving from the commission a blank with directions to file the same shall cause the same to be properly filled out so as to answer fully and correctly all questions therein, or if unable to do so, shall give good and sufficient reasons for such failure. Answers to such questions shall be verified under oath and returned to the commission within the period fixed by the commission therefor.

§ 113. Inspection of records of employers. All books, records and payrolls of the employers showing or reflecting in any way upon the amount of wage expenditures of such employers shall always be open for inspection by the commission or any of its authorized auditors, accountants or inspectors for the purpose of ascertaining the correctness of the wage expenditure and number of men employed and such other information as may be necessary for the uses and purposes of the commission in the administration of this chapter.

§ 114. Interstate commerce. The provisions of this chapter shall apply to employers and employees engaged in intrastate, and also in interstate or foreign commerce, for whom a rule of liability or method of compensation has been or may be established by the congress of the United States, only to the extent that their mutual connection with intrastate work may and shall be clearly separable and distinguishable from interstate or foreign commerce, except that such employer and his employees working only in this state may, subject to the approval and in the manner provided by the commission and so far as not forbidden by any act of congress,

L. 1909, ch. 36,

§§ 215-219, 219a-219g, as added

by L. 1910,

ch. 674,

repealed.

accept and become bound by the provisions of this chapter in like manner and with the same effect in all respects as provided herein for other employers and their employees.

§ 115. Penalties for false representation. If for the purpose of obtaining any benefit or payment under the provisions of this chapter, either for himself or any other person, any person wilfully makes a false statement or representation, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

116. Limitation of time. No limitation of time provided in this chapter shall run as against any person who is mentally incompetent or a minor dependent so long as he has no committee, guardian or next friend.

$117. Duties of commissioner of labor. The commissioner of labor shall render to the commission any proper aid and assistance by the department of labor as in his judgment does not interfere with the proper conduct of such department.

118. Unconstitutional provisions. If any section or provision of this chapter be decided by the courts to be unconstitutional or invalid, the same shall not affect the validity of the chapter as a whole or any part thereof other than the part so decided to be unconstitutional or invalid.

§ 119. Actions or causes of action pending. This act shall not affect any action pending or cause of action existing or which accrued prior to July first, nineteen hundred and fourteen.

ARTICLE 7.

LAWS REPEALED; WHEN TO TAKE EFFECT.

Section 130. Laws repealed.

131. When to take effect.

§ 130. Laws repealed. Article fourteen-a and sections two hundred and fifteen to two hundred and nineteen-g, both inclusive, of chapter thirty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, as amended by chapter six hundred and seventy-four of the laws of nineteen hundred and ten, are hereby repealed.

§ 131. When to take effect. This chapter shall take effect immediately, provided that the application of this chapter as between employers and employees and the payment of compensation

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for injuries to employees or their dependents, in case of death,
shall take effect July first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, but
payments into the state insurance fund may be made prior to
July first, nineteen hundred and fourteen.

when.

2. This act shall take effect immediately, except as provided In effect in section one hundred and thirty-one as re-enacted hereby.

Chap. 42.

AN ACT authorizing and directing the treasurer of Cornell
University to pay certain legal fees and expenses incurred by
it in the action brought by the state of New York against
Brooklyn Cooperage Company and Cornell University, out of
the unexpended balance now in its custody of the receipts by
Cornell University from forestry operations in improving, main-
taining and administering the experimental forest in the county
of Franklin by the State College of Forestry at Cornell Uni-
versity, and to pay the remainder of said unexpended balance
now in the custody of Cornell University to the treasurer of the
state of New York.

Became a law March 16, 1 with the approval of the Governor. Passed,
three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate
and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. The treasurer of Cornell University is hereby
authorized and directed to pay the legal fees and expenses incurred
by it in the action entitled "The People of the State of New York
against Brooklyn Cooperage Company and Cornell University,"
out of the unexpended balance, now in its custody, of the receipts
from forestry operations in improving, maintaining and adminis-
tering the experimental forest in the county of Franklin by the
State College of Forestry at Cornell University, and to pay the
remainder of said unexpended balance to the treasurer of the state
of New York for the benefit of the general fund of the state.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

1 See 147 App. Div. 267, aff'd 205 N. Y. 531,

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