(a) All municipalities shall be required to provide workers’ compensation coverage for their officials, employees, and volunteer fire fighters. (b) Coverages shall be provided for losses incurred while performing work for the municipality. (c) Individuals convicted of a criminal offense and committed to a municipal detention facility or state correctional facility who are required to […]
This chapter shall be effective July 1, 1985. Claims incurred prior to July 1, 1985, shall continue to be the responsibility of the state. Claims incurred on or after July 1, 1985, shall be the responsibility of the municipalities.
(a) Municipal governing bodies shall be responsible for providing the workers’ compensation coverage required by this chapter. (b) Each municipal governing body is authorized to require reimbursement of its general fund on a pro rata basis from the budgets of its various municipal departments and agencies for whom the workers’ compensation coverage is provided. (c) […]
(a) Municipalities may provide workers’ compensation coverage either through private carriers or through one or more self-funding groups. (b) Self-funding groups established for this purpose shall meet the following requirements: (1) Any self-funding group established to provide such coverage for municipalities only shall offer coverage to any municipality in the state that applies for coverage; […]
Municipalities with populations over seventy thousand (70,000) citizens are specifically authorized to provide workers’ compensation coverage for their officials and employees through either private carriers or by self-funding on either a statewide or an individual basis.
Municipalities with populations over one hundred fifty thousand (150,000) citizens or their sewer committees are specifically authorized to provide workers’ compensation coverage for their officials and employees through either private carriers or by self-funding on either a statewide or individual basis.
