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§  3.  Application.  1. Hazardous employments.   Compensation shall be  payable for injuries or death incurred by  employees  in  the  following  employments:   Group 1. Canning of:  Fish  Foodstuffs  Fruit  Vegetables   Group 2. Care of:  Buildings  Grounds  Trees   Group 3.  Construction of:  Bridges  Buildings  Car shops  Conduits  Curbs  Dams  Dynamos  Electric light and power lines or appliances  Electric railways  Highways  Incline railways  Machine shops  Manufacturing plants  Power plants  Railways  Sewers  Sidewalks  Steam plants  Steam railways  Steel bridges and buildings  Street railways  Structures of all kinds  Subaqueous works  Subways  Telegraph lines  Telephone lines   Group 4.  Installation of:  Boilers  Dynamos  Electric light and power    lines or appliances  Elevators  Engines, stationary  Fire escapes  Heating apparatus  Lighting apparatus  Machinery, heavy  Pipes  Telephones     Group 5.  Laying of:Cables  Floor coverings  Pipes  Tiles  Wires   Group 6.  Manufacture of:  Acids  Adding machines  Aeroplanes  Agricultural implements  Aircraft  Alcohol  Ammonia  Ammunition  Anchors  Artificial ice or stone  Asbestos  Asphalt  Asphalted paper  Automobiles  Baby carriages, toy  Bags, cloth and paper  Barrels  Baskets  Beds  Bedsprings  Belting  Bicycles  Biscuits  Blacking or polish for shoes  Blankets  Boats, small  Boilers  Bolts  Bone articles  Boots  Boxes  Brick  Brooms  Brushes  Butter  Buttons  Cables  Calcium carbide  Cameras and supplies  Candles  Candy  Canoes  Canvas  Caps  Cardboard boxes  Carpets  Carpet sweepers  Carriage mountings  Carriages  Cash registers  CastingsCattle foods  Celluloid  Cement  Cereals  Charcoal  Cheese  Cheese boxes  Chemical preparations, noncorosive  Chemicals  Cigarettes  Cigars  Cloth  Clothing  Coffins  Collars  Color  Concrete blocks  Condiments  Confectionery  Cordage  Corrosive acids or salts  Corrugated paper boxes  Corsets  Crackers  Cutlery  Dairy products  Door screens  Doors  Drugs  Dyes  Electric fixtures  Elevators  Engines, heavy and traction  Excelsior  Explosives  Extracts  Fabrics  Fabrics, articles from  Felt  Fertilizers  Fibre  Films for pictures  Firearms  Fire-proofing  Fixtures, water, gas or    electric  Foodstuffs  Forgings  Furnaces  Furniture  Furs  Gas fixtures  Gases  Gasoline  Gelatine  Glass  Glass products and wares  GlovesGlue  Gold ware  Gun powder  Hardware  Harness  Hats  Headings  Hemp or manila products  Hose, rubber  Hosiery  Ice, artificial  Ice cream  Ink  Implements, agricultural  Instruments  Interior woodwork  Iron, structural  Ivory articles  Japans  Jewelry  Kegs  Leather goods and products  Light machines  Liquors  Locomotives  Machinery  Machines, adding, light and    threshing  Malt liquors  Manila or hemp products  Maltesses  Mattresses  Meat products  Meats  Medicines  Men's clothing  Metal articles, beds,    instruments, toys, utensils    and wares  Metal products, sheet  Metal, structural  Milk products  Mineral water  Motor vehicles  Mouldings  Moving picture films and machines  Nails  Oil  Organs  Paint  Paper  Paper boxes  Paper, tarred, pitched or asphalted  Paste  Paving blocks and material  Perfumes  Petroleum and products thereof  Pharmaceutical preparationsPhotographic cameras and supplies  Pianos  Pipes  Pitched paper  Plaster, compounds of  Plated ware  Polish for shoes  Porcelain  Pottery  Printers' rollers  Printing ink  Pyroxylin and its compounds and plastics  Rails  Rattan ware  Registers, cash  Robes  Ropes  Rubber goods  Saddlery  Safes  Salts, or acids, corrosive  Sanitary fixtures  Screens, window and door  Screws  Shades, window  Shafting  Sheet metal and products thereof  Shell articles  Shirts  Shoddy  Shoe blacking or polish  Shoes  Silver ware  Sleighs  Soaps  Socks  Soda water  Spices  Spirituous, liquors  Spokes  Stationery  Staves  Steel, structural  Stockings  Stone, artificial  Stoves  Structural steel, iron or metal  Sweepers, carpet  Tar  Tarred paper  Terra-cotta  Textiles  Textiles, articles from  Thread  Threshing machines  Tile  Tires, rubber  Tobacco and products thereofToilet preparations  Tools  Toys, metal and wooden  Traction engines  Trunks  Tubing, metal and rubber  Tubs  Turpentine  Typewriters  Umbrellas  Utensils  Valises  Varnish  Vats  Vehicles  Veneer  Wagons  Wallpaper  Water fixtures  Waters, mineral or soda  Wax  White ware  Wicker ware  Window screens and shades  Wine  Wire and wire goods  Women's clothing  Wooden articles  Woodwork, interior  Yarn   Group 7.  Operation of:  Aeroplanes  Air craft  Baling machines  Barges  Boats  Boilers, stationary  Cables, telegraph  Car shops  Cars  Dynamos  Electric light and power lines or appliances  Electric railways  Electric vehicles, rollers and engines  Elevators, freight,    passenger and grain  Engines, stationary and traction  Gas vehicles, rollers and engines  Gas wells  Gasoline vehicles, rollers and engines  Grain elevators  Hand trucks  Horse drawn vehicles, rollers    and engines  Incline railways  Lighters  Machine shopsOil wells  Plants, power and other  Pressing machines  Railways  Rollers  Ships  Stationary engines and    boilers  Steam plants  Steam railways  Street railways  Telegraph lines  Telephone lines  Threshing machines  Traction engines  Transports  Trucks  Tug boats  Vehicles  Vessels  Wagons  Waterworks   Group 8.  Preparation of:  Fish  Foodstuffs  Fruit  Gelatine  Meat stuffs  Meats  Metals  Minerals  Paste  Vegetables  Wax   Group 9.  Removal of:  Ashes  Awnings  Garbage  Snow   Group 10.  Sinking of:  Drilled wells  Gas wells  Oil wells  Salt wells   Group 11.  Storage or handling of:  Ammunition  Cargoes  Corrosive acids or salts  Chemicals  Explosives  Gasoline  Gun powder  Ice  PetroleumGroup 12.  Work as:  Barbers  Blacksmiths  Carpenters  Chauffeurs  Domestic workers, other than    those employed on farms, employed    by the same employer for a    minimum of forty hours per week  Drivers  Furriers  Garbage sorters  Horseshoers  Janitors  Jockeys, apprentice jockeys and exercise persons  licensed under article two or four of the racing,  pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law  Life guards  Longshoremen  Marble workers  Masons  Movers  Sheet metal workers  Teamsters  Theatrical electricians, flymen,    lamp operators, moving picture    machiners, property men, stage    carpenters and stage hands   Group 13.  Work at:  Awning erection  Blasting  Bleaching  Boiler covering  Bookbinding  Booming timber or logs  Bottling  Bricklaying  Building, care, maintenance    and salvage  Cable laying or repair,    underground  Canning  Carpentry  Clam cultivating, harvesting,  Opening or planting  Cleaning clothes, streets,    windows, or buildings  Concreting  Cork cutting  Decorating  Disinfecting  Dredging  Dyeing  Electrotyping  Embossing  Engraving  ExcavationGlazing  Grave digging  Heating  Ice distribution, harvesting or storage  Landscape gardening  Lighting  Lithographing  Logging  Lumbering  Marble cutting  Marine wrecking  Milling  Mining  Multigraphing  Oyster cultivation, planting,    harvesting or opening  Ore reduction  Painting  Papering  Paving  Photo-engraving  Picture hanging  Pile driving  Pipe covering  Plastering  Plumbing  Printing  Rafting  Renovating  River-driving  Road building  Roofing  Salvaging of buildings    or contents  Sea food cultivation,    harvesting or planting  Shaft sinking  Ship building  Smelting  Stereotyping  Stone crushing,    cutting, dressing,    grinding or setting  Storage of all kinds and storage for hire  Street cleaning or construction  Structural carpentry  Subaquesous construction  Subway construction  Tree moving, planting,    trimming and surgery  Tunneling  Undertaking  Upholstering  Warehousing  Well digging or drilling  Window cleaning  Wrecking, marineGroup 14.  Work in  Abattoirs  Bakeries  Bark mills  Boarding stables  Breweries  Caissons  Clay pits  Coal yards  Compressed air compartments  Dining cars  Distilleries  Express cars  Fish markets  Flax mills  Foundries  Garages  Garbage plants  Gravel pits  Groceries, wholesale  Hotels  Junk dealers' places  Knitting factories  Laboratories  Lath mills  Laundries  Life-saving stations  Lime kilns  Livery stables  Lumber yards  Machine shops  Markets, fish, meat, poultry  Meat markets  Packing houses  Paper mills  Parlor cars  Pickle factories  Planing mills  Poultry markets  Printing plants  Pulp mills  Quarries  Restaurants and Grills  Rolling mills  Sales stables  Sand pits  Sash and door factories  Saw mills  Sewage disposal plants  Shale pits  Shingle mills  Sleeping cars  Spinning manufactories  Stables, livery, boarding or sales  Storage warehouses  Sugar refineries  TanneriesWeaving manufactories  Wholesale groceries     Group  14-a.  On  and after January first, nineteen hundred sixty-two,  any other employment in a trade, business, or occupation carried  on  by  the  employer  for  pecuniary  gain in which one or more employees other  than farm laborers are employed.    Group 14-b. Employment as a farm laborer as provided herein.  A farmer  shall provide coverage under this chapter for all farm laborers employed  during any part of the twelve consecutive months beginning  April  first  of  any  calendar  year  preceded  by  a calendar year in which the cash  remuneration paid to all farm laborers aggregated twelve hundred dollars  or more.    Group 15. Employment as a keeper, guard,  resident  physician,  nurse,  interne,  resident  interne,  assistant resident interne or orderly in a  prison reformatory, hospital for the mentally ill or hospital maintained  or operated by a municipal  corporation  or  other  subdivision  of  the  state,  notwithstanding  the  definitions  of  the  terms  "employment,"  "employer" or "employee" in subdivisions three, four and five of section  two of this chapter.    Group 15-a. Employment as a county fire coordinator  or  as  a  deputy  county fire coordinator pursuant to section two hundred twenty-five-a or  section  four  hundred  one  of  the  county  law,  notwithstanding  the  definitions of the  terms  "employer",  "employee"  or  "employment"  in  subdivisions three, four and five of section two of this chapter.    The   terms   "county   fire  coordinator"  and  "deputy  county  fire  coordinator," as used in this group, shall include any  county  official  who  is  not appointed pursuant to the provisions of section two hundred  twenty-five-a of the county  law,  but  is  appointed  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of a special law, a county charter or a county local law and  who is authorized or required to perform in the county the duties  which  are  similar to those of a county fire coordinator or deputy county fire  coordinator under such section of the  county  law  and  sections  eight  hundred seven-a and eight hundred seven-b of the education law.    Group 16. Any employment by the state, including the employment of all  elected  and  appointed public officers, notwithstanding the definitions  of the terms "employment," "employer"  or  "employee,"  in  subdivisions  three, four and five of section two of this chapter; but work as a civil  defense  volunteer  under  the provisions of the state defense emergency  act shall not be deemed employment by the state. An employee engaged  in  any employment herein whose wages are paid by a municipal corporation or  other  subdivision  of  the state or by an employer other than the state  shall be deemed an employee  of  such  municipal  corporation  or  other  political subdivision of the state or such employer other than the state  for  the  purposes  of  this  chapter. The head of any department of the  state government may, with the prior written approval of the director of  the budget, accept or approve the acceptance by any  bureau,  agency  or  other  unit within said department of the services of a volunteer worker  without salary, and such a volunteer worker shall be  deemed  to  be  an  employee  in the employment of the state in the unclassified service for  the purpose of this chapter.    Group 17. Any employment carried on  by  a  municipal  corporation  or  other  subdivision  of  the state and enumerated in the foregoing groups  one to fourteen, inclusive,  and  on  and  after  July  first,  nineteen  hundred  fifty-one,  other  such  employment to the extent of authorized  services related to civil defense and  performed  by  employees  in  the  course  of  employment  or  in  relation  thereto;  and  the sheriff and  undersheriff of any county and the duly appointed  regular  deputies  ofthe  sheriff, notwithstanding the definition of the term "employment" in  subdivision five of section two of this chapter; but employment  in  the  department  of  sanitation  of  the  city  of New York in the sanitation  service  classification  of  the  classified  civil service of such city  shall not be within the coverage of  this  chapter.  The  activities  of  civil defense volunteers who are auxiliary firemen and members of rescue  squads  in  authorized  services  while  undergoing training or practice  sponsored or authorized by a local office of civil defense,  as  defined  in  the  state  defense  emergency  act,  and  on  and after July first,  nineteen hundred  fifty-three,  the  activities  of  all  civil  defense  volunteers  who  are  personnel of such local office of civil defense in  authorized services during  authorized  participation  in  training  and  practice  exercises  held  at  the  direction  of or designated as state  training and practice exercises by the state  civil  defense  commission  pursuant to the provisions of section twenty-one, subdivision three-f of  the state defense emergency act, are hazardous employments carried on by  the municipal corporation or other subdivision of the state that created  the  local office under the state defense emergency act and such members  of an auxiliary police organization located in a  municipal  corporation  which   elected  to  include  such  persons  within  the  definition  of  "employee" as authorized by subdivision four  of  section  two  of  this  chapter   shall   be  deemed  employees  of  the  municipal  corporation  authorizing their services, and such members of rescue squads, auxiliary  firemen, and civil defense volunteers shall be deemed employees  of  the  municipal  corporation or other subdivision of the state for purposes of  this chapter, provided, however, that each such municipal corporation or  other subdivision of the state or insurance carrier shall in  the  first  instance  pay  all  awards  of  workers' compensation, including medical  benefits, provided by this chapter; and such  municipal  corporation  or  other  subdivision of the state or insurance carrier shall be reimbursed  by the comptroller of the state of  New  York,  periodically  every  six  months, on vouchers certified by the state civil defense commission, for  one-half  of all workers' compensation benefits, including both cash and  medical benefits, paid pursuant to awards of the board,  to  the  extent  not  previously  reimbursed, paid for injury or death of a civil defense  volunteer caused by an accident that arose out of and in the  course  of  any  such  training and practice exercise, held on and after July first,  nineteen hundred fifty-three, at the direction of  or  designated  as  a  state  training  and  practice  exercise  by  the  state  civil  defense  commission pursuant to the provisions of section twenty-one, subdivision  three-f of the state defense emergency act. A town shall not  be  deemed  to  be the employer of the officers and employees of a fire district and  shall not be liable for payment of  compensation  to  such  officers  or  employees  under  any  provision  of  this  chapter.   A social services  official, as defined in subdivision  fourteen  of  section  two  of  the  social  services  law,  may  accept or approve the services of volunteer  workers without salary, in accordance with the regulations of the  state  department  of  social  services,  and  such a voluntary worker shall be  deemed to be  an  employee  of  the  social  services  district  in  the  unclassified service for the purpose of this chapter.    Group  18. All other employments, except persons engaged in a teaching  or nonmanual capacity in or for a religious, charitable  or  educational  institution, notwithstanding the definition of employment in subdivision  five  of  section  two,  not  hereinbefore enumerated, carried on by any  person, firm or corporation in which there are engaged or  employed  one  or  more  employees  regularly,  in the same business or in or about the  same establishment either upon the premises or at the plant or away from  the plant of the employer,  under  any  contract  of  hire,  express  orimplied,  oral or written, except farm laborers and domestics other than  those within the coverage of this chapter pursuant to groups  fourteen-b  and  twelve  respectively  of  this subdivision, unless the employer has  elected  to  bring such employees under the law by securing compensation  in accordance with the terms  of  section  fifty  of  this  chapter  and  persons  engaged in voluntary service not under contract of hire. A duly  ordained, commissioned or licensed minister, priest or rabbi, a  sexton,  a  christian science reader, or a member of a religious order, shall not  be deemed to be employed or engaged in employment  under  the  terms  of  this   section.  Recipients  of  charitable  aid  from  a  religious  or  charitable institution who perform work in or for the institution  which  is  incidental  to or in return for the aid conferred, and not under any  express contract of hire, shall not be deemed to be employed or  engaged  in  employment  under  the  terms  of  this section. All persons who are  members  of  a  supervised  amateur  athletic  activity  operated  on  a  non-profit  basis  shall  not  be  deemed  to  be employed or engaged in  employment under the terms of this section, provided that  said  members  are  not  also  otherwise  engaged  or  employed  by any person, firm or  corporation  participating  in  said  athletic   activity.   The   terms  "religious,  charitable  or educational institution" mean a corporation,  unincorporated  association,  community  chest,   fund   or   foundation  organized   and   operated  exclusively  for  religious,  charitable  or  educational purposes, no part of the net earnings of which inure to  the  benefit of any private shareholder or individual.    Group  19.  An  employer may bring an employment that is not listed in  this  section  within  the  coverage  of  this   chapter   by   securing  compensation  to his employee or employees engaged in such employment in  accordance with section fifty of this chapter.    Any municipal corporation or other political subdivision of the  state  may bring its employees or officers, elective or appointed or otherwise,  not  enumerated  in  groups  one to seventeen of subdivision one of this  section inclusive, of this chapter within the coverage of  this  chapter  by  appropriate  action  of  the legislative or governmental body of the  municipal corporation  or  political  subdivision,  notwithstanding  the  definitions  of  the  terms  "employment,"  "employer"  or "employee" in  subdivisions three, four and five of section two of this chapter; and by  separate and distinct action of said legislative  or  governmental  body  may  bring  within the coverage of this chapter any group, as defined by  order of the New York state civil defense commission, of  civil  defense  volunteers  not enumerated in group seventeen of subdivision one of this  section, who are personnel of a volunteer agency of the local office  of  such municipal corporation or other political subdivision, as defined in  the  state  defense  emergency act, as to their authorized civil defense  services to the extent not covered under article ten  of  this  chapter.  Where  one  or  more groups of such civil defense volunteers of a county  office of civil defense are not brought  within  the  coverage  of  this  chapter  by  the  county,  a  town or a village in such county or a city  participating in the consolidated county office of civil defense of such  county may, by separate  and  distinct  action  of  its  legislative  or  governmental  body,  bring  the  members of such group or groups of duly  enrolled civil defense volunteers who are residents of and are  enrolled  from  such  town,  village  or  city within the coverage of this chapter  during any period when the county has not so provided; however, whenever  a county brings one or more  groups  of  its  civil  defense  volunteers  within  the  coverage of this chapter, such other coverage of members of  such group or groups by the  town,  village  or  city  shall  be  deemed  terminated  to the extent and as of the date coverage is afforded by the  county. A village may  not  provide  such  coverage  during  any  periodcoverage  is  provided by a town in which the village is located, except  where there is a deputy director of civil  defense  for  a  village  not  wholly within one town.    A  public  or  not-for-profit corporation, association, institution or  agency organized as an unincorporated association or  duly  incorporated  under  the  laws  of  this  state  shall  be deemed to be an employer of  persons who are performing services for it pursuant  to  paragraphs  (h)  and  (i)  of  subdivision  two  of  section  65.10  of  the penal law in  fulfillment of a sentence of probation or of conditional  discharge  and  of  persons  performing  such  services  pursuant  to  the provisions of  section 170.55 or 170.56 of the criminal procedure law, and such persons  shall for the purposes of this chapter be deemed to be employees for the  public  or  not-for-profit  corporation,  association,  institution   or  agency.  Said  employer  may  elect  to  bring such employees within the  coverage of this chapter by securing compensation in accordance with the  terms of section fifty of this chapter.    Group 20. In a city having  a  population  of  one  million  or  more,  teachers,   regular  or  substitute,  of  shop  work,  manual  training,  industrial or trade subjects,  mechanic  arts,  textiles,  machine  shop  assistants,  laboratory  assistants,  laboratory specialists, laboratory  technicians,  and  teachers  of  any  subject,  trade,   or   employment  requiring, for instruction purposes, use of tools or machinery for which  protective,  guarding  or  safety devices are required by the labor law,  may elect to receive the benefits prescribed by  this  chapter  provided  they are not qualified to receive benefits even if eligible to apply for  retirement  under  the  teachers'  retirement  system in said city.   An  election to come within this chapter shall constitute a  waiver  of  any  right  to  receive  absence  refunds from the board of education of said  city.  But a teacher shall, if incapacitated to teach by reason  of  his  injuries, be entitled to the refund of his accumulated deductions in the  teachers'  retirement  system or in lieu thereof he may elect to receive  an annuity which shall be the actuarial equivalent of  said  accumulated  deductions.  Any  election or choice provided for herein may be made for  the teacher by one acting in the teacher's behalf  if  said  teacher  is  incapacitated to act for himself.    Group  20-a.  For the purposes of this chapter, the work of any person  employed as a school aide by school authorities of any school  district,  notwithstanding  the  definitions of the terms "employer," "employee" or  "employment" in subdivisions three, four and five of section two of this  chapter.    Group 20-b. For the purposes of this chapter, the work of  any  person  employed  in  a  nonpedagogical  capacity by school authorities within a  city having a population of one million  or  more,  notwithstanding  the  definitions  of  the  terms  "employer",  "employee"  or "employment" in  subdivisions three, four and five of section two of this chapter.    Group 21. For the purposes of  this  chapter,  on  and  after  January  first,  nineteen  hundred  sixty-two, the work of a newspaper carrier as  defined in section thirty-two hundred twenty-eight of the education  law  for  an  employer  of  one  or more employees as defined in subdivisions  three and four of section two of this chapter.    Group 22. Employment as a teacher in  a  public  school  or  place  of  instruction  maintained  or operated by a board of education or trustees  of a school district, other than a school district  located  in  a  city  having  a  population  of  more  than  one  million, notwithstanding the  definitions of the  terms  "employment,"  "employer"  or  "employee"  in  subdivisions three, four and five of section two of this chapter.    Group  23.  For  the  purposes of this chapter, the work of any person  employed to direct vehicular traffic at any street crossing  or  highwayintersection crossed by pupils in going to and returning from any school  in  this  state,  whose  chief  duty  primarily is to guard the life and  safety of such pupils.    Group  24.  For the purposes of this chapter, employment of any person  appointed by the board of water supply of the city of New York  pursuant  to  the provisions of section K51-36.0 of the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  notwithstanding  the  definitions  of  the   terms  "employment", "employer", or "employee", in subdivisions three, four and  five of section two of this chapter.    2.   Occupational   diseases.   Compensation   shall  be  payable  for  disabilities sustained or death incurred by an employee  resulting  from  the following occupational diseases:      COLUMN ONE                       COLUMN TWO   Description of Diseases          Description of Process    1. Anthrax.                     1. Handling of wool, hair,                                      bristles, hides or skins.    2. Lead poisoning or its        2. Any process involving the      sequelae.                       use of or direct contact                                      with lead or its prepar-                                      ations or compounds.    3. Zinc poisoning or its        3. Any process involving the      sequelae.                       use of or direct contact                                      with zinc or its prepar-                                      ations or compounds or                                      alloys.    4. Mercury poisoning or         4. Any process involving the      its sequelae.                   use of or direct contact                                      with mercury or its                                      preparations or compounds.    5. Phosphorus poisoning or      5. Any process involving the      its sequelae.                   use of or direct contact                                      with phosphorous or its                                      preparations or compounds.    6. Arsenic poisoning or         6. Any process involving the use      its sequelae.                   of or direct contact with                                      arsenic or its preparations                                      or compounds.    7. Poisoning by wood            7. Any process involving the use      alcohol.                        of wood alcohol or any                                      preparation containing wood                                      alcohol.    8. Poisoning by benzol or       8. Any process involving the use      nitro-, hydro-,                 of or direct contact with      hydroxy- and amido-             benzol or nitro-, hydro-,      derivatives of benzene          hydroxy-, or amido-      (dinitro-benzol, anilin,        derivatives of benzene or      and others), or its             its preparations or compounds.      sequelae.9. Poisoning by carbon          9. Any process involving      bisulphide or its               the use of or direct contact      sequelae, or any                with carbon bisulphide or      sulphide.                       its preparations or com-                                      pounds, or any sulphide.   10. Poisoning by nitrous        10. Any process in which      fumes or its sequelae.          nitrous fumes are evolved.   11. Poisoning by nickel         11. Any process in which nickel      carbonyl or its                 carbonyl is evolved.      sequelae.   12. Dope poisoning              12. Any process involving the      (poisoning by                   use of or direct contact      tetrachlor-methane or           with any substance used      any substance used as           as or in conjunction with      or in conjunction with          a solvent for acetate of      a solvent for acetate           cellulose or nitro      or cellulose or nitro           cellulose.      cellulose, or its      sequelae.   13. Poisoning by                13. Any process involving the      formaldehyde and its            use of or direct contact      preparations.                   with formaldehyde and its                                      preparations.   14. Chrome ulceration           14. Any process involving the      or its sequelae or              use of or direct contact      chrome poisoning.               with chromic acid or                                      bychromate of ammonium,                                      potassium or sodium, or                                      their preparations.   15. Epitheliomatous cancer      15. Handling or use of tar,      or ulceration of the            pitch, bitumen, mineral      skin or of the corneal          oil, or paraffin or any      surface of the eye,             compound, product or      due to tar, pitch,              residue of any of these      bitumen, mineral oil,           substances.      or paraffin, or any      compound, product or      residue of any of these      substances.   16. Glanders.                   16. Care or handling of any                                      equine animal or the                                      carcass of any such animal.   17. Compressed air              17. Any process carried on      illness or its                  in compressed air.      sequelae.   18. Miners' diseases,           18. Any process involving      including only                  mining.      cellulitis, bursitis,      ankylostomiasis,tenosynovitis and      nystagmus.   19. Cataract in                 19. Processes in the manufacture      glassworkers.                   of glass involving exposure                                      to the glare of molten                                      glass.   20. Radium poisoning or         20. Any process involving the      disability due to               use of or direct contact      radio-active pro-               with radium or radio-active      perties of sub-                 substance or the use of or      stances or to                   direct exposure to Roentgen      Roentgen rays                   rays (X-rays) or ionizing      (X-rays) or exposure            radiation.      to ionizing radiation.   21. Methyl chloride             21. Any process involving the      poisoning.                      use of or direct contact                                      with methyl chloride or its                                      preparations or compounds.   22. Carbon monoxide             22. Any process involving direct      poisoning.                      exposure to carbon monoxide                                      in buildings, sheds or                                      enclosed places.   23. Poisoning by sulphuric,     23. Any process involving the use      hydro-chloric or                of or direct contact with      hydro-fluoric acid.             sulphuric, hydrochloric or                                      hydrofluoric acids or                                      their fumes.   24. Respiratory,                24. Any process involving the      gastro-intestinal               use of or direct contact      or physiological                with petroleum or petroleum      nerve and eye dis-              products and their fumes.      orders due to con-      tact with petroleum      products and their      fumes.   25. Disability arising          25. Any process involving      from blisters or                continuous friction,      abrasions.                      rubbing or vibration                                      causing blisters or                                      abrasions.   26. Disability arising          26. Any process involving      from bursitis or                continuous rubbing, pre-      synovitis.                      sure or vibration of the                                      parts affected.   27. Dermatitis                  27. Any process involving the      (venenata).                     use of or direct contact                                      with acids, alkalies, acids                                      or oil, or with brick,                                      cement, lime, concrete ormortar capable of causing                                      dermatitis (venenata).   28. Byssinosis.                 28. Any process involving                                      exposure to raw cotton.   29. Silicosis or other          29. Any process involving ex-      dust diseases.                  posure to silica or other                                      harmful dust.   30. Any and all                 30. Any and all employments      occupational diseases.          enumerated in subdivision                                      one of section three of                                      this chapter.     Nothing  in paragraph thirty of this subdivision shall be construed to  apply to any disability  or  death  due  to  any  disease  described  in  paragraph twenty-nine of this subdivision.

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§  3.  Application.  1. Hazardous employments.   Compensation shall be  payable for injuries or death incurred by  employees  in  the  following  employments:   Group 1. Canning of:  Fish  Foodstuffs  Fruit  Vegetables   Group 2. Care of:  Buildings  Grounds  Trees   Group 3.  Construction of:  Bridges  Buildings  Car shops  Conduits  Curbs  Dams  Dynamos  Electric light and power lines or appliances  Electric railways  Highways  Incline railways  Machine shops  Manufacturing plants  Power plants  Railways  Sewers  Sidewalks  Steam plants  Steam railways  Steel bridges and buildings  Street railways  Structures of all kinds  Subaqueous works  Subways  Telegraph lines  Telephone lines   Group 4.  Installation of:  Boilers  Dynamos  Electric light and power    lines or appliances  Elevators  Engines, stationary  Fire escapes  Heating apparatus  Lighting apparatus  Machinery, heavy  Pipes  Telephones     Group 5.  Laying of:Cables  Floor coverings  Pipes  Tiles  Wires   Group 6.  Manufacture of:  Acids  Adding machines  Aeroplanes  Agricultural implements  Aircraft  Alcohol  Ammonia  Ammunition  Anchors  Artificial ice or stone  Asbestos  Asphalt  Asphalted paper  Automobiles  Baby carriages, toy  Bags, cloth and paper  Barrels  Baskets  Beds  Bedsprings  Belting  Bicycles  Biscuits  Blacking or polish for shoes  Blankets  Boats, small  Boilers  Bolts  Bone articles  Boots  Boxes  Brick  Brooms  Brushes  Butter  Buttons  Cables  Calcium carbide  Cameras and supplies  Candles  Candy  Canoes  Canvas  Caps  Cardboard boxes  Carpets  Carpet sweepers  Carriage mountings  Carriages  Cash registers  CastingsCattle foods  Celluloid  Cement  Cereals  Charcoal  Cheese  Cheese boxes  Chemical preparations, noncorosive  Chemicals  Cigarettes  Cigars  Cloth  Clothing  Coffins  Collars  Color  Concrete blocks  Condiments  Confectionery  Cordage  Corrosive acids or salts  Corrugated paper boxes  Corsets  Crackers  Cutlery  Dairy products  Door screens  Doors  Drugs  Dyes  Electric fixtures  Elevators  Engines, heavy and traction  Excelsior  Explosives  Extracts  Fabrics  Fabrics, articles from  Felt  Fertilizers  Fibre  Films for pictures  Firearms  Fire-proofing  Fixtures, water, gas or    electric  Foodstuffs  Forgings  Furnaces  Furniture  Furs  Gas fixtures  Gases  Gasoline  Gelatine  Glass  Glass products and wares  GlovesGlue  Gold ware  Gun powder  Hardware  Harness  Hats  Headings  Hemp or manila products  Hose, rubber  Hosiery  Ice, artificial  Ice cream  Ink  Implements, agricultural  Instruments  Interior woodwork  Iron, structural  Ivory articles  Japans  Jewelry  Kegs  Leather goods and products  Light machines  Liquors  Locomotives  Machinery  Machines, adding, light and    threshing  Malt liquors  Manila or hemp products  Maltesses  Mattresses  Meat products  Meats  Medicines  Men's clothing  Metal articles, beds,    instruments, toys, utensils    and wares  Metal products, sheet  Metal, structural  Milk products  Mineral water  Motor vehicles  Mouldings  Moving picture films and machines  Nails  Oil  Organs  Paint  Paper  Paper boxes  Paper, tarred, pitched or asphalted  Paste  Paving blocks and material  Perfumes  Petroleum and products thereof  Pharmaceutical preparationsPhotographic cameras and supplies  Pianos  Pipes  Pitched paper  Plaster, compounds of  Plated ware  Polish for shoes  Porcelain  Pottery  Printers' rollers  Printing ink  Pyroxylin and its compounds and plastics  Rails  Rattan ware  Registers, cash  Robes  Ropes  Rubber goods  Saddlery  Safes  Salts, or acids, corrosive  Sanitary fixtures  Screens, window and door  Screws  Shades, window  Shafting  Sheet metal and products thereof  Shell articles  Shirts  Shoddy  Shoe blacking or polish  Shoes  Silver ware  Sleighs  Soaps  Socks  Soda water  Spices  Spirituous, liquors  Spokes  Stationery  Staves  Steel, structural  Stockings  Stone, artificial  Stoves  Structural steel, iron or metal  Sweepers, carpet  Tar  Tarred paper  Terra-cotta  Textiles  Textiles, articles from  Thread  Threshing machines  Tile  Tires, rubber  Tobacco and products thereofToilet preparations  Tools  Toys, metal and wooden  Traction engines  Trunks  Tubing, metal and rubber  Tubs  Turpentine  Typewriters  Umbrellas  Utensils  Valises  Varnish  Vats  Vehicles  Veneer  Wagons  Wallpaper  Water fixtures  Waters, mineral or soda  Wax  White ware  Wicker ware  Window screens and shades  Wine  Wire and wire goods  Women's clothing  Wooden articles  Woodwork, interior  Yarn   Group 7.  Operation of:  Aeroplanes  Air craft  Baling machines  Barges  Boats  Boilers, stationary  Cables, telegraph  Car shops  Cars  Dynamos  Electric light and power lines or appliances  Electric railways  Electric vehicles, rollers and engines  Elevators, freight,    passenger and grain  Engines, stationary and traction  Gas vehicles, rollers and engines  Gas wells  Gasoline vehicles, rollers and engines  Grain elevators  Hand trucks  Horse drawn vehicles, rollers    and engines  Incline railways  Lighters  Machine shopsOil wells  Plants, power and other  Pressing machines  Railways  Rollers  Ships  Stationary engines and    boilers  Steam plants  Steam railways  Street railways  Telegraph lines  Telephone lines  Threshing machines  Traction engines  Transports  Trucks  Tug boats  Vehicles  Vessels  Wagons  Waterworks   Group 8.  Preparation of:  Fish  Foodstuffs  Fruit  Gelatine  Meat stuffs  Meats  Metals  Minerals  Paste  Vegetables  Wax   Group 9.  Removal of:  Ashes  Awnings  Garbage  Snow   Group 10.  Sinking of:  Drilled wells  Gas wells  Oil wells  Salt wells   Group 11.  Storage or handling of:  Ammunition  Cargoes  Corrosive acids or salts  Chemicals  Explosives  Gasoline  Gun powder  Ice  PetroleumGroup 12.  Work as:  Barbers  Blacksmiths  Carpenters  Chauffeurs  Domestic workers, other than    those employed on farms, employed    by the same employer for a    minimum of forty hours per week  Drivers  Furriers  Garbage sorters  Horseshoers  Janitors  Jockeys, apprentice jockeys and exercise persons  licensed under article two or four of the racing,  pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law  Life guards  Longshoremen  Marble workers  Masons  Movers  Sheet metal workers  Teamsters  Theatrical electricians, flymen,    lamp operators, moving picture    machiners, property men, stage    carpenters and stage hands   Group 13.  Work at:  Awning erection  Blasting  Bleaching  Boiler covering  Bookbinding  Booming timber or logs  Bottling  Bricklaying  Building, care, maintenance    and salvage  Cable laying or repair,    underground  Canning  Carpentry  Clam cultivating, harvesting,  Opening or planting  Cleaning clothes, streets,    windows, or buildings  Concreting  Cork cutting  Decorating  Disinfecting  Dredging  Dyeing  Electrotyping  Embossing  Engraving  ExcavationGlazing  Grave digging  Heating  Ice distribution, harvesting or storage  Landscape gardening  Lighting  Lithographing  Logging  Lumbering  Marble cutting  Marine wrecking  Milling  Mining  Multigraphing  Oyster cultivation, planting,    harvesting or opening  Ore reduction  Painting  Papering  Paving  Photo-engraving  Picture hanging  Pile driving  Pipe covering  Plastering  Plumbing  Printing  Rafting  Renovating  River-driving  Road building  Roofing  Salvaging of buildings    or contents  Sea food cultivation,    harvesting or planting  Shaft sinking  Ship building  Smelting  Stereotyping  Stone crushing,    cutting, dressing,    grinding or setting  Storage of all kinds and storage for hire  Street cleaning or construction  Structural carpentry  Subaquesous construction  Subway construction  Tree moving, planting,    trimming and surgery  Tunneling  Undertaking  Upholstering  Warehousing  Well digging or drilling  Window cleaning  Wrecking, marineGroup 14.  Work in  Abattoirs  Bakeries  Bark mills  Boarding stables  Breweries  Caissons  Clay pits  Coal yards  Compressed air compartments  Dining cars  Distilleries  Express cars  Fish markets  Flax mills  Foundries  Garages  Garbage plants  Gravel pits  Groceries, wholesale  Hotels  Junk dealers' places  Knitting factories  Laboratories  Lath mills  Laundries  Life-saving stations  Lime kilns  Livery stables  Lumber yards  Machine shops  Markets, fish, meat, poultry  Meat markets  Packing houses  Paper mills  Parlor cars  Pickle factories  Planing mills  Poultry markets  Printing plants  Pulp mills  Quarries  Restaurants and Grills  Rolling mills  Sales stables  Sand pits  Sash and door factories  Saw mills  Sewage disposal plants  Shale pits  Shingle mills  Sleeping cars  Spinning manufactories  Stables, livery, boarding or sales  Storage warehouses  Sugar refineries  TanneriesWeaving manufactories  Wholesale groceries     Group  14-a.  On  and after January first, nineteen hundred sixty-two,  any other employment in a trade, business, or occupation carried  on  by  the  employer  for  pecuniary  gain in which one or more employees other  than farm laborers are employed.    Group 14-b. Employment as a farm laborer as provided herein.  A farmer  shall provide coverage under this chapter for all farm laborers employed  during any part of the twelve consecutive months beginning  April  first  of  any  calendar  year  preceded  by  a calendar year in which the cash  remuneration paid to all farm laborers aggregated twelve hundred dollars  or more.    Group 15. Employment as a keeper, guard,  resident  physician,  nurse,  interne,  resident  interne,  assistant resident interne or orderly in a  prison reformatory, hospital for the mentally ill or hospital maintained  or operated by a municipal  corporation  or  other  subdivision  of  the  state,  notwithstanding  the  definitions  of  the  terms  "employment,"  "employer" or "employee" in subdivisions three, four and five of section  two of this chapter.    Group 15-a. Employment as a county fire coordinator  or  as  a  deputy  county fire coordinator pursuant to section two hundred twenty-five-a or  section  four  hundred  one  of  the  county  law,  notwithstanding  the  definitions of the  terms  "employer",  "employee"  or  "employment"  in  subdivisions three, four and five of section two of this chapter.    The   terms   "county   fire  coordinator"  and  "deputy  county  fire  coordinator," as used in this group, shall include any  county  official  who  is  not appointed pursuant to the provisions of section two hundred  twenty-five-a of the county  law,  but  is  appointed  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of a special law, a county charter or a county local law and  who is authorized or required to perform in the county the duties  which  are  similar to those of a county fire coordinator or deputy county fire  coordinator under such section of the  county  law  and  sections  eight  hundred seven-a and eight hundred seven-b of the education law.    Group 16. Any employment by the state, including the employment of all  elected  and  appointed public officers, notwithstanding the definitions  of the terms "employment," "employer"  or  "employee,"  in  subdivisions  three, four and five of section two of this chapter; but work as a civil  defense  volunteer  under  the provisions of the state defense emergency  act shall not be deemed employment by the state. An employee engaged  in  any employment herein whose wages are paid by a municipal corporation or  other  subdivision  of  the state or by an employer other than the state  shall be deemed an employee  of  such  municipal  corporation  or  other  political subdivision of the state or such employer other than the state  for  the  purposes  of  this  chapter. The head of any department of the  state government may, with the prior written approval of the director of  the budget, accept or approve the acceptance by any  bureau,  agency  or  other  unit within said department of the services of a volunteer worker  without salary, and such a volunteer worker shall be  deemed  to  be  an  employee  in the employment of the state in the unclassified service for  the purpose of this chapter.    Group 17. Any employment carried on  by  a  municipal  corporation  or  other  subdivision  of  the state and enumerated in the foregoing groups  one to fourteen, inclusive,  and  on  and  after  July  first,  nineteen  hundred  fifty-one,  other  such  employment to the extent of authorized  services related to civil defense and  performed  by  employees  in  the  course  of  employment  or  in  relation  thereto;  and  the sheriff and  undersheriff of any county and the duly appointed  regular  deputies  ofthe  sheriff, notwithstanding the definition of the term "employment" in  subdivision five of section two of this chapter; but employment  in  the  department  of  sanitation  of  the  city  of New York in the sanitation  service  classification  of  the  classified  civil service of such city  shall not be within the coverage of  this  chapter.  The  activities  of  civil defense volunteers who are auxiliary firemen and members of rescue  squads  in  authorized  services  while  undergoing training or practice  sponsored or authorized by a local office of civil defense,  as  defined  in  the  state  defense  emergency  act,  and  on  and after July first,  nineteen hundred  fifty-three,  the  activities  of  all  civil  defense  volunteers  who  are  personnel of such local office of civil defense in  authorized services during  authorized  participation  in  training  and  practice  exercises  held  at  the  direction  of or designated as state  training and practice exercises by the state  civil  defense  commission  pursuant to the provisions of section twenty-one, subdivision three-f of  the state defense emergency act, are hazardous employments carried on by  the municipal corporation or other subdivision of the state that created  the  local office under the state defense emergency act and such members  of an auxiliary police organization located in a  municipal  corporation  which   elected  to  include  such  persons  within  the  definition  of  "employee" as authorized by subdivision four  of  section  two  of  this  chapter   shall   be  deemed  employees  of  the  municipal  corporation  authorizing their services, and such members of rescue squads, auxiliary  firemen, and civil defense volunteers shall be deemed employees  of  the  municipal  corporation or other subdivision of the state for purposes of  this chapter, provided, however, that each such municipal corporation or  other subdivision of the state or insurance carrier shall in  the  first  instance  pay  all  awards  of  workers' compensation, including medical  benefits, provided by this chapter; and such  municipal  corporation  or  other  subdivision of the state or insurance carrier shall be reimbursed  by the comptroller of the state of  New  York,  periodically  every  six  months, on vouchers certified by the state civil defense commission, for  one-half  of all workers' compensation benefits, including both cash and  medical benefits, paid pursuant to awards of the board,  to  the  extent  not  previously  reimbursed, paid for injury or death of a civil defense  volunteer caused by an accident that arose out of and in the  course  of  any  such  training and practice exercise, held on and after July first,  nineteen hundred fifty-three, at the direction of  or  designated  as  a  state  training  and  practice  exercise  by  the  state  civil  defense  commission pursuant to the provisions of section twenty-one, subdivision  three-f of the state defense emergency act. A town shall not  be  deemed  to  be the employer of the officers and employees of a fire district and  shall not be liable for payment of  compensation  to  such  officers  or  employees  under  any  provision  of  this  chapter.   A social services  official, as defined in subdivision  fourteen  of  section  two  of  the  social  services  law,  may  accept or approve the services of volunteer  workers without salary, in accordance with the regulations of the  state  department  of  social  services,  and  such a voluntary worker shall be  deemed to be  an  employee  of  the  social  services  district  in  the  unclassified service for the purpose of this chapter.    Group  18. All other employments, except persons engaged in a teaching  or nonmanual capacity in or for a religious, charitable  or  educational  institution, notwithstanding the definition of employment in subdivision  five  of  section  two,  not  hereinbefore enumerated, carried on by any  person, firm or corporation in which there are engaged or  employed  one  or  more  employees  regularly,  in the same business or in or about the  same establishment either upon the premises or at the plant or away from  the plant of the employer,  under  any  contract  of  hire,  express  orimplied,  oral or written, except farm laborers and domestics other than  those within the coverage of this chapter pursuant to groups  fourteen-b  and  twelve  respectively  of  this subdivision, unless the employer has  elected  to  bring such employees under the law by securing compensation  in accordance with the terms  of  section  fifty  of  this  chapter  and  persons  engaged in voluntary service not under contract of hire. A duly  ordained, commissioned or licensed minister, priest or rabbi, a  sexton,  a  christian science reader, or a member of a religious order, shall not  be deemed to be employed or engaged in employment  under  the  terms  of  this   section.  Recipients  of  charitable  aid  from  a  religious  or  charitable institution who perform work in or for the institution  which  is  incidental  to or in return for the aid conferred, and not under any  express contract of hire, shall not be deemed to be employed or  engaged  in  employment  under  the  terms  of  this section. All persons who are  members  of  a  supervised  amateur  athletic  activity  operated  on  a  non-profit  basis  shall  not  be  deemed  to  be employed or engaged in  employment under the terms of this section, provided that  said  members  are  not  also  otherwise  engaged  or  employed  by any person, firm or  corporation  participating  in  said  athletic   activity.   The   terms  "religious,  charitable  or educational institution" mean a corporation,  unincorporated  association,  community  chest,   fund   or   foundation  organized   and   operated  exclusively  for  religious,  charitable  or  educational purposes, no part of the net earnings of which inure to  the  benefit of any private shareholder or individual.    Group  19.  An  employer may bring an employment that is not listed in  this  section  within  the  coverage  of  this   chapter   by   securing  compensation  to his employee or employees engaged in such employment in  accordance with section fifty of this chapter.    Any municipal corporation or other political subdivision of the  state  may bring its employees or officers, elective or appointed or otherwise,  not  enumerated  in  groups  one to seventeen of subdivision one of this  section inclusive, of this chapter within the coverage of  this  chapter  by  appropriate  action  of  the legislative or governmental body of the  municipal corporation  or  political  subdivision,  notwithstanding  the  definitions  of  the  terms  "employment,"  "employer"  or "employee" in  subdivisions three, four and five of section two of this chapter; and by  separate and distinct action of said legislative  or  governmental  body  may  bring  within the coverage of this chapter any group, as defined by  order of the New York state civil defense commission, of  civil  defense  volunteers  not enumerated in group seventeen of subdivision one of this  section, who are personnel of a volunteer agency of the local office  of  such municipal corporation or other political subdivision, as defined in  the  state  defense  emergency act, as to their authorized civil defense  services to the extent not covered under article ten  of  this  chapter.  Where  one  or  more groups of such civil defense volunteers of a county  office of civil defense are not brought  within  the  coverage  of  this  chapter  by  the  county,  a  town or a village in such county or a city  participating in the consolidated county office of civil defense of such  county may, by separate  and  distinct  action  of  its  legislative  or  governmental  body,  bring  the  members of such group or groups of duly  enrolled civil defense volunteers who are residents of and are  enrolled  from  such  town,  village  or  city within the coverage of this chapter  during any period when the county has not so provided; however, whenever  a county brings one or more  groups  of  its  civil  defense  volunteers  within  the  coverage of this chapter, such other coverage of members of  such group or groups by the  town,  village  or  city  shall  be  deemed  terminated  to the extent and as of the date coverage is afforded by the  county. A village may  not  provide  such  coverage  during  any  periodcoverage  is  provided by a town in which the village is located, except  where there is a deputy director of civil  defense  for  a  village  not  wholly within one town.    A  public  or  not-for-profit corporation, association, institution or  agency organized as an unincorporated association or  duly  incorporated  under  the  laws  of  this  state  shall  be deemed to be an employer of  persons who are performing services for it pursuant  to  paragraphs  (h)  and  (i)  of  subdivision  two  of  section  65.10  of  the penal law in  fulfillment of a sentence of probation or of conditional  discharge  and  of  persons  performing  such  services  pursuant  to  the provisions of  section 170.55 or 170.56 of the criminal procedure law, and such persons  shall for the purposes of this chapter be deemed to be employees for the  public  or  not-for-profit  corporation,  association,  institution   or  agency.  Said  employer  may  elect  to  bring such employees within the  coverage of this chapter by securing compensation in accordance with the  terms of section fifty of this chapter.    Group 20. In a city having  a  population  of  one  million  or  more,  teachers,   regular  or  substitute,  of  shop  work,  manual  training,  industrial or trade subjects,  mechanic  arts,  textiles,  machine  shop  assistants,  laboratory  assistants,  laboratory specialists, laboratory  technicians,  and  teachers  of  any  subject,  trade,   or   employment  requiring, for instruction purposes, use of tools or machinery for which  protective,  guarding  or  safety devices are required by the labor law,  may elect to receive the benefits prescribed by  this  chapter  provided  they are not qualified to receive benefits even if eligible to apply for  retirement  under  the  teachers'  retirement  system in said city.   An  election to come within this chapter shall constitute a  waiver  of  any  right  to  receive  absence  refunds from the board of education of said  city.  But a teacher shall, if incapacitated to teach by reason  of  his  injuries, be entitled to the refund of his accumulated deductions in the  teachers'  retirement  system or in lieu thereof he may elect to receive  an annuity which shall be the actuarial equivalent of  said  accumulated  deductions.  Any  election or choice provided for herein may be made for  the teacher by one acting in the teacher's behalf  if  said  teacher  is  incapacitated to act for himself.    Group  20-a.  For the purposes of this chapter, the work of any person  employed as a school aide by school authorities of any school  district,  notwithstanding  the  definitions of the terms "employer," "employee" or  "employment" in subdivisions three, four and five of section two of this  chapter.    Group 20-b. For the purposes of this chapter, the work of  any  person  employed  in  a  nonpedagogical  capacity by school authorities within a  city having a population of one million  or  more,  notwithstanding  the  definitions  of  the  terms  "employer",  "employee"  or "employment" in  subdivisions three, four and five of section two of this chapter.    Group 21. For the purposes of  this  chapter,  on  and  after  January  first,  nineteen  hundred  sixty-two, the work of a newspaper carrier as  defined in section thirty-two hundred twenty-eight of the education  law  for  an  employer  of  one  or more employees as defined in subdivisions  three and four of section two of this chapter.    Group 22. Employment as a teacher in  a  public  school  or  place  of  instruction  maintained  or operated by a board of education or trustees  of a school district, other than a school district  located  in  a  city  having  a  population  of  more  than  one  million, notwithstanding the  definitions of the  terms  "employment,"  "employer"  or  "employee"  in  subdivisions three, four and five of section two of this chapter.    Group  23.  For  the  purposes of this chapter, the work of any person  employed to direct vehicular traffic at any street crossing  or  highwayintersection crossed by pupils in going to and returning from any school  in  this  state,  whose  chief  duty  primarily is to guard the life and  safety of such pupils.    Group  24.  For the purposes of this chapter, employment of any person  appointed by the board of water supply of the city of New York  pursuant  to  the provisions of section K51-36.0 of the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  notwithstanding  the  definitions  of  the   terms  "employment", "employer", or "employee", in subdivisions three, four and  five of section two of this chapter.    2.   Occupational   diseases.   Compensation   shall  be  payable  for  disabilities sustained or death incurred by an employee  resulting  from  the following occupational diseases:      COLUMN ONE                       COLUMN TWO   Description of Diseases          Description of Process    1. Anthrax.                     1. Handling of wool, hair,                                      bristles, hides or skins.    2. Lead poisoning or its        2. Any process involving the      sequelae.                       use of or direct contact                                      with lead or its prepar-                                      ations or compounds.    3. Zinc poisoning or its        3. Any process involving the      sequelae.                       use of or direct contact                                      with zinc or its prepar-                                      ations or compounds or                                      alloys.    4. Mercury poisoning or         4. Any process involving the      its sequelae.                   use of or direct contact                                      with mercury or its                                      preparations or compounds.    5. Phosphorus poisoning or      5. Any process involving the      its sequelae.                   use of or direct contact                                      with phosphorous or its                                      preparations or compounds.    6. Arsenic poisoning or         6. Any process involving the use      its sequelae.                   of or direct contact with                                      arsenic or its preparations                                      or compounds.    7. Poisoning by wood            7. Any process involving the use      alcohol.                        of wood alcohol or any                                      preparation containing wood                                      alcohol.    8. Poisoning by benzol or       8. Any process involving the use      nitro-, hydro-,                 of or direct contact with      hydroxy- and amido-             benzol or nitro-, hydro-,      derivatives of benzene          hydroxy-, or amido-      (dinitro-benzol, anilin,        derivatives of benzene or      and others), or its             its preparations or compounds.      sequelae.9. Poisoning by carbon          9. Any process involving      bisulphide or its               the use of or direct contact      sequelae, or any                with carbon bisulphide or      sulphide.                       its preparations or com-                                      pounds, or any sulphide.   10. Poisoning by nitrous        10. Any process in which      fumes or its sequelae.          nitrous fumes are evolved.   11. Poisoning by nickel         11. Any process in which nickel      carbonyl or its                 carbonyl is evolved.      sequelae.   12. Dope poisoning              12. Any process involving the      (poisoning by                   use of or direct contact      tetrachlor-methane or           with any substance used      any substance used as           as or in conjunction with      or in conjunction with          a solvent for acetate of      a solvent for acetate           cellulose or nitro      or cellulose or nitro           cellulose.      cellulose, or its      sequelae.   13. Poisoning by                13. Any process involving the      formaldehyde and its            use of or direct contact      preparations.                   with formaldehyde and its                                      preparations.   14. Chrome ulceration           14. Any process involving the      or its sequelae or              use of or direct contact      chrome poisoning.               with chromic acid or                                      bychromate of ammonium,                                      potassium or sodium, or                                      their preparations.   15. Epitheliomatous cancer      15. Handling or use of tar,      or ulceration of the            pitch, bitumen, mineral      skin or of the corneal          oil, or paraffin or any      surface of the eye,             compound, product or      due to tar, pitch,              residue of any of these      bitumen, mineral oil,           substances.      or paraffin, or any      compound, product or      residue of any of these      substances.   16. Glanders.                   16. Care or handling of any                                      equine animal or the                                      carcass of any such animal.   17. Compressed air              17. Any process carried on      illness or its                  in compressed air.      sequelae.   18. Miners' diseases,           18. Any process involving      including only                  mining.      cellulitis, bursitis,      ankylostomiasis,tenosynovitis and      nystagmus.   19. Cataract in                 19. Processes in the manufacture      glassworkers.                   of glass involving exposure                                      to the glare of molten                                      glass.   20. Radium poisoning or         20. Any process involving the      disability due to               use of or direct contact      radio-active pro-               with radium or radio-active      perties of sub-                 substance or the use of or      stances or to                   direct exposure to Roentgen      Roentgen rays                   rays (X-rays) or ionizing      (X-rays) or exposure            radiation.      to ionizing radiation.   21. Methyl chloride             21. Any process involving the      poisoning.                      use of or direct contact                                      with methyl chloride or its                                      preparations or compounds.   22. Carbon monoxide             22. Any process involving direct      poisoning.                      exposure to carbon monoxide                                      in buildings, sheds or                                      enclosed places.   23. Poisoning by sulphuric,     23. Any process involving the use      hydro-chloric or                of or direct contact with      hydro-fluoric acid.             sulphuric, hydrochloric or                                      hydrofluoric acids or                                      their fumes.   24. Respiratory,                24. Any process involving the      gastro-intestinal               use of or direct contact      or physiological                with petroleum or petroleum      nerve and eye dis-              products and their fumes.      orders due to con-      tact with petroleum      products and their      fumes.   25. Disability arising          25. Any process involving      from blisters or                continuous friction,      abrasions.                      rubbing or vibration                                      causing blisters or                                      abrasions.   26. Disability arising          26. Any process involving      from bursitis or                continuous rubbing, pre-      synovitis.                      sure or vibration of the                                      parts affected.   27. Dermatitis                  27. Any process involving the      (venenata).                     use of or direct contact                                      with acids, alkalies, acids                                      or oil, or with brick,                                      cement, lime, concrete ormortar capable of causing                                      dermatitis (venenata).   28. Byssinosis.                 28. Any process involving                                      exposure to raw cotton.   29. Silicosis or other          29. Any process involving ex-      dust diseases.                  posure to silica or other                                      harmful dust.   30. Any and all                 30. Any and all employments      occupational diseases.          enumerated in subdivision                                      one of section three of                                      this chapter.     Nothing  in paragraph thirty of this subdivision shall be construed to  apply to any disability  or  death  due  to  any  disease  described  in  paragraph twenty-nine of this subdivision.

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§  3.  Application.  1. Hazardous employments.   Compensation shall be  payable for injuries or death incurred by  employees  in  the  following  employments:   Group 1. Canning of:  Fish  Foodstuffs  Fruit  Vegetables   Group 2. Care of:  Buildings  Grounds  Trees   Group 3.  Construction of:  Bridges  Buildings  Car shops  Conduits  Curbs  Dams  Dynamos  Electric light and power lines or appliances  Electric railways  Highways  Incline railways  Machine shops  Manufacturing plants  Power plants  Railways  Sewers  Sidewalks  Steam plants  Steam railways  Steel bridges and buildings  Street railways  Structures of all kinds  Subaqueous works  Subways  Telegraph lines  Telephone lines   Group 4.  Installation of:  Boilers  Dynamos  Electric light and power    lines or appliances  Elevators  Engines, stationary  Fire escapes  Heating apparatus  Lighting apparatus  Machinery, heavy  Pipes  Telephones     Group 5.  Laying of:Cables  Floor coverings  Pipes  Tiles  Wires   Group 6.  Manufacture of:  Acids  Adding machines  Aeroplanes  Agricultural implements  Aircraft  Alcohol  Ammonia  Ammunition  Anchors  Artificial ice or stone  Asbestos  Asphalt  Asphalted paper  Automobiles  Baby carriages, toy  Bags, cloth and paper  Barrels  Baskets  Beds  Bedsprings  Belting  Bicycles  Biscuits  Blacking or polish for shoes  Blankets  Boats, small  Boilers  Bolts  Bone articles  Boots  Boxes  Brick  Brooms  Brushes  Butter  Buttons  Cables  Calcium carbide  Cameras and supplies  Candles  Candy  Canoes  Canvas  Caps  Cardboard boxes  Carpets  Carpet sweepers  Carriage mountings  Carriages  Cash registers  CastingsCattle foods  Celluloid  Cement  Cereals  Charcoal  Cheese  Cheese boxes  Chemical preparations, noncorosive  Chemicals  Cigarettes  Cigars  Cloth  Clothing  Coffins  Collars  Color  Concrete blocks  Condiments  Confectionery  Cordage  Corrosive acids or salts  Corrugated paper boxes  Corsets  Crackers  Cutlery  Dairy products  Door screens  Doors  Drugs  Dyes  Electric fixtures  Elevators  Engines, heavy and traction  Excelsior  Explosives  Extracts  Fabrics  Fabrics, articles from  Felt  Fertilizers  Fibre  Films for pictures  Firearms  Fire-proofing  Fixtures, water, gas or    electric  Foodstuffs  Forgings  Furnaces  Furniture  Furs  Gas fixtures  Gases  Gasoline  Gelatine  Glass  Glass products and wares  GlovesGlue  Gold ware  Gun powder  Hardware  Harness  Hats  Headings  Hemp or manila products  Hose, rubber  Hosiery  Ice, artificial  Ice cream  Ink  Implements, agricultural  Instruments  Interior woodwork  Iron, structural  Ivory articles  Japans  Jewelry  Kegs  Leather goods and products  Light machines  Liquors  Locomotives  Machinery  Machines, adding, light and    threshing  Malt liquors  Manila or hemp products  Maltesses  Mattresses  Meat products  Meats  Medicines  Men's clothing  Metal articles, beds,    instruments, toys, utensils    and wares  Metal products, sheet  Metal, structural  Milk products  Mineral water  Motor vehicles  Mouldings  Moving picture films and machines  Nails  Oil  Organs  Paint  Paper  Paper boxes  Paper, tarred, pitched or asphalted  Paste  Paving blocks and material  Perfumes  Petroleum and products thereof  Pharmaceutical preparationsPhotographic cameras and supplies  Pianos  Pipes  Pitched paper  Plaster, compounds of  Plated ware  Polish for shoes  Porcelain  Pottery  Printers' rollers  Printing ink  Pyroxylin and its compounds and plastics  Rails  Rattan ware  Registers, cash  Robes  Ropes  Rubber goods  Saddlery  Safes  Salts, or acids, corrosive  Sanitary fixtures  Screens, window and door  Screws  Shades, window  Shafting  Sheet metal and products thereof  Shell articles  Shirts  Shoddy  Shoe blacking or polish  Shoes  Silver ware  Sleighs  Soaps  Socks  Soda water  Spices  Spirituous, liquors  Spokes  Stationery  Staves  Steel, structural  Stockings  Stone, artificial  Stoves  Structural steel, iron or metal  Sweepers, carpet  Tar  Tarred paper  Terra-cotta  Textiles  Textiles, articles from  Thread  Threshing machines  Tile  Tires, rubber  Tobacco and products thereofToilet preparations  Tools  Toys, metal and wooden  Traction engines  Trunks  Tubing, metal and rubber  Tubs  Turpentine  Typewriters  Umbrellas  Utensils  Valises  Varnish  Vats  Vehicles  Veneer  Wagons  Wallpaper  Water fixtures  Waters, mineral or soda  Wax  White ware  Wicker ware  Window screens and shades  Wine  Wire and wire goods  Women's clothing  Wooden articles  Woodwork, interior  Yarn   Group 7.  Operation of:  Aeroplanes  Air craft  Baling machines  Barges  Boats  Boilers, stationary  Cables, telegraph  Car shops  Cars  Dynamos  Electric light and power lines or appliances  Electric railways  Electric vehicles, rollers and engines  Elevators, freight,    passenger and grain  Engines, stationary and traction  Gas vehicles, rollers and engines  Gas wells  Gasoline vehicles, rollers and engines  Grain elevators  Hand trucks  Horse drawn vehicles, rollers    and engines  Incline railways  Lighters  Machine shopsOil wells  Plants, power and other  Pressing machines  Railways  Rollers  Ships  Stationary engines and    boilers  Steam plants  Steam railways  Street railways  Telegraph lines  Telephone lines  Threshing machines  Traction engines  Transports  Trucks  Tug boats  Vehicles  Vessels  Wagons  Waterworks   Group 8.  Preparation of:  Fish  Foodstuffs  Fruit  Gelatine  Meat stuffs  Meats  Metals  Minerals  Paste  Vegetables  Wax   Group 9.  Removal of:  Ashes  Awnings  Garbage  Snow   Group 10.  Sinking of:  Drilled wells  Gas wells  Oil wells  Salt wells   Group 11.  Storage or handling of:  Ammunition  Cargoes  Corrosive acids or salts  Chemicals  Explosives  Gasoline  Gun powder  Ice  PetroleumGroup 12.  Work as:  Barbers  Blacksmiths  Carpenters  Chauffeurs  Domestic workers, other than    those employed on farms, employed    by the same employer for a    minimum of forty hours per week  Drivers  Furriers  Garbage sorters  Horseshoers  Janitors  Jockeys, apprentice jockeys and exercise persons  licensed under article two or four of the racing,  pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law  Life guards  Longshoremen  Marble workers  Masons  Movers  Sheet metal workers  Teamsters  Theatrical electricians, flymen,    lamp operators, moving picture    machiners, property men, stage    carpenters and stage hands   Group 13.  Work at:  Awning erection  Blasting  Bleaching  Boiler covering  Bookbinding  Booming timber or logs  Bottling  Bricklaying  Building, care, maintenance    and salvage  Cable laying or repair,    underground  Canning  Carpentry  Clam cultivating, harvesting,  Opening or planting  Cleaning clothes, streets,    windows, or buildings  Concreting  Cork cutting  Decorating  Disinfecting  Dredging  Dyeing  Electrotyping  Embossing  Engraving  ExcavationGlazing  Grave digging  Heating  Ice distribution, harvesting or storage  Landscape gardening  Lighting  Lithographing  Logging  Lumbering  Marble cutting  Marine wrecking  Milling  Mining  Multigraphing  Oyster cultivation, planting,    harvesting or opening  Ore reduction  Painting  Papering  Paving  Photo-engraving  Picture hanging  Pile driving  Pipe covering  Plastering  Plumbing  Printing  Rafting  Renovating  River-driving  Road building  Roofing  Salvaging of buildings    or contents  Sea food cultivation,    harvesting or planting  Shaft sinking  Ship building  Smelting  Stereotyping  Stone crushing,    cutting, dressing,    grinding or setting  Storage of all kinds and storage for hire  Street cleaning or construction  Structural carpentry  Subaquesous construction  Subway construction  Tree moving, planting,    trimming and surgery  Tunneling  Undertaking  Upholstering  Warehousing  Well digging or drilling  Window cleaning  Wrecking, marineGroup 14.  Work in  Abattoirs  Bakeries  Bark mills  Boarding stables  Breweries  Caissons  Clay pits  Coal yards  Compressed air compartments  Dining cars  Distilleries  Express cars  Fish markets  Flax mills  Foundries  Garages  Garbage plants  Gravel pits  Groceries, wholesale  Hotels  Junk dealers' places  Knitting factories  Laboratories  Lath mills  Laundries  Life-saving stations  Lime kilns  Livery stables  Lumber yards  Machine shops  Markets, fish, meat, poultry  Meat markets  Packing houses  Paper mills  Parlor cars  Pickle factories  Planing mills  Poultry markets  Printing plants  Pulp mills  Quarries  Restaurants and Grills  Rolling mills  Sales stables  Sand pits  Sash and door factories  Saw mills  Sewage disposal plants  Shale pits  Shingle mills  Sleeping cars  Spinning manufactories  Stables, livery, boarding or sales  Storage warehouses  Sugar refineries  TanneriesWeaving manufactories  Wholesale groceries     Group  14-a.  On  and after January first, nineteen hundred sixty-two,  any other employment in a trade, business, or occupation carried  on  by  the  employer  for  pecuniary  gain in which one or more employees other  than farm laborers are employed.    Group 14-b. Employment as a farm laborer as provided herein.  A farmer  shall provide coverage under this chapter for all farm laborers employed  during any part of the twelve consecutive months beginning  April  first  of  any  calendar  year  preceded  by  a calendar year in which the cash  remuneration paid to all farm laborers aggregated twelve hundred dollars  or more.    Group 15. Employment as a keeper, guard,  resident  physician,  nurse,  interne,  resident  interne,  assistant resident interne or orderly in a  prison reformatory, hospital for the mentally ill or hospital maintained  or operated by a municipal  corporation  or  other  subdivision  of  the  state,  notwithstanding  the  definitions  of  the  terms  "employment,"  "employer" or "employee" in subdivisions three, four and five of section  two of this chapter.    Group 15-a. Employment as a county fire coordinator  or  as  a  deputy  county fire coordinator pursuant to section two hundred twenty-five-a or  section  four  hundred  one  of  the  county  law,  notwithstanding  the  definitions of the  terms  "employer",  "employee"  or  "employment"  in  subdivisions three, four and five of section two of this chapter.    The   terms   "county   fire  coordinator"  and  "deputy  county  fire  coordinator," as used in this group, shall include any  county  official  who  is  not appointed pursuant to the provisions of section two hundred  twenty-five-a of the county  law,  but  is  appointed  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of a special law, a county charter or a county local law and  who is authorized or required to perform in the county the duties  which  are  similar to those of a county fire coordinator or deputy county fire  coordinator under such section of the  county  law  and  sections  eight  hundred seven-a and eight hundred seven-b of the education law.    Group 16. Any employment by the state, including the employment of all  elected  and  appointed public officers, notwithstanding the definitions  of the terms "employment," "employer"  or  "employee,"  in  subdivisions  three, four and five of section two of this chapter; but work as a civil  defense  volunteer  under  the provisions of the state defense emergency  act shall not be deemed employment by the state. An employee engaged  in  any employment herein whose wages are paid by a municipal corporation or  other  subdivision  of  the state or by an employer other than the state  shall be deemed an employee  of  such  municipal  corporation  or  other  political subdivision of the state or such employer other than the state  for  the  purposes  of  this  chapter. The head of any department of the  state government may, with the prior written approval of the director of  the budget, accept or approve the acceptance by any  bureau,  agency  or  other  unit within said department of the services of a volunteer worker  without salary, and such a volunteer worker shall be  deemed  to  be  an  employee  in the employment of the state in the unclassified service for  the purpose of this chapter.    Group 17. Any employment carried on  by  a  municipal  corporation  or  other  subdivision  of  the state and enumerated in the foregoing groups  one to fourteen, inclusive,  and  on  and  after  July  first,  nineteen  hundred  fifty-one,  other  such  employment to the extent of authorized  services related to civil defense and  performed  by  employees  in  the  course  of  employment  or  in  relation  thereto;  and  the sheriff and  undersheriff of any county and the duly appointed  regular  deputies  ofthe  sheriff, notwithstanding the definition of the term "employment" in  subdivision five of section two of this chapter; but employment  in  the  department  of  sanitation  of  the  city  of New York in the sanitation  service  classification  of  the  classified  civil service of such city  shall not be within the coverage of  this  chapter.  The  activities  of  civil defense volunteers who are auxiliary firemen and members of rescue  squads  in  authorized  services  while  undergoing training or practice  sponsored or authorized by a local office of civil defense,  as  defined  in  the  state  defense  emergency  act,  and  on  and after July first,  nineteen hundred  fifty-three,  the  activities  of  all  civil  defense  volunteers  who  are  personnel of such local office of civil defense in  authorized services during  authorized  participation  in  training  and  practice  exercises  held  at  the  direction  of or designated as state  training and practice exercises by the state  civil  defense  commission  pursuant to the provisions of section twenty-one, subdivision three-f of  the state defense emergency act, are hazardous employments carried on by  the municipal corporation or other subdivision of the state that created  the  local office under the state defense emergency act and such members  of an auxiliary police organization located in a  municipal  corporation  which   elected  to  include  such  persons  within  the  definition  of  "employee" as authorized by subdivision four  of  section  two  of  this  chapter   shall   be  deemed  employees  of  the  municipal  corporation  authorizing their services, and such members of rescue squads, auxiliary  firemen, and civil defense volunteers shall be deemed employees  of  the  municipal  corporation or other subdivision of the state for purposes of  this chapter, provided, however, that each such municipal corporation or  other subdivision of the state or insurance carrier shall in  the  first  instance  pay  all  awards  of  workers' compensation, including medical  benefits, provided by this chapter; and such  municipal  corporation  or  other  subdivision of the state or insurance carrier shall be reimbursed  by the comptroller of the state of  New  York,  periodically  every  six  months, on vouchers certified by the state civil defense commission, for  one-half  of all workers' compensation benefits, including both cash and  medical benefits, paid pursuant to awards of the board,  to  the  extent  not  previously  reimbursed, paid for injury or death of a civil defense  volunteer caused by an accident that arose out of and in the  course  of  any  such  training and practice exercise, held on and after July first,  nineteen hundred fifty-three, at the direction of  or  designated  as  a  state  training  and  practice  exercise  by  the  state  civil  defense  commission pursuant to the provisions of section twenty-one, subdivision  three-f of the state defense emergency act. A town shall not  be  deemed  to  be the employer of the officers and employees of a fire district and  shall not be liable for payment of  compensation  to  such  officers  or  employees  under  any  provision  of  this  chapter.   A social services  official, as defined in subdivision  fourteen  of  section  two  of  the  social  services  law,  may  accept or approve the services of volunteer  workers without salary, in accordance with the regulations of the  state  department  of  social  services,  and  such a voluntary worker shall be  deemed to be  an  employee  of  the  social  services  district  in  the  unclassified service for the purpose of this chapter.    Group  18. All other employments, except persons engaged in a teaching  or nonmanual capacity in or for a religious, charitable  or  educational  institution, notwithstanding the definition of employment in subdivision  five  of  section  two,  not  hereinbefore enumerated, carried on by any  person, firm or corporation in which there are engaged or  employed  one  or  more  employees  regularly,  in the same business or in or about the  same establishment either upon the premises or at the plant or away from  the plant of the employer,  under  any  contract  of  hire,  express  orimplied,  oral or written, except farm laborers and domestics other than  those within the coverage of this chapter pursuant to groups  fourteen-b  and  twelve  respectively  of  this subdivision, unless the employer has  elected  to  bring such employees under the law by securing compensation  in accordance with the terms  of  section  fifty  of  this  chapter  and  persons  engaged in voluntary service not under contract of hire. A duly  ordained, commissioned or licensed minister, priest or rabbi, a  sexton,  a  christian science reader, or a member of a religious order, shall not  be deemed to be employed or engaged in employment  under  the  terms  of  this   section.  Recipients  of  charitable  aid  from  a  religious  or  charitable institution who perform work in or for the institution  which  is  incidental  to or in return for the aid conferred, and not under any  express contract of hire, shall not be deemed to be employed or  engaged  in  employment  under  the  terms  of  this section. All persons who are  members  of  a  supervised  amateur  athletic  activity  operated  on  a  non-profit  basis  shall  not  be  deemed  to  be employed or engaged in  employment under the terms of this section, provided that  said  members  are  not  also  otherwise  engaged  or  employed  by any person, firm or  corporation  participating  in  said  athletic   activity.   The   terms  "religious,  charitable  or educational institution" mean a corporation,  unincorporated  association,  community  chest,   fund   or   foundation  organized   and   operated  exclusively  for  religious,  charitable  or  educational purposes, no part of the net earnings of which inure to  the  benefit of any private shareholder or individual.    Group  19.  An  employer may bring an employment that is not listed in  this  section  within  the  coverage  of  this   chapter   by   securing  compensation  to his employee or employees engaged in such employment in  accordance with section fifty of this chapter.    Any municipal corporation or other political subdivision of the  state  may bring its employees or officers, elective or appointed or otherwise,  not  enumerated  in  groups  one to seventeen of subdivision one of this  section inclusive, of this chapter within the coverage of  this  chapter  by  appropriate  action  of  the legislative or governmental body of the  municipal corporation  or  political  subdivision,  notwithstanding  the  definitions  of  the  terms  "employment,"  "employer"  or "employee" in  subdivisions three, four and five of section two of this chapter; and by  separate and distinct action of said legislative  or  governmental  body  may  bring  within the coverage of this chapter any group, as defined by  order of the New York state civil defense commission, of  civil  defense  volunteers  not enumerated in group seventeen of subdivision one of this  section, who are personnel of a volunteer agency of the local office  of  such municipal corporation or other political subdivision, as defined in  the  state  defense  emergency act, as to their authorized civil defense  services to the extent not covered under article ten  of  this  chapter.  Where  one  or  more groups of such civil defense volunteers of a county  office of civil defense are not brought  within  the  coverage  of  this  chapter  by  the  county,  a  town or a village in such county or a city  participating in the consolidated county office of civil defense of such  county may, by separate  and  distinct  action  of  its  legislative  or  governmental  body,  bring  the  members of such group or groups of duly  enrolled civil defense volunteers who are residents of and are  enrolled  from  such  town,  village  or  city within the coverage of this chapter  during any period when the county has not so provided; however, whenever  a county brings one or more  groups  of  its  civil  defense  volunteers  within  the  coverage of this chapter, such other coverage of members of  such group or groups by the  town,  village  or  city  shall  be  deemed  terminated  to the extent and as of the date coverage is afforded by the  county. A village may  not  provide  such  coverage  during  any  periodcoverage  is  provided by a town in which the village is located, except  where there is a deputy director of civil  defense  for  a  village  not  wholly within one town.    A  public  or  not-for-profit corporation, association, institution or  agency organized as an unincorporated association or  duly  incorporated  under  the  laws  of  this  state  shall  be deemed to be an employer of  persons who are performing services for it pursuant  to  paragraphs  (h)  and  (i)  of  subdivision  two  of  section  65.10  of  the penal law in  fulfillment of a sentence of probation or of conditional  discharge  and  of  persons  performing  such  services  pursuant  to  the provisions of  section 170.55 or 170.56 of the criminal procedure law, and such persons  shall for the purposes of this chapter be deemed to be employees for the  public  or  not-for-profit  corporation,  association,  institution   or  agency.  Said  employer  may  elect  to  bring such employees within the  coverage of this chapter by securing compensation in accordance with the  terms of section fifty of this chapter.    Group 20. In a city having  a  population  of  one  million  or  more,  teachers,   regular  or  substitute,  of  shop  work,  manual  training,  industrial or trade subjects,  mechanic  arts,  textiles,  machine  shop  assistants,  laboratory  assistants,  laboratory specialists, laboratory  technicians,  and  teachers  of  any  subject,  trade,   or   employment  requiring, for instruction purposes, use of tools or machinery for which  protective,  guarding  or  safety devices are required by the labor law,  may elect to receive the benefits prescribed by  this  chapter  provided  they are not qualified to receive benefits even if eligible to apply for  retirement  under  the  teachers'  retirement  system in said city.   An  election to come within this chapter shall constitute a  waiver  of  any  right  to  receive  absence  refunds from the board of education of said  city.  But a teacher shall, if incapacitated to teach by reason  of  his  injuries, be entitled to the refund of his accumulated deductions in the  teachers'  retirement  system or in lieu thereof he may elect to receive  an annuity which shall be the actuarial equivalent of  said  accumulated  deductions.  Any  election or choice provided for herein may be made for  the teacher by one acting in the teacher's behalf  if  said  teacher  is  incapacitated to act for himself.    Group  20-a.  For the purposes of this chapter, the work of any person  employed as a school aide by school authorities of any school  district,  notwithstanding  the  definitions of the terms "employer," "employee" or  "employment" in subdivisions three, four and five of section two of this  chapter.    Group 20-b. For the purposes of this chapter, the work of  any  person  employed  in  a  nonpedagogical  capacity by school authorities within a  city having a population of one million  or  more,  notwithstanding  the  definitions  of  the  terms  "employer",  "employee"  or "employment" in  subdivisions three, four and five of section two of this chapter.    Group 21. For the purposes of  this  chapter,  on  and  after  January  first,  nineteen  hundred  sixty-two, the work of a newspaper carrier as  defined in section thirty-two hundred twenty-eight of the education  law  for  an  employer  of  one  or more employees as defined in subdivisions  three and four of section two of this chapter.    Group 22. Employment as a teacher in  a  public  school  or  place  of  instruction  maintained  or operated by a board of education or trustees  of a school district, other than a school district  located  in  a  city  having  a  population  of  more  than  one  million, notwithstanding the  definitions of the  terms  "employment,"  "employer"  or  "employee"  in  subdivisions three, four and five of section two of this chapter.    Group  23.  For  the  purposes of this chapter, the work of any person  employed to direct vehicular traffic at any street crossing  or  highwayintersection crossed by pupils in going to and returning from any school  in  this  state,  whose  chief  duty  primarily is to guard the life and  safety of such pupils.    Group  24.  For the purposes of this chapter, employment of any person  appointed by the board of water supply of the city of New York  pursuant  to  the provisions of section K51-36.0 of the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  notwithstanding  the  definitions  of  the   terms  "employment", "employer", or "employee", in subdivisions three, four and  five of section two of this chapter.    2.   Occupational   diseases.   Compensation   shall  be  payable  for  disabilities sustained or death incurred by an employee  resulting  from  the following occupational diseases:      COLUMN ONE                       COLUMN TWO   Description of Diseases          Description of Process    1. Anthrax.                     1. Handling of wool, hair,                                      bristles, hides or skins.    2. Lead poisoning or its        2. Any process involving the      sequelae.                       use of or direct contact                                      with lead or its prepar-                                      ations or compounds.    3. Zinc poisoning or its        3. Any process involving the      sequelae.                       use of or direct contact                                      with zinc or its prepar-                                      ations or compounds or                                      alloys.    4. Mercury poisoning or         4. Any process involving the      its sequelae.                   use of or direct contact                                      with mercury or its                                      preparations or compounds.    5. Phosphorus poisoning or      5. Any process involving the      its sequelae.                   use of or direct contact                                      with phosphorous or its                                      preparations or compounds.    6. Arsenic poisoning or         6. Any process involving the use      its sequelae.                   of or direct contact with                                      arsenic or its preparations                                      or compounds.    7. Poisoning by wood            7. Any process involving the use      alcohol.                        of wood alcohol or any                                      preparation containing wood                                      alcohol.    8. Poisoning by benzol or       8. Any process involving the use      nitro-, hydro-,                 of or direct contact with      hydroxy- and amido-             benzol or nitro-, hydro-,      derivatives of benzene          hydroxy-, or amido-      (dinitro-benzol, anilin,        derivatives of benzene or      and others), or its             its preparations or compounds.      sequelae.9. Poisoning by carbon          9. Any process involving      bisulphide or its               the use of or direct contact      sequelae, or any                with carbon bisulphide or      sulphide.                       its preparations or com-                                      pounds, or any sulphide.   10. Poisoning by nitrous        10. Any process in which      fumes or its sequelae.          nitrous fumes are evolved.   11. Poisoning by nickel         11. Any process in which nickel      carbonyl or its                 carbonyl is evolved.      sequelae.   12. Dope poisoning              12. Any process involving the      (poisoning by                   use of or direct contact      tetrachlor-methane or           with any substance used      any substance used as           as or in conjunction with      or in conjunction with          a solvent for acetate of      a solvent for acetate           cellulose or nitro      or cellulose or nitro           cellulose.      cellulose, or its      sequelae.   13. Poisoning by                13. Any process involving the      formaldehyde and its            use of or direct contact      preparations.                   with formaldehyde and its                                      preparations.   14. Chrome ulceration           14. Any process involving the      or its sequelae or              use of or direct contact      chrome poisoning.               with chromic acid or                                      bychromate of ammonium,                                      potassium or sodium, or                                      their preparations.   15. Epitheliomatous cancer      15. Handling or use of tar,      or ulceration of the            pitch, bitumen, mineral      skin or of the corneal          oil, or paraffin or any      surface of the eye,             compound, product or      due to tar, pitch,              residue of any of these      bitumen, mineral oil,           substances.      or paraffin, or any      compound, product or      residue of any of these      substances.   16. Glanders.                   16. Care or handling of any                                      equine animal or the                                      carcass of any such animal.   17. Compressed air              17. Any process carried on      illness or its                  in compressed air.      sequelae.   18. Miners' diseases,           18. Any process involving      including only                  mining.      cellulitis, bursitis,      ankylostomiasis,tenosynovitis and      nystagmus.   19. Cataract in                 19. Processes in the manufacture      glassworkers.                   of glass involving exposure                                      to the glare of molten                                      glass.   20. Radium poisoning or         20. Any process involving the      disability due to               use of or direct contact      radio-active pro-               with radium or radio-active      perties of sub-                 substance or the use of or      stances or to                   direct exposure to Roentgen      Roentgen rays                   rays (X-rays) or ionizing      (X-rays) or exposure            radiation.      to ionizing radiation.   21. Methyl chloride             21. Any process involving the      poisoning.                      use of or direct contact                                      with methyl chloride or its                                      preparations or compounds.   22. Carbon monoxide             22. Any process involving direct      poisoning.                      exposure to carbon monoxide                                      in buildings, sheds or                                      enclosed places.   23. Poisoning by sulphuric,     23. Any process involving the use      hydro-chloric or                of or direct contact with      hydro-fluoric acid.             sulphuric, hydrochloric or                                      hydrofluoric acids or                                      their fumes.   24. Respiratory,                24. Any process involving the      gastro-intestinal               use of or direct contact      or physiological                with petroleum or petroleum      nerve and eye dis-              products and their fumes.      orders due to con-      tact with petroleum      products and their      fumes.   25. Disability arising          25. Any process involving      from blisters or                continuous friction,      abrasions.                      rubbing or vibration                                      causing blisters or                                      abrasions.   26. Disability arising          26. Any process involving      from bursitis or                continuous rubbing, pre-      synovitis.                      sure or vibration of the                                      parts affected.   27. Dermatitis                  27. Any process involving the      (venenata).                     use of or direct contact                                      with acids, alkalies, acids                                      or oil, or with brick,                                      cement, lime, concrete ormortar capable of causing                                      dermatitis (venenata).   28. Byssinosis.                 28. Any process involving                                      exposure to raw cotton.   29. Silicosis or other          29. Any process involving ex-      dust diseases.                  posure to silica or other                                      harmful dust.   30. Any and all                 30. Any and all employments      occupational diseases.          enumerated in subdivision                                      one of section three of                                      this chapter.     Nothing  in paragraph thirty of this subdivision shall be construed to  apply to any disability  or  death  due  to  any  disease  described  in  paragraph twenty-nine of this subdivision.