2005 West Virginia Code - §23-2-11. — Partial invalidity of chapter.

§23-2-11. Partial invalidity of chapter.
If any employer is adjudicated to be outside the lawful scope of this chapter, the chapter shall not apply to him or her or his or her employee; or if any employee is adjudicated to be outside the lawful scope of this chapter, because of remoteness of his or her work from the hazard of his or her employer's work, the adjudication shall not impair the validity of this chapter in other respects and in every case an accounting in accordance with the justice of the case shall be had of moneys received. If the provisions of this chapter for the creation of the workers' compensation fund, or the provisions of this chapter making the compensation to the employee provided in it exclusive of any other remedy on the part of the employee, is held invalid, the entire chapter shall be invalidated and an accounting according to the justice of the case shall be had of money received. In other respects an adjudication of invalidity of any part of this chapter shall not affect the validity of the chapter as a whole or any part of this chapter.