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2017 Arkansas Code
Title 19 - Public Finance
Chapter 10 - Claims Against the State
Subchapter 4 - Workers' Compensation Commission
§ 19-10-402. Jurisdiction and procedure
Universal Citation: AR Code § 19-10-402 (2017)
- (a)
- (1) The Workers' Compensation Commission shall have exclusive jurisdiction, as limited in this subchapter, of all claims against the State of Arkansas and its several agencies, departments, and institutions for personal injuries and deaths of employees and officers of the State of Arkansas and its agencies, departments, and institutions arising out of and in the course of employment or service.
- (2)
- (A) Awards for these injuries and deaths shall be made by the commission in the same amounts and on the same terms and conditions as if such injuries and deaths had arisen out of and in the course of private employment covered by the Workers' Compensation Law, § 11-9-101 et seq.
- (B) The procedure to be followed in the presentation, hearing, and determination of claims shall, in all respects, be the same as in claims for compensation for injuries and deaths arising out of and in the course of private employment covered by the Workers' Compensation Law, § 11-9-101 et seq.
- (b) The General Assembly shall at each session appropriate, from such sources as it may see fit, a sum sufficient to satisfy such claims as are or probably will be payable during the following fiscal year under awards made under this section. The commission shall direct the distributions of this fund and make disbursements upon the vouchers issued against it.
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