2013 Idaho Statutes
Title 72 - WORKER'S COMPENSATION AND RELATED LAWS -- INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION
Chapter 7 - PROCEDURES
Section 72-723 - VIOLATION OF SAFETY ORDER A MISDEMEANOR.


ID Code § 72-723 (2013) What's This?

72-723. Violation of safety order a misdemeanor. Every employer, employee or other person who, either individually or acting as an officer, agent or employee of a corporation or other person, violates any decision or order of the commission made after the hearing provided in the foregoing section, or who shall fail or refuse to comply with such order, or part thereof, or who, directly or indirectly, knowingly induces another to do so, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Every such person shall also be liable to a penalty of one dollar ($1.00) for each employee for every day during which such failure continues, to be recovered in an action brought by the commission in the name of the state of Idaho, and the amount so collected shall be paid into the industrial administration fund, and for this purpose the district court in the county in which such employer carries on any part of his trade or occupation shall have jurisdiction.

If any employer shall fail for a period of ten (10) days to comply with such order of the commission, he may be enjoined by such district court from carrying on such trade or occupation while such failure continues.

All proceedings in the courts under this section shall be brought by the commission in the name of the state of Idaho.


History:

[72-723, added I.C., sec. 72-723, as added by 1971, ch. 124, sec. 3, p. 422.]

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