39-72-102. Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise, the following definitions apply:
     (1) "Beneficiary" is as defined in 39-71-116.
     (2) "Child" is as defined in 39-71-116.
     (3) "Department" means the department of labor and industry.
     (4) "Disablement" means the event of becoming physically incapacitated by reason of an occupational disease from performing work in the worker's job pool. Silicosis, when complicated by active pulmonary tuberculosis, is presumed to be total disablement. "Disability", "total disability", and "totally disabled" are synonymous with "disablement", but they have no reference to "permanent partial disability".
     (5) "Employee" is as defined in 39-71-118.
     (6) "Employer" is as defined in 39-71-117.
     (7) "Independent contractor" is as defined in 39-71-120.
     (8) "Insurer" is as defined in 39-71-116.
     (9) "Invalid" is as defined in 39-71-116.
     (10) "Occupational disease" means harm, damage, or death as set forth in 39-71-119(1) arising out of or contracted in the course and scope of employment and caused by events occurring on more than a single day or work shift. The term does not include a physical or mental condition arising from emotional or mental stress or from a nonphysical stimulus or activity.
     (11) "Order" is as defined in 39-71-116.
     (12) "Pneumoconiosis" means a chronic dust disease of the lungs arising out of employment in coal mines and includes anthracosis, coal workers' pneumoconiosis, silicosis, or anthracosilicosis arising out of such employment.
     (13) "Silicosis" means a chronic disease of the lungs caused by the prolonged inhalation of silicon dioxide (SiO2) and characterized by small discrete nodules of fibrous tissue similarly disseminated throughout both lungs, causing the characteristic x-ray pattern, and by other variable clinical manifestations.
     (14) "Wages" is as defined in 39-71-123.
     (15) "Year" is as defined in 39-71-116.

     History: (1) thru (10), (12) thru (17)En. 92-1303.1 by Sec. 1, Ch. 208, L. 1977; Sec. 92-1303.1, R.C.M. 1947; (11)En. Sec. 4, Ch. 155, L. 1959; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 95, L. 1965; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 41, L. 1971; Sec. 92-1304, R.C.M. 1947; R.C.M. 1947, 92-1303.1, 92-1304; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 104, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 85, Ch. 397, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 64, Ch. 464, L. 1987; amd. Sec. 64, Ch. 613, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 8, Ch. 480, L. 1991.