When personal injury is caused to an employee by accident or occupational disease, arising out of and in the course of his or her employment, such employee shall receive compensation therefor from...

In all cases brought under sections 48-101 to 48-108, it shall not be a defense (a) that the employee was negligent, unless it shall also appear that such negligence was willful, or that the...

If an employer, as defined in section 48-106, does not carry a policy of workers' compensation insurance nor qualify as a self-insurer or, in the case of an employer who is a lessor of one or more...

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The provisions of sections 48-101 to 48-103 shall apply to any claim for the death of an employee arising under sections 30-809 and 30-810 concerning death by wrongful act. ...

(1) The Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act shall apply to the State of Nebraska and every governmental agency created by it, and to every employer in this state, including nonresident employers...

In all actions at law brought pursuant to sections 48-101 to 48-108 the burden of proof to establish willful negligence of the injured employee shall be on the defendant. ...

No claim or agreement for legal services or disbursements in support of any demand made or suit brought under the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act shall be an enforceable lien against the...

If both employer and employee become subject to the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act, both shall be bound by the schedule of compensation provided in such act, which compensation shall be paid...

When employer and employee shall by agreement, express or implied, or otherwise as provided in section 48-112 accept the provisions of the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act, compensation shall be...

Such agreement or the election provided for in section 48-112 shall be a surrender by the parties thereto of their rights to any other method, form, or amount of compensation or determination...

In the occupations described in section 48-106, all contracts of employment shall be presumed to have been made with reference and subject to the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act. Every such...

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The following shall constitute employers subject to the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act: (1) the state and every governmental agency created by it; and (2) every person, firm, or corporation,...

Sections 48-115, 48-115.01, and 48-146 shall be so construed as to effectuate their general purpose to extend workers' compensation coverage to additional employees and officers as soon as the...

An employer who is a lessor of one or more commercial motor vehicles leased to a self-insured motor carrier, may agree with the self-insured motor carrier that benefits under the Nebraska Workers'...

Any person, firm, or corporation creating or carrying into operation any scheme, artifice, or device to enable him or her, them, or it to execute work without being responsible to the workers for...

When compensation is claimed from or proceedings taken against a person, firm, or corporation under section 48-116, the compensation shall be calculated with reference to the wage the worker was...

No compensation shall be allowed for the first seven calendar days of disability, except as provided in section 48-120, but if disability extends beyond the period of seven calendar days,...

As used in section 48-120, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Plastic surgery shall mean that branch of surgery concerned with the repair or restoration of lost, injured, or deformed...

(1) (a) (i) Commencing July 1, 1991, the maximum weekly income benefit under sections 48-121 and 48-122 shall be two hundred sixty-five dollars. (ii) Commencing June 1, 1994, the maximum...

For purposes of section 48-121.01, the state average weekly wage shall be determined by the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court as follows: On or before October 1 of each year, the total insured...

(1) If death results from injuries and the deceased employee leaves one or more dependents dependent upon his or her earnings for support at the time of injury, the compensation, subject to...

Compensation under section 48-122 shall be payable in the amount and to the following persons subject to the maximum limits specified in sections 48-122 and 48-122.03: (1) If there is a widow...

Upon the cessation of income benefits under section 48-122.01 to or on account of any person, the income benefits of the remaining persons entitled to income benefits for the unexpired part of the...

The maximum weekly income benefits payable for all beneficiaries in case of death shall not exceed seventy-five percent of the average weekly wage of the deceased, subject to the maximum limits in...

The death of an injured employee prior to the expiration of the period within which he or she would receive such disability payment shall be deemed to end such disability, and all liability for...

The following persons shall be conclusively presumed to be dependent for support upon a deceased employee: (1) A wife upon a husband with whom she is living or upon whom she is actually dependent...

(1) Except as hereinafter provided, all amounts of compensation payable under the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act shall be payable periodically in accordance with the methods of payment of...

Any employer who knowingly transfers, sells, encumbers, assigns, or in any manner disposes of, conceals, secretes, or destroys any property or records belonging to such employer, after one of his...

Wherever in the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act the term wages is used, it shall be construed to mean the money rate at which the service rendered is recompensed under the contract of hiring in...

In determining the compensation to be paid any member of the military forces of this state, any member of a law enforcement reserve force, any member of a volunteer fire department in any rural or...

If the employee is injured by reason of his or her intentional willful negligence, or by reason of being in a state of intoxication, neither he or she nor his or her beneficiaries shall receive...

(1) For injuries occurring before December 1, 1997: (a) If an employee who has a preexisting permanent partial disability whether from compensable injury or otherwise, which is or is likely to...

In case any employee for whose injury or death compensation is payable under the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act shall, at the time of the injury, be employed and paid jointly by two or more...

No savings or insurance of the injured employee or any contribution made by him or her to any benefit fund or protective association independent of the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act shall be...

No agreement by an employee to waive his or her rights to compensation under the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act shall be valid. ...

If an injured employee or a dependent is mentally incompetent or is a minor at the time when any right or privilege accrues to him or her under the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act, his or her...

No proceedings for compensation for an injury under the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act shall be maintained unless a notice of the injury shall have been given to the employer as soon as...

After an employee has given notice of an injury, as provided in section 48-133, and from time to time thereafter during the continuance of his or her disability, he or she shall, if so requested...

(1) The Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court may develop and implement an independent medical examiner system consistent with the requirements of this section. As part of such system, the...

Except as provided in section 23-1824, in all death claims, where the cause of death is obscure or disputed, any interested party may require an autopsy, the cost of such autopsy to be borne by...

The interested parties shall have the right to settle all matters of compensation between themselves with the consent of the insurance carrier, if any, and in accordance with the Nebraska Workers'...

In case of personal injury, all claims for compensation shall be forever barred unless, within two years after the accident, the parties shall have agreed upon the compensation payable under the...

The amounts of compensation payable periodically under the law by agreement of the parties with the approval of the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court may be commuted to one or more lump-sum...

Whenever an injured employee or his or her dependents and the employer agree that the amounts of compensation due as periodic payments for death, permanent disability, or claimed permanent...

All settlements by agreement of the parties with the approval of the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court and all awards of compensation made by the compensation court, except those amounts...

All amounts paid by an employer or by an insurance company carrying such risk, as the case may be, and received by the employee or his or her dependents by lump-sum payments, approved by order...

At any time after the amount of any award has been agreed upon by the parties and approved by the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court, a sum equal to the present value of all future installments...

In case of death, where no executor or administrator is qualified, the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court shall, by order, direct payment to be made to such person as would be appointed...

Reports of accidents and settlements shall be made in form and manner as prescribed and directed by the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court. Such reports, if filed by an insurance company on...

In every case of reportable injury occurring in the course of employment, the employer or insurance carrier shall file a report thereof with the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court. Such report...

(1) Whenever any insurance carrier shall write a policy of workers' compensation insurance under the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act, such carrier shall file a report showing the name and...

(1) (a) If an insurer intends to cancel a contract or policy of insurance issued by the insurer under the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act within the contract or policy period, the insurer shall...

Any employer, risk management pool, or insurance carrier who fails, neglects, or refuses to file any report required of him or her by the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court shall be guilty of a...

To secure the payment of compensation under the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act: (1) Every employer in the occupations described in section 48-106, except the State of Nebraska and any...

(1) Any employer required to secure the payment of compensation under the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act who willfully fails to secure the payment of such compensation shall be guilty of a...

Every employer shall upon request of the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court report to it the number of his or her employees and the nature of their work and also the name of the insurance...

Sections 48-125.01, 48-145.01, and 48-145.02 shall not affect any other liability of the employer under the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act. ...

(1) The Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court shall, prior to January 1 of each year, estimate as closely as possible the actual cost to the court of evaluating an application for self-insurance...

(1) No policy of insurance against liability arising under the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act shall be issued and no agreement pursuant to section 44-4304 providing group self-insurance...

(1) For purposes of this section: (a) Assigned risk employer means a Nebraska employer that is in good faith entitled to, but is unable to obtain, workers' compensation insurance through...

(1) Each workers' compensation insurance policy issued by an insurer pursuant to the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act: (a) Shall offer, at the option of the insured employer, a deductible for...

Nothing in the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act shall affect any existing contract for employers liability insurance, or affect the organization of any mutual or other insurance company, or any...

If any employee, or his or her dependents in case of death, of any employer subject to the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act files any claim with, or accepts any payment from such employer, or...

No proceeds or interest thereon from payments or lump-sum settlements under the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act or law of another state which provides compensation and benefits for employees...

The right to compensation and all compensation awarded any injured employee or for death claims to his or her dependents in any amount shall have the same preference against the assets of the...

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Recognizing that (1) industrial relations between employers and employees within the State of Nebraska are affected with a vital public interest, (2) an impartial and efficient administration of...

The members of the judicial nominating commission for the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court shall be selected on a statewide basis as provided in section 24-803. ...

The Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court shall consist of seven judges. Judges holding office on August 30, 1981, shall continue in office until expiration of their respective terms of office and...

No person shall be eligible for the office of judge of the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court unless he or she: (1) Is at least thirty years of age; (2) Is a citizen of the United States;...

Any judge of the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court may be removed in the same manner and for the same causes as a judge of the district court may be removed. ...

The judges of the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court shall, on July 1 of every odd-numbered year by a majority vote, select one of their number as presiding judge for the next two years. The...

When any judge of the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court shall be disqualified from acting in any case or matter before him or her, is temporarily absent from the state, or shall be temporarily...

A majority of the judges of the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court shall constitute a quorum to adopt rules and regulations, as provided in sections 48-163 and 48-164, to transact business,...

The presiding judge of the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court shall appoint a clerk of the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court, who shall hold office at the pleasure of the compensation court....

Each of the judges of the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court, and the clerk thereof, shall, before entering upon or discharging any of the duties of his or her office, be bonded under the...

(1) As soon as the same may be legally paid under the Constitution of Nebraska, each judge of the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court shall receive an annual salary of ninety-two and one-half...

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Section 48-159 shall be so interpreted as to effectuate its general purpose, to provide, in the public interest, adequate compensation as therein provided for judges of the Nebraska Workers'...

The Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court shall have a seal for the authentication of its orders, awards, judgments, summons, subpoenas, and other writs. The seal may be either an engraved or ink...

All disputed claims for workers' compensation shall be submitted to the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court for a finding, award, order, or judgment. Such compensation court shall have...

The Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court, or any judge thereof, is authorized and empowered to examine under oath or otherwise any person, employee, employer, agent, superintendent, foreman, or...

(1) The Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court or any judge thereof may rule upon any motion addressed to the court by any party to a suit or proceeding, including, but not limited to, motions for...

(1) The Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court, by a majority vote of the judges thereof, may adopt and promulgate all reasonable rules and regulations necessary for carrying out the intent and...

The Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court shall regulate and provide the kind and character of notices and the services thereof and, in case of an injury by accident to an employee, the nature and...

The Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court shall prepare and furnish to employees, employers, and to insurance companies licensed to write compensation insurance in this state, blank forms of...

On or before January 1 of each year, the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court shall issue an annual report for the past fiscal year which shall include (1) pertinent information regarding...

The Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court shall keep and maintain, in its office at the State Capitol, full and true record of all proceedings, documents, or papers ordered filed, rules and...

(1) The Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court shall not be bound by the usual common-law or statutory rules of evidence or by any technical or formal rules of procedure, other than as herein...

A transcribed copy of the evidence and proceedings, or any specific part thereof, of any investigation taken by a stenographer for the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court or by a court reporter...

Every order and award of a single judge of the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court shall be binding upon each party at interest unless an application for review has been filed with the...

Except as otherwise provided in sections 48-192 to 48-1,109, the words order, award, and judgment, as used in the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act, are used interchangeably and are deemed to...

Except as provided in sections 48-138 and 48-139, there shall be no filing fees charged by the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court. When a reasonable attorney's fee is allowed the employee...

Procedure before the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court shall be as follows: In all cases involving a dispute with reference to workers' compensation, either party at interest, without cost,...

Upon the filing of such petition a summons shall issue and be served upon the adverse party, as in civil causes, together with a copy of the petition. Return of service shall be made within seven...

(1) Whenever the post office address of the defendant is known or may be ascertained by the officer or person charged with the duty of serving the same, such summons may be served by such officer...

(1) The performance of work in the State of Nebraska (a) by an employer, who is a nonresident of the State of Nebraska, (b) by any resident employer who becomes a nonresident of this state after...

Within seven days after the return day of such summons the party at interest upon whom the same is served shall file an answer to such petition, which shall admit or deny the substantial averments...

At the time a petition or motion is filed, one of the judges of the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court shall be assigned to hear the cause. It shall be heard in the county in which the accident...

The judge shall make such findings and orders, awards, or judgments as the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court or judge is authorized by law to make. Such findings, orders, awards, and judgments...

Whenever any petition is filed and the claimant's right to compensation is not in issue, but the issue of liability is raised as between an employer, a carrier, or a risk management pool or...

Either party at interest who refuses to accept the final findings, order, award, or judgment of the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court on the original hearing may, within fourteen days after the...

The Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court may, on its own motion, modify or change its findings, order, award, or judgment at any time before appeal and within ten days from the date of such...

Applications for rehearing pending in the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court on July 15, 1992, and cases in which a hearing has been held prior to such date but in which no award has been issued...

In case either party at interest refuses to accept any final order of the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court on original hearing, such party may, within fourteen days thereafter, file with the...

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Any appeal from the judgment of the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court after review shall be prosecuted and the procedure, including the designation of parties, handling of costs and the amounts...

In all cases when the accident occurred outside of the State of Nebraska, the hearing before a judge of the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court shall be at Lincoln, Nebraska, or in any other...

No filing fees shall be charged by the clerk of any court for any service required by the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act except as provided in sections 48-138, 48-139, and 48-188. ...

Any order, award, or judgment by the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court, or any judge thereof, certified to by the clerk of the compensation court, or by the Court of Appeals or Supreme Court,...

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The state and governmental agencies created by the state may be sued in the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court upon claims for compensation benefits under the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act...

Notwithstanding any more general or special law respecting the subject matter hereof, whenever the last day of the period within which a party to an action may file any paper or pleading with the...

The Legislature declares that it is its intent and purpose through sections 48-192 to 48-1,109 to provide uniform procedures for the bringing of workers' compensation claims against the state, and...

For purposes of sections 48-192 to 48-1,109, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) State agency shall include all departments, agencies, boards, courts, bureaus, and commissions of the...

The Risk Manager, on behalf of the State Claims Board and with the advice of the Attorney General, shall have the authority to pay claims of all workers' compensation benefits when liability is...

The State Claims Board shall, pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, adopt and promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary to carry out sections 48-192 to 48-1,109. ...

The State Claims Board may delegate to a state agency the handling of workers' compensation claims of employees of that agency, under the supervision and direction of the Attorney General. ...

All claims under sections 48-192 to 48-1,109 shall be filed with the Risk Manager. The Risk Manager shall immediately advise the Attorney General of the filing of any claim. It shall be the duty...

Suits shall be brought in the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court as set out in the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act, and the compensation court shall in each case designate and allow the...

In all suits brought under sections 48-192 to 48-1,109, the state shall be liable in the same manner and to the same extent as a private individual under like circumstances, except that no writ of...

The Attorney General shall represent the state in any suit brought under sections 48-192 to 48-1,109, and is authorized to compromise or settle any such suit, with the approval of the Nebraska...

The Attorney General may authorize the deputy attorney general in charge of the Claims Division of the Department of Justice to perform any of the duties imposed upon the Attorney General by...

Any award to a claimant and any judgment in favor of a claimant under sections 48-192 to 48-1,109 shall be certified by the Attorney General to the Director of Administrative Services, who shall...

There is hereby established in the state treasury a Workers' Compensation Claims Revolving Fund, to be administered by the Risk Manager, from which all workers' compensation costs, including...

The Risk Manager shall make a report to the Clerk of the Legislature by January 15 of each year, which report shall include the number of claims for which payments have been made, the amounts paid...

From and after August 27, 1971, the authority of any state agency to sue or be sued in its own name shall not be construed to authorize suits against such state agency on workers' compensation...

Nothing in sections 48-192 to 48-1,109 shall be deemed to repeal any provision of law authorizing any state agency to consider, ascertain, adjust, compromise, settle, determine, allow, or pay any...

The Risk Manager may, if after proper investigation he or she deems it to be in the best interests of the state, purchase a policy or policies of insurance for investigation, servicing, and...

Whenever a claim or suit against the state is covered by workers' compensation insurance, the provisions of the insurance policy on defense and settlement shall be applicable notwithstanding any...

(1) Sections 48-101 to 48-1,117 shall be known and may be cited as the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act. (2) It is the intent of the Legislature that the changes made in Laws 1986, LB 811, shall...

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Every insurance company which is transacting workers' compensation insurance business in this state shall on or before March 1 of each year pay to the Director of Insurance an amount equal to one...

Every employer in the occupations described in section 48-106 who qualifies as a self-insurer and is issued a permit to self-insure shall remit to the State Treasurer for credit to the...

The amounts required to be paid by insurance companies, risk management pools, and self-insurers under sections 48-1,113 and 48-1,114 shall be in addition to any other amounts, either in taxes,...

The Compensation Court Cash Fund is hereby created. The fund shall be used to aid in providing for the expense of administering the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act and the payment of the...

The Department of Administrative Services shall furnish monthly to the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court a statement of the Compensation Court Cash Fund setting forth the balance in the fund as...

On January 1, 1997, the Governor shall direct the Director of Insurance and the Commissioner of Labor to conduct and complete a cost-benefit analysis and a review of the effectiveness of the...

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Whenever any employee of any public service corporation, or of a contractor who works for such corporation, or contractor doing business in the State of Nebraska, shall be discharged or...

Such letter shall be written in its entirety upon a plain sheet of white paper to be selected by such employee. No printed blank shall be used, and if such letter be written on a typewriter, it...

If any superintendent, manager or contractor shall fail or refuse to issue such letter to such employee upon request, or willfully fail or negligently refuse to give such letter, or fail to state...

Any person, firm, or corporation owning or operating an assembling plant, workshop, or mechanical establishment employing one or more persons, shall allow all of their employees not less than...

Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of section 48-212 shall be guilty of a Class III misdemeanor. ...

It is hereby declared to be the policy of this state that no representative agency of labor, in collective bargaining with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay,...

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, engaged to any extent whatsoever in the State of Nebraska in the production, manufacture or distribution of military or naval material,...

Any person, firm or corporation, violating any of the provisions of section 48-215, shall be guilty of a Class III misdemeanor. Each violation of section 48-215 shall be a separate offense. ...

To make operative the provisions of sections 13, 14 and 15 of Article XV of the Constitution of Nebraska, no person shall be denied employment because of membership in or affiliation with, or...

The term labor organization means any organization of any kind, or any agency or employee representation committee or plan, which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with...

Any individual, corporation or association that enters into a contract after September 7, 1947, in violation of the provisions of section 48-217, shall be guilty of a Class IV misdemeanor. ...

As used in sections 48-220 to 48-223, unless the context otherwise requires, employer shall mean and include an individual, a partnership, a limited liability company, an association, a...

It shall be unlawful for any employer, as defined in section 48-220, to require any applicant for employment, to pay the cost of a medical examination required by the employer as a condition of...

Any employer who violates the provisions of section 48-221 shall be guilty of a Class V misdemeanor. Each violation shall constitute a separate offense. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of...

The provisions of sections 48-220 to 48-223 shall not apply to any employment relationship entered into by the state or any subdivision of the state when a physical examination is required by law...

(1) Any employee of the State of Nebraska, any municipal corporation, or any public body or agency created by the laws of this state, who desires to participate voluntarily in any employee...

As used in sections 48-225 to 48-231, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Veteran means any person who served full-time duty with military pay and allowances in the armed forces of the...

A preference shall be given to preference eligibles seeking employment with the State of Nebraska or its governmental subdivisions. ...

Veterans who obtain passing scores on all parts or phases of an examination shall have five points added to their passing score if a claim for such points is made on the application. An additional...

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It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Labor to enforce the provisions of sections 48-225 to 48-231. The commissioner shall act on preference claims as follows: (1) When the employing...

Any person who violates sections 48-225 to 48-231 shall be guilty of a Class IV misdemeanor. Such person shall be prohibited from receiving any compensation from public funds until he or she...

The county attorneys, in their respective counties, shall prosecute, before any court of appropriate jurisdiction, all persons charged with violating sections 48-225 to 48-231. ...

For purposes of section 48-233: (1) Anabolic steroid shall have the definition found in section 28-401; (2) Employee shall mean any person, paid or unpaid, who in any way assists an entity...

(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, whenever an employer, including a governmental agency, permits an employee to take a leave of absence upon the birth of the employee's...

A state agency or political subdivision shall not directly require a law enforcement officer employed by the state agency or political subdivision to issue a certain number or percentage of...

For purposes of sections 48-302 to 48-313: (1) Employment means (a) service for wages or (b) being under a contract of hire, written or oral, express or implied. Employment, other than...

No child under sixteen years of age shall be employed or permitted or suffered to work in any employment as defined in section 48-301 within this state unless the person or corporation employing...

Section 48-302 shall not be construed to apply to the employment of any child solely as a caddy on any golf course or place where golf is played. ...

Section 48-302 shall not apply to a parent or a person standing in loco parentis who employs and directly supervises his or her own child or a child in his or her custody in a business owned and...

(1) A child under the age of twelve shall not be employed in detasseling. (2) A child who is at least twelve years but less than sixteen years of age may be employed in detasseling if: (a) The...

(1) An employer who employs a child under sixteen years of age in detasseling shall provide at least two supervisors who are eighteen years of age or older at each location where detasseling is...

Except as otherwise provided in this section, an employment certificate shall be approved only by the superintendent of the primary high school district in which the child resides or by a person...

The person authorized to issue an employment certificate under section 48-303 shall not issue such certificate until he or she has received, examined, approved, and filed the following papers duly...

Such certificate shall state the date and place of birth of such child and describe the color of the hair and eyes, the height and weight and any distinguishing facial marks of such child, and...

The school record shall be signed by the teacher and principal of the school which such child has attended and shall be furnished on demand to a child entitled thereto. It shall contain a...

The superintendent of public schools in all cities and towns having a population of more than one thousand according to the last official census and the presiding officer of all other school...

Regular attendance of a child at any public evening school, maintained in any city or village when instruction is given not less than twenty weeks each year, three evenings each week, and two...

The age and schooling certificate provided for herein shall be made out upon blank forms prescribed and furnished in triplicate by the Department of Labor. ...

When the Department of Labor finds it to be in the best interests of the child, the Department of Labor may issue a special permit waiving any requirement or restriction imposed on employment of a...

The fees established by the Commissioner of Labor pursuant to sections 48-310 and 48-310.01 shall be established with due regard for the costs of administering sections 48-310 and 48-310.01. The...

Whoever employs a child under sixteen years of age and whoever, having under his or her control a child under such age, causes or permits such child to be employed in violation of sections 48-302...

No child under the age of sixteen years shall be employed in any work which by reason of the nature of the work or place of performance is dangerous to life or limb or in which his or her health...

Every factory, mill, workshop, mercantile or mechanical establishment or other building, where one or more persons are employed, shall be provided within reasonable access, with a sufficient...

In factories, mills, workshops, mercantile or mechanical establishments, or other places where the labor performed by the operator is of such a character that it becomes necessary to change the...

If in any of the aforesaid places any process is carried on by which dust or fumes are caused, which may be inhaled by the persons employed therein, or if the air shall become exhausted or impure,...

All of the aforesaid places shall be kept clean and free from effluvia arising from any drain, privy or nuisance, and shall be ventilated and kept in a sanitary condition. The Department of Labor...

All persons, companies or corporations operating any factory or workshop where grinding wheels, or grinding machines, emery wheels or emery belts of any description are used, whether solid emery,...

No emery wheels or grindstones in any factory, mill or workshop, shall be used when known to the person using the same to be cracked or otherwise defective, nor operated at a greater speed than...

Every such wheel six inches or less in diameter shall be provided with a three-inch suction pipe; wheels six inches to twenty-four inches in diameter, with a four-inch suction pipe; wheels from...

A metal or other suitable screen shall be placed around each laundry extractor or other exposed high-speed revolving machinery. ...

Wood planers, wood shapers, swing saws, equalizing saws, circular heading jointers, wood polishers, buzz planers, lathe bolters, and all similar machinery, shall be equipped with requisite safety...

(1) The Commissioner of Labor shall, from time to time, create advisory committees composed of employers, employees, and such other persons as the commissioner may designate, to advise him in...

It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Labor to make or cause to be made periodic inspections of all places of employment for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of such safety codes as...

Any person in interest, or his duly authorized agent, may file a petition with the Commissioner of Labor for a review of the validity or reasonableness of any code, order, rule or standard made...

Any person in interest who is dissatisfied with the decision of the Commissioner of Labor may appeal the decision, and the decision shall be in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act. ...

Signs or indicating lamps shall be placed at all switches in electric light and power plants or other places where high-pressure currents are used, to show whether the current is on or off the...

The Commissioner of Labor shall, on or before the first day of July 1965, appoint a state elevator inspector, subject to the approval of the Governor, who shall work under the direct supervision...

It shall be the duty of the state elevator inspector to inspect or cause to be inspected all freight and passenger elevators in this state at least once every twelve months in order to determine...

The Commissioner of Labor and the state elevator inspector shall have the right and power to enter any building or structure, public or private, for the purpose of inspecting any equipment covered...

Upon making an inspection of any equipment covered by sections 48-418 to 48-418.12 and receipt of the inspection fee, the inspector shall give to the owner or user thereof a certificate of...

The provisions of sections 48-418 to 48-418.12 shall not apply to (1) elevators under the jurisdiction and subject to inspection by the United States Government, (2) elevators used exclusively for...

The state elevator inspector shall investigate and report to the commissioner the cause of any elevator accident that may occur in the state, the loss of life, the injuries sustained, and such...

The state elevator inspector shall maintain a complete and accurate record of the name of the owner or user of each elevator and equipment subject to sections 48-418 to 48-418.12 and a full...

The inspections required by sections 48-418 to 48-418.12 shall not be made when any owner or user of any equipment obtains an inspection by a representative of a reputable insurance company...

The state elevator inspector shall notify the user in writing of any equipment found to be unsafe or unfit for operation setting forth the nature and extent of any defect or other unsafe...

(1) The Commissioner of Labor may charge a reasonable fee for each elevator inspection. The commissioner shall establish the fees at a level necessary to meet the costs of the elevator inspection...

The Elevator Inspection Fund is hereby created. The Commissioner of Labor shall use the fund for the administration of the elevator inspection program pursuant to sections 48-418 to 48-418.14. The...

Any person, persons, corporations and the directors, managers, superintendents and officers of such corporations violating any of the provisions of sections 48-418 to 48-418.12, shall be guilty of...

The Commissioner of Labor shall adopt and promulgate rules and regulations to establish safety requirements for elevators used in this state. A safety code may be adopted as a rule and regulation...

For purposes of sections 48-418 to 48-418.12, unless the context otherwise requires, elevator shall include (1) any hoisting or lowering mechanism equipped with a car or platform which moves in...

Where a number of boilers deliver to a common steam main, they shall be equipped with a shutoff or throttle valve for each boiler to take it out of service for repairs and inspection necessitating...

Every factory or other institution, more than two stories in height, shall be equipped with outside fireproof iron stairways, chutes or toboggans, and one automatic fire escape for every fifteen...

Every person operating a plant where machinery is used, shall report in writing to the Department of Labor all fatal accidents within forty-eight hours after their occurrence, and all other...

Every person operating a plant where machinery is used who shall violate any of the provisions of sections 48-401 to 48-424 shall be liable in damages to any person injured, as a result thereof,...

The continuance by any person in the employ of any such operator shall not be deemed an assumption of the risks of such employment. ...

Every person who shall violate any of the provisions of sections 48-401 to 48-423 shall be guilty of a Class II misdemeanor. ...

All scaffolds, hoists, cranes, stays, ladders, supports or other mechanical contrivances used in the erection, repairing, alteration, removal or painting of any house, building, bridge, viaduct or...

If in any house, building or structure in process of erection or construction, except a private barn, or a private house, the distance between the enclosed walls is more than twenty-four feet in...

The owner of every house, building or structure, except a private barn or a private house, shall affix and display conspicuously on each floor of such building during construction, a placard,...

Whenever it shall come to the notice of the Department of Labor or the local authority in any city or village of this state, charged with the duty of enforcing the building laws, that the...

All contractors and owners, when constructing buildings where the plans and specifications require the floors to be arched between the beams thereof, or where the floors or filling in between the...

If elevating machines or hoisting apparatus are used within a building in the course of construction for the purpose of lifting materials to be used in such construction, the contractors or owners...

If elevating machines or hoisting apparatus, operated or controlled by other than hand power, are used in the construction, alteration or removal of any building or other structure, a complete and...

All architects or draftsmen in preparing plans, specifications or drawings to be used in the erection, repairing, altering or removing of any building or structure within the terms and provisions...

(1) Any person violating any of the provisions of sections 48-425 to 48-432 shall be guilty of a Class II misdemeanor. (2) All prosecutions for offenses relating to health and safety laws and...

The continuance by any person in the employ of any such operator shall not be deemed an assumption of the risk of such employment. ...

As used in sections 48-436 to 48-442, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) High voltage shall mean a voltage in excess of seven hundred fifty volts, measured between conductors, or...

No person, firm, or corporation, or agent of the same, shall require or permit any employee, except an authorized and qualified person, to perform and no person, except an authorized and qualified...

(1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3) of this section, the operation or erection of any tools, machinery or equipment, or any part thereof capable of vertical, lateral or swinging...

The owner, agent or employer responsible for the operation of equipment shall post and maintain in plain view of the operator on each crane, derrick, driver, or similar apparatus, any part of...

Before any operations are to be performed within ten feet of any overhead high voltage conductors, or whenever any equipment in transit as described in subsection (2) of section 48-438 can come...

Nothing in sections 48-436 to 48-442 shall apply to any authorized or qualified person as defined in section 48-436 or the owner, agent, or employer of such persons in the performance of work or...

Any person, firm, or corporation, or any employee thereof violating any provisions of sections 48-436 to 48-442 shall be guilty of a Class V misdemeanor. Each day's failure to comply with any of...

(1) Not later than January 1, 1994, every public and private employer subject to the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Act shall establish a safety committee. Such committee shall adopt and maintain...

If the Commissioner of Labor finds, after notice and hearing, that an employer has failed to establish a safety committee pursuant to section 48-443 within fifteen days after notification by the...

The Commissioner of Labor shall adopt and promulgate rules and regulations to carry out s