27-13-103.

27-13-103.

27-13-102. Powers and duties; rules and regulations.

(a) The division shall, in conjunction with the department of education, the business council, the department of workforce services, the workforce development council, the University of Wyoming and the community college commission, establish and maintain a plan to implement the occupational transfer and retraining programs and services for displaced workers created under this act. The plan shall designate:

(i) Responsibilities of state agencies in administering this act;

(ii) Procedures for coordination between the state and local agencies and existing employment, training, education and other occupationally related activities and resources in the state;

(iii) Procedures to encourage involvement on the part of labor, management, local government and local education and training agencies in the establishment, operation and ongoing direction of programs to assist displaced workers.

(b) The division shall:

(i) Identify statutes, rules and regulations which inhibit the implementation of programs under this act; and

(ii) Recommend modifications to or waivers of statutes, rules and regulations to permit design of cost-effective programs under this act;

(iii) Repealed By Laws 2014, Ch. 7, § 3.

(c) The director may enter into contracts and agreements with local education or training agencies to implement this act.  (d) The governor, in consultation with the director, may promulgate reasonable rules and regulations to implement this act.

27-13-103. Programs; funding.

(a) Programs established under this act shall be funded to the maximum extent feasible through existing federal, state and local resources, both public and private. The plan required under W.S. 27-13-102(a) shall include an estimate of funds available from sources other than from the state.

(b) The division may, to the extent funded by the legislature, establish and maintain programs under this act.

CHAPTER 14 - WORKER'S COMPENSATION

ARTICLE 1 - GENERALLY

27-14-101. Short title; statement of intent.

(a) This act may be cited as the "Wyoming Worker's Compensation Act".

(b) It is the intent of the legislature in creating the Wyoming worker's compensation division that the laws administered by it to provide a worker's benefit system be interpreted to assure the quick and efficient delivery of indemnity and medical benefits to injured and disabled workers at a reasonable cost to the employers who are subject to the Worker's Compensation Act. It is the specific intent of the legislature that benefit claims cases be decided on their merits and that the common law rule of "liberal construction" based on the supposed "remedial" basis of workers' benefits legislation shall not apply in these cases. The worker's benefit system in Wyoming is based on a mutual renunciation of common law rights and defenses by employers and employees alike. Accordingly, the legislature declares that the Worker's Compensation Act is not remedial in any sense and is not to be given a broad liberal construction in favor of any party.

27-14-102. Definitions.

(a) As used in this act:

(i) "Artificial replacement" means the addition of an artificial part to the human body which replaces a part lost, damaged or in need of correction, excluding any personal item, artificial heart, automobile or the remodeling of an automobile or other physical structure or any item of furniture except as provided by rule and regulation of the division. If a wheelchair is approved by the division for use during impairment or disability, "artificial replacement" may include necessary cost effective physical structures such as ramps, automobile devices or remodeling, bars and rails, and other necessary equipment or devices aiding the body during impairment or disability, subject to the following criteria:

(A) A physical structure for which artificial replacement is claimed shall be the primary residence of the claimant;

(B) Only one (1) automobile at a time shall be eligible for devices or remodeling under this paragraph.

(ii) "Ascertainable loss" means that point in time in which it is apparent that permanent physical impairment has resulted from a compensable injury, the extent of the physical impairment due to the injury can be determined and the physical impairment will not substantially improve or deteriorate because of the injury;

(iii) "Child" means any unmarried minor or physically or mentally incapacitated individual receiving court ordered support or substantially all of his financial support from the employee at the time of injury or death of the employee and includes an adopted child, stepchild, posthumous child or acknowledged illegitimate child but does not include a parent or spouse of the employee;

(iv) "Delinquent payment" means any payment required of an employer under this act which is not paid within thirty (30) days after the date due as specified by this act;

(v) "Administrator" means the administrator of the division;

(vi) "Division" means the worker's compensation division within the department of workforce services;

(vii) "Employee" means any person engaged in any extra hazardous employment under any appointment, contract of hire or apprenticeship, express or implied, oral or written, and includes student learners engaged in any extra hazardous employment, legally employed minors, aliens authorized to work by the United States department of justice, office of citizenship and immigration services, and aliens whom the employer reasonably believes, at the date of hire and the date of injury based upon documentation in the employer's possession, to be authorized to work by the United States department of justice, office of citizenship and immigration services. "Employee" does not include:

(A) Any individual whose employment is determined to be casual labor;

(B) A sole proprietor or a partner of a business partnership unless coverage is elected pursuant to W.S.