Section 3. Application  


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  • 1. Hazardous employments.   Compensation shall be
      payable for injuries or death incurred by  employees  in  the  following
      employments:
     
      Group 1. Canning of:
      Fish
      Foodstuffs
      Fruit
      Vegetables
     
      Group 2. Care of:
      Buildings
      Grounds
      Trees
     
      Group 3.  Construction of:
      Bridges
      Buildings
      Car shops
      Conduits
      Curbs
      Dams
      Dynamos
      Electric light and power lines or appliances
      Electric railways
      Highways
      Incline railways
      Machine shops
      Manufacturing plants
      Power plants
      Railways
      Sewers
      Sidewalks
      Steam plants
      Steam railways
      Steel bridges and buildings
      Street railways
      Structures of all kinds
      Subaqueous works
      Subways
      Telegraph lines
      Telephone lines
     
      Group 4.  Installation of:
      Boilers
      Dynamos
      Electric light and power
        lines or appliances
      Elevators
      Engines, stationary
      Fire escapes
      Heating apparatus
      Lighting apparatus
      Machinery, heavy
      Pipes
      Telephones
     
        Group 5.  Laying of:
    
      Cables
      Floor coverings
      Pipes
      Tiles
      Wires
     
      Group 6.  Manufacture of:
      Acids
      Adding machines
      Aeroplanes
      Agricultural implements
      Aircraft
      Alcohol
      Ammonia
      Ammunition
      Anchors
      Artificial ice or stone
      Asbestos
      Asphalt
      Asphalted paper
      Automobiles
      Baby carriages, toy
      Bags, cloth and paper
      Barrels
      Baskets
      Beds
      Bedsprings
      Belting
      Bicycles
      Biscuits
      Blacking or polish for shoes
      Blankets
      Boats, small
      Boilers
      Bolts
      Bone articles
      Boots
      Boxes
      Brick
      Brooms
      Brushes
      Butter
      Buttons
      Cables
      Calcium carbide
      Cameras and supplies
      Candles
      Candy
      Canoes
      Canvas
      Caps
      Cardboard boxes
      Carpets
      Carpet sweepers
      Carriage mountings
      Carriages
      Cash registers
      Castings
    
      Cattle foods
      Celluloid
      Cement
      Cereals
      Charcoal
      Cheese
      Cheese boxes
      Chemical preparations, noncorosive
      Chemicals
      Cigarettes
      Cigars
      Cloth
      Clothing
      Coffins
      Collars
      Color
      Concrete blocks
      Condiments
      Confectionery
      Cordage
      Corrosive acids or salts
      Corrugated paper boxes
      Corsets
      Crackers
      Cutlery
      Dairy products
      Door screens
      Doors
      Drugs
      Dyes
      Electric fixtures
      Elevators
      Engines, heavy and traction
      Excelsior
      Explosives
      Extracts
      Fabrics
      Fabrics, articles from
      Felt
      Fertilizers
      Fibre
      Films for pictures
      Firearms
      Fire-proofing
      Fixtures, water, gas or
        electric
      Foodstuffs
      Forgings
      Furnaces
      Furniture
      Furs
      Gas fixtures
      Gases
      Gasoline
      Gelatine
      Glass
      Glass products and wares
      Gloves
    
      Glue
      Gold ware
      Gun powder
      Hardware
      Harness
      Hats
      Headings
      Hemp or manila products
      Hose, rubber
      Hosiery
      Ice, artificial
      Ice cream
      Ink
      Implements, agricultural
      Instruments
      Interior woodwork
      Iron, structural
      Ivory articles
      Japans
      Jewelry
      Kegs
      Leather goods and products
      Light machines
      Liquors
      Locomotives
      Machinery
      Machines, adding, light and
        threshing
      Malt liquors
      Manila or hemp products
      Maltesses
      Mattresses
      Meat products
      Meats
      Medicines
      Men's clothing
      Metal articles, beds,
        instruments, toys, utensils
        and wares
      Metal products, sheet
      Metal, structural
      Milk products
      Mineral water
      Motor vehicles
      Mouldings
      Moving picture films and machines
      Nails
      Oil
      Organs
      Paint
      Paper
      Paper boxes
      Paper, tarred, pitched or asphalted
      Paste
      Paving blocks and material
      Perfumes
      Petroleum and products thereof
      Pharmaceutical preparations
    
      Photographic cameras and supplies
      Pianos
      Pipes
      Pitched paper
      Plaster, compounds of
      Plated ware
      Polish for shoes
      Porcelain
      Pottery
      Printers' rollers
      Printing ink
      Pyroxylin and its compounds and plastics
      Rails
      Rattan ware
      Registers, cash
      Robes
      Ropes
      Rubber goods
      Saddlery
      Safes
      Salts, or acids, corrosive
      Sanitary fixtures
      Screens, window and door
      Screws
      Shades, window
      Shafting
      Sheet metal and products thereof
      Shell articles
      Shirts
      Shoddy
      Shoe blacking or polish
      Shoes
      Silver ware
      Sleighs
      Soaps
      Socks
      Soda water
      Spices
      Spirituous, liquors
      Spokes
      Stationery
      Staves
      Steel, structural
      Stockings
      Stone, artificial
      Stoves
      Structural steel, iron or metal
      Sweepers, carpet
      Tar
      Tarred paper
      Terra-cotta
      Textiles
      Textiles, articles from
      Thread
      Threshing machines
      Tile
      Tires, rubber
      Tobacco and products thereof
    
      Toilet preparations
      Tools
      Toys, metal and wooden
      Traction engines
      Trunks
      Tubing, metal and rubber
      Tubs
      Turpentine
      Typewriters
      Umbrellas
      Utensils
      Valises
      Varnish
      Vats
      Vehicles
      Veneer
      Wagons
      Wallpaper
      Water fixtures
      Waters, mineral or soda
      Wax
      White ware
      Wicker ware
      Window screens and shades
      Wine
      Wire and wire goods
      Women's clothing
      Wooden articles
      Woodwork, interior
      Yarn
     
      Group 7.  Operation of:
      Aeroplanes
      Air craft
      Baling machines
      Barges
      Boats
      Boilers, stationary
      Cables, telegraph
      Car shops
      Cars
      Dynamos
      Electric light and power lines or appliances
      Electric railways
      Electric vehicles, rollers and engines
      Elevators, freight,
        passenger and grain
      Engines, stationary and traction
      Gas vehicles, rollers and engines
      Gas wells
      Gasoline vehicles, rollers and engines
      Grain elevators
      Hand trucks
      Horse drawn vehicles, rollers
        and engines
      Incline railways
      Lighters
      Machine shops
    
      Oil wells
      Plants, power and other
      Pressing machines
      Railways
      Rollers
      Ships
      Stationary engines and
        boilers
      Steam plants
      Steam railways
      Street railways
      Telegraph lines
      Telephone lines
      Threshing machines
      Traction engines
      Transports
      Trucks
      Tug boats
      Vehicles
      Vessels
      Wagons
      Waterworks
     
      Group 8.  Preparation of:
      Fish
      Foodstuffs
      Fruit
      Gelatine
      Meat stuffs
      Meats
      Metals
      Minerals
      Paste
      Vegetables
      Wax
     
      Group 9.  Removal of:
      Ashes
      Awnings
      Garbage
      Snow
     
      Group 10.  Sinking of:
      Drilled wells
      Gas wells
      Oil wells
      Salt wells
     
      Group 11.  Storage or handling of:
      Ammunition
      Cargoes
      Corrosive acids or salts
      Chemicals
      Explosives
      Gasoline
      Gun powder
      Ice
      Petroleum
    
      Group 12.  Work as:
      Barbers
      Blacksmiths
      Carpenters
      Chauffeurs
      Domestic workers, other than
        those employed on farms, employed
        by the same employer for a
        minimum of forty hours per week
      Drivers
      Furriers
      Garbage sorters
      Horseshoers
      Janitors
      Jockeys, apprentice jockeys and exercise persons
      licensed under article two or four of the racing,
      pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law
      Life guards
      Longshoremen
      Marble workers
      Masons
      Movers
      Sheet metal workers
      Teamsters
      Theatrical electricians, flymen,
        lamp operators, moving picture
        machiners, property men, stage
        carpenters and stage hands
     
      Group 13.  Work at:
      Awning erection
      Blasting
      Bleaching
      Boiler covering
      Bookbinding
      Booming timber or logs
      Bottling
      Bricklaying
      Building, care, maintenance
        and salvage
      Cable laying or repair,
        underground
      Canning
      Carpentry
      Clam cultivating, harvesting,
      Opening or planting
      Cleaning clothes, streets,
        windows, or buildings
      Concreting
      Cork cutting
      Decorating
      Disinfecting
      Dredging
      Dyeing
      Electrotyping
      Embossing
      Engraving
      Excavation
    
      Glazing
      Grave digging
      Heating
      Ice distribution, harvesting or storage
      Landscape gardening
      Lighting
      Lithographing
      Logging
      Lumbering
      Marble cutting
      Marine wrecking
      Milling
      Mining
      Multigraphing
      Oyster cultivation, planting,
        harvesting or opening
      Ore reduction
      Painting
      Papering
      Paving
      Photo-engraving
      Picture hanging
      Pile driving
      Pipe covering
      Plastering
      Plumbing
      Printing
      Rafting
      Renovating
      River-driving
      Road building
      Roofing
      Salvaging of buildings
        or contents
      Sea food cultivation,
        harvesting or planting
      Shaft sinking
      Ship building
      Smelting
      Stereotyping
      Stone crushing,
        cutting, dressing,
        grinding or setting
      Storage of all kinds and storage for hire
      Street cleaning or construction
      Structural carpentry
      Subaquesous construction
      Subway construction
      Tree moving, planting,
        trimming and surgery
      Tunneling
      Undertaking
      Upholstering
      Warehousing
      Well digging or drilling
      Window cleaning
      Wrecking, marine
    
        Group 14.  Work in
      Abattoirs
      Bakeries
      Bark mills
      Boarding stables
      Breweries
      Caissons
      Clay pits
      Coal yards
      Compressed air compartments
      Dining cars
      Distilleries
      Express cars
      Fish markets
      Flax mills
      Foundries
      Garages
      Garbage plants
      Gravel pits
      Groceries, wholesale
      Hotels
      Junk dealers' places
      Knitting factories
      Laboratories
      Lath mills
      Laundries
      Life-saving stations
      Lime kilns
      Livery stables
      Lumber yards
      Machine shops
      Markets, fish, meat, poultry
      Meat markets
      Packing houses
      Paper mills
      Parlor cars
      Pickle factories
      Planing mills
      Poultry markets
      Printing plants
      Pulp mills
      Quarries
      Restaurants and Grills
      Rolling mills
      Sales stables
      Sand pits
      Sash and door factories
      Saw mills
      Sewage disposal plants
      Shale pits
      Shingle mills
      Sleeping cars
      Spinning manufactories
      Stables, livery, boarding or sales
      Storage warehouses
      Sugar refineries
      Tanneries
    
      Weaving manufactories
      Wholesale groceries
     
        Group  14-a.  On  and after January first, nineteen hundred sixty-two,
      any other employment in a trade, business, or occupation carried  on  by
      the  employer  for  pecuniary  gain in which one or more employees other
      than farm laborers are employed.
        Group 14-b. Employment as a farm laborer as provided herein.  A farmer
      shall provide coverage under this chapter for all farm laborers employed
      during any part of the twelve consecutive months beginning  April  first
      of  any  calendar  year  preceded  by  a calendar year in which the cash
      remuneration paid to all farm laborers aggregated twelve hundred dollars
      or more.
        Group 15. Employment as a keeper, guard,  resident  physician,  nurse,
      interne,  resident  interne,  assistant resident interne or orderly in a
      prison reformatory, hospital for the mentally ill or hospital maintained
      or operated by a municipal  corporation  or  other  subdivision  of  the
      state,  notwithstanding  the  definitions  of  the  terms  "employment,"
      "employer" or "employee" in subdivisions three, four and five of section
      two of this chapter.
        Group 15-a. Employment as a county fire coordinator  or  as  a  deputy
      county fire coordinator pursuant to section two hundred twenty-five-a or
      section  four  hundred  one  of  the  county  law,  notwithstanding  the
      definitions of the  terms  "employer",  "employee"  or  "employment"  in
      subdivisions three, four and five of section two of this chapter.
        The   terms   "county   fire  coordinator"  and  "deputy  county  fire
      coordinator," as used in this group, shall include any  county  official
      who  is  not appointed pursuant to the provisions of section two hundred
      twenty-five-a of the county  law,  but  is  appointed  pursuant  to  the
      provisions  of a special law, a county charter or a county local law and
      who is authorized or required to perform in the county the duties  which
      are  similar to those of a county fire coordinator or deputy county fire
      coordinator under such section of the  county  law  and  sections  eight
      hundred seven-a and eight hundred seven-b of the education law.
        Group 16. Any employment by the state, including the employment of all
      elected  and  appointed public officers, notwithstanding the definitions
      of the terms "employment," "employer"  or  "employee,"  in  subdivisions
      three, four and five of section two of this chapter; but work as a civil
      defense  volunteer  under  the provisions of the state defense emergency
      act shall not be deemed employment by the state. An employee engaged  in
      any employment herein whose wages are paid by a municipal corporation or
      other  subdivision  of  the state or by an employer other than the state
      shall be deemed an employee  of  such  municipal  corporation  or  other
      political subdivision of the state or such employer other than the state
      for  the  purposes  of  this  chapter. The head of any department of the
      state government may, with the prior written approval of the director of
      the budget, accept or approve the acceptance by any  bureau,  agency  or
      other  unit within said department of the services of a volunteer worker
      without salary, and such a volunteer worker shall be  deemed  to  be  an
      employee  in the employment of the state in the unclassified service for
      the purpose of this chapter.
        Group 17. Any employment carried on  by  a  municipal  corporation  or
      other  subdivision  of  the state and enumerated in the foregoing groups
      one to fourteen, inclusive,  and  on  and  after  July  first,  nineteen
      hundred  fifty-one,  other  such  employment to the extent of authorized
      services related to civil defense and  performed  by  employees  in  the
      course  of  employment  or  in  relation  thereto;  and  the sheriff and
      undersheriff of any county and the duly appointed  regular  deputies  of
    
      the  sheriff, notwithstanding the definition of the term "employment" in
      subdivision five of section two of this chapter; but employment  in  the
      department  of  sanitation  of  the  city  of New York in the sanitation
      service  classification  of  the  classified  civil service of such city
      shall not be within the coverage of  this  chapter.  The  activities  of
      civil defense volunteers who are auxiliary firemen and members of rescue
      squads  in  authorized  services  while  undergoing training or practice
      sponsored or authorized by a local office of civil defense,  as  defined
      in  the  state  defense  emergency  act,  and  on  and after July first,
      nineteen hundred  fifty-three,  the  activities  of  all  civil  defense
      volunteers  who  are  personnel of such local office of civil defense in
      authorized services during  authorized  participation  in  training  and
      practice  exercises  held  at  the  direction  of or designated as state
      training and practice exercises by the state  civil  defense  commission
      pursuant to the provisions of section twenty-one, subdivision three-f of
      the state defense emergency act, are hazardous employments carried on by
      the municipal corporation or other subdivision of the state that created
      the  local office under the state defense emergency act and such members
      of an auxiliary police organization located in a  municipal  corporation
      which   elected  to  include  such  persons  within  the  definition  of
      "employee" as authorized by subdivision four  of  section  two  of  this
      chapter   shall   be  deemed  employees  of  the  municipal  corporation
      authorizing their services, and such members of rescue squads, auxiliary
      firemen, and civil defense volunteers shall be deemed employees  of  the
      municipal  corporation or other subdivision of the state for purposes of
      this chapter, provided, however, that each such municipal corporation or
      other subdivision of the state or insurance carrier shall in  the  first
      instance  pay  all  awards  of  workers' compensation, including medical
      benefits, provided by this chapter; and such  municipal  corporation  or
      other  subdivision of the state or insurance carrier shall be reimbursed
      by the comptroller of the state of  New  York,  periodically  every  six
      months, on vouchers certified by the state civil defense commission, for
      one-half  of all workers' compensation benefits, including both cash and
      medical benefits, paid pursuant to awards of the board,  to  the  extent
      not  previously  reimbursed, paid for injury or death of a civil defense
      volunteer caused by an accident that arose out of and in the  course  of
      any  such  training and practice exercise, held on and after July first,
      nineteen hundred fifty-three, at the direction of  or  designated  as  a
      state  training  and  practice  exercise  by  the  state  civil  defense
      commission pursuant to the provisions of section twenty-one, subdivision
      three-f of the state defense emergency act. A town shall not  be  deemed
      to  be the employer of the officers and employees of a fire district and
      shall not be liable for payment of  compensation  to  such  officers  or
      employees  under  any  provision  of  this  chapter.   A social services
      official, as defined in subdivision  fourteen  of  section  two  of  the
      social  services  law,  may  accept or approve the services of volunteer
      workers without salary, in accordance with the regulations of the  state
      department  of  social  services,  and  such a voluntary worker shall be
      deemed to be  an  employee  of  the  social  services  district  in  the
      unclassified service for the purpose of this chapter.
        Group  18. All other employments, except persons engaged in a teaching
      or nonmanual capacity in or for a religious, charitable  or  educational
      institution, notwithstanding the definition of employment in subdivision
      five  of  section  two,  not  hereinbefore enumerated, carried on by any
      person, firm or corporation in which there are engaged or  employed  one
      or  more  employees  regularly,  in the same business or in or about the
      same establishment either upon the premises or at the plant or away from
      the plant of the employer,  under  any  contract  of  hire,  express  or
    
      implied,  oral or written, except farm laborers and domestics other than
      those within the coverage of this chapter pursuant to groups  fourteen-b
      and  twelve  respectively  of  this subdivision, unless the employer has
      elected  to  bring such employees under the law by securing compensation
      in accordance with the terms  of  section  fifty  of  this  chapter  and
      persons  engaged in voluntary service not under contract of hire. A duly
      ordained, commissioned or licensed minister, priest or rabbi, a  sexton,
      a  christian science reader, or a member of a religious order, shall not
      be deemed to be employed or engaged in employment  under  the  terms  of
      this   section.  Recipients  of  charitable  aid  from  a  religious  or
      charitable institution who perform work in or for the institution  which
      is  incidental  to or in return for the aid conferred, and not under any
      express contract of hire, shall not be deemed to be employed or  engaged
      in  employment  under  the  terms  of  this section. All persons who are
      members  of  a  supervised  amateur  athletic  activity  operated  on  a
      non-profit  basis  shall  not  be  deemed  to  be employed or engaged in
      employment under the terms of this section, provided that  said  members
      are  not  also  otherwise  engaged  or  employed  by any person, firm or
      corporation  participating  in  said  athletic   activity.   The   terms
      "religious,  charitable  or educational institution" mean a corporation,
      unincorporated  association,  community  chest,   fund   or   foundation
      organized   and   operated  exclusively  for  religious,  charitable  or
      educational purposes, no part of the net earnings of which inure to  the
      benefit of any private shareholder or individual.
        Group  19.  An  employer may bring an employment that is not listed in
      this  section  within  the  coverage  of  this   chapter   by   securing
      compensation  to his employee or employees engaged in such employment in
      accordance with section fifty of this chapter.
        Any municipal corporation or other political subdivision of the  state
      may bring its employees or officers, elective or appointed or otherwise,
      not  enumerated  in  groups  one to seventeen of subdivision one of this
      section inclusive, of this chapter within the coverage of  this  chapter
      by  appropriate  action  of  the legislative or governmental body of the
      municipal corporation  or  political  subdivision,  notwithstanding  the
      definitions  of  the  terms  "employment,"  "employer"  or "employee" in
      subdivisions three, four and five of section two of this chapter; and by
      separate and distinct action of said legislative  or  governmental  body
      may  bring  within the coverage of this chapter any group, as defined by
      order of the New York state civil defense commission, of  civil  defense
      volunteers  not enumerated in group seventeen of subdivision one of this
      section, who are personnel of a volunteer agency of the local office  of
      such municipal corporation or other political subdivision, as defined in
      the  state  defense  emergency act, as to their authorized civil defense
      services to the extent not covered under article ten  of  this  chapter.
      Where  one  or  more groups of such civil defense volunteers of a county
      office of civil defense are not brought  within  the  coverage  of  this
      chapter  by  the  county,  a  town or a village in such county or a city
      participating in the consolidated county office of civil defense of such
      county may, by separate  and  distinct  action  of  its  legislative  or
      governmental  body,  bring  the  members of such group or groups of duly
      enrolled civil defense volunteers who are residents of and are  enrolled
      from  such  town,  village  or  city within the coverage of this chapter
      during any period when the county has not so provided; however, whenever
      a county brings one or more  groups  of  its  civil  defense  volunteers
      within  the  coverage of this chapter, such other coverage of members of
      such group or groups by the  town,  village  or  city  shall  be  deemed
      terminated  to the extent and as of the date coverage is afforded by the
      county. A village may  not  provide  such  coverage  during  any  period
    
      coverage  is  provided by a town in which the village is located, except
      where there is a deputy director of civil  defense  for  a  village  not
      wholly within one town.
        A  public  or  not-for-profit corporation, association, institution or
      agency organized as an unincorporated association or  duly  incorporated
      under  the  laws  of  this  state  shall  be deemed to be an employer of
      persons who are performing services for it pursuant  to  paragraphs  (h)
      and  (i)  of  subdivision  two  of  section  65.10  of  the penal law in
      fulfillment of a sentence of probation or of conditional  discharge  and
      of  persons  performing  such  services  pursuant  to  the provisions of
      section 170.55 or 170.56 of the criminal procedure law, and such persons
      shall for the purposes of this chapter be deemed to be employees for the
      public  or  not-for-profit  corporation,  association,  institution   or
      agency.  Said  employer  may  elect  to  bring such employees within the
      coverage of this chapter by securing compensation in accordance with the
      terms of section fifty of this chapter.
        Group 20. In a city having  a  population  of  one  million  or  more,
      teachers,   regular  or  substitute,  of  shop  work,  manual  training,
      industrial or trade subjects,  mechanic  arts,  textiles,  machine  shop
      assistants,  laboratory  assistants,  laboratory specialists, laboratory
      technicians,  and  teachers  of  any  subject,  trade,   or   employment
      requiring, for instruction purposes, use of tools or machinery for which
      protective,  guarding  or  safety devices are required by the labor law,
      may elect to receive the benefits prescribed by  this  chapter  provided
      they are not qualified to receive benefits even if eligible to apply for
      retirement  under  the  teachers'  retirement  system in said city.   An
      election to come within this chapter shall constitute a  waiver  of  any
      right  to  receive  absence  refunds from the board of education of said
      city.  But a teacher shall, if incapacitated to teach by reason  of  his
      injuries, be entitled to the refund of his accumulated deductions in the
      teachers'  retirement  system or in lieu thereof he may elect to receive
      an annuity which shall be the actuarial equivalent of  said  accumulated
      deductions.  Any  election or choice provided for herein may be made for
      the teacher by one acting in the teacher's behalf  if  said  teacher  is
      incapacitated to act for himself.
        Group  20-a.  For the purposes of this chapter, the work of any person
      employed as a school aide by school authorities of any school  district,
      notwithstanding  the  definitions of the terms "employer," "employee" or
      "employment" in subdivisions three, four and five of section two of this
      chapter.
        Group 20-b. For the purposes of this chapter, the work of  any  person
      employed  in  a  nonpedagogical  capacity by school authorities within a
      city having a population of one million  or  more,  notwithstanding  the
      definitions  of  the  terms  "employer",  "employee"  or "employment" in
      subdivisions three, four and five of section two of this chapter.
        Group 21. For the purposes of  this  chapter,  on  and  after  January
      first,  nineteen  hundred  sixty-two, the work of a newspaper carrier as
      defined in section thirty-two hundred twenty-eight of the education  law
      for  an  employer  of  one  or more employees as defined in subdivisions
      three and four of section two of this chapter.
        Group 22. Employment as a teacher in  a  public  school  or  place  of
      instruction  maintained  or operated by a board of education or trustees
      of a school district, other than a school district  located  in  a  city
      having  a  population  of  more  than  one  million, notwithstanding the
      definitions of the  terms  "employment,"  "employer"  or  "employee"  in
      subdivisions three, four and five of section two of this chapter.
        Group  23.  For  the  purposes of this chapter, the work of any person
      employed to direct vehicular traffic at any street crossing  or  highway
    
      intersection crossed by pupils in going to and returning from any school
      in  this  state,  whose  chief  duty  primarily is to guard the life and
      safety of such pupils.
        Group  24.  For the purposes of this chapter, employment of any person
      appointed by the board of water supply of the city of New York  pursuant
      to  the provisions of section K51-36.0 of the administrative code of the
      city  of  New  York,  notwithstanding  the  definitions  of  the   terms
      "employment", "employer", or "employee", in subdivisions three, four and
      five of section two of this chapter.
        2.   Occupational   diseases.   Compensation   shall  be  payable  for
      disabilities sustained or death incurred by an employee  resulting  from
      the following occupational diseases:
     
         COLUMN ONE                       COLUMN TWO
     
      Description of Diseases          Description of Process
     
       1. Anthrax.                     1. Handling of wool, hair,
                                          bristles, hides or skins.
     
       2. Lead poisoning or its        2. Any process involving the
          sequelae.                       use of or direct contact
                                          with lead or its prepar-
                                          ations or compounds.
     
       3. Zinc poisoning or its        3. Any process involving the
          sequelae.                       use of or direct contact
                                          with zinc or its prepar-
                                          ations or compounds or
                                          alloys.
     
       4. Mercury poisoning or         4. Any process involving the
          its sequelae.                   use of or direct contact
                                          with mercury or its
                                          preparations or compounds.
     
       5. Phosphorus poisoning or      5. Any process involving the
          its sequelae.                   use of or direct contact
                                          with phosphorus or its
                                          preparations or compounds.
     
       6. Arsenic poisoning or         6. Any process involving the use
          its sequelae.                   of or direct contact with
                                          arsenic or its preparations
                                          or compounds.
     
       7. Poisoning by wood            7. Any process involving the use
          alcohol.                        of wood alcohol or any
                                          preparation containing wood
                                          alcohol.
     
       8. Poisoning by benzol or       8. Any process involving the use
          nitro-, hydro-,                 of or direct contact with
          hydroxy- and amido-             benzol or nitro-, hydro-,
          derivatives of benzene          hydroxy-, or amido-
          (dinitro-benzol, anilin,        derivatives of benzene or
          and others), or its             its preparations or compounds.
          sequelae.
    
       9. Poisoning by carbon          9. Any process involving
          bisulphide or its               the use of or direct contact
          sequelae, or any                with carbon bisulphide or
          sulphide.                       its preparations or com-
                                          pounds, or any sulphide.
     
      10. Poisoning by nitrous        10. Any process in which
          fumes or its sequelae.          nitrous fumes are evolved.
     
      11. Poisoning by nickel         11. Any process in which nickel
          carbonyl or its                 carbonyl is evolved.
          sequelae.
     
      12. Dope poisoning              12. Any process involving the
          (poisoning by                   use of or direct contact
          tetrachlor-methane or           with any substance used
          any substance used as           as or in conjunction with
          or in conjunction with          a solvent for acetate of
          a solvent for acetate           cellulose or nitro
          or cellulose or nitro           cellulose.
          cellulose, or its
          sequelae.
     
      13. Poisoning by                13. Any process involving the
          formaldehyde and its            use of or direct contact
          preparations.                   with formaldehyde and its
                                          preparations.
     
      14. Chrome ulceration           14. Any process involving the
          or its sequelae or              use of or direct contact
          chrome poisoning.               with chromic acid or
                                          bychromate of ammonium,
                                          potassium or sodium. or
                                          their preparations.
     
      15. Epitheliomatous cancer      15. Handling or use of tar,
          or ulceration of the            pitch, bitumen, mineral
          skin or of the corneal          oil, or paraffin or any
          surface of the eye,             compound, product or
          due to tar, pitch,              residue of any of these
          bitumen, mineral oil,           substances.
          or paraffin, or any
          compound, product or
          residue of any of these
          substances.
     
      16. Glanders.                   16. Care or handling of any
                                          equine animal or the
                                          carcass of any such animal.
     
      17. Compressed air              17. Any process carried on
          illness or its                  in compressed air.
          sequelae.
     
      18. Miners' diseases,           18. Any process involving
          including only                  mining.
          cellulitis, bursitis,
          ankylostomiasis,
    
          tenosynovitis and
          nystagmus.
     
      19. Cataract in                 19. Processes in the manufacture
          glassworkers.                   of glass involving exposure
                                          to the glare of molten
                                          glass.
     
      20. Radium poisoning or         20. Any process involving the
          disability due to               use of or direct contact
          radio-active pro-               with radium or radio-active
          perties of sub-                 substance or the use of or
          stances or to                   direct exposure to Roentgen
          Roentgen rays                   rays (X-rays) or ionizing
          (X-rays) or exposure            radiation.
          to ionizing radiation.
     
      21. Methyl chloride             21. Any process involving the
          poisoning.                      use of or direct contact
                                          with methyl chloride or its
                                          preparations or compounds.
     
      22. Carbon monoxide             22. Any process involving direct
          poisoning.                      exposure to carbon monoxide
                                          in buildings, sheds or
                                          enclosed places.
     
      23. Poisoning by sulphuric,     23. Any process involving the use
          hydro-chloric or                of or direct contact with
          hydro-fluoric acid.             sulphuric, hydrochloric or
                                          hydrofluoric acids or
                                          their fumes.
     
      24. Respiratory,                24. Any process involving the
          gastro-intestinal               use of or direct contact
          or physiological                with petroleum or petroleum
          nerve and eye dis-              products and their fumes.
          orders due to con-
          tact with petroleum
          products and their
          fumes.
     
      25. Disability arising          25. Any process involving
          from blisters or                continuous friction,
          abrasions.                      rubbing or vibration
                                          causing blisters or
                                          abrasions.
     
      26. Disability arising          26. Any process involving
          from bursitis or                continuous rubbing, pre-
          synovitis.                      sure or vibration of the
                                          parts affected.
     
      27. Dermatitis                  27. Any process involving the
          (venenata).                     use of or direct contact
                                          with acids, alkalies, acids
                                          or oil, or with brick,
                                          cement, lime, concrete or
    
                                          mortar capable of causing
                                          dermatitis (venenata).
     
      28. Byssinosis.                 28. Any process involving
                                          exposure to raw cotton.
     
      29. Silicosis or other          29. Any process involving ex-
          dust diseases.                  posure to silica or other
                                          harmful dust.
     
      30. Any and all                 30. Any and all employments
          occupational diseases.          enumerated in subdivision
                                          one of section three of
                                          this chapter.
     
        Nothing  in paragraph thirty of this subdivision shall be construed to
      apply to any disability  or  death  due  to  any  disease  described  in
      paragraph twenty-nine of this subdivision.