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N.Y. WKC Law § 58

This is the official text of N.Y. WKC Law § 58, part of New York’s WKC Law — part of the compiled statutory law of New York, published by the state as "WKC Law." Browse the sections below, each linked to its official government source.

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Payment of compensation to persons providing housekeeping or nursing services

Official statutory text

§ 58. Payment of compensation to persons providing housekeeping or\nnursing services. An employer under the workmen's compensation law, or\nthe insurance carrier under the policy of workmen's compensation\ninsurance covering such employer, or any other person or organization\nincluding the state, a municipal corporation or other political\nsubdivision of the state which provides housekeeping, or nursing\nservices to an injured employee or recipient of social services\nassistance or which arranges for such services by authorizing the hiring\nof an employee for such purposes and which supplies funds for the\npayment of such employee's wages, notwithstanding any general or special\nstatute requiring or authorizing such housekeeping or nursing services,\nshall be liable for the payment of compensation to the person performing\nsuch housekeeping or nursing services as provided by this chapter.\nNothing in this section shall create an employer-employee relationship\nwhen such relationship does not otherwise exist.\n

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