2025 Session Last amended: 2024 session

§ 176.875 — Report of Illness

Plain-Language Summary

This section sets the reporting process when a police officer contracts tuberculosis through work contact with an afflicted person. The head of the state, county, or city police department must report the illness to the Workers' Compensation Division and send copies to the appropriate body (the Department of Human Services commissioner for a state officer, the county board for a county officer, or the city governing body for a municipal officer). The Department of Labor and Industry commissioner then mails claim forms to the department and sets the claim for hearing in the same manner as other public employees' workers' compensation claims.

176.875 REPORT OF ILLNESS.

Whenever the head of any state, county or city police department learns that any police officer employed by such department whose duties bring or did bring the employee in contact with any person suffering from tuberculosis while said police officer was in discharge of duties within the scope of employment, has contracted or become ill from tuberculosis while employed in such department, such head of the police department shall report such illness to the workers’ compensation division. Copies of such report shall be sent to the commissioner of the Department of Human Services if a state police officer, to the county board if a county police officer, and to the governing body of the city if a municipal officer. The commissioner of the Department of Labor and Industry, upon receiving such report shall mail to the head of the department blank forms to be filled out by such employee claiming the medical and sanitarium treatment and compensation hereinafter provided for. The commissioner of the Department of Labor and Industry shall thereupon set the claim on for hearing and determination in the same manner as claims of other public employees under the workers’ compensation law are heard and determined.

History:

1953 c 593 s 2; 1955 c 340 s 2; Ex1967 c 1 s 6; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1973 c 388 s 168; 1975 c 359 s 23; 1984 c 654 art 5 s 58; 1986 c 444; 2024 c 79 art 10 s 1; 2024 c 125 art 5 s 38; 2024 c 127 art 50 s 38

History: History: 1953 c 593 s 2; 1955 c 340 s 2; Ex1967 c 1 s 6; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1973 c 388 s 168; 1975 c 359 s 23; 1984 c 654 art 5 s 58; 1986 c 444; 2024 c 79 art 10 s 1; 2024 c 125 art 5 s 38; 2024 c 127 art 50 s 38

Practical Notes

If you are a police officer who contracted tuberculosis through work contact with an afflicted person, your department head must report it to the Workers’ Compensation Division and notify the appropriate state, county, or city body. You will then receive forms to claim medical, sanitarium, and compensation benefits, and your claim is heard and decided like other public employees’ workers’ comp claims.

Source: Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes