Enforcement proceeding

A.S.C.A. § 32.0653 — under Workmen's Compensation-Procedures and Claims.

A.S.C.A. § 32.0653

(a) If any employer or his officers or agents fail to comply with a compensation order making an award that has become final, any beneficiary of such award, or the Commissioner, may apply to the High Court of American Samoa for the enforcement of the order.

(1) If the Court determines that the order was made and, served in accordance, with law and that such employer or his office is or agents have failed, to comply therewith, the court shall enforce obedience to, the order by writ of injunction or by other proper process, mandatory or otherwise.

(c) Proceedings for suspending, setting aside, or enforcing a compensation order, whether rejecting a claim or making an award, shall not be instituted otherwise than as provided in, this section and 32.0652 and 32.0674.

History: 1967, PL, 10-15; amd 1977, PL 15-18 § 1.

Amendments: 1977 Changed citation style.