Title 72, WORKER’S COMPENSATION AND RELATED LAWS — INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION

72-504. ORGANIZATION -- CHAIRMAN -- SECRETARY. The members of the commission shall select one (1) of their members as chairman, and shall select a person qualified, in the judgment of the commission, by experience and training, as secretary, who need not be a member, each of whom…

72-505. QUORUM -- MAJORITY TO ACT -- EFFECT OF VACANCY. (1) Quorum. A majority of the commission shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. (2) Act of commission by majority. The act of a majority of the commission when in sessions as the commission shall be deeme…

72-506. ACTS OF COMMISSION OR REFERENCE -- HEARING OFFICERS. (1) Any investigation, inquiry or hearing which the commission has power to undertake or hold may be undertaken or held by or before any member thereof or any hearing officer, referee or examiner appointed by the commis…

72-507. SEAL. The commission shall have a seal of which the secretary shall be custodian, bearing the following inscription: "Industrial Commission, State of Idaho, seal." The seal shall be affixed to all writs, orders, awards, authentications of copies of records and to such oth…

72-508. AUTHORITY TO ADOPT RULES AND REGULATIONS. Pursuant to the provisions of chapter 52, title 67, Idaho Code, the commission shall have authority to promulgate and adopt reasonable rules and regulations for effecting the purposes of this act. Notwithstanding the provisions of…

72-509. OFFICES AND SUPPLIES. (1) The principal office of the commission shall be located in Ada county. (2) The commission may establish such branch offices, divisions, sections and advisory committees in such localities in this state as it deems necessary to administer this act…

72-510. PAYMENT OF EXPENSES. The commission shall make such expenditures as may be necessary for the adequate administration of this law, including salaries, other personal services, actual and necessary traveling and other expenses and disbursements of the members of the commiss…

72-511. RECORDS AND FORMS. The commission shall cause to be printed such blank forms as it shall deem requisite to facilitate or promote the efficient administration of this law. It shall provide a book in which shall be entered the minutes of all its proceedings, a book of recor…

72-512. REPORTS. The commission shall have the power and authority to publish and distribute at its discretion from time to time, in addition to its annual report, such further reports and bulletins covering its operation, proceedings and matters relative to its work as it may de…

72-513. SPECIFIED EMPLOYEES -- EXEMPT FROM PERSONNEL SYSTEM. The secretary, medical officers, division or section officers, hearing officers, field counselors, examiners and referees, shall be exempt from the system of personnel administration prescribed by chapter 53, title 67, …

72-514. ASSISTANTS. The commission shall have the power to employ during its pleasure such additional officers, experts, engineers, statisticians, accountants, inspectors, clerks and employees as it may deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this law or to perform the duti…

72-515. FEES. The commission shall have power and authority to fix, charge and collect fees, as follows: (1) For copies of papers and records not required to be certified or otherwise authenticated by the commission; (2) For certified copies of official documents and orders filed…

72-516. REPORTS. (1) Biennially the commission shall make a report to the governor and through him to the state legislature on the operation of this law, including recommendations as to improvements in the law and administration thereof, and a statistical analysis of industrial i…

72-517. COOPERATION WITH OTHER AGENCIES. The commission shall have the authority to enter into cooperative agreements with state and federal agencies to share information with those agencies and to cooperate with programs sponsored by all such agencies to facilitate the carrying …

72-518. DUTIES OF ATTORNEY GENERAL -- REPRESENTATION IN COURT. (1) In any civil action to enforce the provisions of this law, or of any rule or regulation issued pursuant thereto, the commission and the state shall be represented by the attorney general, or if an action is brough…

72-519. CREATION OF INDUSTRIAL ADMINISTRATION FUND -- PURPOSE. A fund is hereby created to be known as the industrial administration fund for the purpose of providing funds for administering the worker's compensation law by the industrial commission. This fund may also be used to…

72-520. INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION ADMINISTRATOR OF FUND. The industrial administration fund shall be administered by the commission without liability on the part of the state or the commission beyond the amount of the fund. The commission is authorized to credit or remit, refund or p…

72-521. STATE TREASURER CUSTODIAN OF FUND -- DUTIES. The state treasurer shall be custodian of the industrial administration fund. He shall give a separate and an additional bond in an amount and with sureties approved by the commissioner [director] of [the department of] insuran…

72-522. DEPOSIT AND INVESTMENT OF FUND -- INTEREST. The state treasurer shall deposit or, on order of the commission, invest any portion of the industrial administration fund not needed for immediate or currently anticipated use, in the manner and subject to all the provisions of…

72-523. SOURCE OF FUND -- PREMIUM TAX. The state insurance fund, every authorized self-insurer and every surety authorized under the Idaho insurance code or by the director of the department of insurance to transact worker's compensation insurance in Idaho, in addition to all oth…

72-524. SURETIES' REPORTS OF TAX BASIS. Every surety, other than a self-insurer shall, under oath of the person or officers making the report, within thirty (30) days after February 1 and July 1 of each year, report to the commission the net amount of premium written on worker's …

72-525. CIVIL ACTION FOR COLLECTION OF PREMIUM TAX -- DUTIES OF ATTORNEY GENERAL. If any surety required to make payment under the provisions of this law shall fail, for a period of ten (10) days after such payment is due as provided by section 72-523, [Idaho Code,] to pay into t…

72-526. PENALTY FOR DEFAULT -- COLLECTION BY CIVIL ACTION -- DUTY OF ATTORNEY GENERAL. Any surety who is in default for ten (10) days in any payment required to be made under the provisions of this law shall be liable for a penalty for every ten (10) day period or any part thereo…

72-527. CIVIL PENALTY FOR SURETY'S MISREPRESENTATION -- DUTY OF ATTORNEY GENERAL. Any surety who shall wilfully misrepresent the amount to be paid into the state treasury under the provisions of this law shall be liable to the state for an amount ten (10) times the difference bet…

72-528. STATISTICAL INFORMATION REQUIRED. (1) In addition to all information that sureties, self-insurers, the state insurance fund, the industrial special indemnity fund and noninsured employers now supply to the industrial commission, they shall, upon request of the commission,…