North Dakota Code 65-08.1-01 – Definitions
In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 65-08.1-01
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- Organization: includes a foreign or domestic association, business trust, corporation, enterprise, estate, joint venture, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, limited partnership, partnership, trust, or any legal or commercial entity. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
1. “Company” means the workforce safety and insurance company or other organization established by the organization to provide additional workforce safety and insurance coverage.
2. “Employers’ liability coverage” means an insurance product that provides coverage for injury-related claims suffered by an employee that are not covered by title 65.
3. “Extraterritorial workforce safety and insurance coverage” means coverage provided under section 65-08-01.
4. “Incidental operations” means operations of an employer for fewer than thirty days in a state with which the employer has no other significant contacts.
5. “Other states insurance” means an insurance product that provides workforce safety and insurance coverage to an employer for that employer’s employee while the employee is working at an incidental operation in a state in which the employee is eligible to file for workforce safety and insurance benefits if the employee suffers a work-related illness or injury or dies as a result of work activities in that state.
6. “Principally localized” means the employer has a place of business in this state, the employee regularly works at or from that place of business, the employment contract is entered in that state, and in case of an employee leasing company, the company retains control over the employee and does not lease the employee to an out-of-state employer.