bond or other security may be made upon the expiration of one year from the issuance of the Finding of Facts authorizing such employer to pay compensation, etc., direct, and application for such renewal shall be made thirty days prior to the expiration of such one year period. Adopted May 29, 1917. RULES AND REGULATIONS UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 1465-69 G. C. (SEC. 22 OF 103 O. L., 72, AS AMENDED 108 O. L., 313) Rules and Regulations Under the Provisions of G. C. Sec. 1465-69 (Sec. 22 of 103 O. L. 72, as amended 108 O. L. 313) are designed for the guidance of the commission in making its finding of fact relative to the financial ability of employers to carry their own risks and to pay compensation, etc., direct. Employers desiring to make application to pay compensation, etc., direct are required to use forms which will be supplied by the commission and should be made at the time of filing the application for classification and rating unless an application for classification and rating was filed prior to the promulgation of the rules. herein, in which event application to pay compensation, etc., direct may be made at any time. Employers desiring to elect to pay compensation and to furnish medical, surgical, nursing and hospital attention and medicines, funeral expenses, etc., directly to their injured or to the dependents of their killed employes, and who do not desire to insure the payment thereof or indemnify themselves against loss sustained by the direct payment thereof, shall establish the fact that they possess financial ability or credit sufficient to render certain the payment of such compensation, etc., and upon such fact being established a finding of the same will be made by The Industrial Commission of Ohio and a certified copy of such finding will be issued to such employers. Proceedings to determine such facts shall be governed by the following rules, viz.: RULE I. Employers desiring to elect to pay compensation, etc., directly to their injured or the dependent of their killed employes shall file application for classification and rating in the same manner as employers who contribute to the state insurance fund are required to do. The application for authority to pay compensation, etc., direct, may be filed at the time of filing the application for classification and rating, or at any time subsequent thereto. RULE II. Applications must be made on forms furnished by the commission. RULE III. Applications will be considered in the order of their filing. RULE IV. The application shall state the full name of the employer and whether an individual partnership or corporation, and shall state the location of the place or places of employment, the nature of the business carried on, the number of employes employed in each kind of employment, the amount of wages paid during the preceding year for each kind of employment, and the aggregate amount thereof, together with a financial statement of the assets and liabilities of the applicant. * ** Such application shall specifically state that said applicant does not desire to insure the payment of compensation, etc., to his injured or to the dependents of his killed employes or to indemnify himself against loss sustained by the direct payment thereof. Such application shall also state whether or not the applicant maintains a hospital or hospitals in connection with its work or plants, and if so, a description of the same shall be given. Such application shall also state whether or not the applicant has in his employ one or more individuals whose regular duty it is to make daily inspections of its plant or works for the purpose of securing a compliance with statutes or general orders of the Industrial Commission of Ohio relative to safety and sanitation. RULE V. Employers who are subscribers to the state insurance. fund may make the application herein provided for at the end of any semi-annual peroid, and a finding of facts made as in cases of other employers; such employers will be entitled to a refunder of the amount, if any, that would otherwise be credited upon their next semi-annual premium, and will be required to pay into the fund any additional premiums that may be due from them at the end of such semi-annual period, according to the rules of rating of the commission. RULE VI. Should the commission find that the applicant is possessed of sufficient financial ability or credit to render certain the payment of compensation, etc., to his injured and to the dependents of his killed employes, the amount of the bond or security required to be given by the applicant shall be determined, and the applicant notified forthwith of such finding, and of the amount of the bond or security required to be given by him, and with such notice will be furnished a statement showing the amount the applicant will be required to pay into the state. insurance fund to be credited to the surplus fund, together with a payin-order on the treasurer of state for said amount; and upon the filing of a bond with the commission in the amount fixed by it, conditioned as hereinafter provided, or the depositing with the treasurer of state of such security, and the receipt of notice from the treasurer of state that the payment required to be made into the state insurance fund has been made, a certificate of such facts will be issued to the applicant by the commission. RULE VII. National and state banks, which file statements with the superintendent of banks, as required by law, and railroads and public service corporations which file financial statements with the public utilities commission, will not be required to give bond or security conditioned for the performance of their obligation under the law to pay compensation, etc., directly to their injured or the dependents of their killed employes. All other employers will be required to give bond with some surety company authorized to do business in the state of Ohio as surety thereon, the penal amount of such bond to be not less than $15,000.00 in any instance, or not less than the amount of the semiannual premium which such employer would pay into the state insurance fund if he were a contributor thereto, where such amount exceeds the sum of $15,000.00; or to deposit with the treasurer of state bonds of the United States, the state of Ohio, or of cities, villages, townships, school districts or other taxing districts of the state of Ohio equal to the amount of the penalty provided in cases where surety bonds are given. RULE VIII. Surety bonds herein required to be given by employers shall be given to the state of Ohio for the benefit of the injured or the depedents of killed employes of the employer filing the same, and shall be conditioned for the payment by the employer of such compensation to injured employes or to the dependents of killed employes of such employer, and the furnishing to them of medical, surgical, nursing and hospital attention and services and medicines and funeral expenses equal to or greater than is provided by law and for the full compliance with the rules and regulations of the commission and its rules. of procedure. United States, state, municipal or other bonds deposited by employers with the treasurer of state shall be for the benefit of the injured or the dependents of killed employes of the employers so depositing the same and there shall be filed therewith a statement signed by the employer authorizing the state of Ohio to convert said bonds, or so many thereof as may be necessary for the purpose, into money, and to use the same for the payment of any claim or claims for compensation, etc., of injured or dependents of killed employes which may not be paid by such employers so depositing said bonds. RULE IX. Employers who elect to pay compensation, etc., in accordance with these rules and regulations shall file with the commission a report of wage expenditure semi-annually as other employers are required to do, shall keep a record of all injuries occurring to their employes and report the same to the commission upon blanks to be furnished by it, and shall observe all of the rules and regulations of the commission and its rules of procedure with reference to determining the amount of compensation, etc., due to injured or the depedents of killed employes, and the payment of the same. RULE X. The finding of facts to be issued by the commission to employers under its rules and regulations shall be in substantially the following form, viz.: THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION OF OHIO. CITY OF COLUMBUS. In the matter of the application of. Ohio. No......of... FINDING OF FACTS. (Name of Employer.) having heretofore filed-his-its-their-desire to elect to pay compensation, etc to-his-its-their-injured employes or to the depedents of—his—its—their-killed employes and to furnish medical, surgical, nursing and hospital attention and services and medicines and funeral expenses to them equal to or greater than is provided for by the workmen's compensation law, and said application and its contents having been carefully examined by the commission, from which it appears that said.... .possesses sufficient financial ability or credit to render certain the payment of such compensation and the furnishing of such medical, surgical, nursing and hospital attention. and services and medicines and funeral expenses to-his-its-theirinjured and the dependents of-his-its-their-killed employes, and does not desire to insure the payment thereof or indemnify-himself— itself themselves against loss sustained by the direct payment thereof. The commission further finds that said............. has paid into the treasury of the state of Ohio to the credit of the state insurance fund the sum of $..... the same being. .% of the semi-annual premium due from said.... had not the election been made to pay directly such compensation, etc., and that said..... (a) filed a bond with the commission with the.. Surety Company of..... of $.... of the commission; has ..as surety thereon in the sum conditioned as required by the rules and regulations (b) deposited with the treasurer of state bonds in the aggregate amount of $......, as follows, viz.:.. as required by the rules and regulations of the commission. Said.. ..is therefore authorized to furnish compensation, etc., equal to or greater than that provided by law, directly to-his-its-their-injured and the dependents of— his-its-their-killed employes from the.....day of... 19. ..., until the further action of this commission. THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION OF OHIO, The undersigned (hereinafter referred to as the applicant) hereby makes the following declarations for the purpose of enabling The Industrial Commission of Ohio to make a finding of facts as to whetherhe-it-possesses sufficient financial ability or credit to render certain the payment of compensation and the furnishing of medical, surgical, nursing and hospital attention and services and medicines and funeral expenses to-his-its-injured employes or the depedents of-his-its -killed employes. Applicant states that-he-it-has heretofore filed with The Industrial Commission of Ohio an "Application for Classification of Industry and for Premium," (or if such application has not heretofore been filed that the same is filed herewith). Applicant hereby adopts all of the statements made in-his-itsApplication for Clasification of Industry and for Premium as if the same were rewritten herein, and hereby makes each of said statements a part hereof, and sets forth the following additional facts:— |