§ 15-63. Definitions.

For the purposes of this article, the following definitions are adopted.

Employee shall mean a person who works for an employer for wages, compensation, or other things of value, but shall not include any person employed in the domestic services of another in a private residence.

Employer includes every person, firm, corporation, partnership, stock association, agent, manager, representative or foreman or any other person having control or custody of any employment, place of employment, or any employee; except carriers regulated by the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Place of employment shall mean every place where, either temporarily or permanently, any trade, industry, or business is carried on, or where any person is directly or indirectly employed by another for direct or indirect gain or profit, but not including domestic service performed in a private residence.

Safe and safety as applied to employment or places of employment, mean such freedom to employees from occupational injury as the nature of the employment reasonably permits.

Safety device and safeguard shall be given a broad interpretation so as to include any practicable method of mitigating or preventing occupational injury.

(Code 1959, § 10C-3; Ord. No. 39875, § 3, 8-26-71)