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50-3-503 - Death of employee caused by willful violation of standard.

50-3-503. Death of employee caused by willful violation of standard.

Any employer who willfully violates any standard adopted by regulation promulgated pursuant to § 50-3-201, which violation causes the death of any employee, commits a Class A misdemeanor.

[Acts 1972, ch. 561, § 12; 1974, ch. 585, §§ 20, 35; impl. am. Acts 1977, ch. 111, § 44; T.C.A., § 50-541; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 111.]