34A-2-903 - Failure to be tested -- Time limit for death benefits.
34A-2-903. Failure to be tested -- Time limit for death benefits.
(1) An emergency medical services provider who refuses or fails to be tested inaccordance with Section 34A-2-901 is not entitled to any of the presumptions provided by thispart.
(2) Death benefits payable under Section 34A-2-702 are payable only if it can beestablished by competent evidence that death was a consequence of or result of the disease and,notwithstanding Subsection 34A-2-702(5), that death occurred within six years from the date theemployee first became disabled or required medical treatment for the disease that caused hisdeath.
Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 243, 2005 General Session