904.906  Status of inmates on work release.

An inmate employed in the community under this chapter is not an agent, employee, or involuntary servant of the department of corrections, the board of parole, or the judicial district department of correctional services while released from confinement under the terms of a work release plan. If an inmate suffers an injury arising out of or in the course of the inmate's employment under this chapter, the inmate's recovery shall be from the insurance carrier of the employer of the project and no proceedings for compensation shall be maintained against the insurance carrier of the state institution, the state, the insurance carrier of the judicial district department of correctional services, or the judicial district department of correctional services, and there is no employer-employee relationship between the inmate and the state institution, the board of parole, or the judicial district department of correctional services.

Section History: Early form

  [C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 247A.8]

Section History: Recent form

  83 Acts, ch 96, § 107, 159; 85 Acts, ch 21, § 54

  CS85, § 246.906

  86 Acts, ch 1245, § 1509

  C93, § 904.906

Internal References

  Referred to in § 906.1


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