85.65  Payments to second injury fund.
  The employer, or, if insured, the insurance carrier in each case of compensable injury causing death, shall pay to the treasurer of state for the second injury fund the sum of twelve thousand dollars in a case where there are dependents and forty-five thousand dollars in a case where there are no dependents. The payment shall be made at the time compensation payments are begun, or at the time the burial expenses are paid in a case where there are no dependents. However, the payments shall be required only in cases of injury resulting in death coming within the purview of this chapter and occurring after July 1, 1978. These payments shall be in addition to any payments of compensation to injured employees or their dependents, or of burial expenses as provided in this chapter.
[C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §85.65; 82 Acts, ch 1161, §20]
89 Acts, ch 33, §1; 98 Acts, ch 1113, §1, 7
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