§ 9-679. Determination of dependency

   (a) Applicability of section. -- This section applies only to a covered employee of a municipal corporation or a county who is subject to § 9-503 of this title and the dependents of those covered employees, unless the municipal corporation or county has made an election under § 9-683.6 of this subtitle.

(b) In general. -- Except as otherwise provided in this subtitle, the Commission shall determine all questions of partial or total dependency in accordance with the facts of each case that existed:

   (1) at the time of the occurrence of the accidental personal injury that caused the death of the covered employee; or

   (2) on the date of disablement from the occupational disease that caused the death of the covered employee.

HISTORY: An. Code 1957, art. 101, § 22, 36; 1991, ch. 8, § 2; ch. 21, § 5; 2011, chs. 435, 436.