§ 201. Definitions. As used in this article:\n 1. "Board" means the workers' compensation board created under this\nchapter.\n 2. "Chairman" means the chairman of the workers' compensation board of\nthe state of New York.\n 3. "State fund" means the state insurance fund created under article\nsix of this chapter.\n 4. "Employer," except when otherwise expressly stated, means a person,\npartnership, association, corporation, legal representative of a\ndeceased employer, or the receiver or trustee of a person, partnership,\nassociation or corporation, who has persons in employment as defined in\nsubdivision six of this section, but does not include the state, a\nmunicipal corporation, local governmental agency, other political\nsubdivisions or public authority.\n 5. "Employee" means a person engaged in the service of an employer in\nany employment defined in subdivision six of this section, except a\nminor child of the employer, except a duly ordained, commissioned, or\nlicensed minister, priest or rabbi, a sexton, a christian science\nreader, or member of a religious order, or an executive officer of a\ncorporation who at all times during the period involved owns all of the\nissued and outstanding stock of the corporation and holds all of the\noffices pursuant to paragraph (e) of section seven hundred fifteen of\nthe business corporation law or two executive officers of a corporation\nwho at all times during the period involved between them own all of the\nissued and outstanding stock of such corporation and hold all such\noffices provided, however, that each officer must own at least one share\nof stock, except as provided in section two hundred twelve of this\narticle, or an executive officer of an incorporated religious,\ncharitable or educational institution, or persons engaged in a\nprofessional or teaching capacity in or for a religious, charitable or\neducational institution, or volunteers in or for a religious, charitable\nor educational institution, or persons participating in and receiving\nrehabilitative services in a sheltered workshop operated by a religious,\ncharitable or educational institution under a certificate issued by the\nUnited States department of labor, or recipients of charitable aid from\na religious or charitable institution who perform work in or for the\ninstitution which is incidental to or in return for the aid conferred,\nand not under an express contract of hire. The terms "religious,\ncharitable or educational institution" mean a corporation,\nunincorporated association, community chest, fund or foundation\norganized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable or\neducational purposes, no part of the net earnings of which inure to the\nbenefit of any private shareholder or individual.\n "Employee" shall also mean, for purposes of this chapter, a\nprofessional musician or a person otherwise engaged in the performing\narts who performs services as such for a television or radio station or\nnetwork, a film production, a theatre, hotel, restaurant, night club or\nsimilar establishment unless, by written contract, such musician or\nperson is stipulated to be an employee of another employer covered by\nthis chapter. "Engaged in the performing arts" shall mean performing\nservice in connection with the production of or performance in any\nartistic endeavor which requires artistic or technical skill or\nexpertise.\n "Employee" shall also mean, for purposes of this chapter, a\nprofessional model, who:\n (a) performs modeling services for; or\n (b) consents in writing to the transfer of his or her exclusive legal\nright to the use of his or her name, portrait, picture or image, for\nadvertising purposes or for the purposes of trade, directly to\n a retail store, a manufacturer, an advertising agency, a photographer,\na publishing company or any other such person or entity, which dictates\nsuch professional model's assignments, hours of work or performance\nlocations and which compensa
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