44-509. Incapacitated workman or dependent; exercise of rights; limitation of actions.
(a) In case an injured workman is an incapacitated person or a minor, or when death results from an injury in case any of his dependents, as herein defined, is an incapacitated person "or a minor" at the time when any right, privilege, or election accrues to him under the workmen's compensation act, his guardian or conservator may on his behalf, claim and exercise such right, privilege, or election, and no limitation of time, in the workmen's compensation act provided for, shall run, so long as such incapacitated person or minor has no guardian or conservator.
History: L. 1927, ch. 232, § 9; L. 1939, ch. 213, § 1; L. 1955, ch. 250, § 3; L. 1965, ch. 319, § 2; L. 1974, ch. 203, §8; July 1.