(820 ILCS 405/216) (from Ch. 48, par. 326)
Sec. 216.
A.
The term "employment" shall not include service performed as
an officer or member of a crew on or in connection with a vessel which is
not an American vessel; and service performed as an officer or member of a
crew of an American vessel on or in connection with such vessel, if the
operating office, from which the operations of the vessel operating on
navigable waters within or within and without the United States are
ordinarily and regularly supervised, managed, directed and controlled, is
without this State. The term "American vessel" means any vessel documented
or numbered under the laws of the United States; and includes any vessel
which is neither documented or numbered under the laws of the United States
nor documented under the laws of any foreign country, if its crew is
employed solely by one or more citizens or residents of the United States
or corporations organized under the laws of the United States or of any
State.
B. The term "employment" shall not include service performed by an
individual on or in connection with an aircraft which is not an American
aircraft, if the individual is employed on or in connection with such
aircraft when outside the United States. The term "American aircraft" means
an aircraft registered under the laws of the United States.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 1784.)
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