§ 72-1356 — PRIORITIES

Where the assets of an employer subject to the provisions of this chapter are distributed by an order of court under Idaho law, including any receivership, assignment for the benefit of creditors, adjudication of insolvency, composition, administration of estates of decedents, or similar proceeding, amounts then or thereafter due under this chapter must be paid in full prior to all other unsecured claims except taxes, claims arising under the worker’s compensation act, and claims for wages of not more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250) to each claimant earned within four (4) months of the commencement of proceedings. In the case of such an employer’s adjudication of bankruptcy, judicially confirmed extension proposal or composition under the bankruptcy law, amounts then or thereafter due under this chapter are entitled to such priority as is now or may hereafter be granted under 11 U.S.C. 507.

Legislative History

[72-1356, added 1947, ch. 269, sec. 56, p. 793; am. 1949, ch. 144, sec. 56, p. 252; am. 1998, ch. 1, sec. 73, p. 62.]