39-51-504. Reciprocal benefit arrangements. (1) The department is hereby authorized to enter into arrangements with the appropriate agencies of other states or the federal government whereby individuals performing services in this and other states for a single employing unit under circumstances not specifically provided for in this chapter or under similar provisions of the unemployment insurance laws of such other states shall be deemed to be engaged in employment performed entirely within this state or within one of such other states and whereby potential rights to benefits accumulated under the unemployment insurance laws of several states or under such a law of the federal government or both may constitute the basis for the payment of benefits through a single appropriate agency under terms which the department finds will be fair and reasonable as to all affected interests and will not result in any substantial loss to the fund.
     (2) The department shall participate in any arrangements, approved by the U.S. secretary of labor, with the appropriate agencies of the other states or of the federal government whereby wages or services upon the basis of which an individual may become entitled to benefits under the unemployment insurance law of another state or of the federal government shall be deemed to be wages for employment by employers for benefit purposes, provided that:
     (a) in any instance involving the combining of an individual's wages and employment covered under two or more state unemployment insurance laws, that the base period of a single state law will be used;
     (b) such combining of wages will not involve the duplicate use of such wage credits; and
     (c) such other state agency or agency of the federal government has agreed to reimburse the unemployment insurance fund for such portion of benefits paid under this chapter upon the basis of such wages or services as the department finds will be fair and reasonable as to all affected interests, and whereby the department will reimburse other state or federal agencies charged with the administration of unemployment insurance laws with such reasonable portion of benefits paid under the law of any such other states or of the federal government upon the basis of employment or wages for employment by employers as the department finds will be fair and reasonable to all affected interests. Reimbursements so payable shall be deemed to be benefits for the purposes of this chapter.
     (3) The department is hereby authorized to make to other state or federal agencies reimbursements from or to the unemployment insurance fund in accordance with arrangements made pursuant to this section.

     History: En. Subd. (j), Sec. 11, Ch. 137, L. 1937; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 190, L. 1945; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 91, L. 1971; amd. Sec. 18, Ch. 368, L. 1975; R.C.M. 1947, 87-129; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 57, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 349, L. 1981.