NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 250

HOUSE BILL 502

 

 

AN ACT TO CREATE A VESTED RIGHT IN WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BENEFITS IN EVENT OF TOTAL DISABILITY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 97-31(17) is amended by adding at the end of the subdivision the following:

"The employee shall have a vested right in a minimum amount of compensation for the total number of weeks of benefits provided under this section for each member involved. When an employee dies from any cause other than the injury for which he is entitled to compensation, payment of the minimum amount of compensation shall be payable as provided in G.S. 97-37."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1979.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of April, 1979.