GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1042

HOUSE BILL 1261

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE WORKERS' COMPENSATION FOR FARM WORKERS ON FARMS WITH TEN OR MORE WORKERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 97-2(1) is amended by adding immediately after the words "except agriculture and domestic services," the words "unless 10 or more full-time nonseasonal agricultural workers are regularly employed by the employer".

Sec. 2.  G.S. 97-13(b) is amended by adding immediately after the words "farm laborers" the words "when fewer than 10 full-time nonseasonal farm laborers are regularly employed by the same employer".

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective October 1, 1984.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 29th day of June, 1984.