CHAPTER 243

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 65-51, 65-52, 65-62 and 65-68, as
amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to workmen’s compensa-
tion generally and, respectively, to compensation for total incapacity,
compensation for partial incapacity, compensation in case of death,
and maximum compensation payable.

[H 286]

Approved March 6, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 65-51, 65-52, 65-62 and 65-68, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia be amended and reenacted as follows:
65-51. When the incapacity for work resulting from the injury
is total, the employer shall pay, or cause to be paid, as hereinafter pro-
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vided, to the injured employee during such total incapacity, a weekly
compensation equal to sixty per centum of his average weekly wages, but
not more than * thirty dollars, nor less than six dollars a week; and in
no case shall the period covered by such compensation be greater than
five supdred weeks, nor shall the total amount of all compensations exceed
* twelve thousand dollars. .

_§ 65-52. Except as otherwise provided in § 65-53, when the inca-
pacity for work resulting from the injury is partial, the employer
pay, or cause to be paid, as hereinafter provided, to the injured employee
during such incapacity a weekly compensation equal to sixty per centum
of the difference between his average weekly wages before the injury and
the average weekly wages which he is able to earn thereafter, but not
more than * thirty dollars a week. In no case shall the period covered by
such compensation be greater than three hundred weeks from the date of
the injury. In case the partial incapacity begins after a period of total
incapacity, the latter period shall be deducted from the maximum period
herein allowed for partial incapacity.

§ 65-62. If death results from the accident within six years, the
employer shall pay or cause to be paid, subject, however, to the provisions
of the other sections of this act, in one of the methods hereinafter pro-
vided, to the dependents of the employee wholly dependent upon his earn-
ings for support at the time of the accident a weekly payment equal to
sixty per centum of his average weekly wages, but not more than * thirty
dollars nor less than six dollars a week for a period of three hundred
weeks, but in no case to exceed * nine thousand dollars from the date of
the injury, and burial expenses not exceeding three hundred dollars. If
the employee leaves dependents only partly dependent upon his earnings
for support at the time of injury, the weekly compensation to be paid as
aforesaid, shall equal the same proportion of the weekly payments for
the benefit of persons wholly dependent as the extent of partial depen-
dency bears to total dependency. When weekly payments have been made
to an injured employee before his death the compensation to dependents
shall begin from the date of the last of such payments but shall not con-
tinue more than three hundred weeks from the date of the injury. If the
employee does not leave dependents, citizens of and residing at the time
of the accident in the United States or Dominion of Canada the amount
of compensation shal] not in any case exceed one thousand dollars.

§ . The total compensation payable under this act shall in no
case exceed * twelve thousand dollars.