CHAPTER 588

An Act to amend and reenact § 65-49, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to period of limitation applicable to claim for com-
pensation for occupational disease.

[H 686]

Approved March 81, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 65-49, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted, as follows:

§ 65-49. The right to compensation under this chapter shall be
forever barred unless a claim be filed with the Industrial Commission
within one year after a diagnosis of an occupational disease is first com-
municated to the employee or within five years from the date of the last
injurious exposure to the disease in employment, whichever first occurs;
and, if death results from the occupational disease within either of said
* periods, unless a claim therefor be filed with the Commission within
one year after such death. The limitations imposed by this section as
amended shall be applicable to occupational diseases contracted before and
after * July one, nineteen hundred sixty-two.

“Injurious exposure” as used in this section means an exposure to
such disease which is reasonably calculated to bring on the disease in
question. This limitation will cover all occupational diseases covered under
§ 65-43.1 which was enacted as § 65-48 by Chapter 457 of Acts of Assem-
bly of 1958 except
(3) Cataract of the eyes due to exposure to the heat and glare of
molten glass or to radiant rays such as infra-red;

(8) Epitheliomatous cancer or ulceration of the skin or of the corneal
surface of the eye due to pitch, tar, soot, bitumen, anthracene, paraffin,
mineral oil or their compounds, products or residues;

(18) Radium disability or disability due to exposure to radioactive
substances and X-Ray;

(16) Ulceration due to chrome compound or to caustic chemical acids
or alkalies and undulant fever caused by the industrial slaughtering and
processing of livestock and handling of hides.