Chap. 287.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 30, as amended, 31 as
amended, and 39 as amended, of Chapter 400 of the Acts of Assembly of 1918,
which became a law March 21, 1918, known as “The Virginia Workmen's
Compensation Act” and to amend the chapter by adding a new section num-
bered 4-a, relating to coverage of Act. fH B 109]

Approved March 26, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virgima:

1. That sections thirty as amended, thirty-one as amended, and
thirty-nine as amended, of chapter four hundred of the Acts of Assembly
of nineteen hundred eighteen, which become a law March twenty-one,
lineteen hundred eighteen, known as “the Virginia Workmen's Com-
yensation Act’, be amended and re-enacted, and that the act be amended
yy adding a new section numbered four-a, the new and amended sections
eading as follows:

Section 4-a. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this act any
erson, firm or private corporation, including any public service corpora-
ion, Which employs seven or more employees and which 1s not exempted
rom the operation of this act under sections nine and fifteen shall have no
ption to exclude himself or itself from the operation of this act and shall
¢ fully subject to all the provisions thereof.

Section 30. Where the incapacity for work resulting from the in-
iry is total. the emplover shall pay, or cause to be paid, as hereinafter
rovided, to the injured employee during such total incapacity, a weekly
Nupensation equal to sixty per centum of his average weekly wages,
It not more than twenty dollars, nor less than six dollars a week; and

no case shall the period covered by such compensation be greater than
-e hundred weeks, nor shall the total amount of all compensation exceed
ven thousand eight hundred dollars.

Section 31. Except as otherwise provided in the next section here-
er, where the incapacity for work resulting from the injury ts partial,
> employer shall pay, or cause to be paid, as hereinafter provided, to the
ured employee during such incapacity a weekly compensation equal to
ty per centum of the difference between his average weekly wages be-
e the injury and the average weekly wages which he is able to earn
reafter, but not more than twenty dollars a week, and in no case shall

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.

Section 39. If the death results from the accident within six years,
the employer shall pay or cause to be paid, subject, however, to the pro-
visions of the other sections of this act, in one of the methods hereinafter
provided, to the dependents of the employee wholly dependent upon his
earnings for support at the time of accident a weekly payment equal to
sixty per centum of his average weekly wages, but not more than twenty
dollars nor less than six dollars a week for a period of three hundred
weeks, but in no case to exceed six thousand six hundred dollars, from
the date of the injury and burial expenses not exceeding one hundred
and fifty dollars. If the employee leave dependents only partly dependent
upon his earnings for support at the time of injury, the weekly com-
pensation to be paid as aforesaid, shall equal the same proportion of the
weekly payments for the benefit of persons wholly dependent, as the ex-
tent of partial dependency 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 continue more than three hundred weeks from
the date of the injury. If the employee does not leave dependent, citizens
of and residing at the time of the accident in the United States or Do-
minion of Canada, the amount of compensation shall not in any case
exceed one thousand dollars.