CHAPTER 226

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 65-51, 65-58, 65-62, 65-67 and 65-68 of
the Code of Virginia, relating to compensation payments under the
Workmen’s Compensation Act.

[H 16]

Approved March 8, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§65-51, 65-52, 65-62, 65-67 and 65-68 of the Code of Virginia
be amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 65-51. Compensation for total incapacity—When the incapacity
for work resulting from the injury is total, the employer shall pay, or
cause to be paid, as hereinafter provided, 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 twenty-five dollars,
nor less than six dollars a week; and in no case shall the period covered
by such compensation be greater than five hundred weeks, nor shall the
total amount of all compensation exceed * ten thousand * dollars,

§ 65-52. Compensation for partial incapacity.—Except as otherwise
provided in the next section hereafter, when the incapacity for work
resulting from the injury is partial, the employer shall 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 twenty-five 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. Compensation to dependents of employee killed.—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 provided, to the dependents
of the employee wholly dependent upon his earnings 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 twenty-five dollars nor less than
six dollars a week for a period of three hundred weeks, but in no case to
exceed seven thousand five hundred dollars, from the date of the injury
and burial expenses not exceeding three hundred dollars. If the em-
ployee 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
continue 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 shall not in any case exceed one thousand dollars.

§ 65-67. Burial expenses when no dependents.—If the deceased em-
ployee leaves no dependents, the employer shall pay the burial expenses
of the deceased, not to exceed three hundred * dollars.

§ 65-68. Limitation upon total compensation.—The total compen-
sation payable under this act shall in no case exceed * ten thousand *

ollars.