CHAPTER 654
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 65-51, 65-52, 65-62, and 65-68, of
the Code of Virginia, relating to compensation payments under the
Workmen’s Compensation Act.
[H 227]
Approved April 7, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That Sections 65-51, 65-52, 65-62, 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-seven dollars, nor less
than siz 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 compensations exceed ten thousand eight hundred dollars.

§ 65-52. Compensation for Partial Incapacity.—Except as otherwise
provided in § 65-53, when the incapacity for work resulting from the
injury is partial, the employer shall pay, or cause to be paid, as herein-
after provided, to the injured employee during such incapacity a weekly
compensation equal to sixty per centum of the difference between his aver-
age weekly wages before the injury and the average weekly wages which
he is able to earn thereafter, but not more than twenty-seven 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-seven dollars nor less
than six dollars a week for a period of three hundred weeks, but in no
case to exceed eight thousand one hundred 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 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 em-
ployee 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.

§ 65-68. Limitation Upon Total Compensation.—The total com-
pensation payable under this act shall in no case exceed ten thousand
eight hundred dollars.