CHAPTER 568

AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 65-51, 65-52, 65-62 and 65-68, as
amended, of the Code of Virginta, relating to workmen’s compensation
generally and, respectively, to compensation for total incapacity, com-
pensation for partial incapacity, compensation in case of death, and
maximum compensation payable. a

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Approved March 29, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

. 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 provided,
to the injured employee during such total incapacity, a weekly compensa-
tion equal to sixty per centum of his average weekly wages, but not more
than * thirty-three 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 * thirteen
thousand two hundred dollars.

§ 65-52. 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 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-three 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. i,

§ 65-62. If death results from the accident within six years, the em-
ployer 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 * thirty-three
dollars nor less than six dollars a week for a period of three hundred weeks,
but in no case to exceed * nine thousand nine 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. The total compensation payable under this act shall in no
case exceed * thirteen thousand two hundred dollars.