CHAPTER 298

An Act to amend and reenact § 65-66 of the Code of Virginia, relating to

termination of dependency in workmen’s compensation cases. [H 650]

Approved March 15, 1960

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 65-66 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
follows:

§ 65-66. For the purpose of this Act, the dependence of a widow or
widower of a deceased employee shall terminate with legal or common-law
remarriage, and the amount to be received by him or her shall be divided
among the children or other dependents in the proportion in which they are
receiving compensation, and the dependence of a child or any minor
dependent, except a child or minor dependent physically or mentally in-
capacitated from earning a livelihood, shall terminate with the attainment
of eighteen years of age, or upon earlier marriage of a female child.