CHAPTER 503

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 65-51, 65-52 and 65-62, as severally
amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to workmen’s compensation
generally and respectively, to compensation for total incapacity, com-
pensation for partial incapacity, compensation to dependents of em-
ployees killed and maximum compensation payable. rH 482]

Approved March 31, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 65-51, 65-52 and 65-62, as severally amended, of the Code of
Virginia, be amended and reenacted as follows: _
65-51. When the incapacity for work resulting from the injury 1s
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 thirty-*seven dollars, nor less than twelve 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
fourteen thousand eight hundred dollars.

§ 65-52. Except as otherwise provided in § 65-53, when the in-
capacity 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-*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. 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 thirty-*seven
dollars nor less than twelve dollars a week for a period of three hundred
weeks, but in no case to exceed * eleven thousand * one hundred dollars
from the date of the injury, and burial expenses not exceeding three hun-
dred dollars. If the employee leaves dependents only partly dependent upon
his earnings for support at the time of the injury, the weekly compensa-
tion 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 par-
tial 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 dependents, citizens of and residing
at the time of the accident in the United States or Dominion of Canada,
ne amount of compensation shall not in any case exceed one thousand

ollars.