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Volume | 1966 |
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Law Number | 64 |
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CHAPTER 64
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 65-51, 65-52, 65-62 and 65-68, as amended,
of the Code of Virginia, relating to workmen’s compensation for total
and partial incapacity, compensation for dependents of employees
killed and limitations upon total compensation. 141
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Approved March 1, 1966
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. 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 pro-
vided, 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 * forty-five dollars nor less than fourteen 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 * ezghteen thousand * 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 * forty-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. 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 * forty-five dol-
lars nor less than fourteen dollars a week for a period of three hundred
weeks, but in no case to exceed * thirteen thousand * five hundred dollars
from the date of the injury, except, however, those dependents specified
m $ 65-63 (1) and (3) shall be paid a weekly payment equal to sixty per
centum of the employee’s average weekly wages, but not more than forty-
nre dollars nor less than fourteen dollars a week for a period of four hun-
dred weeks from the date of the injury, but in no case to exceed eighteen
thousand dollars, 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 the 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 except to those
dependents specified in § 65-63 (1) and (3) to whom compensation shall
not continue more than four 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.
§ 65-68. The total compensation payable under this act shall in no
case exceed * etghteen thousand * dollars.