NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1150

HOUSE BILL 881

 

 

AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF PAUL C. ALBERGINE, STATE HIGHWAY PATROLMAN, FOR INJURIES RECEIVED IN THE LINE OF DUTY.

 

WHEREAS, Paul G. Albergine, while about his official duties as a Highway Patrolman, in November of 1949, sustained a serious back injury in apprehending and attempting to take into custody a hit and run offender; and

WHEREAS, said Paul G. Albergine received extensive medical treatment and as a result of said injury is now thirty-six per cent (36%) permanently disabled in the area of his back; and

WHEREAS, he, not understanding the provisions of the Workmen's Compensation Law and through no fault of his own, allowed the statutory time for filing his claim for a hearing to determine his permanent disability to expire; and

WHEREAS, as a result he now has no legal remedy under existing law and no other practicable means of recovering compensation for his injury except by an Act of the General Assembly: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  The North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles is hereby empowered and directed to pay, out of funds appropriated to said Department, the sum of three thousand two hundred and forty dollars ($3,240.00) to Paul G. Albergine, said sum being the amount which would have been paid him had he been compensated for the injury received under the provisions of the North Carolina Workmen's Compensation Act.

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of June, 1963.