GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 772

SENATE BILL 524

 

AN ACT TO EXTEND DEATH BENEFITS UNDER THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION ACT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The preamble paragraph of G.S. 97-38 is amended by inserting after the word "accident," where it appears the second time in the paragraph the following:

"or while total disability still continues and within two years of the final determination of total disability, whichever is later,".

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification and applies to all claims where death occurs on and after that date.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 15th day of July, 1983.