NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 631

SENATE BILL 334

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 97-61.6 RELATING TO COMPENSATION FOR DEATH OF AN EMPLOYEE WITH ASBESTOSIS OR SILICOSIS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 97-61.6 is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof a new paragraph as follows:

"Provided further that if the employee has asbestosis or silicosis and dies from any other cause, the employer shall pay, or cause to be paid by one of the methods set forth in G S. 97‑38 compensation for any remaining portion of the 104 weeks specified in G S 97-61.5 for which the employee has not previously been paid compensation, and in addition shall pay compensation for such number of weeks as the percentage of disability of the employee bears to 196 weeks."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.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 upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of June, 1971.