NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1172

SENATE BILL 443

 

 

AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF HAROLD E. MINGES OF THE STATE HIGHWAY PATROL FOR INJURIES RECEIVED IN LINE OF DUTY AND WHILE ON SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT TO THE OFFICE OF GOVERNOR OF NORTH CAROLINA.

 

WHEREAS, Harold E. Minges, a Member of the State Highway Patrol, was on special and personal assignment to the Office of the Governor of North Carolina for many years prior to September 1, 1960, and was forced by physical inability to carry out the duties of his assignment to request that he be relieved from said duties during September 1961; and

WHEREAS, Harold E. Minges, while acting in the line of duty was seriously and permanently injured in a motor vehicle accident on May 12, 1951; and

WHEREAS, he was thereby permanently partially disabled; and

WHEREAS, existing statutes fail to permit adequate, just and fair compensation because the latent nature of some of the injuries resulted in his remedies being barred: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the State of North Carolina, or from any surplus funds of the State, or trom any other funds of the said State of North Carolina which are unencumbered the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) which said sum shall be paid to the said Harold E. Minges in full for all additional compensation for medical, surgical and hospital expense, for all pain and suffering sustained by him, for loss of accumulated sick leave benefits, and for the degree of permanent partial disability sustained by him and which he may have incurred as a result of his injury in line of duty.

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 17th day of June, 1965.