GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1985 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 133

SENATE BILL 159

 

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A MINIMUM WEEKLY COMPENSATION FOR CERTAIN VOLUNTEER WORKERS UNDER THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION ACT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The fifth paragraph of G.S. 97-2(5) is amended by adding the following at the end:  "Provided, however, that the minimum compensation payable to a volunteer fireman, member of an organized rescue squad or sworn member of an auxiliary police department organized pursuant to G.S. 160A-282, or senior members of the State Civil Air Patrol shall be sixty- six and two thirds percent (66 2/3%) of the maximum weekly benefit established in G.S. 97-29."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1985.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 29th day of April, 1985.