NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 1146
HOUSE BILL 782

AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF ROBERT R. THOMAS, FORMER STATE HIGHWAY PATROLMAN, FOR INJURIES RECEIVED IN THE LINE OF DUTY.

WHEREAS, Robert R. Thomas, while about his official duties as a Highway Patrolman, in February of 1953, sustained a serious back injury in apprehending and attempting to take into custody an intoxicated offender; and
WHEREAS, said Robert R. Thomas received extensive medical treatment and as a result of said injury is now thirty-five per cent (35%) 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 one hundred and fifty dollars ($3,150.00) to Robert R. Thomas, 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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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.