NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 390

HOUSE BILL 733

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 97-85 OF THE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ACT CONCERNING THE REVIEW OF AWARDS OF THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 97-85 is hereby amended by adding at the end of such section the following:

"Provided further, the chairman of the Industrial Commission shall have the authority to designate a deputy commissioner to take the place of a commissioner on the review of any case, in which event the deputy commissioner so designated shall have the same authority and duty as does the commissioner whose place he occupies on such review."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of May, 1977.