NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 379

SENATE BILL 275

 

 

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF FUNERAL BENEFITS IN WORKERS' COMPENSATION CASES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. The first paragraph of G.S. 97-38 and the last paragraph of G.S. 97-40 are each amended by striking "five hundred dollars ($500.00)" and inserting in lieu thereof "one thousand dollars ($1,000)".

Sec. 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 1981 and apply to cases arising on and after that date.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of May, 1981.