GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION
CHAPTER 439
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 97-72 is amended by adding a subsection to read:
"(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article, the Industrial Commission, in its discretion, may designate a qualified physician who is not a member of the advisory medical committee to perform an examination of an employee who has filed a claim for benefits for asbestosis or silicosis. This physician shall file his reports in the same manner a member of the advisory medical committee files reports; and these reports shall be deemed reports of the advisory medical committee."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification and applies to all awards determined by a commissioner or a deputy commissioner on or after that date.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 26th day of June, 1989.