O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 31-29-1 (2019)

Amount of compensation

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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Any employee of any state institution, agency, or department charged with the care, treatment, or diagnosis of persons infected with tuberculosis or infectious hepatitis who contracts tuberculosis or infectious hepatitis while employed by such institution, agency, or department may be carried on the payroll of such institution, agency, or department at one-half of his total compensation or $150.00 per month, whichever is less, for the duration of his disability due to tuberculosis or infectious hepatitis, not to exceed 350 weeks. In the event of death of the employee while receiving compensation under this Code section, such compensation shall immediately cease.

History

Ga. L. 1953, Jan.-Feb. Sess., p. 513, § 1; Code 1933, § 88-2401,

enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1; Ga. L. 1970, p. 737, § 1.

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Applicability to employee retiring before effective date of Ga. L. 1953, Jan.-Feb. Sess., p. 513. - Employee who has not retired under Employee’s Retirement Act and who contracted infectious

hepatitis prior to effective date of Ga. L. 1953, Jan.-Feb. Sess., p. 513, § 1 et seq., would not be compensated under this section. 1970 Op. Att’y Gen. No. U70-170.

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 82 Am. Jur. 2d, Worker’s Compensation, §§ 359 et seq., 383.

C.J.S. - 100 C.J.S. (Rev), Workers’ Compensation, § 547.