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2007 vol. I bk. 8 7445 (2007)

handle is hein.ssl/ssar0056 and id is 1 raw text is: ACTS OF ARKANSAS

ACT 1415
AN ACT TO AMEND ARKANSAS CODE § 11-9-
525 CONCERNING        COMPENSATION       FOR
SECOND    INJURIES; TO AMEND A PRO-
TION1 OF THE ARKANSAS CODE WHICH
RESULTED FROM INITIATED ACT 4 OF
1948; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
Subtitle
AN ACT TO AMEND ARKANSAS CODE § 11-9-
525 CONCERNING COMPENSATION FOR
SECOND     INJURIES AND      TO   AMEND     A
PROTION2 OF       THE    ARKANSAS      CODE
WHICH RESULTED FROM INITIATED ACT
4 OF 1948.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS:
SECTION     1. Arkansas   Code   § 11-9-525   is
amended to read as follows:
11-9-525. Compensation for disability-Second in-
juries.
(a)(1) The Second Injury Trust Fund established in
this chapter is a special fund designed to ensure that
an employer employing a handicapped worker will not,
in the event that the worker suffers an injury on the
job, be held liable for a greater disability or impair-
ment than actually occurred while the worker was in
his or her employment.
(2) The employee is to be fully protected in that
the fund pays the worker the difference between the
employer's liability and the balance of his or her
disability or impairment which results from all disabil-
ities or impairments combined.
1 So in enrolled act.
2 So in enrolled act.
Additions are indicated by underline; deletions by st.ikeout

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