North Carolina Industrial Commission Workers’ Compensation Act

The following information is provided by the North Carolina Industrial Commission. A link to the full text can be found at the bottom of the page.

§97-1. Short title. This Article shall be known and cited as The North Carolina Workers’ Compensation Act. (1929 c. 120, s. 1; 1979, c. 714, s. 1.) §97-1.1. References to workmen’s compensation. Any reference in any act, public or local, to the “Workmen’s Compensation Act,” “Workmen’s Compensation,” or “workmen’s compensation” shall be deemed to refer respectively to “Workers’ Compensation Act,” “Workers’ Compensation” or “workers’ compensation.” (1979, c. 714, s. 4.) §97-2. Definitions. When used in this Article, unless the context otherwise requires - Employment. - The term “employment” includes employment by the State and all political subdivisions thereof, and all public and quasi-public corporations therein and all private employments in which three or more employees are regularly employed in the same business or establishment or in which one or more employees are employed in activities which involve the use or presence of radiation, except agriculture and domestic services, unless 10 or more full-time nonseasonal agricultural workers are regularly employed by the employer and an individual sawmill and logging operator with less than 10 employees, who saws and logs less than 60 days in any six consecutive months and whose principal business is unrelated to sawmilling or logging. Read the entire act at the North Carolina Industrial Commission website.