MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                 1703

permanent disability caused by the subsequent accidental
injury.

(c)   The compensation for the foregoing specific
injury shall be paid in addition to, and consecutively
with, the compensation hereinafter provided in subsection
(2) of this section.

(d)    If any employee dies from any cause or causes
not compensable under this article, the right to any
compensation payable under this subsection to the extent
of $45,000.00, unpaid at the date of his death, shall
survive to his surviving dependents as the Commission may
determine, if there be such surviving dependents, and if
there be none such, then to his or her spouse or her
spouse and children under eighteen years of age if there
was, at the time of his death, a legal obligation on the
part of said employee to support his or her spouse, and
if there was no such obligation, then to his children
under eighteen, if any, alone.

(2) In case of temporary total disability,
sixty—six and two—thirds per centum of the average weekly
wages shall be paid to the employee during the
continuance thereof, not to exceed a maximum of
[sixty-six and two-thirds] [[ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-THREE AND
ORE-THIRD]] ONE HUNDRED per centum of the average weekly
wage of the State of Maryland as determined by the
Department of Employment Security. The Department of
Employment security shall report the average weekly wage
of the State of Maryland as of July 1, to the Workmen's
Compensation Commission no later than December 15 of each
year. The average weekly wage used for 1968 shall be
that average weekly wage established by the Department of
Employment Security as of July 1, 1967. In no case shall
the employee receive less than a minimum of twenty—five
dollars per week unless the employee's established weekly
wages are less than twenty—five dollars per week at the
time of the injury, in which event he shall receive
compensation equal to his weekly wages. Nothing in this
subsection shall be construed or applied to affect or
change the law as to any such injury or strain which
occurred prior to the effective date of this subsection.
This section shall only apply to injuries occurring on or
after July 1, 1972.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall not apply to accidental injuries sustained or
occupational diseases incurred prior to July 1, [[1974]]
1975.