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LAWS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 633

supplemental allowance received when added to the present
compensation received shall not exceed the maximum weekly
benefit provided in § 36 (2) of this article, subject to
change from time to time. The State Accident Fund,
insurance carrier or self—insured employer shall pay the
supplemental allowance, and shall notify the Commission
upon its decision to pay a supplemental allowance under
this section. The supplemental allowance shall continue
only for the number of weeks that the employee is
entitled to receive benefits under his original award,

(b) The employees eligible under paragraph (a)
of this section shall be entitled to a weekly
supplemental allowance equal to the product of the
following two numbers:

(1)  The difference between the maximum
fixed weekly benefit provided in § 36 (2) of this
article, as it may change from time to time, and the
maximum fixed weekly benefit applicable at the time the
award was made; and

(2)  The quotient of the actual weekly
benefit at the time the award was made and the maximum
fixed weekly benefit applicable at the time the award was
made.

66.

(1) Whenever an employee who has a permanent
impairment due to previous accident or disease or any
congenital condition, which is or is likely to be a
hindrance or obstacle to his employment, incurs
subsequent disability by reason of a personal injury, for
which compensation is required by this article resulting
in permanent partial or permanent total disability that
is substantially greater by reason of the combined
effects of the impairment and subsequent injury than that
which would have resulted from the subsequent injury
alone, the employer or his insurance carrier shall be
liable only for the compensation payable under this
article for such injury. However, in addition to such
compensation to which the employer or his insurance
carrier is liable, and after the completion of payments
therefor provided by this article, the employee shall be
entitled to receive and shall be paid additional
compensation from a special fund to be known as the
"Subsequent Injury Fund," created for such purpose, in
the manner described hereafter in this section, it being
the intent of this section to make the total payments to
which such employee shall become entitled equal to the
compensation that would be due for the combined effects
of the impairment and subsequent injury resulting in
permanent total disability or a substantially greater