HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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employee or in case of death his dependents, and the employer,
insurance company, association [or], the State Accident Fund, OR
THE SUBSEQUENT INJURY FUND, as the case may be, shall be
reimbursed for the compensation already paid or awarded and any
amount or amounts paid for medical or surgical services, funeral
expenses or for any of the other purposes enumerated in § 36 of
this article, except court costs and counsel or attorney's fees,
which shall be paid by the injured employee and/or his
dependents, and the employer, insurance company, association
[or], State Accident Fund, OR THE SUBSEQUENT INJURY FUND in the
proportion that the amount received by each shall bear to the
whole amount paid in settlement of any claim or satisfaction of
any judgment obtained in the case, and the balance in excess of
these items shall inure to the injured employee, or in case of
death, to his dependents, and the amount thus received by the
injured employee or in case of death by his dependents shall be
in lieu of any award that might otherwise have been made
thereafter in the same case under the provisions of this article
and said case shall thereupon be deemed to have been finally
settled and closed unless the amount thus received by the injured
employee or his dependents from such other person shall be less
than the injured employee or his dependents would be otherwise
entitled to receive under the provisions of this article, in
which event he or his dependents shall have the right to reopen
the claim for compensation under this article to recover the
difference between the amount thus received by the injured
employee or his dependents and the full amount of compensation
which would be otherwise payable under this article.

When any employee has a right of action under this section
against a third party, the period of limitations for such action,
as to such employee, shall not begin to run until two months
after the first award of compensation made to such employee under
this article, and this section shall apply to past and future
rights of action under this section.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1984.

Approved May 29, 1984.

CHAPTER 714

(House Bill 1625)

AN ACT concerning

Tax Sales - Right of Redemption

FOR the purpose of clarifying that a person redeeming property
sold at a tax sale must pay the county collector of taxes or