(a) The Workers' Compensation Commission shall award compensation for serious and permanent facial or head disfigurement in a sum not to exceed three thousand five hundred dollars ($3,500).(b) No award for disfigurement shall be entered until twelve (12) months after the injury. Init. Meas. 1948, No. 4, § 13, Acts 1949, p. 1420; Init. Meas. 1956, No. 1, § 2, Acts 1957; Acts 1959, No. 144, § 1; Init. Meas. 1968, No. 1, §§ 2, 3, Acts 1969; 1975 (Extended Sess., 1976), No. 1227, §§ 8-10; 1979, No. 253, § 4; 1981, No. 290, § 4; A.S.A. 1947, § 81-1313.
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