§ 97-85. Review of award. - North Carolina Statutes

§97‑85.  Review of award.

If application is made to theCommission within 15 days from the date when notice of the award shall havebeen given, the full Commission shall review the award, and, if good ground beshown therefor, reconsider the evidence, receive further evidence, rehear theparties or their representatives, and, if proper, amend the award: Provided,however, when application is made for review of an award, and such an award hasbeen heard and determined by a commissioner of the North Carolina IndustrialCommission, the commissioner who heard and determined the dispute in the firstinstance, as specified by G.S. 97‑84, shall be disqualified from sittingwith the full Commission on the review of such award, and the chairman of theIndustrial Commission shall designate a deputy commissioner to take suchcommissioner's place in the review of the particular award. The deputycommissioner so designated, along with the two other commissioners, shallcompose the full Commission upon review. Provided further, the chairman of theIndustrial Commission shall have the authority to designate a deputycommissioner to take the place of a commissioner on the review of any case, inwhich event the deputy commissioner so designated shall have the same authorityand duty as does the commissioner whose place he occupies on such review. (1929,c. 120, s. 59; 1963, c. 402; 1977, cc. 390, 431.)