Opinion No.

The Honorable Doug Wood State Representative P.O. Box 7078 Sherwood, AR 72116

Dear Representative Wood:

This is in response to your request for an opinion on whether the period for income disability benefits provided in Section 1(b) of Act 138 of 1973 ends fifty-three weeks after the date of the accident or is subject to the three year limitation of A.C.A. §16-56-105 (1987).

It is my opinion that the statutory benefit period in question ends fifty-three weeks after the date of the accident.

Section 1(b) of Act 138 (1973), codified at A.C.A. § 23-89-202(2) (Cum. Supp. 1991), provides that every…