California Welfare and Institutions Code ARTICLE 5 - Business Enterprises for the Blind

• Section 19625.
  For the purpose of providing blind persons with remunerative employment, enlarging the economic opportunities of the blind, and stimulating the blind to greater efforts in...
• Section 19625.5.
  The department shall support and encourage all participants in the Business Enterprises Program to be as successful at becoming self-supporting as possible.(Added by Stats. 1990,...
• Section 19626.
  A “vending facility” is a location which may sell, at wholesale or retail, foods, beverages, confections, newspapers, periodicals, tobacco products, and other articles or services...
• Section 19626.5.
  (a) The department shall develop and promulgate regulations regarding life standards for vending facility equipment. These regulations shall include, but not be limited to, life expectancy...
• Section 19627.
  (a) In order to implement the priority declared in subdivision (a) of Section 19625, the director shall, in consultation with the committee of licensed blind vendors,...
• Section 19628.
  The governing board of any county, city, city and county, or other political subdivision or the persons or entities owning or controlling private property, may...
• Section 19629.
  (a) The department shall provide that, if any funds are set aside, or caused to be set aside, from the net proceeds of the operation of...
• Section 19630.
  (a) After July 1, 1978, all vending machine income from vending machines on state property shall accrue to (1) the blind vendor operating a vending facility...
• Section 19630.5.
  (a) The Blind Vendor Revolving Loan Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury, and, notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, is continuously appropriated without...
• Section 19631.
  The department shall not cause or permit the establishment or placement of any blind vendor in a vending facility unless the director, in consultation with...
• Section 19632.
  (a) Licenses shall be issued only to applicants who are blind within the meaning of Section 19153 and who are qualified to operate vending facilities. The...
• Section 19633.
  The vendor of each vending facility is subject to the provisions of any ordinance of the county or city in which the facility is located...
• Section 19634.
  Blind persons who are authorized to operate vending facilities under this article may keep their guide dogs with them on the property while operating the...
• Section 19635.
  Any blind vendor who is dissatisfied with any action arising from the operation or administration of the vending facility program may submit to the department...
• Section 19636.
  The director shall assign adequate personnel to carry out duties related to the administration of this article. In selecting personnel to fill any position under...
• Section 19637.
  The director shall provide to each blind vendor access to all relevant financial data, including quarterly and annual financial reports on the operation of the...
• Section 19638.
  (a) The director shall conduct a biennial election by secret ballot of a committee of licensed blind vendors who shall be fully representative of all blind...
• Section 19639.
  (a) The director shall adopt and promulgate necessary rules and regulations, in compliance with Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3...
• Section 19640.
  (a) The department shall prepare and submit a report to the committee of licensed blind vendors and to any appropriate governmental agencies pursuant to Sections 20000...
• Section 19640.5.
  (a) Commencing with the 1991–92 fiscal year, the State Auditor shall conduct a fiscal audit every third fiscal year, until January 1, 2002, and a programmatic...
• Section 19641.
  The surviving spouse of a blind vendor operating a facility pursuant to this article shall have the right after the death of the blind vendor...

Last modified: October 22, 2018