Code of Virginia - Title 51.5 Persons With Disabilities - Chapter 12 Persons Who Are Blind And Vision Impaired

51.5-60 Definitions
The following terms whenever used in this chapter, shall have the meanings respectively set forth unless a different meaning is clearly required by the context: ...

51.5-61 Appointment, terms and qualifications of members of Board; eligibility for reappointment; quoru...
The Board for the Blind and Vision Impaired is continued. The Board shall consist of seven members who shall be appointed by the Governor for ...

51.5-62 Powers and duties of Board; form of materials
A. The Board shall exercise the following general powers and duties: 1. Advise the Governor, the Secretary of Health and Human Resources, the Commissioner, and ...

51.5-63 Board to administer institutional fund
The Board is authorized to create and hold an institutional fund for its exclusive use and purposes into which it may deposit the proceeds of ...

51.5-64 Commissioner of Department; personnel
The supervision of the Department shall be the responsibility of the Commissioner of the Department under the direction and control of the Governor. The Commissioner ...

51.5-65 Functions, duties and powers of Commissioner
In addition to the functions, duties and powers conferred and imposed upon the Commissioner by other provisions of law, he shall: 1. Ensure that the ...

51.5-66 Authority to receive grants-in-aid and gifts.
The Department is authorized to receive, for and on behalf of the Commonwealth and its subdivisions, from the United States and agencies thereof, and from ...

51.5-67 Donation of equipment.
The Department shall retain title to items of nonexpendable equipment purchased by the Department for individuals or groups of individuals, in accordance with this chapter ...

51.5-68 Register of the blind; reports required of physicians and others
The Department shall prepare and maintain a complete register of the blind in the Commonwealth, which shall include information that the Department deems of value. ...

51.5-69 Information contained in register to be confidential; conditions under which information released; ...
Information contained on the register referred to in § 51.5-68 concerning individuals shall be confidential for purposes other than those directly connected with the administration ...

51.5-70 Establishment of standards of personnel and service
The Department shall, as to matters relating to rehabilitation of the blind or vision impaired, establish minimum standards of service and personnel based upon training, ...

51.5-71 State Rehabilitation Council for the Blind and Vision Impaired created
The State Rehabilitation Council for the Blind and Vision Impaired is hereby created to provide advice to the Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired ...

51.5-72 Establishment of schools and manufacturing and service industries; expenditures
The Department may (i) establish, equip and maintain schools for manufacturing and service industrial training for the employment of suitable blind persons, (ii) pay its ...

51.5-72.1 The State Advisory Board for the Virginia Industries for the Blind
A. The State Advisory Board for the Virginia Industries for the Blind (the Board) is established as an advisory board in the executive branch of ...

51.5-73 Rehabilitation Center for the Blind and Vision Impaired; operation and maintenance
The Department shall have the authority and responsibility for the operation and maintenance of the Virginia Rehabilitation Center for the Blind and Vision Impaired for ...

51.5-74 Operation of library service for persons with disabilities; agreement with The Library of Virgini...
The Department is hereby authorized to maintain and operate a library service for persons who are blind, vision impaired, and disabled who are eligible for ...

51.5-75 Use of earnings of schools and workshops; record of receipts and expenditures
In furtherance of the purposes of §§ 51.5-63, 51.5-66, 51.5-68, and 51.5-72 through 51.5-76, the Department shall have authority to use any receipts or earnings ...

51.5-76 Cooperation with other state agencies
The Department shall cooperate with the State Board of Health and other state agencies in the adoption and enforcement of blindness prevention efforts. (Code 1950, ...

51.5-77 Cooperation with federal agencies
The Department shall cooperate with the federal Department of Education and any other agencies of the United States, in any reasonable manner that may be ...

51.5-78 Operation by Department
The Department is hereby authorized to operate vending stands and other business enterprises in public and private buildings for the purpose of providing blind persons ...

51.5-79 Operation by blind persons
Blind persons under the provisions of this article shall be authorized to operate vending stands and other business enterprises on any property where, in the ...

51.5-80 Contract with nominee to provide equipment and merchandise
The Department may contract with any nominee to provide all necessary equipment and merchandise for the operation of the vending stand and business enterprise program ...

51.5-81 Contract with nominee to furnish services
The Department may contract with the nominee, as agent of the Department, to furnish services, including the purchase of vending stand and other business enterprise ...

51.5-82 Contracts with federal agencies for installation and supervision
The Department may contract with agencies of the federal government for the installation and supervision of vending stands and business enterprises on federal property in ...

51.5-83 Surveys of business enterprise opportunities
The Department shall make surveys of vending stand and other business enterprise opportunities for blind persons in public and private buildings and other properties throughout ...

51.5-84 Licensure of blind adult residents as operators
The Department shall be the agency to license blind persons who are residents of the Commonwealth and who are at least eighteen years of age ...

51.5-85 Selection of location and operator of enterprise; supervision
The Department shall be the agency to select the location of the vending stand and other business enterprise, to select the operator, and to provide ...

51.5-86 Other general duties of the Department
The Department shall perform such other duties as may be necessary and proper to carry out the provisions of this article. (Code 1950, § 63-204.10; ...

51.5-87 Revocation of privilege to operate enterprise
All such privileges to operate vending stands and other business enterprises shall be revocable by the Department in accordance with departmental regulations. (Code 1950, § ...

51.5-88 Selection of location and type of enterprise with approval of custodian
The Department, with the approval of the custodian having charge of the property on which the vending stand and other business enterprise is to be ...

51.5-89 Placement of blind persons in vacancies by Department; vending stands in Capitol; regulations...
When any vending stand or other business enterprise operated in a public building becomes vacant or a vacancy is created through the construction or acquisition ...

51.5-90 Providing blind persons with equipment and merchandise
The Department shall provide blind persons licensed under this article with such vending stand and other business enterprise equipment and a stock of suitable articles ...

51.5-91 Ownership of vending stands and other equipment
The ownership of all vending stands and other business enterprise equipment provided under this article shall, however, remain in the Department, or in the nominee ...

51.5-92 Reports by nominee
The Department shall require the nominee to make such reports in such form and containing such information as the Department may from time to time ...

51.5-93 Requiring nominee to comply with provisions
The Department shall require the nominee to comply with such provisions as the Department may from time to time find necessary. (Code 1950, § 63-204.18; ...

51.5-94 Suspension of nominee; continued operation of program
If the Department, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing to the nominee, finds that the nominee has failed to comply substantially with the provisions ...

51.5-95 Regulations for administration of article
The Commissioner is authorized to adopt regulations for the administration of this article which shall, among other things, provide for the acquisition and disposition of ...

51.5-96 Requiring performance of duties by officers and employees
The Department may require of its officers and employees the performance of such duties to effectuate this article as it deems proper. (Code 1950, § ...

51.5-97 Funds set aside from proceeds of business enterprises
The Department shall set aside or cause to be set aside from the net proceeds of the operations authorized by this article such funds as ...

51.5-98 Exemption from taxation; collection and remittance of sales and meals taxes
A. Except as hereinafter provided, the Department, its nominee, and blind persons operating vending stands or other business enterprises under the jurisdiction of the Department ...

51.5-99 Appeal
Any person aggrieved by any act of the Department or of its agents or employees or of its nominee in the administration of this article ...

51.5-100 Operation of vending machines at rest areas on interstate highways
The Department, in cooperation with the Department of Transportation, is authorized to operate vending machines at rest areas on the interstate highways in the Commonwealth ...

51.5-101 Registration of manufacturers and distributors of goods made by blind persons; authorization to us...
To facilitate ready and authoritative identification of goods or articles made by blind persons, any person and any public or private institution or agency, firm, ...

51.5-102 Goods not to be represented as made by blind persons unless identified as such by label, stamp, etc...
No goods or articles made in this or any other state may be displayed, advertised, offered for sale or sold in this Commonwealth upon a ...

51.5-103 How goods made by blind persons to be stamped or labeled
Any blind workman, or any public or private institution or agency, corporation, firm or association, registered with the Department pursuant to this article, engaged in ...

51.5-104 Use of words "State," "Commonwealth," or "Virginia."
No person, association, or corporation engaged in the sale of blind-made products may use the words "State," "Commonwealth," or "Virginia" in its company or corporate ...

51.5-105 Certain acts declared misdemeanors
Any person, firm, corporation, institution or association, who (i) shall use or employ an imprint, stamp, symbol or label issued or approved by the Department ...