Sec. 10-297. Employment and aid. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 10-297. Employment and aid. The director is authorized to aid in securing employment for capable blind or partially blind persons in industrial and mercantile establishments and in other positions which offer financial returns. Said director may aid needy blind persons in such way as said director deems expedient, expending for such purpose such sum as the General Assembly appropriates, provided the maximum expenditure for any one person shall not exceed the sum of nine hundred and sixty dollars in a fiscal year, but, if said maximum amount is insufficient to furnish necessary medical or hospital treatment to a beneficiary, said director may authorize payment of such additional costs as he deems necessary and reasonable.

      (1949 Rev., S. 1613; June, 1955, S. 1003d; 1961, P.A. 539, S. 6; 1969, P.A. 159, S. 4; P.A. 78-218, S. 202.)

      History: 1961 act changed maximum expenditure from monthly to annual basis and clarified that additional payment was in discretion of board; 1969 act substituted director for board; P.A. 78-218 replaced personal pronoun "he" with "said director".