§ 1502 - Services for the blind - Vermont Statutes

§ 1502. Services for the blind

For the rehabilitation or amelioration of the condition of the blind, the department of disabilities, aging, and independent living may:

(1) Ameliorate the condition of the blind by devising means for their adjustment, care, instruction, and well-being, including the distribution of books, promotion of visits to the aged and helpless blind, and by other expedient and proper means and methods.

(2) Furnish medical examinations, physical restoration, guidance and counseling, vocational training, maintenance and transportation, occupational materials, tools, equipment and licenses.

(3) Assist blind persons in developing home industries and small business enterprises and marketing their products.

(4) Act as an intermediary between the blind and otherwise handicapped persons and industry for the purpose of arranging industrial homework of a subcontract nature, and pay inherent costs such as workers' compensation insurance and social security taxes.

(5) Contribute to the support of blind persons from this state who are receiving instruction or training in schools or institutions outside the state.

(6) Establish and maintain a revolving fund out of moneys appropriated for the blind, for the purpose of aiding blind persons to produce and sell products of their labor. Money received under this subdivision shall be paid into the revolving fund, and not into the state treasury. (Added 1967, No. 147, § 2; amended 1973, No. 152 (Adj. Sess.), § 15, eff. April 14, 1974; 1981, No. 165 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; 2005, No. 174 (Adj. Sess.), § 90.)