51.5-1 - Declaration of policy. - Virginia Statutes

§ 51.5-1. Declaration of policy.

It is the policy of this Commonwealth to encourage and enable persons withdisabilities to participate fully and equally in the social and economic lifeof the Commonwealth and to engage in remunerative employment. To these ends,the General Assembly directs the Governor, Virginia Office for Protection andAdvocacy, Department for the Aging, Department for the Deaf andHard-of-Hearing, Department of Education, Department of Health, Department ofHousing and Community Development, Department of Behavioral Health andDevelopmental Services, Board for Rights of Virginians with Disabilities,Department of Rehabilitative Services, Department of Social Services,Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired, and such other agencies as theGovernor deems appropriate, to provide, in a comprehensive and coordinatedmanner which makes the best use of available resources, those servicesnecessary to assure equal opportunity to persons with disabilities in theCommonwealth.

The provisions of this title shall be known and may be cited as "TheVirginians With Disabilities Act."

(1985, c. 421, § 51.01-1; 1990, c. 458; 1991, c. 563; 2002, c. 572; 2009, cc.813, 840.)