51.5-84 - Licensure of blind adult residents as operators. - Virginia Statutes

§ 51.5-84. Licensure of blind adult residents as operators.

The Department shall be the agency to license blind persons who are residentsof the Commonwealth and who are at least eighteen years of age for theoperation of vending stands and other business enterprises.

In licensing operators, the Department shall give preference to those blindpersons who are in need of employment. Persons licensed shall be qualified tooperate such vending stands and other business enterprises.

(Code 1950, §§ 63-204.8, 63-204.11; 1968, c. 578, §§ 63.1-149, 63.1-152;1972, c. 824; 1989, c. 314; 2002, c. 747.)