§ 40-9-1. Administrator — Other personnel and expenses — Appropriations — References to “bureau for the blind.” (a) The director of human services may appoint a man or a woman qualified by training and experience as administrator of services for people who are blind or visually impaired, to hold office during his or her pleasure, […]
§ 40-9-10. [Repealed.] History of Section.P.L. 1936, ch. 2296, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 184, § 2; impl. am. P.L. 1939, ch. 660, § 65; impl. am. P.L. 1940, ch. 802, § 2; G.L. 1956, § 40-11-10; Reorg. Plan No. 1, 1970; Repealed by P.L. 1990, ch. 492, § 14, effective July 12, 1990.
§ 40-9-10.1. Telephone access to information programs. (a) The department of human services shall establish, administer, and promote an adaptive telephone equipment loan program. The department of human services, with the assistance of the state’s adaptive telephone equipment loan program committee, established pursuant to § 39-23-1, shall also develop the appropriate rules, regulations, and service […]
§ 40-9-11. Cooperation in federal business enterprises program. The Rhode Island state department of human services is hereby empowered to cooperate with the United States government’s Department of Education in its “Business Enterprises Program for the Blind” and, in connection with the program, to accept the payments and/or reimbursement for one-half (½) of the necessary […]
§ 40-9-11.1. Authorization to establish vending facilities for the blind on state property. (a) For the purposes of providing persons who are blind or visually impaired with remunerative employment, enlarging the economic opportunities people who are blind or visually impaired, and stimulating people who are blind or visually impaired to greater efforts in striving to […]
§ 40-9-11.2. Validity of limitations on placement or operation. Any limitation on the placement or operation of a vending facility based on a finding that the placement or operation would adversely affect the interests of the state shall be fully justified, in writing, to the director of administration, who shall determine whether the limitation is […]
§ 40-9-11.3. Provision for vending machines in buildings purchased or leased by state. Whenever any department, agency, or instrumentality of the state shall undertake to acquire by ownership, rent, lease, or to otherwise occupy, in whole or in part, any building, the department, agency, or instrumentality shall make all reasonable attempts to ensure that the […]
§ 40-9-11.4. Compliance with chapter. To ensure that persons who are blind or visually impaired licensed as vending facility operators are afforded the maximum opportunity by which to engage in the conduct of vending within state buildings, it is hereby intended that all agencies, departments, and institutions comply with the provisions of this chapter. History […]
§ 40-9-11.5. Vending machine income. Vending machine income obtained from the operation of vending machines on state property shall accrue: (1) To the licensee who is blind or visually impaired operating a vending facility on state property, or (2) In the event there is no licensee who is blind or visually impaired operating the facility […]
§ 40-9-11.6. Definitions. (a) “Licensed operator” means a person who is blind or visually impaired who has received from the state services for persons who are blind or visually impaired a license that entitles the person to operate a vending facility, receive the profits therefrom, and take responsibility for the continuous maintenance of the facility […]
§ 40-9-12. Agreements as to business enterprises program. The state department of human services is hereby authorized to enter into agreements with the department of elementary and secondary education, and/or its office of vocational rehabilitation for cooperation in the business enterprises program, and, from time to time, to amend the agreements; provided, any agreement or […]
§ 40-9-13. Federal business enterprises funds. The general treasurer shall receive and provide for the proper custody of all funds paid to the state from the federal treasury under the provisions of Public Law 80-165, 29 U.S.C. § 701 et seq., and shall disburse the funds upon orders drawn by the state controller upon receipt […]
§ 40-9-14. Application of receipts from business enterprises program. All receipts collected by the state department of human services as a result of the operation of the program shall be deposited with the general treasurer and are hereby appropriated to carry out the purposes of §§ 40-9-11 — 40-9-13. Any unexpended balance of the receipts, […]
§ 40-9-15. Reports of blindness of persons. (a) Whenever, upon examination at a clinic, hospital, or other institution, or elsewhere, by a physician, optometrist or other person, the visual acuity of any person is found to be twenty/two hundred (20/200) or less in the better eye with the best correction, or the visual acuity is […]
§ 40-9-16. Immunity from liability. No person, who shall render any report required by § 40-9-15, shall be subject to a suit in a civil action, or liable for civil damages, in any action or proceedings arising out of the information contained in the reports submitted. History of Section.P.L. 1966, ch. 223, § 1; G.L. […]
§ 40-9-17. Confidentiality of reports — Authorized uses — Penalty for disclosure. (a) All reports mentioned in § 40-9-15 are hereby declared to constitute confidential matter. It shall be unlawful for any person to make use of, or cause to be used, any information contained in the reports for purposes not directly connected with the […]
§ 40-9-18. Blindness prevention. (a) The department of human services shall, in consultation with the governor’s advisory council for the blind and Saving Sight Rhode Island, establish a blindness-prevention program for children of the state of Rhode Island to promote the screening, testing, diagnosis, and treatment of blindness diseases of the eye and other sight […]
§ 40-9-2. General duties of administrator. (a) The administrator of services for people who are blind or visually impaired shall devote all of his or her time to the duties of his or her office and keep at his or her office in the state house a register of individuals who are blind or visually […]
§ 40-9-3. Advisory council — Appointment of members. Within the department of human services there shall be an advisory council to assist in promoting the interests of people who are blind or visually impaired consisting of nine (9) members, eight (8) of whom shall be qualified electors of the state, who shall be selected with […]
§ 40-9-4. Chairperson of advisory council — Secretarial service. The members of the council shall elect one of their number as chairperson upon the appointment of any new member for a full term and whenever the office may become vacant. The members of the council shall serve without compensation and secretarial service for the council […]
