CHAPTER 6. Blind Persons

Chapter 6 added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 1107.

§§ 19500–19652 · 36 sections

1. ARTICLE 1. Orientation Centers §§ 19500–19507 · 8 sections

   • § 19500 The department may establish orientation centers for the blind in such locations as may be deemed necessary to provide on a statewide basis the services to be…
   • § 19501 Each orientation center established under Sections 19500 to 19506, inclusive, shall be residential in character. Blind persons shall be admitted as residents…
   • § 19502 Orientation centers shall provide for short periods of intensive personal and prevocational orientation for blind persons, and for specific vocational…
   • § 19503 The Director of Rehabilitation shall appoint an administrator for each orientation center for the blind who shall administer and supervise the program at the…
   • § 19504 The staff of an orientation center shall be composed of persons trained to assist blind persons in achieving social and economic independence, and whose…
   • § 19505 Each orientation center shall be operated as a unit separate and apart from any state-operated rehabilitation facility. The program of each orientation center…
   • § 19506 The department may: (a) Make rules for the government and direction of orientation centers established under this article, and may prescribe conditions for the…
   • § 19507 (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the department, in accordance with Section 19007, is the authorized recipient of gifts, bequests, and donations…
2. ARTICLE 1.5. Services for Persons with Vision Loss § 19510 · 1 section

   • § 19510 (a) The Department of Rehabilitation shall establish a grant program to provide services to promote independent living to adults who are blind or have low…
3. ARTICLE 2. Field Orientation Services for the Blind §§ 19525–19526 · 2 sections

   • § 19525 The department may appoint counselor-teachers to provide individual guidance and training to adult individuals who are blind. The counselor-teachers shall give…
   • § 19526 (a) Whenever a blind person who has the proper educational qualifications regularly matriculates, enters, and works for a degree, or for a diploma of…
4. ARTICLE 5. Business Enterprises for the Blind §§ 19625–19641 · 22 sections

   • § 19625 For the purpose of providing blind persons with remunerative employment, enlarging the economic opportunities of the blind, and stimulating the blind to…
   • § 19625.5 The department shall support and encourage all participants in the Business Enterprises Program to be as successful at becoming self-supporting as possible.
   • § 19626 A “vending facility” is a location which may sell, at wholesale or retail, foods, beverages, confections, newspapers, periodicals, tobacco products, and other…
   • § 19626.5 (a) The department shall develop and promulgate regulations regarding life standards for vending facility equipment. These regulations shall include, but not…
   • § 19627 (a) In order to implement the priority declared in subdivision (a) of Section 19625, the director shall, in consultation with the committee of licensed blind…
   • § 19628 The governing board of any county, city, city and county, or other political subdivision or the persons or entities owning or controlling private property, may…
   • § 19629 (a) The department shall provide that, if any funds are set aside, or caused to be set aside, from the net proceeds of the operation of the vending facilities…
   • § 19629.5 (a) Notwithstanding Section 3700 of the Labor Code, a vendor licensed by the department pursuant to this article shall operate a facility with workers’…
   • § 19630 (a) After July 1, 1978, all vending machine income from vending machines on state property shall accrue to (1) the blind vendor operating a vending facility on…
   • § 19630.5 (a) The Blind Vendor Revolving Loan Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury, and, notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, is continuously…
   • § 19631 The department shall not cause or permit the establishment or placement of any blind vendor in a vending facility unless the director, in consultation with the…
   • § 19632 (a) Licenses shall be issued only to applicants who are blind within the meaning of Section 19153 and who are qualified to operate vending facilities. The…
   • § 19633 The vendor of each vending facility is subject to the provisions of any ordinance of the county or city in which the facility is located requiring a license or…
   • § 19634 Blind persons who are authorized to operate vending facilities under this article may keep their guide dogs with them on the property while operating the…
   • § 19635 Any blind vendor who is dissatisfied with any action arising from the operation or administration of the vending facility program may submit to the department…
   • § 19636 The director shall assign adequate personnel to carry out duties related to the administration of this article. In selecting personnel to fill any position…
   • § 19637 The director shall provide to each blind vendor access to all relevant financial data, including quarterly and annual financial reports on the operation of the…
   • § 19638 (a) The director shall conduct a biennial election by secret ballot of a committee of licensed blind vendors who shall be fully representative of all blind…
   • § 19639 (a) The director shall adopt and promulgate necessary rules and regulations, in compliance with Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of…
   • § 19640 (a) The department shall prepare and submit a report to the committee of licensed blind vendors and to any appropriate governmental agencies pursuant to…
   • § 19640.5 (a) Commencing with the 1991–92 fiscal year, the State Auditor shall conduct a fiscal audit every third fiscal year, until January 1, 2002, and a programmatic…
   • § 19641 The surviving spouse of a blind vendor operating a facility pursuant to this article shall have the right after the death of the blind vendor to operate the…
5. ARTICLE 6. Blind Vending Operators Annuity Fund §§ 19650–19652 · 3 sections

   • § 19650 It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this article to further carry out the purposes of this chapter by relieving blind vending stand operators from…
   • § 19651 From commissions collected in those facilities in which there are no blind vending stand operators licensed by the Department of Rehabilitation, the Department…
   • § 19652 (a) The Department of Rehabilitation shall: (1) Cooperate with or arrange through private carriers for the administration of an annuity plan pursuant to…