ARTICLE 5. Business Enterprises for the Blind
Article 5 repealed and added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1131.
§§ 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…