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Chapter 1 - Declaration of Policy; Plan of Cooperation
§ 51.5-1. Declaration of policy - It is the policy of the Commonwealth to encourage and...
§ 51.5-2. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2012, cc. 803 and 835, cl. 60.
Chapter 2 - Definitions; State Rehabilitation Council; Local Disability Services
§ 51.5-3. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2012, cc. 803 and 835, cl. 60.
§ 51.5-5.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2003, cc. 57 and 73.
§ 51.5-7. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1992, c. 755.
Chapter 3 - Department of Rehabilitative Services
§ 51.5-8. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2012, cc. 803 and 835, cl. 60.
§ 51.5-9.01. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2003, cc. 57 and 73.
§ 51.5-9.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2012, cc. 803 and 835, cl. 60.
§ 51.5-11. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2008, c. 563, cl. 2.
§ 51.5-12. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2011, cc. 7 and 166, cl. 2.
Chapter 3.1 - The Commonwealth Neurotrauma Initiative
§ 51.5-12.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2012, cc. 803 and 835, cl. 60.
Chapter 4 - Commissioner of Rehabilitative Services
§ 51.5-13. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2012, cc. 803 and 835, cl. 60.
Chapter 5 - Vocational Rehabilitation
§ 51.5-15. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2012, cc. 803 and 835, cl. 60.
Chapter 6 - Community Services for Persons with Disabilities
§ 51.5-23. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2012, cc. 803 and 835, cl. 60.
Chapter 7 - Virginia Board for People with Disabilities
§ 51.5-31. Board created - There shall be a Virginia Board for People with Disabilities,...
§ 51.5-32. Meetings; compensation - The Board shall meet and report at least quarterly to...
§ 51.5-33. Powers and duties - The Board shall have the following powers and duties: 1....
§ 51.5-34. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1995, c. 34, cl. 2.
§ 51.5-35. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1992, c. 627.
§ 51.5-35.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2015, c. 123, cl. 1.
Chapter 8 - Department for Rights of Virginians with Disabilities
§ 51.5-36. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2002, c. 572, effective July 16, 2002.
Chapter 8.1 - Protection and Advocacy Services
§ 51.5-39.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2012, c. 847, cl. 2, effective January...
§ 51.5-39.13. Conversion of the Virginia Office for Protection and Advocacy to a nonprofit entity - A. Not later than December 31, 2013, the Director, in...
Chapter 9 - Rights of Persons with Disabilities
§ 51.5-40. Nondiscrimination under state grants and programs - No person with a disability who is otherwise qualified shall...
§ 51.5-40.1. Definitions - As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a...
§ 51.5-41. Discrimination against otherwise qualified persons with disabilities by employers prohibited - A. No employer shall discriminate in employment or promotion practices...
§ 51.5-42. Discrimination against otherwise qualified persons with disabilities by educational institutions prohibited - A. No public educational institution or private educational institution, or...
§ 51.5-43. Discrimination against qualified persons with disabilities in exercising right to vote prohibited - No person with a disability who is otherwise entitled to...
§ 51.5-44. Rights of persons with disabilities in public places and places of public accommodation - A. A person with a disability has the same rights...
§ 51.5-44.1. Fraudulent representation of a service dog or hearing dog; penalty - Any person who knowingly and willfully fits a dog with...
§ 51.5-45. Right of persons with disabilities to housing accommodations - A. All persons with disabilities unrelated to their ability to...
§ 51.5-46. Remedies - A. Any circuit court having jurisdiction and venue pursuant to...
Chapter 10 - Local Disability Services Boards
§ 51.5-47. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2011, cc. 41 and 51, cl. 2.
Chapter 11 - Assistive Technology Loan Fund Authority
§ 51.5-53. Definitions - As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires...
§ 51.5-54. Declaration of purpose; Assistive Technology Loan Fund Authority established - A. It is hereby found and determined by the General...
§ 51.5-55. Membership of Board; terms, compensation, and expenses - A. All powers, rights and duties conferred by this chapter...
§ 51.5-56. Powers of the Authority - The Authority is hereby granted all powers necessary or appropriate...
§ 51.5-57. Assistive Technology Loan Fund established - A. There is hereby established a permanent and perpetual fund...
§ 51.5-58. Provision of loans - A. The Board may enter into loan agreements with any...
§ 51.5-59. Annual report; Auditor of Public Accounts to audit books and accounts - The Board shall submit an annual report that includes a...
Chapter 12 - Persons Who Are Blind and Vision Impaired
§ 51.5-60. Definitions - As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a...
§ 51.5-61. Appointment, terms and qualifications of members of Board; eligibility for reappointment; quorum - The Board for the Blind and Vision Impaired is continued....
§ 51.5-62. Powers and duties of Board; form of materials - A. The Board shall exercise the following general powers and...
§ 51.5-63. Board to administer institutional fund - The Board is authorized to create and hold an institutional...
§ 51.5-64. Commissioner of Department; personnel - The supervision of the Department shall be the responsibility of...
§ 51.5-65. Functions, duties and powers of Commissioner - In addition to the functions, duties and powers conferred and...
§ 51.5-66. Authority to receive grants-in-aid and gifts - The Department is authorized to receive, for and on behalf...
§ 51.5-67. Donation of equipment - The Department shall retain title to items of nonexpendable equipment...
§ 51.5-68. Repealed - §§ 51.5-68, 51.5-69. Repealed by Acts 2014, c. 572, cl....
§ 51.5-70. Establishment of standards of personnel and service - The Department shall, as to matters relating to rehabilitation of...
§ 51.5-71. State Rehabilitation Council for the Blind and Vision Impaired created - The State Rehabilitation Council for the Blind and Vision Impaired...
§ 51.5-72. Establishment of rehabilitative manufacturing and service industries; expenditures - The Department may (i) establish, equip and maintain rehabilitative manufacturing...
§ 51.5-72.1. The State Advisory Board for the Virginia Industries for the Blind - A. The State Advisory Board for the Virginia Industries for...
§ 51.5-73. Rehabilitation Center for the Blind and Vision Impaired; operation and maintenance - The Department shall have the authority and responsibility for the...
§ 51.5-74. Operation of library service for persons with disabilities; agreement with the Library of Virginia - The Department is hereby authorized to maintain and operate a...
§ 51.5-75. Use of earnings of rehabilitative manufacturing and service industries; record of receipts and expenditures - In furtherance of the purposes of §§ 51.5-63, 51.5-66, and...
§ 51.5-76. Cooperation with other state agencies - The Department shall cooperate with the State Board of Health...
§ 51.5-77. Cooperation with federal agencies - The Department shall cooperate with the federal Department of Education...
§ 51.5-78. Operation by Department - The Department is hereby authorized to operate vending stands and...
§ 51.5-79. Operation by blind persons - Blind persons under the provisions of this article shall be...
§ 51.5-80. Contract with nominee to provide equipment and merchandise - The Department may contract with any nominee to provide all...
§ 51.5-81. Contract with nominee to furnish services - The Department may contract with the nominee, as agent of...
§ 51.5-82. Contracts with federal agencies for installation and supervision - The Department may contract with agencies of the federal government...
§ 51.5-83. Surveys of business enterprise opportunities - The Department shall make surveys of vending stand and other...
§ 51.5-84. Licensure of blind adult residents as operators - The Department shall be the agency to license blind persons...
§ 51.5-85. Selection of location and operator of enterprise; supervision - The Department shall be the agency to select the location...
§ 51.5-86. Other general duties of the Department - The Department shall perform such other duties as may be...
§ 51.5-87. Revocation of privilege to operate enterprise - All such privileges to operate vending stands and other business...
§ 51.5-88. Selection of location and type of enterprise with approval of custodian - The Department, with the approval of the custodian having charge...
§ 51.5-89. Placement of blind persons in vacancies by Department; vending stands in Capitol; regulations - When any vending stand or other business enterprise operated in...
§ 51.5-90. Providing blind persons with equipment and merchandise - The Department shall provide blind persons licensed under this article...
§ 51.5-91. Ownership of vending stands and other equipment - The ownership of all vending stands and other business enterprise...
§ 51.5-92. Reports by nominee - The Department shall require the nominee to make such reports...
§ 51.5-93. Requiring nominee to comply with provisions - The Department shall require the nominee to comply with such...
§ 51.5-94. Suspension of nominee; continued operation of program - If the Department, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing...
§ 51.5-95. Regulations for administration of article - The Commissioner is authorized to adopt regulations for the administration...
§ 51.5-96. Requiring performance of duties by officers and employees - The Department may require of its officers and employees the...
§ 51.5-97. Funds set aside from proceeds of business enterprises - The Department shall set aside or cause to be set...
§ 51.5-98. Exemption from taxation; collection and remittance of sales and meals taxes - A. Except as hereinafter provided, the Department, its nominee, and...
§ 51.5-99. Appeal - Any person aggrieved by any act of the Department or...
§ 51.5-100. Operation of vending machines at rest areas on interstate highways - A. The Department, in cooperation with the Department of Transportation,...
§ 51.5-101. Registration of manufacturers and distributors of goods made by blind persons; authorization to use official stamp, label, etc. - To facilitate ready and authoritative identification of goods or articles...
§ 51.5-102. Goods not to be represented as made by blind persons unless identified as such by label, stamp, etc.; what goods may be so identified - No goods or articles made in this or any other...
§ 51.5-103. How goods made by blind persons to be stamped or labeled - Any blind workman, or any public or private institution or...
§ 51.5-104. Use of words "State," "Commonwealth," or "Virginia." - No person, association, or corporation engaged in the sale of...
§ 51.5-105. Certain acts declared misdemeanors - Any person, firm, corporation, institution or association, who (i) shall...
Chapter 13 - Department for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing
§ 51.5-106. Board established; appointment, terms and qualifications of members; meetings; chairman - There is hereby continued an Advisory Board, hereinafter referred to...
§ 51.5-107. Powers and duties of Board - The Board shall have the following powers and duties: 1....
§ 51.5-108. Department for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing continued - The Department for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing is continued. The...
§ 51.5-109. Director; appointment; compensation; qualifications - The Governor shall appoint a Director of the Department who...
§ 51.5-110. Powers and duties of Director - A. The Director shall have the following duties and powers:...
§ 51.5-111. Persons who are deaf or hard-of-hearing defined and categorized - For the purposes of this chapter, persons who are deaf...
§ 51.5-112. Powers and duties of Department - The Department shall have the following powers and duties: 1....
§ 51.5-113. Statewide interpreter service - The Department is authorized to establish, maintain and coordinate a...
§ 51.5-114. Gifts and donations; disposition of moneys received - The Department is authorized to receive such gifts and donations,...
§ 51.5-115. Telecommunications relay service; standards; funding - A. As used in this section, unless the context requires...
Chapter 14 - Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services
§ 51.5-116. Definitions - As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a...
§ 51.5-117. Declaration of purpose; Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services created - A. It is hereby found and determined by the General...
§ 51.5-118. Department designated as state agency for purpose of cooperation with federal government - The Department is designated, subject to the provisions of §§...
§ 51.5-119. Department designated as state agency for purpose of coordinating rehabilitative services - The Department is designated as the state agency for coordinating...
§ 51.5-120. Cooperation of Department with other state departments - A. The Department shall collaborate with the Department of Behavioral...
§ 51.5-121. Authority of Department to request and receive information from other agencies; use of information so obtained - The Department may request and shall receive from all departments,...
§ 51.5-122. Confidential records and information concerning adult services and adult protective services; penalty - A. The records, information, and statistical registries of the Department...
§ 51.5-123. Community Rehabilitation Case Management System - The Department shall develop and implement a community rehabilitation case...
§ 51.5-124. Eligibility for community rehabilitation case management - A person shall be eligible to receive community rehabilitation case...
§ 51.5-125. Gifts and donations - The Department is authorized to receive such gifts and donations,...
§ 51.5-126. Donation of equipment - The Department shall retain title to items of nonexpendable equipment...
§ 51.5-127. Commonwealth Council on Aging; purpose; membership; terms - A. The Commonwealth Council on Aging is established as an...
§ 51.5-128. Duties of the Commonwealth Council on Aging - A. The Commonwealth Council on Aging shall have the following...
§ 51.5-129. Creation of State Rehabilitation Council; purpose; membership - The State Rehabilitation Council is established as a designated state...
§ 51.5-130. Commissioner for Aging and Rehabilitative Services - A. The supervision of the Department shall be the responsibility...
§ 51.5-131. Powers and duties of Commissioner - The Commissioner shall have the following powers and duties: 1....
§ 51.5-132. Commissioner to establish regulations regarding human research - The Commissioner shall promulgate regulations pursuant to the Administrative Process...
§ 51.5-133. Cooperation with local authorities - The Commissioner shall assist and cooperate with local authorities in...
§ 51.5-134. Definitions - As used in this article, unless the context requires a...
§ 51.5-135. Powers and duties of Department with respect to aging persons; area agencies on aging - A. The Department shall provide aging services to improve the...
§ 51.5-136. Strategic long-range planning for aging services; four-year plan; report - A. The Department shall develop and maintain a four-year plan...
§ 51.5-137. Administrative responsibilities of Department regarding aging services - The Department shall have the following responsibilities regarding aging services...
§ 51.5-138. Coordination of local aging services and long-term care by localities - The governing body of each county or city, or a...
§ 51.5-139. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2020, c. 728, cl. 2.
§ 51.5-143. Powers and duties of Department relating to universal design and visitability features - The Department shall publicize guidelines on universal design and visitability...
§ 51.5-144. Definitions - As used in this article, unless the context requires a...
§ 51.5-145. Responsibility of the Department for adult services - The Department shall have responsibility for the planning and oversight...
§ 51.5-146. Adult services - Adult services provided by the Department together with local departments...
§ 51.5-147. Appeal to Commissioner regarding home-based and adult foster care services - Any applicant for or recipient of home-based and adult foster...
§ 51.5-148. Establishment of Adult Protective Services Unit; powers and duties - A. The Department shall have responsibility for the planning and...
§ 51.5-149. Policy statement; Virginia Public Guardian and Conservator Program established; definitions - A. The General Assembly declares that it is the policy...
§ 51.5-149.1. Public Guardian and Conservator Advisory Board; purpose; membership; terms - A. The Public Guardian and Conservator Advisory Board (the Board)...
§ 51.5-149.2. Powers and duties of the Board - The Board shall have the power and duty to: 1....
§ 51.5-150. Powers and duties of the Department with respect to public guardian and conservator program - A. The Department shall fund from appropriations received for such...
§ 51.5-151. Minimum requirements for local programs; authority - Every local or regional program with which the Department contracts...
§ 51.5-152. Powers and duties of the Department with respect to Alzheimer's disease and related disorders - The Department shall: 1. Serve as a referral point for...
§ 51.5-153. Alzheimer's and Related Diseases Research Award Fund - There is established a fund to be known as the...
§ 51.5-154. (Expires July 1, 2023) Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Commission; report - A. The Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Commission (the Commission)...
§ 51.5-155. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2020, c. 728, cl. 2.
§ 51.5-159. Definitions - For the purposes of this article: "Auxiliary grant" means cash...
§ 51.5-160. Auxiliary grants program; administration of program - A. As used in this section: "Qualified assessor" means an...
§ 51.5-161. Awarding of grants; purposes; eligible applicants - A. The Department is authorized, subject to other requirements of...
§ 51.5-162. Independent living services - Independent living services provided pursuant to this article shall be...
§ 51.5-163. Centers for independent living - A. Services provided through grants or contracts with centers for...
§ 51.5-164. Statewide Independent Living Council created - The Statewide Independent Living Council is hereby created to develop...
§ 51.5-165. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2016, c. 27, cl. 2.
§ 51.5-166. Eligibility criteria - The Commissioner shall establish eligibility criteria for services to be...
§ 51.5-167. Participation by clients in cost of services - The Commissioner shall establish written standards for determining the extent...
§ 51.5-168. Rights of clients - The Commissioner shall establish written standards governing the rights of...
§ 51.5-169. Cooperative agreements with community services boards and schools - No services funded under the authority of this article shall...
§ 51.5-169.1. Long-Term Employment Support Services and Extended Employment Services - A. Long-Term Employment Support Services and Extended Employment Services shall...
§ 51.5-169.2. Employment Service Organization Steering Committee; membership; terms - A. The Employment Service Organization Steering Committee (the Committee) is...
§ 51.5-170. Eligibility - The Commissioner shall adopt written standards for determining eligibility for...
§ 51.5-171. Assessment - When an individual applies for vocational rehabilitation services provided or...
§ 51.5-172. Individualized plan for employment - A written individualized plan for employment for each recipient of...
§ 51.5-173. Services for individuals - A. Vocational rehabilitation services provided by the Department shall address...
§ 51.5-174. Services for groups - Vocational rehabilitation services provided by the Department for the benefit...
§ 51.5-175. Case closure in extended employment - When a case is closed upon a client's placement in...
§ 51.5-176. Participation by clients in cost of services - The Commissioner shall adopt written standards for determining the extent...
§ 51.5-177. Client rights regarding services - The Commissioner shall establish written standards governing the rights of...
§ 51.5-177.1. Vocational rehabilitation and employment services for law-enforcement officers with a disability - A. The Department shall make information regarding vocational rehabilitation programs...
§ 51.5-178. Definitions - As used in this article: "Advisory Board" means the Commonwealth...
§ 51.5-179. Commonwealth Neurotrauma Initiative Trust Fund established - A. For the purpose of preventing traumatic spinal cord or...
§ 51.5-180. Commonwealth Neurotrauma Initiative Advisory Board established; membership; terms; duties and responsibilities - A. For the purpose of administering the Commonwealth Neurotrauma Initiative...
§ 51.5-181. Procedures for grant applications - The Commissioner shall promulgate regulations establishing procedures and policies for...
§ 51.5-182. Responsibility for complaints and investigations - In addition to its responsibilities for complaints regarding services provided...
§ 51.5-183. Access to clients, patients, individuals, providers, and records by Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman; interference, retaliation, and reprisals against complainants - A. The Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman pursuant...
§ 51.5-184. Confidentiality of records of Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman - A. All documentary and other evidence received or maintained by...
§ 51.5-185. Protection for representatives of the Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman; interference, retaliation, and reprisals - A. Any designated representative of the Office of the State...