Georgia Code
Article 3 - Aid to the Blind
§ 49-4-51. Definitions; When Person Considered Blind

History. Ga. L. 1937, p. 568, §§ 1, 2; Ga. L. 1952, p. 233, § 1; Ga. L. 1957, p. 368, § 4; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, §§ 3-5, 3-6/HB 228; Ga. L. 2018, p. 550, § 3-5/SB 407.
The 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2018, substituted the present provisions of paragraph (a)(2) for the former provisions, which read: “ ‘Assistance’ means money payments to or hospital care in behalf of needy blind individuals but does not include any such payments to or care in behalf of any such individual who is an inmate of a public institution (except as a patient in a medical institution) nor any individual who:”; added paragraph (a)(3); redesignated former paragraphs (a)(3) and (a)(4) as present paragraphs (a)(4) and (a)(5), respectively; added paragraph (a)(6); and redesignated former paragraphs (a)(5) and (a)(6) as present paragraphs (a)(7) and (a)(8), respectively.
Law reviews.
For article on the 2018 amendment of this Code section, see 35 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 45 (2018).