§ 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 expenditures for the acquisition of state-controlled vending stands or other business enterprises equipment for the use of persons who are blind, for which appropriation is made by Title II — “Office of Vocational Rehabilitation,” of Public Law 80-165, passed by the Eightieth Congress of the United States, approved July 8, 1947, and known as the “Labor-Federal Security Appropriation Act of 1948.”
History of Section.P.L. 1948, ch. 2007, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 40-11-11; Reorg. Plan No. 1, 1970; P.L. 1999, ch. 83, § 99; P.L. 1999, ch. 130, § 99.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Chapter 40-9 - Services for People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired
Section 40-9-2. - General duties of administrator.
Section 40-9-3. - Advisory council — Appointment of members.
Section 40-9-4. - Chairperson of advisory council — Secretarial service.
Section 40-9-5. - Functions of advisory council.
Section 40-9-6. - Home instruction of people who are blind or visually impaired.
Section 40-9-8. - Proceeds of work of blind and visually impaired workers.
Section 40-9-9. - Cooperation with department of elementary and secondary education.
Section 40-9-10. - [Repealed.]
Section 40-9-10.1. - Telephone access to information programs.
Section 40-9-11. - Cooperation in federal business enterprises program.
Section 40-9-11.1. - Authorization to establish vending facilities for the blind on state property.
Section 40-9-11.2. - Validity of limitations on placement or operation.
Section 40-9-11.3. - Provision for vending machines in buildings purchased or leased by state.
Section 40-9-11.4. - Compliance with chapter.
Section 40-9-11.5. - Vending machine income.
Section 40-9-11.6. - Definitions.
Section 40-9-12. - Agreements as to business enterprises program.
Section 40-9-13. - Federal business enterprises funds.
Section 40-9-14. - Application of receipts from business enterprises program.
Section 40-9-15. - Reports of blindness of persons.
Section 40-9-16. - Immunity from liability.
Section 40-9-17. - Confidentiality of reports — Authorized uses — Penalty for disclosure.