(a) The Division is the authorized agency for vocational rehabilitation of a person with blindness or a person with visual impairment. The Division may pay for training, maintenance, or physical restoration of a person with blindness or a person with visual impairment, and whom the Division finds is eligible for vocational rehabilitation.

Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 2111

  • Division: means the Division for the Visually Impaired under § 7929 of Title 29, a division of the Department of Health and Social Services. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 2101
  • Person with blindness: means an individual with total blindness or visual acuity of not more than 20/200 in the better-seeing eye with best conventional correction or whose vision is limited in field so that the widest diameter subtends an angle no greater than 20 degrees. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 2101
  • Person with visual impairment: means an individual who has a visual acuity of not more than 20/70 to 20/200 in the better-seeing eye with the best conventional correction. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 2101
  • State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302

(b) On receiving an appropriate voucher, the State Treasurer shall make a payment authorized under this section.

27 Del. Laws, c. 102, §§ ?1-3; Code 1915, § ?2584; Code 1935, § ?3057; 45 Del. Laws, c. 217, § ?1; 31 Del. C. 1953, § ?2112; 49 Del. Laws, c. 189, § ?4; 78 Del. Laws, c. 179, §§ ?340, 341; 83 Del. Laws, c. 455, § 16;