Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 1418-F – Business enterprise program
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To provide blind persons with remunerative employment, enlarge the economic opportunities of blind persons and encourage blind persons to become self-supporting, the officer, board or other authority in charge of a public building or property shall grant to the division authority: [PL 1995, c. 560, Pt. F, §13 (NEW).]
1. Vending facility. To install in that building or property a vending facility whenever a vending facility may be operated by a blind person; and
[PL 1995, c. 560, Pt. F, §13 (NEW).]
Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 1418-F
- Blind person: means a person having not more than 20/200 central visual acuity in the better eye after correction or an equally disabling loss of the visual field so that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angle no greater than 20 degrees. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 1418
- Division: means the Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired in the department. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 1418
- Public building or property: means a building or land owned, leased or occupied by a department, agency or authority of the State or a county or a municipality of the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 1418
- Vending facility: means a restaurant, a cafeteria, including the cafeteria located in the State Office Building in Augusta, a snack bar, a vending machine for food and beverages and goods and services customarily offered in connection with a restaurant, a cafeteria, a snack bar or a vending machine. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 1418
2. Vending machines. To place vending machines operated by the division in a building or property if a vending facility operated by a blind person is not warranted. Income from these vending machines must be used for the purposes set forth in this section.
[PL 1995, c. 560, Pt. F, §13 (NEW).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1995, c. 560, §F13 (NEW).