(a) All rehabilitation services, as defined in this part, may be provided under this part to eligible blind handicapped individuals, and in any event, such services shall include training, maintenance, placement, guidance and physical restoration services.

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 71-4-605

  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of human services. See Tennessee Code 71-4-602
  • Department: means the department of human services. See Tennessee Code 71-4-602
  • Director: means the director of the division of services for the blind. See Tennessee Code 71-4-602
  • Division: means the division of services for the blind in the department of human services. See Tennessee Code 71-4-602
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Livestock: means all equine as well as animals that are being raised primarily for use as food or fiber for human utilization or consumption including, but not limited to, cattle, sheep, swine, goats, and poultry. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Maintenance: means the provision of money on behalf of a blind individual with employment barriers to cover the necessary living expenses, and health and maintenance essential to achieving the individual's vocational rehabilitation. See Tennessee Code 71-4-602
  • Physical restoration: includes :
    (A) Corrective surgery or therapeutic treatment necessary to correct or substantially modify a physical or mental condition that is stable or slowly progressive and that constitutes a substantial barrier to employment, or that necessitates institutional care or attendant care, but that is of such a nature that such correction or modification may reasonably be expected to eliminate or substantially reduce such barrier within a reasonable length of time, and includes psychiatric treatment, dentistry, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech or hearing therapy, treatment of medical complications and emergencies that are associated with or arise out of physical restoration services or are inherent in the conditions under treatment, and other medical services related to rehabilitation. See Tennessee Code 71-4-602
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Vocational rehabilitation: means making an individual able, or increasing an individual's ability to:
    (A) Engage in a remunerative occupation. See Tennessee Code 71-4-602
  • Vocational rehabilitation services: means :
    (A) Diagnostic and related services, including transportation, incidental to the determination of whether an individual is a blind individual with employment barriers, and if so, the individual's eligibility for, and the nature and scope of other vocational rehabilitation services to be provided. See Tennessee Code 71-4-602
(b) Within such limits and under such conditions as may be specified in appropriations for rehabilitation facilities and workshops for the blind, the department may establish rehabilitation facilities and workshops for the blind.
(c)

(1) Appropriations, federal grants and donations for vocational rehabilitation services for the blind, unless otherwise restricted, shall be available for all vocational rehabilitation services for the blind provided under the state plan for the blind, and for the acquisition of vending stands or other equipment and initial stocks, including livestock, and supplies for use by blind individuals in any type of small business, the operation of which will be improved through management and supervision by the division.
(2) State appropriations and donations for vocational rehabilitation of the blind shall likewise be available for the purpose, whenever federal funds are made available to the state under § 3 of the federal vocational rehabilitation of the blind amendments of 1954, for initiating projects for the extension and improvement of vocational rehabilitation services for the blind, or under § 4 of such act for projects for research, demonstrations, training and traineeships, and for planning for an initiating expansion of vocational rehabilitation services for the blind under the state plan for the blind.
(3) The general assembly shall appropriate for vocational rehabilitation of the blind such sums as are necessary, along with available federal and other funds, to carry out the purposes of this part. The acceptance of such federal and other funds, and their use for vocational rehabilitation of the blind, subject to such restrictions as may be imposed by the donor and are not inconsistent with this part, is hereby authorized.
(d) The state treasurer is hereby designated as the custodian of all funds received from the federal government for the purpose of carrying out any federal statutes pertaining to the vocational rehabilitation of the blind.
(e) The director is hereby authorized and empowered with the approval of the commissioner to accept and use gifts made unconditionally by will or otherwise for carrying out the purposes of this part. Gifts made under such conditions, as in the judgment of the commissioner are proper and consistent with this part, may be so accepted and shall be held, invested, reinvested, and used in accordance with the conditions of the gift.
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