| (1) |
The office shall investigate each application for a permit to ensure that the person, group of persons, or organization is actually engaged in the manufacture or distribution of goods, articles, or products made by blind persons within the meaning of this act. |
Terms Used In Utah Code 55-5a-5
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Blind: means an individual, or class of individuals, whose central acuity does not exceed 20/200 in the better eye with correcting lenses or whose visual acuity, if better than 20/200, is accompanied by a limit to the field of vision in the better eye to such a degree that its widest diameter subtends an angle of no greater than 20 degrees. See Utah Code 55-5a-2
- Office: means the Utah State Office of Rehabilitation created in Section 35A-1-202. See Utah Code 55-5a-2
- Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
| (2) |
Notwithstanding Subsection (1), the office may issue permits without investigation to nonresident persons, groups of persons, or organizations upon proof that they are recognized and approved by the state in which they reside as authorized to sell such goods, articles, or products pursuant to a law of that state imposing requirements substantially similar to those prescribed by this act. |
| (3) |
Anyone denied a permit may appeal the decision of the office to the executive director of the Department of Workforce Services or the executive director’s designated agent. |
Amended by Chapter 271, 2016 General Session
