Chapter 347 — Chapter 347

§347-1 Visually handicapped defined. A visually handicapped person is one whose vision with correcting lenses is so defective as to interfere with the person's performance of ordinary activity for which eyesight is essential. [L 1947, c 108, §3; RL 1955, §109-3; am L 1959, c 246,…

§347-10 Donations and examinations for sight conservation. (a) Donations. The department of human services in its sight conservation program may accept and expend or distribute donations, eye glasses, and other services for sight conservation and for assistance to blind and visua…

§347-11 Protection of records; divulging confidential information prohibited; penalties; payments to blind inalienable. Sections 346-10 and 346-11, relating to protection of records, divulging confidential information, and penalties, and section 346-33 concerning inalienability o…

§347-12 Blind shop and handicraft program. The department of human services may provide a workshop or home labor program for the blind or others, who, in the opinion of the department of human services, will benefit from the experience. Under the program, the department may train…

§347-13 Persons who are blind, visually handicapped, disabled; public places; public conveyances. (a) Persons who are blind, visually handicapped, or otherwise disabled are entitled to full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of all common carriers, a…

§347-14 Penalty. Any person, business, or agency who violates section 347-13 and any common or public carrier which, and any officer or employee of any common carrier who violates, or causes such carrier to violate, section 347-13 shall be fined not more than $1,000. [L 1945, c 2…

§347-15 Fares for blind person and guide. It shall be lawful under the law of the State for any carrier, whether public or private, whether a public utility or not a public utility, to carry on any conveyance operated by the carrier any blind person and the blind person's guide a…

§347-16 Canes, use in public places. No person, unless blind or visually handicapped and authorized by the department of human services so to do, shall carry or use on any street or highway, or in any other public place, an exposed cane or walking stick which is painted white in …

§347-17 Driver of vehicle, caution. Any driver of a vehicle shall, on approaching a person who is blind or visually handicapped, and is carrying or using an exposed cane or walking stick which is painted white in color or painted white tipped with red, or a person who is blind or…

§347-18 Penalty. Any person who violates section 347-16 or 347-17 shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than six months, or both. [L 1947, c 35, §3; RL 1955, §109-25; HRS §347-18]

§347-19 Rights of blind; partially blind. A blind or visually handicapped person not carrying a cane or using a service animal in any of the places, accommodations or conveyances listed in section 347-13, shall have all of the rights and privileges conferred by law upon other per…

§347-2 Blind, defined. The term "blind" as used in this chapter, whether used as an adjective or noun, means blind or visually handicapped. [L 1947, c 108, §1; RL 1955, §109-5; am L 1959, c 246, §3; am L 1961, c 177, §1; HRS §347-2]

§347-2.5 Service animal, defined. As used in this chapter, "service animal" means any dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disabil…

[§347-20 Legislative findings.] The legislature finds that it is the policy of this State to encourage and enable the blind, the visually handicapped, and the otherwise physically disabled to participate fully in the social and economic life of the State and to engage in remunera…

§347-3 Department; general powers. The department of human services shall administer work with and for the blind, including the registry of the blind, vocational guidance, training, and placement in employment, and other services, including the conduct of activities for sight con…

§347-4 Vocational rehabilitation of blind. The department of human services shall provide vocational rehabilitation for blind and visually handicapped persons in accordance with the provisions of the federal Vocational Rehabilitation Act and the Randolph-Sheppard Act and in accor…

§347-5 Obtaining federal benefits. The department of human services may, as the agency of the State for the assistance of blind or visually handicapped persons, do all things which will enable the State and the blind and the visually handicapped in the State to have the benefits …

§347-6 Registration of blind. The department of human services shall cause to be maintained a complete register of the blind in the State which shall describe the condition, causes of blindness, capacity for education and industrial training, and such other facts as may seem to i…

§347-7 Agencies for information and industrial aid. The department of human services shall maintain or cause to be maintained one or more agencies for employment information and industrial aid, the object of which shall be to aid the blind and visually handicapped persons in find…

§347-8 Workshops. The department of human services may also, whenever it deems proper, aid blind and visually handicapped persons and others, who, in the opinion of the department, will be benefited by the experience, to become self-supporting by employing them in workshops or in…

§347-9 Visiting blind and visually handicapped persons; home teaching. The department of human services may take whatever measures it deems necessary to ameliorate the condition of blind and visually handicapped persons by promoting visits among them, providing instruction in the…