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R.I. Gen. Laws § 40-9-1. Administrator — Other personnel and expenses — Appropriations — References to “bureau for the blind.”
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(a) The director of human services may appoint a man or a woman qualified by training and experience as administrator of services for people who are blind or visually impaired, to hold office during his or her pleasure, subject to the provisions of chapter 4 of title 36; employ a…
R.I. Gen. Laws § 40-9-10.1. Telephone access to information programs
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(a) The department of human services shall establish, administer, and promote an adaptive telephone equipment loan program. The department of human services, with the assistance of the state’s adaptive telephone equipment loan program committee, established pursuant to § 39-23-1,…
R.I. Gen. Laws § 40-9-11. Cooperation in federal business enterprises program
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The Rhode Island state department of human services is hereby empowered to cooperate with the United States government’s Department of Education in its “Business Enterprises Program for the Blind” and, in connection with the program, to accept the payments and/or reimbursement fo…
R.I. Gen. Laws § 40-9-11.1. Authorization to establish vending facilities for the blind on state property
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(a) For the purposes of providing persons who are blind or visually impaired with remunerative employment, enlarging the economic opportunities people who are blind or visually impaired, and stimulating people who are blind or visually impaired to greater efforts in striving to m…