2010 Tennessee Code
Title 49 - Education
Chapter 5 - Personnel
Part 1 - Qualifications Generally
49-5-107 - Blind or visually limited teachers.
49-5-107. Blind or visually limited teachers.
No person otherwise qualified shall be denied the right to enter training in any college or university or engage in practice teaching for the purpose of becoming a teacher on the ground the person is totally blind or visually limited; nor shall any local board of education refuse to employ a licensed teacher on those grounds; provided, that the blind or visually limited person is able to carry out the duties of the position for which the person applies.
[Acts 1951, ch. 58, § 2 (Williams, § 2365.6); modified; Acts 1959, ch. 121, § 1; 1967, ch. 255, § 1; 1974, ch. 654, §§ 58, 59; 1978, ch. 675, § 2; 1981, ch. 172, § 2; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 49-1236; Acts 1987, ch. 308, § 18.]
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