2010 Code of Virginia
Title 51.5 - PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES.
Chapter 1 - Declaration of Policy; Plan of Cooperation (51.5-1 thru 51.5-2)
51.5-1 - Declaration of policy.
§ 51.5-1. Declaration of policy.
It is the policy of this Commonwealth to encourage and enable persons with disabilities to participate fully and equally in the social and economic life of the Commonwealth and to engage in remunerative employment. To these ends, the General Assembly directs the Governor, Virginia Office for Protection and Advocacy, Department for the Aging, Department for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing, Department of Education, Department of Health, Department of Housing and Community Development, Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, Board for Rights of Virginians with Disabilities, Department of Rehabilitative Services, Department of Social Services, Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired, and such other agencies as the Governor deems appropriate, to provide, in a comprehensive and coordinated manner which makes the best use of available resources, those services necessary to assure equal opportunity to persons with disabilities in the Commonwealth.
The provisions of this title shall be known and may be cited as "The Virginians With Disabilities Act."
(1985, c. 421, § 51.01-1; 1990, c. 458; 1991, c. 563; 2002, c. 572; 2009, cc. 813, 840.)
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