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2015 Code of Virginia
Title 51.5 - Persons With Disabilities
Chapter 1. DECLARATION OF POLICY; PLAN OF COOPERATIONChapter 2. DEFINITIONS; STATE REHABILITATION COUNCIL; LOCAL DISABILITY SERVICES
Chapter 3. DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATIVE SERVICES
- § 51.5-8. Repealed
- § 51.5-9.01. Repealed
- § 51.5-9.1. Repealed
- § 51.5-11. Repealed
- § 51.5-12. Repealed
Chapter 4. COMMISSIONER OF REHABILITATIVE SERVICES
Chapter 5. VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION
Chapter 6. COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
Chapter 7. VIRGINIA BOARD FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
- § 51.5-31. Board created
- § 51.5-32. Meetings; compensation
- § 51.5-33. Powers and duties
- § 51.5-34. Repealed
- § 51.5-35. Repealed
- § 51.5-35.1. Repealed
Chapter 8.1. PROTECTION AND ADVOCACY SERVICES
- § 51.5-39.1. Repealed
- § 51.5-39.13. Conversion of the Virginia Office for Protection and Advocacy to a nonprofit entity
- § 51.5-40. Nondiscrimination under state grants and programs
- § 51.5-40.1. Definitions
- § 51.5-41. Discrimination against otherwise qualified persons with disabilities by employers prohibited
- § 51.5-42. Discrimination against otherwise qualified persons with disabilities by educational institutions prohibited
- § 51.5-43. Discrimination against qualified persons with disabilities in exercising right to vote prohibited
- § 51.5-44. Rights of persons with disabilities in public places and places of public accommodation
- § 51.5-45. Right of persons with disabilities to housing accommodations
- § 51.5-46. Remedies
Chapter 11. ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY LOAN FUND AUTHORITY
- § 51.5-53. Definitions
- § 51.5-54. Declaration of purpose; Assistive Technology Loan Fund Authority established
- § 51.5-55. Membership of Board; terms, compensation, and expenses
- § 51.5-56. Powers of the Authority
- § 51.5-57. Assistive Technology Loan Fund established
- § 51.5-58. Provision of loans
- § 51.5-59. Annual report; Auditor of Public Accounts to annually audit books and accounts
Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 2. BOARD FOR THE BLIND AND VISION IMPAIRED
- § 51.5-61. Appointment, terms and qualifications of members of Board; eligibility for reappointment; quorum
- § 51.5-62. Powers and duties of Board; form of materials
- § 51.5-63. Board to administer institutional fund
Article 3. DEPARTMENT FOR THE BLIND AND VISION IMPAIRED
- § 51.5-64. Commissioner of Department; personnel
- § 51.5-65. Functions, duties and powers of Commissioner
- § 51.5-66. Authority to receive grants-in-aid and gifts
- § 51.5-67. Donation of equipment
- § 51.5-68. Repealed
- § 51.5-70. Establishment of standards of personnel and service
- § 51.5-71. State Rehabilitation Council for the Blind and Vision Impaired created
- § 51.5-72. Establishment of schools and manufacturing and service industries; expenditures
- § 51.5-72.1. The State Advisory Board for the Virginia Industries for the Blind
- § 51.5-73. Rehabilitation Center for the Blind and Vision Impaired; operation and maintenance
- § 51.5-74. Operation of library service for persons with disabilities; agreement with The Library of Virginia
- § 51.5-75. Use of earnings of schools and workshops; record of receipts and expenditures
- § 51.5-76. Cooperation with other state agencies
- § 51.5-77. Cooperation with federal agencies
Article 4. BUSINESS ENTERPRISES FOR THE BLIND
- § 51.5-78. Operation by Department
- § 51.5-79. Operation by blind persons
- § 51.5-80. Contract with nominee to provide equipment and merchandise
- § 51.5-81. Contract with nominee to furnish services
- § 51.5-82. Contracts with federal agencies for installation and supervision
- § 51.5-83. Surveys of business enterprise opportunities
- § 51.5-84. Licensure of blind adult residents as operators
- § 51.5-85. Selection of location and operator of enterprise; supervision
- § 51.5-86. Other general duties of the Department
- § 51.5-87. Revocation of privilege to operate enterprise
- § 51.5-88. Selection of location and type of enterprise with approval of custodian
- § 51.5-89. Placement of blind persons in vacancies by Department; vending stands in Capitol; regulations
- § 51.5-90. Providing blind persons with equipment and merchandise
- § 51.5-91. Ownership of vending stands and other equipment
- § 51.5-92. Reports by nominee
- § 51.5-93. Requiring nominee to comply with provisions
- § 51.5-94. Suspension of nominee; continued operation of program
- § 51.5-95. Regulations for administration of article
- § 51.5-96. Requiring performance of duties by officers and employees
- § 51.5-97. Funds set aside from proceeds of business enterprises
- § 51.5-98. Exemption from taxation; collection and remittance of sales and meals taxes
- § 51.5-99. Appeal
- § 51.5-100. Operation of vending machines at rest areas on interstate highways
Article 5. SALE OF GOODS MADE BY THE BLIND
- § 51.5-101. Registration of manufacturers and distributors of goods made by blind persons; authorization to use official stamp, label, etc
- § 51.5-102. Goods not to be represented as made by blind persons unless identified as such by label, stamp, etc.; what goods may be so identified
- § 51.5-103. How goods made by blind persons to be stamped or labeled
- § 51.5-104. Use of words "State," "Commonwealth," or "Virginia."
- § 51.5-105. Certain acts declared misdemeanors
- § 51.5-106. Board established; appointment, terms and qualifications of members; meetings; chairman
- § 51.5-107. Powers and duties of Board
- § 51.5-108. Department for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing continued
- § 51.5-109. Director; appointment; compensation; qualifications
- § 51.5-110. Powers and duties of Director
- § 51.5-111. Persons who are deaf or hard-of-hearing defined and categorized
- § 51.5-112. Powers and duties of Department
- § 51.5-113. Statewide interpreter service
- § 51.5-114. Gifts and donations; disposition of moneys received
- § 51.5-115. Telecommunications relay service; standards; funding
Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- § 51.5-116. Definitions
- § 51.5-117. Declaration of purpose; Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services created
- § 51.5-118. Department designated as state agency for purpose of cooperation with federal government
- § 51.5-119. Department designated as state agency for purpose of coordinating rehabilitative services
- § 51.5-120. Cooperation of Department with other state departments
- § 51.5-121. Authority of Department to request and receive information from other agencies; use of information so obtained
- § 51.5-122. Confidential records and information concerning adult services and adult protective services; penalty
- § 51.5-123. Community Rehabilitation Case Management System
- § 51.5-124. Eligibility for community rehabilitation case management
- § 51.5-125. Gifts and donations
- § 51.5-126. Donation of equipment
- § 51.5-127. Commonwealth Council on Aging; purpose; membership; terms
- § 51.5-128. Duties of the Commonwealth Council on Aging
- § 51.5-129. Creation of State Rehabilitation Council; purpose; membership
Article 2. COMMISSIONER FOR AGING AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES
- § 51.5-130. Commissioner for Aging and Rehabilitative Services
- § 51.5-131. Powers and duties of Commissioner
- § 51.5-132. Commissioner to establish regulations regarding human research
- § 51.5-133. Cooperation with local authorities
Article 3. SERVICES FOR OLDER VIRGINIANS
- § 51.5-134. Definitions
- § 51.5-135. Powers and duties of Department with respect to aging persons; area agencies on aging
- § 51.5-136. Strategic long-range planning for aging services; four-year plan; report
- § 51.5-137. Administrative responsibilities of Department regarding long-term care
- § 51.5-138. Coordination of local long-term care services by localities
- § 51.5-139. Responsibility of Department for complaints regarding long-term care services
- § 51.5-140. Access to clients, patients, and individuals, facilities, and records by Office of State Long-Term Care Ombudsman
- § 51.5-141. Confidentiality of records of Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman
- § 51.5-142. Protection for representatives of the Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman
- § 51.5-143. Powers and duties of Department relating to universal design and visitability features
Article 4. ADULT SERVICES
- § 51.5-144. Definitions
- § 51.5-145. Responsibility of the Department for adult services
- § 51.5-146. Adult services
- § 51.5-147. Appeal to Commissioner regarding home-based and adult foster care services
Article 5. ADULT PROTECTIVE SERVICES
Article 6. VIRGINIA PUBLIC GUARDIAN AND CONSERVATOR PROGRAM
- § 51.5-149. Policy statement; Virginia Public Guardian and Conservator Program established; definitions
- § 51.5-150. Powers and duties of the Department with respect to public guardian and conservator program
- § 51.5-151. Minimum requirements for local programs; authority
Article 7. ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS
- § 51.5-152. Powers and duties of the Department with respect to Alzheimer's disease and related disorders
- § 51.5-153. Alzheimer's and Related Diseases Research Award Fund
- § 51.5-154. (Expires July 1, 2017) Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Commission
Article 8. VIRGINIA RESPITE CARE GRANT PROGRAM
- § 51.5-155. Definitions
- § 51.5-156. Respite Care Grant Program established
- § 51.5-157. Virginia Respite Care Grant Fund established
- § 51.5-158. Grant application process; administration
Article 9. AUXILIARY GRANTS
Article 10. COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
- § 51.5-161. Awarding of grants; purposes; eligible applicants
- § 51.5-162. Independent living services
- § 51.5-163. Centers for independent living
- § 51.5-164. Statewide Independent Living Council created
- § 51.5-165. Projects with employers
- § 51.5-166. Eligibility criteria
- § 51.5-167. Participation by clients in cost of services
- § 51.5-168. Rights of clients
- § 51.5-169. Cooperative agreements with community services boards and schools
Article 11. VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION
- § 51.5-170. Eligibility
- § 51.5-171. Assessment
- § 51.5-172. Individualized plan for employment
- § 51.5-173. Services for individuals
- § 51.5-174. Services for groups
- § 51.5-175. Community Rehabilitation Program
- § 51.5-176. Participation by clients in cost of services
- § 51.5-177. Client rights regarding services
Article 12. COMMONWEALTH NEUROTRAUMA INITIATIVE
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