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     248.04 Blind student to receive expenses while at 
  certain schools.  

    Any blind person who is, and for five years immediately 
 preceding the making of an application for aid under this 
 chapter has been, a resident of this state, who is a regularly 
 enrolled student pursuing any course of study, profession, art, 
 or science in any university, college, or conservatory of music 
 approved by the board of directors of the Minnesota State 
 Academy for the Blind, in the discretion and under direction of 
 the board, may receive a sum or sums of money, not exceeding 
 $300 in any one year, for the purpose of defraying necessary 
 expenses, including those of a reader, while in attendance upon 
 such university, college, or conservatory, such expenditures to 
 be made from the appropriations for the current expenses of the 
 Minnesota State Academy for the Blind.  Not more than ten such 
 blind persons shall receive such aid in any one year.  

    HIST: (4613) 1915 c 307 s 1; 1929 c 367 s 1; 1941 c 332; 1986 
 c 444; 1987 c 384 art 1 s 55 

Copyright 2005 by the Office of Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota.