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2022 California Code
Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC
DIVISION 10 - STATE DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION
PART 2 - REHABILITATION SERVICES, PROGRAMS, AND FACILITIES
CHAPTER 2 - Definitions
Section 19153.
Universal Citation: CA Welf & Inst Code § 19153 (2022)
19153. The term, “blind person” means either a person who has not more than 20/200 central visual acuity in the better eye after correction, or a person who has visual acuity greater than 20/200 but with a limitation in the fields of vision such that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angle no greater than 20 degrees. Such blindness shall be certified by a licensed physician and surgeon who specializes in diseases of the eye or a licensed optometrist.
(Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 261, Sec. 2.)
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