[Tn-talk] Fwd: 49-10-804 - Registration of blind persons. :: 2010 Tennessee Code :: US Codes and Statutes :: US Law :: Justia

[Joe Shaw]

Sweet! This is like The X-Men!
JS
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> The department uses the list to get referrals for employment services. At 
> least I hope that is the case. You can see more below.
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>> From: James Brown <nfb.tennessee at gmail.com>
>> Date: May 2, 2016 at 5:36:39 PM CDT
>> To: james brown <jbrown369 at me.com>
>> Subject: 49-10-804 - Registration of blind persons. :: 2010 Tennessee 
>> Code :: US Codes and Statutes :: US Law :: Justia
>>
>>
>> http://law.justia.com/codes/tennessee/2010/title-49/chapter-10/part-8/49-10-804
>>
>> 2010 Tennessee Code Title 49 - Education Chapter 10 - Special Education 
>> Part 8 - Services for Blind Persons 49-10-804 - Registration of blind 
>> persons.
>>
>> 49-10-804. Registration of blind persons.
>>
>> (a)  The commissioner of human services shall prepare and maintain a 
>> register of blind persons in this state, which shall describe their 
>> condition, cause of blindness and capacity for education and industrial 
>> training.
>>
>> (b)  Whenever, upon examination at a clinic, hospital or other 
>> institution or elsewhere within the state, by a physician or optometrist, 
>> the visual acuity of a person is found to be with correction 20/200 or 
>> less in the better eye, or the widest diameter of the person's field of 
>> vision is found to subtend an angle no greater than twenty degrees (20°), 
>> the superintendent of the institution or the physician, optometrist or 
>> other person who conducted or was in charge of the examination if it took 
>> place elsewhere than in such an institution shall within thirty (30) days 
>> report to the register of the blind the result of the examination and 
>> that blindness of the person examined has been established.
>>
>> (c)  (1)  The department of human services has the power to establish and 
>> to enforce reasonable rules and regulations governing the custody, use 
>> and preservation of the records, papers, files and communications of the 
>> department concerning blind persons.
>>
>>      (2)  No other department, bureau or agency of the state or of any 
>> political subdivision thereof that, under any provision of law, is 
>> furnished with the names of registered blind shall permit the publication 
>> of lists of the names or make use of the lists of names for purposes not 
>> directly connected with the administration of services or aid to blind 
>> persons.
>>
>> [Acts 1917, ch. 34, § 2; Shan., § 2659a362 (p. 6568); impl. am. Acts 
>> 1923, ch. 7, § 42; Shan. Supp., § 2659a4; Code 1932, § 4550; impl. am. 
>> Acts 1943, ch. 154, § 1; Acts 1973, ch. 72, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 
>> 49-3020.]
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>> state site. Please check official sources.
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