Sec. 10-297. Employment and aid.
Sec. 10-297. Employment and aid. The director is authorized to aid in securing
employment for capable blind or partially blind persons in industrial and mercantile
establishments and in other positions which offer financial returns. Said director may
aid needy blind persons in such way as said director deems expedient, expending for
such purpose such sum as the General Assembly appropriates, provided the maximum
expenditure for any one person shall not exceed the sum of nine hundred and sixty
dollars in a fiscal year, but, if said maximum amount is insufficient to furnish necessary
medical or hospital treatment to a beneficiary, said director may authorize payment of
such additional costs as he deems necessary and reasonable.
(1949 Rev., S. 1613; June, 1955, S. 1003d; 1961, P.A. 539, S. 6; 1969, P.A. 159, S. 4; P.A. 78-218, S. 202.)
History: 1961 act changed maximum expenditure from monthly to annual basis and clarified that additional payment
was in discretion of board; 1969 act substituted director for board; P.A. 78-218 replaced personal pronoun "he" with "said
director".