54:4-3.34 - "Total blindness"  defined

54:4-3.34.   "Total blindness"  defined
    A person shall be deemed to have  "total blindness,"  as used in this act, when the vision in his better eye with proper correction does not exceed 20/200  as measured by Snellen chart or when there is a field defect in his better eye  with proper correction in which the peripheral field has contracted to such an  extent that the widest diameter of visual field subtends an angular distance no  greater than twenty degrees.

     L.1949, c. 172, p. 562, s. 4.