49-10-801 - Tennessee School for the Blind.
49-10-801. Tennessee School for the Blind.
(a) The institution for the instruction of the blind in Nashville shall be a body corporate by the name of the Tennessee School for the Blind.
(b) The corporation has the right to:
(1) Sue in law or equity;
(2) Take and hold property, real and personal, for its use and benefit as a school; and
(3) Have a seal and such corporate rights and powers as are necessary and proper to effect the end of its creation, the education of the blind.
(c) The land, buildings and appurtenances of the school are the property of the state, to be used as an asylum and school for the blind, who may be admitted into the school.
(d) The state board of education has the power and duty to:
(1) Appoint and remove, on the recommendation of the commissioner of education, all officers, teachers and other employees for the school;
(2) Prescribe, on the recommendation of the commissioner, the salaries of the officers, teachers and other employees;
(3) Set policies and operating guidelines for the school, including the establishment of curricula and graduation requirements;
(4) Adopt measures in establishing a work department and boarding the adult blind that it deems the interests of the institution demand, but it shall not expend for any pupil more than the amount now annually appropriated for each pupil at the school; and
(5) Take steps, enter into agreements and do whatever it deems necessary to the establishment of a foundation for the school.
(e) The state board is authorized to accept any grant, deed or conveyance of real estate, gift or appropriation of personal property for the use and benefit of the institution.
(f) The commissioner has the power and duty to:
(1) Recommend to the board the appointment or removal of officers, teachers and other employees;
(2) Recommend to the board the salaries of officers, teachers and other employees;
(3) Administer and manage the household and domestic affairs of the school; and
(4) Implement policies and guidelines of the board relative to the school.
(g) (1) Any blind child whose parents are citizens of this state may be placed in the institution at the expense of the state.
(2) All other pupils shall be admitted by or under the state board upon terms it deems proper, but pupils who cannot pay shall have preference over those whose parents or families are able to provide for them.
(h) The pupils shall be taught such branches of learning as they can acquire and as are usually taught to young persons, and such trades and handicrafts as the blind can learn and practice with safety and advantage.
(i) (1) The governing authority of the Tennessee School for the Blind is authorized to install facilities for training the blind in radio and television engineering and to install such course of training.
(2) The Tennessee School for the Blind has and possesses the power and authority to train not only its students but other blind persons who may undertake to enroll for such course, and may charge nonstudents for the training an amount adequate to cover the individual costs of the course.
(3) The school has the power to contract with the division of vocational rehabilitation for instruction of blind trainees who are subject to the jurisdiction of the division.
(4) Other persons with disabilities may be admitted under this subsection (i) at the discretion of the superintendent of the Tennessee School for the Blind when the class quota for blind persons has not been filled.
[Code 1858, §§ 1565, 1567, 1569-1571, 1573 (deriv. Acts 1845-1846, ch. 157, § 5); Acts 1859-1860, ch. 19, § 1; 1859-1860, ch. 123, §§ 3, 4; 1870, ch. 54, § 10; 1871, ch. 121, § 1; 1877, ch. 49, § 1; impl. am. Acts 1915, ch. 20, §§ 5, 9, 12; Shan., §§ 2643, 2645, 2647, 2648, 2650, 2651, 2653, 2654, 2658; impl. am. Acts 1919, ch. 39, § 2; impl. am. Acts 1923, ch. 7, § 42; mod. Code 1932, §§ 4535, 4536, 4538-4543, 4546; impl. am. Acts 1947, ch. 113, §§ 1, 2; C. Supp. 1950, § 4538; Acts 1953, ch. 54, § 1; modified; Acts 1955, ch. 298, § 1; 1972, ch. 469, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 49-3001, 49-3002, 49-3004 49-3011; Acts 1984 (1st E.S.), ch. 6, §§ 21, 22.]