71-4-605 - Types of services Workshops Federal funds Gifts.
71-4-605. Types of services Workshops Federal funds Gifts.
(a) All rehabilitation services, as defined in this part, may be provided under this part to eligible blind handicapped individuals, and in any event, such services shall include training, maintenance, placement, guidance and physical restoration services.
(b) Within such limits and under such conditions as may be specified in appropriations for rehabilitation facilities and workshops for the blind, the department may establish rehabilitation facilities and workshops for the blind.
(c) (1) Appropriations, federal grants and donations for vocational rehabilitation services for the blind, unless otherwise restricted, shall be available for all vocational rehabilitation services for the blind provided under the state plan for the blind, and for the acquisition of vending stands or other equipment and initial stocks, including livestock, and supplies for use by blind individuals in any type of small business, the operation of which will be improved through management and supervision by the division.
(2) State appropriations and donations for vocational rehabilitation of the blind shall likewise be available for the purpose, whenever federal funds are made available to the state under § 3 of the federal vocational rehabilitation of the blind amendments of 1954, for initiating projects for the extension and improvement of vocational rehabilitation services for the blind, or under § 4 of such act for projects for research, demonstrations, training and traineeships, and for planning for an initiating expansion of vocational rehabilitation services for the blind under the state plan for the blind.
(3) The general assembly shall appropriate for vocational rehabilitation of the blind such sums as are necessary, along with available federal and other funds, to carry out the purposes of this part. The acceptance of such federal and other funds, and their use for vocational rehabilitation of the blind, subject to such restrictions as may be imposed by the donor and are not inconsistent with this part, is hereby authorized.
(d) The state treasurer is hereby designated as the custodian of all funds received from the federal government for the purpose of carrying out any federal statutes pertaining to the vocational rehabilitation of the blind.
(e) The director is hereby authorized and empowered with the approval of the commissioner to accept and use gifts made unconditionally by will or otherwise for carrying out the purposes of this part. Gifts made under such conditions, as in the judgment of the commissioner are proper and consistent with the provisions of this part, may be so accepted and shall be held, invested, reinvested, and used in accordance with the conditions of the gift.
[Acts 1955, ch. 243, § 5; impl. am. Acts 1975, ch. 219, § 1 (a, b); T.C.A., §§ 14-629, 14-14-405.]