An Act to authorize the employment without compensation from the Government of readers for blind Government employees, and for other purposes
PL 87-614 (H.R.11523), enacted 08/29/1962

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PUBLIC LAW 87-614-AUG. 29, 1962 
[76 STAT. 
SEC. 3. In any repayment contract which provides for payment of 
construction charges by single annual installments, the Secretary may 
by agreement with the contracting organization amend such contract 
to provide for the payment of such annual installments in two parts 
on such dates in the calendar year as may best enable the contracting 
organization to meet its payments. 
Approved August 28, 1962. 
August 29, 1962 
[H. R. 11523] 
Blind Govern-
ment employees. 
Readers. 
63 Stat. 954. 
5 u s e 1071 note. 
Conflict of in-
terest. 
62 Stat. 793. 
Definitions. 
68A Stat. 163. 
Public Law 87-614 
AN ACT 
To authorize the employment without compensation from the Government of 
readers for blind Government employees, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
Urtited States of America in Congress assembled^ That (a) the head 
of each department is authorized, in his discretion, to employ, with-
out regard to the civil service laws and the Classification Act of 1949, 
as amended, a reading assistant or assistants for any blind employee 
of such department, to serve without compensation from such 
department. 
(b) Each such reading assistant may be paid and receive compen-
sation for his services as reading assistant by and from such blind 
employee or any nonprofit organization, without regard to section 
1914 of title 18, United States Code. 
(c) For the purposes of this Act, the term— 
(1) "department" means— 
(A) each executive department of the Federal Govern-
ment; 
(B) each agency or independent establishment in the 
executive branch of such Government; 
(C) each corporation wholly owned or controlled by such 
Government; 
(D) the General Accounting Office; 
(E) the Library of Congress; and 
(F) the municipal government of the District of Colum-
bia; 
(2) "head of each department", with respect to the municipal 
government of the District of Columbia, means the Board of 
Commissioners of the District of Columbia; 
(3) "blind employee" means an employee of a department who 
establishes, to the satisfaction of the appropriate authority of the 
department concerned and in accordance with regulations of the 
head of such department, that he has an impairment of sight, 
either permanent or temporary, which is so severe or disabling 
that the employment of a reading assistant or assistants for such 
employee is necessary or desirable to enable such employee 
properly to perform his work; and 
(4) "nonprofit organization" means an organization determined 
by the Secretary of the Treasury to be an organization described 
in section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 which is 
exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of such Code. 
(d) This Act shall not be held or considered to prevent or limit in 
any way the assignment to a blind employee by a department of 
clerical or secretarial assistance, at the expense of such department 
and in accordance with laws and regulations currently applicable at 
the time, if such assistance normally is provided, or authorized to be 
provided, in such manner in accordance with currently applicable 
laws and regulations. 
Approved August 29, 1962.