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CA Welf & Inst Code § 19503 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 10 - STATE DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION|PART 2 - REHABILITATION SERVICES, PROGRAMS, AND FACILITIES|CHAPTER 6 - Blind Persons|ARTICLE 1 - Orientation Centers|Section 19503.

19503.  The Director of Rehabilitation shall appoint an administrator for each orientation center for the blind who shall administer and supervise the program at the center in accordance with this article and under the supervision of the Director of Rehabilitation. The administrator of each orientation center for the blind shall be either a sighted or visually handicapped person and shall have all of the following minimum qualifications:(a) Four years of full time, paid experience working in a program for the education or rehabilitation of adults who are legally blind, with emphasis on nonvisual living techniques, including, but not limited to, daily living, mobility, and communication skills. At least two years’ experience shall have been in a supervisory or administrative capacity.(b) Proficiency in Braille as a second language.(c) Education equivalent to graduation from college with a bachelor’s degree. Additional qualifying experience may be substituted on a year-for-year basis.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 336, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1995.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 19504 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 10 - STATE DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION|PART 2 - REHABILITATION SERVICES, PROGRAMS, AND FACILITIES|CHAPTER 6 - Blind Persons|ARTICLE 1 - Orientation Centers|Section 19504.

19504.  The staff of an orientation center shall be composed of persons trained to assist blind persons in achieving social and economic independence, and whose qualifications include successful experience in teaching blind persons. The staff shall include as large a proportion as is practicable of visually handicapped persons who have achieved outstanding success in adjustment to their handicap.(Added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 1107.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 19505 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 10 - STATE DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION|PART 2 - REHABILITATION SERVICES, PROGRAMS, AND FACILITIES|CHAPTER 6 - Blind Persons|ARTICLE 1 - Orientation Centers|Section 19505.

19505.  Each orientation center shall be operated as a unit separate and apart from any state-operated rehabilitation facility. The program of each orientation center shall be closely coordinated with the services of the department, with the home teacher and field service program, and with programs for training teachers and other personnel directed toward serving the blind.(Added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 1107.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 19506 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 10 - STATE DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION|PART 2 - REHABILITATION SERVICES, PROGRAMS, AND FACILITIES|CHAPTER 6 - Blind Persons|ARTICLE 1 - Orientation Centers|Section 19506.

19506.  The department may:(a) Make rules for the government and direction of orientation centers established under this article, and may prescribe conditions for the admission and discharge of trainees having regard to an equitable representation from each county of the state.(b) Designate the subjects which shall be regularly taught and the training which shall be given.(Added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 1107.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 19507 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 10 - STATE DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION|PART 2 - REHABILITATION SERVICES, PROGRAMS, AND FACILITIES|CHAPTER 6 - Blind Persons|ARTICLE 1 - Orientation Centers|Section 19507.

19507.  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the department, in accordance with Section 19007, is the authorized recipient of gifts, bequests, and donations made to the department or to a school or institution administered by the department.(b) There is, within the State Treasury, the Orientation Center for the Blind Trust Fund, which is hereby continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, to the department for allocation to the Orientation Center for the Blind exclusively for the purposes specified in subdivision (c).(c) (1) Moneys in the Orientation Center for the Blind Trust Fund shall be used to supplement, and not supplant, funding of services provided by the department, and shall be utilized only in accordance with the terms and conditions of the gifts or donations made to the fund and for the sole purpose of the betterment of the students of the program at the Orientation Center for the Blind.(2) The department shall consult with the Orientation Center for the Blind Trust Fund Committee, which shall be created by the director, concerning the use of moneys in the fund.(3) The Orientation Center for the Blind Trust Fund Committee shall be composed of three members, all of whom shall be graduates of the Orientation Center for the Blind. The director shall consider for appointment to the committee individuals who are members of groups of advocates for the blind. No more than one member of any group shall be appointed, and appointment shall be from a list of at least two nominees submitted by the group. The director shall appoint one member to be an at-large representative.(Added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 735, Sec. 1. Effective October 7, 1997.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 19525 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 10 - STATE DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION|PART 2 - REHABILITATION SERVICES, PROGRAMS, AND FACILITIES|CHAPTER 6 - Blind Persons|ARTICLE 2 - Field Orientation Services for the Blind|Section 19525.

19525.  The department may appoint counselor-teachers to provide individual guidance and training to the adult blind of the state. Such counselor-teachers shall give individual instruction in those techniques which will enable the blind to adjust to daily living in the home and in the community. They shall teach the blind reading and writing of braille, typing, travel techniques, household arts and crafts in accordance with the needs of the blind, and give them such other instruction as may enhance their opportunities for personal rehabilitation. This program shall be closely coordinated with vocational rehabilitation services for the blind, the Orientation Center for the Blind and opportunity work centers for the blind.(Added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 1107.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 19526 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 10 - STATE DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION|PART 2 - REHABILITATION SERVICES, PROGRAMS, AND FACILITIES|CHAPTER 6 - Blind Persons|ARTICLE 2 - Field Orientation Services for the Blind|Section 19526.

19526.  Whenever any blind person with the proper educational qualifications regularly matriculates, enters, and works for a degree, or for a diploma of graduation, in any university, college, or state college in this state, and who is not a recipient of federally assisted vocational rehabilitation services, the Director of Rehabilitation shall provide from any funds appropriated for the purpose from the General Fund a reader to assist him in his studies. Of the funds appropriated by the 1969 Legislature in the Budget Act for such purpose, the sum of thirty-six thousand five hundred dollars ($36,500) shall be used for this purpose for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970, and any appropriations for succeeding years shall be determined by the Legislature.Any reader whose services are provided pursuant to this section shall be deemed an independent contractor whose services shall have been contracted by the Director of Rehabilitation for the benefit of such blind person and not an employee of the Department of Rehabilitation. Compensation for readers shall be established at a rate high enough to obtain competent readers but in no event shall such compensation be less than the basic federal minimum wage. No more than 1,100 hours of service by a reader per annum shall be allowed for the instruction of any one student, except that for graduate students not more than 1,300 hours of service by a reader shall be allowed for the instruction of any one student, provided that a greater amount may be expended if the Director of Rehabilitation finds that the instruction of a student will be facilitated by such additional expenditure.(Added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 1147.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 19625 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 10 - STATE DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION|PART 2 - REHABILITATION SERVICES, PROGRAMS, AND FACILITIES|CHAPTER 6 - Blind Persons|ARTICLE 5 - Business Enterprises for the Blind|Section 19625.

19625.  For the purpose of providing blind persons with remunerative employment, enlarging the economic opportunities of the blind, and stimulating the blind to greater efforts in striving to make themselves self-supporting, blind persons licensed under this article shall be authorized to operate vending facilities on any property within this state as provided in this article. In order to administer this article, the director shall establish and promote the Business Enterprises Program for the Blind.It is the intent of the Legislature that the Randolph-Sheppard Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 107 et. seq.), and the federal regulations for its administration set forth in Part 395 (commencing with Section 395.1) of Title 34 of the Code of Federal Regulations, shall serve as minimum standards for the operation of the Business Enterprises Program for the Blind.(a) With respect to vending facilities on state property, priority shall be given to blind persons, including the assignment of vending machine income as provided in this article. As used in this article, “state property” means all real property, or part thereof, owned, leased, rented, or otherwise controlled or occupied by any department or other agency or body of this state.(b) With respect to vending on federal property within this state, priority shall be given as provided in the federal Randolph-Sheppard Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 107 et seq.), including the amendments thereto. This article, as it applies to federal property, is intended to conform to that act and is to be of no force or effect if, and to the extent that, any provision of this article or any regulation adopted under this article is in conflict with that act. Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed to impose limitations on the operation of vending facilities on state property, or property other than federal property, or to allow only those activities specifically enumerated in the Randolph-Sheppard Act.(c) On all other property within this state, whether owned or controlled privately or by any county, city, city and county, or other political subdivision, the department shall take all feasible steps to encourage and establish vending by blind persons licensed under this article. The department may enter into appropriate agreements with the entities or persons owning or controlling the other property. All these agreements shall be in writing and shall be in conformity with this article.(d) The director shall actively pursue all commissions from vending facilities not operated by blind vendors as provided for in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 19630, and shall seek new placements of vending facilities on state property where a facility is not yet in place.(Amended by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1316, Sec. 1.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 19625.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 10 - STATE DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION|PART 2 - REHABILITATION SERVICES, PROGRAMS, AND FACILITIES|CHAPTER 6 - Blind Persons|ARTICLE 5 - Business Enterprises for the Blind|Section 19625.5.

19625.5.  The department shall support and encourage all participants in the Business Enterprises Program to be as successful at becoming self-supporting as possible.(Added by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1316, Sec. 1.5.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 19626 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 10 - STATE DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION|PART 2 - REHABILITATION SERVICES, PROGRAMS, AND FACILITIES|CHAPTER 6 - Blind Persons|ARTICLE 5 - Business Enterprises for the Blind|Section 19626.

19626.  A “vending facility” is a location which may sell, at wholesale or retail, foods, beverages, confections, newspapers, periodicals, tobacco products, and other articles or services dispensed automatically or manually and prepared on or off the premises in accordance with applicable health laws.A “vending facility” may consist, exclusively or in appropriate combination, of automatic vending machines, cafeterias, snackbars, catering or food concession vehicles, cart service, shelters, counters and any appropriate equipment as the director may by regulation prescribe as being necessary for the sale of the articles or services described in the first paragraph of this section.A “vending facility” may encompass more than one building.Licensed blind vendors shall not be required to purchase supplies or services from wholesalers who may be licensed under this article.(Amended by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1316, Sec. 2.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 19626.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 10 - STATE DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION|PART 2 - REHABILITATION SERVICES, PROGRAMS, AND FACILITIES|CHAPTER 6 - Blind Persons|ARTICLE 5 - Business Enterprises for the Blind|Section 19626.5.

19626.5.  (a) The department shall develop and promulgate regulations regarding life standards for vending facility equipment. These regulations shall include, but not be limited to, life expectancy of equipment, time periods within which equipment shall be replaced, and exceptions to the requirement of replacement of equipment within the specified time periods, including when there is a history of no service problems. These regulations shall also provide for exceptions to the life standard or life expectancy policies allowing earlier replacement under certain circumstances including excessive mechanical failures or other malfunction that is not the fault of the operator.(b) The department, in administering the Business Enterprises Program, shall consult with the Department of General Services and develop a system of expediting equipment orders to ensure timely delivery, thereby reducing financial hardship to vendors and allowing provision of continuous food service as required by the contracting agency. This system shall not preclude the Department of General Services from exercising oversight and review of the purchasing process.(Added by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1316, Sec. 3.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 19628 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 10 - STATE DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION|PART 2 - REHABILITATION SERVICES, PROGRAMS, AND FACILITIES|CHAPTER 6 - Blind Persons|ARTICLE 5 - Business Enterprises for the Blind|Section 19628.

19628.  The governing board of any county, city, city and county, or other political subdivision or the persons or entities owning or controlling private property, may construct and install on their property, or permit the construction and installation of, vending facilities for operation by blind persons licensed under this article. The amount of space allotted for this purpose shall be sufficient to serve adequately the number of persons to be served and provide the kind of services to be rendered.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1131.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 19631 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 10 - STATE DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION|PART 2 - REHABILITATION SERVICES, PROGRAMS, AND FACILITIES|CHAPTER 6 - Blind Persons|ARTICLE 5 - Business Enterprises for the Blind|Section 19631.

19631.  The department shall not cause or permit the establishment or placement of any blind vendor in a vending facility unless the director, in consultation with the committee of licensed blind vendors, first determines that the facility produces, or is likely to produce within a reasonable time, an adequate net income for a blind vendor.Nothing in this article prohibits the entity or person controlling property on which a vending facility is located from making, to the blind vendor operating it, payments in supplementation of proceeds realized from sales.(Amended by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1316, Sec. 7.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 19633 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 10 - STATE DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION|PART 2 - REHABILITATION SERVICES, PROGRAMS, AND FACILITIES|CHAPTER 6 - Blind Persons|ARTICLE 5 - Business Enterprises for the Blind|Section 19633.

19633.  The vendor of each vending facility is subject to the provisions of any ordinance of the county or city in which the facility is located requiring a license or permit for the conduct of such business, but any such license or permit shall be issued free of charge to a blind person licensed by the department.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1131.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 19634 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 10 - STATE DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION|PART 2 - REHABILITATION SERVICES, PROGRAMS, AND FACILITIES|CHAPTER 6 - Blind Persons|ARTICLE 5 - Business Enterprises for the Blind|Section 19634.

19634.  Blind persons who are authorized to operate vending facilities under this article may keep their guide dogs with them on the property while operating the vending facilities.(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1131.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 19635 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 10 - STATE DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION|PART 2 - REHABILITATION SERVICES, PROGRAMS, AND FACILITIES|CHAPTER 6 - Blind Persons|ARTICLE 5 - Business Enterprises for the Blind|Section 19635.

19635.  Any blind vendor who is dissatisfied with any action arising from the operation or administration of the vending facility program may submit to the department a request for a full evidentiary hearing, which shall be provided by the department. If such blind vendor is dissatisfied with any action taken or decision rendered as a result of such hearing, he may file a complaint with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare who shall convene a panel to arbitrate the dispute pursuant to Section 6 of the Randolph-Sheppard Act, and the decision of such panel shall be final and binding on the parties except as otherwise provided in that act.(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1131.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 19636 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 10 - STATE DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION|PART 2 - REHABILITATION SERVICES, PROGRAMS, AND FACILITIES|CHAPTER 6 - Blind Persons|ARTICLE 5 - Business Enterprises for the Blind|Section 19636.

19636.  The director shall assign adequate personnel to carry out duties related to the administration of this article. In selecting personnel to fill any position under this section, the director shall comply with the discrimination prohibition of subdivision (a) of Section 12940 of the Government Code. The director shall review staffing annually. The committee of licensed blind vendors shall be allowed to provide input regarding the adequacy of the staffing levels for the Business Enterprises Program prior to the director’s annual review.(Amended by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1316, Sec. 9.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 19637 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 10 - STATE DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION|PART 2 - REHABILITATION SERVICES, PROGRAMS, AND FACILITIES|CHAPTER 6 - Blind Persons|ARTICLE 5 - Business Enterprises for the Blind|Section 19637.

19637.  The director shall provide to each blind vendor access to all relevant financial data, including quarterly and annual financial reports on the operation of the state vending facility program and access to his or her performance rating or other personal data maintained by the department in regard to him or her.A copy of all completed audits, reports, and investigations which affect the Business Enterprises Program for the Blind shall be sent to the committee of licensed blind vendors.(Amended by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1316, Sec. 10.)
CA Welf & Inst Code § 19638 (2021)
2021 California Code|Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC|DIVISION 10 - STATE DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION|PART 2 - REHABILITATION SERVICES, PROGRAMS, AND FACILITIES|CHAPTER 6 - Blind Persons|ARTICLE 5 - Business Enterprises for the Blind|Section 19638.

19638.  (a) The director shall conduct a biennial election by secret ballot of a committee of licensed blind vendors who shall be fully representative of all blind licensees in the state program. Representation shall be no less than one committee member for every 25 licensed vendors. At the discretion of the committee, major issues may be referred to a subcommittee of blind vendors, or to all the blind vendors in order to ascertain their views. Only licensed blind persons operating a facility shall serve on the committee or subcommittees, or vote in any poll or election authorized under this article. The members and subcommittee members shall be reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses in participating in committee functions.(b) The director shall ensure that the participation of the committee of blind vendors is, at a minimum, equal to that required by Section 107b-1 of Title 20 of the United States Code. The responsibilities and actions of the committee of blind vendors shall include, but not be limited to:(1) Participation, with the department, in major administrative decisions and policy and program development. Any implementation of changes in administrative policy or program development that is within the discretion of the department shall occur only after review by this committee of licensed blind vendors.(2) Receiving grievances of blind vendors and serving as advocates for the vendors.(3) Participation, with the department, in the development and administration of a transfer and promotion system for blind vendors.(4) Participation, with the department, in developing training and retraining programs.(5) Sponsorship, with the assistance of the department, of meetings and instructional conferences for blind vendors.(c) The committee of licensed blind vendors may contract for professional services, including, but not limited to, legal counsel. Payment for professional services rendered to the committee of licensed blind vendors shall be made from state vending machine income pursuant to subdivisions (d) and (e) of Section 19630.(Amended by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1316, Sec. 11.)