Alaska Administrative Code › Title 8 - Labor and Workforce Development › Part 11 - Vocational Rehabilitation and Adult Basic Education › Chapter 98 - Vocational Rehabilitation › Article 6 - General Provisions › 8 AAC 98.990 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
Unless the context requires otherwise, in this chapter and
					 AS
					 23.15.010 -
					 AS
					 23.15.320
(1) "director" means the director of the
				  division of vocational rehabilitation of the Department of Labor and Workforce
				  Development or the director's designee;
(2) "division" means the division of
				  vocational rehabilitation of the Department of Labor and Workforce
				  Development;
(3) "net proceeds"
				  means the conventional returns or commissions which would normally be paid by
				  the machine operator to the building owner for the right to place his machines
				  in that building, and will be negotiated between the machine operator and the
				  division;
(4) "public building"
				  means any building owned, leased or occupied by the state or an agency of the
				  state for public purpose, financed by state funds or public bond indebtedness;
				  however, it does not include buildings located on any land subject to the
				  provisions of  42 U.S.C. 354, 354  a or 353, or which is similarly reserved in
				  trust for the benefit of the University of Alaska;
(5) "blind" means a person who, after
				  examination by a physician skilled in the diseases of the eye or an
				  optometrist, has been determined to have not more than 20/200 central visual
				  acuity in the better eye to such a degree that its widest diameter subtends an
				  angle of no greater than 20 degrees;
(6) "personal information" means information
				  which includes the names of a client or the client's parent, guardian, or other
				  representative; the address of the client; a personal identifier, such as the
				  client's social security number or student number; or a list of personal
				  characteristics or other information which would make it possible to identify
				  the client with reasonable certainty;
(7) "set-aside fund" means the fund
				  established under
				  8 AAC 98.440 from the money paid by licensees to the
				  division from the net profits of the operation of each vending
				  facility;
(8) "person with a severe
				  disability" means the same thing as in
				  AS
				  23.15.210(8); it includes
				  the condition of a person who meets the criteria of severe disability published
				  in the Rehabilitation Services Manual; (1974 MT2);
(9) "vending program" means the state
				  business enterprise program and the federal vending facility program for the
				  blind established by the Randolph-Sheppard Act. ( P.L. 83-565 as
				  amended);
(10) "IWRP" means an
				  individualized written rehabilitation program that is jointly developed by the
				  vocational rehabilitation counselor and the client or that individual's parent,
				  guardian, or other representative, and that states, in writing, the
				  rehabilitation services to be provided.
The Rehabilitation Services Manual referred to in
						8 AAC 98.990(8) is available from the
						Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Vocational Rehabilitation
						Division, P.O. Box 21149, Juneau, AK. 99802-1149.
With Register 179, October 2006 and under the authority
						of AS
						44.62.125, the regulations attorney changed
						obsolete terminology concerning persons with disabilities in conformity with
						ch. 25, SLA 2006.
Authority:
AS
						14.07.060
AS 23.15.020
AS
						23.15.100