Pennsylvania Code › Title 55 - HUMAN SERVICES › Part IV - Adult Services Manual › Subpart D - Nonresidential Agencies/Facilities/Services › Chapter 2430 - BUSINESS ENTERPRISES PROGRAM › GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 2430.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
						have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
						otherwise:
Blind person
-An individual who after
						examination by a physician skilled in diseases of the eye or by an optometrist
						has been determined to have:
(i) Not
					 more than 20/200 central visual acuity in the better eye with corrective lens;
					 or
(ii) An equally disabling loss
					 of the visual field evidenced by a limitation to the field of vision in the
					 better eye to a degree that its widest diameter subtends an angle of not
					 greater than 20°.
Department
-The Department of Public
						Welfare of the Commonwealth.
District manager
-The district manager
						for the visually handicapped who is the official responsible for direction and
						management of the district Business Enterprises Program (BEP).
District office
-The local administrative
						branch of the Office of Blindness and Visual Services (BVS) in a specified
						geographical area of this Commonwealth.
Elected committee of blind vendors
-A
						State committee of blind vendors, which is elected by and fully representative
						of blind operators in this Commonwealth.
Facility
-Cafeterias, snack bars, cart
						services, counters, vending machines, and other appropriate auxiliary equipment
						which may be operated by blind licensees to provide for the sale of newspapers,
						periodicals, confections, tobacco products, goods, beverages, and other
						articles or services dispensed automatically or manually and prepared on or off
						the premises in accordance with applicable health laws, including the vending
						or exchange of chances for lotteries authorized by State statute.
Federal property
-A building, land, or
						other real property owned or rented by an agency, department, or
						instrumentality of the United States government-including the Department of
						Defense and the United States Postal Service-or by another instrumentality
						wholly owned by the United States.
Individualized Written Rehabilitation Program
						(IWRP)
-A written program required by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973,
						29 U.S.C.A. §
												701 et seq., and subsequent Federal
						regulations which must be prepared for eligible vocational rehabilitation
						client. The program is prepared jointly by the vocational rehabilitation
						counselor and client and establishes the employment goal.
License
-A written instrument, issued by
						the Department to a blind client, authorizing the operation of a vending
						facility.
Office of Blindness and Visual Services
						(BVS)
-The office in the Department which is responsible for providing
						essential management, supervision, and licensing of the Business Enterprises
						Program (BEP). BVS includes six district offices within assigned geographical
						areas.
Owner
-The individual who owns the site
						on which a facility is located or the person designated to act for the
						owner.
Vacancy
-A facility which has no
						permanent vendor or is scheduled to have no permanent operator.
Vendor
-A blind person who is certified
						as a qualified facility operator by the Office of Blindness and Visual Services
						(BVS).
This section cited in 55 Pa. Code §
													2430.50 (relating to cancellation
						  of a facility contract).