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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>80621</law_id><section_number>51.5-72</section_number><catch_line>Establishment of rehabilitative manufacturing and service industries; expenditures</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>51.1-124.3</reference><reference>51.5-72</reference><reference>51.5-75</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="51.5">Persons With Disabilities</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="12">Persons Who Are Blind and Vision Impaired</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Department</span> may (i) establish, equip and maintain rehabilitative manufacturing and service industries for the employment of suitable <span class="dictionary">blind persons</span>, (ii) pay its employees suitable wages and contribute five percent of the creditable compensation of those employees who elect to participate in a before-tax payroll deduction to a tax deferred retirement savings plan established under the United States Internal Revenue Code for nonprofit agencies, and (iii) devise means for the sale and distribution of the products thereof. However, any expenditures made under &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Board to administer institutional fund" href="/51.5-63/">51.5-63</a>, <a class="law" title="Authority to receive grants-in-aid and gifts" href="/51.5-66/">51.5-66</a>, and <a class="law" title="Establishment of rehabilitative manufacturing and service industries; expenditures" href="/51.5-72/">51.5-72</a> through <a class="law" title="Cooperation with other state agencies" href="/51.5-76/">51.5-76</a> shall not exceed the annual appropriation or the amount received by way of bequest or donation during any one year, and no part of the funds appropriated by the Commonwealth for the purposes of &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Board to administer institutional fund" href="/51.5-63/">51.5-63</a>, <a class="law" title="Authority to receive grants-in-aid and gifts" href="/51.5-66/">51.5-66</a>, and <a class="law" title="Establishment of rehabilitative manufacturing and service industries; expenditures" href="/51.5-72/">51.5-72</a> through <a class="law" title="Cooperation with other state agencies" href="/51.5-76/">51.5-76</a> shall be used for solely charitable purposes.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 63-167; 1968, c. 578, &#xA7; 63.1-73; 1980, c. 4; 1990, c. 740; 1996, cc. 711, 731; 2002, c. 747; 2004, c. 13; 2014, c. 572; 2018, c. 184.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
