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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>68628</law_id><section_number>51.5-78</section_number><catch_line>Operation by Department</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><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="4">Business Enterprises for the Blind</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Department</span> is hereby authorized to operate <span class="dictionary">vending stands</span> and other <span class="dictionary">business enterprises</span> in public and private buildings for the purpose of providing <span class="dictionary">blind persons</span> with employment, enlarging the economic opportunities of the blind, and stimulating the blind to make themselves self-supporting.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 63-204.2; 1968, c. 578, &#xA7; 63.1-143; 2002, c. 747.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
