Virginia Decodedhttps://vacode.org6290751.5-84Licensure of blind adult residents as operators2025Persons With DisabilitiesPersons Who Are Blind and Vision ImpairedBusiness Enterprises for the Blind

The Department shall be the agency to license blind persons who are residents of the Commonwealth and who are at least eighteen years of age for the operation of vending stands and other business enterprises. In licensing operators, the Department shall give preference to those blind persons who are in need of employment. Persons licensed shall be qualified to operate such vending stands and other business enterprises.

Code 1950, §§ 63-204.8, 63-204.11; 1968, c. 578, §§ 63.1-149, 63.1-152; 1972, c. 824; 1989, c. 314; 2002, c. 747.