                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CERTAIN STATE AGENCIES TO REPORT TO DEPARTMENT CONCERNING THE BLIND AND NEARLY
BLIND; USE OF SUCH INFORMATION BY DEPARTMENT; DEPARTMENT TO REPORT NAMES OF
PERSONS REFUSED LICENSES FOR DEFECTIVE VISION; REPORTS TO LAW-ENFORCEMENT
AGENCIES CONCERNING CERTAIN BLIND OR VISION IMPAIRED INDIVIDUALS WHO OPERATE
MOTOR VEHICLES (§ 46.2-221)

Every state agency having knowledge of the blind or vision impaired, maintaining
any register of the blind or vision impaired, or administering either tax
deductions or exemptions for or aid to the blind or vision impaired shall report
in January of each year to the Department the names of all persons so known,
registered or benefiting from such deductions or exemptions, for aid to the
blind or vision impaired. This information shall be used by the Department only
for the purpose of determining qualifications of these persons for licensure
under Chapter 3 (§ 46.2-300 et seq.). If any such state agency has knowledge
that any person so reported continues to operate a motor vehicle, such agency
may provide this information to appropriate law-enforcement agencies as
otherwise permitted by law.
		The Department shall report to the Virginia Department for the Blind and
Vision Impaired and the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services at
least annually the name and address of every person who has been refused a
driver&#8217;s license solely or partly because of failure to pass the
Department&#8217;s visual examination.
		If any employee of the Virginia Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired
makes a report to the Department of Motor Vehicles or provides information to an
appropriate law-enforcement agency as required or permitted by this section
concerning any client of the agency, it shall not be deemed to have been made in
violation of the client-agency relationship.

HISTORY: 1968, c. 98, §§ 46.1-40.1, 46.1-40.1:1; 1977, c. 340; 1984, c. 780;
1988, c. 798; 1989, c. 727; 2003, c. 301; 2012, cc. 803, 835; 2023, cc. 148,
149.