                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 51.5-60)

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#8220;Blind person&#8221; means a person who has central visual acuity of
20/200 or less in the better eye, as measured with best correction, or a
limitation in the field of vision of the better eye, such that the widest
diameter of the visual field subtends an angle of 20 degrees or less.
		&#8220;Board&#8221; means the Board for the Blind and Vision Impaired.
		&#8220;Business enterprise&#8221; means any business other than a vending
stand.
		&#8220;Commissioner&#8221; means the Commissioner of the Department for the
Blind and Vision Impaired.
		&#8220;Custodian&#8221; means any person or group of persons having the
authority to grant permission for the installation and operation of vending
stands and other business enterprises.
		&#8220;Department&#8221; means the Department for the Blind and Vision
Impaired.
		&#8220;Direct labor&#8221; means all work required for the preparation,
processing and assembling of goods or articles including the packaging and
packing thereof, but not including time spent in the supervision,
administration, inspection and shipping of such operations, or in the production
of component materials by other than blind persons.
		&#8220;Goods or articles made by blind persons&#8221; means goods or articles
in the manufacture of which not less than seventy-five percent of the total
hours of direct labor is performed by a blind person or persons.
		&#8220;Nominee&#8221; means any nonprofit corporation familiar with work for
the blind and in the placement of the blind.
		&#8220;Public and private buildings and other properties throughout the
Commonwealth&#8221; means (i) buildings, land, or other property owned by or
leased to the Commonwealth other than rights-of-way for interstate highways or
(ii) buildings, land, or other property owned by or leased to a political
subdivision, including a municipality, or a corporation or individual.
		&#8220;Vending machine&#8221; means a coin or currency operated machine that
dispenses articles or services, except that those machines operated by the
United States Postal Service for the sale of postage stamps or other postal
products and services, machines providing services of a recreational nature, and
telephones shall not be considered to be vending machines.
		&#8220;Vending stand&#8221; means an installation in any public or private
building for the sale of newspapers, periodicals, confections, tobacco products,
soft drinks, ice cream, wrapped foods and such other articles as may be approved
by the custodian thereof and the Department.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 63-204.1, 63-204.25; 1954, c. 71; 1966, c. 169; 1968,
c. 578, §§ 63.1-142, 63.1-166; 1970, c. 50; 1980, c. 4, § 63.1-69.1; 1984, c.
498; 1985, c. 255; 1988, c. 126; 1990, c. 385, § 63.1-75.1; 1992, c. 755; 1993,
c. 923; 2000, c. 498; 2002, c. 747; 2019, c. 88.