                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ESTABLISHMENT OF REHABILITATIVE MANUFACTURING AND SERVICE INDUSTRIES;
EXPENDITURES (§ 51.5-72)

The Department may (i) establish, equip and maintain rehabilitative
manufacturing and service industries for the employment of suitable blind
persons, (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 §§ 51.5-63, 51.5-66, and 51.5-72
through 51.5-76 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 §§ 51.5-63, 51.5-66, and
51.5-72 through 51.5-76 shall be used for solely charitable purposes.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 63-167; 1968, c. 578, § 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.