CHAPTER 26

An Act to amend and reenact § 68-179, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to eligibility for aid for blind persons.

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 63-179, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 68-179. Eligibility for aid—A blind person shall be eligible for
aid to the blind if he:

(a) Has, with correcting glasses, twenty/two hundredths vision or
less, in the better eye; or visual acuity greater than twenty/two hundredths
but with a limitation in the field of vision that subtends an angle no
greater than twenty degrees; or has a severe visual impairment which
is disabling to the same extent as, or which will result in vision with
correcting glasses no better than, twenty/two hundredths or a field limita-
tion of twenty degrees;

(b) Has continuously resided in Virginia for one year immediately
preceding the date of application for aid to the blind;

(c) Is needy and is in need of public assistance;

(d) Is not an inmate of or being maintained by any county, municipal,
State or national institution at the time of receiving aid to the blind; such
an inmate may however make application for such aid, but such aid, if
granted, shall not begin until after he ceases to be such inmate; provided
that in the event the Federal Social Security Act or other appropriate
federal statutes are so amended as to permit funds appropriated by Con-
gress to be used for aid to blind persons who are inmates of public in-
stitutions, then being an inmate of any such institution shall not disqualify
any such person for aid; and

(e) Has not made an assignment or transfer of property so as to
render himself eligible for aid to the blind under this law at any time
within, five years immediately prior to the filing of the application for
such aid.

(f) Is not a patient in an institution for tuberculosis or mental
diseases.