CHAPTER 293

An Act to amend and reenact § 68-179, as amended, of the Code of Vtr-
ginia, relating to eligibility for aid to the blind. fH 494)

Approved March 31, 1966

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:

§ 63-179. 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;

(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, mu-
nicipal, 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 in-
mate; provided that in the event the Federal Social Security Act or other
appropriate federal statutes are so amended as to permit funds appro-
priated by Congress to be used for aid to blind persons who are inmates
of public institutions, then being an inmate of any such institution
shall not disqualify any such person for aid;

(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; and

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