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20-76-421. Aged and blind persons generally.
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20-76-421. Aged and blind persons generally.
(a) The appropriate division of the Department of Human Services is authorized to provide assistance grants to needy aged persons, as authorized in § 20-76-424 [repealed], and assistance grants to needy blind persons, as authorized in § 20-76-419, of up to one hundred twenty-five dollars ($125) per month in keeping with the federal Social Security Act, and as state funds therefor are available.
(b) It is the intent of this section to be cumulative to the public welfare laws of this state.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-76-421
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20-76-421. Aged and blind persons generally.
(a) The appropriate division of the Department of Human Services is authorized to provide assistance grants to needy aged persons, as authorized in § 20-76-424 [repealed], and assistance grants to needy blind persons, as authorized in § 20-76-419, of up to one hundred twenty-five dollars ($125) per month in keeping with the federal Social Security Act, and as state funds therefor are available.
(b) It is the intent of this section to be cumulative to the public welfare laws of this state.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
20-76-419. Blind persons generally.
(a) Assistance grants shall be given under this act to any person who:
(1) Has no vision or whose vision with correcting glasses is so defective as to prevent the performance of ordinary activities for which eyesight is essential;
(2) Is sixteen (16) years of age or over; and
(3) Is not receiving any other type of assistance grant.
(b) The appropriate division of the Department of Human Services shall:
(1) Promulgate rules, in terms of ophthalmic measurements, to determine the amount of visual acuity which an applicant may have and still be eligible for assistance grants under this act;
(2) Designate a suitable number of ophthalmologists and optometrists, licensed to practice in Arkansas and actively engaged in the practice of their respective professions, to examine applicants and recipients of assistance grants to the blind;
(3) Fix and pay to ophthalmologists and optometrists fees for examination of applicants; and
(4) Develop or cooperate with other agencies in developing measures for the prevention of blindness, the restoration of eyesight, and the vocational adjustment of blind persons.
(c)(1) No applications shall be approved until the applicant has been examined by an ophthalmologist or optometrist, whichever the individual may select, designated or approved by the division to make the examination.
(2) The examining ophthalmologist or optometrist shall certify in writing upon forms provided by the division the findings of the examination.
(3) The recipient shall submit to a reexamination as to his or her eyesight when required to do so by the division.
(d)(1) The amount of the assistance grants shall be determined in accordance with subdivision (d)(2) of this section, except that in determining need,
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-76-419
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
20-76-424 — 20-76-428. [Repealed.]
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-76-424
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: repealed. The source passage cites 20-76-424. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.