Unless the context requires otherwise, in this chapter and
AS
23.15.010 -
AS
23.15.320
(1) "director" means the director of the
division of vocational rehabilitation of the Department of Labor and Workforce
Development or the director's designee;
(2) "division" means the division of
vocational rehabilitation of the Department of Labor and Workforce
Development;
(3) "net proceeds"
means the conventional returns or commissions which would normally be paid by
the machine operator to the building owner for the right to place his machines
in that building, and will be negotiated between the machine operator and the
division;
(4) "public building"
means any building owned, leased or occupied by the state or an agency of the
state for public purpose, financed by state funds or public bond indebtedness;
however, it does not include buildings located on any land subject to the
provisions of 42 U.S.C.
354,
354 a or 353, or which is similarly reserved in
trust for the benefit of the University of Alaska;
(5) "blind" means a person who, after
examination by a physician skilled in the diseases of the eye or an
optometrist, has been determined to have not more than 20/200 central visual
acuity in the better eye to such a degree that its widest diameter subtends an
angle of no greater than 20 degrees;
(6) "personal information" means information
which includes the names of a client or the client's parent, guardian, or other
representative; the address of the client; a personal identifier, such as the
client's social security number or student number; or a list of personal
characteristics or other information which would make it possible to identify
the client with reasonable certainty;
(7) "set-aside fund" means the fund
established under
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AAC 98.440 from the money paid by licensees to the
division from the net profits of the operation of each vending
facility;
(8) "person with a severe
disability" means the same thing as in
AS
23.15.210(8); it includes
the condition of a person who meets the criteria of severe disability published
in the Rehabilitation Services Manual; (1974 MT2);
(9) "vending program" means the state
business enterprise program and the federal vending facility program for the
blind established by the Randolph-Sheppard Act. ( P.L. 83-565 as
amended);
(10) "IWRP" means an
individualized written rehabilitation program that is jointly developed by the
vocational rehabilitation counselor and the client or that individual's parent,
guardian, or other representative, and that states, in writing, the
rehabilitation services to be provided.
