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Title 8 . Labor and Workforce Development
Chapter 98 . Adult Basic Education and Diplomas Under Special Conditions
Section 990. Definitions

8 AAC 98.990. Definitions

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, 354a 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 8 AAC 98.440 from the money paid by licensees to the division from the net profits of the operation of each vending facility;

(8) "severely handicapped" means the same thing as in AS 23.15.210 (9); 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.

History: Eff. 12/7/77, Register 64; am 7/17/83, Register 87; am 10/29/87, Register 104

Authority: AS 14.07.060

AS 23.15.020

AS 23.15.100

Editor's note: The Rehabilitation Services Manual referred to in 8 AAC 98.990(8) is available from the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Vocational Rehabilitation Division, P.O. Box 21149, Juneau, AK. 99802-1149.


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