Sec 41-1973. Compensation of workers; proportion of workers required to be legally blind; workers as state employees; definition

A. The department of economic security may compensate blind and other workers for their work in the training centers, workshops and home industries authorized in section 41-1972, subsections A and B, but a minimum of seventy-five per cent of those workers in each of the training centers, workshops and home industries shall be legally blind.

B. Persons participating in activities authorized by this article and determined by the department of economic security to be blind or to have other disabilities are state employees but are not entitled to the benefits of the merit system procedures pertaining to the recruitment and retention of regular administrative employees of the department.

C. For purposes of this section "legally blind" means any person who:

1. Has no vision or visual acuity.

2. Has central visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye, with the best correction by single magnification.

3. Has a field defect in which the peripheral field has been contracted to such an extent that the widest diameter of visual field subtends an angular distance no greater than twenty degrees.