TITLE 49 SOCIAL SERVICES

Section 9. Transfer of Division of Rehabilitation Services to Department of Labor, 49-9-1 through 49-9-53.

ARTICLE 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS

49-9-5. Provision of services to persons with disabilities.

The agency shall provide the services authorized by this chapter to persons with disabilities determined to be eligible therefor; and, in carrying out the purposes of this chapter, the agency is authorized, among other things:

1. To cooperate with other departments, agencies, and institutions, both public and private, in providing the services authorized by this chapter to persons with disabilities; in studying the problems involved therein; and in establishing, developing, and providing, in conformity with the purposes of this chapter, such programs, facilities, and services as may be necessary or desirable;
2. To enter into reciprocal agreements with other states to provide for the services authorized by this chapter to residents of the state concerned;
3. To conduct research and compile statistics relating to the provision of services or the need of services by persons with disabilities;
4. To license blind persons or other persons with disabilities to operate vending facilities under its supervision and control, subject to the terms and conditions provided in regulations, policies, and procedures issued pursuant to Code Section 49-9-3, on:
   1. State property;
   2. County or municipal property;
   3. Federal property, pursuant to delegation of authority under the Randolph-Sheppard Act, 20 U.S.C. Section 107(b), and any amendment thereto or any act of Congress relating to this subject; and
   4. Private property; and
5. To provide for the establishment, supervision, and control of suitable business enterprises to be operated by persons with disabilities.

(Code 1981, §34-15-4, enacted by Ga. L. 2000, p. 1137, § 1; Code 1981, §49-9-5, as redesignated by Ga. L. 2012, p. 303, § 1/HB 1146; Ga. L. 2013, p. 141, § 49/HB 79.)

The 2012 amendment, effective July 1, 2012, redesignated former Code Section 34-15-4 as present Code Section 49-9-5; in the introductory paragraph of this Code section, substituted "agency" for "department, through the division," near the beginning, and substituted "agency" for "division" near the end; and substituted "Code Section 49-9-3" for "paragraphs (1) and (2) of Code Section 34-15-3" near the end of the introductory language of paragraph (4).

The 2013 amendment, effective April 24, 2013, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted "under the Randolph-Sheppard Act, 20 U.S.C. Section 107(b)," for "under the Randolph-Sheppard Act (20 U.S. Code, Section 107b)(49 Stat. 1559)" in subparagraph (4)(C).