(20 ILCS 2405/12) (from Ch. 23, par. 3443)
Sec. 12.
Services for the visually impaired.
The Department shall
provide community services for persons
with visual disabilities at the Illinois Center for
Rehabilitation
and Education to promote the general welfare and rehabilitation of
persons with major visual disabilities and provide such related services as
will promote independent living, lessen the limitations of their
disability, teach them vocational and other skills, and assist in making
them self-supporting and responsible citizens of their communities. The
community services program shall provide such instruction and intensive
rehabilitation training service individually or in groups as is deemed
necessary and practicable for each individual case, using the best
appliances, skills, and specialist services known. The Center shall carry out these purposes by providing
appropriate training in a residential center for persons with visual
disabilities who are found to be qualified for such training.
In order to facilitate the training and rehabilitation of persons
with major visual disabilities in industrial work
processes and provide necessary services, the Center and the community services program shall have authority to seek
and negotiate contracts with agencies, individuals, firms, manufacturers or
corporations for the repair of machines or equipment for persons with
visual disabilities and for separating, sorting, packaging, tying,
wrapping, or otherwise putting together small objects. The rates charged
for such work shall be reasonable and adequate, and comparable to those
paid other persons for similar services, except as the projects are used
for training and rehabilitation of persons with visual disabilities who may
not be compensated during the period of training.
All money which has been or may be paid to, or is received as payment
for such work shall be deposited in an approved bank or savings and loan
association in a special account known as the Industrial Project Fund. All
deposits and expenditures of the Industrial Project Fund shall be made
under the direction of the Department and in accordance with its rules and
regulations. Expenditures shall be limited to salaries and wages paid to
the persons with visual disabilities performing the work and for necessary
supplies, expenses and equipment required to facilitate and operate such
training and employment, and for the benefit, special comfort, pleasure,
amusement and rehabilitation of all persons with visual disabilities
receiving services from the Department.
No bank or savings and loan association shall receive public funds as
permitted by this Section, unless it has complied with the requirements
established under Section 6 of the Public Funds Investment Act.
(Source: P.A. 88-172.)
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