1999 Minnesota Statutes

     248.10 Rehabilitation advisory council for the blind. 

    The commissioner shall establish a rehabilitation advisory 
 council for the blind consistent with the federal Rehabilitation 
 Act of 1973, Public Law Number 93-112, as amended.  Advisory 
 council members shall be compensated as provided in section 
 15.059, subdivision 3.  Members of the council for the blind 
 appointed before July 1, 1993, shall serve on the advisory 
 council until the end of their appointed terms.  The advisory 
 council shall advise the commissioner about programs of the 
 division of state services for the blind and visually disabled.  
 The advisory council is limited to 15 members, a majority of 
 whom must be blind or visually disabled. 

    HIST: 1Sp1985 c 14 art 9 s 14; 1988 c 629 s 48; 1989 c 106 s 
 2; 1992 c 470 s 4; 1993 c 97 s 1; 1995 c 82 s 10,16 

*   NOTE:  The rehabilitation advisory council for the blind 
*expires on June 30, 2001.  Section 15.059, subdivision 5a.