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Oklahoma Administrative Code (Last Updated: March 11, 2021) |
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TITLE 612. State Department of Rehabilitation Services |
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Chapter 15. Oklahoma Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (OLBPH) |
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Subchapter 3. OLBPH Services |
SECTION 612:15-3-1. Eligibility
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- A person eligible for Library of Congress services must be a resident of the United States, including the several states, territories, insular possessions, and the District of Columbia, or American citizen domiciled abroad. A person eligible for OLBPH services must be an Oklahoma resident and meet one or more of the criteria in paragraphs (1) through (4) of this Subsection:(1) persons who are blind whose visual acuity, as determined by competent authority, is 20/200 or less in the better eye with correcting lenses, or whose widest diameter of visual field subtends an angular distance no greater than 20 degrees;(2) persons whose visual disability with correction and regardless of optical measurement is certified by a competent authority as preventing the reading of standard printed material;(3) persons certified by competent authority as unable to read or unable to use standard printed material as a result of physical limitations, such as being unable to hold a book or turn the pages;(4) persons certified by competent authority as having a reading disability resulting from organic dysfunction and of sufficient severity to prevent their reading printed material in a normal manner.