23-501

23-501. Definitions

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. "Department" means the department of economic security.

2. "Director" means the director of the department.

3. "Disabled person" or "handicapped person" means any individual who has a
physical or mental disability and a substantial handicap to employment, which is of such
a nature that vocational rehabilitation services may reasonably be expected to render him
fit to engage in a gainful occupation, including a gainful occupation which is more
consistent with his capacities and abilities, or for whom vocational rehabilitation
services are necessary for the purpose of extended evaluation to determine rehabilitation
potential.

4. "Division" means the department of economic security.

5. "Maintenance" means money payments not to exceed the estimated cost of
subsistence during vocational rehabilitation.

6. "Physical restoration" means medical, surgical or therapeutic treatment
necessary to correct or reduce the employment handicap of a disabled person and includes
medical, psychiatric, dental and surgical treatment, nursing service, hospital care not
to exceed ninety days, convalescent home care, drugs, medical and surgical supplies and
prosthetic appliances and other related services as defined in the vocational
rehabilitation act, as amended.

7. "Prosthetic appliance" means an artificial device necessary to support or take
the place of a part of the body, or to increase the acuity of a sense organ.

8. "Vocational rehabilitation" or "vocational rehabilitation service" means a
service determined by the director to be necessary to enable a disabled person to engage
in a remunerative occupation and includes medical and vocational diagnosis, vocational
guidance, counsel and placement, rehabilitation, training, physical restoration,
transportation, occupational licenses, customary occupational tools and equipment,
maintenance and training books and materials, follow up, evaluation and work adjustment
and other related services as defined in the vocational rehabilitation act, as amended.