§347-6  Registration of blind.  The
department of human services shall cause to be maintained a complete register
of the blind in the State which shall describe the condition, causes of
blindness, capacity for education and industrial training, and such other facts
as may seem to it to be of value regarding each blind person, together with
recommendations for rehabilitation and relief.



It shall register cases of persons whose
eyesight is seriously defective or who are likely to become visually
handicapped or blind, and take such measures in cooperation with other
authorities, as it deems advisable for the prevention of blindness or
conservation of eyesight, and in appropriate cases provide for or secure the
vocational guidance of persons having seriously defective sight. [L 1941, c
296, pt of §1; RL 1945, §4857, ren §4872; am L 1945, c 113, §5; RL 1955,
§109-6; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §20; HRS §347-6; am L 1970, c 105, §5; am L 1987,
c 339, §4]