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I. The administrator, bureau of vocational rehabilitation, shall develop a program to make special telecommunications equipment available to deaf, hearing impaired, and speech impaired persons. The program shall provide for the purchase, maintenance and repair of special telecommunications equipment for deaf, hearing impaired, and speech impaired persons. Any equipment purchased under the program shall be property of the state of New Hampshire.
II. The program established under paragraph I shall include specific criteria that will govern the priorities assigned to various persons who require special telecommunications equipment. Persons who are profoundly deaf or speech impaired so that they cannot use the telephone for expressive or receptive communications, as verified by a written report from an otologist, audiologist or physician, shall be eligible for equipment under the program.
Source. 1985, 322:1. 1994, 379:21, eff. June 9, 1994.
