54:4-3.34. "Total blindness"Ā  defined
A person shall be deemed to haveĀ  "total blindness,"Ā  as used in this act, when the vision in his better eye with proper correction does not exceed 20/200Ā  as measured by Snellen chart or when there is a field defect in his better eyeĀ  with proper correction in which the peripheral field has contracted to such anĀ  extent that the widest diameter of visual field subtends an angular distance noĀ  greater than twenty degrees.

L.1949, c. 172, p. 562, s. 4.
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