{"identifier":"/us/usc/t20/s107e","title_num":"20","num":"§ 107e.","heading":"Definitions","status":null,"guid":"idcfa6bea9-4aa6-11eb-afbc-da62fdf49fd5","source_credit":"(June 20, 1936, ch. 638, § 9, formerly § 6, 49 Stat. 1560; Aug. 3, 1954, ch. 655, § 4(f), 68 Stat. 664; renumbered § 9 and amended Pub. L. 93–516, title II, §§ 206, 207, Dec. 7, 1974, 88 Stat. 1626, 1628; Pub. L. 93–651, title II, §§ 206, 207, Nov. 21, 1974, 89 Stat. 2–11, 2–13; Pub. L. 96–88, title III, § 301(a)(4)(B), title V, § 507, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 678, 692.)","seq_in_title":179,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t20/ch6A","ancestors":[{"identifier":"/us/usc/t20","level":"title","num":"Title 20—","heading":"EDUCATION","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t20/ch6A","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 6A—","heading":"VENDING FACILITIES FOR BLIND IN FEDERAL BUILDINGS","status":null,"is_section":false}],"xml":"<section xmlns=\"http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:dcterms=\"http://purl.org/dc/terms/\" style=\"-uslm-lc:I80\" id=\"id6b9e8484-d2f2-11e9-aa7d-f436298d01bb\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t20/s107e\"><num value=\"107e\">§ 107e.</num><heading> Definitions</heading>\n<chapeau style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">As used in this chapter—</chapeau><paragraph style=\"-uslm-lc:I12\" class=\"indent1\" id=\"id6b9e8485-d2f2-11e9-aa7d-f436298d01bb\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t20/s107e/1\"><num value=\"1\">(1)</num><content> “blind person” means a person whose central visual acuity does not exceed 20/200 in the better eye with correcting lenses or whose visual acuity, if better than 20/200, is accompanied by a limit to the field of vision in the better eye to such a degree that its widest diameter subtends an angle of no greater than twenty degrees. In determining whether an individual is blind, there shall be an examination by a physician skilled in diseases of the eye, or by an optometrist, whichever the individual shall select;</content>\n</paragraph>\n<paragraph style=\"-uslm-lc:I12\" class=\"indent1\" id=\"id6b9e8486-d2f2-11e9-aa7d-f436298d01bb\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t20/s107e/2\"><num value=\"2\">(2)</num><content> “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration;</content>\n</paragraph>\n<paragraph style=\"-uslm-lc:I12\" class=\"indent1\" id=\"id6b9e8487-d2f2-11e9-aa7d-f436298d01bb\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t20/s107e/3\"><num value=\"3\">(3)</num><content> “Federal property” means any building, land, or other real property owned, leased, or occupied by any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States (including the Department of Defense and the United States Postal Service), or any other instrumentality wholly owned by the United States, or by any department or agency of the District of Columbia or any territory or possession of the United States;</content>\n</paragraph>\n<paragraph style=\"-uslm-lc:I12\" class=\"indent1\" id=\"id6b9e8488-d2f2-11e9-aa7d-f436298d01bb\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t20/s107e/4\"><num value=\"4\">(4)</num><content> “Secretary” means the Secretary of Education;</content>\n</paragraph>\n<paragraph style=\"-uslm-lc:I12\" class=\"indent1\" id=\"id6b9e8489-d2f2-11e9-aa7d-f436298d01bb\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t20/s107e/5\"><num value=\"5\">(5)</num><content> “State” means a State, territory, possession, Puerto Rico, or the District of Columbia;</content>\n</paragraph>\n<paragraph style=\"-uslm-lc:I12\" class=\"indent1\" id=\"id6b9eab9a-d2f2-11e9-aa7d-f436298d01bb\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t20/s107e/6\"><num value=\"6\">(6)</num><content> “United States” includes the several States, territories, and possessions of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia;</content>\n</paragraph>\n<paragraph style=\"-uslm-lc:I12\" class=\"indent1\" id=\"id6b9eab9b-d2f2-11e9-aa7d-f436298d01bb\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t20/s107e/7\"><num value=\"7\">(7)</num><content> “vending facility” means automatic vending machines, cafeterias, snack bars, cart services, shelters, counters, and such other appropriate auxiliary equipment as the Secretary may by regulation prescribe as being necessary for the sale of the articles or services described in <ref href=\"/us/usc/t20/s107a/a/5\">section 107a(a)(5) of this title</ref> and which may be operated by blind licensees; and</content>\n</paragraph>\n<paragraph style=\"-uslm-lc:I12\" class=\"indent1\" id=\"id6b9eab9c-d2f2-11e9-aa7d-f436298d01bb\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t20/s107e/8\"><num value=\"8\">(8)</num><content> “vending machine income” means receipts (other than those of a blind licensee) from vending machine operations on Federal property, after cost of goods sold (including reasonable service and maintenance costs), where the machines are operated, serviced, or maintained by, or with the approval of, a department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States, or commissions paid (other than to a blind licensee) by a commercial vending concern which operates, services, and maintains vending machines on Federal property for, or with the approval of, a department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States.</content>\n</paragraph>\n<sourceCredit id=\"id6b9eab9d-d2f2-11e9-aa7d-f436298d01bb\">(<ref href=\"/us/act/1936-06-20/ch638/s9\">June 20, 1936, ch. 638, § 9</ref>, formerly § 6, <ref href=\"/us/stat/49/1560\">49 Stat. 1560</ref>; <ref href=\"/us/act/1954-08-03/ch655/s4/f\">Aug. 3, 1954, ch. 655, § 4(f)</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/68/664\">68 Stat. 664</ref>; renumbered § 9 and amended <ref href=\"/us/pl/93/516/tII\">Pub. L. 93–516, title II</ref>, §§ 206, 207, <date date=\"1974-12-07\">Dec. 7, 1974</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/88/1626\">88 Stat. 1626</ref>, 1628; <ref href=\"/us/pl/93/651/tII\">Pub. L. 93–651, title II</ref>, §§ 206, 207, <date date=\"1974-11-21\">Nov. 21, 1974</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/89/2-11\">89 Stat. 2–11</ref>, 2–13; <ref href=\"/us/pl/96/88/tIII/s301/a/4/B\">Pub. L. 96–88, title III, § 301(a)(4)(B)</ref>, title V, § 507, <date date=\"1979-10-17\">Oct. 17, 1979</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/93/678\">93 Stat. 678</ref>, 692.)</sourceCredit>\n<notes type=\"uscNote\" id=\"id6b9eab9e-d2f2-11e9-aa7d-f436298d01bb\">\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I76\" topic=\"codification\" id=\"id6b9eab9f-d2f2-11e9-aa7d-f436298d01bb\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Codification</heading>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">The content of <ref href=\"/us/pl/93/516\">Pub. L. 93–516</ref>, including provisions of sections 206 and 207 thereof which amended and renumbered this section, were originally contained in H.R. 14225, 93rd Congress, Second Session, which was pocket-vetoed during the 31-day intrasession adjournment of the 93rd Congress for the Congressional elections in November, 1974. See 1974 Amendment note below.</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Pursuant to an order of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (<i>Kennedy v. Jones</i>, D.C.D.C. 1976, 412 F.Supp. 353) H.R. 14225 was deemed to have become law without the approval of the President on <date date=\"1974-11-21\">Nov. 21, 1974</date>, and was given the designation <ref href=\"/us/pl/93/651\">Pub. L. 93–651</ref>. Therefore, for purposes of codification, this section should be deemed to have been amended and renumbered by <ref href=\"/us/pl/93/651/tII\">Pub. L. 93–651, title II</ref>, §§ 206, 207, <date date=\"1974-11-21\">Nov. 21, 1974</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/89/2-11\">89 Stat. 2–11</ref>, 2–13, in exactly the same manner as it was amended and renumbered by <ref href=\"/us/pl/93/516\">Pub. L. 93–516</ref>.</p>\n</note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"amendments\" id=\"id6b9eaba0-d2f2-11e9-aa7d-f436298d01bb\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Amendments</heading><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">1974—<ref href=\"/us/pl/93/516/s207\">Pub. L. 93–516, § 207</ref>, replaced letter designations with number designations, inserted definitions of “Commissioner”, “vending facility”, and “vending machine income”, and in definition of “blind person” substituted provisions that such person meant a person whose central visual acuity does not exceed 20/200 in the better eye with correcting lenses or whose visual acuity, if better than 20/200, is accompanied by a limit to the field of vision in the better eye to such a degree that its widest diameter subtends an angle of no greater than twenty degrees, and that in determining whether a person is blind, there shall be an examination by a physician skilled in diseases of the eye, or by an optometrist, whichever the individual shall select, for provisions that such person meant a person having not more than 10 per centum visual acuity in the better eye with correction and that such blindness shall be certified by a duly licensed ophthalmologist, in definition of “United States” inserted reference to Puerto Rico, in definition of “State” inserted reference to Puerto Rico, and in definition of “Federal property” inserted reference to Department of Defense and United States Postal Service. An identical amendment was made by <ref href=\"/us/pl/93/651\">Pub. L. 93–651</ref>. See Codification note above.</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">1954—Subsecs. (d), (e). Act <date date=\"1954-08-03\">Aug. 3, 1954</date>, added subsecs. (d) and (e).</p>\n</note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"effectiveDateOfAmendment\" id=\"id6b9ed2b1-d2f2-11e9-aa7d-f436298d01bb\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Effective Date of 1954 Amendment</heading><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Amendment by act <date date=\"1954-08-03\">Aug. 3, 1954</date>, effective <date date=\"1954-07-01\">July 1, 1954</date>, see section 8 of act <date date=\"1954-08-03\">Aug. 3, 1954</date>, set out as a note under <ref href=\"/us/usc/t29/s49b\">section 49b of Title 29</ref>, Labor.</p>\n</note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I85\" topic=\"transferOfFunctions\" id=\"id6b9ed2b2-d2f2-11e9-aa7d-f436298d01bb\">\n<heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Transfer of Functions</heading>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">“Secretary of Education” substituted for “Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare” in par. (4) pursuant to sections 301(a)(4)(B) and 507 of <ref href=\"/us/pl/96/88\">Pub. L. 96–88</ref> which are classified to sections 3441(a)(4)(B) and 3507 of this title and which transferred all functions of Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under this chapter to Secretary of Education.</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">For transfer of functions and offices of Secretary and Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, including Rehabilitation Services Administration and Commissioner thereof, to Secretary and Department of Education, and for delegation of certain functions of Secretary of Education under this chapter to Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, see sections 3417 and 3441 of this title.</p>\n</note>\n</notes>\n</section>","provision":null,"duplicates":[],"release":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"served_from":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"content_first_seen":{"label":"116-56","currency_date":"2019-08-23","congress":116,"law_num":56,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":182,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["05","11","13","15","20","28","38","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}