21-2-1
Section 21-2-1 Powers of Department of Adult Blind and Deaf as to development of workshops,
marketing of products produced by handicapped, etc. The Department of Adult Blind and Deaf
of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind established pursuant to Section 21-1-15, in addition
to all other powers and duties now encumbered upon it, is authorized: (1) To maintain and
develop workshops for training and employing blind, visually handicapped, deaf, and other
severely handicapped persons. (2) To develop, cooperate with and supervise similar shops in
other localities in Alabama. (3) To aid blind, visually handicapped, deaf, and severely handicapped
persons in securing employment, in developing home industries, and in marketing their products.
(4) To act as the agent or salesman of workshops or other nonprofit agencies employing blind,
visually handicapped, deaf, and other severely handicapped persons in the state under the
supervision of such department in the marketing of their products...
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21-2-3
Section 21-2-3 Board to fix price of products offered for sale, etc.; evasion of article. The
Director of Finance, the Attorney General, and the president of the Alabama Institute for
Deaf and Blind are hereby constituted a board to fix a fair market price for all articles
offered for sale under authority of this chapter, to determine whether or not articles produced
by blind, visually handicapped, deaf, or other severely handicapped persons meet the reasonable
requirements of state departments, agencies, and institutions and to authorize state departments,
agencies, and institutions to purchase articles elsewhere when requisitions cannot be complied
with through the Department of Adult Blind and Deaf. No department, institution, or agency
shall be allowed to evade the intent and meaning of this chapter by slight variations from
standards adopted by the Department of Adult Blind and Deaf of the Alabama Institute for Deaf
and Blind when the articles produced or manufactured by it, in...
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21-1-15
Section 21-1-15 Department of adult blind and deaf established; appropriations; operation of
library service. There shall be at the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind a separate department
of adult blind and deaf. Legislative appropriations for the department shall be made separate
and apart from the legislative appropriations made for the support and operation of the institute.
The department shall have authority to establish and to operate a library service for blind,
visually handicapped, deaf, or severely handicapped persons, and the department is hereby
designated as the official agency to operate a regional library for the blind, visually handicapped,
deaf, and severely handicapped. (Acts 1939, No. 467, p. 680; Code 1940, T. 52, §528; Acts
1969, No. 425, p. 829, §1.)...
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21-1-41
Section 21-1-41 Operation of stands by blind persons in buildings and on properties of state,
etc. (a) The vocational rehabilitation service of the State Department of Education and the
Department of Adult Blind and Deaf of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, working under
a cooperative agreement, shall make surveys of concession stand opportunities for blind persons
in buildings and on properties of the State of Alabama, its agencies, institutions, and political
subdivisions. (b) The vocational rehabilitation service of the State Department of Education
shall be designated as the agency of the state to issue licenses to blind persons who are
residents of Alabama for the operation of stands in buildings and on property of the State
of Alabama, its agencies, institutions, and political subdivisions for the purpose of vending
of newspapers, periodicals, confections, tobacco products, and such other articles as may
be approved for each building and property by the licensing agency;...
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21-1-17
Section 21-1-17 Bureau of Information for aid of blind or deaf; powers and duties of Adult
Department as to training, etc., of blind or deaf persons; development of policies, etc. It
shall be the duty of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, through its Adult Department,
to maintain a Bureau of Information, the object of which shall be to aid the blind or deaf
whose training is not otherwise provided for in finding employment, in developing home industries,
and in marketing their products. It shall, in its discretion, enter into a cooperative agreement
with the State Board of Education to expend funds under the Vocational Rehabilitation Act
and any other applicable state or federal law for special vocational training, materials,
tools, and books for use as a means in rehabilitating blind or deaf persons who may be in
need of such services; and it may, through the employment of teachers, give home instruction
to blind persons; provided, that it shall not undertake the permanent...
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21-2-2
Section 21-2-2 Purchasing reference for products or services provided by certain individuals
with disabilities. Whenever any of the products or services made, provided, or manufactured
by individuals with disabilities under the direction or supervision of the Department of Adult
Blind and Deaf of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind meet the requirements of any department,
institution, or agency supported in whole or in part by the state as to quality and quantity,
such products or services shall have preference, except over articles produced or manufactured
by convicts in Alabama employed in industries operated or supervised by the Department of
Corrections, and all departments, institutions, and agencies supported in whole or in part
by the state are directed to purchase the products or services from the Department of Adult
Blind and Deaf. All political subdivisions of the state are authorized to purchase articles
or services made, provided, or manufactured by individuals with...
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21-1-61
Section 21-1-61 Certification of products or services as "blind-made." No person
or organization shall sell, distribute, or exhibit any product or service which purports or
is advertised to be "blind-made" unless the Adult Blind Department of the Alabama
Institute for Deaf and Blind shall certify that such product or service complies with the
provisions of Section 21-1-60. (Acts 1955, No. 545, p. 1202, §3.)...
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14-7-14
Section 14-7-14 Manufactured or produced articles or products - Exceptions as to requirement
of purchase of articles or products by state offices, etc. Exceptions from the operation of
the mandatory provisions in subsection (a) of Section 14-7-13 may be made in the case of articles
or products produced or manufactured in work shops or home industries developed, supervised
or maintained by the adult blind department of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind or
in any case where, in the opinion of the Finance Department, the article or articles or product
or products produced or manufactured under the supervision of the Board of Corrections do
or do not meet the reasonable requirements of or for such offices, departments, institutions
or agencies or in any case where the requisitions made cannot be reasonably complied with.
No such office, department, institution or agency shall be allowed to evade the intent and
meaning of this section by slight variations from standards adopted by...
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41-16-21
Section 41-16-21 Contracts for which competitive bidding not required generally. (a) Competitive
bids shall not be required for utility services where no competition exists or where rates
are fixed by law or ordinance, and the competitive bidding requirements of this article shall
not apply to: The purchase of insurance by the state; contracts for the securing of services
of attorneys, physicians, architects, teachers, artists, appraisers, engineers, or other individuals
possessing a high degree of professional skill where the personality of the individual plays
a decisive part; contracts of employment in the regular civil service of the state; purchases
of alcoholic beverages only by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board; purchases and contracts
for repair of equipment used in the construction and maintenance of highways by the State
Department of Transportation; purchases of products made or manufactured by the blind or visually
handicapped under the direction or supervision of the...
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16-13B-2
Section 16-13B-2 Exceptions to competitive bidding requirements. (a) Competitive bids shall
not be required for utility services for county or city boards of education, the rates for
which are fixed by law, regulation, or ordinance, and the competitive bidding requirements
of this chapter shall not apply to: (1) The purchase of insurance. (2) Contracts for securing
services of attorneys, physicians, architects, teachers, superintendents of construction,
artists, appraisers, engineers, consultants, certified public accountants, public accountants,
or other individuals possessing a high degree of professional skill where the personality
of the individual plays a decisive part. (3) Contracts of employment in the regular civil
service. (4) Contracts for fiscal or financial advice or services. (5) Purchases of products
made or manufactured by the blind or visually handicapped under the direction or supervision
of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind in accordance with Sections 21-2-1 to...
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