20 ILCS 2421/1
Short title
Short title. This Act may be cited as the Blind Vendors Act. (Source: P.A. 96-644, eff. 1-1-10.)
Illinois Compiled Statutes 20 ILCS 2421 — Blind Vendors Act.
Illinois · statute · 20 ILCS 2421 · 12 active provisions
Provisions
20 ILCS 2421/5
Definitions
Definitions. As used in this Act: "Blind licensee" means a blind person licensed by the Department to operate a vending facility on State, federal, or other property. "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 bett…
20 ILCS 2421/10
Business Enterprise Program for the Blind
Business Enterprise Program for the Blind. (a) The Business Enterprise Program for the Blind is created for the purposes of providing blind persons with remunerative employment, enlarging the economic opportunities of the blind, and stimulating the blind to greater efforts in striving to make themselves self-supporting…
20 ILCS 2421/15
Vending facilities on State property
Vending facilities on State property. (a) In order to ensure that priority is given to blind vendors in the operation of vending facilities on State property as provided in Section 10, the Secretary, directly or by delegation to the Director, and the Committee shall jointly develop rules to ensure the following: (1) Th…
20 ILCS 2421/25
Set-aside funds; Blind Vendors Trust Fund
Set-aside funds; Blind Vendors Trust Fund. (a) The Department may provide, by rule, for set-asides similar to those provided in Section 107d-3 of the Randolph-Sheppard Act. If any funds are set aside, or caused to be set aside, from the net proceeds of the operation of vending facilities by blind vendors, the funds sha…
20 ILCS 2421/30
Vending machine income and compliance
Vending machine income and compliance. (a) Except as provided in subsections (b), (c), (d), (e), and (i) of this Section, after July 1, 2010, all vending machine income, as defined by this Act, from vending machines on State property shall accrue to (1) the blind vendor operating the vending facilities on the property…
20 ILCS 2421/40
Licenses
Licenses. (a) Licenses shall be issued only to blind persons who are qualified to operate vending facilities. The continuing eligibility of a vendor as a blind person shall be reviewed biennially for partially sighted individuals or whenever the Director has information indicating the vendor is no longer blind as defin…
20 ILCS 2421/45
Committee of Blind Vendors
Committee of Blind Vendors. (a) The Secretary, through the Director, shall provide for the biennial election of the Committee, which shall be fully representative of all blind licensees in the State. There shall be no fewer than one Committee member for each 15 licensed blind vendors in the State. (b) The Committee is…
20 ILCS 2421/50
Hearings; arbitration
Hearings; arbitration. (a) Any blind vendor dissatisfied with any act or omission arising from the operation or administration of the vending facility program may submit to the Secretary a request for a full evidentiary hearing. This hearing shall be provided in a timely manner by the Department. Damages, including com…
20 ILCS 2421/60
General provisions
General provisions. (a) Blind vendors operating vending facilities are subject to the applicable license or permit requirements of the county or municipality in which the facility is located necessary for the conduct of their business. (b) Vendors licensed pursuant to this Act are authorized to keep guide animals with…
20 ILCS 2421/65
Program rules
Program rules. (a) The Secretary shall promulgate and adopt necessary rules, and do all things necessary and proper to carry out this Act. The Secretary by delegation shall review these rules with the Committee at least every 3 years. (b) The rules shall include, but are not limited to, the following: (1) uniform proce…
20 ILCS 2421/70
Property Survey and Report
Property Survey and Report. (a) The Department shall survey and report on State property and vending facilities not later than December 31, 2010. The report shall contain the following information: (1) A list of all State property or other property within the State that does or reasonably could accommodate a vending fa…