As used in this chapter:
(1) “Applicant” means a person who has applied for assistance under this chapter.
(2) “Assistance” means money payments to persons who are blind in need.
(3) “Commission” or “Delaware Commission for the Blind” or “Department” means the Department of Health and Social Services.
(4) “Ophthalmologist” means a physician licensed to practice medicine in this State and who is actively engaged in the treatment of diseases of the human eye.
(5) “Person who is blind” means one who is totally blind or has visual acuity of not more than 20/200 in the better eye with correction or whose vision is limited in field so that the widest diameter subtends an angle no greater than 20 degrees.
(6) “Publicly soliciting” means the wearing, carrying or exhibiting of signs denoting blindness or the carrying of receptacles for the reception of alms or the doing of the same by proxy or by begging from house to house.
(7) “Recipient” means a person who has received assistance under the terms of this chapter.
(8) “Supplementary services” means services other than money payments to persons who are blind in need.
45 Del. Laws, c. 83, §§ 1-3; 31 Del. C. 1953, § 2301; 50 Del. Laws, c. 144, § 1; 78 Del. Laws, c. 179, §§ 348, 349.
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