The department, through the office, shall cooperate, under agreements with the federal government, in carrying out the purposes of any federal statutes pertaining to vocational rehabilitation of individuals who are blind, and is authorized to adopt such methods of administration as are found by the federal government to be necessary for the proper and efficient operation of those agreements or plans for vocational rehabilitation and to comply with such conditions as may be necessary to secure the full benefits of those federal statutes and appropriations, to administer any legislation under those federal statutes and appropriations that is enacted by the State of Mississippi, to direct the disbursement and administer the use of all funds provided by the federal government or this state for the vocational rehabilitation of individuals who are blind in this state, and to do all things necessary to insure the vocational rehabilitation of individuals who are blind.Codes, 1942, § 6508.5-05; Laws, 1948, ch. 303, § 5; Laws, 1975, ch. 434, § 5; Laws, 1989, ch. 544, § 95; Laws, 1991, ch. 608, § 32, eff. 7/1/1991 (became law without the Governor's signature); Laws, 2002, ch. 463, § 18, eff. Laws, 1948, ch. 303, § 5; Laws, 1975, ch. 434, § 5; Laws, 1989, ch. 544, § 95; Laws, 1991, ch. 608, § 32, eff. 7/1/1991 (became law without the Governor's signature); Laws, 2002, ch. 463, § 18, eff. 7/1/2002.
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