Conn. Gen. Stat. § 17a-811: (Formerly Sec. 10-294a). Legal blindness. Impaired vision. Defined.
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- TITLE 17a. SOCIAL AND HUMAN SERVICES AND RESOURCES
- CHAPTER 319l. DEPARTMENT OF AGING AND DISABILITY SERVICES
- PART II. EDUCATION OF, AND SERVICES FOR, THE BLIND
For the purposes of this chapter:
(a) A person is legally blind if such person's central visual acuity does not exceed 20/200 in the better eye with correcting lenses, or if such person's visual acuity is greater than 20/200 but is accompanied by a limitation in the fields of vision such that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angle no greater than twenty degrees;
(b) A person has impaired vision if such person's central visual acuity does not exceed 20/70 in the better eye with correcting lenses.
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