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Connecticut · Through Revised to January 1, 2026 (2026 Supplement to the General Statutes of Connecticut, applied over the base revision of January 1, 2025)

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 17a-811: (Formerly Sec. 10-294a). Legal blindness. Impaired vision. Defined.

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  1. TITLE 17a. SOCIAL AND HUMAN SERVICES AND RESOURCES
  2. CHAPTER 319l. DEPARTMENT OF AGING AND DISABILITY SERVICES
  3. 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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