{"data":{"id":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-17a-811","jurisdiction":"us-ct","citation":"Conn. Gen. Stat. § 17a-811","heading":"(Formerly Sec. 10-294a). Legal blindness. Impaired vision. Defined.","body":"For the purposes of this chapter:\n(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;\n(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.","path":["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"],"source_url":"https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_319l.htm#sec_17a-811","current_through":"Revised to January 1, 2026 (2026 Supplement to the General Statutes of Connecticut, applied over the base revision of January 1, 2025)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T19:07:02Z","sha256":"84ec8f59a4be408bc3cca4022fc8b30d97cc21f7b46a1b581b9ee03e253bf9a9","source_id":"us-ct","stale":false,"prev":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-17a-810","next":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-17a-812"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}