As used in this act:

1. "Blind person" means a person having a visual acuity not to exceed 20/200 in the better eye, with correcting lenses, or visual acuity greater than 20/200 but with limitation in the field of vision such that the widest diameter of visual field subtends an angle no greater than twenty (20) degrees;

2. "Committee" means the State Use Committee;

3. "Qualified nonprofit agency for the severely handicapped" means a nonprofit agency:

a.employing severely disabled persons who constitute at least seventy-five percent (75%) of the personnel engaged in direct production of products or services offered by the agency for procurement by this state and who meet the definition of "blind person" as provided for in paragraph 1 of this section, or

b.which is certified as a sheltered workshop by the Wage and Hour Division of the United States Department of Labor;

4. "Severely disabled person" means an individual with a physical or mental disability constituting a substantial handicap to employment and preventing the person from engaging in normal competitive employment and includes any blind person;

5. "Qualified organization" means a blind person, qualified nonprofit agency for the severely handicapped, or severely disabled person contracting to supply goods or services;

6. "Manufactured" means goods made by manual labor;

7. "Produced" means to have brought into existence or created from raw materials;

8. "Processed" means the action of taking something through an established and mostly routine set of procedures or steps to substantially convert a potential product from one form to another. This action involves a sequence of multiple steps each requiring a distinct decision-making process to evolve a potential product to the next step; and

9. "Assemble" means to put or fit together or put together the parts of a potential product.

Added by Laws 1973, c. 20, § 3, operative July 1, 1973. Amended by Laws 1996, c. 322, § 2, emerg. eff. June 12, 1996; Laws 2004, c. 404, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2004; Laws 2012, c. 289, § 2; Laws 2019, c. 99, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2019.