Pennsylvania Act 1961-389 — REGULATING SALES OF PRODUCTS MADE BY THE BLIND

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REGULATING SALES OF PRODUCTS MADE BY THE BLIND
                 Act of Jul. 26, 1961, P.L. 906, No. 389              Cl. 12
                                  AN ACT

     To protect the public of the Commonwealth against vendors who
        misleadingly present their products as having been made by
        the blind, and to prevent misleading use of the word blind in
        titles of organizations offering products for sale, and
        providing penalties.

        The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     hereby enacts as follows:

        Section 1.  It shall be unlawful for any person, firm,
     corporation, company or partnership to sell, or offer to sell,
     to the public any merchandise or other products of any nature,
     which are represented to be blind-made products, unless the
     merchandise or other products have been actually made or
     manufactured by blind persons as defined in this act, or if such
     merchandise or other products are made or manufactured by a
     corporation, association or partnership, it shall be unlawful
     for such products to be sold or offered for sale to the public
     as blind-made products unless they are blind-made products as
     defined in this act.
        Section 2.  It shall be unlawful for any person, firm,
     corporation, company or partnership having products for sale to
     use the word blind in the name or title of the person, firm,
     corporation, company or partnership, unless the person, firm,
     corporation, company or partnership limits its sales to the sale
     of blind-made products as defined in this act.
        Section 3.  A blind-made product shall be one which in its
     manufacture and packaging has involved the use of blind workers
     to an extent constituting not less than seventy-five per cent of
     the total personnel engaged in the direct labor of manufacture
     and packaging of the product.
        Section 4.  For the purposes of this act, a blind person
     engaged in the manufacture and packaging of blind-made products
     shall be one who has visual acuity not to exceed twenty two-
     hundredths in the better eye with correcting lenses or visual
     acuity greater than twenty two-hundredths but with a limitation
     in the fields of vision such that the widest diameter of the
     visual field subtends an angle no greater than twenty degrees.
        Section 5.  The provisions of section 2 of this act shall not
     apply to the sale, or the offer to sell, merchandise or products
     known as "blinds," nor to persons whose given individual names
     are "Blind."
        Section 6.  Any person who violates any provisions of this
     act shall, upon summary conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay
     a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) and costs of
     prosecution, and in default of payment thereof, shall undergo
     imprisonment not exceeding thirty days. Each sale, or offer to
     sell, merchandise or products in violation of the provisions of
     this act shall be deemed a separate offense.