LAC 67:VII.507. State Legal Authority

A. Louisiana Revised Statutes―R.S. 36:251 (Legislative Act that created the Department of Health and Hospitals), R.S. 36:471 (Legislative Act that created the Department of Social Services now known as the Department of Children and Family Services), R.S. 36:301 (Legislative Act that created the Louisiana Workforce Commission now known as Louisiana Works). B. Louisiana Act 19 of 1988, effected the merger of the Division of Rehabilitation Services with the Division of Blind Services to form Louisiana Rehabilitation Services. Louisiana Act 939 of 2010 transferred the agency from the Department of Social Services to the Louisiana Workforce Commission now known as Louisiana Works. C. R.S. 23:3023 gives priority to the blind in operation of vending facilities, vending machines, cafeterias, and other small business concessions to be operated in the portions, or portions thereof, of properties that those state agencies, boards, commissions, and institutions own, maintain, occupy, or control. No other vending facilities , vending machines, cafeterias, or small business concessions shall be operated on the same premises with vending facilities, vending machines, cafeterias, or other small business concessions operated, or contemplated, under the BEP, except as provided by R.S. 23:3023. D. R.S. 23:3041-3045 and LAC 67:VII, Chapter 21 provide for the establishment of the Blind Vendors Trust Fund. E. R.S. 49:950 (et seq.) is the Administrative Procedure Act for the authority to promulgate rules.