Code of Maryland Regulations
Title 21 - STATE PROCUREMENT REGULATIONS
Subtitle 11 - SOCIOECONOMIC POLICIES
Chapter 21.11.09 - Vending Facilities on Property Controlled by Department of General Services
Section 21.11.09.01 - Definitions

(1) "Blind person" means a person who, after examination by a physician skilled in diseases of the eye or by an optometrist, has been determined to have not more than 20/200 central visual acuity in the better eye with correcting lenses or an equally disabling loss of the visual fields to the extent that the field in the better eye is constricted to an angle of 20-° or less.

(2) "Cost of Goods Sold" means the inventory cost of the products sold.

(3) "Department" means the Department of General Services.

(4) "Division" means the Division of Rehabilitation Services of the State Department of Education.

(5) "Licensed blind vendor" means a blind person who has been licensed by the Division to operate a vending facility on federal, State, or other property.

(6) "Occupant" means any State agency, board, commission, institution, or commercial concession which occupies space within property controlled by the Department.

(7) "Program" means the Maryland Vending Program for the Blind.

(8) "Property controlled by the Department" means any buildings, land, or other real property owned or leased by the State which is managed by Department personnel.

(9) "Reasonable services and maintenance costs in accordance with customary business practices" means personnel and repair costs, including equipment and transportation costs, taxes, overhead and administration costs and commercial vendor profits.

(10) "Receipts" means payments made to the program by a commercial vending company which operates services and maintains vending machines on property controlled by the property managing agency

(11) "Vending facility" means vending machines, cafeterias, snack bars, and other concession stands for the sale of foods, beverages, newspapers, periodicals, confections, tobacco products, and other merchandise including the sale or exchange of chances for any lottery authorized by State law and conducted by an agency of the State.

(12) "Vending machine" means a currency-operated machine that dispenses products or services.

(13) "Vending machine income" means: receipts, other than those of a licensed blind vendor, from vending machine operations on property controlled by the Department after deducting costs of goods sold, including reasonable service and maintenance costs in accordance with customary business practices.