New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 95 - VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION SERVICES PROGRAM OF THE COMMISSION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED
Subchapter 9 - PROVISION OF TRAINING AND ADAPTIVE EQUIPMENT
Section 10:95-9.1 - General purpose and scope

(a) Training equipment refers to those tools, appliances, materials and other supplies which any individual would need in order to participate in a specific training program.

(b) Adaptive equipment refers to those pieces of equipment, materials and/or accommodative devices which allow a visually impaired person to perform tasks so that the individual can participate in a training program and subsequently in an occupation.

(c) The Commission shall provide through purchase or loan training/adaptive equipment and/or materials to eligible vocational rehabilitation clients to enable them to participate in a training program. The client's individualized plan for employment must specify the training/adaptive equipment to be purchased.

(d) Equipment which has been fully paid for by the Commission shall remain the property of the Commission. If the client is a co-payer for a piece of equipment, then the equipment shall become the property of the client. While this equipment remains the Commission's property, the Commission shall pay all associated costs such as insurance and maintenance.

(e) The Commission shall provide training and adaptive equipment to an eligible client only after the client has signed the loan of equipment agreement form (see Appendix I of this chapter, incorporated herein by reference).

(f) If the client violates the loan of equipment agreement, the Commission shall refuse to authorize any additional services to the client.

(g) The Commission's economic needs test will be applied to all training and adaptive equipment except that which is purchased relative to work adjustment training (see N.J.A.C. 10:91-3).