Title 20 — Education
Chapter 38 — Discrimination Based on Sex or Blindness
§ 1684. Blindness or visual impairment; prohibition against discrimination
Statutory text
No person in the United States shall, on the ground of blindness or severely impaired vision, be denied admission in any course of study by a recipient of Federal financial assistance for any education program or activity, but nothing herein shall be construed to require any such institution to provide any special services to such person because of his blindness or visual impairment.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Education Amendments of 1972
Pub. L. 92–318 title IX § 904 · 86 Stat. 235
Enacted · 20 U.S.C. § 1684
(Pub. L. 92–318, title IX, § 904, June 23, 1972, 86 Stat. 375.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 92–318, title IX, § 904, June 23, 1972, 86 Stat. 375.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 904. prohibition against discrimination against the blind No person in the United States shall, on the ground of blindness or severely impaired vision, be denied admission in any course of study by a recipient of Federal financial assistance for any education program or activity, but nothing herein shall be construed to require any such institution to provide any special services to such person because of his blindness or visual impairment.
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