49-10-403 - Unit to make equipment available.
49-10-403. Unit to make equipment available.
(a) The unit shall furnish, lend or otherwise make available its equipment, materials, supplies and devices to public school systems, private nonprofit schools, special schools or institutions for children with disabilities and public and private nonprofit institutions of higher learning.
(b) Public and private nonprofit institutions and organizations operating programs of vocational rehabilitation recognized or approved pursuant to parts 1-3, this part and parts 5 and 6 of this chapter also shall be eligible in the same manner as institutions qualifying under subsection (a).
(c) Preschool public and private nonprofit programs for the education of children with disabilities also shall be eligible in the same manner as institutions qualifying under subsection (a), if approved by the unit.
(d) A person with disabilities may apply for and receive equipment, materials, supplies and devices on an individual basis if the unit has established loan or other services for making the equipment, materials, supplies and devices available to users not covered by subsections (a)-(c) and has provided appropriate procedures therefor.
(e) (1) The unit shall make equipment, materials, supplies or devices available pursuant to subsections (a)-(c) only on written application made in the form and manner that it may prescribe.
(2) The application shall be approved and equipment, materials, supplies or devices furnished only if the unit is satisfied that the applicant has a need for the equipment, materials, supplies and devices and is capable of putting them to appropriate use.
(3) Applications shall contain information concerning the number of children with disabilities for whom the applicant is providing instruction, or, in the case of a new institution or program, the number expected to be so served, the type or types of disability, and other information that the unit may require.
(f) Except as may be provided pursuant to § 49-10-404(a)-(d), the unit shall provide equipment, materials, supplies, devices and in-service training only to schools and school systems, institutions, organizations and persons in this state.
[Acts 1972, ch. 839, § 7; T.C.A., §§ 49-2942, 49-2943; Acts 1994, ch. 768, § 2.]