Section 218-RICR-50-00-2.11 - NEWSLINEA. SBVI must administer and promote a program to provide telephone access to the text of newspaper programs to residents who are blind, deaf/blind, visually impaired or reading impaired with a single party telephone line.B. Applications for NEWSLINE will be processed by SBVI, which will determine eligibility for this program. Individuals registered for the service utilize a telephone line to access the toll-free telephone number.C. Eligibility Requirements 1. Persons who live in the state of Rhode Island; and2. Persons whose visual acuity, as determined by competent authority, is 20/60 or worse in the better eye with corrective lenses, or whose widest diameter of visual field is not greater than twenty (20) degrees; or3. Persons certified by a competent authority as having a reading disability resulting from an organic dysfunction of sufficient severity to prevent their reading printed material in a normal manner.218 R.I. Code R. 218-RICR-50-00-2.11
Amended effective 6/4/2023