---
kind: "section"
citation: "13 C.F.R. § 120.311"
title: "13"
number: "120.311"
heading: "Definitions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/13/120.311"
---

# §120.311. Definitions.

- (a) Organization for the disabled means one which:
  - (1) Is organized under federal or state law to operate in the interest of disabled individuals;
  - (2) Is non-profit;
  - (3) Employs disabled individuals for seventy-five percent of the time needed to produce commodities or services for sale; and
  - (4) **Complies with occupational and safety standards prescribed by the Department of Labor.**
- (b) Disabled individual means a person who has a permanent physical, mental or emotional impairment, defect, ailment, disease or disability which limits the type of employment for which the person would otherwise be qualified.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 634(b) (6), (b) (7), (b) (14), (h), and note, 636(a), (h) and (m), 650, 687(f), 696(3) and (7), and 697(a) and (e); sec. 521, Pub. L. 114-113, 129 Stat. 2242; sec. 328(a), Pub. L. 116-260, 134 Stat. 1182.

### Source

Source: 61 FR 3235, Jan. 31, 1996, unless otherwise noted.