Opinion No. (1980)

REQUESTED BY: Dear Senator Sieck:

This is in reply to your inquiry concerning the meaning of `physical disability' as used in section 1, line 6 of LB 525. The term is there used in the definition of `group homes' when one is `receiving therapy, training, or counseling for the purposes of adaptation to living with, or rehabilitation from physical disability. . . .'

Since the term `physical disability' is so broad it usually covers about any type of impairment to the body. For example, in the case of Quirk v. Electric Machinery ManufacturingCo., 306 Minn. 326, 236 N.W.2d 782, the court held that…