Veterans' Services Law
Veterans' Services
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New York Veterans' Services Law
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Veterans' Services Law
Department of Veterans' Services
ARTICLE 1 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS' SERVICES Section 1. Definitions. 2. Department of veterans' services. 3. Veterans' services commission. 3-a. Veterans employment task force. 4. General functions, powers and duties of department. 5. Veteran speaker education program. 6. Cooperation and facilities of other departments.…
N.Y. Veterans' Services Law § 1
Definitions
§ 1. Definitions. When used in this article: 1. The term "department" means the department of veterans' services. 2. The term "state commissioner" means the New York state commissioner of veterans' services. 3. The term "veteran" means a person who served on active duty in the uniformed services of the United States, o…
N.Y. Veterans' Services Law § 2
Department of veterans' services
§ 2. Department of veterans' services. There is hereby created a department of veterans' services. The head of such department shall be the New York state commissioner of veterans' services who shall be a veteran. He or she shall be appointed by the governor and shall hold office during his or her pleasure. Such state…
N.Y. Veterans' Services Law § 3
Veterans' services commission
§ 3. Veterans' services commission. 1. There shall be in the department a veterans' services commission, which shall consist of the members and the ex officio members provided for in this section. 2. There shall be thirteen members of the commission who shall be veterans appointed by the governor, including two appoint…
N.Y. Veterans' Services Law § 3-A
Veterans employment task force
§ 3-a. Veterans employment task force. 1. There shall be in the department a task force on veterans employment opportunities which shall consist of the following thirteen members: the state commissioner, or his or her designee, who shall serve as the chair of the task force; the commissioner of the office of general se…
N.Y. Veterans' Services Law § 4
General functions, powers and duties of department
§ 4. General functions, powers and duties of department. The department, by and through the state commissioner or his or her duly authorized officer or employee, shall have the following functions, powers and duties: 1. To coordinate the program and activities of departments, divisions, boards, bureaus, commissions or…
N.Y. Veterans' Services Law § 5
Veteran speaker education program
§ 5. Veteran speaker education program. 1. There is hereby established within the department a veteran speaker education program to be developed and implemented by the commissioner in consultation with the commissioner of the New York state military museum and veterans resource center and in accordance with the provisi…
N.Y. Veterans' Services Law § 6
Cooperation and facilities of other departments
§ 6. Cooperation and facilities of other departments. To effectuate the purposes of this article, the governor may direct any department, division, board, bureau, commission or agency of the state, or of any political subdivision thereof, to cooperate with and assist and advise the department in the performance of its…
N.Y. Veterans' Services Law § 7
Information on status of veterans receiving assistance
§ 7. Information on status of veterans receiving assistance. Departments, divisions, bureaus, boards, commissions and agencies of the state and political subdivisions thereof, which provide assistance, treatment, counseling, care, supervision or custody in service areas involving health, mental health, family services,…
N.Y. Veterans' Services Law § 8
New York state supplemental burial allowance for members of the uniformed services of the United States killed in combat or duty subject ...
§ 8. New York state supplemental burial allowance for members of the uniformed services of the United States killed in combat or duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger, as defined in 37 USC § 310. 1. As used in this section, "parent" means a father, a mother, a father through adoption, a mother through adoptio…
N.Y. Veterans' Services Law § 9
New York state veteran burial fund
§ 9. New York state veteran burial fund. 1. As used in this section, "agent in control of the disposition of remains" means the person responsible or designated to control the disposition of a deceased veteran's remains as defined and outlined in section forty-two hundred one of the public health law. The term "interme…
N.Y. Veterans' Services Law § 10
Time within which marriage may be solemnized; member of the uniformed services
§ 10. Time within which marriage may be solemnized; member of the uniformed services. Notwithstanding section thirteen-b of the domestic relations law, where either of the parties making application for a marriage license, pursuant to section thirteen of the domestic relations law, is a member of the uniformed services…
N.Y. Veterans' Services Law § 11
Use of personal confidential information obtained from veterans or family members of veterans receiving services from the state and polit...
§ 11. Use of personal confidential information obtained from veterans or family members of veterans receiving services from the state and political subdivisions thereof. 1. Departments, divisions, bureaus, boards, commissions and agencies of the state and political subdivisions thereof, which provide assistance, treatm…
N.Y. Veterans' Services Law § 12
Acceptance of gifts
§ 12. Acceptance of gifts. The department with the approval of the governor, may accept any gift or grant for any of the purposes of this article. Any moneys so received may be expended by the department to effectuate any of the purposes of this article, subject to the same limitations as to authorization, audit and ap…
N.Y. Veterans' Services Law § 13
State veterans' service agency
§ 13. State veterans' service agency. 1. A state veterans' service agency established by the department pursuant to this article shall have power and it shall be its duty to inform military and naval authorities of the United States and assist members of the uniformed services and veterans, who are residents of this st…
N.Y. Veterans' Services Law § 14
Local veterans' service agencies
§ 14. Local veterans' service agencies. 1. County veterans' service agencies. There shall be established a county veterans' service agency in each county not wholly included within a city, and there shall be a county director of each county veterans' service agency. Any county director hired after the effective date of…
N.Y. Veterans' Services Law § 15
Powers and duties of local veterans' service agencies
§ 15. Powers and duties of local veterans' service agencies. 1. A local veterans' service agency shall have power under the direction of the state veterans' service agency, and it shall be its duty to inform military and naval authorities of the United States and assist members of the uniformed services and veterans, w…
N.Y. Veterans' Services Law § 16
Location and cost of local veterans' service agencies; deputy local directors
§ 16. Location and cost of local veterans' service agencies; deputy local directors. 1. A local director shall designate the location of the local and branch offices of the local veterans' service agency within his or her jurisdiction, which offices shall be open during convenient hours. The cost of maintenance and ope…
N.Y. Veterans' Services Law § 17
Local veterans' service committees
§ 17. Local veterans' service committees. The same authority which appoints a local director shall appoint for each county and city veterans' service agency a veterans' service committee to assist the local director and shall appoint a chair thereof. Similar committees may be appointed in each village and town where th…
N.Y. Veterans' Services Law § 18
Appropriations for expenses and activities of local veterans' service agencies
§ 18. Appropriations for expenses and activities of local veterans' service agencies. Each county and each city of the state in which is established a county veterans' service agency or a city veterans' service agency, as the case may be, is hereby authorized to appropriate and make available to the veterans' service a…
N.Y. Veterans' Services Law § 19
Women veterans coordinator
§ 19. Women veterans coordinator. 1. Definitions. (a) "Veteran" shall have the same meaning as defined in section one of this article. (b) "Department" shall mean the state department of veterans' services. (c) "Women veterans coordinator" shall be a veteran. 2. Such women veterans coordinator shall be appointed by the…
N.Y. Veterans' Services Law § 20
Women veterans advisory committee
§ 20. Women veterans advisory committee. 1. The women veterans advisory committee is hereby created consisting of twelve members, with members appointed as follows: (a) six members by the governor; (b) two members by the temporary president of the senate; (c) two members by the speaker of the assembly; and (d) one memb…
N.Y. Veterans' Services Law § 21
Creation of annuity
§ 21. Creation of annuity. 1. Payment to veterans. a. Any veteran as defined in this article who has been or is hereafter classified by the New York State commission for the visually handicapped as a blind person as defined in section three of chapter four hundred fifteen of the laws of nineteen hundred thirteen, as am…
N.Y. Veterans' Services Law § 22
Evidence of entitlement
§ 22. Evidence of entitlement. 1. The evidence of such service, blindness, residence and domicile, or of such marriage, widowhood, residence and domicile in each case shall be furnished in the manner and form prescribed by the commissioner of veterans' services who shall examine the same. 2. Upon being satisfied that s…
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