CHAPTER 5. Local Aid [920. - 975.5.]
Chapter 5 enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 389.
§§ 920–975.5 · 46 sections
ARTICLE 1. Indigent Veterans §§ 920–931 · 12 sections
- § 920 As used in this article, unless the context otherwise indicates, “veteran” means a person who has been honorably discharged from the United States Army, United…
- § 921 The board of supervisors of any county may grant financial assistance, relief, and support to indigent veterans. Such assistance, relief, and support shall be…
- § 922 Any organization desiring to assist indigent veterans shall first file with the board of supervisors of the county in which it is operating or intending to…
- § 923 Upon the filing of the statement the board of supervisors shall set a day for its consideration not more than ten days after the date of filing. At least five…
- § 924 On the day set, the board of supervisors shall, after hearing any evidence presented, determine by resolution entered upon its minutes whether the organization…
- § 925 (a) No money shall be transferred to any person under this article except to the treasurer or financial officer whose name is given in the statement required…
- § 926 Upon receipt of a request from any organization qualified under this article, giving the names of all indigent veterans for whom relief is desired, together…
- § 927 All money paid out by any county under this article shall be used by the organization receiving it exclusively for the relief of indigent veterans and no part…
- § 928 The indigent and dependent surviving spouse or domestic partner, minor child, father, or mother of any indigent veteran may be granted relief by the…
- § 929 The necessary expenses, not to exceed three hundred fifty dollars ($350), for burial or cremation of any indigent veteran may be paid out of the money…
- § 930 The money necessary to carry out this article may be taken from the general fund of the county.
- § 931 Any municipal corporation may extend assistance to any organization under this article. In such case all proceedings required to be had before the board of…
ARTICLE 1.5. Disabled Veterans § 935 · 1 section
- § 935 The governing board of any county may grant financial assistance, relief, and support to a disabled veteran, as defined in Section 999.
ARTICLE 2. Burial of Veterans and Veterans’ Dependents §§ 940–955 · 18 sections
- § 940 As used in this article, unless the context otherwise indicates, “veteran” means a person honorably discharged from the armed forces of the United States,…
- § 940.5 As used in this article, the terms “burial” and “interment” include cremation, except that the election of the form of interment as between burial and…
- § 941 This article shall not apply to soldiers, sailors, or marines who die in the national or State soldiers’ homes in this State.
- § 942 The board of supervisors of each county shall designate an honorably discharged veteran of the United States military or a member of a veterans’ remains…
- § 943 Such burial shall not be made in any cemetery or burial ground, or any portion thereof, used exclusively for the burial of the pauper dead.
- § 944 When a deceased veteran or a surviving spouse or domestic partner of a veteran has been interred other than by the person designated by the board of…
- § 945 The expenses to the county of each burial or contribution shall not exceed the sum of three hundred fifty dollars ($350). Claims therefor are governed by Part…
- § 946 Such claims shall be paid by the county in which the veteran or surviving spouse or domestic partner dies. If the decedent was a resident of any other county…
- § 947 The person appointed under section 942, before he assumes the charge and expenses of any burial, shall first satisfy himself by a careful inquiry into and…
- § 948 The clerk of the board of supervisors, upon receiving the report and statement of expenses, shall transcribe in a book kept for that purpose all the facts…
- § 949 The board of supervisors shall perpetually maintain the grave of any such honorably discharged soldier, sailor, or marine. The expenses thus incurred shall be…
- § 950 The person appointed under section 942 shall receive no compensation for any duties he may perform in compliance with this article.
- § 951 (a) “Veteran status information” means the data required by the Department of Veterans Affairs to verify the status of a decedent as either a veteran or the…
- § 951.5 The public administrator of the county shall make every reasonable effort to determine if the unclaimed remains of a decedent referred to the public…
- § 952 (a) A cemetery corporation or association, or other entity in possession of the cremated remains of a veteran or dependent of a veteran, shall, upon request of…
- § 953 (a) A veterans’ remains organization shall take all reasonable steps to inter the cremated remains of a veteran or dependent of a veteran received in…
- § 954 The board of supervisors of each county is encouraged to designate personnel from a veterans’ remains organization, as defined in Section 951, to fulfill the…
- § 955 (a) (1) A county veteran service officer that determines, pursuant to Section 951.5, that unclaimed remains are those of a veteran or dependent of a veteran,…
ARTICLE 3. Care of Veterans’ Graves §§ 960–962 · 4 sections
- § 960 Whenever in any cemetery or place of burial of human remains, which is established or organized under the authority of the board of supervisors of any county…
- § 960.5 Whenever in any cemetery or place of burial of human remains there is any known grave of a former soldier, sailor, or marine of the United States who was not…
- § 961 Any fraternal or benevolent organization which maintains a plot in a place of burial mentioned in section 960, which is devoted exclusively to the burial of…
- § 962 The officers who are charged by law with raising money by taxation for maintaining any such cemetery or place of burial shall fix the tax levy at an amount…
ARTICLE 4. Administration §§ 970–974.5 · 9 sections
- § 970 (a) The board of supervisors of each county may, but is not required to, appoint, prescribe the qualifications of, and fix the compensation of an officer to be…
- § 971 (a) The county veterans service officer shall assist every veteran of any war of the United States and every qualified former member, and the dependents of…
- § 972 (a) The board of supervisors may provide the county veterans service office with any assistance and facilities that it determines to be necessary. (b) If the…
- § 972.1 (a) The sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Veterans Affairs for allocation,…
- § 972.2 (a) There is in the State Treasury the Veterans Service Office Fund. (b) Commencing January 1, 1995, the Veterans Service Office Fund shall be available, upon…
- § 972.5 (a) The Department of Veterans Affairs may enter into an agreement with the State Department of Health Services and the State Department of Social Services for…
- § 973 The county veteran service officer shall have power to administer and certify oaths and affirmations, take and certify affidavits and acknowledgments, and…
- § 974 (a) The Department of Veterans Affairs shall annually prepare a report of the activities of county veterans service officers, and may require each county…
- § 974.5 (a) The purpose of this section is to provide a mechanism to facilitate the delivery of complete, efficient information and other services to veterans in a…
ARTICLE 5. Veterans’ Affairs Commissions §§ 975–975.5 · 2 sections
- § 975 The board of supervisors of any county may create and appoint members to a veterans’ affairs commission either as an independent agency or in conjunction with…
- § 975.5 (a) The Department of Veterans Affairs shall provide for one paid veterans assistant position within the office of the county veteran service officer for the…