§ 28-5-707. Assistance to County Veterans Service Officers
The division shall provide satisfactory supervision, direction, and assistance to all county veterans service officers and shall provide such services and facilities to the county veterans service officers as may be determined by the division to be necessary. Out of any moneys appropriated by the general assembly to the division for support to county veterans […]
§ 28-5-401. Loans to Minor Veterans
The disability of minority of any person otherwise eligible for guaranty or insurance of a loan pursuant to the “Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944”, as amended, and of the minor spouse of any eligible veteran, irrespective of his or her age, in connection with any transaction entered into pursuant to said act, as amended, is […]
§ 28-5-501. Short Title
This part 5 shall be known and may be cited as the “Interment of Deceased Veterans Act of 2002”. Source: L. 2002: Entire part R&RE, p. 240, § 1, effective April 12.
§ 28-5-502. Interment of Deceased Veterans
[ Editor’s note: This version of the introductory portion to subsection (1) is effective until November 11, 2021.] It is the duty of the county commissioners in each county of this state to designate some proper person in each county whose duty it is to cause the decent interment of the bodies of honorably discharged […]
§ 28-5-503. Headstone to Mark Graves
The county commissioners shall also see that headstones furnished by the veterans administration or furnished on behalf of the veterans described in section 28-5-502 shall be set at the expense of the county. Each county, by resolution of its board of county commissioners, shall establish the maximum expense to the county for setting such headstones. […]
§ 28-5-504. County of Residence
If the expenses of burial and setting of headstones are paid by the county in which the deceased person is buried, but such deceased person resided in another county in this state at the time of death, the county of residence shall reimburse such expenses to the county wherein the deceased is buried. Such expenses […]
§ 28-5-505. Cemetery Subdivision – State May Acquire and Maintain
[ Editor’s note: This version of this section is effective until November 11, 2021. ] The state has authority to acquire, establish, maintain, and improve in any cemetery in the state a suitable subdivision to be used as a burial place for honorably discharged veterans. Such subdivision shall consist of lots, each of sufficient area […]
§ 28-5-506. Care and Custody of Cemetery Subdivision
The care, custody, maintenance, improvement, management, and control of the subdivision referred to in section 28-5-505 may be vested by the state in the city, town, city and county, or county where the subdivision is established, but such vestment may also be delegated by the state to a military veteran service organization. Source: L. 2002: […]
§ 28-5-507. Veterans Service Organization Stipend – Funeral Services – Process – Definitions – Repeal
As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires: “Congressionally chartered veterans service organization” means an organization that aids and serves veterans and service members and their dependents and survivors, has been granted a charter by the United States congress through the enactment of a public law, and is included in the list of […]
§ 28-5-217. Copies of Public Records to Be Furnished
When a copy of any public record is required by the veterans administration to be used in determining the eligibility of any person to participate in benefits made available by the veterans administration, the official custodian of such public record, without charge, shall provide the applicant for such benefits or any person acting on his […]