Effective: March 17, 2000 Latest Legislation: House Bill 118 – 123rd General Assembly As used in sections 5901.01 to 5901.37 of the Revised Code: (A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, “veteran” means either of the following: (1) A former member of the armed forces of the United States who served […]
Effective: August 22, 2008 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 289 – 127th General Assembly In each county there shall be a commission known as “the veterans service commission.” Except as provided in section 5901.021 of the Revised Code, the commission shall be composed of five residents of the county appointed to five-year terms by a judge […]
Effective: August 22, 2008 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 289 – 127th General Assembly (A) This section applies only to counties having a population, according to the most recent decennial census, of more than five hundred thousand. (B)(1) In any county that is described in division (A) of this section and in which the veterans service […]
Effective: September 4, 2002 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 261 – 124th General Assembly The veterans service commission shall select one of its members as president, one as vice-president, and one as secretary. The commission shall meet at least once each month. A judge of the court of common pleas may remove, for cause, any member […]
Effective: July 22, 1994 Latest Legislation: House Bill 448 – 120th General Assembly On the presentation of an itemized statement, the board of county commissioners shall allow the persons composing the veterans service commission their reasonable expenses incurred in the performance of their duties, and shall fix a fair compensation for their services. The county […]
Effective: July 22, 1994 Latest Legislation: House Bill 448 – 120th General Assembly On the first Monday of January in each year, the veterans service commission may appoint for the county a veterans service committee, consisting of at least three persons who are residents of the county, whose duties shall be set forth by the […]
Effective: July 22, 1994 Latest Legislation: House Bill 448 – 120th General Assembly The veterans service commission may employ an executive director, who shall be a veteran and shall be employed in the unclassified service, and such investigators and clerks as are necessary to perform the duties of the commission. Each investigator and clerk shall […]
Effective: August 22, 2008 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 289 – 127th General Assembly The veterans service commission shall employ one or more county veterans service officers, one of whom may act as executive director. Each service officer shall be a veteran. Within sixty days after the date of initial employment, each service officer shall file […]
Effective: July 22, 1994 Latest Legislation: House Bill 448 – 120th General Assembly Each applicant for financial assistance under sections 5901.02 to 5901.15 of the Revised Code shall be a veteran, an active-duty member of the armed forces of the United States, or the spouse, surviving spouse, dependent parent, minor child, or ward of a […]
Effective: August 22, 2008 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 289 – 127th General Assembly (A) Each applicant for financial assistance under sections 5901.01 to 5901.15 of the Revised Code shall provide the veterans service commission with a statement concerning the applicant’s household income and the amount of real and personal taxable property, stocks, bonds, moneys on […]
Effective: July 22, 1994 Latest Legislation: House Bill 448 – 120th General Assembly On or before the last Monday in May in each year, the veterans service commission shall meet and determine in an itemized manner the probable amount necessary for the aid and financial assistance of persons entitled to such aid and assistance and […]
Effective: July 22, 1994 Latest Legislation: House Bill 448 – 120th General Assembly To each person certified by the veterans service commission to the county auditor, the auditor shall issue a warrant upon the county treasurer for the allowance awarded to that person by the commission. Upon proper cause shown, the commission may appoint a […]
Effective: July 22, 1994 Latest Legislation: House Bill 448 – 120th General Assembly The veterans service commission shall adopt and implement rules to grant immediate assistance, financial or otherwise, to any person entitled to it under sections 5901.02 to 5901.14 of the Revised Code, and to any member, spouse, or dependent of any member of […]
Effective: September 14, 1988 Latest Legislation: House Bill 626 – 117th General Assembly Upon application in writing by a veterans organization in any municipal corporation or township, or upon a petition in writing by five or more veterans in any municipal corporation or township where no veterans organization exists, the veterans service commission of any […]
Effective: July 22, 1994 Latest Legislation: House Bill 448 – 120th General Assembly On and after the interment of the remains of one or more deceased veterans in a veterans plot, the reasonable expenses of the care of the grave shall be annually provided for by the municipal corporation or township in which the remains […]
Effective: July 22, 1994 Latest Legislation: House Bill 448 – 120th General Assembly A petition may be presented to the county veterans service commission signed by the officers of a local or state veterans organization, or by a majority of a memorial committee of any municipal corporation in which one or more such organizations exist, […]
Effective: July 22, 1994 Latest Legislation: House Bill 448 – 120th General Assembly Within thirty days after the next succeeding regular meeting, the veterans service commission shall act upon any petition presented as provided by section 5901.18 of the Revised Code, and, if true, it shall issue an order to maintain a dignified burial site […]
Effective: September 14, 1988 Latest Legislation: House Bill 626 – 117th General Assembly Upon the completion of the burial or removal and reinterment of a deceased veteran, the persons having charge thereof shall make an itemized statement, and shall verify and file such statement with the veterans service commission, which shall, at the next regular […]
Effective: September 14, 1988 Latest Legislation: House Bill 626 – 117th General Assembly If it becomes necessary to purchase additional plots of ground in any cemetery in which a veterans plot has been filled with graves to its capacity, sections 5901.16 to 5901.24 of the Revised Code do not prevent the purchase of such additional […]
Effective: July 22, 1994 Latest Legislation: House Bill 448 – 120th General Assembly The board of county commissioners, the board of townships trustees, or the legislative authority of a municipal corporation may enter into contracts with cemetery associations providing for the purchase and maintenance, in cemeteries within the county, of plots of ground for the […]
