General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 115 Veterans’ Benefits
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 115, Section 1
The following words, as used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, shall have the following meaning:— “Commissioner”, commissioner of veterans’ services. “Dependent”, the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1956, 692, Sec. 2 - Chapter 115, Section 1A
Repealed, 1956, 692, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties of commissioner of veterans’ services - Chapter 115, Section 2
The commissioner shall be a veteran, as defined in clause Forty-third of section 7 of chapter 4 and shall assist and advise veterans’ agents in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement of decisions relative to benefits - Chapter 115, Section 2A
If the commissioner decides a controversy between an applicant and a veterans’ agent relative to the validity or amount of a claim for veterans’ benefits,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Veterans employment opportunities commission - Chapter 115, Section 2B
There shall be a commission on veterans employment opportunities that shall investigate whether veterans are subjected to employment discrimination on the basis of their status...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment of veterans’ agents; powers and duties - Chapter 115, Section 3
The mayor of each city except Boston shall, and the selectmen of each town may, annually in April, appoint a veterans’ agent to act for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Use of photostatic copies of discharge papers of veterans - Chapter 115, Section 3A
Whenever a veteran shall be required by general or special law to file or exhibit a certificate of discharge from the armed forces of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Veterans' benefits and services officers; certification and training; reduction in reimbursement allowance - Chapter 115, Section 3B
[ Text of section added by 2014, 62, Sec. 24 effective July 2, 2014.] (a) The secretary of veterans' services shall establish standards and promulgate...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Applications for veterans’ benefits - Chapter 115, Section 4
Every application for veterans’ benefits shall be in writing, signed by the applicant under the penalties of perjury, and shall contain a statement of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Payment of veterans’ benefits by city or town; assignment of benefits; dishonorable discharge, etc. - Chapter 115, Section 5
Veterans’ benefits shall be paid to a veteran or dependent by the city or town wherein he resides; provided, that no benefits shall be paid...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Lien upon real estate of certain recipients of veterans’ benefits - Chapter 115, Section 5A
In every case where the applicant for or a recipient of benefits under this chapter is a dependent mother or father, as defined in section...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reimbursement of cities and towns for veterans’ benefits - Chapter 115, Section 6
The amounts expended by any city or town for veterans’ benefits, the names of recipients thereof, the amounts paid to or for each applicant, the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Veteran; definition - Chapter 115, Section 6A
As used in this section and in sections 6B and 6C, the word “veteran” shall mean a person who has performed service as defined in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Annuities for blind, paraplegic or disabled veterans - Chapter 115, Section 6B
In addition to any other aid to which a veteran is entitled, a veteran who, according to the records of the Veterans’ Administration of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Proof of service and disability - Chapter 115, Section 6C
Evidence of the service and disability mentioned in sections six A and six B shall be furnished to the commissioner of veterans’ services who shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Veterans’ burial agent; appointment; powers and duties - Chapter 115, Section 7
In each city, except Boston, and in each town, the veterans’ agent shall be the burial agent; and in Boston, the soldiers’ relief commission shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Payment and reimbursement of burial expenses; certificate - Chapter 115, Section 8
Amounts expended by the burial agent under the provisions of section 7 shall not exceed $2,000 for the funeral and burial of a person under...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Care of graves of veterans - Chapter 115, Section 9
The mayor of every city and the selectmen of every town shall appoint a resident of such city or town who shall be a veteran...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Municipal departments of veterans’ services; creation; directors; districts; treasurer of district - Chapter 115, Section 10
The mayors of cities and the selectmen of towns, other than cities and towns which become part of a district as authorized by the second...
- Massachusetts General Laws - District boards; powers; apportionment of expenses; payment of costs and expenses by district members - Chapter 115, Section 11
In every district established under authority of section ten there shall be a board composed of the mayor or his designee of such city, if...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Advisory boards; duties; rules and regulations - Chapter 115, Section 12
In each city, and in each town not included in a district established under section ten, and in each such district, there may be in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Duties of departments - Chapter 115, Section 13
Said departments shall acquire and have on hand copies of current booklets and other printed matter pertaining to the statutory rights of veterans provided under...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Control and direction of commissioner; separate and independent location - Chapter 115, Section 14
Departments established and maintained under sections ten to fourteen, inclusive, shall be under the general direction of the commissioner, and they shall be physically located...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Audit of accounts of districts - Chapter 115, Section 15
The director of accounts in the department of corporations and taxation shall cause an audit to be made annually of the accounts of all districts...
Last modified: September 11, 2015