Oregon Statutes - Chapter 408 - Miscellaneous Benefits for Veterans and Service Personnel

• 408.010   “Beneficiary” defined for ORS 408.010 to 408.090.
  As used in ORS 408.010 to 408.090, unless otherwise required by the context, “beneficiary” means any person who served in the active Armed Forces of...
• 408.020   Financial aid for educational purposes; limitations on payments and on eligibility for aid.
  (1) Beneficiaries who desire to pursue an approved course of study or professional training in or in connection with any accredited state or other public...
• 408.025   [1955 c.206 §2; 1957 c.24 §1; repealed by 2005 c.831 §4]
• 408.030   Filing application with educational institution.
  Any beneficiary who desires to pursue a course of study or professional training may file, upon a form approved by the Director of Veterans’ Affairs,...
• 408.040   Handling of application by institution and director; when benefits begin.
  (1) The person to whom an application is made pursuant to ORS 408.030 shall examine and pass upon such application and shall, within 10 days...
• 408.050   Monthly statement by institution.
  On or before the 10th day of each calendar month the executive head of the institution of learning or authorized representative, shall render a duly...
• 408.060   Monthly payment of financial aid.
  (1) The monthly payments provided in ORS 408.020 shall be allowed to any beneficiary who is enrolled in an approved full-time or part-time course of...
• 408.070   Investigation of institutions; rules.
  (1) The Director of Veterans’ Affairs shall investigate from time to time the institutions or other places where financial aid is being furnished to any...
• 408.080   [Amended by 1953 c.62 §2; 1957 c.91 §1; repealed by 1961 c.326 §8]
• 408.090   Handling of donations.
  (1) The Director of Veterans’ Affairs, acting on behalf of the State of Oregon, is authorized to accept any donation, gift, grant, bequest or devise...
• 408.100   [Repealed by 1961 c.326 §8]
• 408.110   [Repealed by 1961 c.326 §8]
• 408.210   [Renumbered 408.238 in 2005]
• 408.220   [Repealed by 1977 c.854 §5]
• 408.225   Definitions for ORS 408.225 to 408.235.
  (1) As used in ORS 408.225 to 408.235: (a) “Combat zone” means an area designated by the President of the United States by executive order...
• 408.230   Veterans’ preference in public employment.
  (1) A public employer shall grant a preference to a veteran or disabled veteran who successfully completes an initial application screening or an application examination...
• 408.235   Eligibility for preference.
  A veteran is eligible to use the preference provided for in ORS 408.230 only for a position for which application is made within 15 years...
• 408.238   “Military duty” defined for ORS 408.240 to 408.280.
  As used in ORS 408.240 to 408.280, “military duty” means training and service performed by an inductee, enlistee or reservist or any entrant into a...
• 408.240   Status and rights of public officer and employee during and after military duty.
  (1) Whenever any public officer or employee leaves a position, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, in order to perform military duty, such office or position may...
• 408.242   Public employees in Active Guard Reserve Program.
  ORS 408.240 (4)(a) does not apply to a public employee who leaves a position under ORS 408.240 (1) to enter or reenter the Active Guard...
• 408.250   Rights and duties of person replacing public officer in military service.
  During the period any public officer is absent on leave pursuant to ORS 408.240, a substitute shall serve in the place and stead of the...
• 408.260   Termination of term of office of substitute for officer in military service.
  When the absence on leave of a public officer, granted by ORS 408.240, has terminated, or a successor has been duly appointed and qualified to...
• 408.270   Restoration of employee’s seniority and tenure.
  Upon the termination of any leave granted by ORS 408.240, every public employee shall be restored to the position without loss of seniority or other...
• 408.280   Reelection of public officer while in military service.
  Whenever the term of office of an elected public officer expires during military service in the Armed Forces of the United States for which a...
• 408.290   Benefits for public employees on temporary active duty in Armed Forces.
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, for all periods of annual active duty for training as a member of the National...
• 408.300   Short title.
  ORS 408.305 to 408.340 shall be known and may be cited as the Oregon Vietnam Veteran Benefits Act of 1983. [1983 c.658 §1]
• 408.305   Definitions for ORS 408.305 to 408.340.
  As used in ORS 408.305 to 408.340, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Agent Blue” means the herbicide composed primarily of cacodylic acid (organic arsenic)...
• 408.310   Duty of physician to report symptoms attributable to herbicide exposure; consent of patient; report form; additional information.
  (1) A physician who has primary responsibility for the treatment of a veteran who may have been exposed to causative agents while serving in the...
• 408.315   Application of ORS 408.310.
  (1) ORS 408.310 applies to all veterans, spouses, surviving spouses and minor children of veterans treated by a physician, hospital or clinic after January 1,...
• 408.320   Duties of Oregon Public Health Advisory Board.
  The Oregon Public Health Advisory Board created under ORS 431.195 shall: (1) Order the compilation of statistical data from information obtained under ORS 408.310 and...
• 408.325   Referral program for affected veterans; rules.
  (1) The Department of Human Services and the Oregon Public Health Advisory Board shall institute a cooperative program to refer veterans to appropriate state and...
• 408.330   Suspension or termination of programs; conditions.
  If the Oregon Public Health Advisory Board determines that any federal agency is adequately performing the referral functions described in ORS 408.325, the advisory board...
• 408.335   Attorney General to represent veterans in certain proceedings; payment of expenses.
  (1) When requested to do so by the Director of Veterans’ Affairs, the Attorney General shall represent, on behalf of all of the members of...
• 408.340   Limitation of liability.
  (1) A physician, hospital or clinic subject to ORS 408.300 to 408.340 shall not be subject to any criminal or civil liability for providing information...
• 408.350   Educational materials about hepatitis C.
  (1) As used in this section, “veteran” means a person who is a resident of Oregon and who served in the Armed Forces of the...
• 408.360   Oregon Veterans’ Home; authority of Department of Veterans’ Affairs; issuance of certificates of participation.
  (1) Subject to approval by the Director of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services as provided in section 3, chapter 795, Oregon Laws 1993, the...
• 408.365   Use of state moneys for operation of Oregon Veterans’ Home.
  Moneys to pay for the expenses of operating the Oregon Veterans’ Home may be appropriated from: (1) The General Fund; (2) The Oregon War Veterans’...
• 408.368   Oregon Veterans’ Home Account.
  (1) There is created in the State Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund, the Oregon Veterans’ Home Account. Moneys credited to the account...
• 408.370   Application of other statutes.
  (1) In addition to the other uses for the Oregon Housing Fund set forth in ORS 458.600 to 458.655, financial support for an Oregon Veterans’...
• 408.375   Second Oregon Veterans’ Home; contract for operation and management.
  The Director of Veterans’ Affairs shall enter into a contract with a nongovernmental entity for the operation and management of the second Oregon Veterans’ Home...
• 408.380   Application of other statutes to second Oregon Veterans’ Home.
  (1) The Oregon Veterans’ Home authorized by section 1, chapter 591, Oregon Laws 1995, is subject to all state laws and administrative rules and all...
• 408.385   Requirements for establishment of additional veterans’ homes.
  The State of Oregon and the Director of Veterans’ Affairs shall not establish more than two Oregon Veterans’ Homes until the two facilities authorized by...
• 408.390   City acquisition of land for Oregon Veterans’ Home.
  When such power is conferred or contained in their charters or Acts of incorporation, incorporated cities may purchase, receive, take and acquire by eminent domain,...
• 408.393   Incurring city indebtedness for Oregon Veterans’ Home.
  In connection with the exercise of the powers granted by ORS 408.390, such incorporated cities may incur such indebtedness and issue such bonds, warrants or...
• 408.395   Condemnation of property for Oregon Veterans’ Home.
  For the purpose of exercising the powers conferred by ORS 408.390, any incorporated city may bring and maintain any suit or action for the appropriation,...
• 408.410   Appointment of county service officer; duties; annual budget requirement.
  (1) The county governing body in each county may appoint a service officer who shall give aid and assistance to any veteran, the spouse or...
• 408.420   Recording discharge papers.
  Each county clerk shall maintain in the office a special book in which the county clerk shall, upon request, record the final discharge of any...
• 408.430   Free services to veterans rendered by court administrator or county clerk.
  The county clerk or a court clerk or court administrator shall administer all oaths required in matters of pensions, certify pension vouchers, affix the seal...
• 408.440   Land of enlisted person exempt from foreclosure and judicial sale during war.
  No suit or action shall be commenced or maintained, during the period provided for in this section, to foreclose any mortgage upon real property, or...
• 408.450   Duty to pay fees during military duty.
  No person in the military or naval service of the United States, or any auxiliary corps thereof, while exercising any privilege in this state by...
• 408.460   Certain claims payable out of General Fund.
  Lawful claims payable from the Memorial Fund, 116th Engineers, or the fund entitled Unclaimed Back Pay Due Second Oregon Volunteers, shall be paid, upon approval...
• 408.470   Persons entitled to interment in Spanish War Veterans’ plot.
  All honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines who served in the forces of the United States during the Spanish War or Philippine Insurrection at any...
• 408.480   Care of veterans ineligible for federal home.
  In case of the establishment of a national soldiers’ home or branch thereof at or near Roseburg, Douglas County, Oregon, and any persons lawfully entitled...
• 408.490   Purchase of United States flags for placement on veterans’ graves.
  The county court or board of county commissioners of each county is authorized annually to budget and pay such amount of money as it may...
• 408.500   Oregon Veterans’ Emergency Financial Assistance Program; rules.
  (1) The Oregon Veterans’ Emergency Financial Assistance Program is created. (2) The purpose of the program is to provide emergency financial assistance to Oregon veterans...
• 408.510   [Amended by 1993 c.795 §8; renumbered 408.390 in 1999]
• 408.520   [Renumbered 408.393 in 1999]
• 408.530   [Renumbered 408.395 in 1999]
• 408.540   Use of buildings by veterans’ organizations.
  All buildings acquired or constructed by county courts pursuant to chapter 595, Oregon Laws 1947, shall be made available for the use of any veterans’...
• 408.550   [Repealed by 1961 c.454 §213]
• 408.560   Use of public buildings for meetings of veterans’ and auxiliary organizations.
  In counties where there is no armory belonging to or under control of state authority, the county courts or boards of county commissioners, upon written...
• 408.570   Commitment of veterans with mental illness to federal veterans facility.
  When a veteran who has been adjudged mentally ill is eligible for treatment in a United States veterans facility and commitment is necessary for the...
• 408.580   Transfer of veterans with mental illness from state to federal hospitals.
  Upon receipt of a certificate of eligibility and available facilities, the Department of Human Services may cause to be transferred any veteran from any facility...
• 408.590   [Repealed by 1963 c.540 §8]
• 408.710   Indigent war veteran defined; effect of property ownership.
  (1) As used in ORS 408.710 to 408.750, “indigent war veteran” means any war veteran who is without means of procuring the necessities of life....
• 408.720   Tax levy to finance activities of veterans’ service officer; use of proceeds; use of county general funds.
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, in addition to the taxes now authorized to be levied by law, a county governing...
• 408.730   Procedure when indigent veterans are cared for by veterans organizations.
  (1) The commander or executive head of any veterans organization organized under a charter issued by an Act of Congress, proposing to undertake the relief...
• 408.740   Appointment and duties of county veterans’ relief officer.
  The relief fund may be disbursed by an officer to be appointed by the county court or board of county commissioners. The commanders or executive...
• 408.750   When county court must aid veterans; necessity of veterans organization’s consent before sending veterans to poorhouse.
  (1) If there is no war veterans organization within any county in this state, the county judge thereof shall undertake the relief provided for in...

Last modified: August 7, 2008