Code of Alabama - Title 31: Military Affairs and Civil Defense - Chapter 5 - Department of Veterans' Affairs

• Section 31-5-1 Definitions
  As used under this chapter these terms shall have the following meanings: (1) DEPARTMENT. The State Department of Veterans' Affairs. (2) THE STATE BOARD. The...
• Section 31-5-2 Established; bureaus and divisions; operation under State Board of Veterans' Affairs; composition
  There shall be a State Department of Veterans' Affairs with subordinate bureaus and divisions, which shall operate under a State Board of Veterans' Affairs, and...
• Section 31-5-3 State Board of Veterans' Affairs
  (a) The State Board of Veterans' Affairs shall consist of the Governor, as chair, and representatives, to serve for a term of four years from...
• Section 31-5-4 Assistance to veterans in presenting claims, establishing rights, etc
  The State Department of Veterans' Affairs shall assist every veteran of any war of the United States in presenting and pursuing such claim as the...
• Section 31-5-5 Contracts with veterans' organizations for assistance to veterans in processing claims, etc
  The State Department of Veterans' Affairs, by the State Service Commissioner, with the approval of the State Board of Veterans' Affairs, may contract with any...
• Section 31-5-6 State Service Commissioner - Qualifications; appointment; term of office and removal; head of department; representation of state before federal agencies; reciprocal agreements with other states; appointment of district and county service commissioners and other personnel
  (a) It shall be the duty of the State Board of Veterans' Affairs to appoint a State Service Commissioner who shall serve for a term...
• Section 31-5-7 State Service Commissioner - Duties generally; compensation
  (a) The State Service Commissioner shall submit to the State Board of Veterans' Affairs for its approval an annual budget of all funds appropriated by...
• Section 31-5-8 Assistant state service commissioners
  The State Service Commissioner shall, with the approval of the State Board of Veterans' Affairs, appoint one first assistant state service commissioner, who shall be...
• Section 31-5-9 County service commissioners and district service commissioners - Qualifications and appointment
  It shall be the duty of the State Service Commissioner, subject to the approval of the State Board of Veterans' Affairs, to appoint a county...
• Section 31-5-10 County service commissioners and district service commissioners - Duties
  (a) The county service commissioner and district service commissioner shall perform such duties as may be prescribed by policies, rules, and regulations and instructions promulgated...
• Section 31-5-11 Oath of office and bond of officers
  The State Service Commissioner, the assistant service commissioner and each of the district service commissioners and county service commissioners shall, before entering into the duties...
• Section 31-5-12 Seal of Office of State Service Commissioner; appointment and powers of service commissioners as notaries public
  The State Service Commissioner shall have a seal of office and he, the assistant state service commissioner and each district service commissioner and county service...
• Section 31-5-13 Offices of department, State Service Commissioner, etc
  The Department of Veterans' Affairs and State Service Commissioner shall maintain offices in the capital city of the state. In each city of the state...
• Section 31-5-14 Payment of salaries of officers and employees and other expenses of department; counties to furnish offices for district and county service commissioners
  For the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2012, and for fiscal years thereafter, salaries of officials and employees of the department as provided for under...

Last modified: May 3, 2021