Code of Alabama - Title 31: Military Affairs and Civil Defense - Chapter 8 - Pensions for Widows of Confederate Veterans

• Section 31-8-1 State Department of Human Resources to provide for payment of pensions under chapter
  The State Department of Human Resources, by and through the State Board of Human Resources and the Commissioner of the State Department of Human Resources,...
• Section 31-8-2 Persons entitled to pension
  The widow of any person who actually served as a soldier or sailor in the army or navy of the Confederate States of America or...
• Section 31-8-3 Entitlement of remarried widows
  Any widow, entitled to draw a pension under the provisions of this chapter, who has remarried, shall be entitled to and may draw a pension...
• Section 31-8-4 Certain persons not to be placed on pension roll
  The State Department of Human Resources shall not place on the pension rolls of the state the name of the widow of any person or...
• Section 31-8-5 Forms, etc., for use by applicants
  The Commissioner of the State Department of Human Resources shall furnish to the county departments of human resources all necessary forms and stationery to carry...
• Section 31-8-6 Applications to be filed with and forwarded by county department of human resources
  All applications for pensions under this chapter shall be filed with the county department of human resources and shall be immediately forwarded by it together...
• Section 31-8-7 Application for placement on pension roll
  The widow of any Confederate soldier or sailor, deeming herself entitled to the benefits of this chapter, shall file with the county department of human...
• Section 31-8-8 Certificates to accompany application
  No applicant will have her name placed upon the pension rolls of this state unless at least one witness who was a Confederate soldier and...
• Section 31-8-9 Proof of service of husband
  Upon the application of the widow of any Confederate soldier or sailor, or the widow of any Alabama soldier or sailor who served in the...
• Section 31-8-11 Disposition of rejected applications
  All applications rejected by the State Department of Human Resources shall be entered upon a permanent record with reasons for such rejection, and the original...
• Section 31-8-12 Reapplication
  An applicant who has been rejected may file her application again after the lapse of three months, but if only the original application and no...
• Section 31-8-13 Persons becoming resident citizens of other states to be dropped from pension roll; right of reinstatement; temporary absence from state
  Any widow receiving a pension under this chapter who shall become a resident citizen of another state shall be dropped from the pension roll of...
• Section 31-8-14 Application for reinstatement to pension roll
  Any widow whose name has been dropped from the pension rolls of this state since January 1, 1922, and who is a bona fide resident...
• Section 31-8-15 Restoration of pensioner dropped from roll through error, etc
  Whenever it is made to appear to the county department of human resources that the name of a pensioner has through any error or omission...
• Section 31-8-16 Back pay
  No applicant who has been purposely stricken from the pension roll shall be entitled to any back pay for the time her name was stricken...
• Section 31-8-17 Proceedings as to pensions secured by misrepresentation
  If it shall be ascertained that any pensioner under this chapter secured the grant of her pension by misrepresentation, either by herself or others, the...
• Section 31-8-18 Proceedings as to persons placed on pension roll through fraud, etc
  When it shall be reported to the State Department of Human Resources or it shall come to their knowledge that any person whose name is...
• Section 31-8-19 Amount of pension; appropriation
  There shall be paid monthly to each and every widow of a Confederate soldier and sailor, who is now on the pension roll of this...
• Section 31-8-20 Payment of pensions - Generally
  All pensions to the widows of Confederate soldiers and sailors are to be paid in monthly payments on the first day of each month by...
• Section 31-8-21 Payment of pensions - Pension warrants to reach county departments of human resources by last day of month
  Pension warrants shall be sent from the office of the State Department of Human Resources to reach the county department of human resources in each...
• Section 31-8-22 Payment of pensions - Delivery of warrants to payees; disposition of undelivered warrants
  The State Department of Human Resources shall deliver to the respective county department of human resources all such warrants for pensioners on the pension roll...
• Section 31-8-23 Payment of pensions - When proof of identity of payee required
  The county department of human resources, in the event it does not know that the person applying for such warrant is the identical person named...
• Section 31-8-25 Transfer or discount of pension claims or warrants
  No person shall purchase or receive a transfer of any pension or warrant issued or to be issued under this chapter before the date provided...
• Section 31-8-24 Disposition of pension after death of pensioner
  Should a widow who is a pensioner under this chapter die leaving a minor child or children, a warrant equal to the total amount of...
• Section 31-8-26 Unauthorized purchase or receipt of transfer of pension claim or warrant
  Any person who shall purchase or receive a transfer of any pension claim or warrant issued or to be issued under the pension laws for...
• Section 31-8-28 Annual publication of county pension list
  During the month of January of each year, the county department of human resources shall publish in a newspaper of the county an alphabetical list...
• Section 31-8-29 Grand jury investigations of county pension list; report
  The county department of human resources of each county shall, at least twice a year, submit a certified list of the pensioners on the roll...
• Section 31-8-30 Permanent state record of pensioners
  The Commissioner of the State Department of Human Resources shall have prepared records to be used as a permanent state record of pensions in which...
• Section 31-8-31 Maintenance of permanent state pension roll; verification of applications, etc
  The Commissioner of the State Department of Human Resources, by correspondence with the Department of Defense in Washington, or investigation of the Confederate records on...
• Section 31-8-32 Report on operation of state pension law
  There shall be prepared and submitted, under the direction of the State Board of Human Resources and the State Department of Human Resources, quadrennially from...
• Section 31-8-33 Penalty for violation of laws pertaining to Confederate pensions
  Any person who violates any provisions of the laws of this state as to pensions for widows of Confederate veterans, if a penalty is not...

Last modified: May 3, 2021