Ohio Revised Code Chapter 5901 - Veterans' Services Commissions

• Section 5901.01 - Veterans' Services Definitions.
  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...
• Section 5901.02 - Veterans Service Commission.
  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,...
• Section 5901.021 - Creation Of Additional Memberships.
  (A) This section applies only to counties having a population, according to the most recent decennial census, of more than five hundred thousand. (B)...
• Section 5901.03 - Organization And Duties Of Commission.
  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...
• Section 5901.04 - Payment Of Expenses And Compensation Of Commissioners.
  On the presentation of an itemized statement, the board of county commissioners shall allow the persons composing the veterans service commission their reasonable expenses...
• Section 5901.05 - Veterans Service Committee.
  On the first Monday of January in each year, the veterans service commission may appoint for the county a veterans service committee, consisting of...
• Section 5901.06 - Commission To Employ Executive Director, Investigators And Clerks.
  The veterans service commission may employ an executive director, who shall be a veteran and shall be employed in the unclassified service, and such...
• Section 5901.07 - County Veterans Service Officers And Assistants.
  The veterans service commission shall employ one or more county veterans service officers, one of whom may act as executive director. Each service officer...
• Section 5901.08 - Applicants For Financial Assistance.
  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...
• Section 5901.09 - Statement Of Household Income And Property.
  (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...
• Section 5901.10 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 01-01-1974
• Section 5901.11 - Determination Of Probable Amount Of Funds Needed.
  On or before the last Monday in May in each year, the veterans service commission shall meet and determine in an itemized manner the...
• Section 5901.12, 5901.13 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 09-14-1988
• Section 5901.14 - Warrant For Allowance.
  To each person certified by the veterans service commission to the county auditor, the auditor shall issue a warrant upon the county treasurer for...
• Section 5901.15 - Immediate Assistance - Veterans Service Commission Unclaimed Assistance Fund.
  The veterans service commission shall adopt and implement rules to grant immediate assistance, financial or otherwise, to any person entitled to it under sections...
• Section 5901.16 - Application Or Petition For Veterans Plot In Cemetery.
  Upon application in writing by a veterans organization in any municipal corporation or township, or upon a petition in writing by five or more...
• Section 5901.17 - Expense For Care Of Graves.
  On and after the interment of the remains of one or more deceased veterans in a veterans plot, the reasonable expenses of the care...
• Section 5901.18 - Petition For Burial Or Removal And Reinterment.
  A petition may be presented to the county veterans service commission signed by the officers of a local or state veterans organization, or by...
• Section 5901.19 - Order To Maintain Dignified Burial Site Or For Removal And Reinterment - Maximum Expense To Be Specified.
  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...
• Section 5901.20 - Verified Statement Of Burial Or Removal.
  Upon the completion of the burial or removal and reinterment of a deceased veteran, the persons having charge thereof shall make an itemized statement,...
• Section 5901.21 - Purchase Of Additional Plots.
  If it becomes necessary to purchase additional plots of ground in any cemetery in which a veterans plot has been filled with graves to...
• Section 5901.22 - Contracts With Cemetery Associations For Purchase And Maintenance Of Plots.
  The board of county commissioners, the board of township trustees, or the legislative authority of a municipal corporation may enter into contracts with cemetery...
• Section 5901.23 - Plots Open For Burial On Application.
  Any veterans plot owned or maintained by any county, township, or municipal corporation shall be open for the burial of the body of any...
• Section 5901.24 - Burial In Cemetery Not Provided With Plot.
  If it is desired to bury the body or cremated remains of any deceased veteran in any cemetery not having a burial plot as...
• Section 5901.25 - Commission To Contract For Burial Of Indigent Veteran, Parent, Spouse Or Surviving Spouse Of Veteran.
  The board of county commissioners shall require the veterans service commission, upon application and with the approval of the family or friends of the...
• Section 5901.26 - Duties Of Commission As To Burial Of Indigent.
  Pursuant to section 5901.25 of the Revised Code, the veterans service commission shall use the forms of contracts prescribed by sections 5901.25 to 5901.32...
• Section 5901.27 - Commission To Determine Indigency - Report To County Commissioners.
  Before assuming the charge and expense of any burial or cremation, the veterans service commission, pursuant to section 5901.25 of the Revised Code, shall...
• Section 5901.28 - Death Of Inmate Of Home.
  Upon the death of an inmate of any home for indigent parents, spouses, or surviving spouses of veterans, the manager of the home may,...
• Section 5901.29 - Funeral Directors' Blanks.
  The funeral director employed to perform the service described by section 5901.25 of the Revised Code shall use the blanks provided by this section,...
• Section 5901.30 - Presentation Of Itemized Bill And Contract To County Auditor.
  The funeral director shall present the itemized bill and contract, as approved by the veterans service commission, to the county auditor, upon printed blanks...
• Section 5901.31 - Savings On Expenses To Remain In County General Fund - Delay Where Additional Funds Coming To Family.
  If a saving of money is effected by reason of the loan of automobiles, ownership of a cemetery lot, or other items mentioned in...
• Section 5901.32 - Record - Expenses - Headstone.
  Upon securing the report and statement of expenses as provided by section 5901.27 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall transcribe...
• Section 5901.33 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-22-1994
• Section 5901.34 - Permanent Markers And Temporary Memorial Day Markers For Graves Of Veterans.
  The board of county commissioners shall, upon the petition of any five veterans of any township or municipal corporation in its county, procure for...
• Section 5901.35 - Care Of Graves Of Veterans.
  The board of county commissioners shall provide for the proper care of the graves of all veterans, and of confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines...
• Section 5901.36 - County Or Municipal Corporation May Provide Land For Veterans' Facilities.
  For the purpose of enabling counties or municipal corporations to aid and facilitate the construction of veterans' facilities operated by the United States department...
• Section 5901.37 - Care Of Portion Of Cemetery Set Apart For Burial Of Veterans.
  In any county having a cemetery or part of it set apart for the burial of veterans, or containing a monument erected to their...
• Section 5901.99 - Misrepresentation Of Veteran Status.
  (A) No person who is not a veteran, an active-duty member of the armed forces of the United States, or the spouse, surviving spouse,...

Last modified: October 10, 2016