N.Y. Veterans' Services Law Section 17
Local veterans’ service committees

The same authority which appoints a local director shall appoint for each county and city veterans’ service agency a veterans’ service committee to assist the local director and shall appoint a chair thereof. Similar committees may be appointed in each village and town where there is a deputy local director by the mayor of such village and the supervisor of such town in which the branch office of the deputy local director is located or in which it operates. A similar committee may also be appointed in any city in and for which there is not established a separate city veterans’ service agency, and in and for which there is a deputy local director and a branch office of the county veterans’ service agency; and such appointment in any case shall be made by the city official authorized to appoint a city director in the case of a separate city veterans’ service agency.

Source: Section 17 — Local veterans' service committees, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/VET/17 (updated Apr. 7, 2023; accessed Jan. 24, 2026).

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Definitions 2
Department of veterans’ services 3
Veterans’ services commission 3–A
Veterans employment task force 4
General functions, powers and duties of department 5
Veteran speaker education program 6
Cooperation and facilities of other departments 7
Information on status of veterans receiving assistance 8
New York state supplemental burial allowance for members of the uniformed services of the United States killed in combat or duty subject ... 9
New York state veteran burial fund 10
Time within which marriage may be solemnized 11
Use of personal confidential information obtained from veterans or family members of veterans receiving services from the state and polit... 12
Acceptance of gifts 13
State veterans’ service agency 14
Local veterans’ service agencies 15
Powers and duties of local veterans’ service agencies 16
Location and cost of local veterans’ service agencies 17
Local veterans’ service committees 18
Appropriations for expenses and activities of local veterans’ service agencies 19
Women veterans coordinator 20
Women veterans advisory committee 21
Creation of annuity 22
Evidence of entitlement 23
Persons who may receive annuity 24
New York state veterans’ cemeteries 25
Veterans health screening 26
Payment to immediate family members of veterans 27
Cremated remains of a veteran 28
New York state silver rose veterans service certificate 29
Intake forms for admission and residency 29–A
Loan counseling for mortgages guaranteed by the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 29–A*2
Veterans memorial registry 29–B
Veterans’ liaisons 29–C
Veteran maternity care 29–D
Staff sergeant Alex R 29–E
Protecting veterans from fraud and unaccredited representatives
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Verified:
Jan. 24, 2026

Last modified:
Apr. 7, 2023

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