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 Oct. 26, 2024).

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Definitions
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Department of veterans’ services
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Veterans’ services commission
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Veterans employment task force
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General functions, powers and duties of department
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Veteran speaker education program
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Cooperation and facilities of other departments
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Information on status of veterans receiving assistance
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New York state supplemental burial allowance for members of the uniformed services of the United States killed in combat or duty subject ...
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New York state veteran burial fund
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Time within which marriage may be solemnized
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Use of personal confidential information obtained from veterans or family members of veterans receiving services from the state and polit...
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Acceptance of gifts
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State veterans’ service agency
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Local veterans’ service agencies
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Powers and duties of local veterans’ service agencies
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Location and cost of local veterans’ service agencies
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Local veterans’ service committees
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Appropriations for expenses and activities of local veterans’ service agencies
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Women veterans coordinator
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Women veterans advisory committee
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Creation of annuity
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Evidence of entitlement
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Persons who may receive annuity
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New York state veterans’ cemeteries
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Veterans health screening
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Payment to parents of veterans
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Cremated remains of a veteran
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New York state silver rose veterans service certificate
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Intake forms for admission and residency
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Loan counseling for mortgages guaranteed by the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944
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Veterans memorial registry

Accessed:
Oct. 26, 2024

Last modified:
Apr. 7, 2023

§ 17’s source at nysenate​.gov

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