N.Y. Veterans' Services Law Section 18
Appropriations for expenses and activities of local veterans’ service agencies

Each county and each city of the state in which is established a county veterans’ service agency or a city veterans’ service agency, as the case may be, is hereby authorized to appropriate and make available to the veterans’ service agency of such respective county or city, such sums of money as it may deem necessary to defray the expenses and activities of such agency, and the expenses and activities of such agencies are hereby declared to be proper county and city purposes for which the moneys of the county or city may be expended. Each city in and for which there is not established a separate city veterans’ service agency, and each village and town of the state is hereby authorized to appropriate and make available to the deputy local director heading the branch office in and for such city, village or town, if any, of the county veterans’ service agency having jurisdiction within such city, village or town, such sums of money as it may deem necessary to defray the salary, expenses and activities of the deputy local director heading such branch office in and for such city, village or town and his or her office, including the salaries of persons employed in such office, and such salaries, expenses and activities are hereby declared to be proper city, village and town purposes for which the moneys of such cities, villages and towns may be expended. Each village and town is also authorized to appropriate and make available to the deputy local director heading the consolidated branch office, if any, for such village or town and any adjoining village or villages, or town or towns, as the case may be, of the county veterans’ service agency having jurisdiction within such village or town, such sums of money as it may determine to defray in part the salary, expenses and activities of the deputy local director heading such consolidated branch office for such village or town and any adjoining village or villages or town or towns, as the case may be, including the salaries of persons employed in such consolidated branch office, and such salaries, expenses and activities are hereby declared to be proper village and town purposes for which the moneys of such villages and towns may be expended.

Source: Section 18 — Appropriations for expenses and activities of local veterans' service agencies, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/VET/18 (updated Apr. 7, 2023; accessed Nov. 29, 2025).

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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:
Nov. 29, 2025

Last modified:
Apr. 7, 2023

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