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40.355 Indigent Veterans' Burial Program -- Funding -- Administration.
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There is hereby established an Indigent Veterans' Burial Program and there is
hereby created in the State Treasury a fund entitled the indigent veterans'
burial trust fund to provide funds to defray the costs of funeral expenses for
indigent veterans in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The fund may receive
state appropriations, gifts, grants, federal funds, and any other funds both
public and private. Moneys deposited in the fund shall be disbursed by the
State Treasurer upon the warrant of the commissioner of the Department of
Veterans' Affairs or his or her representative. Any unallocated or
unencumbered balances in the fund shall be invested as provided in KRS
42.500(9), and any income earned from the investments along with the
unallotted or unencumbered balances in the fund shall not lapse and shall be
deemed a trust and agency account and made available solely for the
purposes and benefits of the Indigent Veterans' Burial Program.
The fund shall be used to defray the costs of funeral expenses for indigent
veterans by allocating the funds to pay for the burial or cremation and burial
honors of an indigent veteran of the Commonwealth of Kentucky or by
allocating the funds to reimburse a veterans' service organization that paid for
the cost of the burial or cremation and burial honors of an indigent veteran of
the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
The Department of Veterans' Affairs shall oversee the Indigent Veterans' Burial
Program and trust fund.
Effective:July 15, 2008
History: Created 2008 Ky. Acts ch. 29, sec. 2, effective July 15, 2008.
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