2020 Georgia Code
Title 38 - Military, Emergency Management, and Veterans Affairs
Chapter 4 - Veterans Affairs
Article 2 - Veterans Benefits
Part 2 - War Veterans Home
§ 38-4-53. Veterans Service Board - Authorized Revenue Sources, Expenditures, and Hiring; Other State Bodies to Cooperate
The Veterans Service Board is designated as the agency of this state to receive federal aid under Title 38, U.S.C., Sections 641 and 642, as amended, and is authorized and directed to receive from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs or any other agency of the United States government authorized to pay federal aid to states for soldiers' homes under Title 38, U.S.C., Sections 641 and 642, as amended, and of any other federal law or act of Congress providing for the payment of funds to states for the care of or support of disabled soldiers and sailors in the state homes. The Veterans Service Board is authorized to receive from any source gifts, contributions, bequests, and individual reimbursements, the receipt of which does not exclude any other source of revenue. All funds received by the Veterans Service Board shall be expended for the care and support of disabled war veterans. At the discretion of the Veterans Service Board, funds received from any source by the Veterans Service Board may be expended in any manner whatsoever for the care and support of disabled war veterans, including the purchase of supplies, food, clothing, equipment, personal and real property, and the erection of suitable buildings, as well as for necessary repairs on existing facilities of the Georgia State War Veterans' Home. The Veterans Service Board is authorized to hire employees, including technical personnel, as necessary in order to carry out this part. At the request of the Veterans Service Board, every officer and employee of the state government shall furnish all information in their possession necessary to enable the Veterans Service Board to carry out properly this part.
(Ga. L. 1955, Ex. Sess., p. 18, § 6; Ga. L. 1960, p. 1150, § 3; Ga. L. 1990, p. 45, § 1.)
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Authority to accept gifts of real property.
- Statute clearly grants authority to the Veterans Service Board to accept gifts of real property from a city. The words "from any source" indicate that potential donors include both private parties and public entities. 1965-66 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 66-14.
Veterans Service Board can only accept a gift of real property so located as to be considered a part of the Rome or Milledgeville State Hospital facilities. 1965-66 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 66-14.
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 77 Am. Jur. 2d, Veterans and Veterans' Laws, §§ 9, 13 et seq., 78, 79.
C.J.S.- 6 C.J.S., Armed Services, § 306 et seq.
