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2005 Washington Revised Code RCW 73.08.060: Restrictions on sending veterans or families to almshouses, etc.

    County legislative authorities are hereby prohibited from sending indigent or disabled veterans as defined in RCW 41.04.007 or their families or the families of the deceased to any almshouse (or orphan asylum) without the concurrence and consent of the commander and relief committee of the post, camp or chapter of any national organization of veterans now, or which may hereafter be, chartered by an act of congress as provided in RCW 73.08.010 and * 73.08.030. Indigent veterans shall, whenever practicable, be provided for and relieved at their homes in such city, town or precinct in which they shall have a residence, in the manner provided in RCW 73.08.010 and * 73.08.030. Indigent or disabled veterans as defined in RCW 41.04.007, who are not insane and have no families or friends with whom they may be domiciled, may be sent to any soldiers' home.

    [2002 c 292 § 8; 1983 c 295 § 4; 1947 c 180 § 5; 1945 c 144 § 5; 1919 c 83 § 5; 1907 c 64 § 5; 1888 p 209 § 5; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 10741.]

Notes:
         *Reviser's note: RCW 73.08.030 was repealed by 2005 c 250 § 8.

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