Sec. 5901.02. In each county there shall be a commission | 7 |
known as "the
veterans service commission" composed of five | 8 |
persons.
Those persons shall be
residents of the county and shall | 9 |
be appointed to five-year terms by a judge
of the court of common | 10 |
pleas. At the time of appointment or
reappointment
to the | 11 |
commission, no commission member shall be an employee of the | 12 |
commission
or hold an elective or other appointive office of the | 13 |
county served by the
commission. | 14 |
Each member of the commission shall be an honorably | 15 |
discharged or honorably
separated veteran. Within sixty days | 16 |
after the date of appointment, each
member of the commission shall | 17 |
file the member's form DD214
with the governor's office of | 18 |
veterans
affairs in accordance with guidelines established by the | 19 |
director of that
office.
Appointments to the commission shall be | 20 |
made from lists
of
recommended persons, in the manner specified in | 21 |
the following paragraph. One
person shall be a representative | 22 |
recommended by the American Legion; one
person shall be a | 23 |
representative recommended by the Veterans of Foreign Wars;
one | 24 |
person shall be a representative recommended by the Disabled | 25 |
American
Veterans; one person shall be a representative | 26 |
recommended by the
AMVETS; and one person shall be a | 27 |
representative
recommended by the
Military Order of the Purple | 28 |
Heart of the U.S.A.
or, the Vietnam Veterans of
America, or the | 29 |
Korean War Veterans Association. If any such organization has no | 30 |
post or chapter located in the
county, the appointment shall be | 31 |
made from lists of recommended persons
submitted by posts or | 32 |
chapters of any other congressionally chartered veterans | 33 |
organizations located in the county. If no such other | 34 |
organizations have
posts or chapters located in the county, the | 35 |
judge described in the
following paragraph may appoint any | 36 |
qualified
veteran to represent the veteran community. | 37 |
On or before the fifteenth day of October of each year, the | 38 |
judge of the court
of common pleas who is responsible for making | 39 |
appointments to the commission
shall notify each post or chapter, | 40 |
of each organization within the county from
which the member may | 41 |
or must be appointed that it may submit a list containing
three | 42 |
recommendations of persons who are eligible for appointment. If | 43 |
the
judge does not receive any recommendations within sixty days | 44 |
after providing
the required notification, the judge may appoint | 45 |
any
qualified veteran to represent
the veteran community. The | 46 |
judge shall make the appointment on or before the
fifteenth day of | 47 |
January of each year. Vacancies occurring on the commission
shall | 48 |
be filled in the same manner as the original appointments. | 49 |