Sec. 307.66. The board of county commissioners, annually, | 9 |
shall appropriate, and advance upon application made no more than | 10 |
thirtyone hundred twenty days prior to memorial day, to each
camp | 11 |
of the United
Spanish War Veterans, to each garrison or naval | 12 |
branch of the
Army and Navy Union, U.S.A., and to each chartered | 13 |
camp, post,
or
garrison, or naval branch of any organization of | 14 |
veterans
recognized and chartered by the congress, upon request of | 15 |
thetheir
officials
thereof, in the county, a sum of money not to | 16 |
exceed
threefive hundred dollars to aid in defraying the expenses | 17 |
of
memorial day. | 18 |
Each such organization applying for an advance of funds
shall | 19 |
submit with its application a statement of expenses
incurred up to | 20 |
the time the application for an advance is
submitted. Each such | 21 |
organization receiving money from this
appropriation shall file a | 22 |
sworn statement accounting for the
complete expenditures of
these | 23 |
the funds with the board within sixty
days after the memorial day | 24 |
for which the funds were provided.
Any unexpended funds shall be | 25 |
returned to the board of county
commissioners within this period. | 26 |
Any organization failing to
file a sworn statement within the | 27 |
prescribed time accounting for
the complete expenditure of the | 28 |
funds shall not be eligible to
receive an appropriation the | 29 |
following year. Two or more
separate veterans' organizations, or | 30 |
two or more
camps, posts,
garrisons, or naval branches of one or | 31 |
more veterans'
organizations, or both, may pool their entitlements | 32 |
to funds and
submit a joint or consolidated statement of expenses. | 33 |
Allowable
items shall include expenses for arrangement of, support | 34 |
of, or
participation in, local or countywide observances as may be | 35 |
desirable in the community;
expenses for mapping, marking, and | 36 |
decorating
graves of veterans; and other items incidental
thereto | 37 |
to these expenses. | 38 |
The board of township trustees may, on or before the | 39 |
fifteenth day of May in each year, appropriate a sum to be | 40 |
determined by the board for each post
and camp within the | 41 |
township, from the general expense fund of the township, for the | 42 |
purpose of properly observing memorial day within the township, | 43 |
and if any post
or camp is located within the township, the | 44 |
appropriation shall be made to
suchthat post
or camp. Any | 45 |
municipal
corporation located within a township may cooperate with | 46 |
the
township, or with the county, in observing memorial day, and | 47 |
the
legislative authority of the municipal corporation may make | 48 |
the
necessary appropriation for the observance. | 49 |
If any posts
or camps have become extinct or unable to
attend | 50 |
to memorial day services,
then the appropriation by the
board of | 51 |
county commissioners or the board of township trustees
shall be | 52 |
made to a post or unit of the sons of union veterans of
the civil | 53 |
war, woman's relief corps,
or daughters of veterans, or to
any | 54 |
civic or patriotic organization willing and able to undertake
and | 55 |
perform the work of commemoration and observance of memorial
day. | 56 |
WhereIf the appropriation by the board of county
commissioners is | 57 |
made to a civic organization, it shall not
exceed one hundred | 58 |
dollars. | 59 |