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(124th General Assembly)
(House Bill Number 10)
AN ACT
To amend section 5901.02 of the Revised Code to
include the Korean War Veterans Association among
the organizations that may recommend persons to be
appointed to a county Veterans Service Commission.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio:
SECTION 1. That section 5901.02 of the Revised Code be
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 5901.02. In each county there shall be a commission
known as "the
veterans service commission" composed of five
persons.
Those persons shall be
residents of the county and shall
be appointed to five-year terms by a judge
of the court of common
pleas. At the time of appointment or
reappointment
to the
commission, no commission member shall be an employee of the
commission
or hold an elective or other appointive office of the
county served by the
commission. Each member of the commission shall be an honorably
discharged or honorably
separated veteran. Within sixty days
after the date of appointment, each
member of the commission shall
file the member's form DD214
with the governor's office of
veterans
affairs in accordance with guidelines established by the
director of that
office.
Appointments to the commission shall be
made from lists
of
recommended persons, in the manner specified in
the following paragraph. One
person shall be a representative
recommended by the American Legion; one
person shall be a
representative recommended by the Veterans of Foreign Wars;
one
person shall be a representative recommended by the Disabled
American
Veterans; one person shall be a representative
recommended by the
AMVETS; and one person shall be a
representative
recommended by the
Military Order of the Purple
Heart of the U.S.A.
or, the Vietnam Veterans of
America, or the
Korean War Veterans Association. If any such organization has no
post or chapter located in the
county, the appointment shall be
made from lists of recommended persons
submitted by posts or
chapters of any other congressionally chartered veterans
organizations located in the county. If no such other
organizations have
posts or chapters located in the county, the
judge described in the
following paragraph may appoint any
qualified
veteran to represent the veteran community. On or before the fifteenth day of October of each year, the
judge of the court
of common pleas who is responsible for making
appointments to the commission
shall notify each post or chapter,
of each organization within the county from
which the member may
or must be appointed that it may submit a list containing
three
recommendations of persons who are eligible for appointment. If
the
judge does not receive any recommendations within sixty days
after providing
the required notification, the judge may appoint
any
qualified veteran to represent
the veteran community. The
judge shall make the appointment on or before the
fifteenth day of
January of each year. Vacancies occurring on the commission
shall
be filled in the same manner as the original appointments. Beginning in the year 2000, appointments to the commission
shall be made as
follows: (A) Appointments for members to represent the American
Legion shall be made
for terms to commence in years ending in zero
and five. (B) Appointments for members to represent the
Veterans of
Foreign Wars shall
be made for terms to commence in years ending
in one and six. (C) Appointments for members to represent the Disabled
American Veterans
shall be made for terms to commence in years
ending in two and seven. (D) Appointments for members to represent the AMVETS shall
be made
for terms to commence in years ending in three and eight. (E) Appointments for members to represent the Military Order
of the Purple
Heart of the U.S.A.
or, the Vietnam Veterans of
America, or the Korean War Veterans Association shall be made for
terms
to commence in years ending in four and nine. The terms immediately preceding the initial appointments made
under divisions
(A) to (E) of this section may be for periods of
less than five years. Section 2. That existing section 5901.02 of the Revised Code
is hereby repealed.
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