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H. B. No. 123 -- As IntroducedAs Introduced
124th General Assembly | Regular Session | 2001-2002 |
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REPRESENTATIVES Distel, Hartnett, Fedor, Seitz, Jerse, Flannery, D. Miller, Willamowski, Redfern, Otterman, Rhine, Britton, Cates, Allen, DePiero, Jones, Ford, Boccieri
A BILL
To amend section 307.66 of the Revised Code to
increase to $500 the maximum amount of annual
appropriation a veterans' organization may receive
from a board of county commissioners for Memorial
Day expenses and to change the application period
for a grant of those moneys.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That section 307.66 of the Revised Code be amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 307.66. The board of county commissioners, annually,
shall appropriate, and advance upon application made no more than
thirty
one hundred twenty days prior to memorial day, to each camp
of the United
Spanish War Veterans, to each garrison or naval
branch of the
Army and Navy Union, U.S.A., and to each chartered
camp, post, or
garrison, or naval branch of any organization of
veterans
recognized and chartered by the congress, upon request of
the
their
officials
thereof, in the county, a sum of money not to
exceed
three
five hundred dollars to aid in defraying the expenses
of
memorial day. Each such organization applying for an advance of funds
shall
submit with its application a statement of expenses
incurred up to
the time the application for an advance is
submitted. Each such
organization receiving money from this
appropriation shall file a
sworn statement accounting for the
complete expenditures of
these
the funds with the board within sixty
days after the memorial day
for which the funds were provided.
Any unexpended funds shall be
returned to the board of county
commissioners within this period.
Any organization failing to
file a sworn statement within the
prescribed time accounting for
the complete expenditure of the
funds shall not be eligible to
receive an appropriation the
following year. Two or more
separate veterans' organizations, or
two or more camps, posts,
garrisons, or naval branches of one or
more veterans'
organizations, or both, may pool their entitlements
to funds and
submit a joint or consolidated statement of expenses.
Allowable
items shall include expenses for arrangement of, support
of, or
participation in, local or countywide observances as may be
desirable in the community;
expenses for mapping, marking, and
decorating
graves of veterans; and other items incidental
thereto
to these expenses. The board of township trustees may, on or before the
fifteenth day of May in each year, appropriate a sum to be
determined by the board for each post and camp within the
township, from the general expense fund of the township, for the
purpose of properly observing memorial day within the township,
and if any post or camp is located within the township, the
appropriation shall be made to
such
that post or camp. Any
municipal
corporation located within a township may cooperate with
the
township, or with the county, in observing memorial day, and
the
legislative authority of the municipal corporation may make
the
necessary appropriation for the observance. If any posts or camps have become extinct or unable to
attend
to memorial day services,
then the appropriation by the
board of
county commissioners or the board of township trustees
shall be
made to a post or unit of the sons of union veterans of
the civil
war, woman's relief corps,
or daughters of veterans, or to
any
civic or patriotic organization willing and able to undertake
and
perform the work of commemoration and observance of memorial
day.
Where
If the appropriation by the board of county
commissioners is
made to a civic organization, it shall not
exceed one hundred
dollars.
Section 2. That existing section 307.66 of the Revised Code
is hereby repealed.
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