administered by a board of three citizens of this state, one of whom shall be a qualified member of the department of social welfare. The members of said board shall be appointed by the director of social walfare, with the approval of the governor. In the month of February, 1940, and in the month of February in each year thereafter the director, with the approval of the governor, shall appoint one member of said board to hold office until the first day of March in the third year after his appointment and until his successor is appointed and qualified, to succeed the member whose term will next expire. "When this act shall take effect the director, with the approval of the governor, shall thereupon appoint one member of said board to serve until the first day of March 1940, one member to serve until the first day of March 1941, and one member to serve until the first day of March 1942, and until their respective successors are appointed and qualified. The members of said board at their first meeting shall elect one of their number as chairman and thereafter shall elect a chairman upon the appointment of any new member for a full term and whenever the office may become vacant. "Any vacancy which may occur in said board shall be filled by appointment by the director, with the approval of the governor, for the remainder of the unexpired term. The members of said board shall be chosen with due regard to their knowledge of social or welfare problems and the director of the department shall designate some person to act as secretary of said board." SEC. 2. Item (b) of section 2 and section 12 of chapter 58 of the general laws, entitled "Aid to dependent children," amended as to reorganization by chapter 660 of the public laws, 1939, are hereby further amended to read as follows: "Sec. 2. *** "(b) 'Dependent child' means a needy child under the age of 16 or under the age of 18 if such child is found to be regularly attending school, who has been deprived of parental support or care by reason of the death, continued absence from the home, or physical or mental incapacity of a parent, and who is living with his father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, brother, sister, stepfather, stepmother, stepbrother, stepsister, uncle or aunt, or any other relative as may be approved by the department in a place of residence maintained by one or more of such relatives as his or their own home, or as the home of such relative approved by the department. "Sec. 12. Appropriation by town or city. Every city or town shall make an appropriation for the purpose of providing aid for dependent children. The state shall reimburse each town and city for three-quarters of the amount expended for such aid in accordance with and subject to the provisions of this chapter; and to the same extent for administrative costs as may be approved by the director of social welfare or his duly authorized representative." SEC. 3. Chapter 68 of the general laws, entitled "Settlement of paupers," is hereby amended to read as follows: "SETTLEMENT OF PAUPERS. "No city or town shall be responsible for any of the costs of providing public assistance either directly or in a state institution for any person who has not resided in such city or town for five years immediately preceding application and the state shall pay all costs of assistance granted to such persons. Whenever any person shall have resided in the state for a period of one year and shall not have acquired a settlement as hereinbefore specified, the city or town wherein said person shall be located, shall furnish assistance to such person, if needy, under the rules and regulations of the state department of social welfare; provided, however, that said cities and towns shall be reimbursed by the state for the actual amount of said assistance; and the controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of such sum or sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary from time to time, upon the receipt by him of properly authenticated vouchers. The burden of proof of legal settlement shall rest with the state department of social welfare. The absence of any of the following shall be considered as evidence of non residence and of lack of settlement for the purposes of this act : (1) Entries in a city or town directory. (2) Registration on voting lists. (3) Payment of poll taxes. (4) Ownership of property either real or personal located within the city or town. (5) Names appearing on tax lists of the city or town. (6) Family names on school census. (7) Licenses in family name. (8) Oral declarations of the applicant corroborated by other reputable residents of the city or town." "No person who is otherwise eligible for public assistance shall be denied assistance because of lack of city or town residence. Assistance may be granted in the form of travel and moving allowances in cases where rehabilitation, social adjustment, and the public interest will best be served by resettlement; but no city or town may transport any destitute family out of its jurisdiction until arrangements are made for acceptance and care at the point of destination. The department of social welfare is hereby authorized to enter into reciprocal agreements with public welfare agencies in other states relative to the provisions of assistance and service to residents, non-residents, or transients. Existing residence requirements for state unemployed relief, and aid to the aged, aid to the blind are hereby reduced to one year." SEC. 4. All applications and records concerning any applicant for old age assistance, so-called, for aid to dependent children, so-called, and state unemployment relief, shall be confidential and shall be open to inspection only by persons in connection with their federal, state, city or town duties and duly authorized by the state, of any city or town thereof, or the United States, or in answer to any subpoena properly issued by a court of this state, or by a court of this state, or by a court of the United States. SEC. 5. Section 1 of this act shall take effect upon its passage and the remainder of the act shall take effect July 1, 1940, and thereupon all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith shall stand repealed. VETERANS HOMES, RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC LAWS, 1949, CHAPTER 2166 CHAPTER 2166. AN ACT Changing the name of the Rhode Island Soldiers' Home to the Rhode Island Veterans' Home. PREAMBLE Whereas, The name of the Rhode Island soldiers' home has in some instances caused confusion in that there are those who believe that only "soldiers" can gain admittance thereto; and Whereas, The term "soldiers" as used in the past has usually meant members of the armed forces, including soldiers, sailors and marines; and Whereas, The institution, known as the Rhode Island soldiers' home, does now admit, and has in the past admitted, "veterans" who have served honorably in the army, navy and marine corps; now, therefore, in order to eliminate confusion, It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: SECTION 1. On and after the passage of this act, the name of the Rhode Island soldiers' home, an institution established by law, by authority of chapter 733 of the public laws, 1889, and at that time named the "Rhode Island soldiers' home," now one of the divisions of the state department of social welfare, shall be changed to "The Rhode Island veterans' home" and shall hereafter be known as such wherever and whenever said name appears in any general or public law pertinent thereto in this state. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Section VETERANS HOMES, SOUTH DAKOTA CODE, 1939, §§ 41.0201-041.0213 41.0201 41.0202 Terms of office. 41.0203 41.0204 Oath; bond. 41.0205 41.0206 41.0207 41.0208 41.0209 41.0210 41.0211 41.0212 41.0213 41.0201 Management; Board. The South Dakota Soldiers' Home shall be under the control and general supervision of the State Board of Managers, which shall consist of three members, to be appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate. Source: 9948 Rev. Code 1919. 41.0202 Terms of office. The terms of office of the members of such Board shall be for a period of two years from the first day of April next succeeding the date of their respective appointments. All members of the Board shall hold office until their successors are appointed and have qualified. The Governor shall appoint persons to fill all vacancies which may occur in the membership of such Board and the persons so appointed shall hold office until the next session of the Legislature following their appointment. Source: 9949 Rev. Code 1919, revised in form only. 41.0203 Compensation. The compensation of each member of such Board shall be five dollars for each day actually and necessarily employed, and all such expenses as are actually and necessarily incurred in the proper discharge of his duties as such. No member of such Board shall receive to exceed the sum of three hundred dollars as per diem in any one year. Source: 9950 Rev. Code 1919, revised in form only. 41.0204 Oath; bond.-Before entering upon the discharge of his official duties, each member of such Board shall take and subscribe the constitutional oath, and shall furnish a bond in the penal sum of two thousand dollars, payable to the state, with good and sufficient sureties to be approved, recorded, and filed as the official bonds of other state officers, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties. Source: 9951 Rev. Code 1919. 41.0205 Meetings.-The State Board of Managers shall hold four regular meetings each year, and such special meetings as in its opinion shall be necessary. The regular meetings of such Board shall be held in the city of Hot Springs upon the first Wednesday in the months of January, April, July, and October of each year. Such Board shall at the first meeting in each year elect one of its members as president and one secretary, both of whom shall serve without extra compensation. A full and complete record of all the proceedings of the Board shall be kept, and a full report, not exceeding twenty pages in length, of the general condition of the Soldiers' Home, showing in detail all receipts and disbursements, shall be made biennially to the Governor at the time and in the manner provided in title 48, "Offices and Officers" and in title 55, "State Government", Ch. 55.28, "Purchasing and Printing." Any member of such Board who shall consent to or permit the expenditure of any money appropriated for the benefit of the Soldiers' Home for any other purpose than the specific purpose for which the same shall have been appropriated shall be liable personally and upon his official bond to the state for the amount of money so expended. Source: 9952 Rev. Code 1919. 41.0206 Powers and duties of Board.-Such Board shall provide for the local management of such Home by the appointment of a Superintendent, who shall be a resident of this state and who shall not be a resident of the county in which such Home is located. It shall provide for the enforcement of all such rules and regulations as are now or may hereafter be required by the statutes of the United States to enable this state to receive such aid as is usually extended by the national government to states which maintain institutions of like character. It shall be the duty of such Board to prescribe the method of the local management of such Home, and it shall make and enforce such rules and regulations not inconsistent with the laws of this state or the purpose of the institution as it shall deem necessary and proper for the maintenance of order and discipline and the preservation of the health and comfort of the members of such Home. Any violation of such rules and regulations may be punishable by suspension or expulsion in the judgment of the Board of Managers upon the charges filed by the Superintendent of the Home. The Superintendent shall have power to temporarily suspend and expel any member of said Home for the violation of such rules and regulations pending a final hearing before the Board of Managers whenever he shall deem it for the best interest of said institution and such temporary suspension and expulsion shall be and remain in effect until the final hearing by said Board of Managers upon the charges filed by the Superintendent. Notice of the final hearing together with a copy of the charges filed, shall be served on the offender personally at least three days before the date of the final hearing. If any member is expelled by the Board he or she shall have the right to appeal to the Governor, but such expulsion shall stand unless such member be reinstated by the Governor. At any hearing or complaint before the Board, the chairman of said Board shall have the power to subpoena and swear witnesses appearing at said hearing with the same force and effect as any other officer authorized to administer oaths or swear witnesses by the statutes of this state. Source: 9953 Rev. Code 1919, as am. by Ch. 227, 1931. 41.0207 Salaries of Superintendent, officers, and employees. The Superintendent of such Home shall receive a salary to be fixed by the Board of Managers of the State Soldiers' Home. He shall reside at the Home, and under the direction of the Board of Managers shall have charge of the local management and supervision of the institution. He shall appoint, subject to approval of such Board, such subordinate employees as are necessary for the proper conduct of the Home. All subordinate employees appointed by such Superintendent shall receive such compensation as such Board shall fix, and shall be subject to removal by the Superintendent for inefficiency or misconduct. Such Superintendent shall recommend to such Board of Managers such measures as he may deem necessary for the government of the Home. Source: 9954 Rev. Code 1919, as am. by Ch. 269, 1923. 41.0208 Admission to Home; eligibility.—The wife of any veteran of the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, Indian Wars, the Philippine Insurrection, or World War, who is eligible to become a member of the Home, may be admitted with her husband; provided that such wife shall have attained the age of sixty years, and have been married to her veteran husband for a period of not less than five years. She shall be subject to the same house rules and rules as to furlough and discharge as her husband. The widow of any veteran of the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, Indian Wars, the Philippine Insurrection, or World War may be admitted to membership in the Home, upon the following conditions: she shall have attained the age of sixty years, and must have been a resident of this state for the period of three years next preceding the date of the application, and shall not have sufficient means or income to support herself; she shall be subject to the same house rules as to furlough, suspension, and discharge, as the veterans of the Home. Any veteran of the Civil War, Mexican War, Spanish-American War, Indian Wars, Philippine Insurrection, all American Expeditionary Forces on the Mexican border and in Mexico, or the World War, who has an honorable discharge and who has been a resident of this state for a period of three years next preceding the date of the application, who is incapacitated from earning a livelihood and who has no income in excess of nine hundred dollars per annum, and who is without sufficient income to support himself shall be eligible to admission to such Home. Source: 9955 Rev. Code 1919, as am. by Ch. 364, 1921, § 1, (1), Ch. 270, 1923, § 1, Ch. 287, 1925, Ch. 225, 1929, and Ch. 225, 1937; and § 1, (2) and (3), Ch. 270, 1923, as am. by 2 and 3, Ch. 287, 1925, Ch. 207, 1927, and Ch. 224, 1929, combined to unite related subject matter. 41.0209 Application. All applications for admission to such Home shall be made in writing upon blank forms, which shall be furnished by the State Board of Managers. Such applications shall be presented to the county judge of the county in which such applicant resides. Upon presentation of an application for admission to such Home, the county judge shall consider the same and shall make a full and complete investigation as to the applicant's qualifications for admission. Source: 9956 Rev. Code 1919. 41.0210 Order on application.-If after a full and complete investigation the county judge shall find the applicant is legally entitled to admission, he shall indorse upon his application a certificate to that effect, together with a complete statement of his findings as to the applicant's army record, residence, property, and physical disability. Such application, when it is so certified, shall be immediately forwarded to the Superintendent of the Home, and upon receipt of such application, if the same is proper in form and properly certified, the Superintendent shall admit the applicant. Source: 9957 Rev. Code 1919. 41.0211 Furlough.-Furloughs shall not be granted for more than six months in each year, commencing with the date of furlough. Source: 9958 Rev. Code 1919. 41.0212 Discharge.-Any inmate of the Home may be required to accept an honorable discharge, whenever he has sufficient ability and means to support himself and is not mentally or physically incapacitated. Such discharge shall be given upon recommendation of the Superintendent and order of the Board of Managers. Source: 9959 Rev. Code 1919. 41.0213 Permanent incidental fund.-The permanent incidental fund heretofore provided for the use of the Superintendent of the South Dakota Soldiers' Home is hereby continued. Such fund shall be kept and used by the Superintendent of said Home for the payment of bills for freight, express, mileage, postage, and such other incidental expense of said Home as shall require immediate payment pending the issuance of Auditor's warrant upon the State Treasury therefore, and for no other purpose whatever. In each case where such payment is made, the amount shall be returned to the permanent incidental fund immediately upon the receipt of the State Auditor's warrant covering the bill for which such expenditure was made. Source: Ch. 230, 1931, revised in form only. VETERANS HOMES, SOUTH DAKOTA CODE, 1952, §§ 41.0201.1 To 41.0219 CHAPTER 41.02 SOUTH DAKOTA SOLDIERS' HOME Section 41.0201-1 Board: apopintment; terms of office; compensation; reference to chapter. 41.0208 Admission to home; eligibility. Application. Furlough. Discharge. Limitations on admissions: residence at time of admittance not affected by discharge. 41.0209 41.0210 Order on application. 41.0211 41.0212 41.0214 41.0215 41.0216 41.0217 Receipts transferred to general fund. Contributions to maintenance; conditions. Compensation of members apportioned to dependents. Admission of dependent members; payment for support. 41.0201-1 Board: appointment; terms of office; compensation; reference to chapter. The State Board of Managers of the South Dakota Soldiers' Home created and established by section 41.0201 of the South Dakota Code of 1939 |