VETERANS HOMES, OKLAHOMA LAWS, 1951, CHAPTER 7a

CHAPTER 7A.

SENATE BILL NO. 202.

AN ACT creating a "Petty Cash Fund" as a part of the Revolving Fund for the Oklahoma Veterans Home created by Senate Bill No. 221, 22nd R. S. Oklahoma Legislature; prescribing regulations for expenditures and reimbursement of said "Petty Cash Fund"; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith; making the provisions of this Act severable; and declaring an emergency.

Be it enacted by the people of the State of Oklahoma:

Section 1. Petty Cash Fund. There is hereby created as a part of the Revolving Fund for the Oklahoma Veterans Home established and created by Senate Bill No. 221, 22nd Oklahoma Legislature, R. S., a "Petty Cash Fund" in the sum of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), which "Petty Cash Fund" may be used in making any necessary cash payments due from said Oklahoma Veterans Home. Said "Petty Cash Fund" shall be reimbursed by the State Auditor upon the filing of a claim with the proper receipts attached, showing the disbursement therefrom, or by assignment of claims to said fund, such reimbursement to be made from said Revolving Fund or from the appropriations for the Oklahoma Veterans Home.

Section 2. Repealing Clause.-All Acts, or parts of Acts, in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby superseded, and effective July 1, 1951, all Acts or parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

Section 3. Invalidity Clause.-The Legislature hereby declares that it intended to enact every part, clause, sentence, or section, of this Act and if any part thereof shall be held invalid for any reason, the invalidity thereof shall not affect the validity of any other part, clause, sentence, or sections of this Act, but the same shall remain in force and effect to the same extent as if such invalid parts, clauses, sentences, or sections had been omitted.

Approved April 17, 1951. Emergency.

VETERANS HOMES, OKLAHOMA LAWs, 1955, CHAPTER 7

TITLE 72

Soldiers and Sailors.

CHAPTER 7-OKLAHOMA VETERANS HOME

HOUSE BILL NO. 687

AN ACT relating to Oklahoma State War Veterans Home facilities; amending Oklahoma Session Laws 1953, Title 72, Chapter 7, Pages 402 and 403; establishing and designating the location of said Home facilities; placing management and control thereof; authorizing the War Veterans Commission to remodel, repair, construct, build additions, modernize or add inprovements necessary for veterans, patients, members, or employee housing; authorizing and directing the War Veteran Commission to secure Federal funds for said purpose; prescribing the War Veterans Commission powers, duties and functions; repealing Oklahoma Statutes Laws 1951, Title 43A, Section 101, and all other Laws or parts in conflict herewith; making the provisions of this Act severable; and declaring an emergency.

Be it enacted by the people of the State of Oklahoma:

Section 1. Oklahoma State War Veterans Home Facilities-Administration and Control-Three Locations.-Section 1, page 402, Oklahoma Session Laws 1953, Title 72, Chapter 7, is hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 1. There is hereby established at Sulphur, Oklahoma, on the site of the Oklahoma State Veterans Hospital, and at Ardmore, Oklahoma, on the site of the Oklahoma State Veterans Home Facilities, and at Norman, Oklahoma, on the site of the Veterans Ward of the Central State Griffin Memorial Hospital, further described as follows:

Starting at the Southeast corner of the Northeast Quarter (NE) of Section twenty-nine (29), Township nine (9) North, Range two (2) West, of the Indian Meridian; thence North seventeen hundred (1700) feet to a point on the East boundary of Section twenty-nine (29), Township nine (9) North, Range two (2) West; thence West six hundred (600) feet; thence South eight hundred fifty (850) feet; thence West three hundred twenty-five (325) feet; thence South four hundred (400) feet; thence in a Southwest direction five hundred forty (540) feet to a point on the South boundary of the

Northeast Quarter (NE) of Section twenty-nine (29), Township nine (9) North, Range two (2) West of the Indian Meridian; thence East a distance of one thousand ninety (1090) feet to the point of beginning; facilities to be known as the Oklahoma State War Veterans Home Facilities (for the purpose of securing special treatment or hospitalization the adjoining facilities of Central State Griffin Memorial Hospital shall be considered an integral part of The Oklahoma State War Veterans Home Facilities at Norman, and may be utilized to care for eligible veterans), which shall be available for care of war veterans discharged other than under dishonorable conditions. Further provided such facilities shall be under the administration and control of the War Veterans Commission of Oklahoma.

Section 2. Revolving Fund-Uses.-Section 2, page 403, Oklahoma Session Laws 1953, Title 72, Chapter 7, is hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 2. There is hereby created in the State Treasury a Revolving Fund for the Oklahoma State War Veterans Home Facilities. The said Revolving Fund shall consist of all funds and monies received by the Oklahoma State War Veterans Home Facilities and/or, the War Veterans Commission of Oklahoma, from the United States, any Federal Agency, Institution, Gifts, Contributions, Bequests, any Individual Reimbursements, and not excluding any other source of revenue, for the care or support of war veterans discharged other than under dishonorable conditions, who have been admitted and cared for at The Oklahoma State War Veterans Home Facilities. The Revolving Fund herein created shall be used by the War Veterans Commission of Oklahoma to pay for the care of war veterans discharged other than under dishonorable conditions, in said Home Facilities, to pay the general maintenance expense of the Home Facilities, including the payment of salaries and wages of officials and employees, including the technical staff of said institutions and farm and industrial personnel, and for the purchase of materials, food, clothing, supplies and equipment. Further provided that funds in said Revolving Fund may be used to remodel, repair, construct, build additions, modernize, or add improvements of domiciliary or hospital buildings necessary for the care of veterans, including tuberculosis, mentally ill or neuropsychiatric patients, but not excluding others; and architectural plans, specifications, or other costs pertinent thereto. All expenditures from said Revolving Fund shall be on claims approved by the Superintendents of said Home Facilities Institutions, and/or, War Veterans Commission, and filed with the Budget Director for payment.

Section 3. Acceptance of Act of Congress-Deposit of Federal Funds.-The State of Oklahoma accepts the provisions of the Act of Congress of August 27, 1888, as amended, 1934 Edition U. S. Code, Title 24, Section 134, and of any other Federal Law or Act of Congress providing for the payment of funds to States for the care of, or support of, disabled soldiers and sailors in State Homes, and it shall be the duty of the War Veterans Commission of Oklahoma to obtain such Federal Aid and assistance as is available under the aforenamed Act of Congress, or otherwise. All such funds received from the United States or any Federal Agency, for such care, shall be deposited in the Revolving Fund as provided in Section Two (2) of this Act.

Section 4. War Veterans Defined.-The words "War Veterans", used in the foregoing sections shall be construed to mean such Ex-Service Persons as were discharged under other than dishonorable conditions, and who (a) served in any branch of the military or naval service of the United States during the period of any war, campaign, expedition, in which the United States participated, including but not limited to those who (b) served in the military or naval forces of the United States at any time during the period from April 6, 1917, to November 11. 1918, both dates inclusive, or who (c) served in the military or naval forces of the United States at any time during the period of December 7, 1941, and September 2, 1945, both dates inclusive, or who (d) served in the military or naval forces of the United States on or after June 25, 1950, during the period of time in which the United States participates in a war, military or naval campaign, or expedition.

Section 5. War Veterans Commission-Duties and Powers.-Section 5, page 403, Oklahoma Session Laws 1953, Title 72, Chapter 7, is hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 5. The War Veterans Commission of Oklahoma, in addition to its other powers and duties as herein provided, shall have the following specific powers and duties which shall, however, not be deemed to be exclusive: (a) To make necessary rules and regulations not inconsistent with this Act for the operation of said institutions. (b) To rule upon eligibility of applicant and requirements

for admission to the institution. (c) To appoint all administrative personnel and provide for the employment of all such other personnel as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act and any other duties as may be prescribed by law. The salaries and tenure of office of all personnel shall be determined by the Commission. (d) To approve or disapprove all claims of expenditures from such appropriations as may be made to the Commission prior to the payment thereof, except as may be otherwise provided by law. (e) To enter into agreement or contract with the Oklahoma State Director of Mental Health, or other departments of the State of Oklahoma, to provide necessary services to carry out the provisions of this Act. (f) To enter into agreement or contract with the Veterans Administration, or other appropriate Federal Agency now in existence or hereafter created, to provide necessary services to carry out the provisions of this Act; including but not limited to, agreements by which the Federal Government contributes funds for the construction of buildings in whole or in part. (g) To contract, as herein provided or as otherwise provided by law, to remodel, construct, repair, build additions, modernize or add improvements necessary for hospitalization and domiciliary care of veteran patients, members, or employee housing, using funds available in Revolving Fund provided under Section 2 of this Act. (h) To expend necessary sums from funds available under Section 2 of this Act, or otherwise provided by law, to provide architectural plans, specifications, costs or other information required by The Administrator of Veterans Affairs, or other appropriate Federal Agency, as basis of application for approval to receive Federal Grant of Funds to remodel, repair, construct, build additions, modernize, or added improvements of Domiciliary or Hospital Buildings necessary for the care of veterans, including tuberculosis, mentally ill, and neuropsychiatric, but not excluding others.

Section 6. Repealing Clause.-Oklahoma Statutes Laws 1951, Title 72, Sections 54, 60, 201, and 204, Title 43a, Section 101, and all other laws, or parts of law in conflict herewith, are hereby repealed.

Section 7. Invalidity Clause. If any word, phrase, clause, sentence or other portion of this Act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the other portions, provisions or applications of this Act which can be given effect without the invalid portion, provision or application, and to this and the provisions of this Act are declared to be severable.

Approved the 6th day of May, 1955. Emergency.

VETERANS HOMES, PENNSYLVANIA STATUTES ANNOTATED, POCKET SUPPLEMENT, 1950, § 461

CHAPTER 9.-SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' HOME

§ 461. Qualifications for admission; persons barred

The soldiers, sailors, marines or members of the United States coast guard, who shall be entitled to admission in this home, shall be those honorably discharged soldiers, sailors, marines, and coast guardsmen, who served in the armed forces of the United States, whether in the Regular Army, National Army, organized militia, organized reserves, United States coast guards, or National Guard called into Federal service, during any war, the Philippine Insurrection, the expeditionary engagement in China, or in Mexico, or during the Mexican border service, and who, at the time of their enlistment, were residents of Pennsylvania, or who shall have served in some Pennsylvania organization, or who shall have resided within this Commonwealth for a period of one year immediately preceding the date of their application for admission. And all honorably discharged soldiers of the Pennsylvania National Guard, duly qualified by residence in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania at the date of enlistment and during the time they rendered such service, who have been wounded or disabled at drill or maneuvers, or in time of riot and insurrection when called into service by the Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Provided, Such persons, at the time of admission, are in indigent circumstances, and are invalids by reason of disease contracted, wounds received, or by reason of other disability, or possess a certificate of disability from a physician in active practice and in good standing in his profession in the county in which the applicant may reside.

No person shall be admitted to this home who has been convicted of a felony, or of a crime involving moral depravity, nor who has been a habitual drunkard, without producing sufficient evidence of subsequent good conduct and reforma

tion of character as to be satisfactory to the board of trustees, nor shall any person afflicted with a mental, tubercular, or venereal disease be admitted, except when, in the discretion of the board of trustees, the disease or the affliction is of such character that it does not imperil the health and comfort of other members of the home, and proper facilities for such person's treatment and care are available. (As amended 1931, April 1, P. L. 14, No. 12, § 1.)

VETERANS HOMES, PENNSYLVANIA LAWs, 1951, No. 75, §1

No. 75

AN ACT to further amend the title and to amend *sections 1, **9 and 11 of the act, approved the twenty-seventh day of May, one thousand eight hundred ninety-three (Pamphlet Laws 171), entitled, as amended, "An act providing for the acquisition of land and the erection, equipment, management, and operation of the Pennsylvania Soldiers Orphans' School; the maintenance of children admitted thereto, and regulating the admissions to and discharges from the said Pennsylvania Soldiers Orphans' School," by changing the name of the Pennsylvania Soldiers Orphans' School.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. The title of the act, approved the twenty-seventh day of May, one thousand eight hundred ninety-three (Pamphlet Laws 171), entitled, as amended, "An act providing for the acquisition of land and the erection, equipment, management, and operation of the Pennsylvania Soldiers Orphans' School, *** the maintenance of children admitted thereto, and regulating the admissions to and discharges from the said Pennsylvania Soldiers Orphans' School," as amended by the act, approved the fifth day of June, one thousand nine hundred thirty-five (Pamphlet Laws 267), is hereby further amended to read as follows:

AN ACT

Providing for the acquisition of land and the erection, equipment, management, and operation of the [Pennsylvania Soldiers Orphans' School] Scotland School for Veterans' Children; the maintenance of children admitted thereto, and regulating the admissions to and discharges from the said [Pennsylvania Soldiers Orphans School] Scotland School of Veterans' Children.

"Section" in original.

**"9 and 11" omitted in original.

***"and" in original.

VETERANS HOMES, PENNSYLVANIA STATUTES ANNOTATED, 1950, §§ 2671 To 2698

2689. Orphans of soldiers, etc., of Spanish-American war admitted. 2690. Orphans of soldiers, etc., of Philippine war admitted.

2691. Orphans of soldiers, etc., of war with Germany admitted. 2692. Repealed.

2693. Appropriation per capita.

2694. Beginning of year.

2695. Children eligible for admission; preference in admission.

2696. Duration of education and maintenance.

2697. Discharging children.

2698. Taking child, assisting child to leave, or leaving by child; penalties.

§ 2671. Repealed.-1933, May 22, P. L. 853, art. VI, § 601

HISTORICAL NOTE

Derivation: 1867, April 10, P. L. 66, § 1.

PENNSYLVANIA SOLDIERS ORPHANS SCHOOL

§ 2681. Establishment

There shall be erected, at some point within the state easily accessible, a building or buildings, to be known as the Pennsylvania Soldiers' Orphans' Industrial School.1 1893, May 27, P. L. 171, § 1.

HISTORICAL NOTE

By act of 1909, May 3, P. L. 400, § 1, the Pennsylvania soldiers' orphan school commission was authorized to sell and grant to railroad companies, upon such terms, etc., as they may deem proper, the privilege to construct, maintain and operate lines of railroad over, along and upon any lands then owned or thereafter acquired by the commonwealth for the purpose of soldiers 'orphans schools, whenever, in the judgment of the commission, the commonwealth and such soldiers' orphans schools should be benefited thereby; and to make and deliver the necessary conveyances.

Section 16 of the act of 1893 repealed all inconsistent acts or parts of acts.

The whole system of orphans' schools was done away with, and the Pennsylvania soldiers' orphans' industrial school system was substituted, by the act of 1893, by which all preceding acts were repealed, so soon as that system should be in working order. Act of 1943, June 1, P. L. 808, authorized the purchase of additional described land for the Pennsylvania Soldiers' Orphan School at Scotland, Pa.

Title of Act:

An Act providing for the acquisition of land and the erection, equipment, management, and operation of the Pennsylvania Soldiers Orphans School; the maintenance of children admitted thereto, and regulating the admissions to and discharges from the said Pennsylvania Soldiers Orphans School. 1893, May 27, P. L. 171; title as amended 1935, June 5, P. L. 267, No. 117, § 1.

§ 2682. Purchase of land and erection of buildings

The commission now in charge of the soldiers' orphans' schools are empowered to purchase not more than one hundred acres of ground, the title of which shall be vested in the commonwealth, and to erect buildings thereon, equipping the same with shops, tools, et cetera, for industrial training, as well as for the educational course, and for the maintenance of the soldiers' orphans, first taking security for the faithful performance of all contracts, and for the completion of the building and buildings in a substantial, good and workmanlike manner. 1893, May 27, P. L. 171, § 2.

HISTORICAL NOTE

Act 1893, May 27, P. L. 171, § 3, provided that "The said commission as now constituted shall continue until the third Wednesday in January, 1897, at which time there shall be appointed by the president pro tempore of the senate, two members thereof, and by the speaker of the house, three members thereof, to serve for two years, and the commander of the department of Pennsylvania Grand Army of the Republic shall then recommend to the governor five honorably discharged soldiers for the appointment, who, if approved by the governor, shall be appointed to serve for two years. The governor shall be a member ex officio of the said commission. At the expiration of the said terms of the said appointees their successors shall be appointed in like manner and for like term. Vacanices occurring in the membership of the said commission shall be filled by the appointing powers as above set forth."

Section 3 of act of 1893 was amended by act of 1921, May 17, P. L. 909, § 1, to read as follows:

"In addition to the members herein already provided for, the Governor shall appoint three additional members of said commission, one of whom shall be an honorably discharged soldier, sailor, or marine of the Spanish-American War, and two of whom shall be honorably discharged soldiers, sailors, or marines of the war with Germany and her allies. They shall serve for terms of two years each, beginning on the first Wednesday of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, and their successors shall be appointed biannually thereafter for the same term. In case of vacancies in said appointments, the Governor shall have power to fill the same for the unexpired portion of the term.

Both the amended and the amendatory sections, as above noted, were repealed by section 2901 of art. XXIX of act of 1923, June 7, P. L. 498 (now repealed except for sections 1, 2, 11-13, 21, 31, 32, 66 note, 69 note, 70 note).

§ 2683. Officers

The said commission shall elect from their own number a president, secretary, financial secretary and treasurer, and shall employ all necessary clerks, teachers and employés, necessary for the proper conduct and care of the schools. 1893, May 27, P. L. 171, § 4.

§ 2684. Compensation of commission

No compensation shall be allowed any member of the said commission, except such reasonable expenses as they may incur n ithe performance of their duties; and no member of said commission shall be directly or indirectly interested financially in any school under care of said commission, or in the education

Name changed to Pennsylvania Soldiers Orphans School in title of act as amended by act 1935, June 5, P. L. 267. See Historical Note hereunder.