Nebraska Revised Statutes
Chapter 80 - Servicemembers and Veterans
80-401.03 - Director; duties; assistants; state service office.

80-401.03. Director; duties; assistants; state service office.
(1) The Director of Veterans' Affairs shall be responsible for the administration of the income funds from the Nebraska Veterans' Aid Fund for the aid of needy veterans and their dependents.
(2) The director, the deputy director, or a designee of the director shall receive and approve for payment or disapprove applications for aid which shall originate in any local post of any recognized veterans organization or with a county veterans service officer. Any person eligible for such aid shall make application for the same through such local post or county veterans service officer in the community nearest his or her place of residence. If there are two or more local posts of one or more recognized veterans organizations in any community, no claimant can originate a claim in more than one such post at any given time and a period of at least thirty days shall elapse between the filing of claims. An application shall not be deemed to be filed until it has been received and filed in the office of the Director of Veterans' Affairs. The director may adopt and promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary for administering such aid.
(3) No part of the interest accumulation of the Nebraska Veterans' Aid Fund shall be expended for the purpose of organizing and maintaining any veterans organization. There shall be expended under the direction of the director such sum or sums as may be specifically appropriated by the Legislature for the employment of necessary assistants or deputies and clerical employees at such reasonable compensation as may be fixed by the director in each particular case and for the maintenance and expenses of a state service office with necessary service officers and assistants to prepare and present meritorious cases of ex-servicemen and ex-servicewomen for benefits before the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. Such cases shall be accepted by the state service officer on behalf of any claimant when a proper power of attorney is given by such claimant to the office of the director or to a state service officer, if he or she is so designated by any recognized veterans organization as its sole representative, and regardless of where the cases originate. No part of such sum or sums is to be paid out of the twelve-million-dollar trust fund or the income therefrom. Upon the completion of the trust, the principal fund so held by the State Treasurer shall revert to the treasury of the state.
(4) For purposes of this section, veteran means any person who:
(a) Served on active duty in the armed forces of the United States, other than active duty for training, and who:
(i) Was discharged or otherwise separated with a characterization of honorable or general (under honorable conditions) from such service; or
(ii) Died while in service or as a direct result of such service; or
(b) Being a citizen of the United States at the time of his or her entry into such service, served with the military forces of any government allied with the United States during any period identified in section 80-401.01 and was discharged or otherwise separated with a characterization of honorable or general (under honorable conditions).
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Nebraska Revised Statutes

Chapter 80 - Servicemembers and Veterans

80-101 - County veterans service committee; members; term; compensation; vacancy, how filled; bond; expenses.

80-102 - County veterans service committee; meetings; relief; persons entitled; determination; payment; tax; amount authorized.

80-102.01 - County veterans service committee; acceptance of gifts, devises, and bequests.

80-103 - County veterans service committee; members; removal from office; filling of vacancy.

80-104 - Veterans; burial by county veterans service committee; when authorized; surviving relatives may conduct funeral.

80-105 - Veterans; graves; headstones.

80-106 - Veterans; burial expenses; payment.

80-107 - Veterans graves, markers; furnish, when.

80-108 - Veterans graves; petition for markers.

80-201 - Memorials; authority to erect.

80-202 - Memorials; erection; plans; publication; tax authorized; limitation.

80-203 - Memorials; ordinance to erect; referendum; effect.

80-204 - Memorial; erection; initiative petition; effect.

80-205 - Elections; laws governing.

80-206 - POW/MIA flag; display; when; conditions.

80-301 - Transferred to section 80-315.

80-301.01 - Act, how cited.

80-301.02 - Transferred to section 80-326.

80-301.03 - Terms, defined.

80-302 - Transferred to section 80-317.

80-304 - Transferred to section 80-314.

80-304.01 - Transferred to section 80-327.

80-305 - Transferred to section 80-318.

80-306 - Transferred to section 80-319.

80-307 - Transferred to section 80-320.

80-308 - Transferred to section 80-321.

80-309 - Transferred to section 80-331.

80-311 - Transferred to section 80-328.

80-312 - Transferred to section 80-329.

80-313 - Transferred to section 80-330.

80-314 - Veterans homes; director; duties; rules and regulations.

80-315 - Nebraska veterans homes; establishment.

80-316 - Veterans homes; purpose; admission; requirements.

80-317 - Nebraska veterans homes; Veterans' Homes Board; rules of membership; application.

80-318 - Veterans' Homes Board; members; appointment; compensation; expenses.

80-319 - Veterans' Homes Board; duties; powers; meetings.

80-320 - Director; rules and regulations.

80-321 - Member; payment for care; public expense.

80-322 - Reimbursement of costs.

80-322.01 - Department of Veterans' Affairs Cash Fund; created; investment.

80-325 - Administrator of Nebraska veterans homes; qualifications.

80-326 - Veterans' Home Building Fund; created; purposes; investment.

80-327 - Nebraska veterans homes; member; disability; guardianship proceedings; guardian or conservator; fees; bond.

80-328 - State of Nebraska; enter into lease agreement with Douglas County; property; described; use as a veterans home.

80-329 - County board; lease or sell property for use as a veterans home; terms.

80-330 - Property used as a veterans home; utility service; state provide; how compensated.

80-331 - Norfolk Veterans' Home.

80-332 - Employees of Division of Veterans' Homes of Department of Health and Human Services; transfer; how treated.

80-333 - Contracts and other documents; how treated.

80-334 - Existing suits and proceedings; how treated.

80-335 - Law; how construed.

80-336 - Property; funds; appropriations; effect of transfer.

80-337 - Money or personal property to credit of member of veterans home; claim; disposition; procedure.

80-401 - Nebraska Veterans' Aid Fund; Veterans' Aid Income Fund; created; purpose; investment; management.

80-401.01 - Terms, defined.

80-401.02 - Department of Veterans' Affairs; creation; director; qualifications; salary; bond or insurance; service officers and assistants; appointment.

80-401.03 - Director; duties; assistants; state service office.

80-401.04 - Department of Veterans' Affairs; jurisdiction; State Department of Education; functions.

80-401.05 - Comprehensive Health Insurance Pool; board of directors; Department of Insurance; duties.

80-401.06 - Veterans' Advisory Commission; members; appointment; qualifications.

80-401.07 - Veterans' Advisory Commission; members; tenure of office.

80-401.08 - Veterans' Advisory Commission; members; chairperson; expenses.

80-401.09 - Veterans' Advisory Commission; duties; meetings.

80-401.10 - Director; seal; adopt; rules and regulations; fiscal year.

80-401.11 - Department of Veterans' Affairs; offices; employees.

80-402 - Veterans aid; conscientious objectors denied relief.

80-403 - Veterans relief; persons eligible; disbursements.

80-404 - Gifts, power to accept; property, exemption from tax.

80-404.04 - Commissioner of Education; federal funds; disbursement.

80-405 - Veterans relief; obtaining by fraud; penalty.

80-406 - County service committee; members; appointment.

80-407 - County veterans service committee; duties; appointment of county veterans service officer; member of committee ineligible.

80-408 - County veterans service officer; officers and employees; oath; bond.

80-409 - County service committee; offices; tax; levy.

80-410 - Director; deputy director; Veterans' Advisory Commission; state and county veterans service officers; qualifications.

80-411 - Waiver of tuition and fees at institutions of higher education; qualifications; application; Director of Veterans' Affairs; approval; effect.

80-412 - Graves; Director of Veterans' Affairs; permanent registry.

80-413 - Land used for veterans services; retrocession of jurisdiction.

80-414 - Department of Veterans' Affairs; create and maintain registry; contents; military license plates; veteran designation on operator's license or state identification card; eligibility.

80-415 - Veterans Employment Program Fund; created; use; investment.

80-416 - Adoption of pet animal; financial support for veterans; program; administration.

80-417 - Pets for Vets Cash Fund; created; use; investment.

80-501 - Note: According to the provisions of section 80-507, the act comprising this article expired by its own limitation on June 30, 1947. The entire article has therefor been omitted.

80-601 - Veterans; mentally ill or dangerous sex offender; care or treatment by United States Department of Veterans Affairs; commitment; powers.

80-602 - Veterans; mentally ill; hospital or facility operated by United States Department of Veterans Affairs; release.

80-603 - Veterans; mentally ill; jurisdiction of courts.

80-604 - Veterans; mentally ill; order of commitment by court of another state; effect.

80-605 - Veterans; mentally ill; commitment; transfer; procedure.

80-606 - Department of Health and Human Services; hospitals of federal government; lack of control.

80-701 - Minority; effect.

80-901 - Member of Active Selected Reserve; tuition credit; amount; duration.

80-902 - Tuition credit; conditions.

80-903 - Member of Active Selected Reserve; responsibility to obtain certificate of performance; prerequisite to tuition credit.

80-1001 - Service providers; intake forms and interviews; question regarding military service; departments; duties.