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51 PA Cons Stat § 8505 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 51 - MILITARY AFFAIRS|Chapter 85 - Veterans' Temporary Assistance|Section 8505 - Appeals

§ 8505. Appeals. Any person aggrieved by a decision denying payment of veterans' temporary assistance may appeal to the Adjutant General under provisions of 1 Pa. Code § 35.20 (relating to appeals from actions of the staff).  (Oct. 4, 2016, P.L.882, No.109, eff. imd.)
51 PA Cons Stat § 8701 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 51 - MILITARY AFFAIRS|Chapter 87 - Educational Gratuity Program|Section 8701 - Definitions

§ 8701. Definitions.  The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:  "Commission." The State Veterans' Commission established under section 1702 (relating to State Veterans' Commission).  "Educational institution." Any college or university of the State System of Higher Education, a State-aided educational or training institution of a secondary or college grade or other institution of higher education, a business school, a trade school, a hospital school providing training for nurses, an institution providing courses in beauty culture, art, radio or undertaking or embalming, or such other educational training within this Commonwealth approved by the commission.  "Eligible disabled or deceased veteran." A person who served in the military or naval forces of the United States, or a women's organization officially connected therewith, who: (1) was killed in action or died as a result of wounds incurred during a period of war or armed conflict or as a result of hostile fire or terrorist attack during peacetime (as determined by the Department of Military Affairs); (2) died in service during a period of war or armed conflict; (3) was honorably discharged from the military or naval forces of the United States and certified by the United States Veterans' Administration as a 100% disabled veteran as a result of service during a period of war or armed conflict or as a result of hostile fire or terrorist attack (as determined by the Department of Military Affairs) during peacetime; or (4) was honorably discharged from the military or naval forces of the United States and died as a result of a service-connected disability (as certified by the United States Veterans' Administration) incurred during a period of war or armed conflict or as a result of peacetime hostile fire or terrorist attack (as determined by the Department of Military Affairs).  "Qualified child." Any child meeting the requirements of section 8703 (relating to eligibility and qualification requirements).    References in Text. The Department of Military Affairs, referred to in this section, is now the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.
51 PA Cons Stat § 8702 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 51 - MILITARY AFFAIRS|Chapter 87 - Educational Gratuity Program|Section 8702 - Educational gratuity payments

§ 8702. Educational gratuity payments.   (a) General rule.--The commission shall make educational gratuity payments not exceeding $500 per term or semester per qualified child to each approved educational institution upon submission by that approved educational institution of proof that bills have been incurred or contracted covering matriculation fees and other necessary fees, tuition, board, room rent, books and supplies for a qualified child in a definite amount for the school year.  (b) Records.--The commission shall attach the proof submitted under subsection (a) to the requisition prepared for payment out of appropriations made by the General Assembly for purposes of the educational gratuity payments.  (c) Duration of payments.--Whenever a qualified child is completing an educational or training course and becomes 23 years of age before completing the course, the educational gratuity payment may be paid until the course is completed. No educational gratuity payments may be made for any qualified child for a period longer than four scholastic years, provided, however, that the department may adjust the payments per term or semester per child so that the total payments do not exceed the amount of the appropriation.
51 PA Cons Stat § 8703 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 51 - MILITARY AFFAIRS|Chapter 87 - Educational Gratuity Program|Section 8703 - Eligibility and qualification requirements

§ 8703. Eligibility and qualification requirements.   (a) Eligibility standards.--The following requirements shall be used to determine the eligibility of applicants for educational gratuity payments. The applicant shall be: (1) Not less than 16 years of age nor more than 23 years of age. (2) The child of an eligible disabled or deceased veteran. (3) A resident of this Commonwealth for a period of five years immediately preceding the date the application was filed.  (b) Qualification determination.--The commission shall determine qualified applicants based on the following requirements: (1) The applicant meets the requirements of subsection (a). (2) The applicant is attending an approved educational institution. (3) The applicant demonstrates a financial need for the educational gratuity.  (c) Appeal.--Any aggrieved applicant may appeal the decision of the commission to the Adjutant General under the provisions of Title 2 (relating to administrative law and procedure).    Cross References. Section 8703 is referred to in section 8701 of this title.
51 PA Cons Stat § 8901 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 51 - MILITARY AFFAIRS|Chapter 89 - Disabled Veterans' Real Estate Tax Exemption|Section 8901 - Definitions

§ 8901. Definitions.  The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:  "Blind." Visual acuity of three-sixtieths or ten two-hundredths, or less normal vision.  "Commission." The State Veterans' Commission established under section 1702 (relating to State Veterans' Commission).  "Paraplegic." The bilateral paralysis of the upper or lower extremities of the body.
51 PA Cons Stat § 8902 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 51 - MILITARY AFFAIRS|Chapter 89 - Disabled Veterans' Real Estate Tax Exemption|Section 8902 - Exemption

§ 8902. Exemption.   (a) General rule.--Any resident of this Commonwealth shall be exempt from the payment of all real estate taxes levied upon any building, including the land upon which it stands, occupied by that person as a principal dwelling, if all of the following requirements are met: (1) That person has been honorably discharged or released under honorable circumstances from the armed forces of the United States for service in any war or armed conflict in which this nation was engaged. (2) As a result of such military service, that person is blind or paraplegic or has sustained the loss of two or more limbs, or has a service-connected disability declared by the United States Veterans' Administration or its successors to be a total or 100% permanent disability. (3) The dwelling is owned by that person solely, with his or her spouse or as an estate by the entireties. (4) The need for the exemption from the payment of real estate taxes has been determined by the State Veterans' Commission in compliance with the requirements of this chapter.  (b) Extension of exemption.--The exemption provided in subsection (a) shall be extended to the unmarried surviving spouse upon the death of the eligible veteran provided that the State Veterans' Commission determines that such spouse is in need of an exemption.  (Nov. 29, 2006, P.L.1459, No.161, eff. 60 days)    Cross References. Section 8902 is referred to in section 8903 of this title.
51 PA Cons Stat § 8903 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 51 - MILITARY AFFAIRS|Chapter 89 - Disabled Veterans' Real Estate Tax Exemption|Section 8903 - Duty of board

§ 8903. Duty of board.  When the conditions specified in section 8902 (relating to exemption) are determined to exist by the board for the assessment and revision of taxes, or by a similar board for the assessment of taxes, and upon the receipt by that board of a certification of need for the tax exemption from the commission, the board shall grant the tax exemption prescribed by section 8902. Notification of the granting of the tax exemption by the board shall be forwarded to the person who has received the exemption from the payment of real estate taxes and to the tax-levying bodies and tax collectors of all political subdivisions imposing taxes upon the dwelling of the person granted the exemption from payment of real estate taxes.
51 PA Cons Stat § 8904 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 51 - MILITARY AFFAIRS|Chapter 89 - Disabled Veterans' Real Estate Tax Exemption|Section 8904 - Duty of commission

§ 8904. Duty of commission.  The commission shall: (1) Fix uniform and equitable standards for determining the need for exemption from the payment of real estate taxes granted by this act. In fixing such uniform and equitable standards, the commission shall apply a rebuttable presumption that an applicant with annual income of $75,000 or less has a need for the exemption. Beginning on January 1, 2009, and every two years thereafter, the commission shall adjust the annual income level qualifying for the rebuttable presumption of need by an amount equal to the change in the Consumer Price Index in the preceding two years. The commission shall publish the adjusted annual income level qualifying for the rebuttable presumption of need as a notice in the Pennsylvania Bulletin. (2) After submission of proof of need by the applicant for the exemption from payment of real estate taxes, determine the need of the applicant. (3) Review at least once every five years all determinations of need for exemptions from the payment of real estate taxes which have been granted in order to determine any changes in the economic status of applicants bearing upon the question of need. (4) Certify the name and address and the need for exemption from payment of real estate taxes, or termination of such need, to the board for the assessment and revision of taxes, or similar board for the assessment of taxes, having jurisdiction of the assessment of the real property owned solely or as an estate by the entirety and occupied as a residence by the person seeking the tax exemption granted by this chapter.  (Nov. 29, 2006, P.L.1459, No.161, eff. 60 days)
51 PA Cons Stat § 8905 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 51 - MILITARY AFFAIRS|Chapter 89 - Disabled Veterans' Real Estate Tax Exemption|Section 8905 - Appeals

§ 8905. Appeals.  Any applicant aggrieved by a determination of the commission may appeal that determination to the Adjutant General under the provisions of Title 2 (relating to administrative law and procedure).
51 PA Cons Stat § 8906 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 51 - MILITARY AFFAIRS|Chapter 89 - Disabled Veterans' Real Estate Tax Exemption|Section 8906 - Limitation on sale of exempt real estate

§ 8906. Limitation on sale of exempt real estate.  No real property solely owned, or owned as an estate by the entirety, and used exclusively as a residence by any person who has been granted an exemption from the payment of real estate taxes pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be sold for the nonpayment of real property taxes for which the exemption from payment has been granted.
51 PA Cons Stat § 9101 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 51 - MILITARY AFFAIRS|Chapter 91 - Oaths, Affirmations and Acknowledgments|Section 9101 - Acknowledgments and administering oaths without charge

§ 9101. Acknowledgments and administering oaths without charge.  It shall be the duty of any person authorized to take acknowledgments and administer oaths, to perform such service free of charge for any soldier, surviving spouse or orphan of a soldier, or parents of a soldier, who may apply to them for the purpose of making affidavit to papers for the purpose of obtaining pensions and all other papers connected with and referring to the military service of any ex-service person.  (Apr. 28, 1978, P.L.202, No.53, eff. 60 days)
51 PA Cons Stat § 9201 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 51 - MILITARY AFFAIRS|Chapter 92 - Certified Copies of Documents|Section 9201 - Certified copies of documents furnished without charge

§ 9201. Certified copies of documents furnished without charge.   (a) General rule.--Whenever application shall be made to the proper public officer by or on behalf of any disabled war veteran, or member of the armed forces or their reserve components or the National Guard, of any war or armed conflict in which the United States has been, is now or shall hereafter be engaged, or by or on behalf of any dependent of any such veteran, or member of the armed forces or their reserve components or the National Guard, for a certified copy of any death certificate, birth certificate, marriage certificate or decree of divorce, for use in connection with any claim for death benefits, compensation allowance, family or dependency allotment, it shall be the duty of such public officer to furnish such certified copy free of any charge therefor provided for by any law of this Commonwealth. No divorce certificate shall be issued under this section unless said divorce action record shows all costs fully paid. As used in this section, the term "public officer" means an authorized official in the Department of Health as to any of the foregoing records in the possession of the Department of Health and the proper county officer as to any other records within this subsection.  (b) Credit for issuing certificate.--Where any county office issues any certificate under this section, said office shall be given an earned credit for the same by proper authorities as if the fee for said certificate had been received from person or persons applying therefor.  (c) Compensation of issuing officer.--In counties where the county officer issuing any certificate under this section is compensated on a fee basis, the fee for issuing such certificate shall be paid by the county, upon the presentation to the county commissioners of proper vouchers by the county officer issuing such certificate.  (d) Certificates relating to release or discharge.--The department, upon request, shall provide one certified, true copy of each soldier's Certificate of Release or Discharge From Active Duty to the Director of Veterans' Affairs of the county where the soldier resided at the time of enlistment or to the soldier or the soldier's representative free of any charge.  (Mar. 21, 1996, P.L.39, No.12, eff. 60 days; Apr. 4, 1996, P.L.98, No.22, eff. 60 days)    1996 Amendments. Act 12 added subsec. (d) and Act 22 amended subsec. (a). Section 5 of Act 12 provided that the amendment of section 9201 shall apply to Certificates of Release or Discharge From Active Duty issued on or after the effective date of Act 12.
51 PA Cons Stat § 9301 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 51 - MILITARY AFFAIRS|Chapter 93 - Veterans' Organizations|Section 9301 - Reports of annual conventions

§ 9301. Reports of annual conventions.   (a) Printing and distribution by Commonwealth.--Whenever the department commanders of the Grand Army of the Republic, the United Spanish War Veterans, the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, the American Legion, the Disabled American Veterans of the World War, the Veterans of World War I of the U.S.A., Inc., the American Veterans of World War II (AMVETS), Military Order of the Purple Heart, Jewish War Veterans, Catholic War Veterans, Inc., The Society of the 28th Division, A.E.F., the Marine Corps League and the Italian American War Veterans of the United States, Incorporated, shall report to the Department of Property and Supplies the proceedings of the annual encampment or conventions of their respective departments, with such general and special orders and circulars and other data which may form a part of said proceedings, then the said proceedings, so reported, shall be considered Commonwealth records, and under the direction of the Department of Property and Supplies, shall be printed and bound, and a printed and bound copy thereof shall be sent to each post or detachment in this Commonwealth of the organization of whose proceedings the same is a report.  (b) Number of copies printed and distributed.--Not more than 1500 copies of each of such annual reports shall be printed and bound, and the balance remaining after the distribution provided for in subsection (a) may be requisitioned as follows: (1) State Librarian, 300 copies. (2) Legislative Reference Bureau and Senate Library, ten copies. (3) Executive head of the organization of whose proceedings it is a report, the remaining copies.    References in Text. The Department of Property and Supplies, referred to in subsec. (a), is now the Department of General Services.
51 PA Cons Stat § 9302 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 51 - MILITARY AFFAIRS|Chapter 93 - Veterans' Organizations|Section 9302 - Veterans' associations accompanied by military bands to places of interment or divine services

§ 9302. Veterans' associations accompanied by military bands to places of interment or divine services.  All associations of veteran soldiers, when parading for the purpose of interring any deceased member of such association or other veteran soldier, or for the purpose of attending divine service on Sunday, may be accompanied by the proper military band, from their place of assembly to the place of interment or to the place of holding divine service, and thence to the point where they shall disband except that the band shall not play upon the return from such interment, or from such divine service.
51 PA Cons Stat § 9303 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 51 - MILITARY AFFAIRS|Chapter 93 - Veterans' Organizations|Section 9303 - Charitable status of certain veterans' organizations

§ 9303. Charitable status of certain veterans' organizations.   (a) General rule.--Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, any branch, post or camp of honorably discharged servicemen or servicewomen or an affiliated organization thereof shall be: (1) Exempt from sales and use taxes imposed under Article II of the act of March 4, 1971 (P.L.6, No.2), known as the Tax Reform Code of 1971, for all purchases used for benevolent, charitable or patriotic purposes. (2) Exempt from any real property taxes for that portion of the real property that is actually and regularly used for benevolent, charitable or patriotic purposes.  (b) Definition.--As used in this section, the term "affiliated organization" means an affiliated organization as defined in section 461.1(b) of the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), known as the Liquor Code.  (Oct. 16, 1998, P.L.780, No.96, eff. imd.)    1998 Amendment. Act 96 added section 9303.
51 PA Cons Stat § 9401 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 51 - MILITARY AFFAIRS|Chapter 94 - Missing Persons|Section 9401 - Federal findings of death or other status as evidence

§ 9401. Federal findings of death or other status as evidence.  A written finding of missing in action or presumed death made by the Department of Defense, or an officer or employee of the United States authorized to make such finding pursuant to the Federal Missing Persons Act (56 Stat. 143, 1092, and Public Laws, 408, Ch. 371, 2d Sess. 78th Cong. 50 U.S.C.App.Supp. 1001-17), as now or hereafter amended, or a duly certified copy of such finding shall be received in any court, office, or other place in this Commonwealth as prima facie evidence of the death of the person therein found to be missing in action or dead, and the date, circumstances, and place of his disappearance.    Cross References. Section 9401 is referred to in sections 9402, 9403 of this title.
51 PA Cons Stat § 9402 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 51 - MILITARY AFFAIRS|Chapter 94 - Missing Persons|Section 9402 - Federal reports of persons missing in action or interned as evidence

§ 9402. Federal reports of persons missing in action or interned as evidence.  An official written report, or record, or duly certified copy thereof, that a person is missing in action, interned in a neutral country, or beleaguered, besieged, or captured by an enemy, or is dead, or is alive, made by any officer, or employee of the United States authorized by the statute referred to in section 9401 (relating to Federal findings of death or other status as evidence), or by any other law of the United States to make same, shall be received in any court, office, or other place in this Commonwealth as prima facie evidence that such person is missing, missing in action, interned in a neutral country, or beleaguered, besieged, or captured by an enemy, or is dead, or is alive, as the case may be.    Cross References. Section 9402 is referred to in section 9403 of this title.
51 PA Cons Stat § 9403 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 51 - MILITARY AFFAIRS|Chapter 94 - Missing Persons|Section 9403 - Signatures of Federal officers presumed authorized

§ 9403. Signatures of Federal officers presumed authorized.  For the purposes of section 9401 (relating to Federal findings of death or other status as evidence) and section 9402 (relating to Federal reports of persons missing in action or interned as evidence), any finding, report, or record, or duly certified copy thereof purporting to have been signed by such an officer, or employee of the United States, as is described in sections 9401 and 9402, shall prima facie be deemed to have been signed and issued by such an officer, or employee, pursuant to law, and the person signing same shall prima facie be deemed to have acted within the scope of his authority. If a copy purports to have been certified by a person authorized by law to certify the same, such certified copy shall be prima facie evidence of his authority so to certify.
51 PA Cons Stat § 9501 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 51 - MILITARY AFFAIRS|Chapter 95 - Long-term Care Patient Access to Pharmaceuticals|Section 9501 - Scope of chapter

§ 9501. Scope of chapter. This chapter relates to long-term care patient access to pharmaceuticals.