2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 5 - Assistance and Care › Title 4 - Veteran Assistance › 176 - Veteran Advisory Committees; Duties.

§  176.  Veteran  advisory committees; duties. 1. (a) In every county,
city or town which has elected to furnish veteran  assistance,  pursuant
to  the  provisions  of  this  title,  in  which there are more than one
veteran organization or more than one post,  camp  or  garrison  of  any
veteran  organization,  there shall be appointed and constituted a joint
veteran assistance advisory committee to consist of  one  representative
from  each  post,  camp  and garrison of each such veteran organization,
chosen in such manner as the post, camp or  garrison  shall  direct,  to
serve  for  one  year,  commencing  the  first day of January. Each such
committee shall choose a chairman and such other officers as it may deem
necessarry or require.  In counties and cities the  deputy  commissioner
or  director  of the veteran assistance division or bureau of the public
welfare department shall serve ex officio as secretary of the committee.
In towns, the town welfare  officer  shall  serve  ex  officio  as  such
secretary,  unless  he is not a veteran and his deputy or assistant is a
veteran, in which case such deputy or assistant, as  the  case  may  be,
shall serve as such secretary.
(b)  In  any  town  which  has  elected  to furnish veteran assistance
pursuant to the provisions of this title, in which  there  is  only  one
veteran  organization  and only one post, camp or garrison thereof, such
post, camp or garrison shall constitute a veterans  assistance  advisory
committee,  consisting  of  its  chairman  and two other representatives
designated by it, which committee shall serve for  one  year  commencing
the  first  day  of  January.  The  town  welfare officer, his deputy or
assistant, if a veteran, shall serve ex officio as the secretary of  the
committee; if neither be a veteran, the town welfare officer shall serve
as such secretary.
2.  All  committees  constituted under subdivision one of this section
shall have and perform the following functions and duties:
(a) (1) In the case of county or city committees,  to  submit  to  the
public  welfare  official  of  the county or city in which it operates a
list of veterans qualified to serve as deputy commissioner  or  director
of  the  veterans  assistance  division  or bureau in the county or city
department of welfare, as the case may be, whenever there be  a  vacancy
in that office.
(2)  In  the  case  of  town  committees, to submit to the town public
welfare officer a list of veterans qualified to serve as his  deputy  or
assistant  to furnish veteran assistance, whenever there be a vacancy in
that office.
(b) To keep informed all posts, camps or  garrisons  of  each  veteran
organization  in  its territory concerning the administration of veteran
assistance and the activities of  the  veteran  assistance  division  or
bureau.
(c) To transmit to the veteran assistance division, bureau or official
administering  veteran  assistance  in  its  territory, the views of the
veteran organizations operating in such territory.
(d) To advise the public welfare official of the county, city or  town
administering veteran assistance in its territory on matters relating to
assistance and care given to veterans and their families.