KRS 40.355: Indigent Veterans' Burial Program -- Funding -- Administration.

(1) There is hereby established an Indigent Veterans' Burial Program and there is

hereby created in the State Treasury a fund entitled the indigent veterans' burial trust

fund to provide funds to defray the costs of funeral expenses for indigent veterans in

the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The fund may receive state appropriations, gifts,

grants, federal funds, and any other funds both public and private. Moneys

deposited in the fund shall be disbursed by the State Treasurer upon the warrant of

the commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs or his or her

representative. Any unallocated or unencumbered balances in the fund shall be

invested as provided in KRS 42.500(9), and any income earned from the

investments along with the unallotted or unencumbered bal ances in the fund shall

not lapse and shall be deemed a trust and agency account and made available solely

for the purposes and benefits of the Indigent Veterans' Burial Program.

(2) The fund shall be used to defray the costs of funeral expenses for indige nt veterans

by allocating the funds to pay for the burial or cremation and burial honors of an

indigent veteran of the Commonwealth of Kentucky or by allocating the funds to

reimburse a veterans' service organization that paid for the cost of the burial or

cremation and burial honors of an indigent veteran of the Commonwealth of

Kentucky.

(3) The Department of Veterans' Affairs shall oversee the Indigent Veterans' Burial

Program and trust fund.