N.Y. Social Services Law § 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.