(330 ILCS 45/2) (from Ch. 23, par. 3082)
Sec. 2.
For the assistance of military veterans, who served in the Armed
Forces of the United States, whose last discharge from the service was
honorable to be eligible for assistance, their families, and the families
of deceased veterans with service as described in this Section who need
assistance. The supervisor of general assistance or the county board shall
provide such sums of money as may be just and necessary to be drawn by the
commander, quartermaster or commandant of any post, ship, camp, chapter or
detachment of any congressionally chartered or state chartered veterans
organization, in the city or town, or the superintendent of any Veterans'
Assistance Commission of the county, upon the recommendation of the
assistance committee of the post, ship, camp, chapter or Veterans'
Assistance Commission. If any supervisor of general assistance or county
board fails or refuses after such recommendation to provide any just and
necessary sums of money for such assistance, then the commander, post,
chapter, or detachment or the superintendent of any Veterans' Assistance
Commission located in the district of such supervisor of general assistance
or such county board shall apply to the circuit court of the district or
county for relief by mandamus upon the supervisor of general assistance or
county board requiring him, her or it to pay, or to appropriate and pay
such sums of money, and upon proof made of the justice and necessity of the
claim, the circuit court shall grant such assistance. Such sums of money
shall be drawn in the manner now provided by law for the assistance of the
poor. Orders of commanders, quartermasters, commandants or superintendents
of Veterans' Assistance Commissions shall be proper vouchers for the
expenditure of such sums of money.
(Source: P.A. 87-796.)
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