(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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(330 ILCS 45/4) (from Ch. 23, par. 3084)
Sec. 4.
Upon the taking effect of this Act, the commander of any post or
camp of a military veterans organization, which shall undertake the
assistance of military veterans and their families, as hereinbefore
provided, before the acts of the commander, quartermaster or commandant
shall be operative in any city or town, shall file with the city clerk of
such city or town clerk of such town, or overseer of military veterans
assistance of such town or county, a notice that said post, camp, chapter
or detachment intends to undertake such assistance as is provided by this
Act, and such notice shall contain the names of the assistance committee of
the post, camp, chapter or detachment in such city or town, and the
commander and other officers of said post, camp, chapter or detachment.
And the commander of the post, camp, chapter or detachment shall annually
thereafter, during the month of October, file a similar notice with the
city or town clerk, or the overseer of military veterans assistance, also a
detailed statement of the amount of assistance furnished during the
preceding year, with the names of all persons to whom such assistance shall
have been furnished, together with a brief statement in such case from the
assistance committee upon whose recommendation the orders were drawn. Any
person who fails or neglects so to do at the time required by this Act
shall be guilty of a petty offense and fined $250 to be recovered in the
name of the county in the circuit court.
(Source: P.A. 87-796.)
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(330 ILCS 45/9) (from Ch. 23, par. 3089)
Sec. 9. Veterans Assistance Commission. (a) In counties having 2 or more posts, camps, chapters or detachments
of military veterans organizations as may be recognized by law, a central
assistance committee may be organized to be known as the Veterans
Assistance Commission of such county, composed of delegates and alternates from a majority of such posts, camps, units, and chapters or ship
selected annually as determined by each post, ship, camp, or
chapter. When so organized a commission shall be clothed with all the
powers and charged with all the duties theretofore devolving upon the
different posts and chapters as provided in Section 2.
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(2) Except as provided in paragraph (3), posts,
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(3) In counties with 5 or more posts, camps, units,
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(b) The Commission superintendent and the president or chairman of the
county board, or some other county officer appointed by him, shall have
general oversight of the distribution of all moneys and supplies
appropriated by the county for the benefit of military veterans and
their families, subject to such rules, regulations, administrative
procedures or audit reviews as are necessary as approved by the county
board to carry out the spirit and intent of this Act. No warrant authorized
under this Act may be issued for the payment of money without the
presentation of an itemized statement or claim, approved by the
superintendent of the Commission.
If general assistance funds are allocated to a county for assistance to
military veterans and their families as provided in the Illinois
Public Aid Code, the administration of such funds and of county tax funds
levied for such purpose as provided in Section 5-2006 of the Counties Code
shall be subject to the supervision of the Department of Human
Services in accordance with the provisions of the Illinois Public Aid Code. The
superintendent of the Veterans Assistance Commission must comply with the
procedures and regulations adopted by the Veterans Assistance Commission
and the regulations of the Department of Human Services. To further
the intent of this Act of assisting military veterans, this Act is to be
construed so that the Veterans Assistance Commission shall provide needed
services to eligible veterans.
(Source: P.A. 99-853, eff. 8-19-16.)
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(330 ILCS 45/10) (from Ch. 23, par. 3090)
Sec. 10.
The executive powers of the commission shall be vested in a
superintendent elected by the commission from among those who served in
the armed forces of the United States. The superintendent,
designated Superintendent of Veterans Assistance of the county, shall,
under the direction of the commission, have charge of and maintain an
office in the county building or other central location, to be used solely
by the commission for carrying on its assistance work. The county shall
provide the office and furnish all necessary supplies, including telephone,
printing, stationery and postage therefor.
The county board shall, in any county where a Veterans Assistance
Commission is organized, in addition to sums appropriated for assistance and
emergency assistance purposes under this Act, appropriate such additional
sums, upon recommendation of the Veterans Assistance Commission and as
approved by the county board, to properly compensate the officers and
employees required to administer such assistance. Such county board
approval shall be based upon recognized and established salary guidelines
developed by the county and used by the county to compensate county
employees. If the county does not have established employee salary
guidelines, the county board shall provide funds to the commission to
compensate the superintendent and his employees in a just manner. The
county board shall also provide funds to the commission to reimburse the
superintendent, officers, delegates and employees for certain expenses
which are approved by the commission. The superintendent and other
employees shall be employees of the Veterans Assistance Commission, and no
provision in this Section or elsewhere in this Act shall be construed to
mean that they are employees of the county.
Superintendents, subject to rules formulated by the commission, shall select,
as far as possible, secretaries and other employees from among honorably
discharged military veterans as defined in Section 2, or their surviving
spouses.
Superintendents of all counties subject to this Act, when required by the
commission, shall give bond in the sum of $2,000 for the faithful performance
of their duties.
All persons elected or selected to fill positions provided for in this
Section shall be exempt from the operation and provisions of any civil service
act or laws of this State, and the secretary of the commission shall be
appointed by the superintendent. However, if "The Illinois Public Aid Code",
as amended, becomes applicable in any county, the Department of
Human Services may exercise the powers therein designated in relation to
employees
engaged in the administration of assistance under this Act.
(Source: P.A. 89-507, eff. 7-1-97.)
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