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hb297_05_EN
(136th General Assembly)
(Amended
House Bill Number 297)
AN ACT
To amend section 307.66 of the
Revised Code to increase the amount a county may provide to military
and veterans organizations, and civic organizations, for Memorial Day
expenses.
Be
it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio:
Section
1.
That
section 307.66 of the Revised Code be amended to read as follows:
Sec.
307.66.
The
board of county commissioners, annually, shall appropriate, and
advance upon application made no more than one hundred twenty days
prior to memorial day, to each garrison or naval branch of the Army
and Navy Union, U.S.A. and to each chartered post, garrison, or naval
branch of any organization of veterans recognized and chartered by
the congress, upon request of their officials, in the county, a sum
of money not to exceed
five
hundred
one
thousand
dollars
to aid in defraying the expenses of memorial day.
Each
such organization applying for an advance of funds shall submit with
its application a statement of expenses incurred up to the time the
application for an advance is submitted. Each such organization
receiving money from this appropriation shall file a sworn statement
accounting for the complete expenditures of the funds with the board
within sixty days after the memorial day for which the funds were
provided. Any unexpended funds shall be returned to the board of
county commissioners within this period. Any organization failing to
file a sworn statement within the prescribed time accounting for the
complete expenditure of the funds shall not be eligible to receive an
appropriation the following year. Two or more separate veterans'
organizations, or two or more posts, garrisons, or naval branches of
one or more veterans' organizations, or both, may pool their
entitlements to funds and submit a joint or consolidated statement of
expenses. Allowable items shall include expenses for arrangement of,
support of, or participation in, local or countywide observances as
may be desirable in the community; expenses for mapping, marking, and
decorating graves of veterans; and other items incidental to these
expenses.
The
board of township trustees may, on or before the fifteenth day of May
in each year, appropriate a sum to be determined by the board for
each post within the township, from the general expense fund of the
township, for the purpose of properly observing memorial day within
the township, and if any post is located within the township, the
appropriation shall be made to that post. Any municipal corporation
located within a township may cooperate with the township, or with
the county, in observing memorial day, and the legislative authority
of the municipal corporation may make the necessary appropriation for
the observance.
If
any posts have become extinct or unable to attend to memorial day
services, the appropriation by the board of county commissioners or
the board of township trustees shall be made to a post or unit of the
sons of union veterans of the civil war, woman's relief corps, or
daughters of veterans, or to any civic or patriotic organization
willing and able to undertake and perform the work of commemoration
and observance of memorial day. If the appropriation by the board of
county commissioners is made to a civic organization, it shall not
exceed
one
two
hundred
dollars.
Section
2.
That
existing section 307.66 of the Revised Code is hereby repealed.
Speaker
___________________ of the House of Representatives.
President
___________________ of the Senate.
Passed
________________________, 20____
Approved
________________________, 20____
Governor.
The section numbering of law
of a general and permanent nature is complete and in conformity with
the Revised Code.
Director, Legislative
Service Commission.
Filed
in the office of the Secretary of State at Columbus, Ohio, on the
____ day of ___________, A. D. 20____.
Secretary of State.
File
No. _________ Effective Date ___________________