Title 27 — Title 27: Armed Forces and Veterans

Sec. 27-102l. Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans Residential Services facility. Office of Advocacy and Assistance. Powers and duties. Regulations. (a) There shall be a Department of Veterans Affairs. The Veterans Residential Services facility, as defined in subsection (b) o…

Sec. 27-102m. Commissioner to investigate complaints re conduct or treatment of veterans or family members. The Commissioner of Veterans Affairs, in his or her discretion, shall investigate all complaints made to the commissioner with respect to the conduct or treatment of vetera…

Sec. 27-102n. Board of Trustees for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Members. Duties. Annual report. (a) There shall be a Board of Trustees for the Department of Veterans Affairs. On and after July 1, 2015, the board shall be comprised of eighteen voting members who by educati…

Sec. 27-102o. Department authorized to receive and expend funds for Women in Military Service for America Memorial. The Department of Veterans Affairs may, subject to any limitations otherwise imposed by law, receive and accept on behalf of the state any funds that may be offered…

Sec. 27-102p. Annual report of veterans' benefits. (a) Not later than July 15, 2007, and annually thereafter, each state agency or municipality that provides benefits to veterans, as defined in section 27-103, shall submit a report to the Commissioner of Veterans Affairs that inc…

Sec. 27-102q. Benefits for veterans discharged on basis of sexual orientation. (a) For purposes of this section, “veteran” means any person discharged or released from active service in the armed forces, as defined in section 27-103, regardless of his or her discharge classificat…

Sec. 27-102r. Housing for homeless or housing insecure veterans. The Department of Veterans Affairs shall, within available appropriations, convert, rehabilitate and renovate vacant, underused or otherwise available properties for the purpose of housing homeless or housing-insecu…

Sec. 27-103. Definitions. Qualifying Review Board. Discharge based on veteran's sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. Application, review, recommendation, reconsideration and appeal. (a) As used in the general statutes, except chapter 504, and except as otherw…

Secs. 27-104, 27-104a and 27-105. Veterans' Home and Hospital Commission. Civil actions, claims and demands against commission members or employees; immunity; indemnification; representation by Attorney General. Officers; treasurer. Sections 27-104, 27-104a and 27-105 are repeale…

Sec. 27-106. Duties of commissioner re Veterans Residential Services facility and Healthcare Center. Expenditures from institutional general welfare fund. November eleventh exercises. (a) The Commissioner of Veterans Affairs shall adopt and enforce such rules as may be necessary …

Sec. 27-106a. Facility licensure applications by Commissioner of Veterans Affairs. Exemptions. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes or any special act, the Commissioner of Veterans Affairs, on behalf of any facility operated by the commissioner and establishe…

Sec. 27-107. State police duty. Regulation of traffic upon grounds of Department of Veterans Affairs. (a) The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection shall assign one or more state policemen for duty upon the grounds of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Rocky…

Sec. 27-108. Admission to Veterans Residential Services facility or Healthcare Center. Discharge. Transfer. Payment. (a) Any veteran who meets active military, naval or air service requirements, as described in 38 USC 101, as amended from time to time, may apply for admission to …

Sec. 27-109. Hospital care. Any hospital, upon request of the Commissioner of Veterans Affairs, shall furnish any veteran, determined by the commissioner to be entitled to admission thereto, necessary food, clothing, care and treatment therein at the expense of the state, unless …

Sec. 27-109a. Veterans' health registry. Disclosure of registry information. (a) The Department of Veterans Affairs may establish and maintain, within available resources, a registry of data on members of the armed forces, as defined in section 27-103, who have completed a period…

Sec. 27-110. Commitment of mentally ill veterans. Transfer to federal agency. (a) When it appears that any veteran is eligible for treatment in a United States Department of Veterans Affairs facility, and commitment is necessary for the care and treatment of such veteran, the Pro…

Secs. 27-111 to 27-115. Fees for commitment. Care elsewhere than in Veterans' Home and Hospital. Treatment of dipsomaniacs. Commission to investigate complaints. Support of dependents. Sections 27-111 to 27-115, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 2932–2936; 1949, S. 1638d; 1…

Sec. 27-115a. Appropriation. Obsolete. (1967, P.A. 843, S. 2.)

Sec. 27-115b. Eligible family members to participate in programs administered by department. Eligible family members may participate in a program or service administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs, in accordance with the regulations and procedures adopted for the opera…

Sec. 27-116. Weekly allowances to widows of veterans of Civil War or Spanish-American War. Section 27-116 is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (1949 Rev., S. 2937; 1971, P.A. 105, S. 3; P.A. 88-285, S. 12, 35; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)

Sec. 27-117. Disclosure of property of applicant. Any person who has in his or her possession or control any property of any person applying for or receiving aid from the Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Fund or the Department of Veterans Affairs, or who is indebted to such applican…

Sec. 27-118. Funeral expenses. (a) When any veteran or member, as those terms are defined in subsection (g) of this section, dies, not having sufficient estate to pay the necessary expenses of the veteran's or member's last sickness and funeral expenses, as determined by the Comm…

Sec. 27-119. Veterans' headstones, services to be provided by state. When the grave of any person who, in time of war, served in the military or naval forces of the English colonies in America, prior to 1776, or the grave of any veteran, which is located in this state, is unmarke…

Sec. 27-119a. Markers for graves of colonial and Revolutionary War veterans. The Commissioner of Veterans Affairs shall, upon application made by the chief executive authority of the town, city or borough wherein the deceased is buried, cause a metal marker and flag holder to be …

Sec. 27-120. Memorials for veterans buried abroad or missing. If any person who, in time of war, served in the military or naval forces of the English colonies in America, prior to 1776, or of the state of Connecticut or in the armed forces of the United States, and was credited …

Sec. 27-121. Municipal memorials for deceased and missing veterans. If the chief executive authority of any municipality which had as residents several veterans who were killed or lost as described in section 27-120, and to whose memory markers or headstones have not already been…

Sec. 27-122. Plot in Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven. Section 27-122 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 2944; 1963, P.A. 402.)

Sec. 27-122a. Establishment of veterans' cemetery. (a) The Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services shall transfer to the Veterans' Home and Hospital Commission two certain pieces or parcels of land known as Plot # 6, containing thirty acres, more or less, situated on…

Sec. 27-122b. Eligibility for burial in veterans' cemetery. Consecrated area designation. (a) As used in this section, “veteran” means any person who is a veteran, as defined in section 27-103, who (1) has completed at least twenty years of qualifying service, as described in and…

Sec. 27-123. Graves of soldiers and sailors. In each city and town there shall be appointed annually, by the chief executive authority of the city or town, a committee of three citizens of the city or town, who are veterans and whose duty it shall be to see that the grave of any …

Sec. 27-124. Celebrations and memorials. Any town, at a town meeting warned and held for such purpose, and any city or borough, by its aldermen, common council or burgesses, may appropriate money for public celebrations in honor of members of the armed forces and veterans, and fo…

Sec. 27-124a. Veterans and Military Tourism Trail. The Commissioner of Veterans Affairs, or the commissioner's designee, may (1) establish, in consultation with the Department of Economic and Community Development, a Veterans and Military Tourism Trail linking museums, memorials,…

Sec. 27-125. Temporary assistance. Any veteran who is a citizen of this state and who, through disability or other causes incident to service in the armed forces in time of war, is in need of temporary financial assistance may be provided for by the Commissioner of Veterans Affai…

Sec. 27-126. Aid restricted. No person shall receive aid under the provisions of this part who is receiving aid under the provisions of part II of this chapter, and no person receiving aid under the provisions of section 27-125 shall receive aid under any other provision of this …

Sec. 27-127. Veterans' Relief Fund. Section 27-127 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 2947; 1972, P.A. 294, S. 25.)

Sec. 27-128. Transfer of moneys between Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Fund and appropriations to Department of Veterans Affairs. The Governor may transfer, from time to time, as may be found expedient, moneys existing in the Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Fund and moneys appropria…

Sec. 27-129. Conservator for incompetent veteran. When an application is filed for the appointment of a conservator for an incompetent veteran, a certificate of the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs or the Secretary's authorized representative that such person has been …

Sec. 27-130. Acquisition of property by veterans' organizations. The American Legion, The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, The Disabled American Veterans of the World War, Italian American War Veterans of the United States, Incorporated, The Jewish War Veterans of t…

Sec. 27-131. Preservation of Spanish War records. (a) The Commissioner of Administrative Services is authorized to maintain a headquarters of the Department of Connecticut United Spanish War Veterans, under the management and control of its state commander, and to collect, classi…

Secs. 27-132 and 27-133. Roster of Connecticut men and women in armed forces during the First World War. Distribution and sale of World War I roster. Sections 27-132 and 27-133 are repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (1949 Rev., S. 1314, 1315; 1961, P.A. 261, S. 2; 275; P.A. 77-…

Sec. 27-134. Copies of statutes for veterans' organizations. The Secretary of the State shall, upon request, provide each established veterans' organization occupying office space furnished by the state in the city of Hartford with an annotated copy of the revised statutes and an…

Sec. 27-135. Assistance provided by municipalities re veterans services and benefits. (a) As used in this section, “veteran” has the same meaning as provided in subsection (a) of section 27-103 and “chief executive officer” means the officer described in subdivision (2) of subsec…

Sec. 27-136. Powers of attorney granted by persons in armed forces. No person who acts under a power of attorney of a principal in the armed forces of the United States, or of a principal whose duties in connection with any service in which the armed forces, as defined in section…

Sec. 27-137. Acknowledgments by persons serving in armed forces and spouses. In addition to the acknowledgment of instruments in the manner and form otherwise authorized by law, any person serving in or with the armed forces of the United States and his or her spouse, may acknowl…

Sec. 27-138. Custody and administration of the Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Fund. Annual disbursement to American Legion. Use of funds. Treatment of gifts, bequests and donations. (a) The Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Fund shall remain as established and shall be in the custody …

Sec. 27-138a. Availability of regulations of fund, bylaws of American Legion and applications for aid from fund. The administrator of the Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Fund shall make available: (1) Online, a copy of the regulations of the fund and the bylaws of the American Legi…

Sec. 27-138b. Hearing on denial of aid. Any applicant denied aid under section 27-140 shall be given written notice by registered mail by the administrator of the Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Fund stating the reasons for such denial. The applicant may, within fifteen days of the…

Sec. 27-138c. Appeal. Any person aggrieved by a decision of the administrator rendered under section 27-138b may appeal such decision to a review board composed of no fewer than three members of the American Legion State Fund Commission as specified in the bylaws of the American …

Sec. 27-138d. Expenses incurred in connection with premises used by fund administrator. Section 27-138d is repealed, effective July 1, 2014. (P.A. 76-434, S. 10, 12; P.A. 14-217, S. 259.)

Sec. 27-138e. Annual independent audit of fund expenditures. Audit report. (a) The American Legion shall, on or before January fifteenth annually, cause an independent audit to be conducted of the expenditures of the Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Fund, described in section 27-138…