Title 35, VETERANS AND MEMBERS OF ARMED FORCES

Sec. 3. Appropriations or disbursements from the post-war reserve fund provided for in this act may be made from time to time as authorized by the legislature in regular or special session.

Sec. 1. The people of Michigan by constitutional amendment having authorized the state to borrow not to exceed $270,000,000.00, pledge its faith and credit and issue its serial notes or serial bonds for the purpose of paying to each person, or if deceased to the surviving husband…

Sec. 1a. The proceeds of the bond issue authorized under the provisions of this act shall also be used to pay to the surviving husband or wife, child or children, or to the surviving mother or father, or surviving dependent person standing in loco parentis, dependent brothers and…

Sec. 2. For the prompt payment of the principal and interest upon each bond issued under this act, the proceeds of a tax to be levied as provided in section 23 of article 10 of the state constitution and the faith and credit of the state are pledged, and there is hereby appropria…

Sec. 3. To provide immediate funds, prior to the sale of the heretofore authorized bonds, for the payment to persons who served in the military, naval, marine or coast guard forces of the United States, including women serving in auxiliary branches thereof, between September 16, …

Sec. 4. All serial bonds and serial notes issued under the provisions of this act, and interest thereon, shall be exempt from all taxation by the state or by any municipality or political subdivision thereof.

Sec. 5. In case any bond or note issued under the provisions of this act shall become mutilated the state administrative board may, upon such terms and conditions as it may prescribe, provide for the issuance of a new bond or note with like terms, in exchange and substitution the…

Sec. 6. An emergency existing for the reasons, among others, that it is necessary immediately to relieve distress among veterans and their dependents and to enable the state to borrow money for that purpose at the lowest possible interest cost, this act is declared to be necessar…

Sec. 1. (1) The Michigan State Capitol Commission shall provide, within the State Capitol Building, recognition for the contributions of veterans to this state. (2) The Michigan State Capitol Commission shall display within the State Capitol Building 1 or more suitable plaques co…

Sec. 2. Any records, files, or documents of the former department of the Michigan Grand Army of the Republic that have been turned over to the Michigan historical commission created in section 3 of the Michigan historical commission act, 2016 PA 469, MCL 399.833, shall be preserv…

Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Korean veterans' military pay fund act of 1955."

Sec. 2. As used in this act: (a) "Period of service" means the period of time between June 27, 1950 and December 31, 1953. (b) "Veteran" means an individual who meets both of the following: (i) Is a veteran as defined in section 1 of 1965 PA 190, MCL 35.61. (ii) Has served honora…

Sec. 3. Each veteran shall be paid for domestic service $10.00 for each month or major fraction thereof and shall be paid for foreign service $15.00 for each month or major fraction thereof. If the veteran be deceased, payment shall be made to the beneficiary. No payment made und…

Sec. 4. There shall be paid on application to the surviving husband or wife, child or children, or to the surviving mother, father, person standing in loco parentis, brothers, sisters, in the order named, of any person who served in the military, naval, marine or coast guard forc…

Sec. 5. If the veteran be deceased from service connected causes, the surviving husband or wife, child or children, or the surviving dependent mother, dependent father, dependent person standing in loco parentis, dependent brothers and dependent sisters, in the order named, shall…

Sec. 6. Each veteran or his beneficiary entitled to payment shall make application to the adjutant general upon such form as may be prescribed by him: Provided, That if the veteran be incompetent or his beneficiary be incompetent or a minor, application shall be made by his guard…

Sec. 7. (1) Upon submission to the adjutant general of satisfactory proof that the applicant is entitled to payment under this act, the adjutant general shall compute the amount of payment due the applicant, make a record of the payment, and transmit the claim for payment directl…

Sec. 8. The state administrative board shall have general charge and supervision over the administration of the provisions of this act; shall direct the adjutant general in relation to his duties hereunder; shall fix the number of persons employed in carrying out the provisions o…

Sec. 9. The expenses of the administration of this act subsequent to the issuance of the bonds authorized in this act, shall be paid from the Korean veterans' military pay fund of 1955, in accordance with the accounting laws of the state. For this purpose there is hereby appropri…

Sec. 9a. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this act and on the effective date of this amendatory act, any balance remaining in the Korean veterans' military pay fund shall be transferred to the general fund and all future payments of claims and administration expenses shall…

Sec. 10. Any person who shall wilfully make a false statement in the application for benefits under the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof may be punished by confinement in the state prison of southern Michigan at Jackson for a period …

Sec. 11. The payments herein provided for are declared by the legislature to be in the form of gifts or gratuities and shall not be deemed to be pay for services rendered.

Sec. 12. No application for benefits under the provisions of this act shall be filed or received, with the exception of applications under section 5 of this act, on and after March 7, 1958, except that applications originally filed prior to March 7, 1958, which were not processed…

Sec. 13. Any person making claim for and receiving benefits provided by Act No. 12 of the Public Acts of 1947, as amended, being sections 35.921 to 35.932, inclusive, of the Compiled Laws of 1948, who may be eligible for benefits under the Korean veterans' military pay act of 195…

Sec. 14. In case the congress of the United States shall adopt measures providing for financial aid or other assistance available to the state of Michigan in the payment of the bonus under the provisions of this act, the state administrative board is hereby authorized on behalf o…

Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "veterans' military pay act."

Sec. 2. As used in this act: (a) "Period of service" means the period of time between September 16, 1940 and June 30, 1946 and, for purposes of former section 25 of article X of the state constitution of 1908, also means the period of time between June 27, 1950 and the terminatio…

Sec. 3. Each veteran shall be paid for domestic service $10.00 for each month or major fraction thereof and shall be paid for foreign service $15.00 for each month or major fraction thereof. If the veteran be deceased, payment shall be made to the beneficiary. No payment made und…

Sec. 4. There shall be paid on application to the beneficiary of each veteran heretofore or hereafter deceased from service connected causes arising during the period of service a sum equal to the difference between any payments received by the veteran or his beneficiary under se…

Sec. 4a. There shall be paid on application of the mother and father, or the surviving parent, of each veteran heretofore or hereafter deceased from service connected causes arising during the period of service a sum equal to the difference between any payments received by the ve…

Sec. 4b. All payments made pursuant to the provisions of section 25, article 10 of the constitution of this state shall be made in accordance with all applicable provisions of this act, but this act shall in no way be construed as authorizing any payments to persons with respect …

Sec. 5. Each veteran or his beneficiary entitled to payment shall make application to the adjutant general upon such form as may be prescribed by him: Provided, That if the veteran be incompetent or his beneficiary be incompetent or a minor application shall be made by his guardi…

Sec. 6. Upon submission to him of satisfactory proof that the applicant is entitled to payment under this act, the adjutant general shall compute the amount of payment due the applicant, make a record thereof, and transmit the claim for payment in accordance with the accounting l…

Sec. 7. The state administrative board shall have general charge and supervision over the administration of the provisions of this act; shall approve the forms of applications; shall direct the adjutant general in relation to his duties hereunder; shall fix the number of persons …

Sec. 8. The expenses of the administration of this act and of 1947 PA 4, MCL 35.901 to 35.906, subsequent to the issuance of the bonds, shall be paid from the veterans' military pay fund in accordance with the accounting laws of the state. For this purpose there is hereby appropr…

Sec. 9. Any person who shall wilfully make a false statement in the application for benefits under the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof may be punished by confinement in southern Michigan prison for a period of not less than 1 year o…

Sec. 10. The payments herein provided for are declared by the legislature to be in the form of gifts or gratuities and shall not be deemed to be pay for services rendered.

Sec. 11. No application or applications for benefits under the provisions of this act shall be filed or received, with the exception of applications under section 4 of this act, on and after December 31, 1954: Provided, That a veteran who is in military service at time of applica…

Sec. 12. In case the Congress of the United States shall adopt measures providing for financial aid or other assistance available to the state of Michigan in the payment of the bonus under the provisions of this act, the state administrative board is hereby authorized on behalf o…

Sec. 1. That the Woman's Relief Corps auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, department of Michigan, and subordinate corps of the Woman's Relief Corps auxiliary to posts of the Grand Army of the Republic of the department of Michigan, may be incorporated in pursuance to the…

Sec. 2. The president, senior vice-president, junior vice-president, secretary and treasurer of the department of Michigan Woman's Relief Corps auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic may make and execute articles of association under their hands and seals, which articles of …

Sec. 3. A copy of said articles of association, together with a copy of the rules and regulations of the Woman's Relief Corps auxiliary of the Grand Army of the Republic, shall be filed with and recorded in the office of the secretary of state, and thereupon the persons who shall…

Sec. 4. A copy of the record of such articles of association, under the seal of the state, duly certified by the secretary of state, shall be received as prima facie evidence in all courts of this state of the existence and due organization of such corporation.

Sec. 5. Such corporation when duly formed shall have power to institute and charter corps auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic within this state, and from time to time issue such orders for the government of corps as are not repugnant to the rules and regulations of the na…

Sec. 6. At any time when a subordinate corps, auxiliary to a post of the Grand Army of the Republic, shall by a 2/3 vote of the members present at any regular meeting of said corps, resolve to become incorporated, the president, senior vice-president, junior vice-president, and s…

Sec. 7. All corporations formed under this act shall be subject to the provisions of chapter 191 of Howell's annotated statutes, so far as the same may be applicable to corporations formed under this act.