Department of Veterans Affairs, services, blind, paraplegic, hemiplegic.

38A:21-23 Department of Veterans Affairs, services, blind, paraplegic, hemiplegic.

38A:21-23. The department, through its divisions, shall: a. administer the Blind Veterans' Allowance Program established pursuant to R.S.38:18-1 et seq.; b. administer the Paraplegic and Hemiplegic Allowance Program established pursuant to P.L.1947, c.263 (C.38:18A-1 et seq.); c. maintain a continuous liaison with the Association of Blind Veterans and other similar State and national veterans' associations and organizations; d. provide all necessary assistance to the Agent Orange Commission upon request; e. administer the veterans' loan authority established pursuant to P.L.1944, c.126 (C.38:23B-1 et seq.); f. supervise and operate the liaison and field offices which serve the federal Veterans' Administration Centers at Lyons and East Orange; g. compete for all grants, private and federal, that would fund programs to benefit the State's veterans and their dependents; and h. administer State tuition assistance programs for veterans and their dependents established pursuant to the provisions of chapter 71 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes. L.2025, c.139, s.21.