Title 71A, Title 71A: Veterans and Military Affairs

71A-1-301. Veterans Advisory Council -- Membership -- Duties and responsibilities -- Per diem and travel expenses. (1) There is created a Veterans Advisory Council whose purpose is to advise the executive director of the Department of Veterans and Military Affairs on issues relat…

71A-1-302. Veterans Advisory Council -- Duties and responsibilities. The council shall: (1) solicit input concerning veterans issues from veterans groups throughout the state; (2) report issues received to the executive director and make recommendations concerning them; (3) keep …

71A-2-101. Veterans' preference -- Definitions. (1) As used in this chapter: "Government entity" means the state, any county, municipality, special district, special service district, or any other political subdivision or administrative unit of the state, including state institut…

71A-2-102. Veterans preference. (1) Each government entity shall grant a veterans preference upon initial application to each preference eligible individual according to the procedures and requirements of this chapter. (2) The personnel or human resource officer of any government…

71A-2-103. Veterans preference -- Willful failure to give preference a misdemeanor. (1) An officer, agent, or representative of a government entity who is charged with employment of people may not willfully fail to give preference as provided in this chapter. (2) Willful failure …

71A-3-101. Veterans service organizations assistance contracts -- Contract to provide assistance to service members, veterans and their spouses, surviving spouses, and children. The department is authorized to contract with a veterans service organization organized in this state …

71A-3-102. Veterans service organizations assistance contracts -- Contracts subject to appropriation of funds. Any contract entered into under Sectionshall expressly state that it is subject to the appropriation of sufficient funds by the Legislature to carry out its terms and th…

71A-3-103. Veterans service organizations assistance contracts -- Attorney general to represent state concerning contracts. The attorney general shall represent the state in all proceedings involving any contract entered into under Section, and shall provide any legal assistance …

71A-4-101. Definitions. (1) As used in this chapter: "Accredited" means a veterans service organization, representative, agent, or attorney to whom authority has been granted by the VA to provide assistance to claimants in the preparation, presentation, and prosecution of claims …

71A-4-102. Requirements and prohibitions regarding assisting a claimant. (1) Each person offering to assist veterans in applying for VA benefits shall: be accredited, in compliance with the provisions of C.F.R.,, Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief, or, if under the supervisi…

71A-4-103. Education requirements. (1) Every person providing assistance to a veteran shall complete three hours of qualifying education as specified in 38 C.F.R. 14.629(b) during the first 12 month period following the date of the person's initial accreditation. (2) An additiona…

71A-4-104. Department responsibilities -- Notification -- Assistance -- Complaints -- Claimant responsibilities. (1) The department shall notify in writing each veteran for whom the department has contact information that any person offering to assist veterans in applying for ben…

71A-4-105. Veterans Benefits Application Assistance Act -- Exempt organizations. Accredited representatives of the following organizations are exempt from the provisions of this chapter: (1) the department; (2) American Legion; (3) Veterans of Foreign Wars; (4) Disabled American …

71A-5-101. Veterans Assistance Registry -- Definitions. (1) As used in this chapter: "Donor" means an individual or entity that provides material goods, services, or labor without charge to veterans in accordance with this chapter. "Recipient" means a veteran as defined in Sectio…

71A-5-102. Veterans Assistance Registry. (1) There is created within the department a Veterans Assistance Registry. (2) The intent of the registry is to provide contact information to qualified donors of material goods, services, and labor for qualified recipients in need of spec…

71A-5-103. Immunity for use of registry. A donor who provides material goods, services, or labor for registry recipients is considered to be acting on behalf of the department in accordance with the provisions of.

71A-6-101. State Veterans Nursing Home -- Definitions. (1) As used in this chapter: "Administrator" means a state veterans nursing home administrator selected in accordance with Section. 71A-6-103 "Board" means any state veterans nursing home advisory board. "Home" means any stat…

71A-6-102. State Veterans Nursing Home -- Establishment and construction -- Compliance with federal requirements. (1) The department shall be responsible for the administration and operation of state veterans nursing homes established by the Legislature, which may include contrac…

71A-6-103. State veterans nursing home -- Operation of homes -- Rulemaking authority -- Selection of administrator. (1) The department shall, subject to the approval of the executive director: establish appropriate criteria for the admission and discharge of residents for each ho…

71A-6-104. State veterans nursing home -- Eligibility -- Admission requirements. (1) Application for admission shall be made separately to each nursing home administrator. (2) Veterans and their spouses or surviving spouses who are residents of Utah or who demonstrate intent to e…

71A-6-105. Veterans nursing home -- Advisory boards. (1) Each home shall have a nursing home advisory board to act as a liaison between the residents, members of the public, and the administration of the home. (2) Each board shall consist of at least seven, but no more than 11, m…

71A-6-106. State Veterans Nursing Home Fund. (1) There is created an expendable special revenue fund entitled the "Utah State Veterans Nursing Home Fund" to be administered by the department for the benefit of each home and its residents. (2) All cash donations, gifts, or bequest…

71A-6-107. State veterans nursing home -- Disposition of deceased resident's property. (1) All money or other personal property of a resident held by a home that is left on the premises of the home shall, upon the death of the resident, be held in trust to be paid or delivered to…

71A-6-108. State veterans nursing home -- Hobby promotion -- Sales of articles manufactured by residents -- Proceeds to residents. (1) Each home shall promote hobbies designed to improve the general welfare and mental condition of the residents. (2) The home may provide limited f…

71A-7-101. Memorials by cities and towns. (1) The boards of city commissioners, city councils, and town boards, respectively, may appropriate from any fund of the city or town available for general purposes amounts considered expedient for the purpose of erecting or contributing …

71A-7-102. Memorials by counties. (1) The county legislative body of the several counties may raise and maintain, appropriate money for, and contribute to the building and maintenance of, memorials to the memory of veterans of any wars in which the United States of America partic…

71A-7-103. County tax for memorials. The county legislative body may levy and collect an annual tax upon property situated within the county to raise funds for memorials under this part.

71A-7-201. Veteran burials -- Veterans not to be buried in ground used for paupers. The body of an individual who dies while in the military service of the United States of America during any period of war, police action, or other period of national emergency, or the body of any …

71A-7-202. Veteran burials -- Political subdivisions may provide proper burial sites. Municipalities, towns, counties, or other political subdivisions of the state may grant burial sites to chartered veterans organizations without financial consideration or may provide a proper s…

71A-7-203. Veteran burials -- Veterans Remains Organization -- Funeral service establishments -- Liability -- State agency -- Responsibilities. (1) As used in this section: "Remains facility" means the same as a funeral service establishment defined in Section. 58-9-102 "Status i…

71A-7-301. Veterans cemeteries -- Development, operation, and maintenance -- Responsibilities of Department -- Costs. (1) The department shall develop, operate, and maintain veterans cemeteries. (2) To help pay the costs of developing, constructing, operating, and maintaining vet…

71A-8-101. Public officers and employees in military service -- Not to be prejudiced thereby -- Refusal to reinstate -- Procedure -- Motion -- Hearing and determination. (1) As used in this chapter, "public officer" means the same as that term is defined in Section. 67-16-3 (2) A…

71A-8-102. Employees in military service -- Government employees in United States armed forces or National Guard -- Pay allowance for time spent on duty -- Deduction of vacation time prohibited. (1) All state employees who are members of the organized reserve of the United States…

71A-8-103. Extension of licenses for members of National Guard and reservists ordered to active duty . (1) As used in this section, "license" means: any license issued under Title 58, Occupations and Professions; and a license for emergency medical personnel. (2) A license held b…

71A-8-104. Employees in military service -- Professional liability protection for certain persons ordered to active duty in the armed forces. (1) This section applies to a person who: is ordered to state or federal military service, other than training; and immediately before rec…

71A-8-105. Reserve member of armed forces -- Leave of absence from employment -- Liability of employers. (1) Any member of a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States who, pursuant to military orders, enters active duty, active duty for training, inactive duty tr…

71A-9-101. Definitions. As used in this chapter, "institution of higher education" means an institution described in Sectionor any other university or college that is established and maintained by the state.

71A-9-102. Military installation ability to enter into an intergovernmental support agreement. (1) A state agency, local municipality, special service district, or an institution of higher education may enter into an intergovernmental support agreement with a military installatio…

71A-9-301. Definitions. Reserved.

71A-9-302. Acquisition of easements -- Restrictions -- Resale. (1) The department may acquire, by purchase, from landowners voluntarily entering a contract with the department, property or easements for the establishment, maintenance, and operation of a restrictive use area for t…

71A-9-303. Certain improvements, alterations, and expansions prohibited. (1) A person may not begin to develop, or authorize development, on any land on which the department or the Governor's Office of Economic Development holds a lawful easement unless the department or the Gove…