40.355 Indigent Veterans' Burial Program -- Funding -- Administration.
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(1)There is hereby established an Indigent Veterans' Burial Program and there is
hereby created in the State Treasury a fund entitled the indigent veterans' burial trust
fund to provide funds to defray the costs of funeral expenses for indigent veterans in
the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The fund may receive state appropriations, gifts,
grants, federal funds, and any other funds both public and private. Moneys
deposited in the fund shall be disbursed by the State Treasurer upon the warrant of
the commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs or his or her
representative. Any unallocated or unencumbered balances in the fund shall be
invested as provided in KRS 42.500(9), and any income earned from the
investments along with the unallotted or unencumbered balances in the fund shall
not lapse and shall be deemed a trust and agency account and made available solely
for the purposes and benefits of the Indigent Veterans' Burial Program.
(2)The fund shall be used to defray the costs of funeral expenses for indigent veterans
by allocating the funds to pay for the burial or cremation and burial honors of an
indigent veteran of the Commonwealth of Kentucky or by allocating the funds to
reimburse a veterans' service organization that paid for the cost of the burial or
cremation and burial honors of an indigent veteran of the Commonwealth of
Kentucky.
(3)The Department of Veterans' Affairs shall oversee the Indigent Veterans' Burial
Program and trust fund.