--- title: Title 38, Chapter 4. Veterans Affairs collection: code id: code:chapter:38-4 canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/title/38/chapter/4 md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4.md date: 2025 status: active corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68 license: CC0-1.0 publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice. up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/38.md previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-3.md index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md heading: VETERANS AFFAIRS title_heading: MILITARY, EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, AND VETERANS AFFAIRS section_count: 36 full_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4.md?full=1 --- # Title 38, Chapter 4. Veterans Affairs Title 38. Military, Emergency Management, and Veterans Affairs 36 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue). - 38-4-1, Department of Veterans Service and Veterans Service Board — Created; commissioner; officers; appointment; Senate confirmation; term; duties, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-1.md - 38-4-2, Powers; appointment of executive directors of veterans’ homes, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-2.md - 38-4-3, Department of Veterans Service and Veterans Service Board — Duty to work consistently and diligently; educational programs; personal appearances; assistance in preparation of claims, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-3.md - 38-4-4, Veterans Service Board — Vacancies, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-4.md - 38-4-5, Veterans Service Board — Meetings; place; purpose; called, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-5.md - 38-4-6, Veterans Service Board — Policy recommendations; appoint commissioner; discharge of commissioner; commissioner’s political activity, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-6.md - 38-4-7, Commissioner of veterans service — Compensation; payment; duties, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-7.md - 38-4-8, Commissioner of veterans service — Additional duties, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-8.md - 38-4-9, Commissioner of veterans service — Employment of personnel; preference to veterans, surviving spouses, and dependents; advise Governor, board, and General Assembly, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-9.md - 38-4-10, Commissioner of veterans service — Broad discretion in extending aid; utilize department to fullest, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-10.md - 38-4-11, Commissioner of veterans service — Annual reports; content; recipients, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-11.md - 38-4-12, Commissioner of veterans service — Duty to maintain records, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-12.md - 38-4-13, Women veterans’ office, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-13.md - 38-4-14, Creation of Georgia Veterans Service Foundation, Inc.; purpose; operation; reporting, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-14.md - 38-4-15, Veterans Mental Health Services Program; grant programs, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-15.md - 38-4-30, Short title, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-30.md - 38-4-31, Purpose of part, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-31.md - 38-4-32, Department of Veterans Service — Agency to deal with federal government; authority to enter into contracts; administer grants, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-32.md - 38-4-33, Department of Veterans Service — Various state educational bodies to cooperate with; full realization of federal benefits, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-33.md - 38-4-34, Department of Veterans Service — Cooperation and coordination with private educational bodies, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-34.md - 38-4-35, Governor authorized to create private educational advisory bodies, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-35.md - 38-4-36, Governor may direct provision of facilities to Department of Veterans Service, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-36.md - 38-4-37, Veterans Service Board empowered to prescribe rules, regulations, and directives to implement programs, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-37.md - 38-4-50, ‘‘War veterans’’ defined, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-50.md - 38-4-51, Established; locations; adjacent facilities integral part thereof, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-51.md - 38-4-52, Veterans Service Board — Administer home’s facilities, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-52.md - 38-4-53, Veterans Service Board — Authorized revenue sources, expenditures, and hiring; other state bodies to cooperate, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-53.md - 38-4-54, Veterans Service Board — Funds received from federal sources expended to aid war veterans; no limitation on additional state aid, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-54.md - 38-4-55, Admissions and discharges; rules and regulations concerning, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-55.md - 38-4-56, Fee for residency in State War Veterans’ Home, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-56.md - 38-4-70, Cemeteries established; eligibility for interment, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-70.md - 38-4-71, Control of cemeteries; applications for interment, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-71.md - 38-4-72, Receipt of federal aid and gifts, contributions, bequests, and reimbursements; expenditure; departmental personnel, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-72.md - 38-4-90, Creation, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-90.md - 38-4-91, Membership, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-91.md - 38-4-92, Duties; recommendations, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/38-4-92.md