AN ACT To amend and re-enact Chapter 30 of the authenticated edition of the Acts of the 1944 Special Session of the Twenty-eighth Legislative Assembly House Bill No. 24 authorizing the board of county commissioners to appoint, employ, and pay a county veterans’ service officer under the supervision of the Veterans’ Service Commissioner to assist returning members of the armed forces in the solution of their problems, and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:
AEMENDMENT.] Chapter 30 of the authenticated edition of the Acts of the 1944 Special Session of the twenty-eight Legislative Assembly House Bill No. 24 is hereby amended and re-enacted to read as follows:
The board of county commissioners of each county in the state of North Dakota is hereby authorized to appoint, employ, and pay, on a full-time or part-time basis, an officer to be known as a county veterans’ service officer whose duty it shall be to acquaint himself with the laws, both state and federal, enacted for the benefit of returning servicemen and to assist such returning members of the armed forces in the presentation, proof, and establishment of such claims, privileges, and rights as they may have. It also shall be the duty of the county veterans’ service officer, under the supervision of the Veterans’ Serice Commissioner, to actively cooperate with and to co-ordinate the activities of the state and federal agencies within the county which he serves to facilitate their operation and insure promptness in the solution of the problems concerned with the re-establishment of returning servicemen and women in civilian pursuits.
The county veterans’ service officer shall be paid such monthly salary for full-time or part-time work together with traveling expenses as the board of county commissioners shall deem commensurate with the needs of the situation.
EMERGENCY.] This act is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval.