(1) There is established and created in the State Treasury a fund entitled the “Veterans’ Service Organization Burial Honor Guard trust fund” to provide funds to offset the costs of the Veterans’ Service Organization Burial Honor Guard Program. 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 Veterans’ Service Organization Burial Honor Guard Program.
(2) The fund shall be used to support the costs which veterans’ service organizations incur in providing and supporting a well-equipped, properly trained, and certified burial honor guard.
Effective: July 1, 2002
History: Created 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 43, sec. 2, effective July 1, 2002.