Wisconsin Statutes 45.62 – Burial places compiled
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Terms Used In Wisconsin Statutes 45.62
- Department: means the department of veterans affairs. See Wisconsin Statutes 45.01
- Following: when used by way of reference to any statute section, means the section next following that in which the reference is made. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
- Officers: when applied to corporations include directors and trustees. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
- State: when applied to states of the United States, includes the District of Columbia, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the several territories organized by Congress. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
(1) The department may compile a record of veteran’s burial places located within the state that may, so far as practicable, indicate all of the following information:
(a) The deceased veteran’s name.
(b) The service in which the deceased veteran was engaged.
(c) The appropriate designation of the deceased veteran’s armed forces unit.
(d) The deceased veteran’s rank and period of service.
(e) The name and location of the cemetery or other place in which the deceased veteran’s body is interred.
(f) The location of the deceased veteran’s grave in the cemetery or other place of interment.
(g) The character of the headstone or other marker, if any, at the deceased veteran’s grave.
(2) The department may prepare blank forms for the transmission to the department of the information required for the record under sub. (1). The department may distribute the forms to county veterans service officers. A county veterans service officer within whose county any cemetery or other burial place is located in which deceased veteran’s bodies are interred shall submit the facts required for the record under sub. (1) to the department on the forms provided by the department, if so requested by the department.