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Div. 6.DIVISION 6. VETERANS BUILDINGS, MEMORIALS, AND CEMETERIES
Ch. 9.5.CHAPTER 9.5. Southern California Veterans Cemetery
This text of California § 1412. (1412. (Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 579, Sec. 3.)) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering California primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
(a)For the purposes of Section 1410, all local government entities in the County of Orange may join together for the purpose of cooperating with the department in the design, development, construction, and equipment of the cemetery.
(b)
(1)All moneys received for the study and subsequent acquisition, design, development, construction, and equipment of the cemetery shall be deposited in the Southern California Veterans Cemetery Master Development Fund, which is hereby created in the
State Treasury. Expenditure of those moneys shall be subject to appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act. Moneys appropriated by the Legislature for these purposes shall also be deposited in the fund.
(2)There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Southern California Veterans Ceme
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(a)
For the purposes of Section 1410, all local government entities in the County of Orange may join together for the purpose of cooperating with the department in the design, development, construction, and equipment of the cemetery.
(b)
(1)
All moneys received for the study and subsequent acquisition, design, development, construction, and equipment of the cemetery shall be deposited in the Southern California Veterans Cemetery Master Development Fund, which is hereby created in the
State Treasury. Expenditure of those moneys shall be subject to appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act. Moneys appropriated by the Legislature for these purposes shall also be deposited in the fund.
(2)
There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Southern California Veterans Cemetery Study Donation Fund. Notwithstanding paragraph (1), any local governmental entity or private organization in the County of Orange may donate moneys to the fund for the purpose of funding a study as described in paragraph (3). Moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to the department for studies consistent with paragraph (3).
(3)
(A)
Upon receipt of sufficient moneys to complete a study, the department may study the feasibility of a site formally proposed by
a local government in the County of Orange for the purpose of establishing a Southern California Veterans Cemetery, as described in subdivision (a) of Section 1410.
(B)
Upon completion of the study, any excess funds shall be returned to the donor if requested or used to reimburse the state for expenditures made by the state for the purposes described in subdivision (a) of Section 1410.
(C)
Any study conducted pursuant to this paragraph shall include, but not be limited to, an analysis of cost, legal, logistical, environmental, and fire hazard factors in the evaluation of the site, and an analysis of whether the proposed site meets the basic federal requirements for a federally recognized veterans cemetery.
(c)
(1)
Except as otherwise provided in Section 1416, all moneys received for the operation and maintenance of the cemetery, including moneys received pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1410, shall be deposited in the Southern California Veterans Cemetery Perpetual Maintenance Fund, which is hereby created in the State Treasury. Expenditure of those moneys shall be subject to appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act.
(2)
It is the intent of the Legislature to appropriate funds in the annual Budget Act to fund annual cemetery operations and maintenance and to enact any additional legislation that may be necessary to set dollar limits on funding for those operations and that maintenance.