1998 Minnesota Statutes

     197.02 Funds used for care and maintenance of disabled 
  soldiers.  

    The commissioner of veterans affairs, the board, 
 superintendent, commission, or other administrative body in 
 charge of any such hospital, sanitarium, or institution shall 
 retain and pay into the funds of such institution for and on 
 account of such ex-service persons for whose care, maintenance, 
 and treatment an allowance is collected, as provided in section 
 197.01, from the United States government or any agency of the 
 United States government, out of the moneys so collected, only 
 the average gross per capita cost of maintaining and supporting 
 inmates in any such hospital, sanitarium or other institution 
 and any special or extra expenditures or disbursements made for 
 or in connection with the care and maintenance of such 
 ex-service persons, and shall retain in a separate fund and 
 shall pay to the commissioner of veterans affairs as hereinafter 
 provided, for and on account of the state soldiers' assistance 
 fund established in section 197.03, the excess of such amounts 
 so collected over and above such gross per capita maintenance 
 cost and disbursements and expenditures.  The proper officer of 
 each of said institutions shall keep in a book prepared for that 
 purpose a daily record of the ex-service persons actually 
 residing there and domiciled in such institution, and shall make 
 monthly reports thereof to the commissioner of veterans affairs. 

    The governing board, commission, or administrative head of 
 any such institution shall, on or before the tenth day of every 
 month, transmit to the commissioner of veterans affairs the 
 excess of such amounts so collected over and above such gross 
 per capita costs and disbursements and the commissioner shall 
 pay into the state soldiers' assistance fund the sums so 
 received from any such institution, and the excess of the sums 
 collected by it as herein provided for from the United States 
 government or any agency thereof, in excess over and above such 
 gross per capita maintenance cost and disbursements.  

    HIST: (4600) 1923 c 436 s 2; 1986 c 444; 1991 c 123 s 5