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City of Springfield, MA
Hampden County
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[Adopted as Title 2, Ch. 2.70, of the 1986 Code]
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There is established in the City a Veterans Services Department which shall administer the disbursement of veterans' benefits.
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This Department shall render such service to veterans, members of the armed forces, their families and dependents as required by law.
The Director of Veterans' Services shall be the executive head of this Department and the veterans' agent of the City. Such Director shall perform the duties of burial agent.
The Director of Veterans' Services shall receive such salary as the City Council may from time to time provide, and he shall be provided with an office by the Superintendent of Public Buildings.
Whenever a vacancy occurs in the office of the Director of Veterans' Services, the Mayor shall appoint a Director of Veterans' Services subject to the civil service laws, rules and regulations.
The Director of Veterans' Services may employ a clerk or clerks to assist him in the performance of his duties.
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The person appointed by the Mayor to see that every cemetery lot where there is a grave of a soldier, sailor or marine is suitably kept and cared for, as provided by MGL c. 115, § 9, is designated as the Supervisor of Soldiers' and Sailors' Graves.
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He shall procure for the grave of every United States war veteran buried in the City a flag of the United States and a marker symbolic of the particular war in which such United States war veteran served.