Sec. 27-106. Duties of commissioner re Veterans' Home. Expenditures from institutional general welfare fund regulated. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 27-106. Duties of commissioner re Veterans' Home. Expenditures from institutional general welfare fund regulated. (a) The commissioner shall adopt and enforce such rules as may be necessary to ensure order, enforce discipline and preserve the health and ensure the comfort of the patients in the Veterans' Home, and shall discipline or dismiss any officer or patient of the home who disobeys or infringes upon such rules. The commissioner shall appoint, subject to the provisions of chapter 67, such officers and employees as are necessary for the administration of the affairs of the home, shall prescribe the relative rank, if any, of such officers and employees, and shall commission each such officer, who shall wear such uniform, if any, as is prescribed by the commissioner.

      (b) The chief fiscal officer shall submit an itemized list of expenditures made from the institutional general welfare fund to the commissioner at intervals not greater than two months. Such list shall include all such expenditures made during the two-month period preceding its submission. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 4-56, the commissioner shall prescribe procedures to limit and specify the uses for which expenditures may be made from the institutional general welfare fund so that only expenditures which, in the opinion of the commissioner and the board of trustees for the department appointed pursuant to section 27-102n, directly benefit veterans or the Veterans' Home are permitted.

      (c) In addition to the estimate of expenditure requirements required under section 4-77, the commissioner shall submit an accounting of all planned expenditures for the next fiscal year from the institutional general welfare fund to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the budgets of state agencies at the time such estimate is submitted.

      (1949 Rev., S. 2928; 1971, P.A. 48; 105, S. 4; P.A. 81-473, S. 35, 43; P.A. 82-314, S. 40, 63; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-32, S. 6, 8; P.A. 88-285, S. 4, 35; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-12, S. 39, 55; P.A. 04-169, S. 6; P.A. 05-288, S. 123.)

      History: 1971 act added "and hospital" following "home" where appearing, substituted "patient(s)" for "inmate(s)", substituted reference to chapter 67 for chapter 63; P.A. 81-473 added requirement that an itemized list of expenditures from institutional general welfare fund be submitted to the commission at least every two months and added Subsecs. (b) and (c) requiring that commission adopt regulations limiting expenditures from said fund to those which directly benefit veterans and that commission submit an accounting of planned expenditures from said fund to the general assembly's appropriations committee; P.A. 82-314 changed official name of appropriations committee; June Sp. Sess. 83-32 amended Subsec. (b) to authorize the commission to prescribe procedures rather than adopt regulations to prescribe use of the general welfare fund and added "in the opinion of the commission" and "or the veterans' home and hospital"; P.A. 88-285 replaced commission with commissioner throughout the section, amended Subsec. (a) to require commissioner to appoint a commandant of the home and hospital, subject to governor's approval and to make technical changes and amended Subsec. (b) to include reference to the board of trustees for the home and hospital appointed pursuant to Sec. 27-102m; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-12 in Subsec. (a) eliminated the commandant's position and in Subsec. (b) required the chief fiscal officer to submit a list of expenses from the institutional general welfare fund at least every two years; P.A. 04-169 amended Subsecs. (a) and (b) to change the name of the Veterans' Home and Hospital to the Veterans' Home, effective June 1, 2004; P.A. 05-288 made a technical change in Subsec. (a), effective July 13, 2005.