Allen County Recorder: Free Discharge Recording and the Veteran's Discount Card

The State rules are the Ohio entry's: free recording, a record closed for 75 years and an optional county veterans identification card (Revised Code 317.24, 317.241 and 317.324). The Recorder's page: "There is no fee for recording military service discharges." The card. The Recorder's poster, "Requirements to obtain a Veteran's Discount Card": "Honorably Discharged from United States Military Service. DD214 must be recorded in Allen County, Ohio. Please plan to be here approximately 15 minutes for your card processing. Bring with You: Photo ID; Proof of your Allen County, Ohio Residence. If your discharge is not recorded in Allen County, you must present the original discharge or a certified copy recorded in another County Recorder's Office. We will record it and give you two free certified copies. If you are recording your Military Discharge for the first time, a Veteran's Discount Card will be issued at the time of recording." Against the statute. Section 317.241 lets the county issue the card to a veteran whose discharge is recorded and who shows two forms of identification, one with a photograph; the poster asks for an honorable discharge, which the section does not, and a residence proof in place of the second identification. A veteran with a general discharge should ask. Recorder Mona S. Losh, P.O. Box 1243, Lima, OH 45802.