Miscellaneous

An honorably discharged veteran can have the designation added, and gets a free replacement license if that is the only reason for it.

No disability rating required. The designation requires an honorable discharge and acceptable documentation. No rating applies, so the rating filter never hides this entry.

Available to any active, retired, or honorably discharged member for a $10 initial fee on top of the regular registration, and to the next of kin of a member killed in combat.

No disability rating required. The plate is available to any active, retired, or honorably discharged military member. No rating applies, so the rating filter never hides this entry.

The Westchester County Clerk's Legal Division records a DD-214 free, returns it at once, keeps it sealed, and gives a free image whenever the veteran needs one. The Clerk also issues the free veteran's peddler licence.

An honorable discharge. Recording, copies and the licence are free. No rating is needed.

Westchester County Parks issues a free three-year Veterans Park Pass to resident veterans, and a free Disabled Veterans Park Pass to residents with a service-connected disability, bringing park pass rates at the six County golf courses, pools, beaches and parking. Active duty members get a free one-year Military Park Pass.

Westchester residence and proof of veteran status. The pass is free; the disabled veterans pass needs a service-connected disability at any rating.

Westchester County's Veterans Service Agency in White Plains, formed in 1945, files VA claims and appeals at no cost through accredited service officers and helps with State and County benefits. Call 914-813-5145 for an appointment.

Veterans, dependents and survivors. Any veteran or family member can use the agency. No rating is needed.

Westchester's veterans treatment court sits in Westchester County Court in White Plains, linking veterans charged with crimes to VA care and veteran mentors under the court's supervision, whatever their discharge.

A veteran with a criminal case in Westchester. Every character of discharge is accepted. No rating is needed.

Oconee County's veterans docket is the Western Judicial Circuit Veterans Treatment Court - the Council of Accountability Court Judges' directory lists it under Superior Court Judge H. Patrick Haggard with coordinator Christia Martinez, serving "Clarke and Oconee" since September 2014, the Western Circuit's Superior Court in Athens being the adjoining county's courthouse - where the unified government's own budget record describes a multi-phase programme with veteran mentors and veteran-specific treatment; the statute is O.C.G.A. 15-1-17.

Justice-involved veteran. The docket takes veterans charged with an offense who volunteer and plea in; a disability rating is not the test.

Westmoreland grants the one-vehicle exemption on its personal property application - a passenger car or pickup or panel truck registered for personal use, effective from acquisition or January 1, 2021, with reapplication on a vehicle change - at a combined 2026-27 personal property rate of $3.75.

100% permanent and total. One owned motor vehicle used mainly by or for the veteran, named on the application and refiled on a vehicle change. Westmoreland accepts a disability compensated at the 100% rate. One path is a VA rating of 100% that is service-connected, permanent, and total.

Westmoreland charges a $40.75 annual license tax on automobiles ($28.75 motorcycle, $20.38 farm vehicle, $51.75 heavy duty, $45.75 motorhome, $18.00 trailers) and exempts any owner exempted from state registration fees, which covers a disabled veteran’s plated vehicle under section 46.2-755.

Westmoreland County Veterans Affairs & Services, at 2 N. Main Street in Greensburg, is the county director of veterans affairs' office: accredited service officers file VA and State claims, take the burial and headstone applications and keep copies of recorded discharges. Officers also sit at WCCC Youngwood on Fridays, the Greensburg VA clinic, Donegal, West Newton and New Kensington.

Veterans, spouses and widows. Any veteran, spouse or survivor can use the office. No rating is needed.

Westmoreland County's Veterans Court takes veterans facing most misdemeanours and low-level felonies, with the District Attorney's consent, and pairs them with volunteer veteran mentors and VA Pittsburgh's rehabilitative programmes. Anyone, including the veteran's family, can refer, ideally before the preliminary hearing.

A veteran with a Westmoreland County criminal case. Admission needs the District Attorney's consent. No rating is needed.

The Westmoreland County Recorder of Deeds records a DD-214 free, and a veteran who recorded one can get a certified replacement copy free from Veterans Affairs & Services in Greensburg.

Any discharge. Recording and copies are free. No rating is needed.

The Wexford County Clerk in Cadillac (231-779-9450) keeps the military discharges recorded with the county and releases copies only to those who qualify - the veteran, a person with the veteran’s permission or the surviving heirs - by mail, email or in person, with a photo ID and proof of relationship for anyone but the veteran.

The veteran, someone with permission, or surviving heirs. Copies go only to those MCL 35.32 names; no rating is needed.

Wexford County’s Veterans Services Committee keeps an Emergency Relief Fund - $89,934.33 on hand at the end of February 2026 - and votes on veterans’ emergency assistance requests in closed session at its monthly meeting (eight in February 2026, seven granted from $370 to $1,000, one referred to financial planning), alongside the Michigan Veterans Trust Fund applications its committee reviews; apply through Veteran Services, 231-775-6654.

Wexford County veterans in need. Emergency relief is decided case by case by the committee; no rating is needed.

The Wharton County Clerk (Barbara Svatek, 309 East Milam Street, Suite 700, Wharton, 979-532-2381) prints "Military Records (DD-214) NO CHARGE" in its fee schedule.

Any veteran with a discharge. Recording a discharge and a certified copy are free under the State statutes; copies go only to the people Government Code 552.140 lists. No rating is needed.

The Wharton County Commissioners Court (County Judge Phillip Spenrath) accepts the Veteran Services monthly report on its consent agenda, approved a copy machine lease for the office (January 26, 2026), heard the invitation to the rededication of the Wharton County Veterans Memorial (April 13, 2026), and budgets $1,000 a year for veterans memorials; no benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed.

No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the county’s veterans-services administration; it grants no individual entitlement.

No property tax exemption, no income tax exemption for military retired pay, no territorial tuition waiver, and no cash bonus. The Commonwealth’s veterans article is about an office, a cemetery, and employment.

Nothing to apply for on tax or tuition. There is no veterans property tax exemption, no exemption for military retired pay, and no territorial tuition waiver in the Commonwealth Code\u2019s veterans article or elsewhere that this catalog has found. No rating threshold applies because no benefit exists to gate.

Whatcom County's Veterans Program, in the Health and Community Services department in Bellingham, has Veteran Service Officers who file VA claims free and runs the Veterans Assistance Fund, which pays rent, mortgage, utilities, burial and other bills directly to the provider for veterans in a financial crisis. The fund had a $200,000 budget in 2026 and a $10,000 lifetime cap per veteran.

Veteran or family member in financial crisis. A veteran or family member in a financial crisis; the county publishes no further test. No rating is needed.

Since WTA's fare change of September 1, 2026, veterans ride Whatcom's fixed-route buses at the reduced fare of $1 a ride, capped at $30 a month, instead of $2 and $60.

Veteran. Veterans qualify for the reduced fixed-route fare. No rating is needed.

The Wheeler County Clerk (Margaret Dorman, courthouse, 401 Main Street, Wheeler; P.O. Box 465; 806-826-5544) posts recording at $25 for a first page and $4 for each further page but no discharge line; the free DD-214 filing (Local Government Code 192.002), the free certified copy (Government Code 603.003) and the confidentiality (552.140) are the State's.

Any veteran with a discharge. Recording a discharge and a certified copy are free under the State statutes; copies go only to the people Government Code 552.140 lists. No rating is needed.

None of the 29 sets of minutes of the Wheeler County Commissioners Court (County Judge Chalone Hefley) for September 8, 2025 through October 13, 2026 names veterans or the Veteran's Affairs Officer; on August 24, 2026 the Court unanimously adopted a 2026-27 budget keeping a $14,116 VA department, and the 2026 holiday schedule it set on September 22, 2025 does not include Veterans Day. No benefit is known to have been adopted, narrowed or repealed.

No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the county’s veterans-services administration; it grants no individual entitlement.

Wheeler County’s section 80-102 Veterans Aid fund held $9,691 in July 2025 with no levy and paid nothing in the two years before, though the 2025-2026 budget sets $20,000 for emergency relief; Wheeler County veterans apply through Holt County’s officer in O’Neill, and the county’s page still asks for wartime service and an honorable discharge, tests the 2024 amendment removed.

Veteran, spouse, surviving spouse or minor child in need. Section 80-102 as amended in 2024: honorable or general service, a year in Nebraska and six months in Wheeler County, and need the committee assesses; the county page’s wartime test no longer applies. No rating is required.

Alaska has no single definition. Fifty percent runs the three big programs, the employment preference runs on a period list with a fourteen-year hole in it, and several programs run on days of service with no rating at all.

Fifty percent: property tax, the plate, and the recreation card. AS 29.45.030(e), the disabled veteran licence plate and AS 16.05.341 all use fifty percent with no permanence requirement. The property tax section accepts a branch of service rating as well as a VA rating.

Kansas writes one definition of disabled veteran into six statutes and changes only the number: 30, 50, 80, 100, or any rating at all. Two programmes break the pattern on discharge, and both are tax provisions.

Any compensable rating: public employment preference. Section 73-201(a)(3) defines disabled veteran with a service-connected evaluation and no percentage floor.

Massachusetts has two general definitions of veteran and they disagree. The 2024 HERO Act made chapter 115 generous and left the old ninety-day wartime test running the property tax, the civil service preference and the excise exemption.

Chapter 115 and the soldiers’ homes use the broad definition. Ninety days of active duty with a discharge other than dishonorable, or a service-connected disability or death including on active duty solely for training, or simply being determined a veteran by VA.

Nebraska has at least seven definitions of veteran and they disagree. The rating thresholds run 0, 10, 50 and 100, and a general discharge that is good enough for one exemption is not good enough for the next.

Zero percent: the mobile home exemption, the vehicle tax exemption, the preference points. Sections 77-202.24, 60-3,185(2) and 48-225(4) all use a definition under which establishing the present existence of a service-connected disability is enough. A zero percent rating qualifies.

The White County Board of Commissioners - Chairman Travis Turner, District 1 Commissioner Shan Ash, District 2 Commissioner Lyn Holcomb, District 3 Commissioner Edwin Nix and District 4 Commissioner Craig Bryant, with County Manager Derick Canupp and Assistant County Manager/Clerk Shanda Murphy, at 1235 Helen Hwy, Cleveland (706-865-2235) - posts its agendas and minutes on the county's Agenda Center; the 2025-2026 record - 42 files read whole - carries no veteran item at all: the word veteran does not appear in any of them. American Legion Roy Head Post 16 and its Auxiliary sit at 750 Highway 75 S, Cleveland.

No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the board’s posted 2025-2026 files and the county’s veterans organizations; it grants no individual entitlement.

The White County Clerk of Court - Dena Adams, 59 South Main St, Suite B, Cleveland, GA 30528 (706-865-2613, fax 706-865-7749, weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.) - records military discharges: the county's own Clerk of Court page lists "Military Discharges, UCC Financing Statements, Notary Public Appointments, Trade Names" among the division contact lines, handled by Laura Matias at extension 321, with the free recording and the 50-year closure resting on O.C.G.A. 15-6-78 and 15-6-72 (the State entries).

Any veteran with a discharge. The recording is free under O.C.G.A. 15-6-78 and the record is closed for fifty years under 15-6-72. No rating is needed.

The White County Tax Commissioner - Cindy Cannon, 506 North Main Street, P.O. Box 970, Cleveland, GA 30528 (706-865-2225) - keeps an Exemptions page on the county site: "Multiple exemptions are available to the citizens of White County. One of the most common forms of exemption is homestead. Please view the Tax Assessor’s website for more information regarding how to apply" - and no amounts of its own, so the O.C.G.A. 48-5-48 and 48-5-52.1 amounts ride on the State entries; the Tax Assessor sits at 1241 Helen Hwy, Suite 180, Cleveland (706-865-5328), and its qPublic site was not readable.

Qualifying disabled veteran or surviving spouse who owns and occupies the home. The exemption follows O.C.G.A. 48-5-48 and 48-5-52.1; the county offices take the application and post no amounts of their own. The rating filter never hides this entry.

The White Pine County Recorder (Chrissie Shady, 775-293-6507, 801 Clark Street Suite 1, Ely) records under NRS 247 with an online record index, and its pages publish no military-discharge line, so free recording rests on NRS 419.020.

Certificate of honorable discharge. NRS 419.020 makes recording an honorable discharge free. No rating is needed.

The Whiteside County Recorder records a veteran's DD-214 at no charge with one certified copy included; each additional certified copy of a recorded discharge is $1.25, and a copy is issued only to a person with ID authorized to obtain it, the record being confidential under the Counties Code.

Any veteran. Any veteran can use it. No rating is needed. The rating filter never hides this entry.

Whitfield County's Clerk of Superior Court records a veteran's DD-214 (Copy 4, a sealed copy from the National Personnel Records Center, or NA Form 13038) free and gives free copies, certified or not, to the veteran, spouse or next of kin and the others Code section 15-6-72 lists, at the courthouse, 205 N. Selvidge Street, Dalton.

Any veteran with a discharge. Recording and copies are free. Copies go only to the people section 15-6-72 lists.

The Whitley County Recorder (Government Building, 220 W Van Buren St, Suite 206, Columbia City; (260) 248-3106) records a veteran’s DD-214 free of charge, and a recorded discharge is a confidential document that only the people IC 10-17-2-4 lists may see or copy.

Any veteran with a discharge to record. Recording is free and the record is confidential; no rating is needed.

Whitley County’s Veterans Treatment Court, in Whitley Superior Court, is a voluntary programme for felony and misdemeanor defendants who are veterans or service members with a substance dependence, PTSD or another non-psychotic mental health disorder, or a treatable brain injury; it takes residents of Whitley and its bordering counties for offences in Whitley, and referrals from Huntington and Kosciusko Counties ((260) 248-3113).

Justice-involved veteran. The court is for a veteran with a pending eligible case who volunteers and is accepted. A disability rating is not the test.

Arkansas has no single definition of veteran. State hiring counts six years of honorable Guard or reserve service. The veterans homes and cemeteries borrow the federal 180-day, other than dishonorable test. The licence designation takes a general discharge, the child welfare fund needs an honorable one, and the veterans treatment court asks for no discharge at all.

State hiring: honorable active duty, or six honorable years in the Guard or reserves. Ark. Code Ann. § 21-3-302(b). Active duty for training alone does not count.

Delaware has no single definition. The newest and most common test, in the veterans affairs chapter, is any active duty including Guard and reserve service with a discharge other than dishonorable. State hiring, license plates and the wartime diploma each use something narrower, and the Green Alert for a missing veteran uses no discharge test at all.

The broad test: active duty including Guard and reserves, other than dishonorable. 29 Del. C. § 8811(c), repeated in § 8803(2) and borrowed by § 6310A. No minimum days and no wartime period.

Indiana has a code-wide definition of Hoosier veteran and a separate test in almost every program. Since July 1, 2026 most state programs shut out only discharges on a list: court-martial, a discharge taken to avoid one, and discharges for security offenses, serious misconduct or violent and sexual offenses. The property tax benefits still say honorable, and the licence designation and the cemetery say other than dishonorable.

Most programs exclude only the discharges on the relief fund list. IC 1-1-4-5(b) and IC 10-17-12-8.1(2), as amended by P.L.94-2026: court-martial, discharge in lieu, security offenses, willful or persistent misconduct, sexual or violent offenses, and the Commission's disallowable separation codes.

Iowa writes at least a dozen different definitions of veteran and they do not agree on service, discharge, residency or disability. Section 35.1 is the master definition, but the property tax exemption adds an eighteen-month rule, the small business loan program reaches a discharge other than dishonorable, and four separate programs each define disability differently.

Section 35.1 is four alternative routes, not one test. Iowa Code § 35.1(2). Paragraph "a" is thirteen wartime periods whose last window, beginning August 2, 1990, is still open. Paragraph "b" is seven routes including twenty-year reserve and guard members who are still serving. Paragraph "c" is any federal active duty other than training. Paragraph "d" is any component plus receipt of service-connected disability.

Section 35.61 is meant to be the uniform definition and is the widest in this catalog: no minimum service, reserve components included, and a discharge under conditions other than dishonorable. Five other acts then define the word again, each more narrowly.

No minimum service and no war period. Section 35.61 requires service in the United States Armed Forces, including the reserve components, with no minimum number of days and no qualifying period.

One definition governs most of Minnesota law, and it asks for 181 consecutive days. Three programmes use wider tests, three sections are excluded from the definition outright, and since 2026 a VA forfeiture determination closes chapters 196 to 198 entirely.

181 consecutive days of active duty, or separation for a disability incurred on active duty. Section 197.447. The 181 days must be consecutive, not cumulative. Alternatives are the minimum active duty requirement in 38 C.F.R. 3.12a and service certified under section 401 of Public Law 95-202.

Missouri writes no service test of its own for chapter 42. It adopts whatever the United States Department of Veterans Affairs says, which means the state definition moves when federal rules move, and several benefits then use narrower or wider tests of their own.

For chapter 42, whatever the federal Department of Veterans Affairs says. Section 42.002(5) defines veteran as any person defined as a veteran by the United States Department of Veterans’ Affairs or its successor agency, for sections 42.002 to 42.135 and section 143.1001. Missouri writes no days-of-service test of its own there.

Montana has at least three working definitions of "veteran" and they disagree about discharge character, length of service and whether a serving Guard member counts. Which one applies depends on which benefit you are asking about.

Title 10 chapter 2: honorable discharge only. Section 10-2-101 requires an honorable discharge from active duty other than for training, and includes the Coast Guard, the First Special Service Force, and the American merchant marine in oceangoing service between December 7, 1941 and August 15, 1945. It governs the veterans’ homes, the state cemeteries, the county interment allowance and the medallion.

The title-wide definition in NRS 417.005 requires Nevada residency, a discharge other than dishonorable, and either assignment to active duty or six continuous years in the Guard or reserves. The property tax and vehicle tax exemptions ignore it entirely and run their own wartime and discharge tests.

For the veterans title: Nevada residency, other than dishonorable, and active duty or six years. NRS 417.005. Route (a) requires assignment to active duty with no minimum days; route (b) requires six continuous years of assigned Guard or reserve duty with no active duty; route (c) covers PHS and NOAA commissioned officers on active duty in defense of the United States.

New Hampshire has one statewide definition in RSA 21:50 and it is wide: an honorable discharge, a general discharge under honorable conditions, an uncharacterized discharge based on a service-connected injury, or more than 4 years served and still serving. A 2026 act then pointed much of the code at it, and four provisions still use their own tests.

One definition: honorable, general under honorable conditions, or uncharacterized for a service-connected injury. RSA 21:50, I(a)(2). A person who served more than 4 years and continues to serve is also a veteran, with no discharge required.

New Jersey has no single definition. Property tax relief and the income tax exemption need an honorable discharge from active service in any era. Civil service preference still needs service in a listed war or operation, or a campaign medal. The new Department of Veterans Affairs statute counts anyone with 90 days of service and names no discharge at all.

Property and income tax: honorable, active service, any era since 2020. N.J.S.A. 54:4-8.10(d) and (h); N.J.S.A. 54A:3-1(b)7. Wartime requirement removed by P.L.2019, c.413 on voter approval, November 3, 2020.

New Mexico has no single definition. The Veterans' Services Department Act counts active duty, six continuous years in the Guard or reserves, or commissioned service in the Public Health Service or NOAA, with anything short of a dishonorable discharge. The property tax exemptions, state hiring and the procurement preference each use a different test.

The broad test: active duty, or six continuous years in the Guard or reserves, not dishonorable. NMSA 1978, § 9-22-3(D), repeated in §§ 16-2-7.1(B) and 21-1-4.5(J). No wartime period and no minimum active duty.

The core definition is 180 days, but a discharge for expiration of term of service qualifies a shorter tour. Three chapters widen it, one section hands out the title with no benefits at all, and in 2025 it grew to the uniformed services.

180 days, or a shorter tour ended by expiration of term of service. Section 37-01-40(1) requires 180 days of continuous federalized active uniformed services duty or the full period called, other than for training, with a discharge under other than dishonorable conditions. A discharge reflecting expiration of term of service or completion of required service qualifies a shorter tour.

Oklahoma's general definition requires the full service obligation, or an early release for medical reasons, hardship or a reduction in force, and a discharge that is honorable or under honorable conditions, so an other than honorable discharge is out. The big disability benefits add "honorably discharged from active service", and a few older programs still use wartime periods.

Full obligation, or early release for medical, hardship or reduction in force reasons. 72 O.S. § 2(1). Guard and reserve service counts on its own.