Miscellaneous

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.

South Carolina has no single statutory definition of veteran. Seven provisions carry seven different tests, from "other than dishonorable conditions" at the veterans homes to a discharge caused by a service-connected disability in the county officer and apprenticeship credit sections. A summary that uses one definition will be wrong somewhere.

Other than dishonorable, for the veterans homes and the retirement purchase. Section 25-11-720 and Section 9-1-1140(C). Both reach a discharge under conditions other than dishonorable, with no wartime, days-of-service or rating test.

The widest definition in this catalog. Serving the full obligation for reserve or National Guard service is enough, with no minimum days and no deployment. A second definition, wartime veteran, is what most of the education benefits actually run on.

Full obligation served, in any component. Active duty, reserve or National Guard service carried to the end of the obligation, or an early discharge for a medical condition, hardship, reduction in force, or at the convenience of the military. No minimum days and no deployment requirement.

Tennessee has no single definition. The discharge line moves from program to program, and the state veterans homes sit at the strictest end of it while the cemeteries sit at the most generous.

Veterans homes: honorable discharge only. Section 58-7-101(b) with Attorney General Opinion 20-13. A general discharge under honorable conditions does not qualify, and federal law does not preempt the state criterion.

Utah defines veteran once for the entire code: 180 days of service, active duty or reserve drilling time, or any service-related injury, with an honorable or general discharge. There is no wartime period. Then the definition says it is not intended to confer eligibility for benefits, and four programs depart from it anyway.

180 days of service, and reserve drilling time counts. Utah Code § 68-3-12.5(43)(a)(i). Active duty or service "in a reserve component, to include the National Guard", with no requirement of federal activation and no wartime period anywhere in the definition.

Chapter 45 gives one definition with twelve routes, and almost every Wisconsin programme uses it. One route makes a Hmong special guerilla unit veteran a veteran, for driver licence purposes only.

One definition, twelve routes, used across chapter 45. Section 45.01(12) governs the GI Bill remission, the veterans homes, the fee waiver, the retraining grant, VetEd and the business certification.

The District has no single definition. The veterans office statute asks for two years of service and an honorable discharge, government hiring asks for 180 days in wartime and puts a five year limit on the preference, the licence plate and licence designation take a discharge other than dishonorable, and the contracting preference borrows the federal definition.

The veterans office statute: two years, honorable, five branches, District resident. D.C. Code 49-1001(4). Merchant Mariners of December 7, 1941 to August 15, 1945 are included; the Space Force, Guard and reserves are not named.

Wichita County's Veteran Service Officers, 600 Scott Avenue, Suite 203, Wichita Falls, (940) 716-8599, file disability compensation and survivor claims and help with State benefits, housing, rides to medical appointments and crises; walk-ins only, weekdays 8 to noon and 1 to 4.

Veterans and families. For veterans and their families. No rating is needed.

The Wilbarger County Clerk (Jana Kennon, 1700 Wilbarger Street, Room 15, Vernon, 940-552-5486) posts its recording, vital record and license fees but no discharge line or request form; recording a discharge and a certified copy are free under Local Government Code 192.002 and Government Code 603.003.

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 Wilbarger County Commissioners Court (County Judge Greg Tyra) adopted on August 24, 2026 an FY2027 budget with $11,480 for the veterans office, $10,080 of it under an interlocal agreement; its 18 posted agendas of September 2025 to October 2026 carry no veterans item, and it posts no minutes. 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.

The Wilkes County Register of Deeds records a veteran's DD-214 and, with a photo ID, issues a free Thank a Veteran photo card that participating local businesses honour with discounts; cards weekdays 9 to 4:30 at 500 Court House Drive, Suite 1000, Wilkesboro, 336-651-7351.

A veteran with a DD-214. Free; no rating is needed. The rating filter never hides this entry.

Will County's Veterans and Servicemembers Court, running since 2012 with room for 50, takes veterans and servicemembers in felony court with a substance use or mental health diagnosis who admit guilt; graduates can have felony charges struck. Its manual excludes listed violent convictions in the past ten years, twice the five-year look-back in the State act.

Veteran or servicemember with a probationable charge and a diagnosis. Served or serving, with a substance use or mental health diagnosis, admitting guilt. No rating or discharge test.

The Willacy County Clerk (Susana R. Garza, 576 W. Main Ave., Room 153, Raymondville, 956-689-2710) records official public records; its posted fee schedules have no discharge line, so a veteran records a DD-214 free under Local Government Code 192.002 and gets certified copies free under Government Code 603.003.

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 Willacy County Commissioners Court (County Judge Aurelio Guerra, Jr.) approved the veterans office’s Texas Veterans Commission grant application (October 9, 2025), a rentals line and a copier lease for it (November 13, 2025) and its staff’s travel to the Commission’s claims conference (March 26, 2026), took up the 2026-2027 grant award (August 27, 2026) and the office’s request to post Veterans Crisis Line signs (October 1, 2026); no benefit was narrowed or repealed.

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

The Williams County Commission’s record from October 2025 to November 2026 - 25 minutes files with their packets and seven later agendas - carries the Operation Green Light for Veterans proclamation, the Veterans Service Officer’s May 2026 office update and the Veterans Service Officer Fund’s budget and levy; no veteran benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed.

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

Williamson County's Board approved an opioid-funding application for the Williamson County Veterans Drug Court on July 21, 2026 - 'Opioid Funding Application for Williamson County Veterans Drug Court Training in the amount of $24,465.02', carried 3-0 on a roll call.

Justice-involved veteran. For a veteran with a pending case in Williamson County who is screened and accepted to Track 1. A disability rating is not the test stated.

Williamson County's veterans county service office: accredited officers in Georgetown, Round Rock and Taylor who help veterans, dependents and survivors claim VA, Texas and county benefits, free, by appointment. Call 512-943-1900.

Veterans, dependents and survivors. Any Williamson County veteran, dependent or survivor can use the office. No rating is needed.

Williamson County's Veterans Treatment Court, in General Sessions Court since September 2015, takes veterans and service members charged with a misdemeanour or felony that PTSD, TBI, military sexual trauma, mental illness or substance use from service contributed to, at any time before sentencing; coordinator Tracey McKinney, 1320 West Main Street, Suite 107, Franklin, 615-790-5843.

Justice-involved veteran or service member. For a veteran or service member with a pending Williamson County case who is screened and accepted. A disability rating is not the test.

A veterans treatment court in County Court at Law No. 2 for misdemeanors and felonies, with a pretrial diversion track that can avoid a conviction. It states both of Government Code 124.002's eligibility routes, the rehabilitation route included, and considers discharges other than honorable or general case by case.

Veteran or serving member charged in Williamson County. A veteran or serving member, 18 or older, charged in Williamson County, who meets either statutory route. Honorable and general discharges are accepted and others are considered case by case. No rating is needed.

Lake County's only certified veterans docket, Willoughby Municipal Court's Veterans Treatment Court, takes veterans and serving members with a substance use or mental health diagnosis, including PTSD, brain injury or sexual trauma, who are on at least a year's probation and assessed as medium or high risk.

Veteran or serving member with a diagnosis and a year of probation. A veteran or serving member with a Lake County charge, a substance use or mental health diagnosis, at least a year of probation and a medium or high risk score. No rating is needed.

The Wilson County Clerk files a military discharge (DD-214) free and issues certified copies of it free, as its fee sheet effective January 1, 2024 prints; the office is in the courthouse at 1420 3rd Street, Suite 110, Floresville (830-393-7308).

Any veteran with a discharge. Filing and certified copies are free. No rating is needed.

Wilson County's Register of Deeds records a veteran's military discharge free and issues certified copies free under G.S. 47-113.2's restricted access - in person only, with no mail or phone requests - and points benefits questions to the county's Veterans Resources office.

Any veteran with a DD-214. Recording and certified copies are free; no rating is needed.

The Winkler County Clerk (Pam Greene, 100 East Winkler Street, 1st Floor, Kermit; P.O. Box 1007; 432-586-3401) posts a fee notice of January 1, 2024 that sets recording at $25 for a first page and $4 for each further page but has 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.

Of the agendas and minutes the Winkler County Commissioners' Court (County Judge Charles M. Wolf) posts for September 8, 2025 through October 26, 2026, only the December 30, 2025 agenda names veterans, listing a "Veterans Service Coordinator" among the subordinate officers to be appointed; the Court's 2027 budget raises the Veterans Service department to $12,400 and keeps a $5,000 Veterans Memorial line, and the 2026 county calendar closes offices on 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.

Winnebago County’s eight-person, fully accredited veterans department runs Oshkosh and Neenah offices, approves 45.86 aid monthly through a five-member commission, and its register of deeds prints the free-recording statute on its fee page.

Any veteran or family member. The department assists Winnebago County veterans and their families with claims and county aid. No rating is required, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.

The Winnebago County Veterans Court, established in 2012, rebuilds the lives of veterans charged with felony or misdemeanour offences who have an underlying substance use disorder or mental illness; coordinator Kathryn Smith, 815-319-4805.

Justice-involved veteran. The court is for a veteran with a pending felony or misdemeanour matter who consents and is accepted. A disability rating is not the test.

Winnebago County has no stand-alone veterans court; its cases are heard by the Sheboygan Area Veterans Treatment Court, opened August 2012, whose coordinator is Craig Steward at (920) 459-3053.

Veteran defendant, court-decided admission. The Sheboygan Area Veterans Treatment Court admits veteran defendants the court finds suitable from its seven served counties; there is no right to participation.