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1952 Arizona Attorney General Reports and Opinions 1 (1952)

handle is hein.sag/sagaz0073 and id is 1 raw text is: pnion No. 52-1 Arizona Veterans' Service Commission Arizona State Building Phoenix, Arizona Gentlemen: In your letter of December 26, 1951 you ask the following question: * * * Does the Attorney General's office feel that drafting and seeking new or corrective legislation for veterans is within the scope of duties of the Arizona Veterans' Service Commission as outlined in Senate Bill 120.' Chapter 107, Session Laws of 1951, created the Arizona Veterans' Service Commission and Section 3 thereof prescribed the powers and duties of the Commission. Sub-section 6 of said Section 3 reads as follows: Cooperate with the state, the United States, or with a political subdivision of either established for the beneficial interest of veterans, and to that end enter into agreements and contracts deemed necessary to protect the rights or benefits extended to veterans, * * * In the said Chapter 107, we find no direct authority for an answer to your question nor have we been successful in our search elsewhere. It is our opinion that the answer to your question is mainly a matter of policy to be decided upon by the Commission itself. The.Sub-paragraph 6 referred to above could very well be interpreted to mean that it would be within the scope of duties of the Commission to seek corrective legislation for veterans. We deem your reference to corrective legislation to mean the correction of errors or improvident provisions in existing statutes to the end that administration wIll be facilitated oth to the benefit of the state and the benefit of the veterans involved. On the question of drafting and seeking new legislation, we can only state that we find no legal impediment thereto. The Commission itself is there- fore in the best position to weigh and consider the political 52-1 Digitized from Best Copy Available

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