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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
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