How Appointed

In each county there shall be a commission known as "the Veterans Service Commission" composed of five persons. Such persons shall be residents of the county and shall be appointed to five-year terms by a judge of the Court of Common Pleas. At the time of their appointment or reappointment to the Commission, no Commission Member shall be an employee of the Commission or hold an Elective or other Appointive Office of the county served by the Commission.

Each person on the commission shall be an honorably discharged or honorably separated veteran. Appointments to the Commission shall be made from lists of recommended persons in manner specified in the following paragraph. One person shall be a Representative recommended by the American Legion; one person shall be a Representative recommended by the Veterans of Foreign Wars; one person shall be a Representative recommended by the Disabled American Veterans; one person shall be a Representative recommended by the AMVETS; and on person shall be a Representative recommended by the Military Order of the Purple Heart of the U.S.A. or the Vietnam Veterans of America. If any such Organization has no Post or Chapter located in the County, the appointment shall be made from lists of recommended persons submitted by Posts or Chapters of any other Congressionally Chartered Veterans Organizations located in the County. If no such other Organizations have Posts or Chapters located in the County, the Judge may appoint any qualified Veteran to represent the Veteran Community.

On or before the fifteenth day of October of each year, the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas who is responsible for making appointments to the Commission shall notify each Post or Chapter, of each organization within the County from which the member may or must be appointed that it may submit a list containing three recommendations of persons who are eligible for appointment. If the Judge does not receive any recommendations within sixty days after providing the required notification, he may appoint any qualified Veteran to represent the Veteran Community. The Judge shall make the appointment on or before the fifteenth day of January of each year. Vacancies occurring on the Commission shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointments.

See Ohio Revised Code 5901.02