Collapse to view only § 5508. Periodic onsite reviews of institutional fiduciaries
- § 5501. Commitment actions
- § 5501A. Beneficiaries’ rights in mental competence determinations
- § 5502. Payments to and supervision of fiduciaries
- § 5503. Hospitalized veterans and estates of incompetent institutionalized veterans
- § 5504. Administration of trust funds
- [§ 5505. Repealed.
- § 5506. Definition of “fiduciary”
- § 5507. Inquiry, investigations, and qualification of fiduciaries
- § 5508. Periodic onsite reviews of institutional fiduciaries
- § 5509. Authority to require fiduciary to receive payments at regional offices of the Department when failing to provide required accounting
- § 5510. Annual report
The Secretary may incur necessary court costs and other expenses incident to proceedings for the commitment of mentally incompetent veterans to a Department hospital or domiciliary when necessary for treatment or domiciliary purposes.
All cash balances in the personal funds of patients and the funds due incompetent beneficiaries trust funds administered by the Secretary, and all moneys received which are properly for deposit into these funds, may be deposited, respectively, into deposit fund accounts with the United States Treasury and such balances and deposits shall thereupon be available for disbursement for properly authorized purposes. When any balances have been on deposit with the Treasurer of the United States for more than one year and represent moneys belonging to individuals whose whereabouts are unknown, they shall be transferred and disposed of as directed in section 1322(a) of title 31.