In pursuing the purposes of this chapter, the Advocate shall request the services, facilities and personnel of any public agency and said agency shall render and make them available to him.
Pursuant to the provisions of subsection (f) of § 823c of this title, and every public agency that offers, renders, administers or has jurisdiction over any procedures, programs, funds, activities, benefits or services for veterans shall remit to the Office which is entitled to require no less than five (5) copies of all regulations standards, executive orders, decisions, opinions, service manuals or manuals of procedures which are in effect under applicable local and federal statutes with regard to veterans. Public agencies shall comply with these provisions within thirty (30) days following the date of the Office commences its operations. Subsequently, and in every case that standards, rules and procedures are approved or amended, modified or repealed, or new requirements are established, or the services or benefits offered by public agencies are extended, eliminated or altered, they shall send no less than five (5) copies each of these changes, amendments or modifications, as the case may be, to the Office within fifteen (15) days following the date such action is taken.
History —June 27, 1987, No. 57, p. 188, § 12.