Establishment

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  1. The department of veterans services shall provide for Tennessee veterans' cemeteries.
  2. It is the legislative intent that the department, in consultation with the department of finance and administration and other appropriate state departments and agencies, shall, within existing state resources, identify any available state-owned real property and other available financial resources to establish a veterans' cemetery in each of the three (3) grand divisions.
  3. The department of veterans services is authorized to establish additional veterans' cemeteries, as needed, by using state resources in accordance with the planning criteria of the United States department of veterans’ affairs (USDVA) and the national cemetery administration (NCA) in order to receive federal grant funding to assist with establishment of additional veterans' cemeteries.


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