(330 ILCS 25/5) (from Ch. 126 1/2, par. 205)

Sec. 5. Service centers.

(a) The Director shall designate multipurpose service centers for veterans operated by community nonprofit agencies or organizations. To the greatest extent possible, the Director shall rely on such agencies or organizations whose major emphasis has been to provide social services.

(b) The Director shall search for such nonprofit agencies or organizations to carry out the programs created under this Act.

(c) The Director shall designate the agencies or organizations to carry out such programs.

(d) Subject to appropriation, the Director shall begin to provide the necessary funds to the nonprofit agencies or organizations to set up and begin the operation of the multipurpose service centers. Thereafter the Director shall provide the funds appropriated for grants to the centers as the costs of the centers are incurred.

(e) The Director shall, with the advice of the staff of the centers, promulgate rules and regulations to implement this Act. Such rules and regulations shall include eligibility of persons for job training programs, the level of stipends for the job training programs, and a sliding fee scale for the service programs.

(f) In performing his duties pursuant to this Act, the Director shall consult and cooperate with such State agencies as may be appropriate, including but not limited to the Department of Employment Security and the Department of Veterans' Affairs to ensure that there is no duplication of services.

(Source: P.A. 94-99, eff. 1-1-06.)