Opinion No. (1979)

Dear Senator Cate,

The Attorney General has received your request for an opinion wherein you ask, in effect, the following question:

Must a disabled veteran actually be receiving benefits payable at therate of ten percent (10%) or more in order to qualify for the additionalpreference provided by 74 O.S. 817 (1978) that such veteran's name shallbe placed at the top of the register in accordance with the numericalrating of the other service-connected veterans in receipt of benefitspayable at the rate of ten percent (10%) or more?

War Veterans are defined by 72 O.S. 67.13a (1978), as follows:

"The…