2. receive, as far as possible, personal attention; and
(ii) in space that is provided rent-free.

(c) The Commission AND THE DEPARTMENT shall coordinate, as much as
possible, with other appropriate units to:

(1) avoid an overlap of effort; and

(2) provide, if possible, at 1 service center or in 1 general local area,
complete information about the problems that relate to veterans.

(d) The Director shall supervise the service centers.
9-912.

(a) (1) The Commission AND THE DEPARTMENT shall help veterans and
their dependents to receive promptly and regularly all of the benefits to which
veterans or dependents are entitled under federal law.

(2) Among other things, the Commission AND THE DEPARTMENT shall
help veterans and their dependents in:

(i) preparing, in proper form, claims for benefits;

(ii) presenting the claims to the appropriate governmental unit;

(iii) trying to prevent and to relieve congestion in the processing of

the claims; and

(iv) obtaining and expediting action on the claims.

(b) The Director shall keep in contact with the appropriate governmental unit
as to the status of each claim of a veteran or dependent of a veteran.

9-913.

(a) (1) In this section, "State veterans' cemetery" means a cemetery that the
Commission establishes under this section.

(2) In this section and in § 9-914 of this subtitle, "veteran" means an
individual who:

(i) served on active duty in the armed forces of the United States;

or

(ii) served as a member of the State militia ordered into active
service of the [State]. UNITED STATES BY ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT and was killed
in the line of duty.

(b) The Commission may establish 1 or more cemeteries in the State for the
burial of veterans and their immediate families.