(1) (a) The division shall provide satisfactory supervision, direction, and assistance to all county veterans service officers and shall provide such services and facilities to the county veterans service officers as may be determined by the division to be necessary. Out of any moneys appropriated by the general assembly to the division for support to county veterans service officers, the division is authorized to issue vouchers for the semiannual payment to the general fund of each county, to be disbursed upon the authority of the county commissioners thereof, only for the purposes of this part 7 and part 8 of this article. The division shall annually establish the rate of state-funded payments for full-time and part-time county veterans service officers based on the available appropriation by the general assembly; except that, if a county is receiving payments under paragraph (b) of this subsection (1) for a veterans service office established for adjacent counties, the payment shall be the total of the semiannual payments for the counties that have jointly formed the veterans service office.

(b) If adjacent counties jointly establish a veterans service office for the counties pursuant to section 28-5-801 (2), the division may issue a voucher to the general fund of the county containing the veterans service office in an amount equal to the total of the semiannual payments that would have been provided to each of such counties under paragraph (a) of this subsection (1).

(2) Such semiannual payments shall be made only on application by such county commissioners to the division, which application shall state and certify the amount such county commissioners have authorized to be disbursed for such purposes out of other moneys in such county general fund for the period covered by the application.