(1) The board of county commissioners is authorized to appropriate money from the county general fund for all ordinary county expenses, including the administrative expenditures of elective and appointive offices, library, agricultural extension service, fire protection, fairs, advertising, airports, health, rodent control, water conservation, weed control, pest control, predatory animal control, and all other general county purposes authorized by law, except expenditures for public welfare, roads and bridges, debt service, public hospitals, public works, contingencies, and purposes voted by the electors.

(2) The board of county commissioners is authorized to appropriate money from the general fund derived from federal payment in lieu of taxes to public school districts containing lands from which the payment is derived.

(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, the board of county commissioners is authorized to transfer moneys from the county general fund to the county road and bridge fund created in section 43-2-202 if the governor declares, by executive order or proclamation, a disaster emergency in the applicable county pursuant to section 24-33.5-704 (4). The board of county commissioners is authorized to make the transfers until eight years after the date of the governor's declaration of an emergency in the county. Any county general fund moneys transferred into the county road and bridge fund must be used for the purposes of disaster response and recovery in a manner consistent with the permissible uses of moneys in the county road and bridge fund.