Section 359. Location and cost of local veterans' service agencies; deputy local directors

1. A local director shall designate the location of the
  local and branch offices of the local veterans'  service  agency  within
  his  jurisdiction,  which offices shall be open during convenient hours.
  The cost of maintenance and operation  of  a  county  veterans'  service
  agency  shall  be  a  county  charge  and  the  cost  of maintenance and
  operation of a city veterans' service agency shall  be  a  city  charge,
  excepting  that  the  state  director with the approval of the veterans'
  affairs commission shall allot and pay, from state moneys made available
  to him for such purposes, to each county veterans'  service  agency  and
  each  city veterans' service agency, an amount equal to fifty per centum
  of its expenditures for maintenance and operation approved by the  state
  director,  provided  that in no event shall the amount allotted and paid
  for such approved expenditures incurred in any given year exceed (1)  in
  the  case  of  any  county veterans' service agency in a county having a
  population of not more than one hundred thousand or in the case  of  any
  city  veterans' service agency in a city having a population of not more
  than one hundred thousand, the sum of ten thousand dollars, nor  (2)  in
  the  case  of  any  county veterans' service agency in a county having a
  population in excess of one hundred thousand excluding the population of
  any city therein which has a city veterans' service agency, the  sum  of
  ten thousand dollars, and, in addition thereto, the sum of five thousand
  dollars  for each one hundred thousand, or major portion thereof, of the
  population of the county in excess of one hundred thousand excluding the
  population of any city  therein  which  has  a  city  veterans'  service
  agency,  nor  (3)  in the case of any city veterans' service agency in a
  city having a population in excess of one hundred thousand, the  sum  of
  ten thousand dollars, and, in addition thereto, the sum of five thousand
  dollars  for each one hundred thousand, or major portion thereof, of the
  population  of  the  city  in  excess  of  one  hundred  thousand.  Such
  population  shall be certified in the same manner as provided by section
  fifty-four of the state finance law.
    2. The head of a branch office of a  local  veterans'  service  agency
  shall  be  a deputy local director of the local veterans' service agency
  who shall be appointed by the local director of the county  or  city  in
  which  the  branch  office is located with the approval of the governing
  body which makes the appropriation for the maintenance  of  such  branch
  office;  provided,  however, that the head of a branch office of a local
  veterans' service agency which operates in and for two or more adjoining
  towns or adjoining villages in the same county, and hereinafter in  this
  article  referred to as a consolidated branch office, shall be appointed
  by the local director of the  county  in  which  the  branch  office  is
  located  with the approval of the governing body of each town or village
  which makes an appropriation for  or  toward  the  maintenance  of  such
  branch  office,  and  any town or village is authorized to enter into an
  agreement with an adjoining town or an adjoining  village  in  the  same
  county,  respectively, or with two or more respective adjoining towns or
  villages in the same county, providing for their  joint  undertaking  to
  appropriate  and  make available moneys for or toward the maintenance of
  such a consolidated branch office.