Section 174-B. Authorization of veteran assistance in towns

1. The town
  board of a town responsible for the  expense  of  providing  safety  net
  assistance  to  persons residing or found therein, upon the presentation
  of a petition to it by one or more posts, camps or garrisons of  one  or
  more   veteran  organizations  in  the  town,  requesting  that  veteran
  assistance be  authorized by the local social services officer, may,  by
  resolution  adopted  by  majority  vote,  authorize and direct the local
  social services officer to authorize and furnish veteran  assistance  to
  persons  residing  or  found  therein.    Thereafter,  the  local social
  services officer shall have, exercise and perform the  same  powers  and
  duties  with  relation  to  veteran  assistance as he has, exercises and
  performs with relation to safety net assistance.
    2. When the town board of a town has authorized and directed the local
  social services officer to authorize and furnish veteran assistance,  if
  neither the local social services officer, or the supervisor of the town
  authorized  to  act  as  such  official,  nor the assistant local social
  services officer, if there be one, is a veteran, as herein defined,  the
  town  board  may appoint, or authorize the local social services officer
  to appoint, a veteran, as herein defined, as a deputy or assistant local
  social service officer.