Sec. 5. (a) A board of commissioners that has established a county home under this chapter:
(1) shall order that all indigent individuals who have become permanent charges on the county be removed to the county home; and
(2) may take the measures for the employment and support of the indigent as the board of commissioners considers advisable.
(b) After a county home is established and an order is issued under subsection (a), the township trustees as administrators of township assistance shall, as indigent individuals become permanent charges to their respective townships, have those individuals removed to the county home.