Sec. 2. (a) The township trustee as the administrator of township assistance shall periodically provide for the admission to the county home of indigent individuals who have become permanent charges on the township.
(b) Whenever an individual who is determined to be eligible for township assistance and is entitled to temporary relief is in a township in which the individual does not have legal settlement, the township trustee as the administrator of township assistance may place the individual temporarily in the county home.