(1) (a) The Colorado veterans community living center at Homelake, consisting of a veterans center, a domiciliary care unit, and the Homelake military veterans cemetery, referred to in this part 2 as the "veterans center", as transferred to the state department by the "Administrative Organization Act of 1968", is hereby declared to be a veterans center for veterans of service in the armed forces of the United States and their spouses, surviving spouses, and dependent parents.

(b) The legal effect of any statute enacted prior to July 1, 1973, designating such institution as the soldiers' and sailors' home or the Monte Vista golden age center, or by any other name, or property rights acquired and obligations incurred prior to said date under any other name, shall not be impaired hereby.

(2) The veterans center shall be under the control and supervision of the state department.

(3) For purposes of this section, "domiciliary care" means the provision of shelter, food, and necessary medical care on an ambulatory self-care basis:

(a) To assist any individual who is eligible for occupancy in the veterans center pursuant to sections 26-12-104 and 26-12-106 and who is suffering from an incapacitating disability, disease, or disorder that prevents him or her from earning a living, but that does not require hospitalization or nursing care services to attain physical, mental, and social well-being; and

(b) To restore, through special rehabilitative programs, such individual to his or her highest level of functioning.