1.  If a medical scholarship fund is created, the board of county commissioners may grant individual scholarships but shall first require each recipient to:

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(a) Show the recipient’s financial need for the scholarship.

(b) Execute a written agreement that, after completing his or her studies and achieving professional certification, the recipient will, except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, return to the county and practice the profession for a number of years to be specified by the board, not fewer than the number of years during which he or she received the county’s assistance for his or her education.

2.  If a recipient of a scholarship executes a written agreement with a county pursuant to subsection 2 of NRS 244.3821, the recipient shall return to a less populous rural community of that county and practice the profession for a number of years to be specified by the board, not fewer than the number of years during which he or she received the county’s assistance for his or her education.