Reimbursement of expenses - 53 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 2170

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     § 2170.  Reimbursement of expenses.
        (a)  General rule.--The commission shall provide for
     reimbursement to each municipality of the entire amount of the
     allowable tuition and the ordinary and necessary living and
     travel expenses incurred by their police officers while
     attending certified municipal police basic training schools if
     the municipality adheres to the training standards established
     by the commission. The regular salary of police officers while
     attending approved schools shall be paid by the employing
     municipality. The commission shall reimburse the employing
     municipality for 60% of the regular salaries of police officers
     while attending schools approved under this subchapter. The
     commission shall require written documentation of all expenses
     incurred by municipalities relating to the training of municipal
     police officers for the purposes of reimbursement by the
     commission. All municipalities shall annually audit these funds
     as part of their annual audit and submit a copy of the audit to
     the commission. Failure to perform the audit and submit a copy
     of it to the commission shall render the municipality in
     violation of this subchapter.
        (b)  Grants for training other police.--The commission may
     approve in-service training grants for actual expenses incurred
     by municipalities for the providing for nonmandatory training
     programs to police officers in accordance with this subchapter.
        (c)  Application for funding.--All municipalities of this
     Commonwealth or groups of municipalities acting in concert may
     make application to the commission for funding pursuant to the
     provisions of this subchapter. The application shall be
     accompanied by a certified copy of a resolution adopted by its
     governing body. The resolution shall provide that, while
     receiving any State funds pursuant to this subchapter, the
     municipality agrees to adhere to the standards for training
     established by the commission. The application shall contain any
     information that the commission requests.
        (d)  Subsequent employment with another municipality.--If a
     police officer, within two years following certification,
     terminates his employment with the municipality by which the
     officer was employed at the time he was certified as having met
     the commission's requirement and subsequently obtains employment
     as a police officer with another municipality, the municipality
     which employs the previously certified police officer shall
     reimburse the municipality which formerly employed the police
     officer for the nonreimbursable portion of the salary paid to
     the police officer while complying with the provisions of this
     subchapter.
        (e)  Payment of mandatory in-service training.--
            (1)  Except as set forth in paragraph (2), the commission
        may pay for the cost of mandatory in-service training for all
        police officers to the extent determined by the commission.
            (2)  All of the following shall be ineligible for
        reimbursement of any expense under this section incurred
        during their police officer training:
                (i)  A college or university.
                (ii)  Railroad and street railway police.
                (iii)  The Capitol Police.
                (iv)  The Harrisburg International Airport Police.
                (v)  An airport authority police department.
                (vi)  A housing authority security or police
            department.
     (Nov. 24, 1999, P.L.539, No.49, eff. 60 days; Dec. 30, 2003,
     P.L.450, No.65, eff. 60 days)

        2003 Amendment.  Act 65 amended subsec. (e). See section 4 of
     Act 65 in the appendix to this title for special provisions
     relating to applicability.

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