Arkansas Code of 1987 (2023) › Title 12 - LAW ENFORCEMENT, EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, AND MILITARY AFFAIRS (§§ 12-1-101 — 12-88-109) › Subtitle 2 - LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AND PROGRAMS (§§ 12-6-101 — 12-20-301) › Chapter 9 - LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER TRAINING AND STANDARDS (§§ 12-9-101 — 12-9-603) › Subchapter 2 - LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING ACADEMY (§§ 12-9-201 — 12-9-211) › Section 12-9-209 - Reimbursement for training costs or expenses

(a)
(1)
If a county, city, town, or state agency pays the costs or expenses for training a law enforcement officer at a state-funded or municipally operated law enforcement training academy and another county, city, town, or state agency employs that law enforcement officer within eighteen (18) months after completion of the training in a position requiring a certificate of training from a state-funded or municipally operated law enforcement training academy, the county, city, town, or state agency that employs the law enforcement officer, at the time of employing the law enforcement officer, shall reimburse the county, city, town, or state agency for all or a portion of the costs or expenses incurred by the county, city, town, or state agency for the training of the law enforcement officer at the state-funded or municipally operated law enforcement training academy, unless the law enforcement officer has been terminated by the county, city, town, or state agency that paid the costs or expenses of training, in which case no reimbursement is required from the county, city, town, or state agency employing the law enforcement officer.
(2)
Reimbursement may be sought only from the first county, city, town, or state agency that employed the law enforcement officer after the county, city, town, or state agency paid the costs or expenses of training.
(3)
Reimbursement shall include any salary, travel expenses, food, lodging, or other costs required to be paid by the county, city, town, or state agency, as follows:
(A)
If the law enforcement officer is employed within two (2) months after completion of the training, the employing agency shall reimburse the total of the costs or expenses of training;
(B)
If the law enforcement officer is employed more than two (2) months but not more than six (6) months after completion of the training, the employing agency shall reimburse eighty percent (80%) of the costs or expenses of training;
(C)
If the law enforcement officer is employed more than six (6) months but not more than ten (10) months after completion of the training, the employing agency shall reimburse sixty percent (60%) of the costs or expenses of training;
(D)
If the law enforcement officer is employed more than ten (10) months but not more than fourteen (14) months after completion of the training, the employing agency shall reimburse forty percent (40%) of the costs or expenses of training; or
(E)
If the law enforcement officer is employed more than fourteen (14) months but not more than eighteen (18) months after completion of the training, the employing agency shall reimburse twenty percent (20%) of the costs or expenses of training.
(b)
(1)
If any county, city, town, or state agency that employs a law enforcement officer whose costs or expenses of training were paid by another county, city, town, or state agency fails to make reimbursement for the costs or expenses of training as required in subsection (a) of this section, the county, city, town, or state agency entitled to reimbursement shall notify the Treasurer of State.
(2)
The Treasurer of State shall then withhold the amount of the reimbursement due for training the law enforcement officer from the county or municipal aid of the employing county, city, town, or state agency or from funds appropriated to the employing state agency and shall remit the amount to the county, city, town, or state agency that is entitled to the reimbursement under the provisions of this section.
(c)
(1)
A private community with a population of more than five thousand (5,000) persons that employs certified law enforcement officers is entitled to reimbursement under this section and may remit the reimbursed costs or expenses under subsection (a) of this section to an entity contracting with the private community that paid the training costs or expenses of the certified law enforcement officers.
(2)
As used in this subsection, "private community" means the same as defined in §
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Amended by Act 2021, No. 676,§ 1, eff. 7/28/2021.
Amended by Act 2021, No. 325,§ 1, eff. 7/28/2021.
Amended by Act 2019, No. 151,§ 2, eff. 7/24/2019.
Amended by Act 2017, No. 183,§ 3, eff. 8/1/2017.
Acts 1987, No. 880, §§ 1, 2; 1993, No. 191, § 1.