2023 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes › Title 53 - MUNICIPALITIES GENERALLY › Chapter 21 - Employees › Section 2170 - Reimbursement of expenses

§ 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.
(a.1) County park police.--
A municipality shall be ineligible for reimbursement for tuition and expenses for the certified basic training of county park police.
(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; Mar. 14, 2014, P.L.38, No.18, eff. 90 days)
2014
Amendment.
Act 18 added subsec. (a.1). See section 1 of Act 18 in the appendix to this title for special provisions relating to legislative findings and declarations.
2003 Amendment.
Act 65 amended subsec. (e).
Cross References.
Section 2170 is referred to in section 6118 of Title 75 (Vehicles).