Sec. 1. 25 MRSA §2808, as amended by PL 1991, c. 581, is further amended to read:

§2808. Sharing of training costs

1. Definitions. As used in this section, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings.

A. "Governmental entity" means the State or any city, town, plantation or county.

B. "Training" means the preservice and basic training provided to part-time or full-time law enforcement officers by the Maine Criminal Justice Academy, as described in former section 2805, subsection 1, and former section 2805- A, or sections 2804-B and 2804-C and basic corrections training, as described in section 2804-D.

C. The term "training costs" includes the following:

(1) The full cost of the salary, including fringe benefits, paid to the officer while in training;

(2) The full cost of the tuition charged by the Maine Criminal Justice Academy;

(3) The full cost of uniforms provided to the officer in training; and

(4) The full cost of the salary, inclusive of overtime, paid to officers previously or newly employed by the municipality governmental entity to provide police or corrections protection that would otherwise have been lost during the absence of the officer in training.

2. Reimbursement for training costs. Whenever a law enforcement officer, trained at the Maine Criminal Justice Academy on or after September 1, 1983, but before September 1, 1989, while on the payroll of a particular governmental entity, is subsequently hired by another governmental entity within 3 years of the officer's graduation from the academy, the governmental entity shall reimburse the first governmental entity according to the following formula.

A. If the officer is hired by the other governmental entity during the first year after graduation, that governmental entity shall reimburse the first governmental entity the full cost of the training costs.