(a) Short title of subchapter.--This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the County Officer and Employee Fiscal Security Act.
(b) Scope of subchapter.--This subchapter applies to security coverage and additional coverage in the form of bonds, blanket bond or insurance, protecting against events of loss of money or property as a result of misconduct by officers and employees in counties of the second class, second class A, third class, fourth class, fifth class, sixth class, seventh class or eighth class, including counties of these classes which have adopted a home rule charter or an optional plan.
(c) Inapplicability.--This subchapter shall not apply to bonds of county treasurers acting as tax collectors as provided in section 4 of the act of May 25, 1945 (P.L.1050, No.394), known as the Local Tax Collection Law.