(a) Fund established.--The County Probation Officers' Firearm Education and Training Fund is established as a restricted receipts account within the General Fund. Moneys from the fund shall be used exclusively for the purposes described under this section.

(b) Costs imposed.--

(1) A person who accepts Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition or pleads guilty or nolo contendere or is convicted of a felony or misdemeanor shall, in addition to any other court costs imposed under the laws of this Commonwealth, be sentenced to pay costs of $5. Costs collected by the clerk of courts under this subsection shall be paid into the fund.

(2) Moneys in the fund shall be used to offset or pay for:

(i) Training expenses.

(ii) Commission expenses.

(3) Disbursement and allocation of fund moneys shall be at the discretion of the commission.

(c) Other moneys to be used.--In addition to payment of training expenses as prescribed under subsection (b), training expenses may also be paid out of the county offender supervision fund under section 1102 of the act of November 24, 1998 (P.L.882, No.111), known as the Crime Victims Act, or any other county fund.

(d) Juvenile probation officer participation.--In the event that sufficient funds are not generated under the provisions of subsection (b) to fully fund the costs of providing training to juvenile probation officers, a training fee representing the prorated share of the additional actual cost thereof shall be payable by a participating juvenile probation officer's county of employment.

Cross References. Section 6308 is referred to in section 6302 of this title.