(a) Nothing in this chapter prohibits any State agency, department, or office or any municipality or county of the State from providing additional training beyond basic training to its personnel where no certification is requested of or required by the Council or its Executive Director.

(b) The head of a State agency, department, or office, a municipality's chief of police, or a sheriff may seek certification from the Council for any in-service training he or she may provide to his or her employees. (Added 1979, No. 57, § 7; amended 2013, No. 141 (Adj. Sess.), § 6, eff. July 1, 2015.)