(a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, municipal court costs shall be set and collected in the amount prescribed by municipal law or ordinance. From such amount, one dollar ($1.00) shall be forwarded by the municipal court clerk to the state treasurer for deposit and shall be credited to the account for the administrative office of the courts (AOC) for the sole purpose of defraying the administrative director's expenses in providing training and continuing education courses for municipal court judges and municipal court clerks. The AOC shall allocate fifty percent (50%) of such funds exclusively for the purpose of providing training and continuing education for municipal court clerks. The AOC is authorized to contract with qualified persons, entities or organizations in order to provide required training or continuing education for municipal court judges. The AOC shall contract with the municipal technical advisory service of the University of Tennessee institute for public service in order to provide required training or continuing education for municipal court clerks and may contract with other qualified persons, entities or organizations to provide additional or alternate training to municipal court clerks.

(b) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, to the extent that a municipal court is exercising its duly conferred, concurrent general sessions court jurisdiction in a given case, this section does not apply and costs in such case shall be assessed, collected and distributed in the same manner as such costs are assessed, collected and distributed in the court of general sessions.