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<section article="gcs" article_name="Correctional Services" number="1-101" title_number="1" title_name="Definitions; General Provisions" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Definitions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this article the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Commissioner of Correction” means the Commissioner of the Division of Correction.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Comptroller” means the Comptroller of the State.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Correctional facility” means a facility that is operated for the purpose of detaining or confining adults who are charged with or found guilty of a crime.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“County” means a county of the State and Baltimore City.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Department” means the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Division of Correction” means the Division of Correction in the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Division of Parole and Probation” means the Division of Parole and Probation in the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Immigration detention agreement” means any contract, agreement, intergovernmental service agreement, or memorandum of understanding that authorizes a State or local government agency to house or detain individuals for federal civil immigration violations.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>“Immigration detention facility” means any building, facility, or structure used, in whole or in part, to house or detain individuals for federal civil immigration violations.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <text>“Incarcerated individual” means an individual who is actually or constructively detained or confined in a correctional facility.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="l">
    <text>“Local correctional facility” means a correctional facility that is operated:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>by one or more counties; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>by a municipal corporation.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="m">
    <text>“Managing official” means the administrator, director, warden, superintendent, sheriff, or other individual responsible for the management of a correctional facility.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="n">
    <text>“Person” means an individual, receiver, trustee, guardian, personal representative, fiduciary, representative of any kind, partnership, firm, association, corporation, or other entity.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="o">
    <text>“Secretary” means the Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Services.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="p">
    <text>“State” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a state, possession, territory, or commonwealth of the United States; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the District of Columbia.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="q">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“State correctional facility” means a correctional facility that is operated by the State.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“State correctional facility” includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the Patuxent Institution;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the Baltimore City Detention Center; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the centralized booking facility in Baltimore City that is operated by the Division of Pretrial Detention and Services in the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="r">
    <text>“Treasurer” means the Treasurer of the State.</text>
  </level>
</section>
