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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".02" citation="COMAR 01.04.01.02" title_num="01" subtitle_num="04" chapter_num="01" heading="Definitions.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>In this chapter, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Terms Defined.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>“Abuse” means:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>An act that causes serious bodily harm;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>An act that places an individual in fear of imminent serious bodily harm;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Battery or assault and battery;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>Rape or sexual offense as defined by Criminal Law Article, §§3-303—3-306, Annotated Code of Maryland, or attempted rape or sexual offense; or</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>False imprisonment.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>“Batterer” means an individual who has abused a current or former spouse, or current or former cohabitant.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>“Nonshelter services” means those services provided to the victim of domestic violence and any immediate family while not residing at the safe accommodation.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>“Office” means the Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>“Program” means a local domestic violence service program, in a specific area of the State, designed to meet the needs of a victim of domestic violence and the family.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>“Safe accommodation” means that location where the victim of domestic violence and children may take refuge from the batterer.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>“Shelter” means a specific facility operated by a domestic violence program designed to be a safe accommodation.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(8)">
      <text>“Shelter services” means those services provided to the victim of domestic violence and any children while they reside at the safe accommodation.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(9)">
      <text>“Victim of domestic violence” means an individual who has received deliberate, severe, and demonstrable physical injury or is in fear of imminent deliberate, severe, and demonstrable physical injury from a current or former spouse, or a current or former cohabitant, as defined in Family Law Article, §4-501, Annotated Code of Maryland.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>