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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".01" citation="COMAR 12.02.13.01" title_num="12" subtitle_num="02" chapter_num="13" 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>“Citizen participant” means a person who provides a service on an irregular and infrequent basis, not exceeding six visits per year.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>“Commissioner” means Commissioner of the Division of Correction or designee.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>“Community service worker” means a person who agrees to perform a certain number of community service hours as a condition of probation.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>“Coordinator” means volunteer activities coordinator.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>“Director” means the Division headquarters Chief of Religious and Volunteer Services.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>“Division” means Division of Correction.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>“Employee volunteer” means a person who is employed by an institution and who provides a service on personal time to that institution.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(8)">
      <text>“Frisk search” means running the hands across clothing worn to detect any hidden objects.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(9)">
      <text>“Maryland CCH IDENT/INDEX” means Computerized Criminal History Identification Index.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(10)">
      <text>“Material or monetary donor” means a person or group that provides material or monetary donations to an institution or the Division.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(11)">
      <text>“Rap sheet” means the primary method by which criminal history information is reported.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(12)">
      <text>“Reasonable suspicion” means the apparent state of facts or circumstances which would lead a reasonably prudent person to:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Believe that something is wrong;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Have an apprehension or to imagine that a violation has been, is being, or will be committed by a specific individual based on only slight evidence which does not amount to proof.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(13)">
      <text>“Registered volunteer” means a volunteer who has completed the screening and orientation procedures, and has obtained the approval necessary to make regular visits to the institution.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(14)">
      <text>“Student intern” means a student from a post-high school educational institution who, for credit and under the supervision of that person's school, performs services on a regular or frequent basis.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(15)">
      <text>“Volunteer” means someone who has been approved as a volunteer through the procedures in this chapter.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(16)">
      <text>Volunteer Professional.</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>“Volunteer professional” means a person who represents another agency in providing a service on a regular or frequent basis and is paid by that agency.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>“Volunteer professional” does not mean the following personnel:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Department of Education staff;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>Contractual personnel who provide substance abuse treatment;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iii)">
          <text>Institutional parole agents.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(17)">
      <text>“Volunteer services” means planned activities which aid staff in promoting inmate adjustment and which utilize volunteers.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>