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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".01" citation="COMAR 12.03.03.01" title_num="12" subtitle_num="03" chapter_num="03" 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>“Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Correction.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>“Contraband” has the meaning stated in Criminal Law Article, §9-410, Annotated Code of Maryland.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>“Correctional facility” has the meaning stated in Correctional Services Article, §1-101, Annotated Code of Maryland.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>“Director” means the Director of Patuxent Institution.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>General Mail.</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>“General mail” means correspondence, written materials, and publications, including but not limited to letters, cards, newspapers, magazines, newsletters, flyers, and advertisements:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Addressed to or from an incarcerated individual; and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>Leaving or entering the correctional facility by the United States Postal Service or by a recognized courier system.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>“General mail” does not mean:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Legal mail as defined in this section;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>A written communication among incarcerated individuals within the correctional facility;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iii)">
          <text>A package; or</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iv)">
          <text>An initial package as defined in this section.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>“Hostile work environment” means a workplace where discriminatory intimidation, ridicule, or insult are so severe or pervasive that the conditions of an individual’s employment are altered to the point of creating an abusive working environment.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>Indigent Incarcerated Individual.</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>“Indigent incarcerated individual” means an incarcerated individual who, within the previous payroll period:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Has not received pay for an assignment in work or school and has less than $6 in the incarcerated individual’s spending account; or</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>Has been admitted to a correctional facility and does not have at least $6 in the incarcerated individual’s spending account on admission.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>“Indigent incarcerated individual” does not mean an incarcerated individual who, in order to be eligible for the benefits described in Regulation .03 of this chapter, manipulates the incarcerated individual’s account balance.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(8)">
      <text>“Initial package” means a package of purchased retail items or goods delivered to an incarcerated individual within 90 days of an incarcerated individual’s admission to the correctional facility.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(9)">
      <text>“Legal mail” means mail that is either addressed by an incarcerated individual to, or received on official stationery from, any of the following individuals or agencies:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>A court;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>A judge;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>A clerk of court;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>An attorney;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>The American Civil Liberties Union;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(f)">
        <text>The Legal Aid Bureau;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(g)">
        <text>The contractual service provider for incarcerated individual legal services;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(h)">
        <text>The Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Services;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(i)">
        <text>The Commissioner of Correction;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(j)">
        <text>The Commissioner of Pretrial Detention and Services;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(k)">
        <text>The Director of Patuxent Institution;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(l)">
        <text>The Director of the Division of Parole and Probation;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(m)">
        <text>The Director of Criminal Justice Information System–Central Repository; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(n)">
        <text>Elected or appointed public officials.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(10)">
      <text>“Mail” means general and legal mail.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(11)">
      <text>“Managing official” has the meaning stated in Correctional Services Article, §1-101, Annotated Code of Maryland.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(12)">
      <text>Package.</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>“Package” means any container or wrapping of a purchased retail item or good that is used to deliver the retail item or good to an incarcerated individual from outside the secure perimeter of the correctional facility.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>“Package” includes:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>An initial package;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>An incarcerated individual’s catalog or commercial retail order, including but not limited to a food item, portable music player, television, gaming system, video game, book, and item of clothing; and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iii)">
          <text>A delivery from one correctional facility to another.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(13)">
      <text>“Property officer” means a Department employee responsible for receiving and controlling an incarcerated individual’s belongings in accordance with established incarcerated individual personal property procedures.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(14)">
      <text>“Retail” means the sale of an item or good to an individual in a small quantity that the individual uses for personal consumption and not for resale.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(15)">
      <text>“Sexually explicit” means a pictorial, written, or verbal depiction of actual or simulated sexual behavior, including:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Bestiality;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>A minor or minors depicted in the nude or partially nude;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Masturbation;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>Sadistic or masochistic abuse;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>A sexual act as defined in Criminal Law Article, §3-301, Annotated Code of Maryland;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(f)">
        <text>Sexual contact as defined in Criminal Law Article, §3-301, Annotated Code of Maryland; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(g)">
        <text>Vaginal intercourse as defined in Criminal Law Article, §3-301, Annotated Code of Maryland.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>