SECTION 170:10-1-3. Definitions

  The following words or terms, when used in this Chapter, shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

"Director" means the director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections or designee.

"Department" means the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, its facilities, divisions, offices, and institutions.

"Fiscal year" means the state of Oklahoma's fiscal year beginning July 1, and ending June 30 of every year.

"Public works agency" means any state agency or subdivision thereof, municipality, county, town, the United States or any subdivision or agency thereof, whose governing body or empowered authority has requested in writing that the Board or designee adopt their submitted project as a public works project.

"Public purpose" means a purpose affecting the inhabitants of the state or political subdivision utilizing the inmate labor, as a group, working on projects in the public interest and whose work shall not be on other than public property except that inmates may be assigned to projects on private property if it is for benefit of the public or for the exercise of a governmental function.

"Public works project" means a work project that has been determined by the Board or designee to be of necessity for the public well-being conducive to rehabilitation of participating prisoners.

"Prisoner" means any person who is under the custody and control of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections who is not a threat to public safety nor who has escaped or has attempted to escape from a correctional institution or facility within the last ten years, as affirmed by the department.

"Base costs" mean those costs actually agreed to between the department and the public works agency pursuant to this Chapter.

[Source: Added at 10 Ok Reg 2667, eff 7-1-93; Amended at 11 Ok Reg 3137, eff 7-1-94]