SECTION 170:20-1-3. Definitions

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

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

"Board of Corrections" means the seven-member board appointed by the Governor which is responsible for governing the Department of Corrections. The board's responsibilities include establishing and reviewing the department's policies and operations.

"Community" means any city, town, or county in Oklahoma.

"Community work center" means a Department of Corrections community corrections level facility which houses no more than 150 inmates to perform public works projects.

"Consensus" means an agreement reached when all members of the group are willing to support the recommendations made because the process used for making the recommendations was understandable and executed fairly and consistently.

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

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

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

"Inducements" mean money, equipment, buildings, services, etc., offered to supplement the site proposal.

"Net costs" mean those costs for construction, start-up, and yearly operating costs less inducements.

"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.

"Public 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 a public works project.

"Public purpose or benefit" means a purpose or benefit affecting the inhabitants or constituents of the public agency utilizing the inmate labor, as a group, and not merely as individuals, and whose work will be essentially public and for the general good of the inhabitants or constituents of the public agency. The purpose of the work performed will be to aid and assist the public agency in the exercise of a governmental function including the eradication of graffiti on public buildings as defined in 57 O.S., Section 222, B.1.

"Public works project" means a project that has been determined by the director or designee to be necessary for the public well-being and conducive to rehabilitation of participating prisoners. Public works projects will also mean any prisoner or inmate work release program.

"Selection committee" means the cross-functional committee formed to oversee the selection process and make recommendations to the director. The committee will include representation from the Board of Corrections and departmental representatives to include the deputy director of Community Corrections or designee and representatives from Finance and Accounting, Information Technology, Institutions, and Treatment and Rehabilitative Services division.

"Support costs" mean indirect costs such as transportation of inmates and goods to and from the facility, information support costs, staff travel costs, etc., the Department of Corrections will have to bear.

[Source: Added at 10 Ok Reg 2673, eff 7-1-93; Amended at 11 Ok Reg 3139, eff 7-1-94; Amended at 11 Ok Reg 4453, eff 7-21-94 through 7-14-95 (emergency); Amended at 24 Ok Reg 2709, eff 7-26-07]