* § 631. Definitions. As used in this article the following terms shall have the following meanings:
1. "Institution" means any institution under the jurisdiction of the commissioner of correction in any city having a population of one million or more or of a county which elects to have this article apply thereto.
2. "Eligible inmate" means a person confined in a city prison or reformatory in a city having a population of one million or more or in a county jail and penitentiaries of a county which elects to have this article apply thereto where a furlough program has been established who is sentenced to a definite period of six months or more or to a reformatory sentence of imprisonment and has served a minimum of six months of any such sentence.
3. "Furlough program" means a program under which eligible inmates may be granted the privilege of leaving the premises of a prison for a period not exceeding seventy-two hours for the purpose of seeking employment, maintaining family ties, solving family problems, to undergo surgery or to receive medical treatment or dental treatment not available in the correctional institution, or for any matter necessary to the furtherance of any such purposes.
4. "Extended bounds of confinement" means the area in which an inmate participating in a furlough program may travel, the routes he is permitted to use, the places he is authorized to visit, and the hours, days, or specially defined period during which he is permitted to be absent from the premises of the institution. An extension of limits shall be under such prescribed conditions as the commissioner deems necessary. Such extension of limits may be withdrawn at any time.
5. "Furlough committee" means the body of persons which may include members of the public, appointed pursuant to regulations promulgated by the commissioner for the purposes of formulating, modifying and revoking furlough programs at an institution.
6. "Warden" means the person in charge of an institution by whatever title he may be known.
7. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of correction in a city having a population of one million or more or that official having similar duties in any county which elects to have this article apply thereto, by whatever title he may be known.
8. "Department" means the applicable department of correction or, where no such department exists, the office of the commissioner.
* NB Expires September 1, 2020
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