(1) “Appropriate official” means a person designated by the sending state to grant furloughs or by the receiving state to accept or reject furloughs pursuant to this compact;

(2) “Authorized person” means a person designated by law or appointment for purposes of escorting, transferring or retaking a furloughed inmate;

(3) “Escapee” means an inmate who is on interstate furlough, pursuant to this compact, and fails to return at the prescribed time to the sending state or becomes a known absconder during the period of furlough;

(4) “Escorted interstate furlough” means the transference of an inmate in emergency situations, who does not meet the furlough requirements of the sending state, to a state which is party to the compact under escort or guard of an authorized person of the sending state;

(5) “Inmate” means a person convicted of a crime who is committed under sentence to or confined in a penal or correctional institution;

(6) “Institute” means a penal or correctional facility, including all those facilities normally used by adult correctional agencies for the care and custody of inmates whether or not such facilities are owned or operated by the agencies;

(7) “Interstate furlough” means any out-of-state leave of an inmate for a designated period in accordance with the requirements established by the appropriate officials of the sending state;

(8) “Receiving state” means a state which is party to this compact to which an inmate is sent for furlough;

(9) “Relative” means spouse, child (including stepchild, adopted child or foster child), parents (including stepparents, adoptive parents or foster parents), brothers, sisters and grandparents;

(10) “Sending state” means a state which is party to this compact in which conviction or commitment was had, except if confinement be in another state, pursuant to the Interstate Corrections Compact, compiled in part 1 of this chapter, in which event the sending state shall be determined by contract between the parties of the Interstate Corrections Compact agreement;

(11) “State” means a state in the United States, the United States, a territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; and

(12) “Violator” means an inmate who is on interstate furlough in the receiving state, pursuant to this compact, and fails to abide by the conditions of the furlough as established by the sending state.