30:7C-3 - Definitions - New Jersey Statutes

30:7C-3.  Definitions
     ARTICLE II

     As used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:

    a.   "State"  means a state of the United States;  the United States of America;  a territory or possession of the United States;  the District of Columbia;  the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

    b.   "Sending state"  means a state party to this compact in which conviction or court commitment was had.

    c.   "Receiving state"  means a state party to this compact to which an inmate is sent for confinement other than a state in which conviction or court commitment was had.

    d.   "Inmate"  means a male or female offender who is committed, under sentence to or confined in a penal or correctional institution.

    e.   "Institution"  means any penal or correctional facility, including but  not limited to a facility for the mentally ill or mentally defective, in which  inmates as defined in d. above may lawfully be confined.

     L.1973, c. 15.