For the purpose of the act and the board's regulations, each of the following terms shall have the meaning specified in this regulation:

1. (a) "Accomplice" means one who unites with another in a crime, by aiding or abetting in the crime, by advising or encouraging the crime, or by inciting the criminal conduct causing the claimant's injury.
2. (b) "Act" means K.S.A. 74-7301 et seq., and amendments thereto.
3. (c) "Allowable expense" means "allowance expense" as defined in K.S.A. 74-7301, and amendments thereto.
4. (d) "Extenuating circumstances" means facts that cause reasonable charges for reasonably needed mental health counseling to exceed the presumptive limits specified in K.A.R. 20-2-3.
5. (e) "Grief therapy" means the counseling or treatment of a victim by reason of family grief.

6. (f) "Mental health counseling" means a confidential service that provides problem solving and support concerning emotional issues that result from criminal victimization. Mental health counseling has as its primary purpose the enhancement, protection, and restoration of the victim's sense of well-being and social functioning skills. This term shall not include any of the following:

   1. (1) Efforts to verify or validate claims or reports of criminally injurious conduct;
   2. (2) advocacy functions, including attendance at medical or law enforcement procedures or criminal justice proceedings; or
   3. (3) crisis telephone counseling.
7. (g) "Victim by reason of family grief" means the spouse, children, siblings, parents, legal guardian, stepparents, and grandparents of a homicide victim.

(Authorized by and implementing K.S.A. 74-7304; effective May 1, 1980; amended May 1, 1984; amended Nov. 15, 1993; amended Jan. 10, 2014.)